In an age of expansive global networks, huge migration flows, and rapid transnational connections, cities are increasingly the focus of movement and change. There is a real sense in which cities are the crucible of the new, where cultures, people and environments combine in various settled and often less settled ways. This study offers a way of understanding the global nature of cities, where their very openness has served to shape their dynamism and character. Based on the assumption that cities cannot be understood apart from one another and the wider relationships which bind them, the book...
In an age of expansive global networks, huge migration flows, and rapid transnational connections, cities are increasingly the focus of movement and c...
This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character. It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors reveal the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks.
This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character. It explores cities as sites of move...
If there is a single question that presses upon the intellect of the current generation of social scientists, it is surely: "what do the great insights of social theory imply for the way we conduct research and write about the social world?." Until now there has been no single text to turn to that explores the epistemological complexities of field work, the problems of writing and language, and of the logics of inquiry that link theory, method and evidence. Using Social Theory is a magisterial effort to open up the black-box of research methods, and to provide students, in a way that...
If there is a single question that presses upon the intellect of the current generation of social scientists, it is surely: "what do the great insight...
If there is a single question that presses upon the intellect of the current generation of social scientists, it is surely: "what do the great insights of social theory imply for the way we conduct research and write about the social world?." Until now there has been no single text to turn to that explores the epistemological complexities of field work, the problems of writing and language, and of the logics of inquiry that link theory, method and evidence. Using Social Theory is a magisterial effort to open up the black-box of research methods, and to provide students, in a way that...
If there is a single question that presses upon the intellect of the current generation of social scientists, it is surely: "what do the great insight...
Phrases such as "corporate culture," "market culture" and the "knowledge economy," have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. They are calls that have echoed through organizations and markets. Clearly something is happening to the ways markets and organizations are being represented and intervened in and this signals a need to reassess their very constitution. In particular, the once clean divide that placed the economy, dealt with mainly by economists, on one side, and culture, addressed chiefly by those in anthropology, sociology and the other "cultural sciences," on...
Phrases such as "corporate culture," "market culture" and the "knowledge economy," have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. The...
This series is dedicated to an understanding of cultural studies' as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses attention on the importance of the contemporary cultural turn' in forging a rethink of the centrality of the cultural' and the articulation between the material and the symbolic.
This series is dedicated to an understanding of cultural studies' as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses a...
