Urban Inequalities

Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. He established and co-edits the journal Urbanities and co-founded and presides over the not-for-profit association, International Urban Symposium-IUS.Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. She chairs the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES), co-founded the International Urban Symposium-IUS, of which she is Secretary-Treasurer, and co-founded and serves on the Board of Urbanities.

• Chapter 1. Urban Inequalities: Ethnographically Informed Reflections.- Chapter 2. Making Second-class Italians: A Case of Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality.- Chapter 3. On Human Stupidity and Economic Policies: How Cities Inequality Generates Losses for All.- Chapter 4. Precarious Employment and Social Exclusion: Athens in Crisis.- Chapter 5. Women, Work and Family: Becoming Women Workers in the Context of Underdevelopment in Mardin.- Chapter 6. Where Do We Find Money? Urban Inequalities under Financialization in Mardin, Turkey.- Chapter 7. The Destiny of Urban Peripheries: Down-town Tel Aviv’s Contested Realities.- Chapter 8. Unequal Citizens: Cairo between the Gated and the Informal.- Chapter 9. Crisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality.- Chapter 10. Smart City Imaginations and Real Lives: A View from a Town in North India.- Chapter 11. ‘Either you have money and you plan your treatment, or you don’t have money and you plan your death’: Tracing Inequalities in Breast Cancer Care in Greece.- Chapter 12. Segregation from Womb to Tomb: The Legacies of Racial Inequalities in South African Cemeteries.- Chapter 13. Urban Heritage, Inequalities and the Retrenchment of the Public Cultural Sphere.- Chapter 14. Body and Soul: Boxing and Redemption.- Chapter 15. The Zenit Ultras from Saint Petersburg: Dynamics of Social Inclusions and Exclusions.

“A strength of this work lies in the diversity of global locations and identities of both the sites of social interactions, and the researchers. … Bringing together such a diverse set of ethnographic accounts offers insights into a multiplicity of experiences of inequalities in urban social settings. The ethnographic microanalysis and theoretical explorations make this a must-read for scholars interested and engaged in understanding more about the contemporary mechanisms of a wide range of social inequalities.” (Robyn Andrews,Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 11 (1), May, 2021)