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BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY
A Companion to Urban Anthropology
“The city is becoming the basic currency of human – and non-human – life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes. This volume navigates the anthropology of this medium with the greatest aplomb.” Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author’s original research along with findings of other urbanists. Classic issues such as built structures and urban planning, community, markets, and race lead to emergent areas of study including borders, sexualities, nature, extralegality, and resilience and sustainability. A Companion to Urban Anthropology offers revealing insights into the complex forces that continue to shape the urban experience.
Preface viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1 Donald M. Nonini
Part I Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested 13
1 Spatialities 15 Setha M. Low
2 Flows 28 Gary W. McDonogh
3 Community 46 John Clarke
4 Citizenship 65 Sian Lazar
Part II Materializations and Their Imaginaries 83
5 Built Structures and Planning 85 Deborah Pellow and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
6 Borders 103 Thomas M. Wilson
7 Markets 120 Linda J. Seligmann
8 Cars and Transport 142 Catherine Lutz
Part III Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity 155
9 Class 157 Don Kalb
10 Gender 177 Ida Susser
11 Sexualities 193 Ara Wilson
12 Race 210 Brett Williams
13 Extralegality 222 Alan Smart and Filippo M. Zerilli
Part IV Abstractions of Consequence 239
14 Global Systems and Globalization 241 Jonathan Friedman
15 Governance 255 Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Brash
16 Policing and Security 271 Josiah McC. Heyman
17 Transnationality 291 Nina Glick Schiller
18 Cosmopolitanism 306 Pnina Werbner
Part V Experiencing/Knowing the City in Everyday Life 327
19 Practices of Sociality 329 José Guilherme Cantor Magnani
20 Memory and Narrative 347 Lindsay DuBois
21 Religion 364 Thomas Blom Hansen
Part VI Nature and the City 381
22 Nature 383 Robert Rotenberg
23 Food and Farming 394 Donald M. Nonini
24 Pollution 414 Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe
25 Resilience 428 Stephan Barthel
Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 447
26 The Commons 449 Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles
27 Social Movements 470 Michal Osterweil
28 Futures 486 Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper
Index 498
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