1st Edition

Re-Living the Global City Global/Local Processes

Edited By John Eade, Chris Rumford Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering 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. In this new collection Eade and Rumford draw together scholars... Read more

Chapter One - Global Transformations in the Metropolis, Then and Now - Darren O’Byrne





Chapter Two - Living the Global Stranger - Chris Rumford





Chapter Three - Homecomings: Provincializing the Global City - Jörg Dürrschmidt





Chapter Four - Transnational Subjectivities: Revisiting Community in the Global City - Myria Georgiou





Chapter Five - Mobility without Movement: G/local Bordering Processes as a Fundamental Aspect of Globalization and Global Connectivity - Anthony Cooper





Chapter Six - Making Yourself at Home: Transnational Repertoires of Action on the Move - Ranji Devadason





Chapter Seven - When Did Cities Really Become ‘Global’? Against Assumptions of Historical Uniqueness in Globalization Theory - David Inglis





Chapter Eight - Opportunities Lost? What We Should Have Learned- and What We Can Still Learn about Theorizing the Global - Barrie Axford

Biography

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton and former Executive Director of CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) which links Roehampton and the University of Surrey.



Chris Rumford was Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London.