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  • - The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
    af Clyde Woods
    468,95 - 1.373,95 kr.

    Offers a ""Blues geography"" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, he delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region.

  • - Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique
    af Till F Paasche & James Derrick Sidaway
    293,95 - 1.678,95 kr.

  • - The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City
    af Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
    438,95 - 1.347,95 kr.

    Offers a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most dynamic district in one of the world's most dynamic cities. The book looks at the interplay between the neighbourhood's nighttime rhythms; its daytime economy of offices and malls; and Japan's ongoing internationalization and changing ethnic mix.

  • - A Private City's Activist Futures
    af Don Parson
    453,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

    A collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. These essays present insights into LA's historic collectivism, networks of solidarity, and government policy.

  • - Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities
     
    1.233,95 kr.

    Examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus on the politics of insurgent movements against poverty and inequality in seven countries (Argentina, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, and the United States).

  • - Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
    af Clive Barnett
    378,95 - 1.298,95 kr.

    This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.

  • - Making Political Space for Food Sovereignty
    af Amy Trauger
    353,95 - 1.093,95 kr.

    Trauger's work is the first of its kind to analytically and coherently link a dialogue on food sovereignty with case studies illustrating the spatial and territorial strate-gies by which the movement fosters its life in the margins of the corporate food regime.

  • - Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood
    af Michael E. Crutcher
    368,95 - 1.337,95 kr.

    Takes up a wide range of issues in urban life, including highway construction, gentrification, and the role of public architecture in sustaining collective memory. Equally sensitive both to black-white relations and to differences within the African American community, it is a vivid evocation of one of America's most distinctive places.

  • - Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York
    af Timo Schrader
    393,95 - 1.678,95 kr.

  • - CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security
    af John Morrissey
    368,95 - 1.093,95 kr.

    Morrissey explores CENTCOM's Cold War origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the command's grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship, he then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has spearheaded.

  • - How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
     
    328,95 kr.

    From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the story of New York's evolution through revolution, a story of near-continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising.

  • - How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
     
    1.373,95 kr.

    From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the story of New York's evolution through revolution, a story of near-continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising.

  • - Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York
    af Simon Black
    393,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

  • - The Struggle for Sovereignty in Palestine
    af Ron J. Smith
    443,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

    Gives readers a snapshot of everyday life in the 1967 oPt (occupied Palestinian territories). A project of subaltern geopolitics, it helps both new and seasoned scholars of the region better understand occupation: its purpose, varied manifestations, and on-the-ground functions.

  • - Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham
    af Bobby M. Wilson
    340,95 kr.

    A persuasive exploration of the links between Alabama's slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, America's Johannesburg demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism.

  • - Reimagining Sovereignty and Social Change
    af Sasha Davis
    393,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

  • - Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital
    af Don Mitchell
    298,95 - 1.458,95 kr.

  • - Mexico and the Global Political Economy
    af Chris Hesketh
    353,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

    Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Chris Hesketh's discussion of state formation in Mexico explores the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub-national articulations of power.