Explorations in urban theory / / Michael Peter Smith

• Autore: Smith Michael Peter
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban; Urbanization
• Note generali: First published 2017 by Transaction Publishers.
• Nota di contenuto: part Part I. Introduction -- chapter 1 Explorations in Urban Theory: A Critical Overview -- part Part II. Classical Perspectives on Social Theory and Urban Life -- chapter 2 Social Theory and Social Reality: A Critique -- part Part III. The Structuralist Moment in Urban Political Economy -- chapter 3 Structural Marxist Urban Theory: Class Power, the State, and Urban Crisis -- chapter 4 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction, and Collective Action (with Richard Tardanico) -- part Part IV. The Poststructural Turn to Transnational Urbanism -- chapter 5 Postmodernism, Urban Ethnography, and the New Social Space of Ethnic Identity -- chapter 6 Transnationalism and the City -- chapter 7 Transnational Urbanism Revisited -- chapter 8 Can You Imagine? Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics -- part Part V. Political Transnationalism and Citizenship -- chapter 9 Transnationalism, the State, and the Extraterritorial Citizen -- chapter 10 The Two Faces of Transnational Citizenship -- part Part VI. Multi-Scalar, Trans-Local, and Contextual Place-Making -- chapter 11 Power in Place/Places of Power: Contextualizing Transnational Research -- chapter 12 The Global Diffusion of Public Policy: Power Structures and Democratic Accountability.
• Sommario/riassunto: "For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitants, particularly the way in which their everyday activities have contributed to the social construction of new ethnic identities and new meanings of urban citizenship. Combining the methods of political economy and transnational ethnography, he encourages us to think about new political spaces for practicing "urban citizenship" by analyzing the connections linking cities to the web of relations to other localities in which they are embedded. Smith systematically analyzes the dynamics of "community power" and "urban change" under new globalizing trends and increased transnational mobility. Expanding on his original conceptualization of "transnational urbanism," he frames urban political life within a wider transnational context of political practice, in which an endless interplay of distinctly situated networks, social practices, and power relations are fought out at multiple scales, in an inexorable politics of inclusion and exclusion."--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Explorations in urban theory
• ISBN: 1-351-52089-X; 1-351-52090-3; 0-203-79249-1; 1-4128-6388-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910160759503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II