Passeio

“Artivism as a Form of Urban Translation: An Indisciplinary Hypothesis” by Myriam Suchet & Sarah Mekdjian

Abstract: “Myriam Suchet and Sarah Mekdjian introduce practices of “artivism” as a way of challenging received ideas about the city and of revealing the potential […]

Myriam Suchet & Sarah Mekdjian

Sherry Simon

2016

“Walking in the European City Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography” by Timothy Shortell & Evrick Brown

ABSTRACT: “Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and […]

Timothy Shortell, Evrick Brown

Taylor & Francis

2014

Generation 1 – Globalisation & Hiphop in Liege | Documentary

Synopsis: “A documentary with a focus on the changes of the postindustrial city Liège through globalisation. And the start of a subculture, in this case: Hiphop. […]

Guy Houben & Ivory van Appeven

2017

From Harcore to Emo | Documentary

Synopsis: “A 1-hour documentary, directed by Daniel Ferro, covering the independent bands of the Brazilian melodic hardcore scene, from the second half of the 1990s […]

Daniel Ferro

Rafael Piu Pelegrino e Daniel Ferro

2013

São Paulo in Hi-Fi

Synopsis: “The documentary presents stories from the golden age of gay nightclubs in São Paulo in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Characters from the LGBT […]

Lufe Steffen

Lufe Steffen, Edu Lima

2013

Bar das luzes: corpos em re-existências, uma etnografia [The Lights bar: bodies in re-existence, an ethnography] | Master’s Thesis

Abstract: “This work consists of an analysis of “The Lights” in the city of Fortaleza-Ceará, aiming at understanding sexualities and bodies entitled by heteronormativity as […]

Karlene da Silva Andrade

Denise Ferreira da Costa Cruz

2021

Carnaval de latas: um estudo fotoetnográfico sobre o Bloco da Latinha da comunidade de Madre de Deus na Bahia [Carnival of cans: a photoethnographic study of the Bloco da Latinha in the community of Madre de Deus in Bahia] | Master’s thesis

Abstract: “Carnival is a multicultural festivity known all over the world for giving us a feeling of fun and lightness, as well as a form […]

Louyse Gerardo de Medeiros

Rita Ribeiro

2021

Casa Amarela Quilombo Afroguarany

The “Casa Amarela Quilombo Afroguarany” is an urban quilombo and a meeting point for RUA – Resistência Urbana Afroindígena [Afroindigenous Urban Resistence], which is located […]

Casa Amarela Quilombo Afroguarany

2024

La Casa Encendida – Madrid

“La Casa Encendida” is a socio-cultural space located in Madrid that promotes children’s workshops, contemporary art exhibitions, film screenings, debate cycles, concerts and more. The […]

La Casa Encendida

2024

“Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city: Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac?” by Horacio Espinosa (2024) | Article

Abstract: “Urban anthropology is a discipline that emerged only with great difficulty. Its origin in the Chicago school of sociology made the discipline dependent upon […]

Horacio Espinosa

Luiz Costa, Raminder Kaur, Louisa Lombard, e Adeline Masquelier

2024

“Black Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana” by Laurian R. Bowles (2021) | Article

Abstract: “Black scholars have long been at the forefront of ethnographic accounts of race and racism. Still, ethnicity rather than race is a preferred valence […]

Laurian R. Bowles

2021

“Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia In Brazilian Gangster Funk” by Paul Sneed

Abstract: “In the first book-length study of Brazilian gangster funk in English, the author draws on a unique combination of ethnography and community activism undertaken […]

“Introducing Urban Anthropology” by Rivke Jaffe e Anouk de Koning

Abstract: “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 […]

Rivke Jaffe, Anouk de Koning

Taylor & Francis

2022

“Se essa rua fosse minha” [If this street was mine] | Documentary

This independent documentary by Júlia Von Zeidler, released in 2017, explores the lives of street artists linked to the circus, including the dilemmas of marginalization […]

Júlia Von Zeidler

2017

“WE CALL IT TECHNO!” – A documentary about Germany’s early Techno scene and culture

Sinopsis: “Inspired by new sounds, new technologies and the political events of the time, the early 90s sees the emergence of a scene that euphorically […]

Telekom Electronic Beats TV

2017

Occupy: displacement and emplacement at São Paulo’s downtown | Master Thesis

Abstract: “This research analysed displacement and emplacement at São Paulo’s downtown, alongside a context of urban regeneration and through tracking life trajectories. This journey unfolds […]

Camila Campos de Almeida

2021

Cenas musicais – criativas em clubbing. Trajetórias na (re)construção da cena cultural e artística da cidade do Porto desde 2001 [Creative – music scenes in clubbing. Trajectories in the (re)construction of Porto’s cultural and artistic scene since 2001] | Master Thesis

Abstract: “This dissertation analyses individual and group trajectories based on the biographies of the founders of the music scenes – Gigi (2002) and Grrrl Riot […]

Ana Isabel Alves da Silva

2024

The Flow of Urban Life | Podcast

Podcast on architecture and urban planning, created by the company KONE, in order to discuss current urban planning dilemmas and how we can build more […]

KONE

Instituto Hip-Hop e Artes

Institute located in Praia Grande in São Paulo/SP, which promotes different activities and courses for the (mainly peripheric) population of the region, from courses on […]

Instituto Hip-Hop e Artes

“We are sons of the ghetto, we are sons of immigrants, sons of Cape Verde”: aesthetics, anti-racism, and engagements in Creole rap in Portugal | Article

Abstract: “Throughout decades, rap music has been central to the construction of an anti-racist discourse in Portugal. With songs denouncing police violence, social exclusion, colonial […]

Otávio Raposo, Pedro Varela, José Alberto Simões & Ricardo Campos

Eduardo Dimitrov

2021

Urban regeneration through heritage tourism: cultural policies and strategic management

Abstract: “In spite of its influential history of saffron production and carpet weaving, as well as its notable urban historic fabric, the historic city of […]

Azadeh Lak, Mahdi Gheitasi & Dallen J. Timothy

Mike Robinson, Josef Ploner, Taylor & Francis

2019

Urban Contexts and Immigrant Organizations: Differences in New York, El Paso, Paris, and Barcelona | Artigo

Abstract: “This article compares immigrant and ethnic organizations in four major immigrant-receiving cities and reveals substantial variation across these immigrant gateway cities. Using data from […]

Ernesto Castañeda

Katharine M. Donato, Elizabeth Ferris, SAGE Journals

2020

Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings

In this book chapter, published in 2022, linguist Françoise Garnet, using an ethnographic and linguistic approach, analyzes emerging trends in the French language in communities […]

Françoise Garnet

Paul Kerswill, Heike Wiese, Taylor & Francis

2022

A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona

Summary: “As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to […]

Ernesto Castañeda

Stanford University Press

2018

The Human Scale (2012)

A documentary released in 2012 by director/director Andreas Dalsgaard, which discusses the contemporary dynamics of cities and the urban planning that will be necessary for […]

Andreas Dalsgaard

2012

A cidade é uma só? [Is there a single city?]

In this documentary-fiction originally released in 2011, director Adirley Queirós looks at the construction of the city of Brasília, Brazil’s capital. Alluding to the jingle […]

Adirley Queirós

2011

Iminente | Urban Culture Platform

Iminente is “a platform for intervention through urban culture”, located in Lisbon and which “provides experiences that promote the relationship between cities, their inhabitants and […]

Iminente

Imagining a post-colonial Angola: Hiphop culture and the political enemies of the New Republic – PhD Dissertation

Abstract: “Angola’s postcolonial history is divided into three periods of civil war (1975-1991, 1992-1994 e 1998-2002) and national reconstruction (2002 – present). In these four […]

Jaqueline Lima Santos

Unicamp

2019

Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile

Abstract: “The implementation of the Smart City (SC) model in Santiago, Chile has not heralded any significant interventions in terms of scale, urban impact, amount […]

Paola Jirón, Walter A Imilán, Carlos Lange, Pablo Mansilla

SAGE

2020

GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies

Abstract: “Recent research on street-involved populations has documented their online presence and has highlighted the effects of their online presentations on their lives in the […]

Marta-Marika Urbanik & Robert A. Roks

Qualitative Sociology | Springer

2020

Mediateca

Sources of information and research

“Artivism as a Form of Urban Translation: An Indisciplinary Hypothesis” by Myriam Suchet & Sarah Mekdjian

“Walking in the European City Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography” by Timothy Shortell & Evrick Brown

Generation 1 – Globalisation & Hiphop in Liege | Documentary

From Harcore to Emo | Documentary

São Paulo in Hi-Fi

Bar das luzes: corpos em re-existências, uma etnografia [The Lights bar: bodies in re-existence, an ethnography] | Master’s Thesis

Carnaval de latas: um estudo fotoetnográfico sobre o Bloco da Latinha da comunidade de Madre de Deus na Bahia [Carnival of cans: a photoethnographic study of the Bloco da Latinha in the community of Madre de Deus in Bahia] | Master’s thesis

Casa Amarela Quilombo Afroguarany

La Casa Encendida – Madrid

“Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city: Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac?” by Horacio Espinosa (2024) | Article

“Black Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana” by Laurian R. Bowles (2021) | Article

“Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia In Brazilian Gangster Funk” by Paul Sneed

“Introducing Urban Anthropology” by Rivke Jaffe e Anouk de Koning

“Se essa rua fosse minha” [If this street was mine] | Documentary

“WE CALL IT TECHNO!” – A documentary about Germany’s early Techno scene and culture

Occupy: displacement and emplacement at São Paulo’s downtown | Master Thesis

Cenas musicais – criativas em clubbing. Trajetórias na (re)construção da cena cultural e artística da cidade do Porto desde 2001 [Creative – music scenes in clubbing. Trajectories in the (re)construction of Porto’s cultural and artistic scene since 2001] | Master Thesis

The Flow of Urban Life | Podcast

Instituto Hip-Hop e Artes

“We are sons of the ghetto, we are sons of immigrants, sons of Cape Verde”: aesthetics, anti-racism, and engagements in Creole rap in Portugal | Article

Urban regeneration through heritage tourism: cultural policies and strategic management

Urban Contexts and Immigrant Organizations: Differences in New York, El Paso, Paris, and Barcelona | Artigo

Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings

A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona

The Human Scale (2012)

A cidade é uma só? [Is there a single city?]

Iminente | Urban Culture Platform

Imagining a post-colonial Angola: Hiphop culture and the political enemies of the New Republic – PhD Dissertation

Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile

GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies