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This volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range of disciplines - geography, ethnography, urban planning - to explore theoretical and methodological approaches to to the relation between transnationalism (both as a concept and an empirical reality) and the production of urban spaces.
List of contents
1. The Transnationality of Cities – Concepts, Dimensions and Research Fields: An Introduction Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner and Stephan Lanz 2. Transnationality and the City Nina Glick-Schiller 3. Cities of the Global South in the Context of Transnational Urbanism and International Development Policies Hans Harms 4. Transnational Planning: Reconfiguring Spaces and Institutions Clara Irazábal 5. Conceptualizing Transnational Urban Spaces: Multicentered Agency, Placeless Organizational Logics, and the Built Environment Christof Parnreiter 6. Materializing the Digital Commodity: Recording Studios in Transnational Project Networks of Digital Musical Production Michael Hoyler and Allan Watson 7. Global Capitalism and the Informal Economy: A Methodological Approach to the Complex Incorporation of Mexican Cities into the Globalized Markets Sandra Alarcón 8. The Return of the Local?: Anglicization, Transnationalism and Religion in the Global City John Eade 9. Small Town Transnationalism: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Immigration to the Heartland Faranak Miraftab 10. Challenging Heteronomous Power in a Globalized World: Insurgent Spatial Practices, ‘Militant Particularism’, and Multiscalarity Marcelo Lopes de Souza 11. Move From and Not On the Occult Zone (Where the People Dwell): An Argument for the Political Priority of Solidarity with Popular (and Largely Situated) Mobilization by the Poor over Transnational Organization by Civil Society Richard Pithouse
About the author
Stefan Krätke is Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.
Kathrin Wildner is Assistant Professor at the European-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
Stephan Lanz is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.
Summary
This volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range of disciplines - geography, ethnography, urban planning - to explore theoretical and methodological approaches to to the relation between transnationalism (both as a concept and an empirical reality) and the production of urban spaces.
