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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and boxes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Why Urban Anthropology? -- Situating Urban Anthropology -- Historical Developments -- Urban Anthropology's Predecessors -- Early Urban Anthropology -- Late Twentieth-Century 'Turns' -- Anthropologists and the Contemporary City -- Doing Urban Anthropology -- Not Your Usual Field? -- Urban Methods -- Studying Up and Studying Through -- Mobile Methods and Mental Mapping -- Structure of the Book -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- References -- Part I At Home in the City? -- Chapter 2 Urban Places -- Place-making, Place Attachment and the Politics of Belonging -- Discursive Forms of Place-Making -- Sensory and Affective Forms of Place-Making -- Sacred Place-Making -- Buildings -- Architecture -- Domestic Space -- Neighborhoods -- Low-income and Marginalized Settlements -- Segregation and Displacement -- Transnational Urban Places -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 3 Urban Mobilities -- Mobility and Identities -- Walking the City -- Urban Automobility -- Mobility and Inequality -- Disability -- Traffic -- The Cultural Politics of Mobility -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 4 Social Life in Public Space -- Contextualizing Public Space -- Public Social Life in Context -- Intersectional Positioning -- Everyday Spatial Regimes -- The Micropolitics of Social Life in Public -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Part II Crafting Urban Lives and Lifestyles -- Chapter 5 Urban Economies -- From National Development to Neoliberal Restructuring -- Urban Industries, Labor and Class Formation -- Mining Towns -- Post-industrial Landscapes.

ABSTRACTAcross Europe, ethnically diverse neighborhoods figure as key sites in racialized public debates that imagine the nation as white and nonwhite citizens as foreign to the body politic. Drawing on research in Antwerp and Amsterdam, we examine how public discourses come to shape the lives of residents in such iconic sites. We propose the notion of ordinary iconic figures as a way to understand these connections. Ordinary iconic figures represent generic types that populate national narratives and connect the local and the national as well as the individual and larger categories. These figures come into being in public discourses but are taken up beyond the sphere of politics and media. Such ordinary iconic figures offer commonsense frames for understanding urban landscapes, carve out speaking positions, and come to haunt residents' sense of self as iconic shadows. They thereby help transport the inequalities laid out in public discourses into people's everyday lives. [urban anthropology, political anthropology, racialization, iconic figures, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Europe]

Across Europe, ethnically diverse neighborhoods figure as key sites in racialized public debates that imagine the nation as white and nonwhite citizens as foreign to the body politic. Drawing on research in Antwerp and Amsterdam, we examine how public discourses come to shape the lives of residents in such iconic sites. We propose the notion of ordinary iconic figures as a way to understand these connections. Ordinary iconic figures represent generic types that populate national narratives and connect the local and the national as well as the individual and larger categories. These figures come into being in public discourses but are taken up beyond the sphere of politics and media. Such ordinary iconic figures offer commonsense frames for understanding urban landscapes, carve out speaking positions, and come to haunt residents' sense of self as iconic shadows. They thereby help transport the inequalities laid out in public discourses into people's everyday lives. [urban anthropology, political anthropology, racialization, iconic figures, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Europe]

En Europe, de nouveaux programmes de protection sociale illustrent un mouvement actuel : la tentative de gouverner par la communauté. Par la mise en perspective de trois enquêtes de terrain réalisées avec des professionnel·les et des bénévoles du soutien à la parentalité à Amsterdam, Milan et Paris, nous montrons comment cette forme de gouvernement est mise en œuvre et comment elle fait émerger de nouveaux enchevêtrements aux effets incontrôlables. Plus précisément, nous montrons comment les politiques sociales de proximité : (1) empêtrent les professionnel·les du welfare dans des réseaux locaux complexes, (2) brouillent la frontière entre les professionnel·les et les citoyen·nes ainsi qu'entre l'État et la société civile, (3) s'appuient sur des relations personnalisées et du travail affectif. La réorganisation de l'intervention sociale via des maillages territoriaux locaux produit un écheveau inextricable de réseaux et de partenariats. En outre, plutôt que de susciter des communautés résilientes qui prendraient soin d'elles-mêmes, les nouveaux programmes de protection sociale impliquent de plus en plus de citoyen·nes dans la mise en œuvre des modes de gouvernance qui les visent. Enfin, plutôt que d'être déchargé·es des responsabilités d'aide et de protection sociales étatiques, les professionnel·les à l'échelon local s'avèrent des agent·es particulièrement efficaces d'un retour de l'État social.