Placing London

From Imperial Capital to Global City
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-57181-736-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this metropolis. The central question - what is London? - has produced many answers but none of them, the author argues, uncovers the complex ways in which knowledge is constructed in the diverse attempts to represent places and people. On the contrary: a gulf has opened up between analysis of contemporary London as a global, postcolonial city, on the one hand, and historical accounts of the imperial capital on the other. The author shows how the gap can be bridged by combining an analysis of the representation over time by various experts of London and certain localities with an investigation of the ways in which residents have represented their communities through struggles over symbolic and material resources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eade, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

PART I

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Representing London during Empire: The Inter-War Guides

Chapter 3. Representing the Global City: Contemporary Tourist Guides

PART II

Chapter 4. The West End and Soho: ALien Settlements Amid Colonies of Pleasure and Power

Chapter 5. Local Representation of Difference in the West End's 'Foreign Quarter'

PART III

Chapter 6. The City of London: From Empire to Globe

Chapter 7. The City of London: Place and Placelessness

PART IV

Chapter 8. The East End: The Transformation of Place

Chapter 9. The East End: Guiding Tourists through a Foreign Land

Chapter 10. Representing Locality in the East End: People and Place in the Global City

PART V

Chapter 11. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eade, John
John Eade is Reader in the Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Roehampton.

John Eade is Reader in the Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Roehampton.