Case studies include no less than nine different urban settings; they explore the relationship between narration and the urban experience in richer and more varied fashion. Chapters engage the political as mediated through the daily, lived experiences of individual women and men in distinct settings. Narration provides explicit central focus for exploring how individuals convey their concerns. Exhaustive and instructive introduction on the theoretical and methological spectrum of narration, history, and the everyday.
Case studies include no less than nine different urban settings; they explore the relationship between narration and the urban experience in richer and more varied fashion. Chapters engage the political as mediated through the daily, lived experiences of individual women and men in distinct settings. Narration provides explicit central focus for exploring how individuals convey their concerns. Exhaustive and instructive introduction on the theoretical and methological spectrum of narration, history, and the everyday.
Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology and member of the Social Policy Research Centre and FemGenSex research network at Middlesex University.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv Andriy Zayarnyuk Chapter 2. The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s Arturo Almandoz Chapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood Leeke Reinders PART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACE Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe Anna Schober Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 Matthew P. Berg PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits Notes on Contributors Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv Andriy Zayarnyuk Chapter 2. The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s Arturo Almandoz Chapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood Leeke Reinders PART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACE Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe Anna Schober Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 Matthew P. Berg PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits Notes on Contributors Index
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