Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

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ISBN: 9780415957328 | 041595732X
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Copyright: 4/2/2007

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Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Deciphering the Global	p. 1
Scalings: Global Microspaces
Postindustrial Bohemia Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy	p. 21
Translocal Civilities Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts	p. 41
Reimagining Old Havana World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba	p. 59
Becoming Global? Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society	p. 79
Deciphering the Local in a Global Neoliberal Age Three Favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil	p. 97
Translocal Circuits and Their Mobilities
Locating Transnational Activists The United States Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Confines of the National	p. 119
Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age	p. 139
Outsourcing Difference Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture	p. 155
Producing Global Economies from Below Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan	p. 179
The Subnational Constitution of Global Financial Markets	p. 201
The Political: Shifting Spaces and Subjects
The City and the Self The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London	p. 221
Ghetto Cosmopolitanism Making Theory at the Margins	p. 243
Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime Extralegal Policing and the Penal State in Mexico	p. 265
The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine	p. 283
Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia	p. 303
Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes	p. 323
Contributors	p. 343
Index	p. 349
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