{"product_id":"communication-culture-and-making-meaning-in-the-city-9781498531931","title":"Communication Culture and Making Meaning in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs communicative, cultural, and political spaces, cities present a vast array of racial, ethnic, national, sexual, and socioeconomic experiences around which human communities take shape. This shaping forms a germinal point of mass cultural life. City planners decide where buildings and neighborhoods are developed, which ultimately affects who residents interact with, how they get there, and why they choose city life. From these experiences, boundaries and possibilities arise that define cultures of the city. In Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City: Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments, contributors focus on theorizing the notion of the city as a communicatively constituted cultural space, drawing on situated, reflexive ethnographic examinations of the city to show the complex and varied ways in which cities produce social meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtay and Brower have brought together compelling ethnographic accounts from a variety of fascinating cities. The communicative dimensions of urban spaces are revealed through the interpretation and critique of human existence where planning and order meet improvisation and fluidity. -- Alberto González, Bowling Green State University\u003cbr\u003eAtay and Brower's Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City is a one-of-a-kind treat for readers who desire conscientious inquiry on complicated yet vital cultural issues on the city. Situated as a reflexive examination of the quotidian particularities of city spaces and life, this accessible book invites readers to encounter city experiences likely new to us. Yet the book also works in ways that prompt readers to reflect on our own interactions in\/with city spaces, digging deeply—perhaps for the very first time—into what they have meant, or could come to mean, to us and others. -- Keith Berry, University of South Florida\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive and compelling collection about cities; an innovative assemblage of chapters that exemplify how to study space; and an essential text for researchers interested in the residents, relationships, temporalities, and trajectories of urban life. -- Tony Adams, Bradley University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments   Introduction   City as Image  Chapter 1 Women’s Political Visualization of Post-Conflict Belfast Jolene Mairs Dyer  Chapter 2 Urban Alienation and Native Americans in The Exiles Kathleen M. German   Chapter 3 Mapping Sarajevo-The City and Its Representations Joanna Zielińska  City as Mobility   Chapter 4 Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and Northampton Ahmet Atay  Chapter 5 Walking the Geography of Difference Jay Brower  Chapter 6 Cycling in the City: An Actor-Network-Theory Perspective on Urban Practices Craig L. Engstrom  City as Past   Chapter 7 Walking, Sensing and Making Places: A Reflection on Ethnography of Walking in Yokohama and Vancouver Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu  Chapter 8 “Ancient-izing” the Modern Chinese Cities: (Re)Constructing Space, History, and National Identity Joy Yang Jiao  Chapter 9 Being Walked Through the City: Negotiating Countercultural Memory in San Francisco Ryan M. Lescure  City as Relationship  Chapter 10 View Over Bristol: Tryers, Creativity and Civic Imaginary Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma Agusita  Chapter 11 You look like Detectives’: Alcohol Outreach Nursing as a form of Mobile Care and Clinical Investigation Martin Whiteford  Chapter 12 Strategic Liminality and Trans-regional Mobility: Engaging Diverse City Spaces to Constitute and Negotiate Intersectional Identities of Newfound Class Privilege, Repressed Ethnic Anger, and the (In)visibility of Gay (Male) Life Eric Aoki  About the Editors and Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040704168279,"sku":"9781498531931","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/communication-culture-and-making-meaning-in-the-city-9781498531931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}