Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

Introduction: Deciphering the Global Saskia Sassen  Part 1: Microspaces in Global Scalings.  Postindustrial Bohemia: Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy Richard Lloyd.  Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts Marina Peterson.  Re-Imagining Old Havana: World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba Matthew J. Hill.  Becoming Global?: Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society Sarah Busse Spencer.  Deciphering the Local in a Global Neoliberal Age: Three Favelas in São Paulo, Brazil Simone Buechler  Part 2: Translocal Circuits and their Mobilities.  Locating Transnational Activists: Solidarity with and beyond Propinquity Evalyn W. Tennant.  Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism: Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age Anthony D’Andrea.  Outsourcing Difference: Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture Heather Hindman.  Producing Global Economy from Below: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan Gracia Liu Farrer.  The Sub-national Constitution of Global Financial Markets Rachel Harvey Part 3: Shifting Spaces and Subjects of the Political.  The City and the Self: The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London Anne Bartlett.  Ghetto Cosmopolitanism: Making Theory at the Margins Rami Nashashibi.  Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime: Extralegal Policing & the Penal State in Mexico Jennifer L. Johnson.  The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine Josh Kaplan.  Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia Kamal Sadiq.  Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes Giselle Datz

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

"Globalization is not just about changing relations between the ‘inside’ of the nation-state and the ‘outside’ of the international system. It cuts across received categories, creating myriad multilayered intersections, overlapping playing fields, and actors skilled at working across these boundaries. People are at once rooted and rootless, local producers and global consumers, threatened in their identities yet continually remaking those identities. Deciphering the Global analyzes such complex worlds, looking not merely at ‘glocalization’ or ‘transnationalization’ but at the global macrocosm within the human—social, economic and political—microcosm."
—Philip G. Cerny, Professor of Global Political Economy, Rutgers University
"A rich collection of studies that surfaces the dynamic articulation of the global and the national. This book is an exciting expedition that establishes new theoretical and methodological beachheads in the study of globalization." 
—Walden Bello, author of Deglobalization and 2003 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award
 
"Sassen’s edited collection is a rich potpourri of highly readable, theoretically sophisticated and empirically fascinating accounts of partial processes and experiences of globalization."
—Roger Keil, Director, The City Institute at York University and co-editor of The Global Cities Reader

Employing ethnographies from the United States to continental Europe, Asia, and South America, Deciphering the Global exemplifies the next wave of globalization studies and lays the groundwork for a new school of global sociology.