METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES AND CONCEPTS OF CITY ANTHROPOLOGY
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2019-3-254-267
The report discusses methodological tools for overcoming the extremes of the positivist and hermeneutic strategies for studying the city. Attention is drawn to individual differences between cities and urban life phenomena. The possibilities and subject areas of typology, phenomenology, topology as conceptual approaches to studying the individuality of cities are analyzed. The author introduces the concepts of studying the individuality of cities: topoi of the urban environment, everyday practices of citizens, the habitus of the city. It is shown that in the topological perspective the city looks like a “puzzle” of vital worlds, as a composition of qualitatively defined places – topoi. The concept of everyday practices of citizens is considered as a connecting link, a medium between the structure of the city and the meanings of its inhabitants. The methodological idea of the city habitus is to bring together different aspects of city life into a single model, showing their interdependence: gestalts, narratives, production and consumption practices, economic trends, cultural schematizations. The report substantiates the value of the concept ‘city habitus’, explores the observed circumstances of the city habitus existence and the conditions for its formation.
Keywords: image of city, topos of city life, everyday practices, types of cities, city habitus
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Issue: 3, 2019
Series of issue: Issue 3
Rubric: RESEARCH REPORTS
Pages: 254 — 267
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