Bücher von Michael Peter Smith

An examination of the scope and limits of transnationalism. Four parts consider theorizing transnationalism, transnational economic and political agency, constructing transnational localities, and transnational practices and cultural reinscription. The editors pose questions that challenge prevailing interpretations of globalisation.

This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City

This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement