Port Cities and Global Legacies : urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism. / txt
Alice Mah, University of Warwick, UK.
- 1st edition
- vii, 241 p. ill. ; 23 cm book
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
Contents: List of Illustrations vi -- Acknowledgements vii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- Part I Urban Identity -- 2 Out of the Blue, into the Black: Representing, Imaging, and Researching Port Cities 27 -- 3 Reconstructing Port Identities: The Urban Politics of Waterfront Development 55 -- 4 From Ports of Empire to Capitals of Culture: Museums of Slavery and Colonial History 88 -- Part II Waterfront Work -- 5 Integrational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers’ Strike: Rebuilding Solidarity in the Port 113 -- 6 Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseille Fos 136 - 7 Ruination and Recovery: Keeping the Longshoremen’s History in Post Katrina New Orleans 151 -- Part III Radicalism -- Radicalism on the Waterfront: Imagining Alternative Futures in Liverpool, Marseille, and New Orleans 177 -- 9 Conclusion 205 -- Notes 211 -- Reference 216 -- Index 232 -- Illustrations: 3.1 ‘It Takes to Tango’, Sumo0 Sculpture by David Mach, Place Jean Mireur, Marseille, September 2013 , 56 -- 3.2 Port of Liverpool from Crosby, photographer: Graham, Maddrel 68 -- 3.3 Marseille waterfront with Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilization, July 2013, 73 -- 3.4 Crescent Park flood wall, near the French Market, New Orleans, April 2013, 81 -- 5.1 The CASA, Liverpool, February 20 13, 114 -- 5.2 ‘One of 500 Sacked Dockworkers Never Cross A Picket line’, CASA April 2012 115 -- 6.1 Bar Phocéen , Marseille Fos dockers’bar, Port de Bouc, June 2010, 137 -- 6.2 Dockers’ casual hiring hall, Western Port of Marseille Fos, Port De Bouc, June 2010, 137 -- 7.1 Black International Longshoreman’s Association Union Hall, 1959, framed photograph in the ILA union hall on Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, April 2013, 152 -- 7.2 Container ship, Napoleon Street terminal docks, New Orleans, April 2013, 166 -- 8.1 Activist magazines, New from Nowhere radical and community bookshop, November 2013 184 -- 8.2 ‘Viva la CASA’ mural Painting by David Jacques and John Potter, CASA Bar, Liverpool, April 2012, 187 -- 8.3 ‘Il faut que les habitants sachent qu’ils ont des trésors caches dans leur quiartier’,La Viste social heritage walk, 15th arrondissement, Marseille, September 2013, 196 -- 8.4 Chemical on the docks, New Orleans, April 2013, 200 --
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Port cities--Case studies. Sociology, Urban. Urban economics.