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Volume 10: Narrative Spaces in a Multicultural City Introduction by Maria Yelenevskaya and Larisa Fialkova Articles Goran Janev Narrating the Nation, Narrating the City. Tiiu Jaago One Area, Several Cultural Spaces: Comparative Analysis of Stories as the Bases of Lo- cal Identity Ekaterina Protassova and Anu Reponen Understanding Urban Spaces: How Speakers of Russian Talk about Helsinki Orna Blumen and Shay Tzafrir Sentenced to Commute: Indigenous Young Women at a City University Discussions Jewish Life in Eastern European Towns: Between Decline and Resurrection Elena Nosenko-Stein The Sacred and Profane Space in Modern Russian City: A Choice of Russian Jews Vanda Vitti Jewish Culture and its Heritage in Slovakia after 1989: Urban Sites of Remembrance in Košice and their Meanings Svetlana Amosova There Are No Jews Here: From a Multiethnic to a Monoethnic Town of Burshtyn Events Local Culture, Tourism and Festivals Kira Kaurinkoski Globalization in the Life of Small Island Towns: Changes for Better or Worse? The Case of the Island of Kos (Greece) Maria Yelenevskaya and Larisa Fialkova “Holiday of Holidays” Festival in Haifa: Between Hope and Reality Book Reviews by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Francesca Stella, and Boris Czerny © 2011, The University of California Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture Volume 10: Narrative Spaces in a Multicultural City Special Issue (in association with SIEF) Introduction Maria Yelenevskaya and Larisa Fialkova................................1 Narrating the Nation, Narrating the City...........................................................3 Goran Janev One Area, Several Cultural Spaces: Comparative Analysis of Stories as the Bases of Local Identity...............23 Tiiu Jaago Understanding Urban Spaces: How Speakers of Russian Talk about Helsinki...........................................45 Ekaterina Protassova and Anu Reponen Sentenced to Commute: Indigenous Young Women at a City University...........................................67 Orna Blumen and Shay Tzafrir Discussion: Jewish Life in Eastern European Towns: Between Decline and Resurrection The Sacred and Profane Space in Modern Russian City: A Choice of Russian Jews.................................................................................91 Elena Nosenko-Stein Jewish Culture and its Heritage in Slovakia after 1989: Urban Sites of Remembrance in Košice and their Meanings.................105 Vanda Vitti There Are No Jews Here: From a Multiethnic to a Monoethnic Town of Burshtyn..........................117 Svetlana Amosova Events: Local Culture, Tourism and Festivals Globalization in the Life of Small Island Towns: Changes for Better or Worse? The Case of the Island of Kos (Greece)..125 Kira Kaurinkoski “Holiday of Holidays” Festival in Haifa: Between Hope and Reality..141 Maria Yelenevskaya and Larisa Fialkova Reviews by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Francesca Stella, and Boris Czerny i Editorial Board Fekade Azeze, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Pertti J. Anttonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Hande Birkalan, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey Regina Bendix, Universität Göttingen, Germany Charles Briggs, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Véronique Campion-Vincent, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, France Linda Dégh, Indiana University, U.S.A. Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland, Reykjavik Jawaharlal Handoo, Central Institute of Indian Languages, India Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jason Baird Jackson, Indiana University, U.S.A. Kimberly Lau, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. James R. Lewis,University of Tromsø, Norway John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge, U.S.A. Jay Mechling, University of California, Davis, U.S.A. Fabio Mugnaini, University of Siena, Italy Sadhana Naithani, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Peter Shand, University of Auckland, New Zealand Francisco Vaz da Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester, England, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Ülo Valk, University of Tartu, Estonia Fionnuala Carson Williams, Northern Ireland Environment Agency Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Åbo Academy, Finland Staff Editorial Collective: Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Karen Miller, & Tok Thompson Review Editor: Elaine Yau Website Developer: Brooke Dykman Copy Editor: Fionnuala Carson Williams ii Introduction Introduction and mass migration most of the cities have become multiethnic and multicultural, but constituent cultures do not always his volume has evolved as a follow- act in unison. Urban spaces act as an up to the panel under the same arena within which different lifestyles title, which we organized at the th interact and compete. As Simmel argues T10 Congress of the International Society in his seminal work, it is the diversity, the for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), in constant tension created by the presence April 2011 in Lisbon. During the General of numerous others and the multiplicity Assembly congress participants were of economic, occupational, and social life informed that the journal Cultural Analysis that create the sensory foundations of and SIEF had decided to be associated. mental life of city dwellers (Simmel 2002, Therefore we are particularly pleased 11-12). Unlike Simmel’s work, none of that this special issue is the first volume the articles in this volume are concerned of Cultural Analysis after the important with a metropolis, yet middle-size and decision was made and that most of the small towns on which the authors focus contributors are SIEF members. also reveal complexities and challenges of The theme of this volume reflects an multiethnic and multicultural interaction ever growing scholarly interest in various in urban life. aspects of city life. The number of urban Among the central and interrelated dwellers is constantly growing, and notions in the discourse on space in according to UN forecasts, by the middle of general, and on city space in particular, this century 70% of the world population are place identity, reading space and will live in cities. The continuing constructing its meaning (See, e.g., Cuba processes of urbanization bring about and Hummon 1993; Lefebvre 1991, 1-67; new challenges and trigger scholarly Lewicka 2008; Relph 1976, 8-26). People’s and public debate (Bandarin 2011, 121). self-conceptions are related to spaces that The very emergence of the subfield of they experience as their own, perceive urban anthropology is intertwined with as belonging to the other but attractive in the study of complex societies. As Eames their very otherness, or just the opposite, and Goode aptly observe, even if a city regard as alien and insecure and so try emerged or was created for one dominant to avoid them. Essays presented in this function it quickly draws to itself ancillary volume show that these perceptions may functions. Moreover, cities are not be rooted in history (Amosova, Protassova isolated geographic units but are linked and Reponen, and Vitti) and socio-political in dynamic interaction with a hierarchy changes (Jaago, Janev, and Nosenko-Stein). of contexts, from the local hinterland to Memories of the past are inscribed onto regional, national and even international places significant for an ethno-cultural fields (Eames and Goode 1977, 79). Among group and play a variety of functions: the many roles of the city, its cultural from domesticating the city and making role, including continuity and changes in it one’s own to reviving community that cultures, remain the primary concern of virtually ceased to exist. Much thought is urban anthropology. Due to globalization Cultural Analysis 10 (2011): 1-2 © 2011 by The University of California. All rights reserved 1 Larisa Fialkova & Maria Yelenevskaya Introduction given by the authors to symbolic borders competent advice and generous help between urban and rural (Blumen and were invaluable to us. We would also Tsafrir, and Kaurinkoski), and borders like to extend our gratitude to Rafael that are imposed by ethnic politics and Flickstein, whose computer expertise power struggle (Janev, Yelenevskaya saved us from many a disaster. and Fialkova). The latter can be either reinforced by residents’ behavior or Maria Yelenevskaya weakened when members of different Larisa Fialkova ethno-cultural groups find it beneficial to Guest Editors, Cultural Analysis cross them. Another theme that comes up in the volume is places of consumption and their role in the city image, as well as in interethnic and intercultural relations. Works Cited Urban studies is an interdisciplinary Bandarin, Francesco. 2011. “The Creative endeavour, and the background of the Power of Cities. Editorial”. City, authors in this issue testifies to this, as Culture and Society no 2: 121-122. they specialize in cultural anthropology Cuba, Lee, and Hummon, David M. 1993. and human-resource management, “Constructing a Sense of Home: linguistics and immigration studies, Place Affiliation and Migration folkloristics and gender studies, home- across the Life Cycle.” Sociological work relations and Jewish studies. The Forum, vol.8, no. 4: 547-572. geography of the studies presented in Eames, Edwin, and Goode, Judith the volume is also diverse and will take Granich. 1977. Anthropology of the reader from the Baltic (Finland and the City: An Introduction to Urban Estonia) to various regions of Russia Anthropology. Englewood Cliffs, and Western Ukraine, to East European N.J.: Prentice Hall. Slovakia