History as Autobiography: The Last Things before the Last

Mülder-Bach, Inka; Finney, Gail

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“…“The value of cities,” according to Siegfried Kracauer, “is determined by the number of places in them that are devoted to improvisation” (quoted in Mülder‐Bach and Finney, 1991: 147), and in that spirit we can conclude by returning to the place we began, Grand Central Terminal. From a fieldnote of Justin Ferate's tour:…”

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“…Large–scale studies of broad urban trends often overlook events like those put on by Improv Everywhere: the small–scale, interactional moments that occur in urban spaces. Organizational processes have been addressed by the sociological literature via analyses of growth machines (Logan and Molotch, 1987), political regimes (Stone, 2006; Mollenkopf, 1983), architects and planners (Gans, 2002), entertainment machines, Business Improvement Districts, Tax Increment Financing (Lloyd and Clark, 2001), and “new” retail development and superstores (Zukin et al, 2009; Zukin and Kosta, 2004). These studies have rightfully paid close attention to the social structures that have economically, physically, and symbolically shaped the urban landscape.…”

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City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work

Wynn

2010

City & Community

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Urban sociology, often and quite reasonably, emphasizes the effects of large‐scale and corporate cultures of cities and yet, at the smaller scale, there is a diverse and complex set of practices that reinvigorate the urban landscape. By pairing ethnographic fieldnotes with interviews, this paper offers a limited rejoinder to these narratives, evincing the lived interactions of one set of characters that reenchants cities. For the purposes of this article, walking tour guides serve as examples of “urban alchemists,” and three of their practices are advanced for discussion: their use of myths and revelatory stories to uproot banal visions of the city; their aim to incorporate chance and serendipity into their interactions; and their attempts to transform their participants into “better” urban dwellers.

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City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work

Wynn

2010

City & Community

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Minutiae, Close‐up, Microanalysis

Ginzburg¹

2007

Critical Inquiry

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Transcoding Kant: Kracauer’s Weimar Marxism and After

Wayne

2013

Hist Mater

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History as Autobiography: The Last Things before the Last

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City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work

City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work

Minutiae, Close‐up, Microanalysis

Transcoding Kant: Kracauer’s Weimar Marxism and After

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