Editorial

Ethnographies of Urban Public Spaces

Valentina Gulin Zrnić orcid.org/0000-0002-3078-8033 ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Tihana Rubić orcid.org/0000-0003-2744-8852 ; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The thematic section of this year’s issue of Etnološka tribina focuses on public spaces. The articles deal with the spatial and linguistic reappropriation and resignification of public space during the protests in Gezi Park, Istanbul in 2013 (Selvelli); conflicting versions of modernity engendered by the construction of and changes made to public spaces in the Serbian town of Jagodina (Petrović); processes of evaluating urban public spaces in Lisbon (Gato); cognitive mapping of movement and race issues in Austin, Texas (Norkunas); public spaces and their revival through urban gardening and cycling (Poljak Istenič); mental mapping and the perception of danger in Estonian spatial examples (Hiiemäe); bottle collectors' interactions and their (in)visibility in public spaces in Zagreb (Vukušić and Stelko); the Situationist concept of dérive as a form of contemporary urban ethnography as discussed through the example of Delhi (Sharanya). The underlying intention of this thematic section is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion concerning the potentials of contemporary urban life and politics so as to develop a participatory, just, as well as socially and environmentally sustainable city.

Keywords

thematic section; urban public spaces

Hrčak ID:

171000

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/171000

Publication date:

21.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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