Narrating the City

Histories, Space and the Everyday
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-775-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Space and Place

In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir

Berg, Matthew P.

Christou, Anastasia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier

PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY

Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv

Andriy Zayarnyuk

Chapter 2. The Masa’s Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s

Arturo Almandoz

Chapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood

Leeke Reinders



PART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACE

Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe

Anna Schober

Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in “Red Vienna,” 1945-1948

Matthew P. Berg

PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY

Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers’ and Employers’ Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s

Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor

Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb

Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christou, Anastasia
Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology and member of the Social Policy Research Centre and FemGenSex research network at Middlesex University.

Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir
Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Berg, Matthew P.
Matthew P. Berg is Professor of History at John Carroll University.

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences.