ABSTRACT
As suggested by the title of this book, we wish to raise awareness of particular geographical scales and contexts, urban spaces and the people – men, women,
Learning objectives
• to be familiar with different ways of understanding globalisation • to explore intersections of global and local processes of gendered power • to think about the concept of power as being more than material • to offer insights into the expression of gendered power and practices
across multiple scales within and between cities around the world
children, young and old – who live and make their living in this realm on a day-today basis. This fusion of ‘people in place’ signals a particular set of interactions and possible scales of analysis – from homes, streets and neighbourhoods to cities and regions. Arguably, cities represent an ideal site within which to read the gendered tendencies and consequences of globalisation –in local situations of uneven development which reside in the nexus of individual state law, regulation and welfare regimes and the circulating flows of people, products, capital, ideas and ideologies, as well as state laws, regulation and policy.
