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

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

Zden k 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.