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Making Place - Space and Embodiment in the City (Hardcover): Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman Making Place - Space and Embodiment in the City (Hardcover)
Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman; Contributions by Setha Low, Swati Chattopadhyay, Emanuela Guano, …
R2,059 R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Save R148 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Making Place - Space and Embodiment in the City (Paperback): Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman Making Place - Space and Embodiment in the City (Paperback)
Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman; Contributions by Setha Low, Swati Chattopadhyay, Emanuela Guano, …
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Creative Urbanity - An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization (Hardcover): Emanuela Guano Creative Urbanity - An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization (Hardcover)
Emanuela Guano
R1,891 R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Save R1,210 (64%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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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