Diversity and local contexts : urban space, borders, and migration
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Diversity and local contexts : urban space, borders, and migration
(Palgrave studies in urban anthropology)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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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 and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social, and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. In these 'glocal' regards, the authors demonstrate how city images, borders, and social processes such as migration, tourism, and local development must be seen in broader contexts. The contributors examine them through the lenses of foreign investment, migration, and history. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and employs a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Contributors' multidisciplinary expertise and insights about spaces and places are applied to nine unique cities across three continents.
Table of Contents
1. Changing Urban Landscape in Albania2. Post-Socialist Europe and its 'Constitutive Outside': Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research Agenda3. The Containment of Memory in the 'Meeting Place': City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe 4. Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy5. Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation6. The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Pekic in Light of the Urban Revolution7. The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague8. Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in Naples9. African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
10. Italian Americans and Others in New York City: Interethnic Relations from the Field
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