Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects

Abstract

Preface Introduction: Deciphering the Global Saskia Sassen Part One: Microspaces in Global Scalings Postindustrial Bohemia: Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy Richard Lloyd Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts Marina Peterson Re-Imagining Old Havana: World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba Matthew J. Hill Becoming Global?: Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society Sarah Busse Spencer Deciphering the local in a global neoliberal age: Three favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil Simone Buechler Part Two: Translocal Circuits and their Mobilities Locating Transnational Activists: The United States Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Confines of the National Evalyn W. Tennant Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism: Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age Anthony D'Andrea Outsourcing Difference: Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture Heather Hindman Producing Global Economy from Below: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan Gracia Liu Farrer The Sub-national Constitution of Global Financial Markets Rachel Harvey Part Three: Shifting Spaces and Subjects of the Political The City and the Self: The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London Anne Bartlett Ghetto Cosmopolitanism: Making Theory at the Margins Rami Nashashibi Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime: Extralegal Policing & the Penal State in Mexico Jennifer L. Johnson The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine Josh Kaplan Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia Kamal Sadiq Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes Giselle Datz