Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This book illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to Singapore, Hong Kong to Hanoi, Las Vegas to Macau, conventional public spaces are in decline as sites of ideological dissent. Instead, we are witnessing the colonisation of urban space by market globalism (todays dominant global ideology) and securitised surveillance regimes. Against this backdrop, how should we interpret the proliferation of metaphors that claim to communicate the essence of global transformation? In what ways do space and language work together to normalise the truth claims of powerful ideological players? What kinds of social forces mobilise to contest the cooptation of language and space and to pose alternative local and global futures?
This book poses these questions against the collapse of old geographical scales and cartographic techniques for identifying the contours of civil society. The city acts as an entry point to a new spatial analytics of contemporary ideological forces. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Research Leader of the Globalization and Culture Program of the Global Cities Research Institute at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and as an advisor to the PBS TV series, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism.
Anne McNevin is Research Fellow in the Globalism Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne. She is the author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political (Columbia University Press, 2011). Her research into irregular migrant activism and the transformation of citizenship is also published in New Political Science, Review of International Studies and Citizenship Studies.
Rethinking Globalizations
Edited by Barry K. Gills, University of Newcastle, UK
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalization and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalization, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
1. Whither Globalization?
The vortex of knowledge and globalization
James H. Mittelman
2. Globalization and Global History
Edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson
3. Rethinking Civilization
Communication and terror in the global village
Majid Tehranian
4. Globalization and Contestation
The new great counter-movement
Ronaldo Munck
5. Global Activism
Ruth Reitan
6. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia
Edited by Mike Douglass, K. C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi
7. Challenging Euro-Americas Politics of Identity
The return of the native
Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes
8. The Global Politics of Globalization
Empire vs Cosmopolis
Edited by Barry K. Gills
9. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis
Edited by Jan Oosthoek and Barry K. Gills
10. Globalization as Evolutionary Process
Modeling global change
Edited by Geroge Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson
11. The Political Economy of Global Security
War, future crises and changes in global governance
Heikki Patomki
12. Cultures of Globalization
Coherence, hybridity, contestation
Edited by Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen and Ella Schmidt
13. Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice
Edited by Barry K. Gills
14. Global Economy Contested
Power and conflict across the international division of labor
Edited by Marcus Taylor
15. Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence
Beyond savage globalization?
Edited by Damian Grenfell and Paul James
16. Recognition and Redistribution
Beyond international development
Edited by Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger
17. The Social Economy
Working alternatives in a globalizing era
Edited by Hasmet M. Uluorta
18. The Global Governance of Food
Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke and Andrew Schrank
19. Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights
The role of multilateral organisations
Desmond McNeill and Asuncin Lera St. Clair
20. Globalization and Popular Sovereignty
Democracys transnational dilemma
Adam Lupel
21. Limits to Globalization
North-South divergence
William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny
22. Globalisation, Knowledge and Labour
Education for solidarity within spaces of resistance
Edited by Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo
23. Dying Empire
U.S. imperialism and global resistance
Francis Shor
24. Alternative Globalizations
An integrative approach to studying dissident knowledge in the global justice movement
S. A. Hamed Hosseini
25. Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg
26. Global South to the Rescue
Emerging humanitarian superpowers and globalizing rescue industries
Edited by Paul Amar
27. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
Edited by Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin
28. Power and Transnational Activism
Edited by Thomas Olesen
29. Globalization in Crisis
Edited by Barry K. Gills
30. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development
Visions, remembrances and explorations
Edited by Patrick Manning and Barry K. Gills
31. Global Social Justice
Edited by Heather Widdows and Nicola J. Smith
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