Transnationalism and urbanism
By: edited by Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner, and Stephan Lanz
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge research in transnationalism -- 25
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780415898638
Subjects: Urbanization; Globalization; Transnationalism; Social aspects; Cities and towns; Multiculturalism; Ethnicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: The transnationality of cities : concepts, dimensions and research fields: an introduction / Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner, and Stephan Lanz; title: Transnationality and the city / Nina Glick-Schiller; title: Cities of the global south in the context of transnational urbanism and international development policies / Hans Harms; title: Transnational planning : reconfiguring spaces and institutions / Clara Irazábal; title: Conceptualizing transnational urban spaces : multicentered agency, placeless organizational logics, and the built environment / Christof Parnreiter; title: Materializing the digital commodity : recording studios in transnational project networks of digital musical production / Michael Hoyler and Allan Watson; title: Global capitalism and the informal economy : a methodological approach to the complex incorporation of Mexican cities into the globalized markets / Sandra Alarcón; title: The return of the local? : anglicization, transnationalism and religion in the global city / John Eade; title: Small town transnationalism : socio-spatial dynamics of immigration to the heartland / Faranak Miraftab; title: Challenging heteronomous power in a globalized world : insurgent spatial practices, "militant particularism", and multiscalarity / Marcelo Lopes de Souza; title: Move from and not on the occult zone (where the people dwell) :; title: An argument for the political priority of solidarity with popular (and largely situated) mobilization by the poor over transnational organization by civil society / Richard Pithouse; title: Contributors; title: Index.