Port cities and global legacies : urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism / Alice Mah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mah, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Port cities--Case studies.

Port cities.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban economics.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 241 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This book advances the concept of 'global legacies'-enduring forms, processes, or ideas of the 'global' that shape urban identity and politics. Global lens provide a key lens to the difficult pasts and uncertain futures of cities. In particular, port cities, with their distinctive global dynamics, long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and roles within international trade networks, exhibit fascinating global legacies. Employing a rich methodological repertoire, Alice Mah combines approaches from critical political economy, global history and sociology, and ethnographic case study methods in this comparative study. The result is a careful examination of the contradictory legacies of empire, capitalism, casual labour, and radicalism in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans. These major port cities faced painful processes of ruination followed by attempts recovery in the recent past. The book reveals that while global legacies are fraught and contradictory, they also offer a framework of possibilities and resources for imagining alternative urban futures. Book jacket.

Contents:

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 Marseille-Fos

7. Ruination and recovery: keeping the longshoremen's histroy in post-Katrina New Orleans

Part III: Radicalism

8. Radicalism on the waterfront: imagining alternative futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans

9. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137283139

1137283130

OCLC:

881591746