2003 Conference reading

Politicians and academics alike have made globalization the key reference point for interpreting the 1990s. For many, globalization threatens both community and the nation-state. It appears to represent forces beyond human control. This volume documents globalization's impact on everyday lives by drawing on research rather than rhetoric.

The politics of the past must be rethought. They were designed for a world where the U.S. manufactured at home, and where portions of U.S.-based labor had traded social stability for high wages. In this thought-provoking work, David Ranney shows how our world has changed and offers a plan for remaking progressive politics to meet the crises brought about by what George H. W. Bush first termed "the new world order".

In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the post societal era it must forget the social rigidities of the pre-global order and, instead, switch its focus to the study of both physical and virtual movement.


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The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Manuel Castells,
	Vol. 1 (Blackwell Publishers; 2nd revised edition 2000)		Vol 2. (Blackwell Publishers; 2nd revised edition 2003)		Vol 3. (Blackwell Publishers; 2nd revised edition 2000)	Anthony Giddens, The New Statesman The most compelling attempt yet made to map the contours of the global information age. Peter Hall, Cities A superlative achievement. Castells has succeeded in producing a study that positively invites comparison with Marx. Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology A magnum opus if ever there was one.
	Living the Global City: Globalization as Local Process John Eade (Editor) (Routledge 1996)	Politicians and academics alike have made globalization the key reference point for interpreting the 1990s. For many, globalization threatens both community and the nation-state. It appears to represent forces beyond human control. This volume documents globalization's impact on everyday lives by drawing on research rather than rhetoric.			Mutations Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Actar 2001)	The acceleration of the phenomenon of urbanization constitutes one of the challenges of our time. In a world redefined by communication networks and by the progressive erasure of borders lead by economic forces, "Mutations" reflects on the transformations that the acceleration of these processes inflicts on our environment, and on the space left for architecture to operate.
	Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order David Ranney (Temple University Press 2002)	The politics of the past must be rethought. They were designed for a world where the U.S. manufactured at home, and where portions of U.S.-based labor had traded social stability for high wages. In this thought-provoking work, David Ranney shows how our world has changed and offers a plan for remaking progressive politics to meet the crises brought about by what George H. W. Bush first termed "the new world order".			Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty First Century (International Library of Sociology) John Urry (Routledge1999)	In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the post societal era it must forget the social rigidities of the pre-global order and, instead, switch its focus to the study of both physical and virtual movement.
Books by Saskia Sassen:

(The New Press; New edition Dec 1999)		(Princeton University Press; 2nd revised edition 2001)		(SAGE Publications Inc (USA) - Pine Forge; 3rd revised edition 2006)		(Routledge 2002)

Cities for the many, not the few, Ash Amin, Doreen Massey and Nigel Thrift, (Policy Press 2000) out of print				Harvard Design School: Guide to Shopping. Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaus, and Sze Tsung Leong, eds. (Taschen: Koln 2001) out of print

Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils, David Harvey in Popular Culture. Society for Transnational Cultural Studies. Duke University Press. Vol. 12. No. 2. Spring 2000.				Invisible cities: A phenomenology of globalization from below, Eduardo Mendieta in CITY-analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 5:1 April 2001.


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