Rejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in which people's biographies are tied up with the global cultural economy. The main argument of the book is that the globalisation of lives is experienced by people as the 'extension' of their 'milieux' both spatially and symbolically.

Jörg Dürrschmidt is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The (Global) City as a Pars Pro Toto of (Global) Society?; Chapter 2 Towards a Phenomenology of Globalization; Chapter 3 Eight London Biographies-Lives in the Globalized World City; Chapter 4 The Uprooting of Milieux; Chapter 5 The Delinking of Locale and Milieu; Chapter 6 Streatham - The Reluctant Suburb: The Metropolis Extends; Chapter 7 Extended Milieu and 'Soft City' - Generating Symbolic Space; Chapter 8 The Globalized World City and Its 'Cosmion'; Chapter 9 Conclusion: The End of the World City?;