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Whose Sustainability? An Analysis of a Community Farming Program's Food Justice and Environmental Sustainability Agenda

Sarah Grace Davenport, Joanna Mishtal

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment > 41 > 1 > 56 - 65

As the 1960s U.S. environmental movement gained momentum, sustainability and justice discourses surfaced to the forefront. While environmental justice discourse considers the unequal effects of environmental burdens, the language that frames “sustainability” is often socially and politically neutral. This paper critically examines the sustainability initiatives and practices of urban farming program...

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Black Girl Ordinary: Flesh, Carcerality, and the Refusal of Ethnography

Savannah Shange

Transforming Anthropology > 27 > 1 > 3 - 21

Written at the confluence of Black girlhood studies and a critical anthropology of the state, this essay is an ethnography of social death in gentrifying San Francisco. I argue the gendered and raced patterns of school discipline at a San Francisco high school help us apprehend the afterlife of slavery. Within the context of schooling, the particular association of Black girls as loud and disobedient...

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“It's the ’Hood. But That Means It's Home!”: African American Feminist Critical Geographic Wanderings in the Anthropology of Space and Place

Maya Stovall

Transforming Anthropology > 27 > 1 > 50 - 67

This article pursues an African American feminist critical geographic approach in locating experiential geographies that help shape people's perceptions of city life. I center the culturally symbolic site of Detroit bus stops as point of ethnographic departure. With my choreography as strategy approach to ethnography, I hang out at the site of the bus stop itself, finding perceptions of city life...

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„Populární hudba“ hudba v síť(ov)í měst

Jörgen Torp

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology) > 2018 > 28 > 4 > 301 - 311

The article describes the historical development of growing transcultural connections in the modern human world. Cities played a special historical role in the development of “popular music”. (Modern) cities are interconnected with each other. The city as a place is by that way not an isolated place. The city has undergone a “heterogeneous cultural process”, and currently it is producing “hybrid”...

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Push It Along: On Not Making an Ethnographic Film in Baltimore

Matthew Durington, Samuel Collins, Niajea Randolph, Logan Young

Transforming Anthropology > 25 > 1 > 23 - 34

Perhaps the most demonized group following the uprising that occurred after the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore were the youth of the city. As ethnographers working in the same neighborhoods where the Baltimore Uprising took place, we debated the representations we would make, cognizant that, in an atmosphere of both overt and covert racism, any representation we produced would be subject to political...

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ÚVOD DO KONCEPTU KREATÍVNYCH MIEST S DÔRAZOM NA TEÓRIU RICHARDA FLORIDU

Tomáš Winkler

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2017 > 65 > 3 > 308 - 320

The main purpose of this article is to offer an introduction to the concept of creative towns. This concept began to be used in Slovakia only a couple of years ago and represents a new area of interest for Slovak urban anthropology. The fundamental idea of this approach is urban development using the artistic and creative potential of the urban population. The text maps the origins and development...

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“Together We Can”: Redefining Work in Nairobi's Urban Transportation Sector

Meghan Ference

Anthropology of Work Review > 37 > 2 > 101 - 112

Workers in Kenya's informal transportation sector are employed in what anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational scholars call “dirty work,” or occupations that are tainted morally, socially, or physically. Although the operators of matatu, minibus taxis, carry a large portion of the Kenya population daily, they face stigmatization and discrimination, which can result in a decrease...

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Locality and emotions in the small town’s politics

Stanisława Maria Piotrowska

Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture > 2016 > Vol. 5 > 63-77

The article discusses the formation of urban citizenship in a small town. It focuses on a group of urban activists in Puszczykowo (Poland) and shows how rooting in a local community influences the engagement in public activity and causes a highly emotional relationship between local politicians. On the other hand, the ana- lyzed case study also shows that the local community activists are strongly...

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Homo ludens and the nodes of urbanity. Places, maps, metaphors

Z. K. Zuziak

Czasopismo Techniczne. Architektura > 2015 > Y. 112, iss. 8-A > 239--247

The author discusses the interrelationships between play and the art of urbanism focusing on the cluster of nodal places called here “nodes of urbanity”. At the background of Huizinga’s theory of Homo ludens as cultural component, the analysis of these foci of urban life seem to have explanatory value for architectural and anthropological theories of the “Ludic City”. The main points of this conceptual...

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Łódź as a Terrain for Ethnographic Research from the Perspective of Women’s Urban Anthropology

Inga B. Kuźma

Kultura i Społeczeństwo > 2014 > 58 > 1 > 121-137

This text is devoted to selected questions on the border of the ethnography of Łodź and research into women’s issues, and thus joins the trend of women’s urban anthropology. The author reinterprets selected sources, such as various types of writings and field materials from the archives of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Łodź. Her aim is to reconstruct the...

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EVICTION TIME IN THE NEW SAIGON: Temporalities of Displacement in the Rubble of Development

ERIK HARMS

Cultural Anthropology > 28 > 2 > 344 - 368

This article describes the temporality of eviction in a rubble‐strewn site of urban demolition in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), where over 14,000 households are being evicted to create an ambitious “new urban zone.” Eviction thrusts many residents into an alternative time‐world of enforced waiting, marked by an oppressive sense of being suspended in time. For some residents, however, an alternative temporality...

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Debating contemporary urban conflicts: A survey of selected scholars

Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

Cities > 2013 > 31 > Complete > 454-468

This survey presents the results of a questionnaire sent to a list of key scholars and professionals in fields related to urban processes and planning – town planning, geography, sociology, architecture and anthropology. The survey raised four simple, straightforward questions. What are the most pressing conflicts with regard to contemporary cities? What are the main fields of action for solving them?...

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Dělnická kolonie Karlov : Místo, paměť a identita

Petra L. Burzová, Ilona Dvořáková, Ondřej Hejnal, Michal Růžička, more

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal) > 2013 > 100 > 3 > 259-279

Worker´s colony Karlov was built by Škoda Works in 1913 to accomodate the growing number of its employees. Attached to the factory´s walls and thus spatially segregated from the rest of the city, inhabitants of Karlov built a retively close-knit neighbourhood community with a strong place-based identity. Based on the analysis of archival material and data from interviews with its former inhabitants,...

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The clash of values across symbolic boundaries: claims of urban space in contemporary Istanbul

Pekka Tuominen

Contemporary Islam > 2013 > 7 > 1 > 33-51

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Beauty as control in the new Saigon: Eviction, new urban zones, and atomized dissent in a Southeast Asian city

ERIK HARMS

American Ethnologist > 39 > 4 > 735 - 750

The eviction of residents to make way for a “new urban zone” in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is legitimized by notions of building a beautiful, breathable, and orderly city. Although angry about their unfair treatment in the eviction process, residents ultimately support this discourse of beauty. They challenge eviction through individual squabbles over compensation rates, land measurements, and resettlement...

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INHABITING OCULAR GROUND: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics

FILIP DE BOECK

Cultural Anthropology > 26 > 2 > 263 - 286

This article addresses the tensions that exist between the lives of city dwellers in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and those official attempts currently being launched by the Congolese government to create a new, albeit exclusionist, urban environment. During the campaign leading up to the 2006 presidential elections, President Kabila launched his “Cinq Chantiers” program, arguably the most ambitious project since the end of colonization in 1960 to overhaul the country and respond to its most pressing and urgent needs—or at least that of its elites—with regard to its urbanization. The article first situates the main phases of Kinshasa's expansion from the colonial era to the present day. It then turns to an analysis of the impact of the “Cinq Chantiers” program by examining two concrete cases: the expansion of fields in the Malebo Pool (looking at current modes of “informal” expansion of the urban space) and the development of a new urban project, the Cité du Fleuve (whose progressive uplift leaves out a large swath of the population). Are these examples of an African futurity, and for whom do they envision a new kind of urban life?...

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Spacer jako forma doświadczenia przestrzeni codzienności

Tomasz Tokarczyk, Jacek Gądecki

Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia > 2011 > 6 > 177-200

The paper constitutes the description of the reciprocal influence between man and space in the everyday experience. This bipolar relation makes everyday practice in the space an useful tool for the description of the contemporary times, and, at the same time, the way of criticize it. The text is using critical reflection on the space, understood in the popular and everyday categories, led from a perspective...

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Miasto. Na tropach tego, co niewidzialne

Marek Krajewski

Przegląd Socjologiczny > 2011 > 60 > 2-3 > 111-134

Głównym celem tekstu jest: po pierwsze, wskazanie, iż miasto to specyficzny proces uspołecznienia, którego cechami są kompletność, złożoność oraz totalność; po drugie, określenie przedmiotu nauk społecznych zajmujących się miastem; po trzecie, zademonstrowanie, iż jedną z najważniejszych form uspołecznienia stanowi dzisiaj „codzienny urbanizm”; po czwarte, pokazanie efektywności proponowanej tu perspektywy...

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CHINESE MINORITY AMONG INDONESIAN POPULATION. THE CASE STUDY FROM WEST SUMATRA (Mniejszosc chinska posród ludnosci indonezyjskiej. Studium przypadku z Sumatry Zachodniej)

Dobrochna Olszewska

Etnografia Polska > 2010 > 54 > 1-2 > 89-111

The Chinese minority is one of the largest ethnic groups of foreign origin living in Indonesia. While almost all of its members are Indonesia-born and speak Indonesian, often along with one of the local languages, many of them up-hold traditions from their ancestors' land. Furthermore, all but a few follow one of the minority religions in a mostly Muslim country. That, together with a long and complicated...

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE TOWN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND APPLICATIONS (Antropologicky vyskum mesta v 21. storoci: tendencie, vyzvy a aplikacie)

Alexandra Bitusikova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2010 > 58 > 2 > 129-143

The paper deals with trends, challenges and applications of worldwide urban anthropology. It brings a comparative view of historical developments and of contemporary theoretical, methodological and thematic schools, directions and tendencies in the development of the urban anthropology. The author presents her subjective reflections on older and recent literature, and identifies three areas of urban-anthropological...

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Whose Sustainability? An Analysis of a Community Farming Program's Food Justice and Environmental Sustainability Agenda

Black Girl Ordinary: Flesh, Carcerality, and the Refusal of Ethnography

“It's the ’Hood. But That Means It's Home!”: African American Feminist Critical Geographic Wanderings in the Anthropology of Space and Place

„Populární hudba“ hudba v síť(ov)í měst

Push It Along: On Not Making an Ethnographic Film in Baltimore

ÚVOD DO KONCEPTU KREATÍVNYCH MIEST S DÔRAZOM NA TEÓRIU RICHARDA FLORIDU

“Together We Can”: Redefining Work in Nairobi's Urban Transportation Sector

Locality and emotions in the small town’s politics

Homo ludens and the nodes of urbanity. Places, maps, metaphors

Łódź as a Terrain for Ethnographic Research from the Perspective of Women’s Urban Anthropology

EVICTION TIME IN THE NEW SAIGON: Temporalities of Displacement in the Rubble of Development

Debating contemporary urban conflicts: A survey of selected scholars

Dělnická kolonie Karlov : Místo, paměť a identita

The clash of values across symbolic boundaries: claims of urban space in contemporary Istanbul

Beauty as control in the new Saigon: Eviction, new urban zones, and atomized dissent in a Southeast Asian city

INHABITING OCULAR GROUND: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics

Spacer jako forma doświadczenia przestrzeni codzienności

Miasto. Na tropach tego, co niewidzialne

CHINESE MINORITY AMONG INDONESIAN POPULATION. THE CASE STUDY FROM WEST SUMATRA (Mniejszosc chinska posród ludnosci indonezyjskiej. Studium przypadku z Sumatry Zachodniej)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE TOWN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND APPLICATIONS (Antropologicky vyskum mesta v 21. storoci: tendencie, vyzvy a aplikacie)

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