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OverviewAs communicative, cultural, and political spaces, cities present a vast array of racial, ethnic, national, sexual, and socioeconomic experiences around which human communities take shape. This shaping forms a germinal point of mass cultural life. City planners decide where buildings and neighborhoods are developed, which ultimately affects who residents interact with, how they get there, and why they choose city life. From these experiences, boundaries and possibilities arise that define cultures of “the city.” In Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City: Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments, contributors focus on theorizing the notion of “the city” as a communicatively constituted cultural space, drawing on situated, reflexive ethnographic examinations of “the city” to show the complex and varied ways in which cities produce social meaning. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ahmet Atay , Jay Brower , Emma Agusita , Eric AokiPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9781498531931ISBN 10: 1498531938 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 15 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction City as Image Chapter 1 Women’s Political Visualization of Post-Conflict Belfast Jolene Mairs Dyer Chapter 2 Urban Alienation and Native Americans in The Exiles Kathleen M. German Chapter 3 Mapping Sarajevo-The City and Its Representations Joanna Zielińska City as Mobility Chapter 4 Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and Northampton Ahmet Atay Chapter 5 Walking the Geography of Difference Jay Brower Chapter 6 Cycling in the City: An Actor-Network-Theory Perspective on Urban Practices Craig L. Engstrom City as Past Chapter 7 Walking, Sensing and Making Places: A Reflection on Ethnography of Walking in Yokohama and Vancouver Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu Chapter 8 “Ancient-izing” the Modern Chinese Cities: (Re)Constructing Space, History, and National Identity Joy Yang Jiao Chapter 9 Being Walked Through the City: Negotiating Countercultural Memory in San Francisco Ryan M. Lescure City as Relationship Chapter 10 View Over Bristol: Tryers, Creativity and Civic Imaginary Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma Agusita Chapter 11 You look like Detectives’: Alcohol Outreach Nursing as a form of Mobile Care and Clinical Investigation Martin Whiteford Chapter 12 Strategic Liminality and Trans-regional Mobility: Engaging Diverse City Spaces to Constitute and Negotiate Intersectional Identities of Newfound Class Privilege, Repressed Ethnic Anger, and the (In)visibility of Gay (Male) Life Eric Aoki About the Editors and ContributorsReviewsAtay and Brower have brought together compelling ethnographic accounts from a variety of fascinating cities. The communicative dimensions of urban spaces are revealed through the interpretation and critique of human existence where planning and order meet improvisation and fluidity. -- Alberto Gonzalez, Bowling Green State University Atay and Brower's Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City is a one-of-a-kind treat for readers who desire conscientious inquiry on complicated yet vital cultural issues on the city. Situated as a reflexive examination of the quotidian particularities of city spaces and life, this accessible book invites readers to encounter city experiences likely new to us. Yet the book also works in ways that prompt readers to reflect on our own interactions in/with city spaces, digging deeply-perhaps for the very first time-into what they have meant, or could come to mean, to us and others. -- Keith Berry, University of South Florida A comprehensive and compelling collection about cities; an innovative assemblage of chapters that exemplify how to study space; and an essential text for researchers interested in the residents, relationships, temporalities, and trajectories of urban life. -- Tony Adams, Bradley University Atay and Brower have brought together compelling ethnographic accounts from a variety of fascinating cities. The communicative dimensions of urban spaces are revealed through the interpretation and critique of human existence where planning and order meet improvisation and fluidity.--Alberto Gonzalez, Bowling Green State University Atay and Brower's Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City is a one-of-a-kind treat for readers who desire conscientious inquiry on complicated yet vital cultural issues on the city. Situated as a reflexive examination of the quotidian particularities of city spaces and life, this accessible book invites readers to encounter city experiences likely new to us. Yet the book also works in ways that prompt readers to reflect on our own interactions in/with city spaces, digging deeply--perhaps for the very first time--into what they have meant, or could come to mean, to us and others.--Keith Berry, University of South Florida A comprehensive and compelling collection about cities; an innovative assemblage of chapters that exemplify how to study space; and an essential text for researchers interested in the residents, relationships, temporalities, and trajectories of urban life.--Tony Adams, Bradley University Author InformationAhmet Atay is associate professor at the College of Wooster. Jay Brower is associate professor and chair of communication at Western Connecticut State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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