Port Cities as Areas of Transition: Ethnographic Perspectives

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2008

Port Cities as Areas of Transition

Ethnographic Perspectives

Edited by: Waltraud Kokot , Mijal Gandelsman-Trier , Kathrin Wildner and Astrid Wonneberger

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409497

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About this book

In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.

Author / Editor information

Waltraud Kokot (PhD) is professor of social anthropology at Hamburg University. Her teaching and research areas include diaspora, urban anthropology, refugee studies, urban poverty and homelessness. She has conducted field research in Thessaloniki, Sofia and Hamburg.
Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (M.A.) is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg.
Kathrin Wildner (Dr. phil.) works as an urban anthropologist at the Faculty for Cultural Science of Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
Astrid Wonneberger (PD Dr.) is a private lecturer for cultural and social anthropology at the University of Hamburg as well as a researcher and lecturer for family science at the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg. Her major academic interests include diaspora, ethnicity and urban anthropology. She has completed field research in Western Ireland, New York, Boston and Dublin (Ireland).

Reviews

»[Ein] unbedingt lesenswerter Sammelband [...].«
Daniel Kalt, dérive 36, 7-9 (2009)

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RaumPlanung, 141 (2008), Sandra Huning

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Port Cities as Areas of Transition – Comparative Ethnographic Research Waltraud Kokot Open Access Download PDF	7
Transformation Processes on Waterfronts in Seaport Cities – Causes and Trends between Divergence and Convergence Dirk Schubert Open Access Download PDF	25
Notions on Community, Locality and Changing Space in the Dublin Docklands Astrid Wonneberger Open Access Download PDF	47
Old Town and Dock Area: Structural Changes in Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo Mijal Gandelsman-Trier Open Access Download PDF	75
A View from Port to City: Inland Waterway Sailors and City-Port Transformation in Hamburg Reimer Dohrn Open Access Download PDF	99
“Gateway” City and Nexus Between Two Continents: The Port City of Algeciras Carolin Alfonso Open Access Download PDF	111
Belém, “Gate of Amazonia” – Port and River as Crossroads Rosemarie Oesselmann and Dirk Oesselmann Open Access Download PDF	125
Contesting Nodes of Migration and Trade in Public Space: Thessaloniki’s Bazaar Economy Salinia Stroux Open Access Download PDF	145
Varna, Capital of the Sea: History, Image, and Waterfront Development Anke Bothfeld Open Access Download PDF	169
“Istanbul Modern” – Urban Images, Planning Processes and the Production of Space in Istanbul’s Port Area Kathrin Wildner Open Access Download PDF	189
Authors Open Access Download PDF	211

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Keywords: Urbane Development; Port Cities; Migration; Urbanity; Globalization; Urban Studies; Sociology

eBook

Published: September 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839409497