Living the Global City

Globalization as Local Process
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-13886-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Politicians and academics alike have made globalization the key reference point for interpreting the 1990s. For many, globalization threatens both community and the nation-state. It appears to represent forces beyond human control. Living the Global City documents globalization's impact on everyday lives by drawing on research rather than rhetoric and arrives at a very different perspective. Living the Global City offers an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival. By advancing the debates which surround these issues through a redefinition of the terms in which they have been developed and engagement with the everyday lives of people in a global city, this book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the context of global/local processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eade, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND MILIEU 3 TRAVELLING BEYOND LOCAL CULTURES: SOCIOSCAPES IN A GLOBAL CITY 4 THE DELINKING OF LOCALE AND MILIEU: ON THE SITUATEDNESS OF EXTENDED MILIEUX IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 5 WORKING-CLASS CULTURE: LOCAL COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL CONDITIONS 6 LOCAL LIVES—DISTANT TIES: RESEARCHING COMMUNITY UNDER GLOBALIZED CONDITIONS 7 RETHINKING POVERTY IN GLOBALIZED CONDITIONS 8 RECONSTRUCTING PLACES: CHANGING IMAGES OF LOCALITY IN DOCKLANDS AND SPITALFIELDS 9 IDENTITY, NATION AND RELIGION: EDUCATED YOUNG BANGLADESHIS IN LONDON’S EAST END 10 ‘TRIBAL ARTS’: A CASE STUDY OF GLOBAL COMPRESSION IN THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL

Über Autor(innen)

John Eade is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Southlands College, Roehampton Institute.