Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration - Hardcover

by Jerome Krase (Editor), Zdeněk Uherek (Editor)

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

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

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

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