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Full Contributors: Ed Soja, University of California, Los Angeles, Bob Catterall, David S. Byrne, University of East London, Phil Cohen, University of East London, Barnor Hesse, University of East London, Max Farrar, Leeds Metropolitan University, Elizabeth Wilson, University of North London, David Chaney, University of Durham, Ian Taylor, University of Salford, Ruth Jamieson James Donald, University of Sussex, Tim Hall, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE, Julie Charlesworth and Allan Cochrane, both at The Open University, Roger Burrows, C-Sal University of Teeside, Stephen Graham, Newcastle University, Graham McBeath and Stephen Webb, both at University of Derby
First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to
the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology,
cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped
around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic
diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The
city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and
present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in
examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of
cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but
has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to
the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology,
cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped
around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic
diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The
city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and
present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in
examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of
cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but
has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
Power and the Social looks at the different ways power has been theorised from Hobbes to Giddens and at the ways in which the theories have been applied. By bringing together theory and substantive analysis, this invaluable introductory text provides a clear and imaginative account of power and power relations. Within key areas of sociological concern, including race, gender, class, sexuality, the spatial and visual, the processes and structures of power are analysed as well as the way power functions in everyday life.
Migration is an increasingly prominent phenomenon in today's
globalizing world and it has been perceived in very different ways.
The poetics of exile, the pain of diasporic lives and the
celebration of hybridity in popular cultures across the globe are
curiously at odds with the ways in which sociologists and
economists have tried to conceptualize and analyze migration. In
this book, two leading authorities on migration and nationhood
attempt to bridge the gap between experience and analysis, looking
at: the ruptured experience of space and time created by migration;
the effects of migration on our understanding of national
affiliations and the nation state; and the impact of cross national
economic relations on everyday life. The authors argue that the
figure of the migrant, embodies and condenses out concerns with
race, space and time and the politics of belonging. They examine
the migration of both rich and poor, crossing borders and living
increasingly diasporic lives and show how even as people move
across borders, they still seek to be at home in the world through
the creation of a "politics of belonging".
Migration is an increasingly prominent phenomenon in today's globalising world and it has been perceived in very different ways. The poetics of exile, the pain of diasporic lives and the celebration of hybridity in popular cultures across the globe are curiously at odds with the ways in which sociologists and economists have tried to conceptualise and analyse migration. In this book, two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt to bridge the gap between experience and analysis, looking at: *the ruptured experience of space and time created by migration *the effects of migration on our understanding of national affiliations and the nation state *the impact of cross national economic relations on everyday life. The authors argue that the figure of the migrant, embodies and imagined, condenses out concerns with race, space and time and the politics of belonging. They examine the migration of both rich and poor, crossing borders and living increasingly diasporic lives and show how even as people move across borders, they still seek to be at home in the world through the creation of a "politics of belonging".
"Predictable postmodernist analysis of Ecuador's national identity. Examines gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Case study of nation's development out of inchoate space"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
"Predictable postmodernist analysis of Ecuador's national identity. Examines gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Case study of nation's development out of inchoate space"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Latin America has seen revolutionary governments, authoritarian
dictatorships and reformist military administrations; the region
has also seen powerful grassroots movements demanding social and
political change. Through their active involvement women are seen
for the first time as integral to the process of democratization.
Yet these women are not a simple unity with shared aims; class and
ethnicity create division. "Viva" explores the growing role of
women in the formal and informal politics of the countries of Latin
America. The authors focus in particular on the construction of
gender through political activism and the centrality of gender,
class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of "the nation".
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