{"product_id":"last-project-standing-9780816697373","title":"Last Project Standing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Using the case of publicly subsidized housing and its residents in Chicago, Catherine Fennell brilliantly traces the architectures of public housing decay and the so-called solutions to them as affective possibilities. Political debates over how to house the urban poor unfold as gripping ethnographic realities here, urging us to think through the materiality of sympathy.\"—Vincanne Adams, University of California, San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a must-read for those concerned with public housing and its aftermath. The author has captured stories rarely heard anywhere else.\"—\u003ci\u003ePlanning Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent, timely, and nuance ethnography that moves beyond the more familiar analysis of postwelfare urban inequalities. It is a valuable addition to the literature about urban poverty, urban planning, and the politics of race and class in the contemporary United States.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fennell’s great achievement rests on her ability to capture those critiques of the new housing not as a nostalgia for the old—that kind of thing is the preserve of the social scientists and the museum-advocates in her narrative—but rather as a negotiation of the difference between sympathetic attachments and abstract, sentimentalized obligations to anonymous others.\"—\u003ci\u003eSomatosphere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLast Project Standing \u003c\/i\u003ewill undoubtedly make a great impact on the ways that other urban anthropologists respond to the influences of interdisciplinary humanistic research methods.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Across Damen\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Sympathy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Toward a Better Life”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e2. The Many Harms of Staying Here\u003cbr\u003e3. Project Heat and Sensory Politics\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Civics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadio Rumors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e4. Experiments in Vulnerability\u003cbr\u003e5. The City, the Grassroots, the Poverty Pimps\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Publics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eResurrections\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e6. The Museum of Resilience\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Raising Sympathetic Publics\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038555963735,"sku":"9780816697373","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816697373.jpg?v=1750940661","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/last-project-standing-9780816697373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}