Port cities and global legacies : urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism
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Port cities and global legacies : urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-231) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction PART I: URBAN IDENTITY 2. Out of the Blue, Into the Black: Representing, Imagining, and Researching Port Cities 3. Reconstructing Port Identities: The Urban Politics of Waterfront Development 4. From Ports of Empire to Capitals of Culture: Museums of Slavery and Colonial History PART II: WATERFRONT WORK 5. Intergenerational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers' Strike: Rebuilding Solidarity in the Port 6. Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseilles-Fos 7. Ruination and Recovery: Keeping the Longshoremen's History in Post-Katrina New Orleans PART III: RADICALISM 8. Radicalism on the Waterfront: Imagining Alternative Futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans 9. Conclusion
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