226 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider:
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1 Introduction, 2 Urban Places, 3 Urban Mobilities, 4 Social Life in Public Space, 5 Urban Economies, 6 Consumption, Leisure and Lifestyles, 7 Neoliberalism and its discontents, 8 Planning the City, 9 Cities, Citizenship and Politics, 10 Violence, Security and Social Control, 11 Conclusion: The Futures of Urban Anthropology,
Biography
Rivke Jaffe is Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Anouk de Koning is Associate Professor in the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
