Transnational urbanism: locating globalization

Abstract

1. Introduction: The Social Construction of Urbanism:. Why Social Practices?. Why Transnational Urbanism?. Why Agency--oriented Urban Theory?. On Social Constructionism. The Architectonics Ahead. Locating Globalization. Reconstructing Urban Theory. Part I: Locating Globalization: . 2. The as Globalisma s Other: The Confines of the Master Narrative of Time--Space Compression. Beyond Technological Determinism. Cultural Reductionism. Postmodern Subjectivity, Political Fragmentation, and Identity Politics. Essentializing Class and Marginalizing Gender. The Political Geography of Difference. An Alternative View of Urban Politics. Beyond Binary Dualities. 3. The Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?. Reconsidering the City Thesis. The Limits of Economism. Historicizing the City. The Global Governance Agenda. Urbanism: Beyond Reification. 4. Reimagining Los Angeles from the Ground Up. Mexican Transmigration to Los Angeles The Legacy of Empire. The Social Construction of Local Economic Development. Urbanism and the Ethnic Economy. Constructing and Reconstructing Koreatown. Beyond Victimization. Part II: Reconstructing Urban Theory:. 5. Re--presenting the Local: Beyond Communitarian Metaphors. Localities as Defensive Community Formations. Rethinking the Boundaries of Locality. Localities and the Politics of Difference. The Social Construction of Space as Place. Rethinking the Politics of Everyday Life. Place--Making. 6. Beyond the Postmodern City: Rethinking Ethnography for Times. Social Constructionism and Postmodern Social Inquiry. Questioning the Knower and the Known. Constructing the Subject. The Uses and Limits of Postmodern Ethnography. Hybrid Subjects in Patterned Networks. The Border Crossings of Ethnography. 7. Transnationalizing the Grassroots. The Rise of Grassroots Politics. Transnationalizing Urban Research. Beyond the Global--Local Duality. Thinking Locally and Acting Globally. Bifocal Border Crossers. The Politics of Simultaneity. The Production of Political Space. 8. From Globalization to Urbanism. The Agency of Networks. The Rise of Translocalities Questioning the Post--national Discourse. Towards a Urban Studies. Comparative Transnationalisms. Summing Up. Epilogue. 9. Epilogue: The City as Crossroads. Index.