ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Engaging the city and the future

part I|60 pages

Precarity

chapter 1|14 pages

Precarious detachment

Youth and modes of operating in Hyderabad and Jakarta

chapter 2|14 pages

Precarious labor, inequality and public space

Trash pickers and ambulant vendors in Buenos Aires, Argentina

chapter 3|14 pages

Homelessness and the city

chapter 4|16 pages

Disproportionate barriers and challenges

Urban minority male life cycles in Philadelphia

part II|53 pages

Displacement and mobility

chapter 5|13 pages

Displaced, misplaced, re-placed

In search of an understanding of ‘race’ and urban change – evidence from Cape Town

chapter 7|13 pages

(Im)mobilizing Bangkok

Towards an ethnography of urban circulation

chapter 8|12 pages

Moving through the contested city

Automobility and civic culture in Beirut, Lebanon

part III|57 pages

Security and insecurity

chapter 9|12 pages

Security and technology

chapter 11|15 pages

Security and insecurity in fragile urban fabrics

A suburb in Norway

chapter 12|14 pages

Making sense of the New Europe

National anxieties and everyday life in Amsterdam 1

part IV|57 pages

Environment and sustainability

chapter 13|15 pages

Environmental gentrification

Sustainability and the just city

chapter 14|14 pages

Incremental gentrification

Upgrading and the predicaments of making (Indian) cities slum-free

chapter 15|12 pages

Tackling pollution with care

Everyday politics and citizen engagement in Auckland, New Zealand

chapter 16|14 pages

Engaging with sustainable urban mobilities in Western Europe

Urban utopias seen through cycling in Copenhagen

part V|55 pages

Citizenship, rights, and social justice

chapter 18|15 pages

A right to the city?

Housing rights and liberal property regimes in Santiago, Chile

chapter 20|13 pages

Marxist urbanism meets the specter of communism

Anthropological engagements with master-planned projects and mass dispossession in Ho Chi Minh City

part VI|81 pages

Built environment and spatial governance

chapter 21|13 pages

Beyond neoliberalism

The High Line and urban governance

chapter 22|16 pages

The semiotics of urbanness

Lifestyle centers and the commodified city 1

chapter 23|14 pages

Governing through garbage

Waste infrastructure breakdown and gendered apathy in Vietnam

chapter 24|21 pages

African materiality and the house

chapter 25|15 pages

The past and the future of ritualized sociality in open urban spaces

The corso in Southeastern Europe

part VII|41 pages

Financialization and privatization

chapter 27|12 pages

Guilty subjects

New geographies of blame in the aftermath of the US housing market collapse

chapter 28|13 pages

21st Century City form in Asia

The private city

part VIII|73 pages

Heritage preservation and cultural expression

chapter 29|14 pages

Ethics and profits

Economic development, hospitality, and the preservation of urban heritage

chapter 31|12 pages

Dancing, design methods and the politics of space in Kampala

An accidental ethnography

chapter 32|17 pages

Lisbon is black

An argument of presence