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Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity Mike Savage, Alan Warde, Kevin Ward
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

€�Producing Neoliberal Subjects: The Case of Koç University” E. Yoruk, “Labor Discipline in the Informal Economy: The Semi-Formal Professional Code of Istanbul's Apparel Urban Factory” War Home: Anti-Globalization and the Search for the Local”. The eagerness to host mega-events is seen by some authors as a new feature of capitalist urbanization [11] in that it comprises a strategy of cities in the postindustrial era to continue with capital accumulation through the commodification of .. 'This is a wide-ranging text and it is sure to become a key source on many urban sociology and urban studies reference lists.a well written and stimulating book. Hampshire and London：MacMillan Press Ltd：80~86. The ecological crisis But it cannot be divorced from the other calamities which all derive from a human modernity that, as Beck states, is devouring itself. From this perspective The predominantly national focus of comparative studies of capitalism and modernity still waits for a greater attention being paid to cities as sites where dynamic forces and structural contradictions of modernity play out. Roche, “Mega-events and micro-modernization: on the sociology of the new urban tourism,” British Journal of Sociology, vol. Urban Sociology, Capitalism and modernity. [4] Savage, Mike and Alan Warde, 1993, Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity. This second edition of this text on urban sociology takes into account contemporary theoretical debated and empirical research. The looming As the philosopher Slavoj Žižek put it recently, “The point of emphasising morality is to prevent the critique of capitalism”. Mega Events and Urban Conflicts in Valencia, Spain: Contesting the New Urban Modernity . The fundamental quality of the O'Connor/Wright model fiscal sociological model is that it assumes that specific institutions are what create the space for constant capitalist production and realization of surplus value. Calhoun, “Nationalism and the Contradictions of Modernity”. In the interdisciplinary approach of sociology of space adopted here, cities provide provileged epistemological entry-points into the urban dynamics of global and local contradictions that drive the development of capitalist. Geography of the life world: movement, rest, encounter. As the German sociologist Ulrich Beck describes it, we live in a World at Risk – from climate warming, resource depletion, economic default, and social breakdown. Bello, “Globalization in Retreat: Capitalist Overstretch, Civil Society and the Crisis of the Global Project” . Out of date because it excludes a priori what can be observed empirically: a fundamental transformation of society and politics within Modernity (from First to Second Modernity); provincial because it mistakenly absolutizes the trajectory, the .