Urban Movements in a Globalising World

by Hamel, Pierre; Lustiger-Thaler, Henri; Mayer, Margit

• ISBN13: 9780203361368
• ISBN10: 0203361369
• Copyright: 2004-03-09
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This collection deals with the transformation of urban movements in the new social, economic and political environments that the rise of globalisation has brought about.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: urban social movements--local thematics, global spaces	p. 1
Urban social movements: global impacts and the new urban citizenship	p. 23
New social movements, poor people's movements and the struggle for social citizenship	p. 25
The miniaturisation of collective action: ghettos and global space	p. 45
Marginalisation and political responses in the French context	p. 59
The urban economy in global context	p. 79
Globalisation, entrepreneurial cities and the social economy	p. 81
Local finance in a global economy: palliative or panacea?	p. 101
Workfare and community economic development in Montreal: community and work in the late twentieth century	p. 123
Urban social movements and the global future	p. 139
Urban social movements in an era of globalisation	p. 141
The fragmentation of social movements and social justice: beyond the traditional forms of localism	p. 158
Local citizens' initiatives during the (East) German transformation	p. 177
The diversity of Eastern European social movements: urban movements, new social movements and nationalist movements in post-socialist societies	p. 192
Index	p. 213
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