Seeing cities change: Local culture and class
classe, class, gentrification, mutation urbaine, cadre bâti, built environment, culture urbaine, voisinage, mixité sociale, ethnicity, éthnicité, migration, Krase Jerome
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city.<br /> <br /> Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyse how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.<br /> <br /> Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.</div> </div> <b>Jerome Krase</b> is Murray Koppelman Professor and Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York.</div> </div>
Jerome Krase
Ashgate
February 2012
300
Ouvrage
Connected in Cairo : Growing up cosmopolitan in the modern Middle East
, ethnologie, Cairo, Le Caire, cosmopolitisme, société urbaine, bourgeoisie, Peterson Mark Allen, identité, class, classe
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For members of Cairo’s upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more “modern” places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies—of Arabic children’s magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants—Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices.</div>
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<b>Mark Allen Peterson </b>is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Miami University.</div>
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Mark Allen Peterson
Indiana University Press
April 2011
288
Ouvrage
Reflections on identity in four African cities
identité, ville africaine, African city, Africa, Afrique, Cape Town, Le Cap, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé, espace urbain, language, langage, race, class, classe, société urbaine, travail, Bekker Simon, Leildé Anne
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African Minds
2006
248
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