Port Cities and Global Legacies

Name: Port Cities and Global Legacies
Author: A. Mah

Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2014

ISBN13: 9781137283139

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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2014 9781137283139

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Samenvatting

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781137283139

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Hoofdrubriek:Mens en maatschappij

Inhoudsopgave

1. Introduction PART I: URBAN IDENTITY 2. Out of the Blue, Into the Black: Representing, Imagining, and Researching Port Cities 3. Reconstructing Port Identities: The Urban Politics of Waterfront Development 4. From Ports of Empire to Capitals of Culture: Museums of Slavery and Colonial History PART II: WATERFRONT WORK 5. Intergenerational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers' Strike: Rebuilding Solidarity in the Port 6. Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseilles-Fos 7. Ruination and Recovery: Keeping the Longshoremen's History in Post-Katrina New Orleans PART III: RADICALISM 8. Radicalism on the Waterfront: Imagining Alternative Futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans 9. Conclusion