Modan Turf Wars

Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77542-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Ethnography

Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is thefascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapidgentrification.
* Explores how members of a multi-ethnic, multi-class Washington,DC, community deploy language to legitimize themselves as communitymembers while discrediting others.
* Discusses such issues as public toilets and public urination,the "morality" of co-ops and condos, and characterizations of"good" girls and "bad" boys.
* Draws on linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis toprovide insight into the ways that local activity shapes largerurban social processes.
* Draws also on cultural geography and urban anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Modan, Gabriella Gahlia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface.
List of Figures.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: The Ethnography.
1. Sketching the Landscape.
2. Mt. Pleasant History and Social Geography.
3. The Moral Geography of Mt. Pleasant.
4. The Politics of Filth.
5. La Loca vs. the Cultural Vampires.
6. Keeping it in the Family.
7. Home Ties, Winds of Change.
Part II: The Making of Turf Wars.
8. Theorizing Discourse.
9. Geography and Social Locations.
Addendum: Defining Terms.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriella Gahlia Modan (PhD Georgetown University) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, The Ohio State University.