Details

Subjects:

Port cities -- Case studies.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban economics.
Port cities.

Form/Genre:

Case studies.

Contents:

1. Introduction
Part I: Urban identity
2. Out of the blue, into the black: representing, imagining, and researching port cities
3. Reconstructing port identities: the urban politics of waterfront development
4. From ports of empire to capitals of culture: museums of slavery and Colonial history
Part II: Waterfront work
5. Intergenerational lessons from the Liverpool dockers' strike: rebuilding solidarity in the port
6. Precarious reforms and the legacy of struggle: the dockers of Marseille-Fos
7. Ruination and recovery: keeping the longshoremen's histroy in post-Katrina New Orleans
Part III: Radicalism
8. Radicalism on the waterfront: imagining alternative futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans
9. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137283139
1137283130

OCLC:

881591746