Kathrin Wildner – författare

The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited collection reflects current studies on the relation of transnationalism and urbanism. Scholars from disciplines including Geography, Ethnography and Urban Planning discuss theoretical approaches, methodology and case studies on processes of the production of urban spaces through global economic value chains, socio-cultural practices, and political governance strategies. Cities are appropriate sites for an examination of the spatial dimension of transnationality because this is where global processes are concentrated, localized, transformed and materialize. In this context, urban space is not merely to be regarded as a setting for transnational practices, but as a constituent force of transnationalism in all its manifestations.

The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited collection reflects current studies on the relation of transnationalism and urbanism. Scholars from disciplines including Geography, Ethnography and Urban Planning discuss theoretical approaches, methodology and case studies on processes of the production of urban spaces through global economic value chains, socio-cultural practices, and political governance strategies. Cities are appropriate sites for an examination of the spatial dimension of transnationality because this is where global processes are concentrated, localized, transformed and materialize. In this context, urban space is not merely to be regarded as a setting for transnational practices, but as a constituent force of transnationalism in all its manifestations.

Mexiko-Stadt, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo - überbordende Megastädte in der urbansten Region der Welt. Dieser Band macht wichtige Positionen der lateinamerikanischen Stadtforschung erstmals für eine deutschsprachige Leserschaft zugänglich und liefert damit einen zentralen Beitrag zu einer tatsächlich transnationalen Metropolenforschung. Kultur- wie sozialwissenschaftliche Studien zu Urbanität und eigene konzeptionelle Zugänge reflektieren die Entwicklung städtischer Räumlichkeit im urbanen Lateinamerika. Diese ist geprägt von Konflikten um Territorialität, öffentliche Räume und urbane Imaginarios, von Segregation wie auch von Prozessen kultureller und politischer Partizipation.Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Nestor García Canclini, Carlos Monsiváis und Armando Silva.