Diversity and Local Contexts : Urban Space, Borders, and Migration

✍ Scribed by Krase, Jerome; Uherek, Zdenek

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Series: Palgrave studies in urban anthropology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social, and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. In these 'glocal' regards, the authors demonstrate how city images, borders, and social processes such as migration, tourism, and local development must be seen in broader contexts. The contributors examine them through the lenses of foreign investment, migration, and history. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and employs a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Contributors’ multidisciplinary expertise and insights about spaces and places are applied to nine unique cities across three continents.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Jerome Krase, Zdeněk Uherek)....Pages 1-15
Changing Urban Landscape in Albania (Giuliana B. Prato)....Pages 17-37
Post-Socialist Europe and Its “Constitutive Outside”: Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research Agenda (Giovanni Picker)....Pages 39-53
The Containment of Memory in the “Meeting Place”: City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe (Hana Cervinkova, Juliet Golden)....Pages 55-70
Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy (Zdeněk Uherek)....Pages 71-91
Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation (Karolina Koziura)....Pages 93-109
The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Pekić in Light of the Urban Revolution (Ivana Bašić, Petrija Jovičić)....Pages 111-132
The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague (Marianna Mészárosová)....Pages 133-147
Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in Naples (Italo Pardo)....Pages 149-166
African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Henk Pauw, Carla Collins, Stephanie Gouws)....Pages 167-189
Italian Americans and Others in New York City: Interethnic Relations from the Field (Jerome Krase)....Pages 191-207
Back Matter ....Pages 209-215

✦ Subjects

Urban anthropology -- Congresses;Lannova vila (Prague, Czech Republic);SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban