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Record Nr.

UNINA9910171009003321

Titolo

Living the global city : globalization as a local process / / edited by John Eade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-77241-6

1-134-77242-4

1-280-35448-8

0-585-46094-9

0-203-13867-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EadeJohn <1946->

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

International economic relations

International trade

International division of labor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS; 3 TRAVELLING BEYOND LOCAL CULTURES; 4 THE DELINKING OF LOCALE AND MILIEU; 5 WORKING-CLASS CULTURE; 6 LOCAL LIVES-DISTANT TIES; 7 RETHINKING POVERTY IN GLOBALIZED CONDITIONS; 8 RECONSTRUCTING PLACES; 9 IDENTITY, NATION AND RELIGION; 10 'TRIBAL ARTS'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

How do global influences affect people's everyday life? This book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the concept of global/local processes.