Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities: (39 International Comparative Social Studies)

Eliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael investigate world-cities’ linguistic landscapes about the intermingling influences of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism through conjunctions of their respective codes - lingua francas, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. These analyses lead to the elaboration of a paradigm of multiple globalizations.

Table of Contents:
Preface List of Figures, Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Investigating Multiple Globalizations  1 Linguistic Landscapes  2 World-cities and Globalization  3 Multiculturalism  4 The National Principle  5 Research Questions and the Theoretical Argument  6 In Search of Singularities 2 Methodologies and Research Objectives  1 The Research Settings  2 Collecting and Analyzing Data  3 Summing Up 3 Berlin  1 Introduction  2 Globalization in Downtowns  3 Galeries Lafayette  4 A Residential Middle-Class Neighborhood  5 A Turkish-Speaking Area  6 A Mixed Turkish-Arab Area  7 Where Arabic-Speakers Dominate  8 Conclusion 4 Paris  1 Introduction  2 The Champs Elysées  3 Chinatown  4 Jewish Sarcelles-Pletzel  5 Islam at the Goutte d’Or  6 Conclusion 5 Brussels  1 A Hub of Contradictions  2 Downtown Brussels  3 French-Speaking Neighborhoods  4 Flemish Areas  5 Arab Muslim Neighborhoods  6 The sub-Saharan Quarter  7 The Asian Quarter  8 The Turkish Neighborhood  9 The European Quarter  10 Conclusion 6 London  1 Introduction  2 Central London’s LL  3 Golders Green  4 Chinatown in Soho  5 London’s Little India  6 Conclusion 7 Tel Aviv-Jaffa  1 Introduction  2 Downtowns  3 Ramat Hasharon  4 Bnei Brak  5 Old Rosh Ha’Ayin  6 Ajami  7 The Central Bus Station  8 Conclusion 8 Downtowns Around the World  1 Introduction  2 Tokyo-Yokohama  3 New Delhi  4 Addis Ababa  5 Three cases – not too far away 9 An LL Paradigm for Multiple Globalizations  1 The Sociological Perspective  2 Configurations in Downtowns  3 Residential Areas  4 Ethno-cultural Quarters  5 Empirical Conclusions: Answering the Research Questions 10 Emblems of Singularities  1 Introduction  2 The Wall of Berlin: The East Gallery  3 Paris under-the-ground  4 Brussels’ Comic Strip Murals  5 London’s Double-Decker Buses  6 Tel Aviv: the Florentin neighborhood  7 Conclusion 11 General Conclusions  1 A sociology of Linguistic Landscape  2 From Modernity to Multiple Modernities  3 Globalization Instead of Modernity?  4 Multiculturalism and Transnational Diasporas  5 The Pertinence of the Nation  6 Multiple Globalizations Appendix 1: Indexes of Globalization Appendix 2: Major Areas of Destination for Contemporary Migration Flows Appendix 3: Number of Civil Servants per Population (Selected European Countries) Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Tel-Aviv University. He has published and edited many books on Globalization, the Israeli society, identity and language, including Handbook of Israel: Major Debates (2 vols) (De Gruyter, 2016). Miriam Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1998), Tel-Aviv University, is Independent Researcher in sociolinguistics. She has published in the area of bilingualism and English penetration of French, including, with Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Sociologie et Sociolinguistique des Francophonies Israéliennes (Peter Lang, 2013).

Review :
",,, the book is valuable for providing an overarching framework of societal influences upon the LL of world-cities. Scholars will also benefit immensely from the authors' summaries of a wealth of sociological theory bearing upon modernity, globalisation, multiculturalism and transnational diasporas, and nationhood." - Robert A. Troyer, Western Oregon University, in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development “This volume is undoubtedly a very solid contribution to the rather new field of LL (Linguistic Landscapes): on the one hand because of its sound grounding in sociological theory on globalization and multiculturalism, and on the other, for the promising theoretical model Ben-Rafael and Ben-Rafael have elaborated of a LL paradigm for multiple globalizations.” - Christine Hélot, University of Strasbourg, in: Linguistic Landscape 6/1 (2020)