Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World - Couverture souple

Perkins, Harvey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0230575919 ISBN 13 : 9780230575912

Editeur : Red Globe Press, 2011

Synopsis

How do our everyday environments inform our activities, routines and encounters? In what way has globalization affected the sites in which we work, relax and interact? Is there still a place for local identity in a globalized age?

This book examines the ways in which we use local spaces and global processes to shape our identities. Showing how enhanced tourism, communication developments and increased diversity have effected the way we live every day, the text also explains how individuals, communities and cities react to such globalizing forces on a local level. Each chapter unravels complex connections between place, identity and global processes, and carefully outlines what core theory can tell us about key contemporary debates, including surveillance, environmental change and sustainability. Taking examples from urban and rural life, shopping malls and virtual worlds, the book encourages us to look at our immediate surroundings in a sociological light.

Highlighting the interdependence of space and society in a rapidly changing world, this text is essential reading for those studying place and identity in Sociology, Cultural Studies, Geography, Urban Studies and Rural Studies.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

HARVEY PERKINS is Professor of Human Geography at Lincoln University, New Zealand.

DAVID C. THORNS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Red Globe Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230575919
• ISBN 13: 9780230575912
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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