Companion to Urban Anthropology

The Editor Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has written extensively on state formation, local politics, ethnic and class relations, the Chinese diaspora, and globalization in urban settings in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the southern United States. His latest book is “Getting By” among Chinese in Malaysia: An Historical Ethnography of Class and State Formation (2015).

• Preface viiiNotes on Contributors xIntroduction 1Donald M. NoniniPart I Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested 131 Spatialities 15Setha M. Low2 Flows 28Gary W. McDonogh3 Community 46John Clarke4 Citizenship 65Sian LazarPart II Materializations and Their Imaginaries 835 Built Structures and Planning 85Deborah Pellow and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga6 Borders 103Thomas M. Wilson7 Markets 120Linda J. Seligmann8 Cars and Transport 142Catherine LutzPart III Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity 1559 Class 157Don Kalb10 Gender 177Ida Susser11 Sexualities 193Ara Wilson12 Race 210Brett Williams13 Extralegality 222Alan Smart and Filippo M. ZerilliPart IV Abstractions of Consequence 23914 Global Systems and Globalization 241Jonathan Friedman15 Governance 255Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Brash16 Policing and Security 271Josiah McC. Heyman17 Transnationality 291Nina Glick Schiller18 Cosmopolitanism 306Pnina WerbnerPart V Experiencing/Knowing the City in Everyday Life 32719 Practices of Sociality 329José Guilherme Cantor Magnani20 Memory and Narrative 347Lindsay DuBois21 Religion 364Thomas Blom HansenPart VI Nature and the City 38122 Nature 383Robert Rotenberg23 Food and Farming 394Donald M. Nonini24 Pollution 414Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe25 Resilience 428Stephan BarthelPart VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 44726 The Commons 449Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles27 Social Movements 470Michal Osterweil28 Futures 486Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede ScharperIndex 498