Narrating the city : : histories, space, and the everyday / / edited by Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Matthew P. Berg, and Anastasia Christou.
"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. Narra...
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| Superior document: | Space and place ; volume 15 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Space and place ;
v. 15. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Space, narration, and the everyday / Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier
- Part I. Narratives and images of the city
- The case of ossification : contemporary narratives about everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Lviv / Andriy Zayarnyuk
- The Masa's odysseys through bourgeois Caracas : the testimony of novels, 1920s-1970s / Arturo Almandoz
- Re-imagining Nieuwland : narrative mapping and the mental geography of urban space in a Dutch multi-ethnic neighborhood / Leeke Reinders
- Part II. Claiming urban space
- City and cinema as spaces for (trans-national) grassroots mobilization : perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe / Anna Schober
- Adjudicating lodging : denazification, housing requisition, and identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 / Matthew P. Berg
- Part III. Living and working in the city
- Urban information flows : workers' and employers' knowledge of the asbestos hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s / Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor
- Creating a familiar space : childcare, kinship, and community in post-socialist New Zagreb / Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits.