Urban Inequalities

Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. In the 1980s, he pioneered research in the urban West in British anthropology (Managing Existence in Naples, 1996) and in the early 1990s on legitimacy, morality, corruption and the élite. Pardo has lectured world-wide and authored a large body of publications. He established and co-edits the journal Urbanities and co-founded and presides over the not-for-profit association, International Urban Symposium-IUS. Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. She has done fieldwork in Italy, England, France and Albania and has published widely her research. With Professor Italo Pardo, Prato is co-editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. She chairs the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES), co-founded the International Urban Symposium-IUS, of which she is Secretary-Treasurer, and co-founded and serves on the Board of Urbanities .

Chapter 1. Urban Inequalities: Ethnographically Informed Reflections.- Chapter 2. Making Second-class Italians: A Case of Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality.- Chapter 3. On Human Stupidity and Economic Policies: How Cities Inequality Generates Losses for All.- Chapter 4. Precarious Employment and Social Exclusion: Athens in Crisis.- Chapter 5. Women, Work and Family: Becoming Women Workers in the Context of Underdevelopment in Mardin.- Chapter 6. Where Do We Find Money? Urban Inequalities under Financialization in Mardin, Turkey.- Chapter 7. The Destiny of Urban Peripheries: Down-town Tel Aviv's Contested Realities.- Chapter 8. Unequal Citizens: Cairo between the Gated and the Informal.- Chapter 9. Crisis, Disorder and Management: Smart Cities and Contemporary Urban Inequality.- Chapter 10. Smart City Imaginations and Real Lives: A View from a Town in North India.- Chapter 11. 'Either you have money and you plan your treatment, or you don't have money and you plan your death': Tracing Inequalities in Breast Cancer Care in Greece.- Chapter 12. Segregation from Womb to Tomb: The Legacies of Racial Inequalities in South African Cemeteries.- Chapter 13. Urban Heritage, Inequalities and the Retrenchment of the Public Cultural Sphere.- Chapter 14. Body and Soul: Boxing and Redemption.- Chapter 15. The Zenit Ultras from Saint Petersburg: Dynamics of Social Inclusions and Exclusions.

"A strength of this work lies in the diversity of global locations and identities of both the sites of social interactions, and the researchers. ... Bringing together such a diverse set of ethnographic accounts offers insights into a multiplicity of experiences of inequalities in urban social settings. The ethnographic microanalysis and theoretical explorations make this a must-read for scholars interested and engaged in understanding more about the contemporary mechanisms of a wide range of social inequalities." (Robyn Andrews,Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 11 (1), May, 2021)