Urban Inequalities: Ethnographically Informed Reflections 3030517233, 9783030517236

Table of contents :
Praise for Urban Inequalities
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Querying Urban Inequalities
Equality Versus Levelling
Domination, Liberty and Equality
Useful Suggestions
References
2 Making Second-Class Italians: A Progressive Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality
Introduction
The ‘Field’ in Context
Coping with ‘the System’
In Defiance of Objectification
Political Bribery Italian Style
Concluding Considerations
References
3 On Human Stupidity and Economic Policies. How Cities Inequality Generates Losses for All
Industrial Development Areas and Integrated Economic Planning
Industrialization and Politics in Brindisi
Decision-Making, Sottogoverno and Local Autonomy
The Construction of the Coal-Plant in Brindisi
The Post-Coal-Plant Situation: Hindsight Recriminations and ‘Culture of Illegality’
Resurrecting Project 80 and the Reorganization of Port Authorities
On Political Stupidity
References
4 Unequal Citizens: Between the Gated and the Informal in Cairo
Introduction
‘Differentiated’ Citizenship
So Close and yet so Far
Citizenship in Practice
Urban Utilities
Education
A Far More Complex Relation
Conclusion
References
5 Precarious Employment and Social Exclusion in Times of Crisis: The Case of Athens
Introduction
Precarious Employment
Social Exclusion
Precarious Employment and Social Exclusion: Identifying the Links
Ethnographying the Crisis
Conclusions
References
6 The Destiny of Urban Peripheries: Downtown Tel Aviv’s Contested Realities
Preface
The Story of Florentin
The Story of Neve Shaanan
Comparative Records from New York
Postscript
References
7 ‘Either You Have Money and Plan Your Treatment, or You Don’t Have Money and Plan Your Death’: Tracing Inequalities in Breast Cancer Care in Greece
Introduction
An Ethnographic Example
The Construction of the Biological Body
Biopolitics: Ethopolitics
The Patient as a Medical Consumer
Conclusions
References
8 Crisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality
Introduction
A Smart Vision of the Future
Smart Urbanism
Temporality, Geography and Epistemology in Smart Urbanism
Korea’s Songdo
India’s Dholera
Sovereignty and Liminality
Conclusion
References
9 Urban Transformation for Whom? Notes from the Margins of a Town in North India
Urban Imaginations and an Aspiring State
Social Hierarchies in Bikaner
Ramvati Ji—A Life at the Margins
Conclusion
References
10 Mixed Occupancy: Mixed Occupations? Inequality and Employment on an Inner-City Housing Estate
Welcome to Lashall Green, Northtown
Occupational Class Structure in Post-Industrial London
Opportunity Knocks: Or Does It?
Historical Elements: Going Global
The Making of Marginal Workers: Bumps and Bytes
Servicing and Serving Up: Reciprocity and Interdependence
Winners and Losers
Going Underground
Wheelers and Dealers
Ethical Trading
Conclusion
References
11 ‘Where Do We Find Money?’ Urban Inequalities Under Financialization in Mardin, Turkey
Introduction
Understanding the 2000s in Turkey: Between Financialization and Construction
The Ethnographic Site
Living in Poverty: The Research Findings
Concluding Remarks
References
12 Women, Work and Family: Becoming Women Workers in the Context of Underdevelopment in Mardin
Introduction: Traditional Patriarchy in the Context of Underdevelopment
Research Methodology
Women in Traditional Patriarchal Relations
Forcing Women to Work in Paid Jobs
Conclusion
References
13 Inequalities and Redemption: A Boxing Story
Capital Punishment
Dramas, Fields and Redemption
The Boxer and the Doxa
The Gym and the Quasi-Religious
Guru and Genius
Raised to Box
All That Jazz
Fighting for Peace
A Way of Life
Citizens and Champions
Learning Your Lines
Sharing Space: Getting Along
Teaching by Example
Education in Composure
References
14 Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion Among the Zenit Ultras: Russian Nationalism, Urban Boxing and the Kremlin Politics
The Russian Ultras: Rebellions, Travels, Ideologies
Old Rivalries in the USSR
Neo-Feudalism, Oligarchs and Ethnic Tensions
The Zenit Football Club Between Traditionalism and Energy Suppliers
The Landskrona: Building a Fortress and Defending the Local Identity
Russian Imperialists: Gender, Symbols and Interpretations
The Draka: Regulated and Legitimized Violence
Conclusions: Avenues for Political Representation
References
Index