Narrating the City

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Space, Narration, and the EverydayWladimir Fischer-NebmaierPART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITYChapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century LvivAndriy ZayarnyukChapter 2. The Masa’s Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970sArturo AlmandozChapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic NeighborhoodLeeke ReindersPART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACEChapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central EuropeAnna SchoberChapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in “Red Vienna,” 1945-1948Matthew P. BergPART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITYChapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers’ and Employers’ Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970sRonnie Johnston and Arthur McIvorChapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New ZagrebTihana Rubić and Carolin Leutloff-GranditsNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This is an extremely solid and well-informed collection that brings together pertinent and timely case studies that all shed light on the interconnections between the everyday and urban narratives. The scope is expansive and interdisciplinary, and the framework is explained well and in detail.”  ·  Markus Reisenleitner, York University