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Editor's Note

Editor's Note I am pleased to present the material evidence of City & Society's long‐awaited transition to a tri‐annual publication. This issue, 23(S1), is published as a supplement to our regular two annual issues but departs in no way from our regular issues other than the “odd” naming. City & Society 23(S1) includes four articles which cover places spread across the globe (USA, Palestine, South Africa and Thailand) and touch a broad specter of topics (urban religion and gentrification; political and spatial closures; kinship among street youth; space and status). James Bielo analyzes the politics, ideals and realities of mostly younger Evangelicals who turn their backs on suburban mega‐churches in the USA and return to poorer parts of declining cities. He examines whether these young believers are just another wave of white middle class gentrifiers or whether indeed their different motivations change their race and class based experiences and activities in their new urban environment. Livia Wick takes the example of two women to examine every day lives and experiences of Palestinians under closure in the West Bank. She illustrates how closure on the one hand works to isolate individuals from their families and larger communities, while on the other it provides some individuals, in particular women, with new opportunities of work and new spaces of socializing. Emily Margaretten examines the daily life and support system of a group of street youths who occupy a large deserted building in Durban, South Africa. With few resources and nobody to turn to, the youths established an elaborate network of (shifting) “kin” relations that allows them to better maneuver and fight for survival in the city. Sophorntavy Vorng examines Bangkok's two centers, the traditional one centered around symbols of royalty and aristocratic privilege, and the more recent capitalist one centered largely around spaces of consumption. She argues that the newer center did not replace the older one. Instead the two are deeply intertwined and indeed the new commercial center is heavily infused with rules and practices of distinctions that are rooted in the cultural universe of the traditional center. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Editor's Note

City & Society , Volume 23 – Sep 1, 2011

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2011 by the American Anthropological Association
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1111/j.1548-744X.2011.01052.x
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Abstract

I am pleased to present the material evidence of City & Society's long‐awaited transition to a tri‐annual publication. This issue, 23(S1), is published as a supplement to our regular two annual issues but departs in no way from our regular issues other than the “odd” naming. City & Society 23(S1) includes four articles which cover places spread across the globe (USA, Palestine, South Africa and Thailand) and touch a broad specter of topics (urban religion and gentrification; political and spatial closures; kinship among street youth; space and status). James Bielo analyzes the politics, ideals and realities of mostly younger Evangelicals who turn their backs on suburban mega‐churches in the USA and return to poorer parts of declining cities. He examines whether these young believers are just another wave of white middle class gentrifiers or whether indeed their different motivations change their race and class based experiences and activities in their new urban environment. Livia Wick takes the example of two women to examine every day lives and experiences of Palestinians under closure in the West Bank. She illustrates how closure on the one hand works to isolate individuals from their families and larger communities, while on the other it provides some individuals, in particular women, with new opportunities of work and new spaces of socializing. Emily Margaretten examines the daily life and support system of a group of street youths who occupy a large deserted building in Durban, South Africa. With few resources and nobody to turn to, the youths established an elaborate network of (shifting) “kin” relations that allows them to better maneuver and fight for survival in the city. Sophorntavy Vorng examines Bangkok's two centers, the traditional one centered around symbols of royalty and aristocratic privilege, and the more recent capitalist one centered largely around spaces of consumption. She argues that the newer center did not replace the older one. Instead the two are deeply intertwined and indeed the new commercial center is heavily infused with rules and practices of distinctions that are rooted in the cultural universe of the traditional center.

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Published: Sep 1, 2011

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