Sassen Deciphering the Global

Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-90833-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sassen, Saskia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Deciphering the Global

Saskia Sassen

Part One: Microspaces in Global Scalings

Postindustrial Bohemia: Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy

Richard Lloyd

Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts

Marina Peterson

Re-Imagining Old Havana: World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba

Matthew J. Hill

Becoming Global?: Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society

Sarah Busse Spencer

Deciphering the local in a global neoliberal age: Three favelas in São Paulo, Brazil

Simone Buechler



Part Two: Translocal Circuits and their Mobilities

Locating Transnational Activists:

The United States Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Confines of the National

Evalyn W. Tennant

Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism: Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age

Anthony D’Andrea

Outsourcing Difference: Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture

Heather Hindman

Producing Global Economy from Below: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan

Gracia Liu Farrer

The Sub-national Constitution of Global Financial Markets

Rachel Harvey

Part Three: Shifting Spaces and Subjects of the Political



The City and the Self: The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London

Anne Bartlett

Ghetto Cosmopolitanism: Making Theory at the Margins

Rami Nashashibi

Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime: Extralegal Policing & the Penal State in Mexico

Jennifer L. Johnson

The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine

Josh Kaplan

Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia

Kamal Sadiq

Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes

Giselle Datz