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Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and
history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place
examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the
urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily
responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place.
The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a
new methodological approach that incorporates both material and
abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and
encourages consideration of the various levels from the personal to
the planetary at which spatial change occurs. The book s case
studies come from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the
United Kingdom, and the United States."
Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and
history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place
examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the
urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily
responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place.
The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a
new methodological approach that incorporates both material and
abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and
encourages consideration of the various levels from the personal to
the planetary at which spatial change occurs. The book s case
studies come from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the
United Kingdom, and the United States."
In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the
economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers
of the Western world at that time. Deindustrialization made Genoa a
bleak, dangerous, angry city, where the unemployment rate rose
alongside increasing political violence and crime and led to a
massive population loss as residents fled to find jobs and a safer
life elsewhere. But by the 1990s a revitalization was under way.
Many Genoese came to believe their city was poised for a
renaissance as a cultural tourism destination and again began to
appreciate the sensory, aesthetic, and cultural facets of Genoa,
refining practices of a cultured urbanity that had long been
missing. Some of those people—educated, middle class—seeking to
escape intellectual unemployment, transformed urbanity into a
source of income, becoming purveyors of symbolic goods and cultural
services, as walking tour guides, street antiques dealers,
artisans, festival organizers, small business owners, and more,
thereby burnishing Genoa's image as a city of culture and
contributing to its continued revival. Based on more than a decade
of ethnographic research, Creative Urbanity argues for an
understanding of contemporary cities through an analysis of urban
life that refuses the prevailing scholarly condemnation of urban
lifestyles and consumption, even as it casts a fresh light on a
social group often neglected by anthropologists. The creative
urbanites profiled by Emanuela Guano are members of a struggling
middle class who, unwilling or unable to leave Genoa, are
attempting to come to terms with the loss of stable white-collar
jobs that accompanied the economic and demographic crisis that
began in the 1970s by finding creative ways to make do with
whatever they have.
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