This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.
This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities …

This article aims to contribute to street-level bureaucracy (SLB) theory by bringing to the
forefront the experiences and perspectives of the Global South. Our argument is that …

Abstract In Western Europe, a select number of “ghettos” are at the forefront of public
anxieties about urban inequality and failed integration. These notorious neighbourhoods at …

The rise of India's global economy has reinforced a perception of English as a language of
sexual modernity within the expanding middle classes. This article explores this perception …

Across Europe, new welfare programs exemplify attempts to govern through community.
This article asks how such governing through community is done in practice. Drawing on …

ABSTRACT In the Netherlands young Muslim women have increasingly begun to join
women‐only kickboxing gyms. Dutch public discourse has taken notice, treating this …

This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production,
considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of Sweden as a racialised
spatial imaginary in the emerging transnational networks of far-right media production …

By bringing together scholarship on affective (non) citizenship and critical geographies of
public space, in this article we examine how the exposure of refugees' intimate lives, private …

Based on a qualitative interview study, this article focuses on the everyday organization of
family life in Denmark among ethnic minority parents with Pakistani, Turkish, Palestinian and …