Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to Singapore, Hong Kong to Hanoi, Las Vegas to Macau, conventional public spaces are in decline as sites of ideological dissent. Instead, we are witnessing the colonisation of urban space by market globalism (today's dominant global ideology) and securitised surveillance regimes. Against this backdrop, how should we interpret the proliferation of metaphors…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Mcnevin, Anne (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-98574-7
- EAN: 9781317985747
- Produktnummer: 33100396
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'884 KB
Über den Autor
Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Research Leader of the Globalization and Culture Program of the Global Cities Research Institute at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and as an advisor to the PBS TV series, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism.Anne McNevin is Research Fellow in the Globalism Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne. She is the author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political, forthcoming with Columbia University Press. Her research into irregular migrant activism and the transformation of citizenship is also published in New Political Science, Review of International Studies and Citizenship Studies.
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