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Alexa Faerber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
FQS, 2021Co-Authors: Alexa FaerberAbstract:In this article, I discuss comparison in Urban Anthropology from two perspectives. Using the fundamental epistemological significance of comparison as a starting point for all ethnographic cultural studies, I first present different comparative perspectives in Urban Anthropology and their concepts. These range from typological thinking to Urban specificity and relational Urbanity. Secondly, I examine comparison from the perspective of the Anthropology of knowledge as an everyday academic practice in order to understand its subjectification and spatial dimensions. The possibilities and limitations of comparison resulting from everyday academic practice are thus seen as a prerequisite for establishing any concept of comparison. Finally, I critically explore the specific requirements of ethnographic comparison via the figure of the entrepreneurial-ethnographic self
Ash Amin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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re thinking the Urban social
City, 2007Co-Authors: Ash AminAbstract:This paper has been prompted by a journal debate at the start of the new millennium on the future of Urban sociology in light of the proliferation of Urban studies in many disciplines at a time of increasingly blurred boundaries between cities and the world at large. It was a debate that, inter alia, asked Urban sociology to engage seriously with globalization (and contemporary modernity in general) as well as to return to its original concerns with Urban social inequality in a new division of inter‐disciplinary labour. This paper steers clear of defining a role for Urban sociology, principally because it believes Urban studies to have become a field of such intense inter‐disciplinarity that it makes little sense to demarcate the Urban sociology from Urban geography, Urban planning and politics, and Urban Anthropology. Instead the debate is used to raise a more basic question of Urban ontology relating, firstly, to how cities should be imagined as places, so that due recognition can be given to the radica...
Färber Alexa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions:
DEU, 2021Co-Authors: Färber AlexaAbstract:In this article, I discuss comparison in Urban Anthropology from two perspectives. Using the fundamental epistemological significance of comparison as a starting point for all ethnographic cultural studies, I first present different comparative perspectives in Urban Anthropology and their concepts. These range from typological thinking to Urban specificity and relational Urbanity. Secondly, I examine comparison from the perspective of the Anthropology of knowledge as an everyday academic practice in order to understand its subjectification and spatial dimensions. The possibilities and limitations of comparison resulting from everyday academic practice are thus seen as a prerequisite for establishing any concept of comparison. Finally, I critically explore the specific requirements of ethnographic comparison via the figure of the entrepreneurial-ethnographic self.In diesem Beitrag diskutiere ich den Vergleich in der Stadtanthropologie aus zwei Perspektiven: Ausgehend von der grundlegenden epistemologischen Bedeutung des Vergleichs für alle ethnografisch arbeitenden Kulturwissenschaften stelle ich in einem ersten Schritt die unterschiedlichen Vergleichsperspektiven und ihre Konzepte in der Stadtanthropologie vor. Diese reichen vom typologischen Denken über die Stadtspezifik bis hin zur relationalen Urbanität. In einem zweiten, wissensanthropologischen Schritt analysiere ich den Vergleich als wissenschaftliche Alltagspraxis, um die damit einhergehenden Subjektivierungen und räumlichen Dimensionen zu verstehen. Die aus der akademischen Alltagspraxis resultierenden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Vergleichs werden auf diese Weise als Voraussetzung für jegliche Konzepte des Vergleichs verstanden. Die spezifischen Anforderungen an den ethnografischen Vergleich beleuchte ich abschließend kritisch anhand der Figur des unternehmerisch-ethnografischen Selbst
Theodore C Bestor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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el sushi en una economia de oferta mercancia mercado y la ciudad global
Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 2014Co-Authors: Theodore C BestorAbstract:Urban Anthropology has been simultaneously challenged and transformed as forces of globalization- variously defined in economic, political, social, and cultural terms-have been theorized as "de-territorializing" many social processes and trends formerly regarded as characteristic of Urban places. Against a seemingly dis-placed cityscape of global flows of capital, commerce, commodity, and culture, this paper examines the reconfiguration of spatially and temporally dispersed relationships among labor, commodities, and cultural influence within an international seafood trade that centers on Tokyo's Tsukiji seafood market, and the local specificity of both market and place within a globalized Urban setting.
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supply side sushi commodity market and the global city
American Anthropologist, 2001Co-Authors: Theodore C BestorAbstract:Urban Anthropology has been simultaneously challenged and transformed as forces of globalization—variously defined in economic, political, social, and cultural terms—have been theorized as "de-territorializing" many social processes and trends formerly regarded as characteristic of Urban places. Against a seemingly dis-placed cityscape of global flows of capital, commerce, commodity, and culture, this paper examines the reconfiguration of spatially and temporally dispersed relationships among labor, commodities, and cultural influence within an international seafood trade that centers on Tokyo's Tsukiji seafood market, and the local specificity of both market and place within a globalized Urban setting. [Tokyo, markets, food culture, globalization]
Reza Arjmand - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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public Urban space gender and segregation women only Urban parks in iran
2016Co-Authors: Reza ArjmandAbstract:Public spaces are the renditions of the power symmetry within the social setting it resides in, and is both controlling and confining of power. In an ideologically-laden context, Urban design encompasses values and meanings and is utilized as a means to construct the identity and perpetuate visible and invisible boundaries. Hence, gendered spatial dichotomy based on a biological division of sexes is often employed systematically to evade the transgression of women into the public spaces. The production of modern Urban space in the Middle East is formed in the interplay between modernity, tradition and religion. Examining women in public spaces and patterns of interaction with gender -segregated and -mixed space, this book argues that gendered spaces are far from a static physical spatial division and produce a complex and dynamic dichotomy of men/public and women/private. Taking the example of Iran, normative and ideologically-laden gender segregated public spaces have been used as a tool for the Islamization of everyday life. The most recent government effort includes women-only parks, purportedly designed and administered through women's contributions, as well as to accommodate their needs and provide space for social interasction and activities. Combining research approaches from Urban planning and social sciences, this book analyses both technical and social aspects of women-only parks. Addressing the relationships between ideology, Urban planning and gender, the book interprets power relations and how they are used to define and plan public and semi-public Urban spaces. Lack of communication across disciplinary boundaries as result of complexities of Urban life has been one of the major hindrances in studying Urban spaces in the Middle East. Addressing the concern, the cross-disciplinary approach employed in this volume is an amalgamation of methods informed by Urban planning and social sciences, which includes an in-depth analysis of the morphological, perceptual, social, visual, functional, and temporal dimensions of the public space, the women-only parks in Iran. Based on critical ethnography, this volume uses a phenomenological approach to understating women in gendered spaces. Interaction of women in women-only parks in Iran, a gendered space which is growing in popularity across the Muslim world is discussed thoroughly and compared vis-a-vis gender-neutral public spaces. The book targets scholars and students within a wide range of academic disciplines including Urban studies, Urban planning, gender studies, political science, Middle Eastern studies, cultural studies, Urban Anthropology, Urban sociology, Iranian studies and Islamic studies. (Less)
