Everyday Lives in the Global City by Jrg Drrschmidt - 9781138867291

Taylor & Francis

This title investigates the global city environment as a feature of everyday life. Based on ethnographic research in London, this study investigates globalization as a feature of everyday life. > Rejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in which people's biographies are tied up with the global cultural economy. The main argument of the book is that the globalisation of lives is experienced by people as the 'extension' of their 'milieux' both spatially and symbolically. > Introduction; Chapter 1 The (Global) City as a Pars Pro Toto of (Global) Society?; Chapter 2 Towards a Phenomenology of Globalization; Chapter 3 Eight London Biographies\u2013Lives in the Globalized World City; Chapter 4 The Uprooting of Milieux; Chapter 5 The Delinking of Locale and Milieu; Chapter 6 Streatham \u2013 The Reluctant Suburb: The Metropolis Extends; Chapter 7 Extended Milieu and \u2018Soft City\u2019 \u2013 .