This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities. The chapters bring cutting-edge ethnographic studies which address these complex issues through three key conceptual dimensions of urban life: crisis, conflict, and celebration.
The concept of crisis is critically explored in its various economic, political and cultural dimensions affecting urban residents in multiple social and spatial aspects of their lives. Crises often lead to conflicts, dynamic processes that give rise to interest groups and complex social landscapes of resistance. By examining conflicts in urban contexts, the book uncovers the power dynamics and vulnerabilities emerging during turbulent times. Crises and conflicts also present opportunities for urban transformation and regeneration, bringing underlying beliefs and norms into question, paving the way for new social dynamics within urban environments. These conflictual spaces can therefore become arenas for celebration of urbanity, where communities express resilience, cultural identity, and collective solidarity.
As well as providing new insights into the present and future of European cities and the pivotal role of urban areas as centers of social change, contestation, and community-building, the book provides an important methodological contribution through innovative qualitative research in a diverse range of European urban areas.
Chapter
1. Crisis, Conflict and Celebration in European Cities. An
Introduction (Katarzyna Kajdanek, Anna Bednarczyk, Rui Carvalho).- Part I:
The Urbanisation Of Contemporary Global Crises: Military, Pandemic,
Environmental.
Chapter
2. Mitigating Displaced Place Identities in Ukrainian
Wartime Art (Oleksandra Nenko).-Chapter
3. The taxi driver and the city.
(Post)pandemic navigations of Lisbon, an ethnography of the night
appropriation (Guilherme Costa, Manuel Garcia-Ruiz).-Chapter
4. Food Question
in Planning: Perspectives from Two Turkish Metropolis (Zeynep Özēam, Sla
Özkavaf enalp).
Chapter
5. Sites of Culture of Regeneration - Curating
Regenerative Practices and Relations with City Sewage and Soil in Wrocaw,
Poland (Jakub Pawlak, Katarzyna Krzemiska).
Chapter
6. Green is the new
"smart". Global Cities, data driven sustainability and the metrics of
climate urbanism (Sabine Barthold).- Part II: The Conflictual Nature Of
Urban Governance: Politics, Activists, And Organisations.
Chapter
7. A city
of water: Mantua lakes through the lens of socio-spatial relations (Caterina
Bracchi; Francesco Galli, Giorgio Osti).
Chapter
8. Landscapes of hope and
emancipation: community care practices, gender and welfare transformations in
Southern European context (Pinelopi Vergou).
Chapter
9. Urban reviewers and
the non-post-socialist municipalism in Poland and pre-2022 Ukraine (ukasz
Drozda).
Chapter
10. Emotions and Islandness: Exploring Interactions of
Urban Activist Communities in the Prince Islands of Istanbul (Yasemin
Bahēekapl, Yalēntan Murat Cemal).
Chapter
11. The Spatial Social and
Experiential Dimension of Sharing: An Urban Experiment of Participatory
Urbanism in Spain (Rossana Galdini, Silvia De Nardis).- Part III: Celebrating
Urban Diversity And Communities: Social Innovation And Urban Lived
Experiences.
Chapter
12. Invisible spaces of resistance: performing the
ordinary at Bilbaos Aste Nagusia(Le-Lina Kettner).
Chapter
13. Everyday
Hybrid Inclusions in Le Lignon: Ethnography of Newcomers' Experience Over
Time (Nerea Viana Alzola).-Chapter
14. Framing the Riviera: touristic
performances and photography in contemporary Cascais, Portugal (Eduardo
Silva, Lķgia Ferro).
Chapter
15. The new flāneries in the urban space: from
individualization to collective participation. A transdisciplinary approach
(Giampaolo Nuvolati, Lucia Quaquarelli).
Chapter
16. Social innovation hubs:
experiences of incubators as promoters of territorial development and urban
regeneration (Mario Coscarello).
Katarzyna Kajdanek is an urban sociologist and associate professor at the Department of Urban and Rural Sociology, University of Wrocaw, Poland.
Anna Bednarczyk is a sociologist and a PhD candidate at the Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.
Rui Carvalho is a geographer and sociologist, and doctoral candidate in Sociology at Brown University, United States.
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