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Informationen zum Autor Judith N. DeSena is professor of sociology at St. John's University.Timothy Shortell is director of the MA program in sociology at Brooklyn College. Klappentext The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces. Zusammenfassung The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification! Immigration! and Ethnic Politics in a Global City! is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic! social! political! and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn! as the context! reflects global forces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: The World in BrooklynJudith N. DeSena and Timothy ShortellChapter 2: Mapping a Changing Brooklyn, Mapping a Changing World: Gentrification and Immigration, 2000-2008Lorna Mason, Ed Morlock and Christina PisanoChapter 3: Forgetting Poverty in Brooklyn and the U.S.William DiFazioChapter 4: Gentrification in Everyday Life in BrooklynJudith N. DeSenaChapter 5: ¿Williamsburg Walks¿: Public Space and Community Events in a Gentrified NeighborhoodSara MartucciChapter 6: The Environmental Injustice of Green Gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn¿s Prospect ParkKenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. LewisChapter 7: Rezoning Coney Island: A History of Decline and Revival, of Heroes and Villains at the ¿People¿s PlaygroundAlessandro BusàChapter 8: The Gowanus Canal: Local Politics of ¿Superfunding¿ StatusShanna FarrellChapter 9: Striving for Sustainability on the Urban Waterfront: The Case of Newtown CreekSteve LangChapter 10: Riding the Bus in Brooklyn: Seeing the Spectacle of Everyday Multicultural LifeJerome KraseChapter 11: Brooklyn and Belleville: On the Visual Semiotics of Ethnic Identity in Two Immigrant NeighborhoodsTimothy ShortellChapter 12: Constructing an Oppositional Community: Sunset Park and the Politics of Organizing Across DifferenceMark TreskonChapter 13: An Ethnography of Local Politics in a Brooklyn Caribbean CommunityEvrick BrownChapter 14: The Dual Roles of Brighton Beach: A Local and Global CommunityPhyllis ConnChapter 15: Hood Politics: Charter Schools, Race and Gentrification in Fort GreeneNoel S. AndersonChapter 16: Revising Canarsie: Racial Transition and Neighborhood Stability in BrooklynJennifer Candipan, Roberta Cordeau, Mark Peterson, Nicole Riordan, Bengisu Peker, Danielle Shallow and Gregory Smithsimon ...
