Communication, culture, and making in the city : ethnographic engagements in urban environments / [edited by] Ahmet Atay and Jay Brower.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atay, Ahmet, editor, author.

Brower, Jay S., editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Contents:

Part I: City as image ; 1. Women's political visualization of post-conflict Belfast / Jolene Mairs Dyer ; 2. Urban alienation and Native Americans in 'The Exiles' / Kathleen M. German ; 3. Mapping Sarajevo: the city and its representations / Joanna Zielińska

Part II: City as mobility ; 4. Post-industrial cities under microscope: discovering Akron and Northampton / Ahmet Atay ; 5. Walking the geography of difference in New Haven, CT / Jay Brower ; 6. Cycling in the city: an actor-network-theory perspective on urban practices / Craig L. Engstrom

Part III: City as past ; 7. Walking, sensing, and making places: a reflection on ethnography of walking in Yokohama and Vancouver / Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu ; 8. "Ancientizing" the modern Chinese cities: (re)constructing space, history, and national identity / Joy Yang Jiao ; 9. Being walked through the city: negotiating counterculture memory in San Francisco / Ryan M. Lescure

Part IV: City as relationship ; 10. View over Bristol: tryers, creativity, and civic imaginary / Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma Agusita ; 11. "You look like detectives": Alcohol outreach nursing as a form of mobile care and clinical investigation / Martin Whiteford ; 12. Strategic liminality and trans-regional mobility: engaging diverse city spaces to constitute and negotiate intersectional anger, and the (in)visibility of gay (male) life / Eric Aoki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1498531938

9781498531931

OCLC:

1012811102