Name: Transnational Urbanism By Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)
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Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization by Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

Transnational Urbanism is a profound work of theoretical synthesis by internationally renowned urban theorist Michael Peter Smith. Moving deftly across disciplines and discursive terrains, Smith forges original and stimulating connections between urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies. With original and extraordinary insight, he addresses the central question of how and why immigrants, refugees, political activists, and institutions locate and maintain social relations in light of transnational urbanism.

Brings a concrete, historically informed discussion of globalization and transnationalism applied to urban studies.
Offers a blueprint for reconstructing urban theory itself .
Forges stimulating connections between the field of urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies .

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"Michael Peter Smith has done it again! Perhaps the most sophisticated urban theorist alive has written a beautifully crafted book that develops a sophisticated and innovative theory of contemporary transnational urbanism and fleshes it out with fascinating empirical and ethnographic examples drawn chiefly, but not exclusively, from major U.S. cities. The perfect volume to stimulate rethinking of the urban question." Janet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern University

"Michael Peter Smith has been one of the leading theorists in urban affairs for many years. This book takes him to a new level, ranking him at the very top with Harvey and Castells. Smith's reconceptualization of globalization and his insistence on a more precise language - transnational urbanism - is groundbreaking. This book stands as an influential intellectual statement that other scholars will be obliged to take into account for many years." Dennis Judd, Urban Affairs Review

"Smith rightly insists that we need to look behind the mantras of 'globalization,' 'capital,' 'global cities,' and 'postmodernity'. He provides a highly persuasive argument for the recognition of human agency, locality and the growth of cultural practices from below. This is a major work - Smith has succeeded in returning urban theory to the streets where it belongs." Robin Cohen, University of Warwick

"Countering the structural tendencies of urban political economists, the ahistoricism of globalists, and the abstractions of postmodernists, Smith presents "transnational urbanism" as a cultural metaphor for an agency oriented urban theory. Cities are the primary sites of transnational urbanism a pervasive and complex process involving cultures, policies, institutions, actors, and localities. Smith's is the most balanced theoretical approach to globalization, seeing it as it works, without any vilification or glorification. This is an important book in the field for graduate students and faculty." Choice

"Since 1979, when he published The City and Social Theory, Michael Peter Smith has been providing us with close readings of the writings of urban theorists. Transnational Urbanism is one of the strongest of these offerings, dissecting the hidden agendas and limitations of theories of globalization and rescuing the city from globalization's clutches.The value of Smith's ethnographic social constructionism.depends neither on devastating critiques nor sole possession of the space of urban theory. With insight and persuasion, Smith has made a powerful case for a transnational urbanism." Urban Affairs Review

"This is a powerful and important book. The arguments, subtle but significant to the evolution of our understanding of global systemic change, are compelling. Smith deepens our conceptual sophistication on globalization, sociospatial dynamics, the role of the urban in international relations, and the mechanisms of agency in a world where forces appear to be beyond our control. Smith has given us a significant work, insightful.in its critique of the social evolutionism literature that has dominated this first phase of our struggle to locate globalization." International Affairs

"[T]his is a book to be recommended. Ably supported by well-chosen cases and vignettes, Smith's argument injects a constructive element into the debate about the local and the global in what is altogether a stimulating read." Environment and Planning A

"Transnational Urbanism is an impressive book. It offers a state-of-the-art theoretical treatise on globalization and the city, which even those sceptical that new terms and novel methods can save globalization theory from its conceptual morass will gain much from reading." -- Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

About Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

Michael Peter Smith is Professor of Community Studies and Development at the University of California, Davis, and a Faculty Associate of the Center for California Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous books on cities, global migration, and urbanism including The City and Social Theory (1979), The Capitalist City (1987), City, State, and Market (1988), The Bubbling Cauldron (1995), and Transnationalism from Below (1998).

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9780631184249

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Title

Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization by Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

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Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Year published

2000-09-24

Number of pages

236

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Transnational Urbanism Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

Transnational Urbanism by Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

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Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization by Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis)

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