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  • - The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin
    af Eliot M. Tretter
    323,95 - 1.336,95 kr.

    Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban success stories - a place that has grown enormously through "creative class" strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness. Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story by exploring the racial and environmental underpinnings of the postindustrial knowledge economy.

  • - Culture and Power in the Everyday
     
    1.330,95 kr.

    These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "situated ignorance": the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences.

  • - Rethinking North and South
     
    1.330,95 kr.

    Challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organised. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem.

  • - Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
    af Rebecca Lave
    343,95 - 1.330,95 kr.

    Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organised, and viewed in the United States.

  • - Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
    af Alison Hope Alkon
    368,95 - 1.337,95 kr.

    Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for food-system reform and are a shining example of a growing green economy where consumers can shop their way to social change. Black, White, and Green brings new energy to this topic by exploring dimensions of race and class as they relate to farmers markets and the green economy.

  • - Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities
     
    393,95 kr.

    Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.

  • - Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities
     
    1.344,95 kr.

    Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.

  • - Desire and Development in Singapore
    af Natalie Oswin
    318,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

    Offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading "global city". Global City Futures contributes to critical perspectives by centering recent debates over the place of homosexuality in the city-state.

  • - The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime
    af Nancy Hiemstra
    343,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

    Tracing the rise in criminalization of immigrant communities, the book outlines a groundbreaking transnational ethnographic approach.

  • - Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
    af Jennifer L. Fluri & Rachel Lehr
    343,95 - 1.088,95 kr.

    The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid representing well over two thousand organizations--each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of people associated with this international effort.

  • - Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee
    af Brenda Parker
    383,95 - 1.228,95 kr.

    Studies of urban neoliberalism have been surprisingly inattentive to gender. Brenda Parker begins to remedy this by looking at the effect of new urbanism, "creative class", and welfare reform discourses on women in Milwaukee, a traditionally progressive city with a strong history of political organising.

  • - Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi
    af Gautam Bhan
    438,95 - 1.298,95 kr.

    Studies the recent legacy of basti "evictions" in Delhi - mass clearings of some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of "public interest" and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant to empower and protect them.

  • - Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City
    af Nevin Cohen & Kristin Reynolds
    383,95 - 1.340,95 kr.

    Realizing social and environmental justice requires moving beyond food production to address deeper issues such as structural racism, gender inequity, and economic disparities, Beyond the Kale argues that urban agricultural projects focused on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change.

  • - Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico
    af David Correia
    348,95 - 1.346,95 kr.

    Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, Correia examines how law and property are constituted through social struggle and suggests that violence is not the opposite of property but rather is essential to its operation.

  • - The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
    af Benjamin Gardner
    343,95 - 1.330,95 kr.

  • - Culture and Power in the Everyday
     
    453,95 kr.

    These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "situated ignorance": the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences.

  • - Rethinking North and South
     
    438,95 kr.

    Challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organised. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem.

  • - Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
    af Kendra Strauss
    318,95 - 1.330,95 kr.

    Explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, non-human materialities, and diverse economies. Expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework.

  • - Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
    af Amarnath Amarasingam
    378,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

  • - Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
    af Gillian Hart
    363,95 - 1.340,95 kr.

    Revisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid. This book provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today. It also suggests how Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, adapted and translated for present circumstances can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.

  • - Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
    af Andy Merrifield
    313,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

    The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle, expanding upon the ideas of Henri Lefebvre that undergird much of our thinking about urbanization and urban society.

  • - Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
    af Sasha Davis
    313,95 - 1.340,95 kr.

    Based on a decade of research, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought and contends that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is about the choice between domination or the pursuit of a more egalitarian and cooperative future.

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    393,95 kr.

    The first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of the Subaltern Studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical and political geography.

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    1.458,95 kr.

    The first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of the Subaltern Studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical and political geography.

  • - Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions
    af Tina Harris
    368,95 - 1.330,95 kr.

    Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.