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.

Autorentext

Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.

Zdenk Uherek is Director of the Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology, CZ.

Inhalt

1. Changing Urban Landscape in Albania.- 2. Post-Socialist Europe and its 'Constitutive Outside': Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research Agenda.- 3. The Containment of Memory in the 'Meeting Place': City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe.- 4. Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy.- 5. Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation.- 6. The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Peki in Light of the Urban Revolution.- 7. The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague.- 8. Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in Naples.- 9. African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.- 10. Italian Americans and Others in New York City: Interethnic Relations from the Field.