Transnationalism and the German City

Transnationalism and the German City

villes allemandes, identités, localisme, environnement urbain, globalisation

All too often, urban studies scholars have approached transnationalism as a zero-sum game in which localities, regionalities, and nationalities are suppressed in favor of a globalized set of identities. At least in the German case, however, globalization has if anything reinvigorated localism, with local and regional identities exhibiting far more continuity than the multiply disrupted national space. As this marvelously varied collection demonstrates, the urban environment has become a site of "translocal" re-territorialization in which actors do not entrench themselves in opposition to globalization, but practice a dialectical adaptation. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, architecture, cultural studies, history, and urban planning, this volume offers empirically and theoretically rich essays to help deflate myths about the presumed dissolution of the urban environment's multiple particularities. Together they conceptually reconfigure the German city to reveal a transnational set of processes intermingled within the local, regional, and national spheres.

Jeffry M. Diefendorf is the Pamela Shulman Professor of European and Holocaust Studies and Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, USA. He is the author of In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II and coeditor of Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945.

Janet Ward is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Her recent books include Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity and the coedited Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe.

Jeffry M. Diefendorf (Dir.)

Janet Ward (Dir.)

http://us.macmillan.com/transnationalismandthegermancity/JeffryMDiefendorf

Macmillan

2014-04

288

EN

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