Oltre il profilo: per una etnografia urbana del molteplice e del politico
Inspired by the compelling volume of Capello and Semi on Turin – Torino. Un profilo etnografico – this short intervention highlights three orientations to work toward a critical and radical form of urban ethnography. The first is an invitation at looking at the city as a vitalist mechanosphere, whic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2019-12-01
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Series: | Quaderni di Sociologia |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/qds/3528 |
Summary: | Inspired by the compelling volume of Capello and Semi on Turin – Torino. Un profilo etnografico – this short intervention highlights three orientations to work toward a critical and radical form of urban ethnography. The first is an invitation at looking at the city as a vitalist mechanosphere, which requires paying attention at more-than-human agencies and urban affects, to better understand the assemblage of the urban political; the second has to do with an understanding of the margins not as site of relegation, but as site of resistance; and the third is a move to re-centre ethnographic writing as a quintessential form of urban politics. |
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ISSN: | 0033-4952 |