Research Catalog

Title

Walking in the European city : quotidian mobility and urban ethnography / edited by Timothy Shortell, Evrick Brown.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Evrick
• Shortell, Timothy
• Shortell, Timothy.
• Brown, Evrick.

Description

xv, 297 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and crucial research method (in spite of its ubiquity as part of urban life) has often been overlooked. This volume considers walking in the city from a variety of perspectives, in a variety of places and with a variety of methods, to engage with the question of how walking can contribute to the sociological imagination and reveal sociological knowledge. Bringing together new research on sites across Europe, Walking in the European City addresses the nature of everyday mobility in contemporary urban settings, shedding light not only on the ways in which walking relates to other social institutions and practices, but also as a method for studying urban life. With attention to intersections of race and ethnicity, gender and class, as well as the manner in which processes of gentrification transform urban space, this book examines questions of access to public places, exploring the ways in which urban dwellers' use of and relation to neighbourhood spaces are shaped by inequalities of status and power. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology with interests in urban studies, mobility and research methods.--

Subjects

• Walking > Europe
• Sociology, Urban > Europe
• City and town life > Europe
• Cities and towns > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Walking in the European City / Evrick Brown -- pt. I THEORETICAL ELABORATIONS -- 2. The Flaneur: A Way of Walking, Exploring and Interpreting the City / Giampaolo Nuvolati -- 3. The Act of Walking: Exemplifying Danish Pedestrian Culture / Pernille Falborg Helmer -- 4. Moving Through the City with Strangers? Public Transport as a Significant Type of Urban Public Space / Giulio Mattioli -- 5. Walking Between Planes: Why Hypermobile People Take to Walking in the City / Sonia Lavadinho -- 6. Mobility in Thessaloniki: The Greek Economic Crisis and the Transformation of Mobility / Eleni Sideri -- pt. II VISUAL METHODS -- 7. Drifting in Chinatowns: Toward a Situationist Analysis of Polyglot Urban Spaces in New York, Paris, and London / Konrad Aderer
• 8. Walking Through Instead of Flying Over: A Way to See the Flux of Urbanization in Istanbul and Other Places? / Martin Kohler -- 9. Walking in Search of Migrants in European Cities / Jerome Krase -- 10. Walking the Stream: Prague Cityscape and the Research Guided by the Water / Petr Gibas -- pt. III ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES -- 11. Gdje si? Walking as a Reflexive Practice / Giulia Carabelli -- 12. Challenging the Hegemonic Gaze on Foot: Walk-Alongs as a Useful Method in Gentrification Research / Helena Holgersson -- 13. A Walk Around the Block: Creating Spaces for Everyday Encounters / Hilary Ramsden -- 14. Walking Through Urban Transformation: Fieldwork in the Northeast of Paris / Maria Anita Palumbo.

ISBN

• 9781472416162 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1472416163 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781472416186 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472416179 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013050265

OCLC

• 866617707
• SCSB-12802662

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library