Table of contents
Preface
Introduction: Deciphering the Global Saskia Sassen;
Part One: Microspaces in Global Scalings;
Postindustrial Bohemia: Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy Richard Lloyd;
Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts Marina Peterson ;
Re-Imagining Old Havana: World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba Matthew J. Hill;
Becoming Global?: Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society Sarah Busse Spencer;
Deciphering the local in a global neoliberal age: Three favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil Simone Buechler;
Part Two: Translocal Circuits and their Mobilities;
Locating Transnational Activists:
The United States Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Confines of the National Evalyn W. Tennant;
Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism: Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age Anthony D'Andrea;
Outsourcing Difference: Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture Heather Hindman;
Producing Global Economy from Below: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan Gracia Liu Farrer;
The Sub-national Constitution of Global Financial Markets Rachel Harvey;
Part Three: Shifting Spaces and Subjects of the Political;
The City and the Self: The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London Anne Bartlett;
Ghetto Cosmopolitanism: Making Theory at the Margins Rami Nashashibi;
Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime: Extralegal Policing & the Penal State in Mexico Jennifer L. Johnson;
The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine Josh Kaplan;
Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia Kamal Sadiq;
Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes Giselle Datz;