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.

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邻里智慧：本地化街道知识的民族志研究

缺乏对街头知识的特征、价值和范围的研究。现有的少数研究表明，一旦获得街头知识，就可以在广泛的社会空间环境中减轻危险和风险。基于对受枪支暴力影响的多伦多社会住房项目进行的五年人种学研究，我挑战了这一假设，证明了街头知识的本地化性质——以特定地点的特殊性为基础并受其影响。为了解释这一点，我引入了“邻里智慧”的概念——一种针对地方特质量身定制的狭隘街头知识形式，并经过校准以消除明显的当地威胁。这些发现对我们对街头知识的理解有影响，