Urban Movements in a Globalising World

by Hamel,Pierre; Hamel,Pierre

• ISBN13: 9780415244251
• ISBN10: 0415244250
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Urban social movements have traditionally been seen as being preoccupied with local issues, and as a result have been marginalized in the wider study of social movements. However, the increasing globalization of cities, the international flows of people, money and policy, have meant that the local issues urban movements engage with are becoming less parochial and more global. This collection deals with the transformation of urban movements in these new social, economic and political environments.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: urban social movements -- local thematics, global spaces	1	(22)
Pierre Hamel
Henri Lustiger-Thaler
Margit Mayer
PART I Urban social movements: global impacts and the new urban citizenship	23	(56)
New social movements, poor people's movements and the struggle for social citizenship	25	(20)
Roland Roth
The miniaturisation of collective action: ghettos and global space	45	(14)
Henri Lustiger-Thaler
Marginalisation and political responses in the French context	59	(20)
Sophie Body-Gendrot
PART II The urban economy in global context	79	(60)
Globalisation, entrepreneurial cities and the social economy	81	(20)
Bob Jessop
Local finance in a global economy: palliative or panacea?	101	(22)
Marguerite Mendell
Workfare and community economic development in Montreal: community and work in the late twentieth century	123	(16)
Ericshragge
Jean-Marc Fontan
PART III Urban social movements and the global future	139	(74)
Urban social movements in an era of globalisation	141	(17)
Margit Mayer
The fragmentation of social movements and social justice: beyond the traditional forms of localism	158	(19)
Pierre Hamel
Local citizens' initiatives during the (East) German transformation	177	(15)
Dieter Rink
The diversity of Eastern European social movements: urban movements, new social movements and nationalist movements in post-socialist societies	192	(21)
Katy Pickvance
Index	213