Urban Mountain Beings

Urban Mountain Beings

Author: Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1498575943

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Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare employs feminist geographical and Indigenous pedagogical frameworks to illustrate how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies that treat Native peoples as “out of place and time” in cities. Fine-Dare concentrates on two overlapping contexts for Indigenous vindication: the Yumbada of Cotocollao, an ancestral performance through which mountain and other spirits are called into the urban plaza; and Casa Kinde (Hummingbird House), a cultural organization that engages in workshops, filmmaking, photography, commerce, community education, and the formation of alliances with anthropologists, activists, filmmakers, engineers, and teachers.


Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

Author: Ben Anderson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1137540001

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This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It charts an emerging group of mass tourist activities, and argues that these thousands of walkers and climbers can only be understood within the context of the urban cultures from which most of them came. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of alpinists and countryside enthusiasts to the modern world. Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like.


The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality

The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality

Author: Angela Storey

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-07-08

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1793610657

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The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores how steadily increasing inequality and the spectacular pace of urbanization frame daily life for city residents around the world. Ethnographic case studies from five continents highlight the impact of place, the tools of memory, and the power of collective action as communities interact with centralized processes of policy and capital. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this collection illustrate the many ways urban inequalities take shape, combine, and are perpetuated.


Urban Mountain Spirits

Urban Mountain Spirits

Author: Kathleen FINE-DARE

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781498575935

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Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis in post-neoliberal times carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Fine-Dare examines how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies treating Native peoples as "out of place" in cities.


Belfast Imaginary

Belfast Imaginary

Author: Katharine Keenan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1793628122

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In Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention, Katharine Keenan argues for the reimagining of place in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the context of Brexit. This deeply researched ethnography depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and perform a new urban identity for Belfast in the liminal time between the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit.


Metropolitan Intimacies

Metropolitan Intimacies

Author: Francisco Cruces

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-06-27

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1793633223

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In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents’ daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major cities—Madrid, Montevideo, and Mexico City—to reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.


Black and Brown Education in America

Black and Brown Education in America

Author: Samina Hadi-Tabassum

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 166690077X

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Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities is a decade long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, and the impact of its recent demographic shift from a historically Black middle-class suburb outside of Chicago with roots in the Black Panther Party to, now, a community with a growing Latinx population. It explores the intersection of race, culture, and language—and the ensuing Black-Brown identity politics—as well as the role of community organizations such as interracial faith-based churches and embattled school boards. Against a backdrop of racial tensions and heightened violence, the book also addresses transformative, liminal spaces where coalition building and collaboration bring the Black and Latinx communities together around common causes and unified goals.


The Importance of Being Urban

The Importance of Being Urban

Author: David A. Gamson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 022663454X

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From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms. The Importance of Being Urban focuses on four western school systems—in Denver, Oakland, Portland, and Seattle—and their efforts to reconfigure public education in the face of rapid industrialization and the perceived perils [GDA1] of the modern city. In an era of accelerated immigration, shifting economic foundations, and widespread municipal shake-ups, reformers argued that the urban school district could provide the broad blend of social, cultural, and educational services needed to prepare students for twentieth-century life. These school districts were a crucial force not only in orchestrating educational change, but in delivering on the promise of democracy. David A. Gamson’s book provides eye-opening views of the histories of American education, urban politics, and the Progressive Era.