1st Edition
Living the Global City Globalization as Local Process
Edited By John Eade
Copyright 1997
212 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
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
Biography
John Eade is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Southlands College, Roehampton Institute.
'This book represents an exceptional degree of innovative and seminal scholarship, and makes for both an exciting and stimulating read.' - Transactions of the IBG
