Editors:
- Provides a unique 'glocal' perspective in that the migration of different ethnic, religious, and racial groups presents opportunities for new thinking about diversity in urban contests
- Addresses often-neglected questions pertaining to how cities develop
- Makes a significant contribution to the literature on urban social science
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (PSUA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social, and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. In these 'glocal' regards, the authors demonstrate how city images, borders, and social processes such as migration, tourism, and local development must be seen in broader contexts. The contributors examine them through the lenses of foreign investment, migration, and history. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and employs a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Contributors’ multidisciplinary expertise and insights about spaces and places are applied to nine unique cities across three continents.
Editors and Affiliations
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Brooklyn College, Sociology Department, City University of New York, Brooklyn, USA
Jerome Krase
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Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Zdeněk Uherek
About the editors
Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.
Zdeněk Uherek is Director of the Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology, CZ.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diversity and Local Contexts
Book Subtitle: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration
Editors: Jerome Krase, Zdeněk Uherek
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53952-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53951-5Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85283-6Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53952-2Published: 18 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2436
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2444
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 215
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Ethnography, Migration