Practicing Community: Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood - Couverture souple

Halperin, Rhoda H.

 
9780292731172: Practicing Community: Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0292731175 ISBN 13 : 9780292731172
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1998

Synopsis

Cincinnati's East End river community has been home to generations of working-class people. This racially mixed community has roots that reach back as far as seven generations. But the community is vulnerable. Developers bulldoze "raggedy" but affordable housing to build upscale condos, even as East Enders fight to preserve the community by participating in urban development planning controlled by powerful outsiders.

This book portrays how East Enders practice the preservation of community. Drawing on more than six years of anthropological research and advocacy in the East End, Rhoda Halperin argues for redefining community not merely as a place, but as a set of culturally embedded and class-marked practices that give priority to caring for children and the elderly, procuring livelihood, and providing support for family, friends, and neighbors. These practices create the structures of community within the larger urban power structure.

Halperin uses different genres to weave the voices of East Enders throughout the book. Poems and narratives offer poignant insights into the daily struggles against impersonal market forces that work against the struggle for livelihood. This firsthand account questions commonly held assumptions about working-class people. In a fresh way, it reveals the cultural construction of marginality, from the viewpoints of both "real East Enders" and the urban power structure.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rhoda H. Halperin (1946–2009) was Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Montclair State from 2004–2009. She was also Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, at the University of Cincinnati.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0292731175
ISBN 13 
9780292731172
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780292731189: Practicing Community: Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0292731183 ISBN 13 :  9780292731189
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1998
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