Place, identity and everyday life in a globalizing world. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harvey Perkins, David C. Thorns.
• Other Names: Perkins, Harvey C; Thorns, David C
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; Introduction; Structure of the Book; PART I: Establishing a Framework; 2 Place, Identity and Everyday Life; Introduction; Everyday Life, Place and Sense of Place; Place, Everyday Life and Dwelling; Bringing in the 'Social'; Structure and Culture; History and Conflicting Senses of Place and Identity; Going Global and Mobile; Conclusion; 3 Everyday Life in a Globalizing World; Introduction; Writing about Globalization; Is Globalization Anything New?; The Processes of Globalization; Conclusion. PART II: Organizing and Living in Our Everyday Worlds4 Cities and Regions; Introduction; Analysis of Urban Growth; Industrial Cities; Ways of Life in the Industrial City; Twentieth and Twenty-first-Century Urbanization; Conclusion; 5 Houses and Homes; Introduction; Interpreting the First Home; Interpreting the Second Home; Conclusion; 6 Virtual Places and Spaces; Introduction; Information and Communication Technologies and Social Transformation; What Sort of Transformation?; Network Society; Crisis, Conflict, Fear and Demands for Security; Security and Surveillance. Big Brother Is Watching: Critiques of SurveillanceConclusion; 7 Places of Consumption; Introduction; Leisure, Consumption, Advertising and Commodification; Leisure, Home, Shopping and Entertainment; The Car, Motorcycle, Mobility and Identity; Leisure and Consumption in the Countryside; Resisting Consumption; Conclusion; PART III: A Finite World?; 8 Sustaining the Places in Which We Live; Introduction; Economic Development and Global Environmental Change; Debates about Urban Sustainability; Moving Beyond Environmentalism -- Degrees of Sustainability; Prospects for the Future; Conclusion. 9 Sustainable Housing, Communities and NeighbourhoodsIntroduction; Sustainable Development and Neo-liberalism; Impact of Marketization in Housing; Market Models and Sustainable Housing; Community; Neighbourhood, Urban Planning and Housing Provision; New Urbanism -- Designing New Spaces for Living; Conclusion; 10 Conclusion: Urban and Rural Futures; Introduction; Transformation, Place and Everyday Life; Urban and Rural Futures and Everyday Life; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 155.2; Sociology/General; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development; PSYCHOLOGY / General; Human Geography; Human geography; Identity (Psychology); Place attachment -- Psychological aspects; Globalization -- Psychological aspects; Sozialraum; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1137294434; 9781137294432
• Related ISBNs: 0230575900; 0230575919; 9780230575905; 9780230575912
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-208) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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