This Omeka Site was built by the students of Najib Hourani's Urban Anthropology course during the Spring of 2023.
The course examines a range of contemporary issues in the anthropology of cities and urban spaces. It does so through a theoretical works and a series of studies drawn from a range of cities. It takes as a founding premise the urban not as simply a context within which to do ethnography. Rather the urban itself produces - and is produced by - complex forces, processes, discourses, and assemblages that transcend the political, economic, technological or cultural. How are cityscapes and structures produced? How do cities, spaces and urban forms come to take on meanings and carry identities? How might transnational processes contour our understandings of the urban and shape possibilities for a new politics of place and placemaking?