The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City / edited by Setha Low.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Precarity -- 1.Precarious Detachment: Youth Modes of Operating in Hyderabad and Jakata --AdbouMaliq Simone--2.Precarious Labor, Inequality and Public Space: Trash Collectors and Ambulant Vendors in Buenos Aires, Argentina --Mariano Perelman--3.Homelessness and the City --Tom Hall--4.Disproportionate Barriers and Challenges: Urban Minority Male Life Cycles in Philadelphia --Bill McKinney -- Part II: Displacement and Mobility -- 5.Displaced, Misplaced, Re-placed: In Search of an Understanding of 'Race' and Urbanity - Evidence from Cape Town --Annika Teppo--6.Affect, Race and Generative Fieldsites in Urban Anthropology --Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Ulla Berg--7.Moving through the Contested City: Automobility and Civic Culture in Beirut, Lebanon --Kristin Monroe--8.(Im)mobilizing Bangkok: Toward an Ethnography of Urban Circulation --Claudio Sopranzetti----Part III: Security and Insecurity--9.Security and Technology in Recife and Kingston --Carolina Frossard and Rivke Jaffe--10.Airports, from Vital Systems to Nervous Systems --Mark Maguire and Rka Ptercsk--11.Security and Insecurity in Fragile Urban Fabrics: A Suburb in Norway --Thomas Hylland Eriksen--12.National Anxieties and Everyday Life in Amsterdam --Anouk de Koning -- Part IV: Environment and Sustainability -- 13.Environmental Gentrification --Melissa Checker--14.Incremental Gentrification: Upgrading and Predicaments of Making Indian Cities Slum Free --Ursula Rao--15.Tackling Pollution with Care: Everyday Politics and Citizen Engagement in Auckland, New Zealand --Eveline Drr and Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer--16.Engaging with Sustainable Urban Mobilities in Western Europe: Urban Utopias Seen Through Cycling in Copenhagen --Malene Freudendal-Pedersen -- Part V: Citizenship, Rights, and Social Justice -- 17.Racialized Citizenship in the Modern American City, Ethnographically Considered --John Jackson--18.A Right to the City? Housing Rights and Liberal Property Regimes in Santiago, Chile --Edward Murphy--19.Neighbourhood Grassroots Organizations and Rights to the City in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil --Maria Gabriela Hita and John Gledhill--20.Marxist Urbanism Meets the Spector of Communism: Anthropological Engagements with Master-Planned Projects and Mass Dispossession in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam --Erik Harms -- Part VI: Built Environment and Spatial Governance -- 21.Beyond Neoliberalism: The High Line and Urban Governance --Julian Brash--22.African Materiality: The Sociospatial Analysis of Urban Housing --Deborah Pellow--23.The Semiotics of Urbanness: Lifestyle Centers and the Commodified City --Gabriella Modan--24.The Past and the Future of Ritualized Sociality in Open Urban Spaces: The Corso in Southeastern Europe --Vesna Vucinic Neskovic--25.Governing Through Garbage: Waste Infrastructure Breakdown and Gendered Apathy in Vietnam --Christina Schwenkel----Part VII: Financialization and Privatization -- 26.Financialization and Shifting Urban Growth Regimes in Hong Kong and China --Alan Smart--27.Guilty Subjects: New Geographies of Blame in the Aftermath of the U.S. Housing Market Collapse --Jeff Maskovsky--28.City Form in Asia: The Private City --Thomas Looser----Part VIII: Heritage Preservation and Cultural Expression -- 29.Ethics and Profits: Economic Development, Hospitality and the Preservation of Urban Heritage --Michael Herzfeld--30.Gender, Art and the Reshaping of the Urban in Amman, Jordan --Aseel Sawalha--31.Dancing, Design Methods and the Politics of Space in Kampala: An Accidental Ethnography --Elizabeth Chin--32.Lisbon is Black: An Argument of Presence --Derek Pardue--33.Brazilian Popular Music and the City --Ruben Oliven

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an 'engaged' approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban issues, each chapter covers key theoretical and methodological concerns alongside rich ethnographic case study material. The volume is an essential reference for students and researchers in urban anthropology, as well as of interest for those in related disciplines, such as urban studies, sociology, and geography.

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