Narrating the city histories, space, and the everyday (Space and place; volume 15)

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 i...

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Main Authors: Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir, Berg, Matthew P, Christou, Anastasia
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2015
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:1
Series:Space and place
Subjects:
City and town life
City and town life > Historiography
City and town life in literature
City and town life in motion pictures
Community life
Community life > Historiography
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Historiography
HISTORY
HISTORY / General
Middle class
Middle class > Historiography
Narration (Rhetoric)
Public spaces
Public spaces > Historiography
Social Science
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Sociology
Urban
Urban Studies
Working class
Working class > Historiography
Urban Studies
Sociology
History (General)
ISBN:9781782387756, 9781782387763, 1782387757, 1782387765
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Table of Contents:
  • Narrating the city: histories, space, and the everyday (Space and place; volume 15) -- 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.
  • Front Matter Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. Chapter 1: The Case of Ossification: Chapter 2: The Masa’s Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: Chapter 3: Reimagining Nieuwland: Chapter 4: City and Cinema as Spaces for (Transnational) Grassroots Mobilization: Chapter 5: Adjudicating Lodging: Chapter 6: Urban Information Flows: Chapter 7: Creating a Familiar Space: Index
  • Intro -- 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
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Anna Schober --
  • Tihana Rubić, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits --
  • Contents --
  • List of Figures --
  • Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century L’viv
  • Matthew P. Berg --
  • Chapter 2. The Masa’s Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s–1970s
  • Index
  • Part I. Narratives and Images of the City --
  • Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier --
  • Arturo Almandoz --
  • 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
  • Chapter 3. Reimagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multiethnic Neighborhood
  • Andriy Zayarnyuk --
  • Introduction. Space, Narration, and the Everyday
  • Part II. Claiming Urban Space --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Part III. Living and Working in the City --
  • Ronald Johnston, Arthur McIvor --
  • Leeke Reinders --
  • 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,” 1945–1948