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The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and
challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves
much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating
and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary
globalisation processes. This edited collection reflects current
studies on the relation of transnationalism and urbanism. Scholars
from disciplines including Geography, Ethnography and Urban
Planning discuss theoretical approaches, methodology and case
studies on processes of the production of urban spaces through
global economic value chains, socio-cultural practices, and
political governance strategies. Cities are appropriate sites for
an examination of the spatial dimension of transnationality because
this is where global processes are concentrated, localized,
transformed and materialize. In this context, urban space is not
merely to be regarded as a setting for transnational practices, but
as a constituent force of transnationalism in all its
manifestations.
The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and
challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves
much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating
and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary
globalisation processes. This edited collection reflects current
studies on the relation of transnationalism and urbanism. Scholars
from disciplines including Geography, Ethnography and Urban
Planning discuss theoretical approaches, methodology and case
studies on processes of the production of urban spaces through
global economic value chains, socio-cultural practices, and
political governance strategies. Cities are appropriate sites for
an examination of the spatial dimension of transnationality because
this is where global processes are concentrated, localized,
transformed and materialize. In this context, urban space is not
merely to be regarded as a setting for transnational practices, but
as a constituent force of transnationalism in all its
manifestations.
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today,
mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing
arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic
disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education
and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights
from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter
investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity
and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials,
agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites
and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising
the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations,
interpretations and framings.
Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the
European continent. In the context of processes of globalization
and local urban planning projects urban space is continously
contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these
urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social
scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case
studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and
constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.
In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly
aff ected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering
life and work around the ports, the built environment and public
imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port
development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local
stakeholders perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe
and Latin America. Th is book covers a wide variety of urban fi
elds, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway
sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of
urban transformation.
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