Vol 8 – No 1 – May 2018

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Table of Contents

Articles
Traversing the Golden Mile: An Ethnographic Outline of Singapore’s Thai Enclave
Kevin S.Y. Tan

Reinventing Urban Social Space in Times of Unemployment and Exclusion:
Solidarity Practices in the Case of the ALTER TV Network, Athens

Manos Spyridakis, Vassilis Dalkavoukis and Chara Kokkinou

Creating Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship:
Squatting in Activist-Friendly Helsinki

Eeva Berglund and Vesa Peipinen

Between Formal and Informal Work: Entrepreneurialism in Colombia
Julián Medina-Zárate

Cross-cutting Precariousness: Values, Work and Inequality in Post-2008 Spain
Marta M. Lobato, José Luis Molina and Hugo Valenzuela-García

Book Reviews
Kristina Graaf and Noa Ha (eds). 2015. Street Vending in the Neoliberal City:
A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy.
Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books
by Giovanni Picker

Shahram Khosravi. 2017. Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran.
Pennsylvania, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
by Maziyar Ghiabi

Jerome Krase and Zdeněk Uherek (eds). 2017.
Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
by Laszlo Kürti

Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (eds). 2018.
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography
New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
by Nathalie Boucher

Lakshmi Srivinas. 2016. House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience.
University of Chicago Press.
by Jerome Krase

Film Reviews
Long Story Short. Directed by Natalie Bookchin. 2016. 45 minutes.
Colour. Distributed by Icarus Films, United States
by Daniela Vávrová

Visible Silence. Directed by Ruth Gumnit. 2015. 47 minutes. Colour.
by Ahmed Afzal

Live from UB. Directed by Lauren Knapp. 2015. 85 minutes.
Colour. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
by Ruth Mandel

The Auction House. A Tale of Two Brothers.
Director/Screenwriter, Edward Owles. 2014.
85 minutes. Colour. Native Voice Films.
by Asha L. Abeyasekera