Crisis, Conflict and Celebration

Ethnographic Studies of European Cities

Katarzyna Kajdanek, Anna Bednarczyk, Rui Carvalho

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Palgrave Macmillan
04 February 2025

Urban communities; Sociology: customs & traditions; Regional government; Urban economics; Human geography

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities. The chapters bring cutting-edge ethnographic studies which address these complex issues through three key conceptual dimensions of urban life: crisis, conflict, and celebration.

The concept of crisis is critically explored in its various economic, political and cultural dimensions affecting urban residents in multiple social and spatial aspects of their lives. Crises often lead to conflicts, dynamic processes that give rise to interest groups and complex social landscapes of resistance. By examining conflicts in urban contexts, the book uncovers the power dynamics and vulnerabilities emerging during turbulent times. Crises and conflicts also present opportunities for urban transformation and regeneration, bringing underlying beliefs and norms into question, paving the way for new social dynamics within urban environments. These conflictual spaces can therefore become arenas for celebration of urbanity, where communities express resilience, cultural identity, and collective solidarity.

As well as providing new insights into the present and future of European cities and the pivotal role of urban areas as centers of social change, contestation, and community-building, the book provides an important methodological contribution through innovative qualitative research in a diverse range of European urban areas.

Edited by: Katarzyna Kajdanek, Anna Bednarczyk, Rui Carvalho
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 2025 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9789819797189
ISBN 10: 9819797187
Pages: 419
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katarzyna Kajdanek is an urban sociologist and associate professor at the Department of Urban and Rural Sociology, University of Wrocław, Poland. Anna Bednarczyk is a sociologist and a PhD candidate at the Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Rui Carvalho is a geographer and sociologist, and doctoral candidate in Sociology at Brown University, United States.