Overview

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. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

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Author:   Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier ,  Matthew P. Berg ,  Anastasia Christou
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9781782387756

ISBN 10:   1782387757
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   01 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv Andriy Zayarnyuk Chapter 2. The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s Arturo Almandoz Chapter 3. 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 Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe Anna Schober Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in Red Vienna, 1945-1948 Matthew P. Berg PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

This is an extremely solid and well-informed collection that brings together pertinent and timely case studies that all shed light on the interconnections between the everyday and urban narratives. The scope is expansive and interdisciplinary, and the framework is explained well and in detail. * Markus Reisenleitner, York University

Author Information

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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