Savage, M., G. Bagnall, et al. (2005). Globalization and belonging. London, Sage.
Globalization and Belonging explores how far-reaching global changes are articulated locally through examining the cultural practices, lifestyles and identities of 182 residents in four middle-class locations around Manchester, UK, in the late 1990s. The study focuses on people's own narratives of connectivity and global ties which arise from their daily routines of work, residence and leisure. Through local case studies informed by qualitative interviews, the authors empirically examine forms of mobility as well as fixity, arguing that Manchester is a telling site in which to study global change and local belonging. Within the broad conceptual framework of globalisation and belonging, the authors discuss the following interrelated themes: the limits of local attachment; parenting, education and elective belonging; suburbia and the aura of place; the ambivalence of urban identity; work cultures and social ties; mediascapes in the mediation of the local and the global, and cosmopolitanism, diaspora and global reflexivity.