Everyday Lives in the Global City The Delinking of Locale and Milieu
Heftet /
2015
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781138867291
Published
2015-06-25
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
294 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
200
Author
Biographical note
Jörg Dürrschmidt is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England.
Rejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in which people's biographies are tied up with the global cultural economy. The main argument of the book is that the globalisation of lives is experienced by people as the 'extension' of their 'milieux' both spatially and symbolically.
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This title investigates the global city environment as a feature of everyday life. Based on ethnographic research in London, this study investigates globalization as a feature of everyday life.
Introduction; Chapter 1 The (Global) City as a Pars Pro Toto of (Global) Society?; Chapter 2 Towards a Phenomenology of Globalization; Chapter 3 Eight London Biographies–Lives in the Globalized World City; Chapter 4 The Uprooting of Milieux; Chapter 5 The Delinking of Locale and Milieu; Chapter 6 Streatham – The Reluctant Suburb: The Metropolis Extends; Chapter 7 Extended Milieu and ‘Soft City’ – Generating Symbolic Space; Chapter 8 The Globalized World City and Its ‘Cosmion’; Chapter 9 Conclusion: The End of the World City?;
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Product details
ISBN
9781138867291
Published
2015-06-25
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
294 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
200
Author