Description: A comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an 'engaged' approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, including security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and address various urban issues, chapters cover key theoretical and methodological concerns alongside rich ethnographic case studies. Essential reference for students and researchers in urban anthropology, useful too for those in related disciplines such as urban studies, sociology and geography.
Review Quotes:
'This provocative collection truly engages anthropology with pressing questions we face as scholars, students and citizens. Bringing together well-established scholars and new voices worldwide, it combines sensitive ethnographies and thoughtful analyses of belonging, rights and transformative actions that speak to all of us who live and work in global cities.'
Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College, USA
'A bold and spirited collection that addresses ever more pressing concerns about urban inequalities, precarity, mobility, governance, sustainability and heritage with a deep commitment to public engagement and activism. This is an anthropology that leaps off the protected library shelf and takes part in the cut and thrust of urban living as it unfolds.'
Emma Tarlo, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
'This thought-provoking, creative, and insightful handbook underscores cultural anthropology's continued relevance to urban studies, and is a call to action for social justice in the city--truly inspiring work and a must-read for those who are fascinated by urban lives the inner workings of cities.'
Suzanne Scheld, California State University, Northridge, USA, and SUNTA President-Elect
'A compelling, extensive, and powerful collection of insightful anthropological works that examine the pervasive neoliberal transformations of urban life across the globe, from Asia and Africa, to Europe and the Americas. [...] Not an ordinary volume on urban studies, but a timely and thought-provoking book that propels urban anthropology into the post-neoliberal era.'
Swee-Lin Ho, National University of Singapore