Branding Cities (eBook, PDF)

Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
Redaktion: Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk; Kevin, Catherine; Kofman, Eleonore

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Produktbeschreibung

Cultural analysts, social scientists, and media scholars explore the ways in which cities generate competing visions of their use and their future, thereby branding their image for international consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135890070
• Artikelnr.: 42983396

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Future Fellow and Professor of Comparative Film and Cultural Studies at the University of New South Wales. Her Public Secrets, Public Spaces (2000) analyses the relationship between political change, civil society, and film in the 1980s and early 1990s in China. Little Friends (2005) discusses postrevolutionary filmmakers and children's socialization. Tourism and the Branded City: Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim (2007) takes an interdisciplinary view of urban histories and visual identity. The State of China Atlas (3rd ed. 2009), Media and China (co-edited with Michael Keane, 2001) and Picturing Power (co-edited with Harriet Evans, 1999) are well-used texts in tertiary courses on China and visual media. Current research looks at middle-class emergence in the PRC, mobile-phone use among young people, and the aesthetics of the poster in China. Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship and Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University. Her research interests are in gender and migration in Europe, especially family and skilled migrations; cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism and migration; and feminist political geography. She is co-author of Gender and International Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics (2000) and co-editor of Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography (2004), Henri Lefebvre: Selected Writings (2003) and Globalization: Theory and Practice (3rd edn 2008). Catherine Kevin completed her PhD at the University of Sydney and is currently a lecturer in Australian History at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. Her key research interests are histories of Australian reproductive medicine, reproductive politics, feminist theories of the body, Australian feminism, Italian immigration to Australia. Works in progress include a monograph entitled Great Expectations: A Political History of Pregnancy in Australia (since 1945) and the editing of a collection of essays called Feminism and the Body, Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Recent publications include 'Looking Out For Girls: A Feminist Reading of Kate Shortland's Somersault'; 'Subjects for Citizenship: Pregnancy and the Australian Nation, 1945-2000'; 'Forming Families on the Reproductive Frontier'; 'Maternity and Freedom: Australian Feminist Encounters with the Reproductive Body'; and the book A History of Italian Settlement in New South Wales (1999), co-authored with Roslyn Pesman.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Processes of Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism Stephanie
Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman and Catherine Kevin 2. Strangers as
Neighbors in the Cosmopolis: New Migrants in London, Diversity and Place
Panos Hatziprokopiou 3. Conflicting Mobilities: Cultural Diversity and City
Branding in Berlin Kira Kosnick. Branding the City: Selling Contradiction
for Global Advantage 4. London's Chinatown: Branded Place or Community
Space? Rosemary Sales, Alessio d'Angelo, Xiujing Liang and Nicola Montagna
5. Living and Making the Branded City and its Contradictions: Skilled EU
Migrants in Manchester Paul Kennedy 6. Understanding Cultural Quarters in
Branded Cities Simon Roodhouse. Idea of the City: Cinematic Futures and the
Grounds of the Present 7. London Undead: Screening/Branding the Empty City
Christoph Lindner 8. Branding the Modernist Metropolis: The Eternal City
and the City of Lights in Cinema after World War Two Mark Shiel 9. Nantes's
Atlantic Problem Bill Marshall. Family Histories: The Remembered City 10.
Stripes and My Country or, On Not Being at Home Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
11. Cosmopolitanism with Roots: The Jewish Presence in Shanghai before the
Communist Revolution and as Brand in the New Metropolis Andrew Jakubowicz
12. A la Mode: The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial Yi Zheng. Coda 13.
Cosmopolitanism, Branding and the Public Realm Jeff Malpas