Emanuela Guano

Creative Urbanity

An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Ethnography
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248784
• ISBN-10: 0812248783
• Artikelnr.: 44828702

Autorenporträt

Emanuela Guano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Chronotopes of Hope
Chapter 2. Genoa's Magic Circle
Chapter 3. Gentrification Without Teleologies
Chapter 4. Cultural Bricoleuses
Chapter 5. Touring the Hidden City
Chapter 6. Utopia with No Guarantees
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments