The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions

The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions

In this article, I discuss comparison in urban anthropology from two perspectives. Using the fundamental epistemological significance of comparison as a starting point for all ethnographic cultural studies, I first present different comparative perspectives in urban anthropology and their concepts....

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Main Author: Alexa Faerber
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2021-09-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Subjects:
figurational sociology
cross-cultural comparison
sociology of space
spatial analysis
refiguration of spaces
urban anthropology
Online Access:https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3782
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The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
figurational sociology
cross-cultural comparison
sociology of space
spatial analysis
refiguration of spaces
urban anthropology
author_facet Alexa Faerber
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title The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
title_short The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
title_full The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
title_fullStr The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
title_full_unstemmed The Anthropology of Urban Comparison: Urban Comparative Concepts and Practices, the Entrepreneurial Ethnographic Self and Their Spatializing Dimensions
title_sort anthropology of urban comparison: urban comparative concepts and practices, the entrepreneurial ethnographic self and their spatializing dimensions
publisher FQS
series Forum: Qualitative Social Research
issn 1438-5627
publishDate 2021-09-01
description In this article, I discuss comparison in urban anthropology from two perspectives. Using the fundamental epistemological significance of comparison as a starting point for all ethnographic cultural studies, I first present different comparative perspectives in urban anthropology and their concepts. These range from typological thinking to urban specificity and relational urbanity. Secondly, I examine comparison from the perspective of the anthropology of knowledge as an everyday academic practice in order to understand its subjectification and spatial dimensions. The possibilities and limitations of comparison resulting from everyday academic practice are thus seen as a prerequisite for establishing any concept of comparison. Finally, I critically explore the specific requirements of ethnographic comparison via the figure of the entrepreneurial-ethnographic self.
topic figurational sociology
cross-cultural comparison
sociology of space
spatial analysis
refiguration of spaces
urban anthropology
url https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3782
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