City/ArtPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1215/9780822390732-002
N. Canclini
{"title":"What is a City?","authors":"N. Canclini","doi":"10.1215/9780822390732-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390732-002","url":null,"abstract":": Social science studies have not often looked at the links between broad dynamics of social closure and everyday local idioms of difference in post-socialist Europe. In this article I give a theoretical and empirical contribution to research on the links between “cultural intimacy” and urban marginality in times of massive neoliberal restructuring in the region. Drawing on fieldwork in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) I ethnographically investigate the everyday working of two verbal icons indexing peculiar characterizations of Roma, and I discuss the multiple ways through which they contribute to informing policy making, and ultimately to perpetuating the conditions of social marginality and segregation under which a significant number of Romani families live. Civil servants and the workers of a periphery neighbourhood articulate those icons in different ways, yet similarly constructing a space of cultural intimacy that functions both as a vector of exclusion of Roma from the ethno-moral boundaries of the nation, and, creatively, as a type of sociality securing a certain distance from the EU gaze and its discourse of tolerance.","PeriodicalId":181504,"journal":{"name":"City/Art","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133271881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City/ArtPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780822390732-002
Rebecca E. Biron
{"title":"Introduction City/Art: Setting the Scene","authors":"Rebecca E. Biron","doi":"10.1515/9780822390732-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390732-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181504,"journal":{"name":"City/Art","volume":"47 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126909390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City/ArtPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1215/9780822390732-006
M. Schwartz
{"title":"The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of Aesthetics","authors":"M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1215/9780822390732-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390732-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181504,"journal":{"name":"City/Art","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122013527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City/ArtPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1215/9780822390732-010
George Yúdice
{"title":"Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro","authors":"George Yúdice","doi":"10.1215/9780822390732-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390732-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181504,"journal":{"name":"City/Art","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116202333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City/ArtPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1215/9780822390732-008
Amy K. Kaminsky
{"title":"The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction","authors":"Amy K. Kaminsky","doi":"10.1215/9780822390732-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390732-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181504,"journal":{"name":"City/Art","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116149554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
City/ArtPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1215/9780822390732-011
N. Peixoto
{"title":"Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness","authors":"N. Peixoto","doi":"10.1215/9780822390732-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390732-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":181504,"journal":{"name":"City/Art","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115082179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}