Port Cities as Areas of Transition – Ethnographic Perspectives (Paperback)

In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly aff ected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. Th is book covers a wide variety of urban fi elds, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.