Port Cities as Areas of Transition: Ethnographic Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783899429497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 212 str.

Waltraud Kokot; Mijal Gandelsman-Trier; Kathrin Wildner

Opis

In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.

Recenzje

»[Ein] unbedingt lesenswerter Sammelband [...].« Daniel Kalt, dérive 36, 7-9 (2009) Reviewed in: RaumPlanung, 141 (2008), Sandra Huning

O autorze

Kokot, WaltraudWaltraud Kokot (PhD) is professor of social anthropology at Hamburg University. Her teaching and research areas include diaspora, urban anthropology, refugee studies, urban poverty and homelessness. She has conducted field research in Thessaloniki, Sofia and Hamburg.