A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author s original research along with findings of other urbanists. Classic issues such as built structures and urban planning, community, markets, and race lead to emergent areas of study including borders, sexualities, nature, extralegality, and resilience and sustainability. A Companion to Urban Anthropology offers revealing insights into the complex forces that continue to shape the urban experience.
Table of Contents
Preface viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Donald M. Nonini
Part I Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested 13
1 Spatialities 15
Setha M. Low
2 Flows 28
Gary W. McDonogh
3 Community 46
John Clarke
4 Citizenship 65
Sian Lazar
Part II Materializations and Their Imaginaries 83
5 Built Structures and Planning 85
Deborah Pellow and Denise Lawrence–Zúñiga
6 Borders 103
Thomas M. Wilson
7 Markets 120
Linda J. Seligmann
8 Cars and Transport 142
Catherine Lutz
Part III Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity 155
9 Class 157
Don Kalb
10 Gender 177
Ida Susser
11 Sexualities 193
Ara Wilson
12 Race 210
Brett Williams
13 Extralegality 222
Alan Smart and Filippo M. Zerilli
Part IV Abstractions of Consequence 239
14 Global Systems and Globalization 241
Jonathan Friedman
15 Governance 255
Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Brash
16 Policing and Security 271
Josiah McC. Heyman
17 Transnationality 291
Nina Glick Schiller
18 Cosmopolitanism 306
Pnina Werbner
Part V Experiencing/Knowing the City in Everyday Life 327
19 Practices of Sociality 329
José Guilherme Cantor Magnani
20 Memory and Narrative 347
Lindsay DuBois
21 Religion 364
Thomas Blom Hansen
Part VI Nature and the City 381
22 Nature 383
Robert Rotenberg
23 Food and Farming 394
Donald M. Nonini
24 Pollution 414
Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe
25 Resilience 428
Stephan Barthel
Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 447
26 The Commons 449
Maribel Casas–Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles
27 Social Movements 470
Michal Osterweil
28 Futures 486
Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper
Index 498
