Urban communities / city life Books
Duke University Press Visions of Beirut
Book SynopsisHatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power.Trade Review“Hatim El-Hibri weaves a narrative that articulates concealment and infrastructure onto a conceptual terrain that transcends the empirical context of Lebanon. This engaging, groundbreaking, and indispensable book makes a truly meaningful and influential intervention in global media studies, Middle East studies, and urban studies.” -- Marwan M. Kraidy, author of * The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World *“Visions of Beirut is a compelling work of careful analysis and creative connections that proposes a historically informed set of powerful readings about the transformations of Beirut's public(s) and spaces. Hatim El-Hibri masterfully deconstructs outmoded assumptions about Lebanon's political economy and societies, unravelling instead the everyday visual infrastructures that sustain and reproduce forces such as sectarianism and financialization. The outcome is an important contribution that implores us to think critically about how image, its mediation, and infrastructures are remaking cities in today's world.” -- Mona Fawaz, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut“Visions of Beirut comes at a crucial moment for the city and for the country, coinciding with the most stringent economic crisis Lebanon has ever faced and in the aftermath of one of the largest nonnuclear explosions ever recorded.... The recent events confirm, once again, El-Hibri’s treatise and the validity of its theoretical framework." -- Aya Jazaierly * Information & Culture *“Visions of Beirut offers a lot to its readers. It will be of great interest to scholars of global media, Middle Eastern studies, and urban studies and will make an excellent addition to many graduate-level syllabi.” -- Blake Atwood * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsNote on Translation and Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Social Life of Maps of Beirut 21 2. Images of Before/After in the Economy of Postwar Construction 64 3. Concealment, Liveness, and Al Manar TV 105 4. The Open Secret of Concealment at the Mleeta Museum 144 Conclusion 178 Notes 183 References 217 Index 247
£72.25
Duke University Press Bombay Brokers
Book SynopsisBombay Brokers collect thirty-six character profiles of men and women whose knowledge and laborwhich is often seen as morally suspectare essential for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world's most complex, dynamic, and populous cities.Trade Review“Lisa Björkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond.” -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago“This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University"An unconventional introduction to India's biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography." -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“While [Bombay Brokers] is nominally about the city of Mumbai, there is little doubt that it will resonate with anyone interested in the story of urban change and continuity all around the world. It is a distinctive contribution to the literature on cities and labour and one that is bound to inspire similar books in years to come.” -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“[Bombay Brokers] is a highly engaging read, as well as a rich and very valuable contribution to the literatures about Mumbai and the concept of brokerage.... The book provides food for thought for debates about the specificity of Southern urbanisms and enriches our conceptual vocabulary for thinking about cities.” -- Pablo Holwitt * Antipode *“[Bombay Brokers] is a book that, in its combination of sharp-eyed detail and endlessly multiplying perspectives, manages to create a simulacrum of the city itself in all its plurality and vitality. . . . The structure of the book makes it especially useful as a teaching resource.” -- Jonathan Spencer * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Bombay Brokers is an expert exploration of how life is fashioned in a harshly hierarchical city through the activities of individuals—creative, complex, tenacious individuals who accomplish survival, success or profit, sometimes space to build a community, by brokering deals and mediating conflicts between messy, overflowing institutions.” -- Tania Bhattacharyya * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bombay Brokers is ideal for teaching. One could easily assign a single chapter, thematic domain, or the whole. The book’s careful interventions on theories of value, politics, urban belonging, and place making will invigorate advanced students as well as professional anthropologists and urban planners, while individual chapters would be ideal for teaching introductory courses on cultural anthropology, urbanism, or South Asia. This imminently readable and teachable volume burgeons with insights and new research avenues for people thinking about and living in cities in South Asia and beyond." -- Andrew McDowell * City & Society *"It should be read widely. An ambitious project like this is rarely produced, or even attempted, and rarely with this consistent level of craftsmanship and shared vision start to finish. The style and length of the chapters, short and lacking pretense and jargon, make it an ideal complement to more densely theoretical tracts in undergraduate and graduate courses on urban politics and development in South Asia and the global South. The book is also a model of collaborative inquiry." -- Patrick Inglis * Contemporary Sociology *“Bombay Brokers deserves to be read and engaged with by scholars across anthropology, political science, history, and critical area studies. … [It] vividly captures the art of ethnographic writing and the ends to which it can be mobilized.” -- Amogh Dhar Sharma * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman 1 Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman 47 1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath 59 2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch 68 3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman 78 4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar 87 5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle 95 6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 101 Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman 109 7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove 121 8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani 128 9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji 137 10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda 145 11. Farhad: "Sue Maker" / Leilah Vevaina 154 Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi 163 12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo 175 13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar 182 14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk 191 15. Lubaina: Framing "Development" / Lubaina Rangwala 199 16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda 208 17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi 216 18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman 224 Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar 233 19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik 243 20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl 253 21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein 262 22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan 270 23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson 278 24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju 286 Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins 297 25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar 307 26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn Hardy 315 27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322 28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard 329 29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar 337 30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi 347 Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman 355 31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of "Truths" / Srimati Basu 367 32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa 378 33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen 384 34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters 391 35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte 401 36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide 405 Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell 414 Glossary 425 About the Contributors 437 Index 441
£84.15
Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisIn Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city''s strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect chaTrade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
£20.69
Duke University Press The Globally Familiar
Book SynopsisEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan examines how the young men of Delhi's hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.Trade Review“A rich narrative of urban transformation told from the perspectives of young men on the margins of Delhi. This lucid ethnography illuminates how hip hop and digital media entangle cultural worlds and redefine classed masculinity. A riveting read with cross-disciplinary appeal, The Globally Familiar opens new perspectives about urbanity from below.” -- Radha S. Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has produced a wonderfully rich, nuanced narrative of Delhi's hip hop scene. Engaging with young men from India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Nepal, The Globally Familiar is not only brilliantly and elegantly theorized but methodologically innovative and sophisticated. Combining the tradition of ‘hiphopography’ with digital production and participation, Dattatreyan's narrative not only bristles with insights about youth cultural production vis-à-vis race, masculinity, capitalism, and the global but also pushes global hip hop studies to the next level by demonstrating the power of sustained commitment to both the culture and those who produce it. The Globally Familiar is a rare gem.” -- H. Samy Alim, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles“The Globally Familiar convincingly argues that migrant working class young men’s performance of hip hop’s sonic, visual and kinemic aesthetics enables them to reimagine and remake the self and the city.... The book makes a stunning contribution to the burgeoning research on digital cultures, globalization, South Asian urban neighbourhoods and masculinity.” -- Anjali Gera Roy * Popular Music *“I am thrilled to learn from and teach this ethnography. With The Globally Familiar, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has blown up the stage of the normative anthropological and cultural studies understanding of popular culture, India, urban aesthetics, subaltern life, global connections, and hip-hop.” -- Stanley Thangaraj * Current Anthropology *“The Delhi that emerges from Dattatreyan’s richly textured writing is like a contact zone or a borderland; a contested, unequal, but not unimaginable or unimaginative urban space.... A concept like the globally familiar allows for a complex understanding of how globalization transforms our cities from below.” -- Jaspal Naveel Singh * AAG Review of Books *“In The Globally Familiar, Gabriel Dattatreyan presents an intimate, complex, and ultimately hopeful ethnography of the hip hop scene in Delhi, India, capturing how hip hop’s meaning comes to be contested in its global circulation and uptake by young men in Delhi.” -- Amanda Weidman * Journal of Anthropological Research *“The Globally Familiar is an important work in providing a fully intersectional ethnography of the hip hop subculture in Delhi. This book has broad implications for helping us understand global hip hop outside of the West, as well as the globality of cultural activity in India outside of the elite.” -- Sara Hakeem Grewal * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Friendship and Romance 21 2. The Materially Familiar 49 3. Labor and Work 79 4. Hip Hop Ideologies 107 5. Urban Development 135 6. Race and Place 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241
£25.19
Duke University Press Bombay Brokers
Book SynopsisBombay Brokers collect thirty-six character profiles of men and women whose knowledge and laborwhich is often seen as morally suspectare essential for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world's most complex, dynamic, and populous cities.Trade Review“Lisa Björkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond.” -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago“This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University"An unconventional introduction to India's biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography." -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“While [Bombay Brokers] is nominally about the city of Mumbai, there is little doubt that it will resonate with anyone interested in the story of urban change and continuity all around the world. It is a distinctive contribution to the literature on cities and labour and one that is bound to inspire similar books in years to come.” -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“[Bombay Brokers] is a highly engaging read, as well as a rich and very valuable contribution to the literatures about Mumbai and the concept of brokerage.... The book provides food for thought for debates about the specificity of Southern urbanisms and enriches our conceptual vocabulary for thinking about cities.” -- Pablo Holwitt * Antipode *“[Bombay Brokers] is a book that, in its combination of sharp-eyed detail and endlessly multiplying perspectives, manages to create a simulacrum of the city itself in all its plurality and vitality. . . . The structure of the book makes it especially useful as a teaching resource.” -- Jonathan Spencer * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Bombay Brokers is an expert exploration of how life is fashioned in a harshly hierarchical city through the activities of individuals—creative, complex, tenacious individuals who accomplish survival, success or profit, sometimes space to build a community, by brokering deals and mediating conflicts between messy, overflowing institutions.” -- Tania Bhattacharyya * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bombay Brokers is ideal for teaching. One could easily assign a single chapter, thematic domain, or the whole. The book’s careful interventions on theories of value, politics, urban belonging, and place making will invigorate advanced students as well as professional anthropologists and urban planners, while individual chapters would be ideal for teaching introductory courses on cultural anthropology, urbanism, or South Asia. This imminently readable and teachable volume burgeons with insights and new research avenues for people thinking about and living in cities in South Asia and beyond." -- Andrew McDowell * City & Society *"It should be read widely. An ambitious project like this is rarely produced, or even attempted, and rarely with this consistent level of craftsmanship and shared vision start to finish. The style and length of the chapters, short and lacking pretense and jargon, make it an ideal complement to more densely theoretical tracts in undergraduate and graduate courses on urban politics and development in South Asia and the global South. The book is also a model of collaborative inquiry." -- Patrick Inglis * Contemporary Sociology *“Bombay Brokers deserves to be read and engaged with by scholars across anthropology, political science, history, and critical area studies. … [It] vividly captures the art of ethnographic writing and the ends to which it can be mobilized.” -- Amogh Dhar Sharma * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman 1 Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman 47 1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath 59 2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch 68 3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman 78 4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar 87 5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle 95 6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 101 Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman 109 7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove 121 8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani 128 9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji 137 10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda 145 11. Farhad: "Sue Maker" / Leilah Vevaina 154 Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi 163 12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo 175 13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar 182 14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk 191 15. Lubaina: Framing "Development" / Lubaina Rangwala 199 16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda 208 17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi 216 18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman 224 Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar 233 19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik 243 20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl 253 21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein 262 22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan 270 23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson 278 24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju 286 Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins 297 25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar 307 26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn Hardy 315 27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322 28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard 329 29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar 337 30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi 347 Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman 355 31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of "Truths" / Srimati Basu 367 32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa 378 33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen 384 34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters 391 35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte 401 36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide 405 Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell 414 Glossary 425 About the Contributors 437 Index 441
£23.39
Duke University Press Toward Camden
Book SynopsisIn Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses—her family''s house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city''s vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipientTrade Review“Mercy Romero’s Toward Camden is a profoundly moving and necessary meditation on Camden, a city marked by abandonment, dispossession, and resistance. In weaving familial narratives with the lives and deaths in and of Camden, Romero opens possibilities for us to consider the cultural geographies of a city and a people attending to survival. A tender, haunting, and critical work, Toward Camden has implications for our considerations of home, capitalism, gentrification, loss, and love.” -- Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, author of * Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature *“I've been waiting for Mercy Romero's book all of my life. Camden is home to my family, but there have been too few writers who have turned to it as a city worthy of deep and loving observation. Toward Camden is a response to that erasure. And it won't be soon forgotten.” -- Darnell L. Moore, author of * No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America *"Romero . . . combines incisive political commentary, cultural criticism, and memoir in her vibrant debut, a collection of essays about her hometown of Camden, N.J. . . . Elegiac yet hopeful, this meditation is full of power." * Publishers Weekly *"Romero joins a rare breed of writers who manage to convert hardship to healing, and isolation to more universal truths. Readers who chose to move toward Camden with Romero will be rewarded, not with a full explanation for what they encounter, but with an appreciation for how the human resilience she recounts and displays can be an inspiration for us all." -- Howard Gillette Jr. * New Jersey Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue 1 1. Toward Camden 1 2. Empty Lots 30 3. Demolition Futures 47 4. Halfway Houses 68 Epilogue 93 Notes 97 Bibliography 111 Index 121
£62.90
Duke University Press Toward Camden
Book SynopsisIn Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses—her family''s house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city''s vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipientTrade Review“Mercy Romero’s Toward Camden is a profoundly moving and necessary meditation on Camden, a city marked by abandonment, dispossession, and resistance. In weaving familial narratives with the lives and deaths in and of Camden, Romero opens possibilities for us to consider the cultural geographies of a city and a people attending to survival. A tender, haunting, and critical work, Toward Camden has implications for our considerations of home, capitalism, gentrification, loss, and love.” -- Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, author of * Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature *“I've been waiting for Mercy Romero's book all of my life. Camden is home to my family, but there have been too few writers who have turned to it as a city worthy of deep and loving observation. Toward Camden is a response to that erasure. And it won't be soon forgotten.” -- Darnell L. Moore, author of * No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America *"Romero . . . combines incisive political commentary, cultural criticism, and memoir in her vibrant debut, a collection of essays about her hometown of Camden, N.J. . . . Elegiac yet hopeful, this meditation is full of power." * Publishers Weekly *"Romero joins a rare breed of writers who manage to convert hardship to healing, and isolation to more universal truths. Readers who chose to move toward Camden with Romero will be rewarded, not with a full explanation for what they encounter, but with an appreciation for how the human resilience she recounts and displays can be an inspiration for us all." -- Howard Gillette Jr. * New Jersey Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue 1 1. Toward Camden 1 2. Empty Lots 30 3. Demolition Futures 47 4. Halfway Houses 68 Epilogue 93 Notes 97 Bibliography 111 Index 121
£15.19
Duke University Press All That Was Not Her
Book SynopsisWhile studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and, following her death, into the present. He meditates on the possibilities of writing about someone who is gone—what should be represented, what experiences resist rendering, what ethical challenges exist when studying the lives of others. Meyers considers how chronic illness is bound up in the racialized and socioeconomic conditions of Beverly’s life and explores the stakes of the anthropologist’s engagement with one subject. Even as Meyers struggles to give Beverly the final word, he finds himself unmade alongside her. All That Was Not Her captures the complexity of personal relationships in the field and the diTrade Review“This beautiful, smart, and unique book cuts into ethnography and race in powerful and necessary ways, stepping off the plane of current critical race theory into risky, generative thinking and writing. An intimate, frank account of a situation and relationship beyond the convenient stability of an understanding or meaning, All That Was Not Her is an absolutely compelling read.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *“All That Was Not Her is an exceptionally compelling reflection on the long-term complicated relationship through time between an anthropologist and a key interlocutor. Todd Meyers remarkably gets at the fraught, complex, and entangled forms of connection and difference, offering a new understanding of the interpersonal, ethical, and epistemological dimensions of work undertaken in contemporary medical and sociocultural anthropology. This is an altogether necessary book for these times.” -- Robert Desjarlais, author of * The Blind Man: A Phantasmography *"Meyers’s conscience-driven reflections regarding the utility of his work, the shifting parameters of the researcher-interlocutor relationship, and the special challenges of communicating across gaps of class and race, form the heart of the book. He makes academic writing his leaping-off point for a deeply thoughtful, lyrically expressed ethical and philosophical enquiry. This is a book that can be slotted into many non-fiction categories, but don’t be put off: it is a unique work of literature." -- Ian McGillis * Montreal Gazette *"Meyers’ writing is compelling for its beauty and for the honesty of his descriptions. More than anything, I took from this its head-on confrontation with the uneasiness inherent in the relationship between the ethnographer and their subject that should be familiar to anyone with experience of doing ethnographic fieldwork." -- Esca van Blarikom * Sociology of Health & Illness *"The book is not about truth but about swimming in ambiguity. It is not even about the cliché conflict between 'truth' and 'accuracy,' as even these terms begin to disintegrate in the text. Meyers asks us to sit with discomfort and dwell in the fraught nature of ethnography. In this sense, the book is not quite an ethnographic portrait. It is rather an ethnography of ethnography itself—and where ethnography starts to break down." -- Emily Lim Rogers * American Ethnologist *"I thoroughly enjoyed reading All That Was Not Her, by Todd Meyers. The book is beautiful to look at, with artwork unusual in an academic publication. Meyers writes well as he shares with the reader what might most easily be described as a case study. . . . This is an excellent text to prompt critical thought and debate around the important topics of ethics, power relations, and the positioning of the researcher within research that involves people as participants." -- Khyati Tripathi * H-Death, H-Net Reviews *"What his account of Beverly gets her to think about, even though she can’t really grasp it, is the importance of reading for negativity even in those most crushed by the violences of late liberalism. In such an enterprise, our politics will have to be vandalized, experiments in academic writing will need to be undertaken, and the failures depicted in All That Was Not Her will remain beautiful, venerable, and worthy of preservation." -- Elizabeth A. Wilson * Somatosphere *"I was moved by Meyers’s reflections on the unfinished: the errors, failures, and obsessions inherent to the work of an anthropologist." -- Margaux Fitoussi * Somatosphere *"All That Was Not Her is an unsentimental yet vulnerable reckoning of fieldwork. An ethnography of ethnography." -- Andrés Romero * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsUndoing ix 1. These Moments Formed between Us 1 2. Still Life 13 3. The Accident of Contact 41 4. Resuscitations 63 5. A Living Room 85 6. Thoughts of Suicide 97 7. [ . . . ] 123 8. Breathing Feels like a Falsehood 133 9. Notes on a New Moralism 151 10. Black Figurine 175 Reassembling 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 215
£72.25
Duke University Press The Surrounds
Book SynopsisIn The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the suTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Exposing the Surrounds as Urban Infrastructure 1 1. Without Capture: From Extinction to Abolition 21 2. Forgetting Being Forgotten 61 3. Rebellion without Redemption 100 Coda. Extensions beyond Value 134 References 139 Index 153
£71.10
Duke University Press In the Skin of the City
Book SynopsisWith In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating LuandaTrade Review"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking." -- Shakirah E. Hudani * Journal of Planning History *"A very readable introduction to the city—and one that both draws the reader into an engaged understanding as well as providing plentiful material for further study. . . . [T]he book is highly recommended for emerging generations of urban scholars interested in not only the south and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, but also wider urban space and form, and ongoing dynamic urban transformations worldwide." -- Paul Jenkins * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Tomás’s book is an engaging and exhaustive study of the history, politics, economy, and culture of a constantly changing and unpredictable African capital city. In this sense, it will undoubtedly become a reference for researchers interested in urban studies, history, anthropology, and similar disciplines." -- Melusi Nkomo * Exertions *"In the Skin of the City is a finely crafted book about the political economy of one of the biggest cities in the Global South, which speaks to urban, social, and political theory. It builds on thorough research, engages its audience with a compelling narrative, and is a must-read for anyone who has an interest in Luanda, Angola, and urban Africa more generally." -- Till Förster * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Frontier Within 1 Part I. Formation 1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29 2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59 Part II. Stasis 3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91 4. A City Decentered 119 Part III. Fragmentation 5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147 6. The Urban Yet to Come 176 Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204 Glossary 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 241 Index 261
£72.25
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£72.25
Duke University Press Wake Up This Is Joburg
Book SynopsisA single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history—from its premise and promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city’s ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. Their photos and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow heads; the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features turrets and full of manikins; long-abandoned gold pits beneath the city, where people continue to mine informally; and lively markets, taxi depots, and residential high-rises. Sharing people’s private and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack and Lewis show that Johannesburg’s urban transformation oTrade Review"These pieces are sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, and add up to a complicated picture of a city of contradictions. . . . Wake Up, This Is Joburg tells its range of interesting stories well, through on-the-ground reporting, with ample interviews and context, letting a variety of people around Johannesburg talk about both the struggles and successes of everyday life in the inner city." -- Jeff Fleischer * Foreword *"Wake Up, This Is Joburg effectively frames Johannesburg as one of the continent’s most important entrepôts where people journey from various nodes of the country and continent to earn a decent living. Rather than criminalise their activities, these stories provoke readers to ‘wake up’ and pay attention to those who make this city a fascinating but enigmatic place to live." -- Denise L. Lim * Urban Studies *"There is rich nuance in Tanya Zack’s flowing, sensitive narrative and Mark Lewis’s striking photography. The stories they tell are deeply human and individualised, yet cleverly interwoven within Johannesburg’s broader racial, social and economic anomalies. . . . This is an extraordinary book, with beautiful, powerful photographs and a sensitive, robust and accessible narrative. It provides a fresh perspective on life, struggle, survival, creativity and uniqueness in one of Africa’s major cities." -- Chris Heymans * litnet *"As a collection of salient imagery and anecdotes, the book is a poignant refutation of the cultural anger gripping White South African communities, and a visually arresting plea to recognise the city as an important cosmopolitan hub. As South Africa’s metropoles continue to undergo major political change, Wake Up, This Is Joburg is a critical reminder that it is the barriers to integration constructed by the white political class that have created the country’s political woes." -- Joe Konieczny * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsForeword. True Places / Achal Prabhala ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. S’kop 27 2. Tony Dreams in Yellow and Blue 53 3. Inside Out 81 4. Zola 115 5. Good Riddance 143 6. Tea at Anstey’s 175 7. Bedroom 211 8. Master Mansions 241 9. Johannesburg. Made in China 271 10. Undercity 305 References 337 Index 339
£73.95
Duke University Press Kids on the Street
Book SynopsisJoseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.Trade Review"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history." -- Hank Trout * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33 2. Street Churches 69 3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108 Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155 4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174 5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220 Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258 Conclusion 276 List of Abbreviations 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 329 Index 345
£73.95
Duke University Press In the Skin of the City
Book SynopsisWith In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating LuandaTrade Review"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking." -- Shakirah E. Hudani * Journal of Planning History *"A very readable introduction to the city—and one that both draws the reader into an engaged understanding as well as providing plentiful material for further study. . . . [T]he book is highly recommended for emerging generations of urban scholars interested in not only the south and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, but also wider urban space and form, and ongoing dynamic urban transformations worldwide." -- Paul Jenkins * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Tomás’s book is an engaging and exhaustive study of the history, politics, economy, and culture of a constantly changing and unpredictable African capital city. In this sense, it will undoubtedly become a reference for researchers interested in urban studies, history, anthropology, and similar disciplines." -- Melusi Nkomo * Exertions *"In the Skin of the City is a finely crafted book about the political economy of one of the biggest cities in the Global South, which speaks to urban, social, and political theory. It builds on thorough research, engages its audience with a compelling narrative, and is a must-read for anyone who has an interest in Luanda, Angola, and urban Africa more generally." -- Till Förster * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Frontier Within 1 Part I. Formation 1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29 2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59 Part II. Stasis 3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91 4. A City Decentered 119 Part III. Fragmentation 5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147 6. The Urban Yet to Come 176 Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204 Glossary 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 241 Index 261
£20.89
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£19.79
Duke University Press Kids on the Street
Book SynopsisJoseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.Trade Review"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history." -- Hank Trout * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33 2. Street Churches 69 3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108 Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155 4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174 5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220 Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258 Conclusion 276 List of Abbreviations 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 329 Index 345
£20.69
Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisThrough an ethnography of rapidly transforming urban neighborhoods in Istanbul and Cairo, Sarah El-Kazaz shows how the battle for housing has shifted away from the redistributive politics of the welfare state to neoliberal urban planning and design practices.Trade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£78.30
Duke University Press For a Liberatory Politics of Home
Book SynopsisIn For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions to homelessness but perpetuates violent and precarious forms of inhabitation. Drawing on his research and activism around housing in Europe, Lancione attends to the interlocking crises of home and homelessness by recentering the political charge of precarious dwelling. It is there, if often in unannounced ways, that a profound struggle for a differential kind of homing signals multiple possibilities to transcend the violences of home/homelessness. In advancing a new approach to work with the politics ofTrade Review“Michele Lancione has given us a tremendous gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. His arguments will be of immense meaning for social movements concerned with housing justice, many of which are grappling with regimes of property and the affective politics of home. The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” -- Ananya Roy, author of * Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development *“By mobilizing a new methodological, conceptual, and political grammar in which home and homelessness are not opposite but coherent expressions of a wider function of patriarchal and racialized processes of expulsions and extractions, this book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” -- Raquel Rolnik, author of * Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Problem of Lessness 1 Part I 1. The Subject at Home 25 2. Expulsion and Extraction 43 Part II 3. Italian Ritornellos 69 4. A Local Violence 99 5. A Global Culture 131 Part III 6. The Micropolitics of Housing Precarity 173 7. Deinstitute, Reinstitute, Institute 195 Conclusion. Beyond Inhabitation 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 279
£75.65
Duke University Press Trust Matters
Book SynopsisAlthough numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influence communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the city—a constellation of housing, temples, and other spaces providing possible futures. She explores the charitable trust as a technology of time, originating in the nineteenth century, one that structures intergenerational obligations for Mumbai’s Parsis, connecting past and present, the worldly and the sacred. By approaching Mumbai through the legal mechanism of the trust and tTrade Review“This fascinating ethnography’s twinned focus on the charitable trust as a property form and on the Parsi community of Mumbai brings to light the tensions for both in maintaining a perpetual life. If trusts fix property and obligation, Leilah Vevaina shows how their perpetuity strains against community divisions, urban development, and global networks of philanthropic capital. This is a strikingly original and at times surprising book, with implications that stretch beyond Mumbai and toward rethinkings of unlikely modes of capital and forms of wealth that seem ‘forever.’” -- Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine“Leilah Vevaina presents a fascinating array of processes, lives, and practices of the Parsi community in Mumbai across legal, spiritual, and material spaces to illuminate the dynamic workings of the public charitable trusts it operates throughout the city. This book makes important contributions to theoretical discussions in anthropology, law, and South Asian studies.” -- Ritu Birla, author of * Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Inheritances 1 1. In Perpetuity: The Trust and Timely Obligations 27 2. Presents and Futures: The Trust and Obligation’s Asymmetries 52 3. No House, No Spouse: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet 75 4. The Beneficiary, the Law, and Sacred Space 105 5. From Excarnation to Ashes: Trust to Trust 128 6. Awakening the “Dead Hand”: Liquid and Solid Properties 146 Conclusion: An Unsettled (E)state 167 Notes 175 References 185 Index 201
£72.25
Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisIn Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city. She outlines how multiple actors—from highly capitalized international NGOs and corporations to city dwellers, bureaucrats, and planning experts—use careful urban design to empower conflicting agendas, whether manipulating property markets to protect affordable housing or corner luxury real estate. El-Kazaz shows that such contemporary politicizations of urban design stem from unresolved struggles at the heart of messy transitions from the welfare state to neoliberalism, which have shifted the politics of redistribution from contested political arenas to design practices operating within market logics, ultimatelTrade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£19.79
Duke University Press Trust Matters
Book SynopsisAlthough numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influence communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the city—a constellation of housing, temples, and other spaces providing possible futures. She explores the charitable trust as a technology of time, originating in the nineteenth century, one that structures intergenerational obligations for Mumbai’s Parsis, connecting past and present, the worldly and the sacred. By approaching Mumbai through the legal mechanism of the trust and tTrade Review“This fascinating ethnography’s twinned focus on the charitable trust as a property form and on the Parsi community of Mumbai brings to light the tensions for both in maintaining a perpetual life. If trusts fix property and obligation, Leilah Vevaina shows how their perpetuity strains against community divisions, urban development, and global networks of philanthropic capital. This is a strikingly original and at times surprising book, with implications that stretch beyond Mumbai and toward rethinkings of unlikely modes of capital and forms of wealth that seem ‘forever.’” -- Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine“Leilah Vevaina presents a fascinating array of processes, lives, and practices of the Parsi community in Mumbai across legal, spiritual, and material spaces to illuminate the dynamic workings of the public charitable trusts it operates throughout the city. This book makes important contributions to theoretical discussions in anthropology, law, and South Asian studies.” -- Ritu Birla, author of * Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Inheritances 1 1. In Perpetuity: The Trust and Timely Obligations 27 2. Presents and Futures: The Trust and Obligation’s Asymmetries 52 3. No House, No Spouse: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet 75 4. The Beneficiary, the Law, and Sacred Space 105 5. From Excarnation to Ashes: Trust to Trust 128 6. Awakening the “Dead Hand”: Liquid and Solid Properties 146 Conclusion: An Unsettled (E)state 167 Notes 175 References 185 Index 201
£19.94
Duke University Press Evacuation
Book SynopsisIn Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers from the battlefield during World War I and escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11 to the human and animal evacuations in response to the 2009 Australian bushfires and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Adey demonstrates that evacuation is not an equal process. Some people may choose not to move while others are forced; some may even be brought into harm through evacuation. Often the poorest, racialized, and most marginalized communities hold the least power in such moments. At the same time, these communities can generate compassionate, creative, and democratic forms of care that offer alter
£75.65
Duke University Press Evacuation
Book SynopsisIn Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers from the battlefield during World War I and escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11 to the human and animal evacuations in response to the 2009 Australian bushfires and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Adey demonstrates that evacuation is not an equal process. Some people may choose not to move while others are forced; some may even be brought into harm through evacuation. Often the poorest, racialized, and most marginalized communities hold the least power in such moments. At the same time, these communities can generate compassionate, creative, and democratic forms of care that offer alter
£20.69
Duke University Press The City of Our Dreaming
£74.70
New York University Press Market Cities People Cities
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and CopenhagenHow are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley argue that western cities have diverged into two specific and different types: market cities and people cities. Market cities are focused on wealth, jobs, individualism, and economic opportunities. People cities are more egalitarian, with government investment in infrastructure and an active civil society. Analyzing the practices and policies of cities with two separate foci, markets or people, has substantial implications both for everyday residents and future urban planning and city development. Market Cities, People Cities examines these diverging trends through extended case studies of Houston, Texas as a market city and Copenhagen, Denmark as a people city, and draw on data fTrade ReviewEmerson and Smiley have a fresh approach. They make a real distinction in how cities operate: what citizenship and welfare mean, what infrastructure means, and how environmental crisis can be addressed. They also are doing something excellent in bringing up social democracies and using them as a tool for pointing forward and gaining broader understanding. It's about time we paid attention to social democracies. . .This book takes it to the urban front. -- Harvey Molotch,Author of Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous DanMarket Cities, People Cities completely changes our vocabulary about how cities evolve. Michael O. Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley give urban decision makers a new way to understand their cities and shape their policies to create the kind of city that is right for their citys residents. -- William Fulton,Author of Talk City: A Chronicle of Political Life in an All-American Town
£23.74
New York University Press Queering the Midwest
Book SynopsisHow LGBTQ community life in a small Midwestern city differs from that in larger cities with established gayborhoodsRiver City is a small, Midwestern, postindustrial city surrounded by green hills and farmland with a population of just over 50,000. Most River City residents are white, working-class Catholics, a demographic associated with conservative sexual politics. Yet LGBTQ residents of River City describe it as a progressive, welcoming, and safe space, with active LGBTQ youth groups and regular drag shows that test the capacity of bars. In this compelling examination of LGBTQ communities in seemingly unfriendly places, Queering the Midwest highlights the ambivalence of LGBTQ lives in the rural Midwest, where LGBTQ organizations and events occur occasionally but are generally not grounded in long-standing LGBTQ institutions. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Clare Forstie offers the story of a community that does not fit neatly into a narrative of progreTrade ReviewWe are everywhere—even in small post-industrial cities in “flyover country.” Queering the Midwest offers an astute analysis of the ambivalence many of us feel toward the LGBTQ communities that nurture us. We can’t live with them, but can’t live without them. It upends simple notions of progress, coming out, and even liberation without diminishing their importance for overcoming stigma and anchoring the self. * Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity *Queering the Midwest is a readable book about the complex way that community happens. I appreciated the way this research centers friendship instead of partners, organizations, or bars in the lives of LGBTQ people. This book makes us rethink the role of institutions and relationships in making LGBTQ community in small cities and in the Midwest. * Amy L. Stone, author of Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South *Forstie ‘Midwesternizes’ LGBTQ studies, convincingly demonstrating that conventional understandings of community gleaned from gayborhoods don’t always hold water beyond the big city. It is impossible to be ambivalent about this timely account of the role of that emotion in LGBTQ life today. As rich and satisfying as mom’s hotdish, Queering the Midwest is a landmark study. * Greggor Mattson, author of forthcoming The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women *
£62.90
New York University Press Queer Carnival
Book SynopsisThe importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ communityFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwiseTrade ReviewIn this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Amy L. Stone takes readers on a journey through the possibilities of festivals in places that are usually overlooked in discussions of LGBTQ lives, loves, and celebrations. Exploring the importance and complexities of the carnivalesque for LGBTQ urban and broader cultures, they augment our current thinking about citizenship in accessible and engaging ways. This book is recommended reading for all interested in LGBTQ studies, festivals, cities, communities, and citizenship. * Kath Browne, co-author of Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities *Queer Carnival sparkles with extraordinary observations about overlooked parts of the country that receive too little attention but in which most queer people live—and where presidential elections are often decided. Stone convincingly shows that there is indeed ‘something reconciliatory about being desired for one's difference,’ whether this comes from the mayor attending your raunchy drag number or having a nephew escort his butch lesbian aunt to the stage * Greggor Mattson, author of The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women *
£62.90
New York University Press South Central Dreams
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRace, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinatingand constantly changingrelationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explTrade ReviewSouth Central’s evolution from almost entirely African American to mostly Latino is a bellwether for an important part of a changing America. Through statistical and ethnographic analysis, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor describe that change at several levels, showing how Black-Latino relations challenge traditional notions of ethnic succession and assimilation. Rather, they reveal how residents have formed an identity based on their shared home and a minority linked fate, to organize and empower their communities. -- Edward Telles, co-author of Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic CoreSouth Central LA looms large in the American imagination. Media reports of racial violence, drug trafficking and Gangster Rap music, dominate portrayals of this iconic Black and Latinx community. But as is so often the case with media depictions of marginalized urban communities, such images are largely distortions of the reality experienced by those who called South Central home. Drawing on interviews with residents, stories from those who have witnessed this community transform from predominantly Black to predominantly Latinx, and demographic and economic data that offer quantitative measures of a community in transition, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor provide texture, nuance and flavor so that outsiders can appreciate that South Central is so much more than has been depicted in films and news reports. This book captures the vibrancy, dynamism and complexity that makes South Central unique, and it reminds us that beyond the challenges and hardships facing its residents, there is also a heart and a spirit that makes this much maligned space special and unique. -- Pedro A. Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public EducationSouth Los Angeles is a dynamic urban space shaped by decades of demographic change, cultural sedimentation, and multi-ethnic home-making. In South Central Dreams, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor beautifully capture the soul of the area through a mixed-method study that places quantitative data in dialogue with informant voices. The result is a must-read volume that complicates popular notions about Black-Brown relations and provides important lessons for sociological theory. -- Darnell M. Hunt, co-editor of Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial RealitiesSouth Central Dreams offers a penetrating look at immigration, adaptation, and social change in a poor urban community shifting from black to brown. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor masterfully document how the specifics of place and time shape the actions of ordinary people as they transcend social difference to construct a common identity and transform a stigmatized urban quarter into a cherished place called 'home.' This book moves well beyond the usual cliches of a fraught relationship between Blacks and Latinos and offers a model for how community studies should be done, hopefully one that will be emulated in other cities throughout the nation. -- Douglas Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the UnderclassBravo! In this book, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor document a powerful new age of Latino politics. In South Central Los Angeles, Latino youth have blended the immigrant insights of their elders with the experiences of their African American classmates, neighbors, and friends, expanding the possibilities of Brown/Black solidarity by forging a brand-new political identity. 'We are South Central!,' they exclaim, embracing as their own every struggle that has determined the conditions of life in their community. -- Kelly Lytle Hernandez, author of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor breathe life into the understudied and underappreciated complexities of South Los Angeles. Through the historical analysis of the friends, families, organizers and activists of our neighborhoods, we are shown not just our past, but our future as well. Especially in a time of racial reckoning in this country, and after an administration that spent its entire four years picking at the fabric of a delicate bond of solidarity across communities of color, South Central Dreams stands out as an important commentary on identity and civic engagement with implications for not only Los Angeles, but the rest of the country. -- Congresswoman Karen Bass, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (2019-2020)Two of our most esteemed scholars of immigration have given us a new paradigm for how to think about race, place, and identity. This book takes a deep dive into the lives of first- and second-generation Latinx immigrants as they shape home and identity alongside their Black neighbors in South LA. Rather than retelling the classic narrative of immigrant assimilation, this book shows the tensions and negotiations that go into making home in a multi-racial community and the power of shared struggle. The authors’ relational perspective allows them to explore the ways Latinx identity is shaped by Blackness and gives us new insights into how people set roots, find friends, and forge identities around urban anchors like community gardens, parks and neighborhood markets. -- Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial ScriptsSouth Central Dreams is a major contribution to both Latinx and Los Angeles Studies. By revisiting community residents in South Central Los Angeles a full generation after Latinos began moving into the area, the authors provide a nuanced and careful portrait of neighborhood life with important implications for Brown/Black spaces across the U.S. -- Laura Pulido, co-author of A People's Guide to Los Angeles
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New York University Press Rethinking Community Resilience
Book SynopsisExplores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone cityAfter Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people swiftly mobilized to rebuild their neighborhoods, often assisted by government organizations, nonprofits, and other major institutions. In Rethinking Community Resilience, Min Hee Go shows that these recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and can actually escalate the city's susceptibility to future environmental hazards. Drawing upon interviews, public records, and more, Go explores the hidden costs of community resilience. She shows thatdespite good intentionsrecovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated existing race and class inequalities, putting disadvantaged communities at risk. Ultimately, Go shows that when governments, nonprofits, and communities invest in rebuilding rather than relocating, they inadvertently lay the groundwork for a cycle of vulnerabilities. As cities come to terms with climate change adaptationrather than pTrade Review"Rethinking Community Resilience is a critical, timely account about the effects and limits of community action in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Transcending the neighborhoods-in-the-lead narratives that dominated New Orleans’s recovery, Min Hee Go’s sobering findings illuminate how resident action alone could not overcome the structural racism that led to unequal disaster effects and inequitable recoveries, and how neighborhood scale successes could lead to exclusionary redevelopment and reduce resilience in other ways. As the memory of Hurricane Katrina recedes, the relationships between neighborhoods and local public action in Rethinking Community Resilience are more relevant than ever for researchers, planners, policymakers alike who are investigating neighborhood change and facing disaster recovery and climate adaptation." -- Renia Ehrenfeucht, co-author of Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World"Within the context of both climate change and long-term population decline, Rethinking Community Resilience examines how well-intentioned community led recovery efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans were often incomplete and haphazard, deepening pre-crisis inequities and increasing the city’s overall susceptibility to future risk. Min Hee Go interrogates the romanticized notion that civic action can uniformly fill the void created by incompetent or weakened government and enable residents to overcome crises and create more resilient communities." -- Marla K. Nelson, Associate Professor, University of New Orleans
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New York University Press Kids at Work
Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2020 Early-Career Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher EducationHow Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angelesand behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three years spent on the streets shadowing families at work, Estrada brings attention to the unique set of hardships Latinx youth experience in this occupation. STrade ReviewEmir Estradas insightful ethnography reveals the complexity of the household economy of undocumented and mixed-status families in Los Angeles, from the standpoint of children who work as street vendors. Kids at Work forces a reconsideration of traditional notions of childhood, family relations, and work, by demonstrating how children with their own agency and decision-making capacity enter into mutually supportive and protective family and work arrangements with their parents to make ends meet. In the context of a highly-stratified economy and society, where race, illegality, class, and gender intersect to shape unequal life chances, Estradas ground-breaking book uncovers the central and indispensable role that children play as co-contributors to the household economy of our most vulnerable families. -- Zulema Valdez, author of Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American DreamEstrada balances methodological rigor with great empathylikely partially rooted in her own experiences as a teen vendorto develop a deeply insightful and nuanced analysis of the lives of immigrant children street vendors in Los Angeles. Written clearly and accessibly, the book reveals the structural context in which vending becomes necessary, while underscoring the childrens agency that allows them to find meaning in the work they do to help support their families and their own aspirations. Kids at Work will make readers not only notice, but also appreciate youth whose public labor challenges social notions of childhood in powerfully gendered and racialized ways. -- Leisy J. Abrego, author of Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across BordersThis original, thoughtful, engaging ethnography vividly captures the texture of everyday life among immigrant children and children of immigrants who work selling food in the streets of Los Angeles. In the childrens own voices, we learn about their economic contributions, their lives, and aspirations, but also from them about immigrant entrepreneurship, the complex dynamics in immigrant families, and childhood in general. Kids at Work resists facile explanations and makes an enduring contribution to the immigration scholarship. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in immigrant families. -- Cecilia Menjívar, co-author of Immigrant FamiliesKids at Work sheds new light on the role that children and youth play in family survival strategies in the urban commons of one of the most important immigrant metropolis of our era. This book brilliantly shows the agency of these young women and men who actively contribute to the well-being of their families. Emir Estrada has made a unique contribution to the sociology of children of immigrants, studying their lives as they work alongside their parents on the streets of Los Angeles. -- Ruben Hernandez-Leon, author of Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United StatesWritten clearly and accessibly, this book offers an essential framework from which to critically examine Latinx childhood, family, labor, immigration, and community. * Choice *Like many well-crafted stories, Kids at Work left me genuinely curious about what will happen next for the working kids on these pages as they transition into working young adults. Will street vending be a crucial stepping-stone on a longer pathway to better quality employment, or could it be an impediment? Estrada invites these types of questions through her portrayal of the Latinx street vending families that is both meticulously detailed and fully compassionate. This book stands as an important contribution to the literature on immigration and work in the United States precisely because it highlights the fact that informal work represents an intergenerational activity for many immigrant Latinx families. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press Policing the Racial Divide
Book Synopsis2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award WinnerA behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two districts in River City, a profoundly segregated rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly whiteneighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in community problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black communities reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race, despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing unfolds in cities across America. Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguTrade ReviewIn this book, Daanika Gordon explores unequal policing in a rustbelt city. She focuses on the police department’s decision to redraw its district boundaries in alignment with the city’s segregation boundaries, arguing that these districts were perceived—and policed—differently as a result. Policing the Racial Divide examines the origins and consequences of differential policing, showing us how it can further the uneven development of cities. * Jan Haldipur, author of No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing *Policing the Racial Divide deftly explores the history, logic, and police practices in two police districts in River City. Gordon shows us ‘two worlds of policing,’ where officers serve white, middle-class neighborhoods, but surveil and punish Black working-class neighborhoods instead. Ultimately, she highlights the important role that police play in the political economy of the city, serving the broader political, economic, and racial interests of an urban growth coalition. * Amada Armenta, author of Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement *Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police reconfigure segregated landscapes through their role in urban growth politics. * Law & Social Inquiry *The author’s contribution lies in her structuralist analysis of contemporary conditions and the remedies she offers… [She] argues convincingly that a continuance of the status quo, imprisoned by history and structure, is not a viable option. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
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New York University Press Policing the Racial Divide
Book Synopsis2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award WinnerA behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two districts in River City, a profoundly segregated rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly whiteneighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in community problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black communities reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race, despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing unfolds in cities across America. Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguTrade ReviewIn this book, Daanika Gordon explores unequal policing in a rustbelt city. She focuses on the police department’s decision to redraw its district boundaries in alignment with the city’s segregation boundaries, arguing that these districts were perceived—and policed—differently as a result. Policing the Racial Divide examines the origins and consequences of differential policing, showing us how it can further the uneven development of cities. * Jan Haldipur, author of No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing *Policing the Racial Divide deftly explores the history, logic, and police practices in two police districts in River City. Gordon shows us ‘two worlds of policing,’ where officers serve white, middle-class neighborhoods, but surveil and punish Black working-class neighborhoods instead. Ultimately, she highlights the important role that police play in the political economy of the city, serving the broader political, economic, and racial interests of an urban growth coalition. * Amada Armenta, author of Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement *Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police reconfigure segregated landscapes through their role in urban growth politics. * Law & Social Inquiry *The author’s contribution lies in her structuralist analysis of contemporary conditions and the remedies she offers… [She] argues convincingly that a continuance of the status quo, imprisoned by history and structure, is not a viable option. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
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New York University Press Building a Better Chicago
Book SynopsisHow local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interestsDespite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. In Building a Better Chicago, Teresa Irene Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled, revealing tensions between neighborhood residents and the institutions that claim to represent them. Focusing on Little Village, the largest Mexican immigrant community in the Midwest, and Greater Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, Gonzales gives us an on-the-ground look at Chicago's inner city. She shows us how philanthropists, nonprofits, and government agencies struggle for power and controloften against the interests of residents themselveswith the result of further marginalizing the communities of color they seek to help. But Gonzales also shows how these communitTrade ReviewBuilding a Better Chicago is not just about Chicago. Teresa Irene Gonzales speaks to urban community development writ large, uncovering how a core foundational piece of these conversations—trust—marginalizes dissent, invalidates local sentiment, and devalues reasonable concerns over process. Grounded in contemporary policy debates, Building a Better Chicago shows that mistrust is a powerful tool. It might be hard for urban elites to read, but through careful examples and analysis Gonzales shows us how collective skepticism holds value for community organizers—from vouchsafing planning processes to bridging social capital across other neighborhood communities. As a result, this book is a must-read for growth-minded policymakers, scholars of cities, and grassroots urban activists. -- Jonathan Wynn, author of Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and NewportTeresa Gonzales animates a powerful account of how state-actors direct the benefits of urban redevelopment towards White, urban elites and away from communities of color. In that respect, Chicago is like many cities across the United States. However, she shows how 'collective skepticism' allows for productive resistance as Black and Mexican-American residents from low-income communities stake claim to their neighborhoods and their city—forcing their voices and interests to be heard. * Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court *...this case study allows readers to clearly envision the complexity and discord that occur when economically impoverished neighborhoods seek empowerment. * Choice *This book is a prime example of a brilliantly written ethnography that allows the reader to become immersed in the microcosm of urban redevelopment politics in Chicago while raising critical questions about how existing power inequalities can be challenged. * Mobilization *Building a Better Chicago represents a valuable addition to the literatures on neighborhood development, community organizations, and urban activism…The book represents an important source for anyone who wishes to better understand urban politics and neighborhood change in low-income and racialized communities today. * American Sociological Association *This excellent addition to the literature on urban development challenges existing assumptions and invites us all to take Gonzales’s lead and imagine what a better world might look like. * Social Forces Levine Review BaBC *Gonzales makes an important contribution to the literature on the role of institutional stakeholders in the urban redevelopment process. She offers a critique of dominant approaches to neighborhood revitalization that rely on planning strategies that are perceived as top-down by residents and grassroots groups. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Gonzales provides unique insight into how communities can advocate for themselves and demand accountability from politicians and agencies in their midst. The result is an important contribution to our understanding of redevelopment and the tensions that exist between institutional and grassroots organizations within urban revitalization. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press There Was Nothing There
Book SynopsisExplores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residentsWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergone significant transformations through cycles of divestment and gentrification. In 2005, the city's decision to rezone the Williamsburg waterfront for high-rise housing led to a profound alteration of the physical, cultural, and social landscape. The result was the rapid influx of thousands of new residents, many of them wealthy, giving rise to luxury buildings, upscale dining, and high-end retail stores alongside new norms and expectations for the neighborhood. These new arrivals coexist with earlier gentrifiers as well as working-class Latinx and white ethnic populations, creating a complex and layered community. In There Was Nothing There, Sara Martucci draws on four decades of residents' memories and experiences, providing insights into the tensions, contradictions, and inequalities brought about by gentrification. Martucci fo
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MI - New York University There Was Nothing There
Book SynopsisExplores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residentsWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergone significant transformations through cycles of divestment and gentrification. In 2005, the city's decision to rezone the Williamsburg waterfront for high-rise housing led to a profound alteration of the physical, cultural, and social landscape. The result was the rapid influx of thousands of new residents, many of them wealthy, giving rise to luxury buildings, upscale dining, and high-end retail stores alongside new norms and expectations for the neighborhood. These new arrivals coexist with earlier gentrifiers as well as working-class Latinx and white ethnic populations, creating a complex and layered community.In There Was Nothing There, Sara Martucci draws on four decades of residents' memories and experiences, providing insights into the tensions, contradictions, and inequalities brought about by g
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New York University Press The Vigilant Citizen
Book SynopsisHow the problematic behavior of private citizensand not just the police force itselfcontributes to the perpetuation of police brutality and institutional racismWarning: Neighborhood Watch Program in Force. If I don't call the police, my neighbor will!Signs like this can be found affixed to telephone poles on streets throughout the US, warning trespassers that the community is an active participant in its own policing efforts. Thijs Jeursen calls this phenomenon, in which individuals take on the responsibility of defending themselves and share with the police the duty to mitigate everyday insecurity, vigilant citizenship.Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Miami and sharing the stories and experiences of police officers, private security guards, neighborhood watch groups, civil society organizations, and a broad range of residents and activists, Jeursen uses the lens of vigilant citizenship to extend the analysis of police brutality beyond police encounters, focusing on the often bTrade ReviewFascinating . . . Sheds light on a variety of current debates surrounding policing, surveillance, gun ownership, and more. Through fast-paced and story-like prose, Jeursen furthers the essential project of understanding policing as something that extends beyond the uniformed police. -- William Garriott, Drake UniversityJeursen has skillfully captured how everyday people’s negotiations with and for security are a prevailing and socially differentiated aspect of life in the neoliberal city. The author provides a granular view of how policing goes beyond the institution and becomes a part of the way people understand their rights and roles as private residents. The Vigilant Citizen stands to make an important contribution to anthropological understandings of citizenship, policing, security, and the contemporary city. -- Kristin V. Monroe, University of Kentucky
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New York University Press Priced Out
Book SynopsisOn an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely location for conflict and strife, yet this eighteen-block area, initially planned as middle-class affordable housing, is the site of an ongoing struggle between long-term, rent-regulated residents, younger, market-rate tenants, and new owners seeking to turn this community into a luxury commodity. Priced Out takes readers into this heated battle as a transitioning neighborhood wrestles with contemporary capitalist strategies and the struggle to preserve renters' rights. Since the early 2000's, Stuyvesant Town's owners have sought to transform this iconic Manhattan housing development into a luxury destination for those able to afford the higher price tag. Attempting to replace longtime residents wTrade ReviewThe book is notable both for the intrinsic interest of its topic and the quality of its analysis. Part community study and part elegy, Priced Out documents the rise and fall of what increasingly looks to have been a missed opportunity to foster a sustainable middle-class in the heart of New York City. The rent regulations that made StuyTown a haven for civil servants and other middle-class New Yorkers have been steadily eroded. This process stretches far beyond StuyTown, of course, and threatens to erase New York City’s middle class from the city’s core. Using a variety of qualitative methods, the authors tell this important story in convincing fashion and show why it matters. -- Journal of Urban AffairsAn important, interesting, and compelling look at the impact of housing policy on a community, and the decline of middle-income housing in an increasingly stratified city. * City & Community *Priced Out tells a true story about how hard it is for renters of modest income to make a home in the center of Americas biggest city. Both historical and timely, it documents in lively detail how the largest, postwar, private-sector, urban housing development in the U.S. turned into one of the most notorious real estate deals of the early 21st century, and how developers pursuit of 'luxury' projects threatens New Yorks middle class. -- Sharon Zukin,author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban PlacesWe increasingly think of Manhattan as a place of the very rich and the very poor. Yet thanks to modest, non-market rate post war housing developments, tens of thousands of middle class New Yorkers who might otherwise have decamped to the suburbs continue to live in the heart of the City. Over the decades they have built communities, raised families, aged in place and helped to keep New York diverse and vital. Priced Out tells the story of what happens when a communitys right to the city collides with the forces of the free market. It is a must read for anyone concerned about the future of the urban middle class. -- Philip Kasnitiz,co-author of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
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New York University Press Neoliberal Cities
Book SynopsisTraces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problemsThe American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary context to understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality in and around the city center. In this original collection of essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social scientTrade ReviewA necessary intervention. The book poses questions about the concept of neoliberalism that will resonate well beyond the field of history, provoking discussion in urban studies and geography, as well as the social sciences. -- Caitlin Zaloom, author of Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any CostAs one who has found little interpretive value in neoliberalism as a term, I am deeply persuaded by the indispensability of this book. Neoliberal Cities reminds historians of the importance of sharp conceptual language. It shows how sound historical research can often vex lazy deployments of one of our moment’s most weighted analytic terms. This is the kind of book one thinks with and grows smarter. -- N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South FloridaThe authors in this collection reveal the long, contentious, and often ironic history of neoliberalism’s ascendance, rooted in local struggles with broad implications for our lives today and for the world we want to build for tomorrow. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, University of VirginiaA timely and welcome appeal to urban historians to take neoliberalism seriously as an analytical category whose history demands to be written * History News Network *This collection from urban historians Sugrue and Diamond invites readers to explore the legacy of neoliberalism associated with initiatives embraced by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The principal arguments put forward focus on the conscious role played by urban planners, financiers, and municipal and state governments to retreat from a sense of public space and benefits. * Choice *
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New York University Press Neoliberal Cities
Book SynopsisTraces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problemsThe American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary context to understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality in and around the city center. In this original collection of essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social scientTrade ReviewA necessary intervention. The book poses questions about the concept of neoliberalism that will resonate well beyond the field of history, provoking discussion in urban studies and geography, as well as the social sciences. -- Caitlin Zaloom, author of Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any CostAs one who has found little interpretive value in neoliberalism as a term, I am deeply persuaded by the indispensability of this book. Neoliberal Cities reminds historians of the importance of sharp conceptual language. It shows how sound historical research can often vex lazy deployments of one of our moment’s most weighted analytic terms. This is the kind of book one thinks with and grows smarter. -- N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South FloridaThe authors in this collection reveal the long, contentious, and often ironic history of neoliberalism’s ascendance, rooted in local struggles with broad implications for our lives today and for the world we want to build for tomorrow. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, University of VirginiaA timely and welcome appeal to urban historians to take neoliberalism seriously as an analytical category whose history demands to be written * History News Network *This collection from urban historians Sugrue and Diamond invites readers to explore the legacy of neoliberalism associated with initiatives embraced by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The principal arguments put forward focus on the conscious role played by urban planners, financiers, and municipal and state governments to retreat from a sense of public space and benefits. * Choice *
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New York University Press A Recipe for Gentrification
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist itFrom hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeplyand, at times, controversiallyintertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprisesincluding grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers' marketsto provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerableTrade Review"The authors in this collection not only make a significant contribution to food studies but also create an important and much needed place for food within the scholarship on urban planning and gentrification ... This book should be on the shelves of every trendy coffee shop or bookstore in the neighborhoods examined in this volume, or anywhere in the country that people gather in places made possible at great expense to others because of what gentrification has wrought." * Food, Culture, and Society *"This book cleverly weaves together a wide range of ways in which food intersects with gentrification, while the complex issues explored are made accessible to a broad audience. A Recipe for Gentrification will be of interest to food justice scholars and activists; urban researchers and planners; as well as community organizers, small business owners, and allies who seek to deepen their understanding of their own implications in processes of gentrification and social justice." * The AAG Review of Books *"The book remains an exciting and tangible exploration of the topics of social justice, urban agriculture, community capacity building, and the right to the city. It can be recommended as an equally engaging entry point for any one of them." * Journal of Cultural Economy *"In a short time, food—what we consume and how we consume it, how it's made, where it comes from and how it gets transported—has gone from a frivolous topic for social science research to a significant one. Urban scholars have been paying attention. By looking at actual city spaces, this volume tackles the important issue of the link between food and where we live. Specifically, these chapters address how the ways that food gets made, purchased, and eaten are intertwined with processes of gentrification, giving us a new lens for understanding this complicated form of urban change. Displacement, inequality, community conflict, development policy, and resistance, among many other critical issues, receive insightful analyses from researchers studying an array of food-related activities in several North American cities. Food's implications in and for gentrification is a focus whose time has come, and luckily we now have this volume to start the conversation." -- Richard E. Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy"These valuable studies show how food has become the cultural frontier of urban change. From urban farms to farmers’ markets, interactions between food and place empower gentrification but also enable resistance to it. Alerting us to the slippery slope from appropriation to dispossession, the authors make the crucial point that the city’s authenticity depends on diversity more than on good taste." -- Sharon Zukin, author, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places"This edited volume, focused on the interplay of food, place, and urban gentrification, offers an extensive mix of rich sociological and food-activist discourse that could potentially spark lively discussion in both urban studies and urban planning courses." * CHOICE *"The methodological approaches, grounded primarily in ethnography, center people directly impacted by unjust policies and extractive approaches to development…The contributors pushed me to think about the role of scholars in these uneven food systems and gentrification processes, both structurally and culturally." * Gastronomica *"A Recipe for Gentrification should be foundational reading for any sociology or food studies scholar and anyone pursuing a career in urban development or real estate.The collection should also be required reading for anyone interested in urban agriculture or community gardens professionally or as a volunteer." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *
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New York University Press The Sustainability Myth
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2021 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARFF MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF NORTH AMERICA!Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate developmentFrom state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City's unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costsand contradictionsof the city's ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives. Focusing on industrial waterfronts and historically underserved places like Harlem and Staten Island's North Shore, Checker takes an in-depth look at the dynamics of environmental gentrification, documenting the symbiosis between eco-friendly initiatives and high-end redevelopment and its impact on out-of-the-way, non-gentrifying neighborhoods. At the same time, she highlights the valiant efforts of local Trade ReviewUsing the saga of the doomed New York Wheel as a dramatic example of short-sighted, ill-conceived urban development or 'sustainaphrenia,' Melissa Checker’s ethnography cruelly exposes the failings of neoliberal technocracy. From redlining to rezoning, from environmental justice to environmental gentrification, she brilliantly exposes the ruptured logics of pairing sustainability with urban redevelopment. -- Julian Agyeman, co-author of Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable CitiesIn this revelatory study, based on assiduous fieldwork, Melissa Checker exposes the false promises of “sustainability.” She coins the word 'sustainaphrenia' to convey the feeding frenzy of politicians, real estate moguls, developers, planners, and upscale homebuyers who are lulled by the siren of Bloomberg’s 'luxury city,' facilitated by the rezoning of vast swaths of New York City. The result is the greening of some neighborhoods and the browning of others. Checker also comes to the epiphany that the environmental justice activists whom she admired are another symptom of sustainaphrenia, as the twin threats of overdevelopment and climate change are cast asunder. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and PolicyA timely work on the burgeoning literature surrounding environmental gentrification as it relates to New York City’s intent to become the world’s most sustainable metro area … Libraries with reserves focusing on environmental gentrification, urban issues, and political change should have this volume in their collection. * CHOICE *
£62.90
New York University Press Liberty Road
Book SynopsisA unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Baltimore, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs. Smithsimon re-orients our perspective on race relations in American life to consider the lived experiences andTrade ReviewLiberty Road uncovers and exposes the social, political, cultural, and economic contradictions of middle-class African-American suburban life. Gregory Smithsimon explores the ways social conflicts and inequalities play out and through physical places and emphasizes the roles that African-American residents play in understanding and addressing suburban community issues. -- Karyn R. Lacy, Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle ClassGregory Smithsimon chronicles the experiences of middle-class blacks who were the first residents to integrate into Liberty Road, a predominantly white Baltimore suburb. He explores their side of the story, showing us how this racial project unfolded in political ways, constraining black progress under the guise of racial inclusivity. -- Michael Ian Borer, co-author of Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and TownsThis deeply-researched and engrossing text invites us to think of the relationship between race, place, and neoliberalism in innovative ways, namely through an examination of African-American suburbanites. In doing so, Smithsimon provides a crucial analysis of the persistent tensions between racial progress and retrenchment. -- Jean Beaman, author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in FranceAfrican American suburbs are different from African American urban communities and middle-class white communities, often in counterintuitive ways. Liberty Road explains the history, present, and future significance of these differences. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Liberty Road locates Black suburbs as an essential and a mitigating force in the American dream. We overlook these spaces in our understanding of cities and our history at our own peril. This is an important and engaging book for urban sociology and history, made so by the author’s skillful weaving of personal stories with archival research to ground the analysis in specific people and places. * The Journal of Southern History *By bringing African American agency to the forefront of the discussion, Greg Smithsimon successfully disentangles the complex web of causes related to the growth of African American suburban communities…Liberty Road is informative and articulate, written in language accessible to academics and nonacademics…Practitioners and lay people will find the book useful in providing an understanding of Black suburbs and the role that they continue to play in a highly segregated residential landscape. * Journal of Urban Affairs *A new book examines how Baltimore’s African American middle class overcame color barriers and racial tensions along the Liberty Road corridor over the past five decades as they established themselves in classic suburban neighborhoods. Author Gregory Smithsimon draws upon interviews, archives and census data to show how this area of Baltimore County is now home to approximately 82,000 Black people ... It’s clear that Smithsimon rang the right doorbells and listened attentively to some of the people who experienced the times. * The Baltimore Sun *
£62.90
New York University Press This Is Our School
Book SynopsisHow local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reformParents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School! Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their origins, aims, and victories as they work to build a better future for our education system. Focusing on a school district in Denver, Colorado, Gordon takes a look at different coalitions within the school reform movement, as well as the surprising competition that arises between them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups vie for power, as well as the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies and structures. Gordon shows us what happens when people mobilizefrom the ground up and advocate for educational change. This Is Our School! gives us an inside look at the diverse voices withTrade ReviewIn this important new book, Hava Rachel Gordon shows how grassroots movements have organized to resist efforts by neoliberal reformers to take control of local public schools. Using Denver as a focal point for her analysis, Gordon shows us that not only is resistance occurring, but in some cases, community groups are winning important victories against formidable opponents in their efforts to retain control over public schools. Well documented and written in a clear and compelling style, This is Our School! will serve as a guide to those who seek to retain public schools as the foundation of democracy. -- Pedro A. Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public EducationHava Rachel Gordon has provided us with a significant advance in our understanding of the contradictions, limits, and possibilities of activist movements in educational reform. It is consistently insightful and grounded in the real politics of communities on the ground. I strongly recommend it. -- Michael W. Apple, author of Can Education Change Society?This Is Our School! offers a powerful, in-depth exploration of educational justice movements as they negotiate neoliberal education policy and disinvestment in urban communities. Hava Rachel Gordon’s careful analysis of alliances between youth activists and community groups in Denver offers new insights into the dynamics of racial politics, coalition-building, and the potential for community inclusion. This book is an important and timely contribution. -- Nancy Naples, author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on PovertyIn the wake of protests against school mask mandates and a supposed critical-race-theory takeover of the curriculum, Hava Rachel Gordon’s new book provides a fresh examination of neoliberal school reforms and the impact of the coalitions opposing them. * Mobilization *
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New York University Press Beyond Recidivism
Book SynopsisUnderstanding reentry experiences after incarcerationPrison in the United States often has a revolving door, with droves of formerly incarcerated people ultimately finding themselves behind bars again. In Beyond Recidivism, Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen, and Johnna Christian bring together a leading group of interdisciplinary scholars to examine this phenomenon using several approaches to research on recently released prisoners returning to their lives. They focus on the social context of reentry and look at the stories returning prisoners tell, including such key issues as when they choose to reveal (or not) their criminal histories. Drawing on contemporary studies, contributors examine the best ideas that have emerged over the last decade to understanding the challenges prisoners face upon reentering society. Together, they present a complete picture of prisoner reentry, including real-world recommendations for policies to ensure the well-being of returning prisoners, regardless of Trade Review"A timely and important volume at the cutting edge of research on prisoner reentry and reintegration, Beyond Recidivism delivers on its promise to skillfully examine critical questions regarding the social, economic, and cultural lives of the formerly incarcerated and their families. This book is essential reading for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working to address the harms of mass incarceration." -- David Harding, co-author of On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration"Beyond Recidivism is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning literature on prisoner reentry and is a must read for both scholars and policymakers working in this field. Scholars will appreciate the methodological insights it provides on collecting data in prisons, in jails, and among reentry populations as well as the recognition of how the intersection of race and gender shape the experiences of returning offenders. Policymakers should take note of the inherent shortcomings of recidivism measures, the availability of programs for returning offenders and, most notably, the import of research for correctional policy. Simply put, this is a stunning contribution to research on prisoner reentry." -- Candace Kruttschnitt, co-editor of Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending"There are many insightful ways to understand the consequences of prison than a simple reliance on recidivism. This book describes a wonderful range of them. It is a cure for the recidivism obsession." -- Todd R. Clear, co-author of The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America"Social workers, criminologists, criminal justice professionals, and sociologists would find this book particularly informative in developing research studies. Policy makers, practitioners, and people working at agencies would also find the book useful in understanding the reentering population and the benefits and limitations of risk-needs assessment instruments." * Theoretical Criminology *
£25.19
New York University Press Market Cities People Cities
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and CopenhagenHow are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley argue that western cities have diverged into two specific and different types: market cities and people cities. Market cities are focused on wealth, jobs, individualism, and economic opportunities. People cities are more egalitarian, with government investment in infrastructure and an active civil society. Analyzing the practices and policies of cities with two separate foci, markets or people, has substantial implications both for everyday residents and future urban planning and city development. Market Cities, People Cities examines these diverging trends through extended case studies of Houston, Texas as a market city and Copenhagen, Denmark as a people city, and draw on data fTrade Review"Emerson and Smiley have a fresh approach. They make a real distinction in how cities operate: what citizenship and welfare mean, what infrastructure means, and how environmental crisis can be addressed. They also are doing something excellent in bringing up social democracies and using them as a tool for pointing forward and gaining broader understanding. It's about time we paid attention to social democracies. . .This book takes it to the urban front." -- Harvey Molotch,Author of Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Dan"Market Cities, People Cities completely changes our vocabulary about how cities evolve. Michael O. Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley give urban decision makers a new way to understand their cities and shape their policies to create the kind of city that is right for their citys residents." -- William Fulton,Author of Talk City: A Chronicle of Political Life in an All-American Town
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New York University Press The Sounds of Latinidad
Book SynopsisThe Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants' access to the American dream and musicians' dreams of success. Instead, Latin music has become a way to form community, debate political questions, and claim cultural citizenship. The volume illuminates the complexity of Latina/o musicians' lives. They find themselves at the intersection of culture and politics, often pushed to define a vision of what it means to be Latino in a globalizing city in the Nuevo South. At the same time, they often avoid overt political statements and do not participate in immigrants' rights struggles, instead holding a cautious view of political engagement. Yet despite this politics of ambivalence, LatiTrade ReviewA ground-breaking study of Southern Latinidad that brings to the fore the political, cultural, and social pressures shaping the everyday lives of immigrant musicians. Under the weight of anti-immigrant legislation and public backlash, Latinas/os of the 'Queen City' are exerting a sense of community, belonging, and cultural citizenship through music making and dance. This book is detailed in its analysis, theoretically nuanced, and richly documented based on Byrdsextensive fieldwork in this global city. It will inspire much needed scholarship on current Latina/o music and dance not only in the global South but wherever new Latina/o communities are remaking the musical landscapes of cities and towns across the United States. -- David Garcia,University of North Carolina at Chapel HillA timely and exciting book offering a fresh look at the growing significance of Latino/a musicians in Charlotte and their role in the making of Southern latinidad. Byrd offers insight into different musical communities in Charlotte through the experiences of Latino/a musicians and illuminates issues related to politics, community, social class, belonging, and immigration. . . . Makes a valuable contribution to anthropology, sociology, and Latino/a studies and is a must-read for anyone interested Latino expressive culture, especially in the U.S. South. -- Kimberly Eison Simmons,University of South CarolinaSamuel K. Byrd offers an insightful musical snapshot of what statistics, policy think tanks, and others rechristened twenty years ago as the & Nuevo Latino SouthSounds of Latinidad demonstrates how the demographic shifts in southern states are heard as an intercultural fusion of Latino music, signaling a southern form of Latinidad. Byrd brings Charlotte and Las Carolinas to our attention as an exciting immigrant gateway to listen to. * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Table of Contentsv Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Charlotte, a Globalizing City 17 2. The Latin Music Scene in Charlotte 41 3. Bands Making Musical Communities 59 4. "Thursday Is Bakalao's Day!" Bands at Work and Play 85 5. The "Collective Circle": Music and Ambivalent Politics in Charlotte 107 6. Shifting Urban Genres 141 7. Race and the Expanding Borderlands Condition 165 8. The Festival: Marketing Latinidad 189 9. Musicians' Ethics and Aesthetics 217 Conclusion 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 265 Index 281 About the Author 287
£23.74
New York University Press Liberty Road
Book SynopsisA unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Baltimore, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs. Smithsimon re-orients our perspective on race relations in American life to consider the lived experiences andTrade ReviewLiberty Road uncovers and exposes the social, political, cultural, and economic contradictions of middle-class African-American suburban life. Gregory Smithsimon explores the ways social conflicts and inequalities play out and through physical places and emphasizes the roles that African-American residents play in understanding and addressing suburban community issues. -- Karyn R. Lacy, Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle ClassGregory Smithsimon chronicles the experiences of middle-class blacks who were the first residents to integrate into Liberty Road, a predominantly white Baltimore suburb. He explores their side of the story, showing us how this racial project unfolded in political ways, constraining black progress under the guise of racial inclusivity. -- Michael Ian Borer, co-author of Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and TownsThis deeply-researched and engrossing text invites us to think of the relationship between race, place, and neoliberalism in innovative ways, namely through an examination of African-American suburbanites. In doing so, Smithsimon provides a crucial analysis of the persistent tensions between racial progress and retrenchment. -- Jean Beaman, author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in FranceAfrican American suburbs are different from African American urban communities and middle-class white communities, often in counterintuitive ways. Liberty Road explains the history, present, and future significance of these differences. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Liberty Road locates Black suburbs as an essential and a mitigating force in the American dream. We overlook these spaces in our understanding of cities and our history at our own peril. This is an important and engaging book for urban sociology and history, made so by the author’s skillful weaving of personal stories with archival research to ground the analysis in specific people and places. * The Journal of Southern History *By bringing African American agency to the forefront of the discussion, Greg Smithsimon successfully disentangles the complex web of causes related to the growth of African American suburban communities…Liberty Road is informative and articulate, written in language accessible to academics and nonacademics…Practitioners and lay people will find the book useful in providing an understanding of Black suburbs and the role that they continue to play in a highly segregated residential landscape. * Journal of Urban Affairs *A new book examines how Baltimore’s African American middle class overcame color barriers and racial tensions along the Liberty Road corridor over the past five decades as they established themselves in classic suburban neighborhoods. Author Gregory Smithsimon draws upon interviews, archives and census data to show how this area of Baltimore County is now home to approximately 82,000 Black people ... It’s clear that Smithsimon rang the right doorbells and listened attentively to some of the people who experienced the times. * The Baltimore Sun *
£23.74
New York University Press Beyond Recidivism
Book SynopsisUnderstanding reentry experiences after incarcerationPrison in the United States often has a revolving door, with droves of formerly incarcerated people ultimately finding themselves behind bars again. In Beyond Recidivism, Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen, and Johnna Christian bring together a leading group of interdisciplinary scholars to examine this phenomenon using several approaches to research on recently released prisoners returning to their lives. They focus on the social context of reentry and look at the stories returning prisoners tell, including such key issues as when they choose to reveal (or not) their criminal histories. Drawing on contemporary studies, contributors examine the best ideas that have emerged over the last decade to understanding the challenges prisoners face upon reentering society. Together, they present a complete picture of prisoner reentry, including real-world recommendations for policies to ensure the well-being of returning prisoners, regardless of Trade Review"A timely and important volume at the cutting edge of research on prisoner reentry and reintegration, Beyond Recidivism delivers on its promise to skillfully examine critical questions regarding the social, economic, and cultural lives of the formerly incarcerated and their families. This book is essential reading for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working to address the harms of mass incarceration." -- David Harding, co-author of On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration"Beyond Recidivism is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning literature on prisoner reentry and is a must read for both scholars and policymakers working in this field. Scholars will appreciate the methodological insights it provides on collecting data in prisons, in jails, and among reentry populations as well as the recognition of how the intersection of race and gender shape the experiences of returning offenders. Policymakers should take note of the inherent shortcomings of recidivism measures, the availability of programs for returning offenders and, most notably, the import of research for correctional policy. Simply put, this is a stunning contribution to research on prisoner reentry." -- Candace Kruttschnitt, co-editor of Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending"There are many insightful ways to understand the consequences of prison than a simple reliance on recidivism. This book describes a wonderful range of them. It is a cure for the recidivism obsession." -- Todd R. Clear, co-author of The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America"Social workers, criminologists, criminal justice professionals, and sociologists would find this book particularly informative in developing research studies. Policy makers, practitioners, and people working at agencies would also find the book useful in understanding the reentering population and the benefits and limitations of risk-needs assessment instruments." * Theoretical Criminology *
£73.80
