Nightshift NYC

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25271-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep the city running when the sun goes down. Investigating familiar places such diners and delis, they explore some less familiar ones as well—taking us on a walking tour of homelessness in Manhattan, onto a fishing boat out of Brooklyn, and into other little-known corners of the night. Traveling past the threshold of voyeurism into the lives of real people, they depict a social space entirely apart—one that is highly structured and inherently subversive. Together, these stories open a compelling view on contemporary urban life and, along the way, reveal the soul of the city itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharman, Russell Leigh

Sharman, Cheryl Harris

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hayes, Corey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PROLOGUE: Nightfall

ONE: One Big Family
TWO: I’ll Take My Chances on the Nightshift
THREE: Our Own Little City

FOUR: A Stillness

FIVE: Stay Awake

SIX: You Have to Give Up Something

SEVEN: Fulfilling My Dreams

EIGHT: I Don’t Know Where Is the Keys

NINE: All Night on the Street
TEN: Call It a Night

ELEVEN: I Just Work Here

TWELVE: Everyone Is the Same DownThere

THIRTEEN: The Real Hard Core

FOURTEEN: I’m Here All Night
FIFTEEN: Night Boat Weekends

SIXTEEN: Night Fishing

SEVENTEEN: Different Fish, Different Places

EIGHTEEN: Here Is Not My Home
EPILOGUE: Daybreak

Über Autor(innen)

Russell Leigh Sharman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, is author of The Tenants of East Harlem (UC Press). Cheryl Harris Sharman is a writer and researcher whose work has appeared in The Lancet, the Miami Herald, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.