Diversity and Local Contexts - Urban Space, Borders, and Migration

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.

List of contents

1. Changing Urban Landscape in Albania.- 2. Post-Socialist Europe and its 'Constitutive Outside': Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research Agenda.- 3. 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 Economy.- 5. Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation.- 6. The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Pekic in Light of the Urban Revolution.- 7. The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague.- 8. Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in Naples.- 9. African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.- 10. Italian Americans and Others in New York City: Interethnic Relations from the Field.

About the author

Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.
Zden¿k Uherek is Director of the Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology, CZ.

Summary

Provides a unique 'glocal' perspective in that the migration of different ethnic, religious, and racial groups presents opportunities for new thinking about diversity in urban contests
Addresses often-neglected questions pertaining to how cities develop
Makes a significant contribution to the literature on urban social science

Product details

• Assisted by: Jerom Krase (Editor), Jerome Krase (Editor), Uherek (Editor), Uherek (Editor), Zdenek Uherek (Editor), Zdeněk Uherek (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319852836
• ISBN: 978-3-31-985283-6
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 215 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Urban and regional sociology; Migration, B, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, auseinandersetzen, Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Emigration and immigration, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Human Migration, Population and migration geography