Urban Bonds
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Product details
- ISBN 9780745628011
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 155 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What is the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how has this role changed over the last century? Talja Blokland seeks to answer this question in this careful ethnographic study of the changing nature of social relationships and urban communities.
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- Careful ethnographic study of the changing nature of social relationships and urban communities.
- Examines the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how this has changed over the last century.
- Interweaves a detailed study of the history and current social life of a poor neighbourhood in Rotterdam, with a reflection on the character of social ties in urban areas everywhere.
- Draws on American urban sociology and includes provocative discussions on the issues of community and ethnicity.
Talja Blokland is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Arts and Sciences and based at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.
