Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography

01/06/2025

URBANITIES-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 15 · No 1· (May 2025) is now available online.

- The whole issue is available at:https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Urbanities-Vol-15-No-1-May-2025.pdf
- Individual contributions are available at: https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-15-no-1-may-2025/

TABLE of CONTENTS:

Articles
- An Anthropologist’s View of the Misgovernance of Public Health and Healthcare (Italo Pardo)
- Nocturnality and Resistance: Adaptation and Legitimisation Strategies in Night-Time Street Vending in Chile(Jorge B. Ulloa-Martínez)
- Neoliberal City, Neoliberal Self: 7-ELEVEn Convenience Store as a Work Companion in Everyday Life in Guangzhou (Qian Chen)
- From Here to Elsewhere: Migration in Response to an Anticipated Earthquake (Cemre Aydoğan)
- Xiaoqu in Motion: Gated Housing Compounds and the Infrastructure of China’s Urban Biopolitics (Mengqi Wang)

Special Section — Essays from the IUS Monthly Seminar Series 2023-2024 on “Urban Ethnography and Theory”
- Editorial Note
- People’s Conceptualization of Government, Governance and Legitimacy: Some Reflections Based on Urban India (Subhadra M. Channa)
- An Ethnography of Urban Change: Conflicting Notions of Home Among First-time Homeowners of Commodified, Peripheral Social Housing in Colombia (Adriana Hurtado-Tarazona and Malena Rinaudo Velandia)

Book Reviews
- Chowdhury, R. 2023. City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press (by Proshant Chakraborty)
- Garbin, D., Coleman, S. and Millington G. (eds). 2023. Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa: Remaking the City. London: Bloomsbury Academic (by Dolores Koenig)
- Klinenberg, E. 2024. 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (by Alan Lessoff)

Film Review
- Cruces (Crosses). Directed by: Roberto Duarte (by Cristhian Caje)

05/03/2025

DEADLINES APPROACHING:
1) International Interdisciplinary Conference “Managing Without Guarantees”
2) Field Training School & Research Seminar “URBAN RESEARCH: Theory and Methods"
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1) CALL for PAPERS & PANELS--International Interdisciplinary Conference
MANAGING WITHOUT GUARANTEES: BETWEEN GETTING-BY AND ENTERPRISING
Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy, 29-31 July 2025
Extended DEADLINE FOR PAPER & PANEL PROPOSALS: Titles and 200-word Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 21 March 2025.
FULL DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://www.internationalurbansymposium.com/events/2025-conference/
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2) CALL for APPLICATIONS
FIELD TRAINING SCHOOL AND RESEARCH SEMINAR 2025
"URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY AND METHODS"
Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21-27 July 2025
THE SCHOOL PROGRAMME INCLUDES:
• Teaching Seminars led by senior scholars from international universities.
• Targeted observational field trips.
• Research seminars, and the opportunity to publish in a peer-reviewed journal.
DEADLINE: Applications will be accepted until Monday 17th March 2025.
HOW TO APPLY and FURTHER DETAILS – Go to:
https://www.internationalurbansymposium.com/2025-field-training-school/

05/03/2025

This book examines urban inequality through ethnographic cases, focusing on legitimacy, governance, and stereotypes.

30/11/2024

INTERNATIONAL INTERDISciplinary CONFERENCE Managing Without Guarantees: Between Getting-by and Enterprising Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy, 29-31 July

30/11/2024

Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 14 · No 2· (November 2024) is now published.

- The whole issue is available at:https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Vol.14-No2-Nov-2024.pdf
- Individual contributions are available at: https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-14-no-2-november-2024/

23/11/2024

Excellent Opportunity!

FIELD TRAINING SCHOOL AND RESEARCH SEMINAR 2025 URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY AND METHODS Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy, 21-27 July 2025 Convenors: Italo Pardo

09/08/2024

2024 IUS FIELD TRAINING SCHOOL AND RESEARCH SEMINAR "URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY AND METHODS" – Hotel Corallo, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21-27 July 2024.

The 2024 IUS Field Training School was organised by Professors Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (University of Kent, UK) on behalf of the International Urban Symposium-IUS, in collaboration with an international group of senior scholars and practitioners. The School’s teaching staff included, in alphabetic order: Gary Armstrong (City, University London, UK); Nicola Brady (Transport for London & Practitioner-in-Residence, City University of London, UK); Jerome Krase (Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA); Erin Lynch (Concordia University, Canada); Karolina Moretti (University of Athens, Greece); Italo Pardo (University of Kent, UK); Giuliana B. Prato (University of Kent, UK); James Rosbrook-Thompson (City, University London, UK); Matthew Rosen (Ohio University, USA).

The School was attended by 15 international doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Hawaii, India, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the USA.

The in-class work was supplemented by targeted Observational Field Trips in the medieval hamlet of Montecatini Alto and in the city of Montecatini Terme, on which participants reported at length.

The School concluded with one full-day Research Seminar during which junior scholars presented their own research papers and engaged in academic debate benefiting from expert feedback from the teaching staff.

Social events benefited from the centrality of the location and its world-renowned SPA iconic establishments.

The group enjoyed evening concerts in the splendid Terme Il Tettuccio, a World Heritage Site.

BELOW, the organisers and a group of participants are greeted by the Mayor of Montecatini Terme, Mr Avvocato Claudio Del Rosso, at the Hotel Corallo.

Read More at: https://www.internationalurbansymposium.com/events/2024-field-training-school/

08/06/2024

URBANITIES-Journal of Urban Ethnography Vol. 14, No 1, May 2024
is now available online,
with a Special Section on Essays from the IUS Monthly Seminar Series 2023-2024 on “Urban Ethnography and Theory”.
- The ToC with individual articles is available at: https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-14-no-1-may-2024/
- The whole issue is available at:https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vol14-No1-May2024.pdf
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25/04/2024

Urban Ethnography and Theory Organized by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK) on behalf of the