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  • Globalization and Urbanization

    The Global Urban Ecosystem

    door James H. Spencer ...
    Serie series Globalization
    During the past decade, the world reached the point of becoming more urban than not, as the majority of people on the planet now live not in small towns or villages but in provincial, national, and global cities. Scholars have long been fascinated by so-called global cities, world cities, and the urban engines of the global economy. James H. Spencer argues, however, that such an emphasis misses ... Meer lezen

    37,09 €

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  • Occupy

    door Noam Chomsky ...
    Occupy gives Noam Chomsky's thoughts on a movement which swept the world'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.'Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the global conscience as its messages ... Meer lezen

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  • Capital

    The Eruption of Delhi

    door Rana Dasgupta ...
    Serie series Canons
    WINNER OF THE WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE 2025WINNER OF THE PRIX ÉMILE GUIMET DE LITTÉRATURE ASIATIQUE 2017WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER 2016In Capital, Rana Dasgupta reveals the red-hot city which erupted from Delhi's economic boom in ... Meer lezen

    10,70 €

  • Aerotropolis

    The Way We'll Live Next

    An exploration of near-future urban planning as airports become the center of cities, changing the way we live and conduct business.Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the city in the center, the airport on the periphery—shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet ... Meer lezen

    12,29 €

  • Global Information Society

    Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

    Serie series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope. In this unique interdisciplinary text, three scholars at the forefront of this dynamic field provide a clear conceptual framework and interpretation of the global information society. They explain the three pillars of the ... Meer lezen

    41,74 €

  • Urban Assemblages

    How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

    Bewerkt door Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender ...
    Serie series Questioning Cities
    This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the city itself as a bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping enactments that constitute ... Meer lezen

    59,65 €

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    door David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Meer lezen

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  • The Illusion of Civil Society

    Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico

    door Jon Shefner ...
    Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining clientelistic relationships that previously provided material benefits to middle- and low-income citizens, who are then motivated to organize ... Meer lezen

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  • A World of Gangs

    Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture

    Serie series Globalization and Community
    “Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds hope in the contradictory values of outlaw youth—selflessness, solidarity, and love amid cupidity and directionless rage—and he maintains the hope that a culture of ... Meer lezen

    12,18 €

  • Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

    Resisting a Dangerous Order

    door Shawna Ferris ...
    “Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and ... Meer lezen

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  • Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship

    The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life

    door Thad Williamson ...
    Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks-Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few decades. Americans find many of the more substantial criticisms of ... Meer lezen

    21,72 €

  • International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization

    Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei

    In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government was in control of most resources, tangible and intangible. For that reason, our unit of analysis ... Meer lezen

    92,42 €