Overview
The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores how steadily increasing inequality and the spectacular pace of urbanization frame daily life for city residents around the world. Ethnographic case studies from five continents highlight the impact of place, the tools of memory, and the power of collective action as communities interact with centralized processes of policy and capital. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this collection illustrate the many ways urban inequalities take shape, combine, and are perpetuated.
Full Product Details
Author: Angela Storey ,
Megan Sheehan ,
Jessica Bodoh-Creed ,
Raffael Beier
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.80cm
Weight: 0.376kg
ISBN: 9781793610669
ISBN 10: 1793610665
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 10 March 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Ethnographically based and cross-culturally comparative, this volume of articles provides students of anthropology with first-hand portrayals of urban life in different cities. Authors in this volume demonstrate that urban inequality is a multifaceted phenomenon: public policy, institutional arrangement, space, infrastructure, and even personal hygiene. Jointly, they made it clear that urban inequality is not merely a local story but a global reality with shared roots with various ramifications. -- Anru Lee, John Jay College, CUNY A comprehensive compilation of ethnographic studies carried out in cities around the Global South, this book offers a brilliant insight into how excluded populations make sense, experience, and struggle with social inequality in an era of planetary urbanization. Covering a wide range of topics like gentrification, urban informality, citizenship participation, place making, and migration, The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality helps us understand the diversity of ways in which urban residents deal creatively with contemporary forms of exclusion while making the city. A must-read for anyone interested in reflecting anthropologically on the relationship between urban space and everyday life. -- Miguel Perez, Alberto Hurtado University & Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, Chile
Author Information
Jessica Bodoh-Creed is lecturer in anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles. Megan Sheehan is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of St Benedict/St John’s University. Angela Storey is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Louisville.
