Cities in Global Capitalism explores what is called here the city-capitalism nexus and its political, economic and cultural significance in times of advanced globalization. Today, cities are at the centre of debates over capitalist globalization and everyday life. The professional news outlets as well as the multitudinous social media are … Read More
Tag: Urban Studies
Geomedia
Geomedia is a term I use to describe a new condition affecting both media and cities. This is defined on the one hand by a new spatialization of media in the city, and, on the other, by new protocols and practices for the mediation of urban social relations. Geomedia is … Read More
What lessons does China’s urbanization hold?
China was historically an agrarian society with the majority of its population engaged in farming and living in rural areas, and this configuration continued until the last quarter of the twentieth century. But the country has aggressively urbanized since, adding more than 400 new cities and hundreds of millions of … Read More
Communities and networks: Using social network analysis to rethink community and urban studies
We have lived in communities as long as we have been human, but do we really understand how communities work and what they do? Technological changes, especially the growth of the internet, have led researchers to reevaluate many of our assumptions about the nature of community and communal life – … Read More
The stranger in the West
Land of Strangers offers a diagnosis of attitudes towards the stranger in the West since 9/11, when some visible minorities have been increasingly targeted as the focal point of subcutaneous fear, aversion and envy about all manner of things, and the object of punitive measures of surveillance, control and exclusion. … Read More
