Port Cities and Global Legacies [electronic resource] : Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism /
Mah, A.author.
Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: Urban Identity; 2 Out of the Blue, into the Black: Representing, Imagining, and Researching Port Cities; 3 Reconstructing Port Identities: The Urban Politics of Waterfront Development; 4 From Ports of Empire to Capitals of Culture: Museums of Slavery and Colonial History; Part II: Waterfront Work; 5 Intergenerational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers' Strike: Rebuilding Solidarity in the Port; 6 Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseille-Fos
7 Ruination and Recovery: Keeping the Longshoremen's History in Post-Katrina New OrleansPart III: Radicalism; 8 Radicalism on the Waterfront: Imagining Alternative Futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans; 9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.
Social policy.
Environmental management.
Social history.
Urban geography.
Human geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Social Policy.
Environmental Management.
Social History.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Human Geography.
Urban Studies/Sociology.