Urban Anthropology - JSM027

• Title: Urbánní antropologie
• Czech title: Urbánní antropologie
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2017 to 2017
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 25 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: http://Urbánní antropologie
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)

The course aims to acquaint students with: how the city is defined and what is called urbanization. How does the image of the urban man and the city change?

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)

Compulsory

Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980.

Park Robert Ezra, The City. Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916.

Sassen Saskia: The Global City: Introducing a concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs XI, 2005, 2.

 

Recommended

Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.

Brunt, Lodevijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.

Douglas Mary, How Institutions Think. Syracuse University Press 1986.

Ek, Sven B. Nöden i Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.

Epstein, A. L. Senes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 1992.

Garreau Joel: Edge City: Life on the frontiers. New York, Doubleday 1991.

Hannerz U.: Global Ecumene as a Network of Network. In: Conceptualizing society / edited by Adam Kuper. London, New York: Routledge 1992.

Redfield, R. The Primitive World and its Transformations. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press 1953.

Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses.  Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 -  127.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)

The course focuses on the following topics:


1. Definition of the city and urban formations - Urbanization as a way of life      

Literature:

Louis Wirth, "Urbanism as a Way of Life." American Journal of Sociology, 44: 1-24.

 

2. The Chicago school and social ecology.

      Literature

Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980.

Robert Ezra Park, The City. Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916.

The Chicago School and social anthropology. Robert Redfield.

Literature

Redfield, R. The Primitive World and Its Transformations. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1953.

 

3. The Manchester school and a research of the African Urban environment. - The British colonial city - a concept of detribalisation, modertity, research of social networks, situation analysis.

Literature

Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press, 1980.

Epstein, AL Senes: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992.

            

Literature

Van Dijk, T. (2016). The Impossibility of World-Class Slum-Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of 'Two Indias. In T. Kuldova & MA Varghese (Eds.) Urban Utopias Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal Asia (pp. 19-36). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Weinstein, L. (2008). Mumbai's Development Mafias: Globalization, Organized Crime and Land Development. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, pp. 22-39. DOI: 10.1111 / j.1468-2427.2008.00766.x.

 

 4. Globalization, glocalization, global culture, center-periphery concept.

Literature:

Hannerz U: Global Ecumene as a Network of Network. In: Conceptualizing Society / Edited by Adam Kuper, Routledge (1992).

 

5. Total institution.

Literature:

Goffman E.: Asylums. Essays on social situations of mental patients and other inmates. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1968.

 

6a. Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think?

Literature:

Douglas Mary, Think Institutions. Syracuse University Press 1986.

6b. Ethnology in Narway. Gothenburg School.

Literature:
Ek, Sven B. Noden and Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.

 

7. German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a metaphor of tribal communities, the Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and the mass media.

 Literature:

 Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.

 

8. Urban research in Central and Eastern Europe: cultural and historical probes of the urban environment, urban sociology of the interwar period, urban and working-class research, Sallner's ethnology of the city.

 Literature:

Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses.  Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 -  127.

Uherek, Zdeněk: Antropologie města. In: Cichá Martina (ed.) Integrální antropologie. Praha: Triron 2014: 263 – 268.

Soukupová Blanka, Hroch Miroslav, Salner Peter, Godula-Weclawowict Róza (eds) Úvod do urbánní antropologie. Praha: FHS UK 2012.

Salner Peter, Taká bola Bratislava. Bratislava 1991.

Sirovátka Oldřich, Město pod Špilberkem. Brno 1993.

Slova města. Cahiers du CEFRES No. 18. Praha, 2000.

 

9.  a)  Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City. 

      b) Amsterdam urban anthropology, the concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps.

Literature:

Lynch, Kevin The Image of the City. MIT Press 1960-

Brunt, Lodewijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.

 

10. French school, social anthropology in the city, the city as a plurality of environments with a different social climate, the concept of the cultural construction of a foreigner, the theory of non-place (Michelle de la Pradelle, Marc Augé, Gérard Althabe).

      Literature:

Pradelle, Michéle De La: Několik poznámek k urbánní antropologii. Český lid 83, 1996, s. 189–195.

Cahiers du CEFRES no. 10. Antologie francouzských společenských věd – město. Praha, CEFRES 1996.

    

11. a) How to explore the postmodern city - morphology and consciousness, redefinceí the centre of peripheral relations, suburban peripheral zones, suburban areas.

      b) Global city.

Literature:

Garreau Joel: Edge City: Life on the frontiers. New York, Doubleday 1991.

Sassen Saskia: The Global City: Introducing a Concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs XI.