Narrating the City

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.

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

Inhalt
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 Rubi and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits Notes on Contributors
Index

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