Amsterdam as a global city: restructuring, identity rearticulation, and resistance in the service sector.

Review of Policy Research, The, January, 2006 by Dorfler, Tobias; Marchand, Marianne H.; Pirschner, Claus

A recurrent theme in the literature on global cities is the, often spatially articulated, polarization along lines of class, race, ethnicity, and gender (Kofman, 2000; Sassen 1994, 2001, 2002). In this article, we are interested in further exploring the idea of global cities not only as nodes of the global political economy, but also as sites of significant transformations and contestations, particularly in the field of gender identities. The socioeconomic and political transformations within these urban spaces called global cities, brought about by global restructuring, have been contested through a wide range of resistances from affected groups and individuals. It is our intention to explore some concrete articulations of these resistances by focusing in particular on...

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