Walking in the European City

Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-27278-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and crucial research method (in spite of its ubiquity as part of urban life) has often been overlooked. This volume considers walking in the city from a variety of perspectives, in a variety of places and with a variety of methods, to engage with the question of how walking can contribute to the sociological imagination and reveal sociological knowledge. Bringing together new research on sites across Europe, Walking in the European City addresses the nature of everyday mobility in contemporary urban settings, shedding light not only on the ways in which walking relates to other social institutions and practices, but also as a method for studying urban life. With attention to intersections of race and ethnicity, gender and class, as well as the manner in which processes of gentrification transform urban space, this book examines questions of access to public places, exploring the ways in which urban dwellers’ use of and relation to neighbourhood spaces are shaped by inequalities of status and power. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology with interests in urban studies, mobility and research methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shortell, Timothy

Brown, Evrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: Walking in the European City; I: Theoretical Elaborations; 2: The Flâneur: A Way of Walking, Exploring and Interpreting the City; 3: The Act of Walking: Exemplifying Danish Pedestrian Culture; 4: Moving Through the City with Strangers? Public Transport as a Significant Type of Urban Public Space; 5: Walking Between Planes: Why Hypermobile People Take to Walking in the City; 6: Mobility in Thessaloniki: The Greek Economic Crisis and the Transformation of Mobility; II: Visual Methods; 7: Drifting in Chinatowns: Toward a Situationist Analysis of Polyglot Urban Spaces in New York, Paris, and London; 8: Walking Through Instead of Flying Over: A Way to See the Flux of Urbanization in Istanbul and Other Places?; 9: Walking in Search of Migrants in European Cities; 10: Walking the Stream: Prague Cityscape and the Research Guided by the Water; III: Ethnographic Approaches; 11: Gdje si? Walking as a Reflexive Practice; 12: Challenging the Hegemonic Gaze on Foot: Walk-Alongs as a Useful Method in Gentrification Research; 13: A Walk Around the Block: Creating Spaces for Everyday Encounters; 14: Walking Through Urban Transformation: Fieldwork in the Northeast of Paris

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Shortell is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA and co-editor of The World in Brooklyn. Evrick Brown is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Human Services Department at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, USA.