Overview

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. Living the Global City offers 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. By advancing the debates which surround these issues through a redefinition of the terms in which they have been developed and engagement with the everyday lives of people in a global city, this book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the context of global/local processes.

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Author:   John Eade
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415138864

ISBN 10:   0415138868
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 November 1996
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

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

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'This book represents an exceptional degree of innovative and seminal scholarship, and makes for both an exciting and stimulating read.' - Transactions of the IBG

Author Information

John Eade is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Southlands College, Roehampton Institute.

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