Researcher Graça Índias Cordeiro, from the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES), has co-edited a new book that explores the dynamics of everyday life in urban contexts.

“The Everydayness of Cities in Transition: Micro Approaches to Material and Social Dimensions of Change” takes the notion of ‘everydayness’ as a conceptual tool and object of study in urban research. The book, co-organized by Sonja Lakić, Patrícia Pereira and Graça Cordeiro, presents a series of ethnographic narratives that question the dynamic relationship between the material and social dimensions of urban change. It offers an in-depth analysis of how cities and urban spaces are lived, experienced, interpreted, (self)produced, and appropriated by their inhabitants.

The book comprises 10 case studies, which question the dynamic relationships between the material and social dimensions of urban change, through engaging ethnographic narratives. The authors of the chapters include Raffael Beier and Soufiane Chinig, Patrícia Pereira, Frédéric Vidal, Elisa Lopes da Silva and Alexandre Vaz, Priscilla Santos, Graça Cordeiro and Giuseppe Formato, Andrzej Bukowski and Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, Ryanne Flock, Sophie Zviadadze, Rita Cachado and Sonja Lakić.

Graça Índias Cordeiro contributes a chapter to the book, co-authored with Giuseppe Formato, which examines the interaction between the social and physical space of cities, offering an innovative view of how people construct and appropriate their urban environments. The new book is a contemporary reflection on the multiple layers of urban life and promises to be essential reading for researchers, students and those interested in urban sociology, anthropology and urban studies.

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