Locating Digital Urban Ethnography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilo Grenz ◽  
Maria Schlechter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ethnography

Unsettling bodies of knowledge: Walking as a pedagogy of affect

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762097971
Author(s):  
Timon Beyes ◽  
Chris Steyaert
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Affective Process

In this article, we connect with recent attempts to rethink management learning as an embodied and affective process and we propose walking as a significant learning practice of a pedagogy of affect. Walking enables a postdualist view on learning and education. Based on course work focused on urban ethnography, we discuss walking as affect-pedagogical practice through the intertwined activities of straying, drifting and witnessing, and we reflect upon the implications for a pedagogy of affect. In conclusion, we speculate about the potential of a pedagogy of affect for future understandings and practices of management learning.

scholarly journals What’s in a word? Contextual diversity, urban ethnography and the linguistic limits of the street

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 952-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Dines
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Contextual Diversity ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lexical Change ◽  
Raymond Williams

This article takes to task a common assumption within Anglophone scholarship that conceives the street as a preeminent site of urban life, arguing that this sociological truism has worked to obscure the role of other spaces, terms and experiences across different historical, geographical and linguistic contexts. In response, and building on recent reappraisals in sociology of the work of Raymond Williams, the aim of this article is to analyse the street as a particular keyword and reflect on how a cultural materialist approach to lexical change can be incorporated into the practices of urban ethnography and translation. To develop its methodological argument, the article draws on the author’s research on Italian cities, where rather than the strada (street), the piazza and the vicolo (alleyway) have typically commanded a more prominent place in ideas about the public realm. At the same time, the disparate meanings of these two spatial forms attest to the uneven and disputed positions of different Italian cities within national urban culture. In conclusion, the article argues for greater attention to be paid to variations in language use vis-a-vis urban spatial forms as the prerequisite for a more incisive sociology of the street.

Herbert Gans and the Politics of Urban Ethnography in the (Continued) Age of the Underclass

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alford A. Young
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
Complex Thinking

In his criticism of scholarly and public utilization of the term underclass, Herbert Gans helped to initiate new and more complex thinking about both the kinds of people that constitute America's most disenfranchised urban constituency and the ways in which more privileged Americans have striven to make sense of them. In forwarding his criticism of the term, Gans helped establish a template for ethnographic and qualitative explorations of America's urban poor that breaks with a rigid and vulgar social problems framing and, instead, invites more provocative and more accurate assessments of the agency of such people. In doing so, he has encouraged recent efforts to offer new framings of this population, which have facilitated new cultural projects in qualitative studies of the African American urban poor. This article briefly reviews Gans's criticism of the term underclass, and then elucidates how that criticism relates to some contemporary scholarly efforts to consider people who would be characterized as underclass as more complex cultural actors—and, indeed, who often are more complicated social beings—than is implied by the label underclass.

Urban Ethnography of the 1920s Working Girl

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaber F. Gubrium
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ethnography

scholarly journals A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED URBAN WATERS

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Analysis ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro ◽  
American Cities

AbstractGenerating new understandings of the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro (1899) for sociology and social science more generally, this article posits that the urban analysis provided in the book demonstrates how interwoven cultural and economic factors undergird the social organization of urban communities more so than any pragmatic economic pattern or logic. It is the interwoven nature of these factors (defined in this article as the counterintuitive economic logics of the study) that have been insufficiently acknowledged in recent decades of social scientific urban studies research. Exploring the interwoven nature of cultural and economic factors in the sustenance of Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward, this article suggests that the agency of African Americans is a critical, yet undervalued, aspect of their urban living. This article situates W. E. B. Du Bois as the first of some later voices (mostly within urban ethnography) that offer a corrective and alternative to urban spatial conceptual frameworks that did not and do not fully account for the persistent influence of race and the agency of racial minorities on the landscape of American cities.

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