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Football constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European
culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic
networks have come into being. This fascinating and unique volume
traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to
the present, focusing in particular on the dramatic changes that
have occurred in the last decade and linking them to the wider
process of European integration. The examination of football
illuminates how the growing dominance of the free market has
changed European society from an international order in which the
nation-state was dominant to a more complex transnational regime in
which cities and regions are becoming more prominent than in the
past. The study is supported by detailed ethnographic accounts
emerging from the author's fieldwork at Manchester United and
interview data with some of the most important figures in European
football at clubs including Juventus, Milan, Bayern Munich, Schalke
and Barcelona. It also includes a highly topical examination of
racism in European football.
This book brings together a series of new and historical case
studies to show how different phases of globalization are
transforming the built environment. Taking a broad
interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological,
geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a
critical account of the development of three key concepts: global
culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies
examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape
the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized
suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.
The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical
approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with
examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical
and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that
places material space and the built environment at the centre and
calls for new theories to address new conditions.
This book brings together a series of new and historical case
studies to show how different phases of globalization are
transforming the built environment. Taking a broad
interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological,
geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a
critical account of the development of three key concepts: global
culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies
examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape
the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized
suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.
The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical
approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with
examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical
and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that
places material space and the built environment at the centre and
calls for new theories to address new conditions.
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning
the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging
book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the
phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least,
world economic, political and cultural forces have been major
factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical
and spatial forms of the built environment. Anthony King believes
that the historical context of contemporary global restructuring
must be recognized if present-day urban and regional change is to
be properly understood. He explores and documents the cultural and
spatial links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery and
examines the historical foundations of the world urban system. He
also looks at the social production of building and urban form, and
demonstrates their potential for understanding economic, political,
socail and cultural change on a global scale.
Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los
Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and
co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book
provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of
metropolitan growth, world city formation and the theory it has
generated. Suggesting 'post-imperialism' as the most appropriate
framework for analysis, the author demonstrates the extent to which
urban and regional development, both in Britain and elsewhere, were
linked to a colonial mode of production, and highlights the effects
of its disappearance. Against this background, the author charts
the transformation of London from imperial capital in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to world city in the
capitalist world economy of today.
The Roman world was diverse and complex. And so were religious
understandings and practices as mirrored in the enormous variety
presented by archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic evidence.
Conventional approaches principally focus on the political role of
civic cults as a means of social cohesion, often considered to be
instrumentalised by elites. But by doing so, religious diversity is
frequently overlooked, marginalising ‘deviating’ cult
activities that do not fit the Classical canon, as well as the
multitude of funerary practices and other religious activities that
were all part of everyday life. In the Roman Empire, a person’s
religious experiences were shaped by many and sometimes seemingly
incompatible cult practices, whereby the ‘civic’ and
‘imperial’ cults might have had the least impact of all. The
authors rethink these methodologies, arguing for a more dynamic
image of religion that takes into account the varied and often
contradictory choices and actions of individual, which reflects the
discrepant religious experiences in the Roman world. Is it possible
to ‘poke into the mind’ of an individual in Roman times,
whatever his/her status and ethnicity, and try to understand the
individual’s diverse experiences in such a complex,
interconnected empire, exploring the choices that were open to an
individual? This also raises the question whether the concept of
individuality is valid for Roman times. In some periods, the impact
of individual actions can be more momentous: the very first
adoption of Roman-style sculpture, cult practices or Latin theonyms
for indigenous deities can set in motion long-term processes that
will significantly influence people’s perceptions of local
deities, their characteristics, and functions. Do individual
choices and preferences prevail over collective identities in the
Roman Empire compared to pre-Roman times? To examine these
questions, this volume presents case studies that analyse
individual actions in the religious sphere.
Drawing on the work of Gadamer, the book demonstrates that a
sociology which focuses on social relations does not imply a return
to idealism, nor a retreat into individualism, nor a rejection of
critique. Rather, a hermeneutic sociology which prioritises human
social relations is the only coherent paradigm which is available
today. The author argues that sociologists studying the dramatic
social transformations which are currently occuring should focus on
social relations between humans; they should not attempt to
understand contemporary changes in terms of structure and agency.
Drawing on the work of Gadamer, the book demonstrates that a
sociology which focuses on social relations does not imply a return
to idealism, nor a retreat into individualism, nor a rejection of
critique. Rather, a hermeneutic sociology which prioritises human
social relations is the only coherent paradigm which is available
today. The author argues that sociologists studying the dramatic
social transformations which are currently occuring should focus on
social relations between humans; they should not attempt to
understand contemporary changes in terms of structure and agency.
This book originates as a case study of London's role as 'world
city', focusing on imperialism and the internationalization of
capital of London and exploring the link between urbanization
processes and global economic forces.
Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city
worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical
concepts - globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested
notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has
been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the
larger global world. In this book Anthony King brings together key
essays written over this period, much of it dominated by debates
about the world or global city. Challenging assumptions and
silences behind these debates, King provides largely ignored
historical and cultural dimensions to the understanding of world
city formation as well as decline. Interdisciplinary and
comparative, the essays address new ways of framing contemporary
themes: the imperial and colonial origin of contemporary world and
global cities, actually existing postcolonialisms, claims about
urban and cultural homogenisation and the role of architecture and
built environment in that process. Also addressed are arguments
about indigenous and exogenous perspectives, Eurocentricism, ways
of framing vernacular architecture, and the global historical
sociology of building types. Wide-ranging and accessible, Writing
the Global City provides essential historical contexts and
theoretical frameworks for understanding contemporary urban and
architectural debates. Extensive bibliographies will make it
essential for teaching, reference and research.
Football constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European
culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic
networks have come into being. This fascinating and unique volume
traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to
the present, focusing in particular on the dramatic changes that
have occurred in the last decade and linking them to the wider
process of European integration. The examination of football
illuminates how the growing dominance of the free market has
changed European society from an international order in which the
nation-state was dominant to a more complex transnational regime in
which cities and regions are becoming more prominent than in the
past. The study is supported by detailed ethnographic accounts
emerging from the author's fieldwork at Manchester United and
interview data with some of the most important figures in European
football at clubs including Juventus, Milan, Bayern Munich, Schalke
and Barcelona. It also includes a highly topical examination of
racism in European football.
Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British
Countryside had its genesis in a conference held at the British
Museum in 2009 and brings together a range of papers on buildings
that have been categorised as 'villas', mainly in Roman Britain,
from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such
survey for almost half a century. While some of these structures
were indeed country houses and the centres of agricultural estates
as their designation as 'villas' implies, others are here shown to
have been administrative or industrial centres, hunting lodges or
religious sanctuaries, or a combination of more than one such
function. The art associated with these prestige structures and its
relevance to their function is also considered.
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning
the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging
book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the
phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least,
world economic, political and cultural forces have been major
factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical
and spatial forms of the built environment. Anthony King believes
that the historical context of contemporary global restructuring
must be recognized if present-day urban and regional change is to
be properly understood. He explores and documents the cultural and
spatial links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery and
examines the historical foundations of the world urban system. He
also looks at the social production of building and urban form, and
demonstrates their potential for understanding economic, political,
socail and cultural change on a global scale.
With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony,
distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open
our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the
British political system is quite so prone to appalling mistakes.
As pundits and politicians remind us at every election cycle or
turn of the television dial, the United States sees itself as the
world s greatest democracy. But what citizens might also hear, if
they knew how to listen, is the grinding of two tectonic plates on
which this democracy was established. In the venerable tradition of
keen foreign observers of American politics, Anthony King exposes
the political paradoxes in our system that we may well be too close
to see founding principles of our great democracy that are
distinctly undemocratic.
In an extended essay eloquent in its plainspoken good sense,
King begins, on the one hand, with the founding fathers who
emphasized moderation, deliberation, checks and balances, and the
separation of powers a system in which the people were allowed to
play only a limited role. On the other hand were radical democrats
who insisted that the people, and only the people, should rule. The
result was a political system tangled up in conflicts that persist
to this day: unelected and unaccountable Supreme Court justices who
exercise enormous personal power; severe restrictions on the kind
of person the people can elect as president; popular referendums at
the state and local level but none at the federal level, not even
to ratify amendments to the Constitution.
In King s provocative analysis, we see how these puzzles play
out in the turmoil of our nation s public life and political
culture and we glimpse, perhaps, a new way to address them.
A collection of uplifting poems, songs and short stories to feed
your soul.
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