Urban Inequalities

This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue and levelling. The discussions develop in the belief that old and emerging forms of inequality in urban settings need to be understood in depth, as does the machinery that, as masterfully elucidated by Hannah Arendt, operates behind oppression to sustain power and inequality. Anthropologists and fellow ethnographically-committed social scientists examine socio-economic, cultural and political forms of urban inequality in different settings, helping to address comparatively these dynamics.

Explores the displacement of citizenship in urban spaces via the marginalization of existing communities Covers a range of geographies, from the USA, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and India Presents ethnographically engaged contributions that expand dominant understandings of social inequality in the contemporary era

Auteur
Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. He established and co-edits the journal Urbanities and co-founded and presides over the not-for-profit association, International Urban Symposium-IUS.

Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. She chairs the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES), co-founded the International Urban Symposium-IUS, of which she is Secretary-Treasurer, and co-founded and serves on the Board of Urbanities.

Résumé

"A strength of this work lies in the diversity of global locations and identities of both the sites of social interactions, and the researchers. ... Bringing together such a diverse set of ethnographic accounts offers insights into a multiplicity of experiences of inequalities in urban social settings. The ethnographic microanalysis and theoretical explorations make this a must-read for scholars interested and engaged in understanding more about the contemporary mechanisms of a wide range of social inequalities." (Robyn Andrews,Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 11 (1), May, 2021)

Contenu
Chapter 1. Urban Inequalities: Ethnographically Informed Reflections.- Chapter 2. Making Second-class Italians: A Case of Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality.- Chapter 3. On Human Stupidity and Economic Policies: How Cities Inequality Generates Losses for All.- Chapter 4. Precarious Employment and Social Exclusion: Athens in Crisis.- Chapter 5. Women, Work and Family: Becoming Women Workers in the Context of Underdevelopment in Mardin.- Chapter 6. Where Do We Find Money? Urban Inequalities under Financialization in Mardin, Turkey.- Chapter 7. The Destiny of Urban Peripheries: Down-town Tel Aviv's Contested Realities.- Chapter 8. Unequal Citizens: Cairo between the Gated and the Informal.- Chapter 9. Crisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality.- Chapter 10. Smart City Imaginations and Real Lives: A View from a Town in North India.- Chapter 11. 'Either you have money and you plan your treatment, or you don't have money and you plan your death': Tracing Inequalities in Breast Cancer Care in Greece.- Chapter 12. Segregation from Womb to Tomb: The Legacies of Racial Inequalities in South African Cemeteries.- Chapter 13. Urban Heritage, Inequalities and the Retrenchment of the Public Cultural Sphere.- Chapter 14. Body and Soul: Boxing and Redemption.- Chapter 15. The Zenit Ultras from Saint Petersburg: Dynamics of Social Inclusions and Exclusions.