Tyler S. Schafer & Michael Ian Borer 
Researching City Life [EPUB ebook] 
An Urban Field Methods Text Reader

Introduction: Researching Urban People and Places – Tyler S. Schafer and Michael Ian Borer
Introduction: Part I: Being with Others in the City
“Pet-Facilitated Interaction in a Public Setting.” – Douglas M. Robins, Clinton R. Sanders, and Spencer E. Cahill
The Setting and the Study
Recruiting Candidates for Inclusion
Becoming a Regular
“‘Cooling Out’ Men in Singles Bars and Nightclubs: Observations on the Interpersonal Survival Strategies of Women in Public Places.” – David A. Snow, Cherylon Robinson, and Patricia L. Mc Call
Procedures
Women’s Protective Strategies
“Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City.” – Ranita Ray
Fieldwork With Urban Youth
Siblings as a Source of Support
Exchange, Intimate Ties, and Conflict
“Do You See What I See? Examining a Collaborative Ethnography.” – Reuben A. Buford May and Mary Pattillo-Mc Coy
Comparing Notes
The Groveland Fieldhouse
Do You See What I See?
“Among the Colony: Ethnographic Fieldwork, Urban Bees and Intra-species Mindfulness.” – Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut
Bees as Actors: Our “Other” Research Subjects
Beekeepers: Entrée to Bees Through Human Actors
Hive Checks: Meeting the Bees
Becoming Bee-Centered
“Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City: Rethinking Kinship Ties of the Urban Poor” – Ranita Ray
Group Dynamics and Allegiance
Intimacy, Boundaries, and Data
The Process and the Article
Introduction: Part II: Talking with Others in the City
“The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool.” – Margarethe Kusenbach
The Go-Along Method
The Thematic Potential of Go-Alongs
“Object and Walking Probes in Ethnographic Interviewing.” – Jason Patrick De Leon and Jeffrey H. Cohen
Material Probes
Object Probes
Walking Probes
What Is the Usefulness of the Material Probe?
“The Docent Method: A Grounded Theory Approach for Researching Place and Health.” – Jamie Suki Chang
The Docent Method
Docent Method Procedures in the Hitt Study
“Rescue Geography: Place making, Affect and Regeneration.” – Phil Jones and James Evans
Capturing Affective Connections to Place: Toward Rescue Geographies
Placing the Personal
“Place-Based Elicitation: Interviewing Graffiti Writers at the Scene of the Crime.’ – Stefano Bloch
Narrative Disparity, Nonrepresentational Methods, and Extradiscursity
The Literature on Graffiti
Graffiti and (Il)Legality
Methods
Eliciting Embodied Responses and “Real” Reflection
“On the Heels of the Go-Along” – Margarethe Kusenbach
Origins and Context
Reception and Current Use
Promise and Potential
Introduction Part III: Stories from the City
“Local Culture” – Jaber F. Gubrium
Orienting to Local Culture
Into the Field
“Going Straight: The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-Convict.” – Elijah Anderson
“Streets, Sidewalks, Stores, and Stories: Narrative and Uses of Urban Space.” – Timothy A. Simpson
Blue Chair Music and the Maintenance of a Lifestyle Enclave
Blue Chair as a Narrative Space
Alternative to What?
Making Sure the Scene Is Seen: Observation and Display as Modes of Enclave Identity Work
Remembering the Seen
Leaving Blue Chair
“Narratives in the Old Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Neighborhood’s Stories.” – Robin Patric Clair
Methodological Background
The Covington Tragedy of March 4, 1908
The Tragedy of June 12, 1980
A Sequestered Story Challenges the Community
The Narrative Package: A Conclusion
“From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement Among the Urban Middle Class.” – Richard E. Ocejo
The Case
Migration Narratives
Settlement Narratives
“The Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis, Past and Present.” – Jonathan R. Wynn
Emphases in the Study of Characters
The Limits and Possibilities of the Character
“Thoughts on “The Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis, Past and Present” – Jonathan R. Wynn
Introduction Part IV: Visualizing the City
“Ways of Seeing, Knowing, and Showing” – Sarah Pink
Ethnography and Ethnographic Images
“ ‘The Camera Rolls’: Using Third-Party Video in Field Research.” – Nikki Jones and Geoffrey Raymond
Key Questions
Defining Third-Party Video
Considering the Camera’s Influence on Interaction
The Problems and Potential of a Third-Party Perspective
Institutional Ethics and Third-Party Video
“Visualizing Gendered Sports Fandom.” – Michael Ian Borer
“Researching Urban Space, Reflecting on Advertising: A Photo Essay.” – Anne M. Cronin
Introduction Part V: Sensing the City
“The Sensuous City: Sensory Methodologies in Urban Ethnographic Research.” – Kelvin E.Y. Low
Sensory Methodologies
Concluding Remarks
“An Urban Tour: The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-Making.” – Sarah Pink
Ethnography as Place-Making
A Tour of Mold
After the “Event”
Ethnography Slow
Making Ethnographic Places
“Bringing Bodies Into Planning: Visceral Methods, Fear and Gender Violence.” – Elizabeth L. Sweet and Sara Ortiz Escalante
Exploring Visceral Methods of Planners
Shared Sensory Spatial Experiences: Bodies Appropriating Space in
Medellín and Barcelona
“Vibrational Affect: Sound Theory and Practice in Qualitative Research.” – Walter S. Gershon
Sound Theory: Resonance and Knowledge
Sound Method
Sounds Beyond Data
Sound/Work and Sonic Resonances
“My Music, My World: Using the MP3 Player to Shape Experience in London.” – Miriam Simun
Methodology
Analyzing Experiences
Implications
“Reflections on an Urban Tour” – Sarah Pink
Introduction Part VI: Representing the City
“Putting on a Public Face.” – Stephanie Coontz
“Social Cinema Scenes.” – Nirmal Puwar
Social Scenes in Cinema Studies
Scoping Happenings
Looking Back
The Exhibition Space
“Dramatizing Data: A Primer.” – Johnny Saldaña
Plotting: The Conceptual Framework of Ethnodrama
Participants as Characters in Ethnodrama
Monologues and Dialogues: Dramatizing the Data
A Call for Collaboration and Quality in Ethnotheatre
“Augmented Fotonovelas: Creating New Media as Pedagogical and Social Justice Tools.” – Leigh Anna Hidalgo
Introduction
Conclusion
“Teaching a Hip-Hop Ecology.” – Michael J. Cermak
“Reflections on ‘Social Cinema Scenes’” – Nirmal Puwar

Michael Ian Borer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is author of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark (NYU Press 2008) and Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene (NYU Press 2019). He also co-authored Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns (SAGE 2014) and Sociology in Everyday Life (Waveland 2016). Borer served as the 2021-2022 President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.