Tales of the global city
German expatriate employees, globalisation and social mapping
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12930798 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona Moore (0000-0002-2870-462X, Kingston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Matters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-6453 • E-ISSN: 1758-6453 |
| Publisher | NomadIT (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22582/am.v6i1.107 |
| OpenAlex | W1744500377 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Transnational business people are seldom studied by anthropologists. They are inexorably linked to cities through the nature of their work and yet detached from them by virtue of their globe-trotting lifestyles. Here, I examine the role that two ‘global cities’ — London and Frankfurt — play in the lives of a group of employees from a German transnational financial corporation. I consider how these employees construct, and are constructed by, the cities in which they work and suggest that anthropologists may have to rethink our present conception of ‘the global’ versus ‘the local’, in favour of more abstract models
Construct (python library · Corporation · Economic geography · Expatriate · Geography · German · Global city · Globalization · Globe · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |