Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography

Italo Pardo is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and Founding President of the International Urban Symposium, a non-profit association. He co-edits the journal Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography and the book series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology.Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent, UK, and a founding member of the International Urban Symposium. She is also Chair of the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology and a co-editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology.

• 1. Introduction: Urban Ethnography Matters.- 2. From Jaffa to New York: The Scope of Urban Anthropology.- 3. Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An Italian Ethnography.- 4. Rethinking the City as Urban Community: Views from South Europe.- 5. The Multitude of Approaches to Urban Ethnography: Blessing or Curse?.- The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India.- 7. The Beginnings and the Ends: A ‘Superdiverse’ London Housing Estate.- 8. Everyday Mobility: Encountering Difference.- 9. Betwixt and Between in Beer-Sheva: Consumption and Chronotopes in the Negev.- 10. Shipbuilding Decline and Dubious Futures: A Greek Ethnography of Creative Destruction.- 11. Navigating the Seas of the World of Unemployment in America.- 12. ‘Swimming against the Tide’: Working Class Discourse on Gentrification in Northern Brooklyn.- 13. The Plow and the Stallion: Political Turmoil in a Working-class District of Budapest.- 14. From the Ban on Enjoyment to theInjunction to Enjoy: The Post-industrial City and its New Spaces of Control.- 15. Resistance to Places of Collective Memories: A Rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing.- 16.  Multiple Positionality: A Challenge for West African Urbanists.- 17. The Strength of Weak Heritages: Urbanity, Utopias and the Commitment to Intangible Heritage.- 18. Sport and the City: Olympic Games and the Reimagining of East London.- 19. A Revolution of the Urban Lifestyle in China? Urban Politics and Community Experience in Harbin.- 20. Secondary Cities and the Formation of Political Space in West and East Africa.- 21. Two Types of Community-based Organizations in Urban Africa.- 22. Urban Ethnography: Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us.- 23. An Ethnography of Space, Creative Dissent and Reflective Nostalgia in the City Centre of Global Istanbul.- 24. Anglo-Indians: Buying into Nationhood?.- 25. Transnational Fragmentation of Globality: Eastern-European Post-socialist Strategies in Chicago.- 26. Haitiansin Manaus: Challenges of the Sociocultural Insertion Process of Inclusion.- 27. Imagined Multiculturalism in a Malaysian Town: Ideological Constructions and Empirical Evidences.- 28. Urban Development and Vernacular Religious Landscapes in Seoul.- 29. Becoming Cities, Losing Paradise? Gentrification in the Swiss Alps.- 30. Unfolding Lisbon: An Anthropologist Gazes at a Capital City.- 31. Lost in the Shuffle: Urban African-American Students Cast into a Rural White University in the United States.