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part Part I: Theoretical and Epistemological Frameworks -- chapter 1 Rereading Detroit: Toward a Polanyian Methodology -- chapter 2 The Spontaneous Sociology of Detroit's Hyper-Crisis -- chapter 3 Learning from Detroit: How Research on a Declining City Enriches Urban Studies -- part Part II: How We Got Here: Cities, the State, and Markets -- chapter 4 National Urban Policy and the Fate of Detroit -- chapter 5 The Normalization of Market Fundamentalism in Detroit: The Case of Land Abandonment -- part Part III: Where We Are: Fiscal Crisis, Local Democracy, and Neoliberal Austerity -- chapter 6 Detroit in Bankruptcy -- chapter 7 Democracy vs. Efficiency in Detroit -- chapter 8 Ritual and Redistribution in De-democratized Detroit -- chapter 9 Framing Detroit -- part Part IV: Where We Are Going: Pitfalls and Possibilities -- chapter 10 Detroit Prospects: Why Recovery is Elusive -- chapter 11 A Community Wealth-Building Vision for Detroit—and Beyond -- chapter 12 The Cooperative City: New Visions for Urban Futures -- chapter 13 Which Way,.

part Part I. Introduction -- chapter 1 Explorations in Urban Theory: A Critical Overview -- part Part II. Classical Perspectives on Social Theory and Urban Life -- chapter 2 Social Theory and Social Reality: A Critique -- part Part III. The Structuralist Moment in Urban Political Economy -- chapter 3 Structural Marxist Urban Theory: Class Power, the State, and Urban Crisis -- chapter 4 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction, and Collective Action (with Richard Tardanico) -- part Part IV. The Poststructural Turn to Transnational Urbanism -- chapter 5 Postmodernism, Urban Ethnography, and the New Social Space of Ethnic Identity -- chapter 6 Transnationalism and the City -- chapter 7 Transnational Urbanism Revisited -- chapter 8 Can You Imagine? Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics -- part Part V. Political Transnationalism and Citizenship -- chapter 9 Transnationalism, the State, and the Extraterritorial Citizen -- chapter 10 The Two Faces of Transnational Citizenship -- part Part VI. Multi-Scalar, Trans-Local, and Contextual Place-Making -- chapter 11 Power in Place/Places of Power: Contextualizing Transnational Research -- chapter 12 The Global Diffusion of Public Policy: Power Structures and Democratic Accountability.

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgment" -- "Introduction: The Social Construction of Marginal Spaces" -- "1 "House People, Not Cars!": Economic Development, Political Struggle, and Common Sense in a City of Intellect" -- "2 Tranquility City: Self-Organization, Protest, and Collective Gains within a Chicago Homeless Encampment" -- "3 Private Redevelopment and the Changing Forms of Displacement in the East Village of New York" -- "4 Resisting Racially Gendered Space: The Women of the St. Thomas Resident Council, New Orleans" -- "5 Mixtecs and Mestizos in California Agriculture: Ethnic Displacement and Hierarchy among Mexican Farm Workers

Offering a political optic on transnationalism, this article shows how the Partido Acción Nacional from Guanajuato, Mexico, seeks to reconstitute Guanajuatense transnational migrants as clients and funders of state policies, as political subjects with "dual loyalty" but limited political autonomy. To co-opt migrants into development projects designed bythe state but financed bythe migrants, partyelites reconfigure the meanings of "migrant," "region," and "citizen." This is contested by migrant leaders whose views of extraterritorial citizenship, translocal community, and partyloy alty differ from views of the partyelites. The migrants see the state as diverting their energies from true civil societyand local development initiatives across borders.