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Napoli Navigators: Ethnographies of Urban Experts and Everyday Life

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New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations



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Napoli Navigators

Ethnographies of Urban Experts and Everyday Life

Lisa Danielle Björkman

522 pages, 25 figs, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-223-1 $180.00/£138.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2027)

eISBN 978-1-80768-224-8 eBook


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Comprised of twenty-eight ethnographic profiles, Napoli Navigators is about the people who act as bridge builders, brokers, translators, and connectors in the city of Napoli. It explores how embodied expertise mediates the material and practical contradictions produced by shifts at global, national, regional, and virtual scales. These “navigations” offer new understandings and insights into the contemporary historical moment, both in Napoli and beyond.

Lisa Björkman is a political ethnographer and urban anthropologist on the faculty of Urban and Public Affairs at University of Louisville. She is also a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) and a Visiting Fellow at Malmö University’s Institute of Urban Research. She is the author of Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai (Duke, 2015), Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories (Columbia, 2020), Bombay Brokers (Duke, 2021), and Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (Minnesota, 2025).

Subject: Anthropology (General)SociologyUrban Studies
Area: Southern Europe


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