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Afterthoughts: Old and New Directions
Author(s) -
Plotnicov Leonard
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1991.5.2.169
Subject(s) - gentrification , articulation (sociology) , ethnography , tourism , sociology , focus (optics) , scale (ratio) , economic geography , process (computing) , political science , geography , economic growth , anthropology , economics , cartography , law , physics , optics , politics , computer science , operating system
THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS in urban anthropology manifest a continuity with concerns that first emerged nearly three decades ago, which include contextual and holistic analyses. The new theoretical interests extend these frames horizontally, to examine the articulation of processes on a global scale, and vertically, to delineate systemic linkages. Current topical interests broaden the range of ethnographic subjects and focus on contemporary phenomena in the search for interrelated processes that produce such things as gentrification and tourism alongside an increase of homelessness and urban squatters. This enhances the prospects of building theories based on change and process, [contextual analysis, urban economic development, vertical systemic linkages, ethnography of contemporary change]