Bücher der Reihe Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life

The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores urban inequality through detailed case studies. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this edited collection demonstrate the power of multidisciplinary ethnographic research to illustrate how inequalities affect city residents worldwide.

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of Indigenous recognition strategies in post-neoliberal times in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare engages with performative, artistic, and pedagogical activities linked to the natural and spiritual environments.

In Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention, Katharine Keenan argues for the reimagining of place in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the context of Brexit. This deeply researched ethnography depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and perform a new urban identity for Belfast in the liminal time between the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit.

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents' daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major citiesMadrid, Montevideo, and Mexico Cityto reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.