{"product_id":"transnational-urbanism-isbn-9780631184249","title":"Transnational Urbanism","description":"\u003ci\u003eTransnational Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound work of theoretical synthesis by internationally renowned urban theorist Michael Peter Smith. Moving deftly across disciplines and discursive terrains, Smith forges original and stimulating connections between urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies. With original and extraordinary insight, he addresses the central question of how and why immigrants, refugees, political activists, and institutions locate and maintain social relations in light of transnational urbanism. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings a concrete, historically informed discussion of globalization and transnationalism applied to urban studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a blueprint for reconstructing urban theory itself .\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eForges stimulating connections between the field of urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies .\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  1. Introduction: The Social Construction of Transnational Urbanism:. \u003cp\u003eWhy Transnational Social Practices?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy \"Transnational Urbanism\"?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Agency-oriented Urban Theory?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Social Constructionism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Architectonics Ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocating Globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconstructing Urban Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Locating Globalization:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Local as Globalism's \"Other\": The Confines of the Master Narrative of Time-Space Compression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Technological Determinism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Reductionism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodern Subjectivity, Political Fragmentation, and Identity Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssentializing Class and Marginalizing Gender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Political Geography of Difference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Alternative View of Urban Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Binary Dualities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconsidering the Global City Thesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Limits of Global Economism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistoricizing the Global City.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \"Global Governance\" Agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnational Urbanism: Beyond Reification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Reimagining Los Angeles from the Ground Up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMexican Transmigration to Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e The Legacy of Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Construction of \"Local Economic Development\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnational Urbanism and the Ethnic Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing and Reconstructing \"Koreatown\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Victimization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Reconstructing Urban Theory:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Re-presenting the \"Local\": Beyond Communitarian Metaphors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocalities as Defensive Community Formations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking the Boundaries of Locality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocalities and the Politics of Difference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Construction of Space as Place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking the Politics of Everyday Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnational Place-Making.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Beyond the Postmodern City: Rethinking Ethnography for Transnational Times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Constructionism and Postmodern Social Inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestioning the Knower and the Known.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing the Subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Uses and Limits of Postmodern Ethnography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHybrid Subjects in Patterned Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Border Crossings of Transnational Ethnography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Transnationalizing the Grassroots.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Transnational Grassroots Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnationalizing Urban Research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Global-Local Duality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking Locally and Acting Globally.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBifocal Border Crossers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Simultaneity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Production of Political Space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. From Globalization to Transnational Urbanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agency of Transnational Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Translocalities\u003cbr\u003e Questioning the Post-national Discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a Transnational Urban Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparative Transnationalisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSumming Up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Epilogue: The City as Crossroads.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Michael Peter Smith has done it again! Perhaps the most sophisticated urban theorist alive has written a beautifully crafted book that develops a sophisticated and innovative theory of contemporary transnational urbanism and fleshes it out with fascinating empirical and ethnographic examples drawn chiefly, but not exclusively, from major U.S. cities. The perfect volume to stimulate rethinking of the urban question.\" \u003ci\u003eJanet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Michael Peter Smith has been one of the leading theorists in urban affairs for many years. This book takes him to a new level, ranking him at the very top with Harvey and Castells. Smith's reconceptualization of globalization and his insistence on a more precise language - transnational urbanism - is groundbreaking. This book stands as an influential intellectual statement that other scholars will be obliged to take into account for many years.\" \u003ci\u003eDennis Judd, Urban Affairs Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Smith rightly insists that we need to look behind the mantras of 'globalization,' 'capital,' 'global cities,' and 'postmodernity'. He provides a highly persuasive argument for the recognition of human agency, locality and the growth of cultural practices from below. This is a major work - Smith has succeeded in returning urban theory to the streets where it belongs.\" \u003ci\u003eRobin Cohen, University of Warwick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Countering the structural tendencies of urban political economists, the ahistoricism of globalists, and the abstractions of postmodernists, Smith presents \"transnational urbanism\" as a cultural metaphor for an agency oriented urban theory. Cities are the primary sites of transnational urbanism –a pervasive and complex process involving cultures, policies, institutions, actors, and localities. Smith's is the most balanced theoretical approach to globalization, seeing it as it works, without any vilification or glorification. This is an important book in the field for graduate students and faculty.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Since 1979, when he published \u003ci\u003eThe City and Social Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Peter Smith has been providing us with close readings of the writings of urban theorists. \u003ci\u003eTransnational Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the strongest of these offerings, dissecting the hidden agendas and limitations of theories of globalization and rescuing the city from globalization's clutches.The value of Smith's ethnographic social constructionism.depends neither on devastating critiques nor sole possession of the space of urban theory. With insight and persuasion, Smith has made a powerful case for a transnational urbanism.\" \u003ci\u003eUrban Affairs Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a powerful and important book. The arguments, subtle but significant to the evolution of our understanding of global systemic change, are compelling. Smith deepens our conceptual sophistication on globalization, sociospatial dynamics, the role of the urban in international relations, and the mechanisms of agency in a world where forces appear to be beyond our control. Smith has given us a significant work, insightful.in its critique of the social evolutionism literature that has dominated this first phase of our struggle to locate globalization.\" \u003ci\u003eInternational Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[T]his is a book to be recommended. Ably supported by well-chosen cases and vignettes, Smith's argument injects a constructive element into the debate about the local and the global in what is altogether a stimulating read.\" \u003ci\u003eEnvironment and Planning A\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTransnational Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive book. It offers a state-of-the-art theoretical treatise on globalization and the city, which even those sceptical that new terms and novel methods can save globalization theory from its conceptual morass will gain much from reading.\" -- \u003ci\u003eEnvironment and Planning B: Planning and Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Peter Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Community Studies and Development at the University of California, Davis, and a Faculty Associate of the Center for California Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous books on cities, global migration, and urbanism including \u003ci\u003eThe City and Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), \u003ci\u003eThe Capitalist City\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eCity, State, and Market\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eThe Bubbling Cauldron\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and \u003ci\u003eTransnationalism from Below\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).  \u003ci\u003eTransnational Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound work of theoretical synthesis. Moving deftly across disciplines, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith criticizes the one-sided nature of globalization theory that has influenced urban studies scholars in the past two decades. Smith treats globalization not as an accomplished fact, but as an unfinished project of social and political practices. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eCentral questions posed in this book explore how and why transnational migrants, refugees, diasporas, ethnic formations, entrepreneurs, political activists, and institutional networks locate and actively maintain social relations, as well as how transnational practices relate to the neo-liberal project of corporate globalization. The book foregrounds the continuing significance of cities as mediators of power and as the human foundation of contemporary transnationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990409101541,"sku":"NP9780631184249","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631184249.jpg?v=1761787711","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/transnational-urbanism-isbn-9780631184249","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}