Communication, culture, and making meaning in the city: ethnographic engagements in urban environments

Abstract

Part I:City as image:Women's Political Visualization of Post-Conflict Belfast /Jolene Mairs Dyer --Urban Alienation and Native Americans in The Exiles /Kathleen M. German --Mapping Sarajevo-The City and Its Representations /Joanna Zielińska --Part II:City as mobility:Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and Northampton /Ahmet Atay --Walking the Geography of Difference /Jay Brower --Cycling in the City: An Actor-Network-Theory Perspective on Urban Practices /Craig L. Engstrom --Part III:City as past:Walking, Sensing and Making Places: A Reflection on Ethnography of Walking in Yokohama and Vancouver /Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu --"Ancientizing" the Modern Chinese Cities: (Re)Constructing Space, History, and National Identity /Joy Yang Jiao --Being Walked Through the City: Negotiating Countercultural Memory in San Francisco /Ryan M. Lescure --Part IV: City as relationship:View Over Bristol: Tryers, Creativity and Civic Imaginary /Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma Agusita --"You look like Detectives": Alcohol Outreach Nursing as a form of Mobile Care and Clinical Investigation /Martin Whiteford --Strategic Liminality and Trans-regional Mobility: Engaging Diverse City Spaces to Constitute and Negotiate Intersectional Identities of Newfound Class Privilege, Repressed Ethnic Anger, and the (In)visibility of Gay (Male) Life /Eric Aoki.