its scales, spaces and subjects Sassen, Saskia. text bibliography nyu New York Routledge c2007 2007 monographic eng

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xi, 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Introduction: Deciphering the global / Saskia Sassen -- Postindustrial Bohemia : culture, neighborhood, and the global economy / Richard Lloyd -- Translocal civilities : Chinese modern dance at downtown Los Angeles public concerts / Marina Peterson -- Re-imagining old Havana : world heritage and the production of scale in late socialist Cuba / Matthew J. Hill -- Becoming global? : evangelism and transnational practices in Russian society / Sarah Busse Spencer -- Deciphering the local in a global neoliberal age : three favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil / Simone Buechler -- Locating transnational activists : solidarity with and beyond propinquity / Evalyn W. Tennant -- Deciphering the space and scale of global nomadism : subjectivity and counterculture in a global age / Anthony D'Andrea -- Outsourcing difference : expatriate training and the disciplining of culture / Heather Hindman -- Producing global economy from below : Chinese immigrant transnational entrepreneurship in Japan / Gracia Liu Farrer -- The sub-national constitution of global financial markets / Rachel Harvey -- The city and the self : the emergence of new political subjects in London / Anne Bartlett -- Ghetto cosmopolitanism : making theory at the margins / Rami Nashashibi -- Deregulating markets, reregulating crime : extralegal policing & the penal state in Mexico / Jennifer L. Johnson -- The transnational human rights movement and states of emergency in Israel/Palestine / Josh Kaplan -- Illegal immigrants as citizens in Malaysia / Kamal Sadiq -- Global-national interactions and sovereign debt restructuring outcomes / Giselle Datz. edited by Saskia Sassen. Includes bibliographical references and index. Globalization Social aspects Culture and globalization Acculturation Transnationalism Cosmopolitanism HM841 .D43 2007 306.01 0415957338 (pb) 9780415957335 (pb) 9780415957328 (hb) 041595732X (hb) 2006033652 DLC 150625 20150625102004.0 29399