Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting

Introduction

In both academic scholarship and the popular imagination, the globality of modern society has been represented by global cities as the corporate and financial epicentres for capital accumulation, cosmopolitan cultures and innovative change. This has created an image of the globalised world as empty beyond cities which make it into the global league as paradigmatic celebrity cities. As a counterpoint this book give interpretive weight elsewhere, in other places, cities and regions, drawing on a range of examples from both the developed and developing worlds.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies.