Diversity and Local Contexts

Provides a unique 'glocal' perspective in that the migration of different ethnic, religious, and racial groups presents opportunities for new thinking about diversity in urban contests

Addresses often-neglected questions pertaining to how cities develop Makes a significant contribution to the literature on urban social science

Autorentext
Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.

Zdenk Uherek is Director of the Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnology, CZ.

Inhalt

1. Changing Urban Landscape in Albania.- 2. Post-Socialist Europe and its 'Constitutive Outside': Ethnographic Resemblances for a Comparative Research Agenda.- 3. The Containment of Memory in the 'Meeting Place': City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe.- 4. Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy.- 5. Colonial Factors Hidden in City Center Revitalization: Chernivtsi as an Imperial Formation.- 6. The Dispersed City: The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan by Borislav Peki in Light of the Urban Revolution.- 7. The Perception of Language (Dis)Similarity: Slovak and Hungarian Ethnic Minorities in Prague.- 8. Politicking Imperils Democracy: Contested Public Space in Naples.- 9. African Migrants and European Expatriates in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.- 10. Italian Americans and Others in New York City: Interethnic Relations from the Field.