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Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization And The Politics Of Urban Community

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization And The Politics Of Urban Community
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William Sites
SeriesGlobalization and Community
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 149
ISBN/Barcode 9780816641567
ClassificationsDewey:307.121609747
Audience
General
Undergraduate

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 9 May 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

Inequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a city in the wake of globalization--but is globalization really the cause? Proposing a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city, this provocative book argues that such urban problems result in part from U.S. policies that can be changed. William Sites develops the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics--ad hoc measures to subsidize business, displace the urban poor, and dismantle the welfare state--that uproots social actors (corporations, citizens, urban residents) and facilitates a damaging, short-term-oriented type of international integration. In light of this theory, Sites examines the transformation of New York City since the 1970s, focusing on the logic of political action at national, local, and neighborhood levels. In the process, the story of late twentieth-century New York and its Lower East Side community emerges as something different: not a tale of globalist transformation or of local resurgence but a distinctly American case, one in which urban politics and the state, in their own right, exacerbate inequality and community fragmentation within the city.