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Introduction: Engaging The City And The Future / Setha Low -- Part I. Precarity -- 1. Precarious Detachment: Youth And Modes Of Operating In Hyderabad And Jakarta / Abdoumaliq Simone -- 2. Precarious Labor, Inequality And Public Space: Trash Pickers And Ambulant Vendors In Buenos Aires, Argentina / Mariano Perelman -- 3. Homelessness And The City / Tom Hall -- 4. Disproportionate Barriers And Challenges: Urban Minority Male Life Cycles In Philadelphia / Bill Mckinney -- Part Ii. Displacement And Mobility -- 5. Displaced, Misplaced, Re-placed: In Search Of An Understanding Of 'race' And Urban Change: Evidence From Cape Town / Annika Teppo -- 6. Affect, Race, And Generative Fieldsites In Urban Anthropology / Ana Y. Ramos-zayas And Ulla D. Berg -- 7. (im)mobilizing Bangkok: Towards An Ethnography Of Urban Circulation / Claudio Sopranzetti -- 8. Moving Through The Contested City: Automobility And Civic Culture In Beirut, Lebanon / Kristin V. Monroe -- Part Iii. Security And Insecurity -- 9. Security And Technology / Carolina Frossard And Rivke Jaffe -- 10. Airports, From Vital Systems To Nervous Systems / Mark Maguire And Réka Pétercsák -- 11. Security And Insecurity In Fragile Urban Fabrics: A Suburb In Norway / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- 12. Making Sense Of The New Europe: National Anxieties And Everyday Life In Amsterdam / Anouk De Koning. Part Iv. Environment And Sustainability -- 13. Environmental Gentrification: Sustainability And The Just City / Melissa Checker -- 14. Incremental Gentrification: Upgrading And The Predicaments Of Making (indian) Cities Slum-free / Ursula Rao -- 15. Tackling Pollution With Care: Everyday Politics And Citizen Engagement In Auckland, New Zealand / Eveline Dürr And Jeannine-madeleine Fischer -- 16. Engaging With Sustainable Urban Mobilities In Western Europe: Urban Utopias Seen Through Cycling In Copenhagen / Malene Freudendal-pedersen -- Part V. Citizenship Rights And Social Justice -- 17. Racialized Citizenship And