Urban Sociology - General & Miscellaneous, Urban Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous

Theorizing the City

Name: Theorizing the City
Author: Setha M. Low
ISBN: 9780813527192

by Setha M. Low

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Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.

The contributors- Ted Bestor, Teresa P. R. Caldeira, Matthew Cooper, Steven Gregory, James Holston, Setha M. Low, Gary McDonogh, Deborah Pellow, Robert Rotenberg, Charles Rutheiser, Ida Susser, Josephine Smart, and Alan Smart- are leading scholars in urban and spatial anthropology.

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Within images of the divided city, the contested city, the modernist city, and postmodern city, anthropologists report on such recent research as post-structural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meaning and social production of urban spaces. The contributors are all from North America, but the studies also consider Costa Rica, Vienna, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Barcelona. The 12 essays have been previously published. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)