Brooklyn Tides
The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough
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Beschreibung
Brooklyn Tides provides a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming global borough.
Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable urbanization and overdevelopment, the question is now: What will become of Global Brooklyn?Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space.Cover and interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by photographer Caroline Shepard.
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Benjamin Heim Shepard
Benjamin Heim Shepard is a professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, located across the street from Brooklyn Bridge in the epicenter of a rapidly transforming downtown Brooklyn. Much of Shepard's scholarship is based on the ethnographic study of social services and social movements in New York. He is the author/editor of many books, including Rebel Friendships, The Beach Beneath the Streets and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.
Themen in »Brooklyn Tides«
Urban Ethnography Urban Ethnography Brooklyn Brooklyn Global Brooklyn Global Brooklyn Cultural History Cultural History Capitalism Capitalism Social Activism Social Activism City City Globalization