Employing ethnographies from the United States to continental Europe, Asia, and South America, Deciphering the Global exemplifies the next wave of globalization studies and lays the groundwork for a new school of global sociology.

Introduction: Deciphering the Global Saskia Sassen Part 1: Microspaces in Global Scalings. Postindustrial Bohemia: Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy Richard Lloyd. Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts Marina Peterson. Re-Imagining Old Havana: World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba Matthew J. Hill. Becoming Global?: Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society Sarah Busse Spencer. Deciphering the Local in a Global Neoliberal Age: Three Favelas in São Paulo, Brazil Simone Buechler Part 2: Translocal Circuits and their Mobilities. Locating Transnational Activists: Solidarity with and beyond Propinquity Evalyn W. Tennant. Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism: Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age Anthony D'Andrea. Outsourcing Difference: Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture Heather Hindman. Producing Global Economy from Below: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan Gracia Liu Farrer. The Sub-national Constitution of Global Financial Markets Rachel Harvey Part 3: Shifting Spaces and Subjects of the Political. The City and the Self: The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London Anne Bartlett. Ghetto Cosmopolitanism: Making Theory at the Margins Rami Nashashibi. Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime: Extralegal Policing & the Penal State in Mexico Jennifer L. Johnson. The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine Josh Kaplan. Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia Kamal Sadiq. Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes Giselle Datz

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.