Creative Urbanity - An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization

Emanuela Guano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Chronotopes of Hope

Chapter 2. Genoa's Magic Circle

Chapter 3. Gentrification Without Teleologies

Chapter 4. Cultural Bricoleuses

Chapter 5. Touring the Hidden City

Chapter 6. Utopia with No Guarantees

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Emanuela Guano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University.

Summary

Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class.

Product details

• Authors: Emanuela Guano
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780812248784
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4878-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography (Hard
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories