Overview

Based on ethnographic research in London, this study investigates globalization as a feature of everyday life. Rejecting simplifying notions of globalization as a macro-economic force, it provides a grounded picture of various ways in which people's biographical trajectories are tied up with the global cultural economy. While recent debates in the social sciences started to investigate the link between globalization and biography in general, this study more specifically stresses the catalytic function of the global city environment. The idea of 'milieu' has always linked people to their surroundings. The main argument developed throughout the book is that the globalization of their lives is experienced by people as the 'extension'of their milleux, both spatially and symbolically. This book shows that within a global cultural economy people's milieux can potentially span the world. Grounded in life histories and local history, it develops a concept of millieu that emphasises the symbolisms of developing against the primacy of place.

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Author:   Jörg Dürrschmidt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781841420110

ISBN 10:   1841420115
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   26 October 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The (Global) City as a Pars Pro Toto of (Global) Society?; Chapter 2 Towards a Phenomenology of Globalization; Chapter 3 Eight London Biographies–Lives in the Globalized World City; Chapter 4 The Uprooting of Milieux; Chapter 5 The Delinking of Locale and Milieu; Chapter 6 Streatham – The Reluctant Suburb: The Metropolis Extends; Chapter 7 Extended Milieu and ‘Soft City’ – Generating Symbolic Space; Chapter 8 The Globalized World City and Its ‘Cosmion’; Chapter 9 Conclusion: The End of the World City?;

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Jörg Dürrschmidt is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England.

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