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Port cities as areas of transition: ethnographic perspectives
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Abstract
In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic stud... view more
In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' 'perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.... view less
Keywords
ethnology; globalization; migration; harbor; town; sociology; urbanity; urban development; urban research
Classification
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Urbane Development
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
212 p.
Series
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409497
ISBN
978-3-8394-0949-7
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0