Narrating the City (eBook)

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Matthew P. Berg is Professor of History at John Carroll University.

Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology and member of the Social Policy Research Centre and FemGenSex research network at Middlesex University.

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 Rubić and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

Notes on Contributors
Index