Urban Change And Citizenship In Times Of Crisis 3 Volume Set | Sociology

Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the world’s population is urbanized a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple economic and political strategies employed by a variety of individual and collective actors on a number of scales constitute cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces have long been of central concern for the social sciences today classical sociological questions about the city acquire new meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation or does life in the modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city the focus of societal transformation processes or do urban environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic relationships? Furthermore new questions urgently need to be asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as neo-liberal restructuring financial and economic crises or migration flows as well as their respective counter-movements on the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city and new developments of urbanism. |Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis 3 Volume Set | Sociology