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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 Rubić and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Notes on Contributors
Index
Narrating the City
Histories, Space and the Everyday
Edited by Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Matthew P. Berg, and Anastasia Christou
266 pages, 23 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-775-6 Hb Published (September 2015)
eISBN 978-1-78238-776-3 eBook