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- Social Sciences
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813527201
ISBN-13
9780813527208
eBay Product ID (ePID)
320969
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Theorizing the City : the New Urban Anthropology Reader
Subject
Anthropology / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-017712
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
The best æreadersÆ have three characteristics: the individual selections are of excellent quality, felicitous editing ensures that the selections cohere, and the whole is introduced by a majestic (or at least competent) overview of the field. By this measure, Setha Low has produced a very useful text and one which I will certainly recommend to students. . . . Without exception, the chapters are well written and are likely to provide a sound basis for discussion within class., Using rich comparative material, this volume presents an intriguing anthropological vision of how cities are shaped. A major addition to a comparative anthropology of cities, this volume demonstrates the complex structural and cultural forces that shape urban experience., Theorizing the City is a collection of articles in urban anthropology focusing on the relationship between spatial environs and urban cultures from Toronto, Atlanta, and New York to Barcelona, Spo Paulo, Vienna, and Accra (Ghana). Bringing together urban theory and fieldwork, the contributors examine a number of tensions that play out in diverse urban settings. . . . The use of theory helps to bring about some rich connections between the spatial environment and the experiential elements of city life in different parts of the world., These informative essays make clear that anthropology has much to offer to urban theory and public policy debates., Theorizing the City has become fundamental reading for those students of urban society and culture who wish to better understand twentieth-century city forms and spaces, as well as why certain race, gender, age, and class inequalities continue to be manifested today., Taken together, this volume represents a valuable collection of essays that do well to capture the contemporary state of urban anthropology, as well as providing useful theoretical frameworks and methodological examples for understanding and writing about the city. . . . The essays collected here judiciously integrate the particular analytic powers of ethnographic and historical analysis to frame local social processes within transnational and global processes. . . . In particular, this volumeùand the images of the city Low offersùmay serve as an excellent resource for teachers interested in provoking students to think about and understand the cities they (may) inhabit.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
307.76
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments and Permissions Introduction. Theorizing the City - Setha M. Low Part 1 The Divided City 1 The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community - Steven M. Gregory 2 Creating Family Forms: The Exclusion of Mena and Teenage Boys from Families in the New York City Shelter System, 1987-1991 - Ida Susser 3 Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation - Teresa P. R. Caldeira Part 2 The Contested City 4 Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica - Setha M. Low 5 Landscape and Power in Vienna: Gardens of Discovery - Robert Rotenberg Part 3 The Global City 6 Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China - Josephine Smart and Alan Smart 7 Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market - Theodore C. Bestor Part 4 The Modernist City 8 The Modernist City and the Death of the Street - James Holston 9 The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo - Deborah Pellow Part 5 The Postmodern City 10 Making Place in the Nonplace Urban Realm: Notes on the Revitalization of Downtown Atlanta - Charles Rutheiser 11 Discourses of the City: Policy and Responses in Post-Transitional Barcelona - Gary McDonogh 12 Spatial Discourses and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront - Matthew Cooper Biological Notes Index
Synopsis
Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning. Selected Chapters: Theorizing the City: An Introduction by Setha M. Low Part I. The Divided City The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community, Steven Gregory Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation by Teresa P. R. Caldeira Part II. The Contested City Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica, Setha M. Low Part III. The Global City Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiki Market, Ted Bestor Part IV. The Modernist City The Modernist City and the Death of the Street by James Holston Part V. The Postmodern City Spatial Discourse and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront by Matthew Cooper, Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place. Five images of the city?the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city?serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning. Selected Chapters: Theorizing the City: An Introduction by Setha M. Low Part I. The Divided City The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community, Steven Gregory Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation by Teresa P. R. Caldeira Part II. The Contested City Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica, Setha M. Low Part III. The Global City Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo?s Tsukiki Market, Ted Bestor Part IV. The Modernist City The Modernist City and the Death of the Street by James Holston Part V. The Postmodern City Spatial Discourse and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront by Matthew Cooper, Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place., Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place. Five images of the city--the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city--serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning. Selected Chapters: Theorizing the City: An Introduction by Setha M. Low Part I. The Divided City The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community, Steven Gregory Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation by Teresa P. R. Caldeira Part II. The Contested City Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica, Setha M. Low Part III. The Global City Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiki Market, Ted Bestor Part IV. The Modernist City The Modernist City and the Death of the Street by James Holston Part V. The Postmodern City Spatial Discourse and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront by Matthew Cooper
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