Urbanities,
Vol. 3
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No 1
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May 2013
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Urbanities
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Table of Contents
Articles
Gypsy Palaces: A New Visibility for the Roma in Romania?
3
François Ruegg
Symbolic Policies and Citizenship: The Case of Naples
22
Paola De Vivo
On Reconstructing Buraku Leather Towns into ‘Japanese National Spaces’
42
Flavia Cangià
Molding of a Rite of Passage in Urban Japan: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
61
Melinda Papp
Cultural Reverberations among Fukushima Radiations:
Institutional vs Emotional Versions of the Nuclear Accident
83
Davide Torsello
Discussions and Comments
94
On Classical Ethnography: A Comment Inspired by Leslie Bank’s
Home, Spaces, Street Styles
François Ruegg
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Connecting the Dots
Christian Gherasim
Visual Approaches to Urban Ethnography
Lidia K.C. Manzo
Review Article
103
The Art of Making a Living in Naples
Wolfgang Kaltenbacher
Book Reviews
110
B. L. Read (2012),
Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and
Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei.
Stanford: Stanford University Press
by Christian Giordano
M. Gordon, G. Lins Ribeiro and C. Alba Vega (eds) (2012)
Globalization from Below:
The World’s Other Economy
. London and New York: Routledge.
by John Gledhill
X. Ren (2013),
Urban China (China Today
). Cambridge: Polity Press.
by Luo Rumin
Completed Doctoral Dissertations
120
Urban Firewalls: Place, Space and New Technologies in Figueres, Catalonia
Francine Barone
Performing the Buraku: Narratives on Culture and Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan
Flavia Cangià
