Segmented Cities? [electronic resource] : How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics.
Material type:
TextSeries: Ethnicity and democratic governance seriesPublication details: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0774825855
- 9780774825856
- Segmented Cities?
- Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Series
- Sociology, Urban -- Political activity
- Ethnic neighborhoods -- Political aspects
- Urban minorities
- Ethnic relations
- Ethnic neighborhoods
- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
- Sociology, Urban
- Urban minorities -- Political activity
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
- Ethnic neighborhoods
- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
- Sociology, Urban
- Sociology & Social History
- Social Sciences
- Communities - Urban Groups
- 307.76
- HT151.S446 2014eb
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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1: Globalization, Scale, and the Political Economy of Ethnically Plural World Cities""; ""1 Adding Human Diversity to Urban Political Economy Analysis""; ""2 Citizenship and Livelihood Struggles in Turbulent Times""; ""3 Gentrification, Social Mix, and the Immigrant-Reception Function of Inner-City Neighbourhoods""; ""4 Globalization, Immigration, and Ethnoburbs""; ""PART 2: Ethnolinguistic Configurations and Relations in Segmented Cities""
""5 Cape Town's World-Class Segregation""""6 Segmented Cities""; ""7 Immigrant Inclusion and Linguistic Struggle in the Brussels-Capital Region""; ""PART 3: Managing Diversity through Local Institutions and Processes of Urban Governance""; ""8 Jerusalem""; ""9 Managing Multicultural Cities in Divided Countries""; ""10 Social Cohesion and Democratic Voice""; ""Conclusion""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Contributors analyze the conditions under which cities from a broad range of geographical regions serve as sites of ethnic and national discord or amity. Particular attention is paid to the influence of economic globalization, cities' entrenched ethno-linguistic configurations, and urban political institutions."-- Provided by publisher.
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