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Port Cities as Areas of Transition
. Ed(S): Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal; Kokot, Waltraud; Wildner, Kathrin; Wonneberger, Astrid
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Paperback. 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. This volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. Editor(s): Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal; Kokot, Waltraud; Wildner, Kathrin; Wonneberger, Astrid. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783899429497
SKU
V9783899429497
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99-1
About . Ed(S): Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal; Kokot, Waltraud; Wildner, Kathrin; Wonneberger, Astrid
Waltraud Kokot (PhD) is professor of social anthropology at Hamburg University. Her teaching and research areas include diaspora, urban anthropology, refugee studies, urban poverty and homelessness. She has conducted field research in Thessaloniki, Sofia and Hamburg. Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (M.A.) is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. Astrid Wonneberger (PD Dr.) is a private lecturer for cultural and social anthropology at the University of Hamburg as well as a researcher and lecturer for family science at the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg. Her major academic interests include diaspora, ethnicity and urban anthropology. She has completed field research in Western Ireland, New York, Boston and Dublin (Ireland).
Reviews for Port Cities as Areas of Transition
»[Ein] unbedingt lesenswerter Sammelband [...].« Daniel Kalt, dérive 36, 7-9 (2009) Reviewed in: RaumPlanung, 141 (2008), Sandra Huning