This compendium offers a textured historical and compara- tive examination of the significance of locality or -place, - and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines-from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history -these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national, the cultural and the material, revealing the complex interplay of social forces by which place is constituted and contributes to the social construction of national identity in Asia, Latin America,...
This compendium offers a textured historical and compara- tive examination of the significance of locality or -place, - and the role of urban repre...
Alongside fl ows of trade and capital, the free movement of professionals, technical personnel, and students is seen as a key aspect of globalization. Yet not much detailed empirical research has been completed about the trajectories and experiences of these highly skilled or highly educated international migrants. What little is known about these forms of "global mobility," and the politics that surround them, contrasts with the abundant theories and accounts of other types of international migration-such as low income economic migration from less developed to core countries in the...
Alongside fl ows of trade and capital, the free movement of professionals, technical personnel, and students is seen as a key aspect of globalization....
Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new ways to situate and historicize transnationalism, identify new pathways to transnational urbanism, and map the contours of translocal, interregional, and diasporic connections not previously studied. The transnational...
Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities ...
