Introduction: The Contemporary Significance of Anthropology in the City

Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.

doi:10.4324/9781315567310-1

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“…L'effort de jonction de ces trois plans (agencement, habiter, mobilité) vise aussi à les élargir puisque l'idée d'agencement délie celle de l'habiter en montrant ses distributions, ses aspects processuels et relationnels en plus de permettre de les situer non plus dans un lieu tel la maison, mais dans un univers plus large tel l'environnement de référence de la personne. Inversement, l'habiter en tant que terme mitoyen, c'est-à-dire situé entre la (Pardo & Prato, 2016), c'est en deçà de cette image que la ville cherche à produire pour son identité et sa cohérence qu'il faut creuser, en relevant les pratiques et les processus réels mis en pratique par les institutions et les habitants.…”

Section: Les Questions D'accessibilité Et De Mobilité Dans La Villeunclassified

L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

Grenier

2022

Aequitas

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This dissertation offers an anthropological enquiry on the question of dwelling of people with disabilities in relation to their mobility habits in Quebec City in Canada. It empirically examines the singular ways people travel through various daily commutes and paths, and how their dwelling habits are produced through the physical and social configurations and encounters composing these mobility experiences.The thesis proposes an ontological perspective of disability as it explores the reality of mobility of people with different abilities within the city's assemblages from their own situated perspective. It addresses perceptual person-environment relationships as well as the practices and production modalities of "places" by which people shape their world.The thesis pays attention to the questions of being and becoming within multiple assemblages of heterogenous elements and how the constitutive experiences of people are tainted daily with situations of disability and of social participation. The objective of the fieldwork was to realistically reflect the perspective of the people as they performed their ordinary activities.The thesis focuses on two groups of people, namely wheelchairs users and people with a visual impairment who use a guide dog or a white cane. It is through their situated perspectives, rendered in the form of ontographies of their daily commutes, that dwelling in the city is understood. From an anthropological perspective coupled with a strong philosophical inclination, since it is about dwelling (Ingold, 2000), becomings and assemblages (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980), the thesis makes it possible to better understand the ways in which the individual existences of people with disabilities are constructed in environments that organize their possibilities by opening some and blocking others. By following people one by one, the thesis makes it possible to question the underlying conditions of inclusion, social participation, and the real exercise of rights in the city and to consider practices centered on the singular experiences of the world and their associated assemblages.

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L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

Grenier

2022

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“…Italo Pardo and Prato (2012) describe how, from the onset of urban anthropology, there were tensions in defining what anthropologists actually meant by the concept of 'urban' and what the differences between 'urban' anthropology and 'traditional' anthropology were, as well as how to theorise and frame the study of urban contexts. For some, the 'urban' was defined by population size.…”

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“…also Fox, 1977; Jackson, 1985; Gulick, 1989; Low, 1996) suggested that urban anthropology was the study of cities; where the city is examined as an object of study in and of itself. It was styled as an approach of urban determinism—where the city context is seen as the ‘pivotal force in shaping individual lives’ (Pardo & Prato, 2012, p. 7). Other perspectives, such as that of Ruth Toulson (2015, p. 29), critique framing the city as a pivotal force, arguing instead for the primacy of ‘human agencies and the complexities of causality’.…”

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An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’

Kraemer

Stern

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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It is estimated that by 2050, 50% of Pacific peoples will be living out their full lives in cities and towns throughout Oceania and around the world. Over the last 35 years, previous patterns of circular migration have been giving way to permanent urban settlers and to generations born and raised in urban places. These ‘urbanites’ demonstrate a firm commitment to urban living in both the present and the future. In the cities, Pacific people have been building roots and making the city ‘home’. This special issue focuses on some of the diverse practices Pacific urbanites employ in creating ‘home’, which we define as the context where they centre their social, cultural and economic worlds and the place in which they see themselves living out their aspirations and future life course. Practices range from the use of graffiti, sharing music, playing reggae, the role of artists and exhibitions, and mobile phone use. In doing so, this special issue contributes to a growing body of work focused on the ways urban‐based Pacific peoples contest essentialising stereotypes that deny their legitimacy and dismiss their urban experiences as less authentic. The collection of papers demonstrates how Pacific peoples are imagining and demonstrating their identities as Pacific urbanites reflecting their commitment to an urban Pacific, national, cultural and political belonging.

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“…Anthropology's strength can be in the detail of citizens' lives, being well placed to focus on everydayness (Irving 2016), especially for those who dwell on the spatial, political, economic or social margins, since their voices may be quiescent or absent from generalised accounts. Because of this, Pardo and Prato (2016) argue there can only be an anthropology in the city, not of the city, therefore it is the epistemic assemblage of urban studies that gives onto deeper understandings of city life.…”

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Not-the-Troubles: Disinterring the Marginalised Stories of the Ordinary and the Everyday

Lane

2019

Anthropological Forum

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Urban studies of Belfast, Northern Ireland, thoroughly explore the contested or postconflict city. However, these 'grand narratives' do not necessarily accord with people's day-today experiences. Although the ordinary and everyday is the lifeblood of anthropological inquiry, the mundane in Belfast dwells on the narratorial margin, as academic and political loci predominantly align to the Troubles: to the protagonists, the causes or the peace-building aftermath. Ten by Nine (Tenx9) is a monthly, public storytelling night showcasing ordinary people and their true, personal, everyday stories, juxtaposing the funny, poignant and educational, and celebrating the quotidian. Retelling Belfast at Tenx9 challenges hegemonic discourse by moving the mundane from the margin to the centre, opening up a space for small 't' troubles to be shared. The communitas at Tenx9 promotes a sense of belonging in the city outwith Troubled narratives and storytelling, an ancient Irish oral culture, becomes a new form of symbolic practice.

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Introduction: The Contemporary Significance of Anthropology in the City

Cited by 27 publications

References 63 publications

L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’

Not-the-Troubles: Disinterring the Marginalised Stories of the Ordinary and the Everyday

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