Realising the City - Urban Ethnography in Manchester

This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance.

List of contents

Foreword by Kevin Ward
Introduction: tackling the urban through ethnography - Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons

Part I: Realising urban organisations
1 Inclusion without incorporation: re-imagining Manchester through a new politics of environment - Hannah Knox
2 Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy - Jessica Symons
3 Lounge Manchester: the new politics of loungification - Damian O'Doherty

Part II: Realising urban spaces
4 Under the surface of the village: public and private negotiations of urban space in Manchester - Michael Atkins
5 Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester - Luciana Lang
6 Urban futures and competing trajectories for Manchester city centre - Elisa Pieri

Part III: Realising urban communities
7 Urban transformation in football: from Manchester United as a 'global leisure brand' to FC United as a 'community club' - George Poulton
8 'People want jobs, they want a life!' Deindustrialisation and loss in East Manchester - Camilla Lewis
9 'Don't call the police on me, I won't call them on you': self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester - Katherine Smith

Afterword: the tension in making and realising a city - Jessica Symons
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

Camilla Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in Ageing and Urban Studies; Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University

Jessica Symons is an Urban Anthropologist at the University of Manchester

Product details

• Authors: Camilla Lewis, Camilla Symons Lewis
• Assisted by: Camilla Lewis (Editor), Jessica Symons (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781526151698
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5169-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Manchester, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Urban & municipal planning, Social and cultural anthropology, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy