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- Title
Neighborhood Wisdom: An Ethnographic Study of Localized Street Knowledge.
- Authors
Berardi, Luca
- Abstract
There is a dearth of research on the characteristics, value, and scope of street knowledge. The few studies that exist suggest that, once acquired, street knowledge is used to mitigate danger and risk across a wide range of socio-spatial settings. Based on five years of ethnographic research in a Toronto social housing project affected by gun violence, I challenge this assumption, demonstrating the locally oriented nature of street knowledge—grounded in, and shaped by, the particularities of a given locale. To account for this, I introduce the concept of "neighborhood wisdom"—a parochial form of street knowledge tailored to the idiosyncrasies of place and calibrated for neutralizing distinctly local threats. These findings have implications for our understanding of street knowledge, both as a construct and a practical tool used by people operating in perilous settings.
- Subjects
TORONTO (Ont.); NEIGHBORHOODS; SHOOTINGS (Crime); WISDOM; STREETS
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2021, Vol 44, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-020-09454-z