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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Urban ethnography"”.
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Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography Of Policing In Atlantic City, New Jersey
In this dissertation, Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography of Policing in Atlantic City, New Jersey, I develop a novel conceptualization of the “productivity of policing” in Racial Capitalism. My analysis is in part structured by a problematization of the common tendency within Police Studies …
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Subaltern Spaces in the Ancient City: Cultural Identity, Spatial Memory, and Networks of Meaning in Roman Pompeii
… widely studied for its preservation of a Roman urban environment that was ‘frozen in time’. The excellent preservation of the site reveals a colonial material record that has long encouraged terminal narratives of Roman acculturation, so-called Romanization, which have devalued the plurality of …
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Frances R. Donovan and The Chicago School of Sociology: A Case Study in Marginality
… publications now regarded as early classics in urban ethnography. These studies also are known for their middle class preoccupation with marginal "types" and deviant subcultures, as well as a neglect of studies on women. Therefore, Frances Donovan's own marginal status and unique research …
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"A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People": Globalizing Cities, World-Class Waste, and the Biopolitics of Food Not Bombs
This is an ethnography of waste, cities, and social movements. Primarily one social movement in particular, Food Not Bombs, which recovers and freely redistributes wasted food in the public spaces of hundreds of cities, in dozens of countries, on every continent except Antarctica. In the process, …
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Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá
Urban studies have often neglected the racial-colonial grounds on which space-power and space- subjectivity articulations operate in Latin America. This dissertation addresses that gap by exploring the city of Bogotá as normatively mestizo, epistemically white and factually blind to racialised …