Urban Movements in a Globalising World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hamel, Pierre; Mayer, Margit; Lustiger-Thaler, Henri

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection deals with the transformation of urban movements in these new social, economic and political environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134542390
• Artikelnr.: 47886379

Autorenporträt

Pierre Hamel is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology at Université de Montréal; Henri Lustiger-Thaler is Chair of the Sociology Department of Ramapo College, New Jersey; and Margit Mayer is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Sciences and The Institute of American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: urban social movements-local thematics, global Spaces PART I
Urban social movements: global impacts and the new urban Citizenship 1 New
social movements, poor people's movements and the struggle for social
citizenship 2 The miniaturisation of collective action: ghettos and global
space 3 Marginalisation and political responses in the French context PART
II The urban economy in global context 4 Globalisation, entrepreneurial
cities and the social economy 5 Local finance in a global economy:
palliative or panacea? 6 Workfare and community economic development in
Montreal: community and work in the late twentieth century PART III Urban
social movements and the global future 7 Urban social movements in an era
of globalization 8 The fragmentation of social movements and social
justice: beyond the traditional forms of localism 9 Local citizens'
initiatives during the (East) German Transformation 10 The diversity of
Eastern European social movements: urban movements, new social movements
and nationalist movements in post-socialist societies