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Extract from the preface by Ernest W. Burgess :
Nine years ago the central topic at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society was "Rural Sociology." So great was the demand for the volume, especially for use in classes in universities…
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexican border : The Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing,…
Urban pollution : Cultural meanings, social practices
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Re-examining Mary Douglas’ work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It…
Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
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As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
Par-delà les silences. Non-dits et ruptures dans les parcours d'immigration
Issu d'une enquête de terrain de deux ans en Seine-Saint-Denis, cet ouvrage donne la parole à des migrants récemment arrivés et à des familles immigrées de longue date. En se racontant, hommes et femmes, jeunes et parents sortent collectivement du…
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich…
Paris et les banlieues, naissance d'un espace urbain, XIXe-XXe siècles
Présentation par le diffuseur : Cet essentiel d’histoire, composé d'une introduction et de 8 leçons, est proposé par Annie Fourcaut, professeur d'histoire contemporaine et spécialiste de la question. Il…
The Heroic City : Paris, 1945-1958
Présentation par l'éditeur : The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public…
Hôtels meublés à Paris : enquête sur une mémoire de l'immigration
Présentation par l'éditeur : « Ce livre résulte d’un pari ambitieux : saisir les hôtels meublés parisiens comme des lieux de mémoire. (…) À interroger habitants et hôteliers,…