Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism [Paperback]

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.1. Introduction PART I: URBAN IDENTITY 2. Out of the Blue, Into the Black: Representing, Imagining, and Researching Port Cities 3. Reconstructing Port Identities: The Urban Politics of Waterfront Development 4. From Ports of Empire to Capitals of Culture: Museums of Slavery and Colonial History PART II: WATERFRONT WORK 5. Intergenerational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers' Strike: Rebuilding Solidarity in the Port 6. Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseilles-Fos 7. Ruination and Recovery: Keeping the Longshoremen's History in Post-Katrina New Orleans PART III: RADICALISM 8. Radicalism on the Waterfront: Imagining Alternative Futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans 9. Conclusion

The book is structured into three parts covering urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism, each broken down into chapters and sub-sections focusing on the three chosen cities. & people interested in ports and their industries and workforces, urban planners and museum administrators will find Mahs book useful. (Chris Madsen, The Northern Mariner, Vol. 26 (1), March, 2016)

Here is a book likely to delight sociologists and historians as well as specialists in urban studies, i.e. those open to the intellectual adventures entailed by the criss-crossing of disciplines; a book to be placed in the hands of postgraduate and indeed doctoral students willing to enrich their thinking repertoire; a book that might even appeal to the general reader, as it is full of references to popular culture, from Neil Young to the TV series Treme. (Yann B?liard, Urban Studies, Vol. 53 (1), January, 2016)