Realising the City: Ethnographic Narratives of the Manchester City Region

This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance. -- . Foreword by Kevin Ward Introduction: tackling the urban through ethnography - Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons Part I: Realising urban organisations 1 Inclusion without incorporation: re-imagining Manchester through a new politics of environment - Hannah Knox 2 Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy - Jessica Symons 3 Lounge Manchester: the new politics of loungification - Damian O'Doherty Part II: Realising urban spaces 4 Under the surface of the village: public and private negotiations of urban space in Manchester - Michael Atkins 5 Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester - Luciana Lang 6 Urban futures and competing trajectories for Manchester city centre - Elisa Pieri Part III: Realising urban communities 7 Urban transformation in football: from Manchester United as a 'global leisure brand' to FC United as a 'community club' - George Poulton 8 'People want jobs, they want a life!' Deindustrialisation and loss in East Manchester - Camilla Lewis 9 'Don't call the police on me, I won't call them on you': self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester - Katherine Smith Afterword: the tension in making and realising a city - Jessica Symons Select bibliography Index