{"product_id":"realising-the-city-urban-ethnography-in-manchester-9781526151698","title":"Realising the City: Urban Ethnography in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is a city? How does it come into being? Who are the people involved? How are decisions made and what happens next? \u003ci\u003eRealising the city \u003c\/i\u003eprovides multiple insider perspectives on this northern English city. Drawing on extensive fieldwork into the city’s football clubs, annual civic parade and Gay Village, airport and infrastructure, parks and housing estates, these ethnographic accounts trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city. This book provides essential reading for researchers interested in contemporary urban dynamics. Its accessible style and material will also interest community activists, city administrators, political analysts and elected officials. The book is suitable for undergraduate reading lists for courses teaching ethnographic methods and on urban studies courses within sociology, anthropology, geography and the built environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Kevin Ward\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: tackling the urban through ethnography – Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Realising urban organisations\u003cbr\u003e1 Inclusion without incorporation: re-imagining Manchester through a new politics of environment – Hannah Knox\u003cbr\u003e2 Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy – Jessica Symons\u003cbr\u003e3 Lounge Manchester: the new politics of loungification – Damian O’Doherty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Realising urban spaces\u003cbr\u003e4 Under the surface of the village: public and private negotiations of urban space in Manchester – Michael Atkins\u003cbr\u003e5 Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester – Luciana Lang\u003cbr\u003e6 Urban futures and competing trajectories for Manchester city centre – Elisa Pieri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Realising urban communities\u003cbr\u003e7 Urban transformation in football: from Manchester United as a ‘global leisure brand’ to FC United as a ‘community club’ – George Poulton\u003cbr\u003e8 ‘People want jobs, they want a life!’ Deindustrialisation and loss in East Manchester – Camilla Lewis\u003cbr\u003e9 ‘Don’t call the police on me, I won’t call them on you’: self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester – Katherine Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: the tension in making and realising a city – Jessica Symons\u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041016774999,"sku":"9781526151698","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526151698.jpg?v=1750948611","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/realising-the-city-urban-ethnography-in-manchester-9781526151698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}