Transnationalism and Urbanism

ISBN-13: 9780415898638 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 250 str.

Kathrin Wildner; Stephan Lanz; Stefan Kr Tke

Opis

This volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range of disciplines - geography, ethnography, urban planning - to explore theoretical and methodological approaches to to the relation between transnationalism (both as a concept and an empirical reality) and the production of urban spaces.

Spis treści

1. The Transnationality of Cities – Concepts, Dimensions and Research Fields: An Introduction  Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner and Stephan Lanz  2. Transnationality and the City  Nina Glick-Schiller  3. Cities of the Global South in the Context of Transnational Urbanism and International Development Policies  Hans Harms  4. Transnational Planning: Reconfiguring Spaces and Institutions  Clara Irazábal  5. Conceptualizing Transnational Urban Spaces: Multicentered Agency, Placeless Organizational Logics, and the Built Environment  Christof Parnreiter  6. Materializing the Digital Commodity: Recording Studios in Transnational Project Networks of Digital Musical Production  Michael Hoyler and Allan Watson  7. Global Capitalism and the Informal Economy: A Methodological Approach to the Complex Incorporation of Mexican Cities into the Globalized Markets  Sandra Alarcón  8. The Return of the Local?: Anglicization, Transnationalism and Religion in the Global City  John Eade  9. Small Town Transnationalism: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Immigration to the Heartland  Faranak Miraftab  10. Challenging Heteronomous Power in a Globalized World: Insurgent Spatial Practices, ‘Militant Particularism’, and Multiscalarity  Marcelo Lopes de Souza  11. Move From and Not On the Occult Zone (Where the People Dwell): 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

O autorze

Stefan Krätke is Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.

Kathrin Wildner is Assistant Professor at the European-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.

Stephan Lanz is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.