The Everydayness of Cities in Transition

Building on the notion of everyday(ness) as a conceptual tool and a study object in urban research, this book presents 10 case-studies describing and questioning how cities and urban spaces are lived, experienced, interpreted, (self-)produced and/or appropriated. The chapter authors (Raffael Beier & Soufiane Chinig; Patrícia Pereira; Frédéric Vidal, Elisa Lopes da Silva & Alexandre Vaz; Priscilla Santos; Graça Cordeiro & Giuseppe Formato; Andrzej Bukowski & Marta Smagacz-Poziemska; Ryanne Flock; Sophie Zviadadze; Rita Cachado; and Sonja Lakic) analyse the dynamic/interchangeable relationship between material and social dimensions of urban change through thought-provoking ethnographic narratives.

Chapter 1. Navigating the interstices of urban places: ethnographic and narrative approaches. An introduction (
Patrícia Pereira, Graça Índias Cordeiro & Sonja Laki
). -Chapter 2. A biography of displacement: Living through Rabat-Salé s postcolonial transformation (
Raffael Beier & Soufiane Chinig
). - Chapter 3. Resistance and everyday life: A women s struggle for the right to housing in Lisbon (
Patrícia Pereira
). - Chapter 4. Dwelling and everyday life in Lisbon: Tourism and other urban practices (
Frédéric Vidal, Elisa Lopes da Silva & Alexandre Vaz
). - Chapter 5. Creating a sense of belonging through everyday urban practices. The case of migrant small business owners in the Bonfim neighbourhood of Porto, Portugal (
Priscilla Santos
). - Chapter 6. Azorean-American resilience in Camberville. A visual approach to a vernacular landscape in a gentrified neighborhood (
Graça Índias Cordeiro & Giuseppe Formato
). - Chapter 7. Materiality and social practices as collective urban accomplishments: Receiving war refugees from Ukraine (
Andrzej Bukowski & Marta Smagacz-Poziemska
). - Chapter 8. Performing the right to the modern Chinese city: Changing patterns of panhandling in Guangzhou (
Ryanne Flock
). - Chapter 9. Code of the passenger and situational sociability in public transport in Tbilisi (
Sophie Zviadadze
). - Chapter 10. Flashes of urban affects. Written records of the first 750 days of COVID-19 (
Rita Ávila Cachado
). - Chapter 11. Tales from the peripheral: Melancholy and the other of the post-Yugoslav city (
Sonja Laki
).