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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Precarity
chapter 2|14 pages
Precarious labor, inequality and public space
chapter 4|16 pages
Disproportionate barriers and challenges
part II|53 pages
Displacement and mobility
chapter 5|13 pages
Displaced, misplaced, re-placed
chapter 8|12 pages
Moving through the contested city
part III|57 pages
Security and insecurity
chapter 12|14 pages
Making sense of the New Europe
part IV|57 pages
Environment and sustainability
chapter 14|14 pages
Incremental gentrification
chapter 15|12 pages
Tackling pollution with care
chapter 16|14 pages
Engaging with sustainable urban mobilities in Western Europe
part V|55 pages
Citizenship, rights, and social justice
chapter 18|15 pages
A right to the city?
chapter 20|13 pages
Marxist urbanism meets the specter of communism
part VI|81 pages
Built environment and spatial governance
chapter 23|14 pages
Governing through garbage
chapter 25|15 pages
The past and the future of ritualized sociality in open urban spaces
part VII|41 pages
Financialization and privatization
chapter 27|12 pages
Guilty subjects
part VIII|73 pages
Heritage preservation and cultural expression