Urban Anthropology

Nas, Peter J.M.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12160-9

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“…During this tumultuous period, I built a strong network of contacts across the city and tracked changes within it. In my research, I employed an ambulatory methodology, approaching ‘the field’ as an urban flâneur (Nas, 2015: 780–1), walking the city with different friends and acquaintances, and generally moving through and experiencing the city as most urban residents do: by walking or by riding public transit. I relate several insights gleaned through these journeys below.…”

Section: Juba In Fluxmentioning

confidence: 99%

HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place‐Making in Urban South Sudan

Doll

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Following South Sudan's independence in 2011, a myriad of local, regional and global actors have flocked to its capital city, Juba, to influence and benefit from the ongoing state‐making process. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Juba between 2012 and 2015, this article demonstrates how urban ‘space’ in Juba is rendered into ‘place’ through everyday practices of naming that articulate urbanites’ contrasting experiences of the Sudanese civil wars, the city's tumultuous history, and their position within its—and the new nation's—present and future. This is most visible in a growing and contested Juba neighborhood that has come to be called by two different names, each tied to distinct experiences of conflict and displacement within and beyond the city. These and other namings and place‐makings index historically‐rooted ethno‐spatial understandings of South Sudan, memories of violence, and the sense of differential access to the city's economic potential in the face of ongoing upheaval. Urban naming and place‐making in Juba (and in other cities similarly impacted by conflict), it is argued, is a central domain through which urbanites disrupt official mappings and mitigate disorienting violence. These discursive practices are a vital means by which people forge stable lives and productive futures in the face of a precarious political present.

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Section: Juba In Fluxmentioning

confidence: 99%

HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place‐Making in Urban South Sudan

Doll

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Urban Anthropology: United States

Giovine

Olsen

2021

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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This entry focuses on the origins and development of urban anthropology in the United States. It describes how urban anthropology as a unique discipline emerged in Chicago and underwent three waves that significantly affected anthropology as a whole. Using primary source citations, the entry also explains how American urban anthropologists were at the forefront of rethinking ethics, advocacy, and action anthropology. Showing the inherent holistic and interdisciplinary nature of the subfield, the entry ends with a look at future directions in this subfield.

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A Spatiotemporal Model as an Approach for Parameterizing the Inherited Cosmopolitan Urban Areas: Eastern Harbor, Alexandria-Egypt

El-Sayed Yoseph

2024

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Eastern Harbor urban areas, Alexandria-Egypt, are inherited cosmopolitan spatial systems formed across eras. Parameterizing their inheritances is a scientific challenge according to their complex configuration and nonmetric meaning and value data. This study developed an approach for calibrating their urban parameter sets as vocabularies and governing grammars based on the space entity. Historical inductive method supports generating a valid spatiotemporal model, facilitating reliable deductive methods for investigating their deep-rooted urban anatomy based on anthropological temporal frames, followed by defining the inherited space-syntax via the resulting ontology-based model. The proposed systematic conceptual approach’s findings would serve informatic-based actions in continuous obsolescence.

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Urban Anthropology

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place‐Making in Urban South Sudan

HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place‐Making in Urban South Sudan

Urban Anthropology: United States

A Spatiotemporal Model as an Approach for Parameterizing the Inherited Cosmopolitan Urban Areas: Eastern Harbor, Alexandria-Egypt

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