Port Cities and Global Legacies Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism

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

Alice Mah is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place (2012), which won the 2013 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.