Seeking Community in a Global City
Title | Seeking Community in a Global City PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Hamilton |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781566398688 |
Driven by the pressures of poverty and civil strife at home, large numbers of Central Americans came to the Los Angeles area during the 1980s. This title examines the forces in Central America that sent thousands of people streaming across international borders. It discusses economic, political, and demographic changes in the Los Angeles region.
Reseña de "Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles" de Nora Hamilton Y Norma Stoltz Chinchilla
Title | Reseña de "Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles" de Nora Hamilton Y Norma Stoltz Chinchilla PDF eBook |
Author | Juan Carlos Narváez Gutiérrez |
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Release | 2004 |
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The Global City
Title | The Global City PDF eBook |
Author | Saskia Sassen |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2001-09-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691070636 |
This is a timely edition of a work that changed the way we think about cities in the global economy."--BOOK JACKET.
Gangs in the Global City
Title | Gangs in the Global City PDF eBook |
Author | John Hagedorn |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0252073371 |
Understanding worldwide gangs through the lens of globalization
Re-Living the Global City
Title | Re-Living the Global City PDF eBook |
Author | John Eade |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2017-11-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317510429 |
Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival. In this new collection Eade and Rumford draw together scholars whose work has engaged with the original volume over the last 15 years and the result is a unique and thematically coherent collection of essays which both complements the original book and challenges some of its core assumptions. Re-Living the Global City both pays homage to a key text and pushes its agenda into important new areas. After reflecting upon how debates in the field have developed since the original publication, the contributors seek to drive the debate forward through discussion of contemporary themes and issues such as borders and bordering, social movements, community and global connectivity. They consider the ways in which the city produces different experiences of globalization for different people and examine the various accounts of the ways in which new forms of sociality are definitive of contemporary globalization and cosmopolitanism. Drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines including international relations, politics, sociology, urban studies and anthropology, this work will be of great interest to all students and scholars of global studies and globalization.
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States
Title | Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Paul DiMaggio |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0813547571 |
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.
Power Misses II
Title | Power Misses II PDF eBook |
Author | David E. James |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0861969774 |
Like David James' earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultural activity that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media. Now with a wider frame of reference, it moves globally from west to east, beginning with films made during the Korean Democracy Movement, and then turning to socialist realism in China and Taiwan, and to Asian American film and poetry in Los Angeles. Several other avant-garde film movements in L.A. created communities resistant to the culture industries centered there, as did elements in the classic New York avant-garde, here instanced in the work of Ken Jacobs and Andy Warhol. The final chapter concerns little-known films about communal agriculture in the Nottinghamshire village of Laxton, the only one where the medieval open-field system never suffered enclosure. This survival of the commons anticipated resistance to the extreme and catastrophic forms of privatization, monetization, and theft of the public commonweal in the advanced form of capitalism we know as neoliberalism.