Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Anthropology (Bauwelt Fundamente)

Exploring life in the city The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant. * Standard reference work on urban field research * Contributions by leding reserchers and young scientist * With comic-strips by Nele Brönner

The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses.
The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.

Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic--which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp--can be a genuinely critical theory Contents Prologue. Learning to Observe in Chicago Introduction Anthropology in the City Urban Ethnography Norman’s Bay Inscriptions of Love Ann Arbor My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit Berlin Carrot-Cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-Class Male Youth Identities in Berlin London Anthropology of the City The Imaginary of the City Millbrook The City as Melodrama Toward a Sensorial Urbanism The Go-Along Method Chicago’s South Side Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto Epilogue Doing an Ethnography of “Non-Events” Out in the Field – Comics for an Urban Anthropology Acknowledgements, References Authors "The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as 'man in the street', shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers"--Provided by publisher Die Textsammlung gibt einen Einblick in die anthropologische Stadtforschung, ihre Ansätze und Methoden, jüngere Entwicklungen und neuere Ansätze in der Forschung (das Imaginäre der Stadt, Urbane Szenen). Ein abschließendes Kapitel zur Ethnographie der Straße stellt verschiedene ethnographische, experimentelle und künstlerische Methoden dar. Texte von P. Jackson, R. Lindner, J. Raban, M. Zardini, M. Kusenbach, L. Wacquant, M. Ege, L. Back, R. Behar