Full Description
As communicative, cultural, and political spaces, cities present a vast array of racial, ethnic, national, sexual, and socioeconomic experiences around which human communities take shape. This shaping forms a germinal point of mass cultural life. City planners decide where buildings and neighborhoods are developed, which ultimately affects who residents interact with, how they get there, and why they choose city life. From these experiences, boundaries and possibilities arise that define cultures of "the city." In Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City: Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments, contributors focus on theorizing the notion of "the city" as a communicatively constituted cultural space, drawing on situated, reflexive ethnographic examinations of "the city" to show the complex and varied ways in which cities produce social meaning.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
City as Image
Chapter 1
Women's Political Visualization of Post-Conflict Belfast
Jolene Mairs Dyer
Chapter 2
Urban Alienation and Native Americans in The Exiles
Kathleen M. German
Chapter 3
Mapping Sarajevo-The City and Its Representations
Joanna Zielińska
City as Mobility
Chapter 4
Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and Northampton
Ahmet Atay
Chapter 5
Walking the Geography of Difference
Jay Brower
Chapter 6
Cycling in the City: An Actor-Network-Theory Perspective on Urban Practices
Craig L. Engstrom
City as Past
Chapter 7
Walking, Sensing and Making Places: A Reflection on Ethnography of Walking in Yokohama and Vancouver
Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu
Chapter 8
"Ancient-izing" the Modern Chinese Cities: (Re)Constructing Space, History, and National Identity
Joy Yang Jiao
Chapter 9
Being Walked Through the City: Negotiating Countercultural Memory in San Francisco
Ryan M. Lescure
City as Relationship
Chapter 10
View Over Bristol: Tryers, Creativity and Civic Imaginary
Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma Agusita
Chapter 11
You look like Detectives': Alcohol Outreach Nursing as a form of Mobile Care and Clinical Investigation
Martin Whiteford
Chapter 12
Strategic Liminality and Trans-regional Mobility: Engaging Diverse City Spaces to Constitute and Negotiate Intersectional Identities of Newfound Class Privilege, Repressed Ethnic Anger, and the (In)visibility of Gay (Male) Life
Eric Aoki
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