UID:
almafu_9959329151602883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118330777
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1118330773
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9781118330784
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1118330781
Series Statement:
Studies in Urban and Social Change
Content:
"Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies. Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies Reveals how segments of Europe's urban population are adopting "exit" or "partial exit" strategies in respect to the nation state Utilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysis Includes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values "--
Content:
"Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries"--
Note:
Series page; Studies in Urban and Social Change; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Introduction; Globalisation, Transnationalism and Mobility in European Cities; Does Globalisation Induce 'Exit' Strategies?; Mobility and the Weakening of Local Ties in the Urban Context; Upper-Middle Classes: 'Exit' and Urban Disembeddedness; The 'Partial Exit' and Distance--Proximity Strategies of European Upper-Middle Classes; Structure of the Book; 1 Comparing Upper-Middle-Class Managers in Four Cities.
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Searching for the European Upper-Middle Classes: The Choice of European ManagersNational Patterns in the Rise of Managers: France, Italy and Spain; Managers in Four European Cities: Milan, Madrid, Lyon and Paris; Selecting Four Neighbourhoods in Each City; Who Are These European Managers?; Managers as Modernising Agents; Liberal Cultural Values: Managers as Post-Industrial Educated Cultural Species; Cosmopolitanism, Europeanisation and Multilayered Identities; Conclusions; 2 Managers in the City.
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Combining Distance and Proximity: Interactions under ControlChoosing a City or a Metropolitan Region: Inheritance, Family Ties and Professional Opportunities; Choosing a 'Good' Neighbourhood Close to Family and Friends; Keeping the Social Mix under Control Yet Fearless of the City; Conclusion: Managers Choosing a Place to Live--Family Ties, Relative Degree of Mixing and Strict Control; 3 Three Ways of Living in a Globalised World; Mobility, Transnationalism and Social Differentiation; Living Abroad: A Dividing Line Among Managers.
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Professional Partial Exit Strategies: Going Abroad and Coming BackThe Most Common Form of Transnational Mobility: Short-Term and Short-Distance; A Western-Centric World; Virtual Mobility for 'Digital Nomads'; The World Is Becoming Increasingly More Competitive: Children Must Be Ready; Rootedness as the Other Side of Mobility: Cross-Classifying Transnational Practices and Rootedness; Conclusions: Transnationalisation Under Shelter?; 4 Managers' Social Networks; Managers' Friends: Spatially Dispersed but Intensely Socially Homogeneous.
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Family and the City: A Recovered RelationNeighbours: Who Are Those Strangers?; Family and Friends, but No Engagement in the Public Sphere; Conclusions: Dense Social Networks Abroad and in the City; 5 Conclusion; A European Urban 'Modernist' Upper-Middle Class: Values, Networks of Friends and European Mobility -- but the Future Is Global; Transnational Mobility as Partial Exit: Mobility and Society; Transnational Mobility as a New Cleavage Among the Upper-Middle Classes.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Andreotti, Alberta. Globalised minds, roots in the city. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015 ISBN 9781444334845
Language:
English
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118330791
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118330791
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118330791
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