These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. These active, engaged researchers h...
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1. Introduction: Urban Ethnography Matters.- 2. From Jaffa to New York: The Scope of Urban Anthropology.- 3. Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An It...
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Italo Pardo is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and Founding President of the International Urban Symposium, a non-profit association. He co-edi...