The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City

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Introduction: engaging the city and the future
PART I Precarity
	1 Precarious detachment youth and modes of operating in Hyderabad and Jakarta
	2 Precarious labor, inequality and public space: trash pickers and ambulant vendors in Buenos Aires, Argentina
	3	Homelessness and the city
	4 Disproportionate barriers and challenges: urban minority male life cycles in Philadelphia
PART II Displacement and mobility
	5 Displaced misplaced re-placed: in search of an understanding of \'race\' and urban change – evidence from Cape Town
	6 Affect, race, and generative fieldsites in urban anthropology
	7 (Im)mobilizing Bangkok: towards an ethnography of urban circulation
	8 Moving through the contested city: automobility and civic culture in Beirut, Lebanon
PART III Security and insecurity
	9 Security and technology
	10 Airports, from vital systems to nervous systems
	11 Security and insecurity in fragile urban fabrics: a suburb in Norway
	12 Making sense of the New Europe: national anxieties and everyday life in Amsterdam
PART IV Environment and sustainability
	13 Environmental gentrification: sustainability and the just city
	14 Incremental gentrification: upgrading and the predicaments of making (Indian) cities slum-free
	15 Tackling pollution with care: everyday politics and citizen engagement in Auckland, New Zealand
	16 Engaging with sustainable urban mobilities in Western Europe: urban utopias seen through cycling in Copenhagen
PART V Citizenship rights and social justice
	17 Racialized citizenship and the modern American city, ethnographically considered
	18 A right to the city? housing rights and liberal property regimes in Santiago, Chile
	19 Neighborhood grassroots organizations and rights to the city in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
	20 Marxist urbanism meets the specter of communism: anthropological engagements with master-planned projects and mass dispossession in Ho Chi Minh City
PART VI Built environment and spatial governance
	21 Beyond neoliberalism: the High Line and urban governance
	22 The semiotics of urbanness: lifestyle centers and the commodified city
	23 Governing through garbage: waste infrastructure breakdown and gendered apathy in Vietnam
	24	African materiality and the house
	25 The past and the future of ritualized sociality in open urban spaces: the corso in Southeastern Europe
PART VII Financialization and privatization
	26	Financialization and shifting urban growth regimes in Hong Kong and China
	27 Guilty subjects: new geographies of blame in the aftermath of the US housing market collapse
	28 21st Century City form in Asia: the private city
PART VIII Heritage preservation and cultural expression
	29 Ethics and profits: economic development, hospitality, and the preservation of urban heritage
	30 Gender, art, and the reshaping of the urban in Amman, Jordan
	31 Dancing, design methods and the politics of space in Kampala: an accidental ethnography
	32 Lisbon is black: an argument of presence
	33	Brazilian popular music and the city
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