Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography

28/11/2025

URBANITIES-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol.15, No.2, November 2025 is now available online.
- To access the whole issue:https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Urbanities-Vol-15-No-2-Nov.2025.pdf
- To read individual articles: https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-15-no-2-november-2025/

TABLE OF CONTENT

Articles
- Selling an Ideal Home and Neighbourhood: Municipalities, Disaster Law, and the Gentrification of Gecekondus in Istanbul (by Deniz Halman Tomaka)
- Landfills, Pizza Box and QR Code: Lessons from Waste in Montecatini Terme (by Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis)
- Antisemitism in Greece and Jewish Cultural Heritage Preservation (by Elias V. Messinas)
- Spa Tourism and Urban Transformation: The (re)imagination of Montecatini Terme (by Debapriya Ganguly and Aaron Reudenbach)

Events Reports
- IUS School 2025 - The 2025 IUS Field Training School and Research Seminar on Urban Ethnography and Theory (by Giuliana B. Prato)
- IUS Workshop 2025 - Managing Without Guarantees: Between Getting-by and Enterprising (by Italo Pardo)
- Workshop on Public Health and Healthcare (by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato)

Forthcoming Events
- International Multidisciplinary Conference - For Better Public Health and Healthcare: Multidisciplinary Solutions
- International Conference - Spatial Changes and Social Opportunities in the 21st-Century City
- 2026 IUS Field Training School and Research Seminar on Urban Research Theory and Methods

Book Reviews
- Lynch, Erin E. 2023. Locative Tourism Applications: A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City. London: Routledge.
(by Genevieve Collins)
- Pardo, I. and Prato, G. B. eds. 2024. Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volumes 1 and 2. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
(by Judith N. DeSena)

Film and Video Review
- Sama in the Forest. 2023. Directed by Carlos Gómez.
(by Sonia Gau Angelo)
- The Intersection (Le Carrefour). 2021.
Directed by Jessamine Irwin and Daniel Quintanilla.
(by Malika Ouacha)
- Where Can I Get Lost? 2023. Directed by Mattijs van de Port.
(by Cristhian Caje)

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21/11/2025

FOR BETTER PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SOLUTIONS Montecatini Terme, Tuscany (Italy), 13-15 March 2026 OUTLINE AND AIMS Good Health and

04/11/2025

04/11/2025

Më 30 tetor 2025, në ambientet e Ministrisë për Evropën dhe Punët e Jashtme (MEPJ), salla “Ismail Qemali”, do të mbahet Kuvendi i Tretë i Studimeve Arbëreshe, organizuar nga Qendra e Studimeve dhe Publikimeve për Arbëreshët (QSPA), me temën bosht “Narrativa të së shkuarës dhe së tashmes në dialektikën diasporë– vendi amë: Arbëreshët dhe Shqipëria”.

Prof. Giuliana B. Prato, antropologe dhe profesore me reputacion ndërkombëtar nga Universiteti i Kentit, do të mbajë një Lectio Magistralis: “Shaping New Albanian Identities: From Arbëresh Diaspora to Contemporary Expatriates”.

Dr. Giuliana B. Prato është Profesoreshë e Nderuar e Antropologjisë Sociale në Universitetin e Kentit, Mbretëria e Bashkuar, Sekretare e Thesarit e International Urban Symposium – IUS, si dhe Anëtare Akademike e Akademisë Evropiane të Shkencave të Ukrainës.
Prof. Prato është formuar në fushën e Sociologjisë (Laurea cm laude, sistemi i vjetër universitar, Universiteti i Napolit Federico II, Itali) dhe në Antropologjinë Sociale (MSc dhe PhD, University College London, MB).
Ajo ka zhvilluar kërkime në Shqipëri, Angli, Francë dhe Itali, dhe ka botuar studime mbi ndryshimin politik, legjitimitetin, shtetësinë, qeverisjen, korrupsionin, pabarazitë, politikat socio-ekonomike, politikën transnacionale të emigracionit (përfshirë komunitetin arbëresh dhe migrimet bashkëkohore shqiptare drejt Italisë), pakicat gjuhësore, analizën krahasuese mbi “migrimet e reja” në Evropë dhe së fundmi, mbi kujdesin shëndetësor, politikat publike të shëndetit, si edhe implikimet etike e socio-ekonomike të teknologjive dixhitale dhe aplikimeve të inteligjencës artificiale në shëndetësi, arsim dhe qeverisje.
Prof. Prato ka shërbyer si Kryetare e Komisionit për Antropologjinë Urbane dhe si Drejtuese e Këshillit të Komisioneve në Ekzekutivin e IUAES. Ajo ka dhënë mësim dhe ka qenë ligjëruese e ftuar në universitete britanike, italiane dhe evropiane, përfshirë edhe në Shqipëri, si dhe ka mbajtur një numër të madh ligjëratash hapëse në konferenca ndërkombëtare ndërdisiplinore. Së bashku me kolegët, ajo bashkëdrejton Shkollën Fushore të Trajnimit të IUS me temë “Kërkimi Urban: Metodologji dhe Teori”, ku marrin pjesë studiues dhe profesionistë ndërkombëtarë nga fusha të ndryshme.
Prof. Prato ka botuar gjerësisht në anglisht dhe italisht. Një pjesë e punimeve të saj është përkthyer në gjuhën shqipe, kineze, frënge, gjermane, greke dhe ukrainase.
Ajo është bashkëthemeluese e revistës me akses të hapur URBANITIES – Journal of Urban Ethnography, bashkëredaktore e serisë Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology dhe bashkëredaktore e serisë Ashgate Urban Anthropology (tani Routledge).

09/08/2025

Great Events.

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