To understand the complexity of life in a city one needs to consider a spectrum of experience. Belfast has a history of conflict and division, particularly in relation to the Troubles, reflected in comprehensive academic studies of how this has affected, and continues to affect, the citizens. But this is a particular mode of representation, a vision of life echoed in fictional literature. People's quotidian lives can and do transcend the grand narratives of the Troubles that have come to dominate these discourses. Anthropology has traditionally accorded less epistemological weight to fleeting and superficial encounters with strangers, but this mode of sociality is a central feature of life in the city. The modern stranger navigates these relationships with relative ease. Communicating with others through narrative – personal stories about our lives – is fundamental to what it is to be human, putting storytelling at the heart of anthropological study. Engagements with strangers may be brief encounters or build into acquaintanceship, but these superficial relationships are not trivial. How we interact with strangers – our public presentation of the self to others through the personal stories we share – can give glimpses into the private lives of individuals. Listening to stories of quotidian life in Belfast demonstrates a range of people's existential dilemmas and joys that challenges Troubled representations of life in the city. The complexity, size and anonymity of the city means the anthropologist needs different ways of reaching people; this thesis is as much about exploring certain anthropological methodologies as it is about people and a place. Through methods of walking, performance, human-animal interactions, my body as a research subject, and using fictional literature as ethnographic data, I interrogate the close relationship between method, data and analysis, and of knowledge-production and knowledge-dissemination. I present quotidian narratives of Belfast's citizens that are Not-the-Troubles.

The aim of my PhD project has been to understand how Hutong residents' ideas about living space have been different from those living in the high-rise compound and how their concept of living space has been changed by both internal and external factors, meaning additional affiliated functions and governmental city-planning. I conducted my fieldwork in Beijing between July 2009 and September 2012: fourteen months in total, interspersed with trips to St. Andrews. I spent ten months from July 2009 to May 2010 living in a Hutong called Xingfu Street (the word translates as ‘happiness'). Then I moved into a high-rise apartment outside the inner city, called Suojiafen Compound, for a further four months. This study concerns space in the contemporary city of Beijing: how space is humanly built and transformed, classified and differentiated, and most importantly how space is perceived and experienced. In the end I have developed the concept “overlapped” space as a way to detect the “personality” of space in both Hutong and high-rise apartment: how they differentiated from each other and how they have been transformed in different way by the residents inside.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:00:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4744.pdf: 1457459 bytes, checksum: 58afb736c771ca03d4af958ecb7b1c93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-03 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The research at hand accounts for São Carlos street paths. In an attempt to avoid defining them, as it is often the case with public policies and even a large part of academical studies, through denominations that they would not be able to relate to, such as homeless people, I have elected the analytical and methodological resource to deal with the street paths through which these dwellers roam. This choice has allowed me to account for the paths segmentations, compositions and transformations that configure the tactics of preservation of life developed by the people who walk these paths, as well as possible courses wandered by the homeless. Among the differences presented in these paths, I describe the bodily changes that come up with these variations, partially constituting a homeless body that is inscribed with the courses in which these subjects roam. In order to talk about the ways of life in the streets, it is necessary to put into perspective a group of urban agents, discourses and apparatuses that legitimate these lives in the street to the eyes of the State and to public policies. I describe this phenomenon through two aspects that allow me to trace some parameters in order to compare life in the streets to that same life as assisted by the social services concerned with the homeless. The ethnography performed in the streets details the ways of appropriation and usage of public spaces, as well as the motions and fluxes that emerge in this context. On the other hand, I account for political (and institutional) management of this population in the city. The ethnography for these institutional spaces was performed in CREAS (Centro de Referência Especializado de Assistência Social [Referral Center Specialized in Social Service], which is directly concerned with the homeless. I constrast two different perspectives on the same phenomenon, since the tension which is evidently exposed allows us to see not only the street paths but its mechanisms of institutionalization, both the paths developed in the street and in the institutions, and even the institutional interventions to which the homeless are submitted to. / Esta pesquisa relata as trajetórias de rua em São Carlos. Evitando tratá-los, como faz as políticas públicas e tem feito boa parte dos estudos acadêmicos, por nominações que eles mesmo não reconheceriam, tais como populações ou moradores de rua, elegi o recurso metodológico e analítico de tratar as trajetórias de rua. Isso me permitiu atentar para as segmentações, composições e transformações das trajetórias, que configuram as táticas de preservação da vida desenvolvidas pelas pessoas que estão nessas trajetórias e as possibilidades de percursos percorridos pela população de rua. Dentre as diferenças que se apresentam nas trajetórias, descrevo as transformações corporais que marcam estas mudanças, assim como formam o corpo de rua, marcado pelos percursos em que estes sujeitos vão fazendo. Falar sobre as formas de vidas nas ruas faz necessário que se coloque em perspectiva um conjunto de agentes, discursos e aparatos urbanos que legitimam estas vidas nas ruas aos olhos do Estado e nas políticas públicas. Descrevo o fenômeno sob dois aspectos que me permitiram traçar alguns parâmetros de comparação entre a vida na rua e esta mesma vida nas instituições de assistência à população de rua. A etnografia realizada na rua detalha as formas de apropriação e uso dos espaços públicos e as movimentações e fluxos que emergem neste contexto. Por outro lado, relato a gestão política (e institucional) desta população na cidade. A etnografia nos espaços institucionais foi realizada no CREAS (Centro de Referência Especializado de Assistência Social), cujo atendimento é diretamente voltado às pessoas em situação de rua. Contrasto duas perspectivas diferentes sobre o mesmo fenômeno, já que uma tensão é evidentemente exposta e nela vemos surgir não só as trajetórias de rua como os mecanismos de sua institucionalização, as trajetórias desenvolvidas nas ruas e dentro das instituições, e as intervenções institucionais a que a população de rua é submetida.

Orientador: Laymert Garcia dos Santos / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T17:55:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kasper_ChristianPierre_D.pdf: 30366521 bytes, checksum: 7997711a0ede887c60e7b62fbdbd310c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta tese apresenta um estudo da cultura material de moradores de rua na cidade de São Paulo sob uma dupla perspectiva: do habitar, enquanto modo de ocupação do espaço, criação de territórios e de uma tecnologia como forma ativa de relação com o meio urbano, caracterizada como bricolagem. O ponto de vista adotado encara os modos de existência dos moradores de rua como formas de vida possíveis, e não em termos de carência, remetida a uma suposta normalidade. Tomando o estado de constante exposição de si como traço distintivo da condição de quem mora nas ruas, seu enfoque está nas táticas mobilizadas para tornar a rua habitável, táticas que envolvem o questionamento prático das funcionalidades estabelecidas, tanto dos locais públicos ocupados quanto dos materiais descartados encontrados nas ruas da cidade / Abstract: This thesis presents a study of the material culture of homeless people in the city of São Paulo, following a double perspective: of dwelling, as a mode of space occupation and creation of territories, and of a technology, as an active form of relation to the urban milieu, characterized as bricolage. The point of view adopted contemplates the modes of existence of the street dwellers as possible forms of life, and not in terms of lack, refered to a supposed normality. Taking the state of constant self-exposure as the distinctive trait of the homeless condition, it focus on the tactics mobilized to make the street inhabitable, tactics which envolve the practical questioning of the functionality of both the occupied public places and the descarted materials found in the city¿s streets / Doutorado / Ciencias Sociais / Doutor em Ciências Sociais

Essa tese de doutorado busca compreender como os Marcadores Sociais da Diferença descritos aqui enquanto as categorias analíticas de gênero, raça, sexualidade e classe - permeiam a prática futebolística de mulheres na cidade de São Paulo, orientando a construção de corpos e tornando possível a construção de redes diversas de afetividade entre elas. A tese descreve os locais e a rotina dos times e a presença de um circuito de futebol de mulheres na cidade. A partir do método etnográfico realizado com o uso de uma câmera fotográfica e desenvolvido entre cinco equipes de futebol de mulheres da capital paulistana, em diversas regiões da cidade, acompanhei como as mulheres que escolhem o futebol enquanto prática esportiva seja na qualidade de prática amadora, profissional ou de lazer estabelecem, entre si, redes de apoio e solidariedade. As redes, por sua vez, orientam a circulação dessas jogadoras pela cidade de São Paulo, estabelecendo a partir de diferentes formas de sociabilidade dois tipos de circuito: o futebolístico e o afetivo-sexual. Na observação participante foi possível notar como algumas dessas redes ajudam-nas a lidar com cotidianos por vezes violentos, simbólica ou fisicamente. A tese analisa ainda como a prática esportiva a partir dessas redes estabelecem padrões corporais que dialogam com a escolha por parcerias afetivo-sexuais. / This thesis aims to understand how Social Markers of Difference - described here through analitical cathegories of gender, race, sexuality and class - permeate football practices of women living in São Paulo. We investigate how those cathegories inform the building of bodies and enable the weaving of a network among the players. By means of an ethnographic research aided by a photographic camera and carried out with five different women\'s football teams, I could have access to how women who choose football as a sport practice - as amateurs, professional or as a leisure activity - stablishes among themselves networks of support and solidarity. These networks, on turn, guides the circulation of those players around São Paulo, setting two kinds of circuits: the football circuit and the lesbian circuit. These networks also help the players to handle their sometimes simbolic or fisically violent daily lives, as well as to stablish bodily patterns that enables them to chose affective and sexual partners.

This paper studies two former treaty ports, Kobe in Japan and Incheon (Chemulpo) in South Korea following the scholarship of Jennifer Robinson (2006) in building social scientific knowledge upon case studies of the so-called "ordinary cities". Using a "bricolage" of sub-fields of social anthropology and research techniques, the study focuses on the built remnants from the colonial period in the two cities and their perceived image to further develop on ethnographies of sensescapes and post-colonialism. The present study is an addition to the scholarship of urban anthropology through tracing out the formations of personal images of a city among their inhabitants, emic perceptions of "danger" and "oldness" in relation to built environments in Japan and South Korea and discussing the relevance of post-colonial sensibilities for place image creation. Keywords: urban anthropology, socio-cultural anthropology, collective memory, city branding, city image, post-colonialism, settler urban heritage, Japan, South Korea

The subject of this thesis is to record the every-day life, local and collective memory, and relationships of individuals - local inhabitants of the 'panel-housing' estate, Jižní Město, in Prague - towards the specific urban and social space in which they live. The thesis is based on interviews, with the long-term inhabitants of Jižní Město, which were structured to record their lived experience in the housing estate during two consecutive periods in recent Czechoslovak history - the so-called normalisation and post-socialism periods. The interviews were used as an empirical counterbalance to architectural/city planning discourse and Czech media, which has interpreted the legacy of 'panel-housing' estates in a negative way, as the socialist form of housing par excellence. The aim of this thesis is to analyse this discourse, which also reflects how Czech society deals with its communist past, and to compare it with the experiences, evaluations and current challenges in the lives of these long- term inhabitants, living in the biggest Czech 'panel-housing' estate with a bad reputation. Key words: panel-housing estates, Jižní Město, housing, local/collective memory, local/urban identity, everyday life, city, so-called normalisation.

The subject of this thesis is to record the every-day life, local and collective memory, and relationships of individuals - local inhabitants of the 'panel-housing' estate, Jižní Město, in Prague - towards the specific urban and social space in which they live. The thesis is based on interviews, with the long-term inhabitants of Jižní Město, which were structured to record their lived experience in the housing estate during two consecutive periods in recent Czechoslovak history - the so-called normalisation and post-socialism periods. The interviews were used as an empirical counterbalance to architectural/city planning discourse and Czech media, which has interpreted the legacy of 'panel-housing' estates in a negative way, as the socialist form of housing par excellence. The aim of this thesis is to analyse this discourse, which also reflects how Czech society deals with its communist past, and to compare it with the experiences, evaluations and current challenges in the lives of these long- term inhabitants, living in the biggest Czech 'panel-housing' estate with a bad reputation. Key words: panel-housing estates, Jižní Město, housing, local/collective memory, local/urban identity, everyday life, city, so-called normalisation.

Radical faeries in the city must contend with changing urban policies, social shame and stigma, policing, inaccessibility, materiality, and economic survival; in the face of these discontents, urban faeries still actively choose the city as their identity and as their home. Through placemaking practices which access the imaginative and experimental spatiality and temporality of queer sacredness, this thesis testifies urban radical faeries transform dimensionally discrete spaces within the city to thrive. By delving into the lived experiences and sexo-socio-spiritual placemaking of the radical faeries of Austin and Dallas, this project maps the spatiality of collective faerie utopian imaginaries, generating constellations of ephemeral sacred spaces and their residual effects on the built environment. Further, the recent pandemic saw the first temporary closing of sanctuary land since faeriedom's inception, and these creative placemaking strategies were further adapted to maintain community and identity during the COVID-19 pandemic through the collapse of spatial and temporal distance in accessing the virtual sacred. Understanding how faerie culture is maintained within the city, across space and time, the mundane and profane, the physical and digital, can provide insight and best practices to support urban faerie communities into the future.

Since the 1950s modernization theory predicted within the Third World a trajectory for social evolution and development mirroring perceived social and developmental evolution in Western societies since the 17th Century. Despite this theory being much discredited in both Western societies and the developing world; this theory still forms the basis for much analysis and policy formulation within post-1990 South Africa. This thesis looks at various aspects of urban black South Africans' existence and concludes that African tradition has found a place within an urban existence due to it's flexibility in dealing with peoples' daily challenges. An urban existence can thus no-longer be thought of as supplanting tradition in favour of western influences, but rather as bringing about a mixture of western and traditional influences - with positive and negative theoretical and practical developmental consequences / Development Studies / M.A.