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Narrating the City
Histories, Space and the Everyday
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Narrating the City
Histories, Space and the Everyday
About this book
In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction — Space, Narration, and the Everyday
- Part I — Narratives and Images of the City
- Chapter 1 — The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century L'viv
- Chapter 2 — The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s–1970s
- Chapter 3 — Reimagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multiethnic Neighborhood
- Part II — Claiming Urban Space
- Chapter 4 — City and Cinema as Spaces for (Transnational) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe
- Chapter 5 — Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in "Red Vienna," 1945–48
- Part III — Living and Working in the City
- Chapter 6 — Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950s–1970s
- Chapter 7 — Creating a Familiar Space: Child Care, Kinship, and Community in Postsocialist New Zagreb
- Index
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