Realising the City -

Realising the City

Urban Ethnography in Manchester

Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2017
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0073-3 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance. -- .
This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city’s football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city’s annual civic parade. These perspectives help trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city, showing how people’s decisions and actions co-produce the city and give it shape. Using the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, with each turn of the wheel, another aspect of the city is materialised. In doing so, the contributors complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance as driven by the city administration’s entrepreneurial ethos. By taking up civic space and resources with council-led cultural representations focused largely on generating financial income for the city, three decades of command-and-control politics has inhibited grassroots and spontaneous forms of emergent publics. -- .

Camilla Lewis is a Research Associate in the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester Jessica Symons is an Urban Anthropologist at the University of Manchester -- .

Foreword by Kevin Ward
Introduction: tackling the urban through ethnography – Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons

Part I: Realising urban organisations
1 Inclusion without incorporation: re-imagining Manchester through a new politics of environment – Hannah Knox
2 Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy – Jessica Symons
3 Lounge Manchester: the new politics of loungification – Damian O’Doherty

Part II: Realising urban spaces
4 Under the surface of the village: public and private negotiations of urban space in Manchester – Michael Atkins
5 Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester – Luciana Lang
6 Urban futures and competing trajectories for Manchester city centre – Elisa Pieri

Part III: Realising urban communities
7 Urban transformation in football: from Manchester United as a ‘global leisure brand’ to FC United as a ‘community club’ – George Poulton
8 ‘People want jobs, they want a life!’ Deindustrialisation and loss in East Manchester – Camilla Lewis
9 ‘Don’t call the police on me, I won’t call them on you’: self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester – Katherine Smith

Afterword: the tension in making and realising a city – Jessica Symons
Select bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 22 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5261-0073-8 / 1526100738
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-0073-3 / 9781526100733
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