Deciphering the global
Subtitle: its scales, spaces and subjects
By: edited by Saskia Sassen.
Contributors: Sassen, Saskia.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780415957328; 9780415957335
Subjects: Globalization -- Social aspects.; Culture and globalization.; Acculturation.; Transnationalism.; Cosmopolitanism.
Description: Breaking with prevailing scholarship, Deciphering the Global relocates the terms of debate surrounding globalization from the heights of global markets, states, and international corporations to the messier, more complex ground of the local, where broad globalizing trends are negotiated in interesting and often unexpected ways. Each of the essays in Saskia Sassen's collection introduces a new type of complexity and ambiguity to the study of the global, confronting questions of space and the fact that both the local and the global are increasingly multi-scalar. In turn, the chapters in this book expand the analytical terrain of the global, demanding new methodologies and interpretive frames for the study of globalization. Employing ethnographies from the United States to continental Europe, Asia, and South America, Deciphering the Global exemplifies the next wave of globalization studies and lays the groundwork for a new school in the study of the global.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Deciphering the global / Saskia Sassen; title: Postindustrial Bohemia : culture, neighborhood, and the global economy / Richard Lloyd; title: Translocal civilities : Chinese modern dance at downtown Los Angeles public concerts / Marina Peterson; title: Re-imagining old Havana : world heritage and the production of scale in late socialist Cuba / Matthew J. Hill; title: Becoming global? : evangelism and transnational practices in Russian society / Sarah Busse Spencer; title: Deciphering the local in a global neoliberal age : three favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil / Simone Buechler; title: Locating transnational activists : solidarity with and beyond propinquity / Evalyn W. Tennant; title: Deciphering the space and scale of global nomadism : subjectivity and counterculture in a global age / Anthony D'Andrea; title: Outsourcing difference : expatriate training and the disciplining of culture / Heather Hindman; title: Producing global economy from below : Chinese immigrant transnational entrepreneurship in Japan / Gracia Liu Farrer; title: The sub-national constitution of global financial markets / Rachel Harvey; title: The city and the self : the emergence of new political subjects in London / Anne Bartlett; title: Ghetto cosmopolitanism : making theory at the margins / Rami Nashashibi; title: Deregulating markets, reregulating crime : extralegal policing & the penal state in Mexico / Jennifer L. Johnson; title: The transnational human rights movement and states of emergency in Israel/Palestine / Josh Kaplan; title: Illegal immigrants as citizens in Malaysia / Kamal Sadiq; title: Global-national interactions and sovereign debt restructuring outcomes / Giselle Datz.