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Book SynopsisThis prescient book discusses the importance of reducing the environmental impacts of economic growth in agricultural regions. It examines the relationship between efforts to achieve economically viable food production in marginal and peripheral inland areas and the demand for environmental quality in rural districts.

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Book SynopsisOffering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodity Bridges the fields of human geography and anthropology Approaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel way Provides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justice Enhanced by vivid photos from the field Trade Review“The book will be of interest to geographers engaged in debates on diverse economies, as well as those pursuing work on food security, food sovereignty, and/or the politics of food.” (The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien, 25 October 2015) “If I had to evaluate Everyday moral economies in just two words, these would most probably be ‘useful’ and ‘balanced’. Useful because to my knowledge it is the most comprehensive treatment on the theme of food consumption and production in Cuba, providing valuable information on the theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Balanced because, although it deals with an utterly political side of Cuba and the Revolution, it does not hastily take sides between a (neo)liberal or a socialist mode of production and political organization.” (Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23.3, 4 August 2017) Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xxiii List of Acronyms xxv 1 Introduction 1 2 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 33 3 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption 73 4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 99 5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society 121 6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector 153 7 Conclusion 181 Appendices 199 Index 211

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Book SynopsisArticulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface vii List of Figures viii List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgements xii Abbreviations xxi Part One Articulating Capital in Global Production Networks 1 1 Articulations of Capital 3 2 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics of Capital 23 Part Two Working off the Past: Context and Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks 53 3 Working in the Post‐Socialist Apparel Economy 55 4 Managing Europe’s Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the Regulation of Production Networks (with Robert Begg) 86 5 Transformations, Legacies and Networks: The State and Market Globalizations (with Robert Begg and Milan Bucě k) 104 Part Three Industrial Dynamics, Regionalization and the Conjunctural Economy of Global Production Networks 135 6 Theorizing Transition and the Dynamics of Capital: The Diverse Trajectories of Post‐socialist Firms (withRobert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova, and Rudolf Pastor) 137 7 Border Reconfigurations and the Frontiers of Capital (with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, and Rudolf Pastor) 162 8 Regionalization and the Palimpsests of Production: Delocalization, Legacies and Firm Differentiation (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 182 9 The Cultural Economies of Post‐Socialism: Ethnicity, Garage Firms and Regional Markets (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 214 Part Four Conclusion 237 10 Conclusion 239 Appendix 1 Firm-level Restructuring in the Slovak Textiles and Clothing Sector, 2004–2013 253 Appendix 2 Key to Figure 9.14 Dimitrovgrad Market, 2011 257 References 260 Index 281

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Book SynopsisArticulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface vii List of Figures viii List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgements xii Abbreviations xxi Part One Articulating Capital in Global Production Networks 1 1 Articulations of Capital 3 2 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics of Capital 23 Part Two Working off the Past: Context and Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks 53 3 Working in the Post‐Socialist Apparel Economy 55 4 Managing Europe’s Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the Regulation of Production Networks (with Robert Begg) 86 5 Transformations, Legacies and Networks: The State and Market Globalizations (with Robert Begg and Milan Bucě k) 104 Part Three Industrial Dynamics, Regionalization and the Conjunctural Economy of Global Production Networks 135 6 Theorizing Transition and the Dynamics of Capital: The Diverse Trajectories of Post‐socialist Firms (withRobert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova, and Rudolf Pastor) 137 7 Border Reconfigurations and the Frontiers of Capital (with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, and Rudolf Pastor) 162 8 Regionalization and the Palimpsests of Production: Delocalization, Legacies and Firm Differentiation (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 182 9 The Cultural Economies of Post‐Socialism: Ethnicity, Garage Firms and Regional Markets (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 214 Part Four Conclusion 237 10 Conclusion 239 Appendix 1 Firm-level Restructuring in the Slovak Textiles and Clothing Sector, 2004–2013 253 Appendix 2 Key to Figure 9.14 Dimitrovgrad Market, 2011 257 References 260 Index 281

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology!Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica''s animation based on the book''s themes please visithttp://www.bioeconomies.org/enterprising-nature/ Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecological-economic methodologies, computer models, business alliances, and regulatory conditions creating the conditions in which nature can be produced as enterprising Relates lively, firsthand accounts of global processes at work drawn from multi-site research in Nairobi, Kenya; London, England; and Nagoya, Japan Assesses the scientific, technical, geopolitical, economic, and ethical challenges found in attempts to enterprise nature' Investigates the implications of this will tTrade Review‘Enterprising Nature is a highly thought-provoking book! It is also a really good one, and thanks to Dempsey’s delightfully humorous prose, a pleasure to read. I highly recommend it.’Julie Guthman, The AAG Review of Books (Volume 6, Issue 1) ‘Enterprising Nature also speaks to key approaches in feminist political economy — most notably a commitment to uncover the immense amount of work required to sustain those things that appear as universals and givens: nature and capitalism, for example, but also, importantly, pragmatism and utopianism.’ Juliane Collard, The University of British Columbia, Canada ‘Jessica Dempsey’s Enterprising Nature is necessary reading for understating the critical geographies of how market forces, biodiversity, environmentalism, and all kinds of so-called experts try, and often fail, to dictate the terms of conservation politics the world over. The book is fresh, robust, and offers healthy doses of both scepticism and deep insights into the battles that need to be fought.’Nik Heynen, Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA ‘Dempsey’s Enterprising Nature is a must-read for all conservationists. From the vantage of political ecology, Dempsey provides a sympathetic but ringing critique of the ecosystem services paradigm. Nonetheless, her fresh analysis ultimately points towards a new and hopeful pathway - by forging unexpected collaborations among scientists, social movement activists, and scholars of power dynamics, she imagines reclaiming an “abundant biodiversity”, as well as the ecosystem services it supplies.’Claire Kremen, Professor in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA ‘Through arguments with which liberal environmentalists will struggle to find fault, Dempsey carefully excavates the foundations of the global biodiversity industry, and finds them rotten. This is a compassionate and intelligent book, one that helps us ask far deeper questions about humans relations with the world than the mainstream environmental movement dare broach.’Raj Patel, Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface vi Preface vii Acknowledgments xi 1 Enterprising Nature 1 2 The Problem and Promise of Biodiversity Loss 28 3 An Economic-Ecological Tribunal for (Nonhuman) Life 56 4 Ecosystem Services as Political-Scientific Strategy 91 5 Protecting Profit: Biodiversity Loss as Material Risk 126 6 Biodiversity Finance and the Search for Patient Capital 159 7 Multilateralism vs Biodiversity Market-Making: Battlegrounds to Unleash Capital 192 8 The Tragedy of Liberal Environmentalism 232 Bibliography 246 Index 276

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Book SynopsisBase retracement on solid research and historically accurate interpretation Interpreting Land Records is the industry's most complete guide to researching and understanding the historical records germane to land surveying. Coverage includes boundary retracement and the primary considerations during new boundary establishment, as well as an introduction to historical records and guidance on effective research and interpretation. This new edition includes a new chapter titled Researching Land Records, and advice on overcoming common research problems and insight into alternative resources when official records are unavailable. Topical case studies provide helpful, plain-language descriptions of methods, problems, and resolutions, and appendices provide definitions, context, and modern interpretation of historical words and phrases. The text features exhaustive coverage and notes, with hundreds of case law citations annotated with expert insight that gives readers Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction to Land Records 1 2 Geometry of the Description 3 3 Records Research: Title Search or Deed Search 53 4 Researching Land Records 93 5 Rules of Construction 109 6 Relative Importance of Conflicting Elements 143 7 Exceptions and Reservations 161 8 Words and Phrases 177 9 The Use of Extrinsic Evidence 187 10 Maps, Plats, Plans, and Charts 253 11 Pictures 285 12 Document Examination 303 Appendix One Definitions of Words and Phrases 321 Appendix Two Definitions of Ancient Land Terms 393 Index 397

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Book SynopsisThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don't develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countlessTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgments x 1 Sparks of Resistance 1 2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13 Part I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37 3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39 4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54 5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71 Part II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89 6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91 7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116 8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138 Part III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157 9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161 10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188 11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209 12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227 Notes 239 References 245 Index 262

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Book SynopsisThis fully-revised comprehensive fourth edition covers the whole field of physical geography including climate and atmosphere, geomorphology, biogeography, hydrology, oceans, Quaternary, environmental change, soils, remote sensing and GIS.Trade Review"There are other dictionaries available, but they do not have the breadth of information that thisDictionary contains, with the additional tables, charts, reading and companion website. TheDictionary of Physical Geography is a good general resource for multiple levels of researchers at theuniversity level. It is clear, concise and easy to use and follow. Users will be able to find definitionsfor various terms, links or resources to other help and quickly move on to other research" Victoria Lynn Packard, Texas A&M University on behalf of Reference Reviews, Sept 2017Table of ContentsList of Contributors vi Preface to the Fourth Edition x Preface to the First Edition xi Preface to the Second Edition xii Preface to the Third Edition xiii Acknowledgments xiv About the Companion Website xvi Introduction xvii The Dictionary of Physical Geography 1 Index 581

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Book SynopsisThis book develops an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory. It analyzes land, rent theory, and the modern city, using Singapore as a case study. It examines the question of land from a variety of perspectives and incorporates discussion of the modern real estate market.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface ix Acknowledgements xi List of Figures xiii List of Tables xv List of Abbreviations xvii Glossary xix Preface xxi 1 Introduction: Singapore as a Case and Comparison 1 European Classics and Western Theories 6 Asian Studies: A Focus on Villages 8 Urban Studies 10 The Developmental State, Asian Values and Rent-seeking 12 Singapore as a Property State 15 The Chapters 21 Notes 24 2 Ideologies of Land 26 Land Regimes 27 Debates on Genealogies 33 Philosophies of Property 36 Myths of Frontier and Homeownership 38 The Economic, Moral and Political Land Question 43 Notes 45 3 Economic Arguments: Rent Theory and Property Rights Theory 46 Concepts and Forms of Rent 46 Rent and Social Problems 48 Extending the Rent Concept 51 Property Rights Theory 53 Ambiguous Property Rights and the Market for Development Rights 56 Rent as a Social Relation 57 Urban Land Rent 59 Notes 61 4 Land Reforms: Practical Solutions and Politics of Land 63 Radicals and Moralists 64 Two Chinese Models of Land Reform 69 Modern Land Reform 72 Land Value Tax 78 Neoliberal Land Reforms 80 From Revolutions to Pragmatism 82 Notes 85 5 Land Institutions and Housing 86 Land Institutions and the Second Round of Land Acquisitions 87 National and Urban Development 94 Housing the Nation 98 Housing Welfare 105 Private, Expatriate and Migrant Housing 107 Challenges 109 The Value of Public Land and Fiscalisation of Rent 113 Notes 119 6 Property Tycoons and Speculation 120 Rent-seeking 121 Property is a Hot Topic in Singapore 123 Rumours in Hong Kong 127 Conglomerates, Dynasties and Pension Funds 130 Private and Government-linked Companies in Singapore 134 Industrial Landscape and the Jurong Town Corporation 137 Private and Government Companies Sharing the Market 139 Transnational Property Companies 146 Capricious Landlords and Mean Developers: Absolute Rent 148 Land Without Speculation 152 Notes 156 7 Diversification of a Real Estate Portfolio: The World is Singapore’s Hinterland 158 Safe Haven for Global Real Estate Flows 160 Real Estate Investment Trusts 164 Singapore Colonising the World: Sovereign Wealth Funds 167 Real Estate Investment into Singapore 170 Property-minded People 172 Casinos and Singapore as the World’s Wealth Management Centre 176 Global Rent and Racism in the Real Estate Market 178 Notes 182 8 Financial Crises and Real Estate 183 Financial Centres 186 Singapore and Hong Kong as Financial Centres 187 Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings 192 The IMF in Singapore 195 The Asian Crisis 197 Bangkok and Real Estate Speculation 200 Singapore and the Financial Crisis 204 The Financialisation of Land and Derivative Rent 209 Notes 213 9 Conclusion: The Land, Urban and Rent Question 215 The Regime of Regulating Public Land 215 The Land Question 217 The Urban Question 221 The Rent Question 223 Annex: Note on Data 227 References 229 Index 261

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects Reworks Rancière''s notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconscious Establishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysis Utilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud''s case studies Sets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment Table of ContentsList of Figures vi Series Editors’ Preface viii Preface ix 1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 1 2 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 27 3 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 49 4 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 70 5 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 91 6 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 113 7 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 136 8 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158 References 179 Index 192

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects Reworks Rancière''s notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconscious Establishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysis Utilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud''s case studies Sets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment Table of ContentsList of Figures vi Series Editors’ Preface viii Preface ix 1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 1 2 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 27 3 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 49 4 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 70 5 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 91 6 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 113 7 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 136 8 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158 References 179 Index 192

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Book SynopsisChallenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shapeand are shaped bythe aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South. Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people's lives and their communities Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean Calls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface vi List of Abbreviations vii List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production 1 2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments‐as‐ Globalization and Garments‐as‐Regional Entrepreneurialism 28 3 From Manufactura to Mentefactura? Gender and Industrial Restructuring in the Dominican Republic 54 4 Embodied Negotiations: Geographies of Work after Trade Zones 85 5 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian–Dominican Border 113 6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction 141 7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean 163 8 Conclusion 181 Bibliography 187 Index 206

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Book SynopsisThe Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.Trade Review “Those whose interest is world environmental history will find this book a pleasure to read from cover to cover, and the bibliographies current and extensive” Choice “There is much in this book that will be of interest to environmentalists, geographers and politicians, and the general public. Environmental historians should find this a useful overview of their topic.” Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Maps x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin Part I Times 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3 J. R. McNeill 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18 J. Donald Hughes 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39 Daniel Headrick 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57 Robert B. Marks Part II Places79 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81 Peter Boomgaard 6 Environmental History in Africa 96 Jane Carruthers 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116 Shawn W. Miller 8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132 Erin Stewart Mauldin 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153 Liza Piper 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167 Alan Mikhail 11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182 Libby Robin 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196 Paul D ’ Arcy 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222 Stephen Brain Part III Drivers Of Change And Environmental Transformations 245 14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247David Moon 15 Global Forests 263 Nancy Langston 16 Fishing and Whaling 279 Micah S. Muscolino 17 Riverine Environments 297 Alan Roe 18 War and the Environment 319 Richard P. Tucker 19 Technology and the Environment 340 Paul Josephson 20 Cities and the Environment 360 Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi 21 Evolution and the Environment 377 Edmund Russell 22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394 Sam White 23 Industrial Agriculture 411 Meredith McKittrick 24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433 J. R. McNeill Part IV Environmental Thought And Action 453 25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455 José Augusto Pádua 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474 Bao Maohong 27 Religion and Environmentalism 493 Joachim Radkau 28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513 Joan Martinez-Alier Index 530

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Book Synopsis''An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implications of their thought for a radical analysis of the ontological politics of Islam and Pakistan. Whether writing about the ''Ulama and Deoband schools, blasphemy laws, the military, beards, or the Bamiyan Buddhas, Jan provokes and challenges our thinking while unearthing the ground on which Pakistanand our worldare built.''Joel Wainwright, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, USA ''In this exceptionally inventive and important book, Jan shows us that the problems besetting political life in Pakistan are part of a more troubling crisis in modern forms of power. Challenging accounts that cordon off political Islam from the West, Jan discloses their fundamental indistinction and thus, through his practice of critical ontology, reorients our understanding of how power and violence are at work in the world.''Joshua Barkan, DepartmenTrade Review‘An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implications of their thought for a radical analysis of the ontological politics of Islam and Pakistan. Whether writing about the ‘Ulama and Deoband schools, blasphemy laws, the military, beards, or the Bamiyan Buddhas, Jan provokes and challenges our thinking while unearthing the ground on which Pakistan—and our world—are built.’Joel Wainwright, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, USA ‘In this exceptionally inventive and important book, Jan shows us that the problems besetting political life in Pakistan are part of a more troubling crisis in modern forms of power. Challenging accounts that cordon off “political Islam” from “the West,” Jan discloses their fundamental indistinction and thus, through his practice of critical ontology, reorients our understanding of how power and violence are at work in the world.’Joshua Barkan, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USATable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Acknowledgement Introduction Islamapolis: The Crisis of Islam and the Political in Pakistan 1. Critical Ontology: The Biopolitical Apparatus 2. The Space of Emergency: The Military, Discipline and Political Theology 3. The Space of Law: ‘Ulama, Shari‘a, and the Technology of Blasphemy 4. The Space of War: Homo Islamicus, Body Politics and Jihad 5. The Space of Exception: Nationalism and Biopolitical Sovereignty Conclusion: The Metacolonial and The Space of Thinking Appendix A Appendix B Glossary References

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Book SynopsisThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction 1John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp Key Concepts in Political Geography 11 2 Boundaries and Borders 13Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary 3 Scale 26Andrew E.G. Jonas 4 Territory beyond the Anglophone Tradition 35Cristina Del Biaggio 5 Sovereignty 48Joshua E. Barkan 6 The State 61Alex Jeffrey 7 Federalism and Multilevel Governance 73Herman van der Wusten 8 Geographies of Conflict 86Clionadh Raleigh 9 Security 100Lauren Martin 10 Violence 114James Tyner 11 Justice 127Farhana Sultana 12 Power 141Joe Painter 13 Citizenship 152Patricia Ehrkamp and Malene H. Jacobsen 14 The Biopolitical Imperative 165Claudio Minca Theorizing Political Geography 187 15 Spatial Analysis 189Andrew M. Linke and John O’Loughlin 16 Radical Political Geographies 206Simon Springer 17 Geopolitics/Critical Geopolitics 220Sami Moisio 18 Feminist Political Geography 235Jennifer L. Fluri 19 Postcolonialism 248Chih Yuan Woon 20 Children’s Political Geographies 265Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Häkli Doing Politics 279 21 Electoral Geography in the Twenty]First Century 281Michael Shin 22 Nation and Nationalism 297Marco Antonsich 23 Regional Institutions 311Merje Kuus 24 The Banality of Empire 324Luca Muscarà 25 Social Movements 339Sara Koopman 26 Religious Movements 352Tristan Sturm 27 Sexual Politics 366Catherine J. Nash and Kath Browne 28 The Rise of the BRICS 379Marcus Power 29 Social Media 393Paul C. Adams Material Political Geographies 407 30 More-Than-Representational Political Geographies 409Martin Müller 31 Resources 424Kathryn Furlong and Emma S. Norman 32 Political Ecologies of the State 438Katie Meehan and Olivia C. Molden 33 Environment: From Determinism to the Anthropocene 451Simon Dalby 34 Financial Crises 462Brett Christophers 35 Migration 478Michael Samers 36 Everyday Political Geographies 493Sara Fregonese Doing Political Geography 507 37 Academic Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge 509Anssi Paasi Index 524

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an indispensable overview to the field, representing both historical and contemporary perspectives. Edited and written by the world''s leading authorities in the discipline Divided into three major sections: Foundations (the history of human geography from Ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century); The Classics (the roots of modern human geography); Contemporary Approaches (current issues and themes in human geography) Each contemporary issue is examined by two contributors offering distinctive perspectives on the same theme Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x 1 Introduction 1John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan Part I Foundations 9 2 Where Geography Came From 11Peter Burke for David Lowenthal 3 Cosmographers, Explorers, Cartographers, Chorographers: Defining, Inscribing and Practicing Early Modern Geography, c.1450–1850 23Robert J. Mayhew 4 Colonizing, Settling and the Origins of Academic Geography 50Daniel Clayton Part II The Classics 71 5 German Precursors and French Challengers 73Vincent Berdoulay 6 Creating Human Geography in the English-Speaking World 89Ron Johnston 7 Landscape Versus Region – Part I 114Nicolas Howe 8 Landscape Versus Region – Part II 130Kent Mathewson 9 From Region to Space – Part I 146Trevor J. Barnes 10 From Region to Space – Part II 161Anssi Paasi Part III Contemporary Approaches 177 11 Nature – Part I 179Noel Castree 12 Nature – Part II 197Jamie Lorimer 13 Landscape – Part I 209Don Mitchell and Carrie Breitbach 14 Landscape – Part II 221Mitch Rose and John W. Wylie 15 Place – Part I 235Tim Cresswell 16 Place – Part II 245Steven Hoelscher 17 Territory – Part I 260Stuart Elden 18 Territory – Part II 271Jacques Lévy 19 Globalization – Part I 283Richard Florida 20 Globalization – Part II 298Emily Gilbert 21 World Cities – Part I 313Carolyn Cartier 22 World Cities – Part II 325Paul L. Knox 23 Governance – Part I 336Wendy Larner 24 Governance – Part II 347Stephen Legg 25 Mobility – Part I 361David Ley 26 Mobility – Part II 373George Revill 27 Scale and Networks – Part I 387Andrew E.G. Jonas 28 Scales and Networks – Part II 404John Paul Jones III, Sallie A. Marston, and Keith Woodward 29 Class – Part I 415Andrew Herod 30 Class – Part II 426Clive Barnett 31 Race – Part I 440Kay Anderson 32 Race – Part II 453Arun Saldanha 33 Sexuality – Part I 465Natalie Oswin 34 Sexuality – Part II 475Mary E. Thomas 35 Gender – Part I 486Michael Landzelius 36 Gender – Part II 501Joanne P. Sharp 37 Geopolitics – Part I 512Phil Kelly 38 Geopolitics – Part II 523Merje Kuus 39 Segregation – Part I 534Larry S. Bourne and R. Alan Walks 40 Segregation – Part II 547Steve Herbert 41 Development – Part I 559Glyn Williams 42 Development – Part II 575Wendy Wolford Index 588

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Book SynopsisThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars. Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent developments, recurrent challenges, and emerging agendas Incorporates diverse perspectives (in terms of specialty, demography and geography) of up and coming scholars, going beyond a focus on Anglo-American research Encourages authors and researchers to engage with and contextualize their situated perspectives Explores areas of overlap, dialogues, and (potential) engagemTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgements xviii The Long Decade: Economic Geography, Unbound 1 Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck Section I Trajectories 25 Editors’ Introduction: Trajectories 27 Eric Sheppard, Trevor J. Barnes, and Jamie Peck 1 Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for “Other Worlds” 33 J.K. Gibson-Graham 2 Geography in Economy: Reflections on a Field 47 Richard Walker 3 Release the Hounds! The Marvelous Case of Political Economy 61 Geoff Mann 4 The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism’s Time–Space Fix 74 Phillip O’Neill 5 Theory, Practice, and Crisis: Changing Economic Geographies of Money and Finance 91 Sarah Hall 6 The “Matter of Nature” in Economic Geography 104 Karen Bakker 7 East Asian Capitalisms and Economic Geographies 118 Henry Wai-chung Yeung 8 Contesting Power/Knowledge in Economic Geography: Learning from Latin America and the Caribbean 132 Marion Werner Section II Spatialities 147 (a) Accumulation and Value 147 Editors’ Introduction: Accumulation and Value 149 Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck, and Trevor J. Barnes 9 The Geographies of Production 157 Neil M. Coe and Martin Hess 10 The Global Economy 170 Jim Glassman 11 Evolutionary Economic Geographies 183 Jürgen Essletzbichler 12 Geographies of Marketization 199 Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler 13 Economies of Bodily Commodification 213 Bronwyn Parry 14 Lives of Things 226 Ian Cook and Tara Woodyer 15 Crisis in Space: Ruminations on the Unevenness of Financialization and its Geographical Implications 242 Ewald Engelen 16 The Insurmountable Diversity of Economies 258 Adrian Smith 17 Waste/Value 275 Vinay Gidwani (b) Regulation and Governance 289 Editors’ Introduction: Regulation and Governance 291 Jamie Peck, Trevor J. Barnes, and Eric Sheppard 18 The Virtual Economy 298 Matthew Zook 19 Economic Geographies of Global Governance: Rules, Rationalities, and “Relational Comparisons” 313 Katharine N. Rankin 20 The Geographies of Alter-globalization 330 Joel Wainwright 21 Reinventing the State: Neoliberalism, State Transformation, and Economic Governance 344 Danny MacKinnon 22 New Subjects 358 Wendy Larner 23 Renaturing the Economy 372 Morgan Robertson 24 Bringing Politics Back In: Reading the Firm-Territory Nexus Politically 385 Jinn-yuh Hsu (c) Embodiment and Identity 399 Editors’ Introduction: Embodiment and Identity 401 Trevor J. Barnes, Eric Sheppard, and Jamie Peck 25 Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations in Continuity and Change 407 Beverley Mullings 26 Gender, Difference, and Contestation: Economic Geography through the Lens of Transnational Migration 420 Rachel Silvey 27 Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility, and Geographies of Work 431 Philip F. Kelly 28 Making Consumers and Consumption 444 Juliana Mansvelt 29 The Rise of a New Knowledge/Creative Economy: Prospects and Challenges for Economic Development, Class Inequality, and Work 458 Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi 30 The Corporation as Disciplinary Institution 472 Joshua Barkan 31 Social Movements and the Geographies of Economic Activities in South Korea 486 Bae-Gyoon Park 32 Subalternities that Matter in Times of Crisis 501 Sharad Chari Section III Borders 515 Editors’ Introduction: Borders 517 Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard 33 The Genuine and the Counterfeit: Qualitative Methods in Economic Geography and Anthropology 524 Elizabeth Dunn and Erica Schoenberger 34 The Cultural Turn and the Conjunctural Economy: Economic Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies 537 John Pickles 35 Worlds Apart? Economic Geography and Questions of “Development” 552 Susan M. Roberts 36 Putting Politics into Economic Geography 567 John Agnew 37 Inheritance or Exchange? Pluralism and the Relationships between Economic Geography and Economics 581 Peter Sunley 38 Sociological Institutionalism and the Socially Constructed Economy 594 Matt Vidal and Jamie Peck 39 Political Ecology/Economy 612 James McCarthy Index 626

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of feminist scholarship edited by an internationally recognized and leading figure in the field Companion to Feminist Studies provides a broad overview of the rich history and the multitude of approaches, theories, concepts, and debates central to this dynamic interdisciplinary field. Comprehensive yet accessible, this edited volume offers expert insights from contributors of diverse academic, national, and activist backgroundsdiscussing contemporary research and themes while offering international, postcolonial, and intersectional perspectives on social, political, cultural, and economic institutions, social media, social justice movements, everyday discourse, and more. Organized around three different dimensions of Feminist Studies, the Companion begins by exploring ten theoretical frameworks, including feminist epistemologies examining Marxist and Socialist Feminism, the activism of radical feminists, the contributions of Black feminist thought, and interTable of ContentsAbout the Editors vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xvii Part I Introduction 1 1 Feminist Studies as a Site of Critical Knowledge Production and Praxis 3Nancy A. Naples Part II Feminist Epistemology and Its Discontents 13 2 Biological Determinism and Essentialism 15Sheila Greene 3 Marxist and Socialist Feminisms 35Elisabeth Armstrong 4 Radical and Cultural Feminisms 53Lauren Rosewarne 5 Materialist Feminisms 73Bronwyn Winter 6 Black Feminism and Womanism 91Rose M. Brewer 7 Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry 105Patricia Hill Collins 8 Queer, Trans, and Transfeminist Theories 129Ute Bettray 9 Postcolonial Feminism 155Umme Al‐wazedi 10 Feminisms in Comparative Perspective 175Anne Sisson Runyan, Rina Verma Williams, Anwar Mhajne and Crystal Whetstone 11 Transnational Feminisms 193Gul Aldikacti Marshall Part III Methodological Diversity 211 12 Feminist Methodologies 213Cynthia Deitch 13 Feminist Empiricism 231Gina Marie Longo 14 Feminist Science Studies 247Samantha M. Archer and A.E. Kohler 15 Feminist Economics 265Valeria Esquivel 16 Feminist Ethnography 281Dana‐Ain Davis and Christa Craven 17 Feminist Historiography 301Ariella Rotramel 18 Feminism, Gender, and, Popular Culture 321Diane Grossman Part IV Feminist Praxis 339 19 Feminist Pedagogy 341Danielle M. Currier 20 Feminist Praxis and Globalization 357Manisha Desai and Koyel Khan 21 Feminism and Somatic Praxis 373Gill Wright Miller 22 Feminist Health Movements 393Meredeth Turshen and Marci Berger 23 Feminist Praxis and Gender Violence 411Claire M. Renzetti and Margaret Campe 24 Feminist Political Ecologies in Latin American Context 427Astrid Ulloa 25 Feminism and Social Justice Movements 447Molli Spalter Index 469

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Book SynopsisCOMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studiesCompanion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies. Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic proTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface xxi Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century xxivJavier Ruiz-Tagle, Anthony Orum, and Serena Vicari Haddock Part I Cities Across World Regions 1 1 Cities and Regions in South Asia 3Tanvi Bhatikar and Neha Sami 2 Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia 21Junxi Qian, Jia Ling, and Shenjing He 3 Latin American Cities and Regions 43Guillermo Jajamovich, Oscar Sosa López, and Gabriel Silvestre 4 Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa 64Warren Smit 5 Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand 85Kristian Ruming and Tom Baker 6 European Cities Between Continuity and Change 109Yuri Kazepov, Roberta Cucca, Byeongsun Ahn, and Christophe Verrier 7 The North American City 135Jon Teaford Part II Leading Theoretical Perspectives and Approaches 153 8 New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory 155Tino Buchholz 9 Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago 176Pranathi Diwakar and Joshua Babcock 10 Environmental Perspectives on Cities 196Maria Christina Fragkou and Anahí Urquiza 11 Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space 218Brenda Parker Part III Methodological Approaches 237 12 A Critical-Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies 239Ricardo Truffello, Fernanda Rojas Marchini, and Monica Flores 13 GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens’ Participation 265Inga Gryl, Ana Parraguez Sanchez, and Thomas Jekel 14 Urban Ethnography 282Margarethe Kusenbach and Japonica Brown-Saracino 15 Cities and Networks 311Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Zachary P. Neal 16 Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge 329Astrid Wood Part IV Social Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 349 17 Social Heterogeneity and Diversity 351Ayda Eraydin 18 Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class 373David Benassi, Andrea Ciarini, and Enzo Mingione 19 The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities 398María Mercedes Di Virgilio 20 Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries 420Moshe Semyonov and Rebeca Raijman 21 Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities 450Da Liu and Zhigang Li 22 Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase 475Christopher Levesque and Jack DeWaard 23 Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses 497Sandra Annunziata, Loretta Lees, and Clara Rivas Alonso Part V Political and Economic Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 517 24 Urban Citizenship and Governance 519Annika Hinze 25 Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities 539Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García Cabeza 26 Financialisation and Real Estate 562Anne Haila 27 Housing in the Global North and the Global South 579Darinka Czischke and Alonso Ayala Part VI Closure 605 28 Conclusions 607Anthony Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, and Serena Vicari Haddock Index 613

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to the current social and economic state of China since its restructuring in 1949. Provides insights into the targeted institutional change that is occurring simultaneously across the entire country Presents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-era A new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependency Prompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the national strategy' of Chinese development An excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage Trade Review'In this foundational investigation, Kean Fan Lim shows how contemporary Chinese urbanization has been stimulated through new state policies designed to territorialize transnational capital investment. These rescaled state spaces have, he argues, figured centrally in the production of new forms of uneven development across the national territory. This systematically researched, lucidly argued book is an essential resource for anyone concerned to understand the contemporary urban condition, whether in China or elsewhere.' Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University'Kean Fan Lim makes a breakthrough in existing studies of the Chinese political economy by astutely integrating a multi-scalar and historically grounded framework to illustrate the rationale and effects of economic restructuring in contemporary China. The empirical focus on the ‘nationally strategic new areas’ offers an important platform for understanding the regulatory challenges facing Chinese policymakers across different scales.'Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences'This book is the first systematic treatment of China’s state rescaling and an innovative application to the widespread ‘nationally strategic new areas’ in China. Kean Fan Lim should be congratulated for successfully tackling the concept of scale and state rescaling and for demonstrating their analytical power to understand China’s regional development.'Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London‘Published as part of the RGS-IBG book series, this publication details a significant aspect of China’s economic reform, namely, ‘crossing the river by feeling for stones’ (p. 1). This metaphor has long been used to illustrate that China’s transition to a market economy has no precedent and cannot rely on other countries’ experiences for guidance and, hence, must be a trial-and-error process. Rather than taking this aspect for granted, the book argues that this process foregrounds the nature of China’s political economy, and that these longstanding policy experimentation practices therefore warrant detailed examination. As highlighted in chapters 1 and 2, for example, this process is shown not to be specific to China’s post-economic reform; rather, it is an inherent process that is commonly used by the Communist Party of China (CPC).’Yi Li, National Research Centre for Resettlement, Hohai University, Nanjing, China(Regional Studies, 2019) ‘As one of the few book-length studies of contemporary issues around state-rescaling and New Area development in China, Lim’s work breaks important ground. Challenging uncritical application of Western state rescaling theories to the Chinese context, the book stakes out a new position from which to challenge the narrative of China’s post-1978 development as part of a global neoliberal shift. And with its carefully contextualized case studies of New Area development in Guangdong and Chongqing, the study provides a useful resource for China scholars as well as students of geography, urban planning and political economy seeking to understand the politics and policy logics behind spatially differentiated governance in China.’Kyle A. Jaros, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (The China Quarterly, Volume 241, March 2020) ‘Kean Fan Lim’s new book, On Shifting Foundations, brings together two hitherto entirely separate literatures on the re-scaling of states, which developed mainly in relation to European and US case studies, and on the enormous spatial reorganization of the Chinese economy since the 1980s. To these topics it adds an interesting discussion of prior reorganization during the periods of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, from the late 1950s until the 1970s.’John Agnew, UCLA and recipient of the Vautrin-Lud Prize (Political Geography, book review forum, Volume 83, November 2020) ‘Kean Lim’s On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China is an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary industrial geography. Each chapter and the cases contained within them are richly detailed, with each bound together by a unified theoretical thread.’Ashok Kumar, University of Birkbeck, UK (Urban Studies, book review symposium, June 2021) ‘Overall, this is an excellent book, rich in conceptual ideas and empirical details. It should be on the bookshelves of scholars interested in urban and regional change in China.’Jiang Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (The China Journal, No. 86, July 2021) Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface viii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 Part I A Geographical–Historical Re‐appraisal 27 2 Chinese State Spatiality as a Complex Palimpsest 29 Part II Conceptual Parameters 63 3 State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Path‐dependency in post‐Mao China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework 65 Part III State Rescaling in the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing 83 4 Becoming ‘More Special than Special’ I: The Pressures and Opportunities for Change in Guangdong 85 5 Becoming ‘More Special than Special’ II: Hengqin and Qianhai New Areas as National Frontiers of Financial Reforms 112 6 State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing I: The State as Economic Driver 145 7 State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing II: The Politics of Path‐dependency 174 8 Concluding Reflections 196 References 209 Index 230

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to the current social and economic state of China since its restructuring in 1949. Provides insights into the targeted institutional change that is occurring simultaneously across the entire country Presents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-era A new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependency Prompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the national strategy' of Chinese development An excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage Trade Review'In this foundational investigation, Kean Fan Lim shows how contemporary Chinese urbanization has been stimulated through new state policies designed to territorialize transnational capital investment. These rescaled state spaces have, he argues, figured centrally in the production of new forms of uneven development across the national territory. This systematically researched, lucidly argued book is an essential resource for anyone concerned to understand the contemporary urban condition, whether in China or elsewhere.' Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University'Kean Fan Lim makes a breakthrough in existing studies of the Chinese political economy by astutely integrating a multi-scalar and historically grounded framework to illustrate the rationale and effects of economic restructuring in contemporary China. The empirical focus on the ‘nationally strategic new areas’ offers an important platform for understanding the regulatory challenges facing Chinese policymakers across different scales.'Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences 'This book is the first systematic treatment of China’s state rescaling and an innovative application to the widespread ‘nationally strategic new areas’ in China. Kean Fan Lim should be congratulated for successfully tackling the concept of scale and state rescaling and for demonstrating their analytical power to understand China’s regional development.'Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London ‘Published as part of the RGS-IBG book series, this publication details a significant aspect of China’s economic reform, namely, ‘crossing the river by feeling for stones’ (p. 1). This metaphor has long been used to illustrate that China’s transition to a market economy has no precedent and cannot rely on other countries’ experiences for guidance and, hence, must be a trial-and-error process. Rather than taking this aspect for granted, the book argues that this process foregrounds the nature of China’s political economy, and that these longstanding policy experimentation practices therefore warrant detailed examination. As highlighted in chapters 1 and 2, for example, this process is shown not to be specific to China’s post-economic reform; rather, it is an inherent process that is commonly used by the Communist Party of China (CPC).’Yi Li, National Research Centre for Resettlement, Hohai University, Nanjing, China(Regional Studies, 2019) ‘As one of the few book-length studies of contemporary issues around state-rescaling and New Area development in China, Lim’s work breaks important ground. Challenging uncritical application of Western state rescaling theories to the Chinese context, the book stakes out a new position from which to challenge the narrative of China’s post-1978 development as part of a global neoliberal shift. And with its carefully contextualized case studies of New Area development in Guangdong and Chongqing, the study provides a useful resource for China scholars as well as students of geography, urban planning and political economy seeking to understand the politics and policy logics behind spatially differentiated governance in China.’Kyle A. Jaros, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (The China Quarterly, Volume 241, March 2020) ‘Kean Fan Lim’s new book, On Shifting Foundations, brings together two hitherto entirely separate literatures on the re-scaling of states, which developed mainly in relation to European and US case studies, and on the enormous spatial reorganization of the Chinese economy since the 1980s. To these topics it adds an interesting discussion of prior reorganization during the periods of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, from the late 1950s until the 1970s.’John Agnew, UCLA and recipient of the Vautrin-Lud Prize (Political Geography, book review forum, Volume 83, November 2020) ‘Kean Lim’s On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China is an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary industrial geography. Each chapter and the cases contained within them are richly detailed, with each bound together by a unified theoretical thread.’Ashok Kumar, University of Birkbeck, UK (Urban Studies, book review symposium, June 2021) ‘Overall, this is an excellent book, rich in conceptual ideas and empirical details. It should be on the bookshelves of scholars interested in urban and regional change in China.’Jiang Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (The China Journal, No. 86, July 2021) Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface viii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 Part I A Geographical–Historical Re‐appraisal 27 2 Chinese State Spatiality as a Complex Palimpsest 29 Part II Conceptual Parameters 63 3 State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Path‐dependency in post‐Mao China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework 65 Part III State Rescaling in the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing 83 4 Becoming ‘More Special than Special’ I: The Pressures and Opportunities for Change in Guangdong 85 5 Becoming ‘More Special than Special’ II: Hengqin and Qianhai New Areas as National Frontiers of Financial Reforms 112 6 State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing I: The State as Economic Driver 145 7 State Rescaling in and Through Chongqing II: The Politics of Path‐dependency 174 8 Concluding Reflections 196 References 209 Index 230

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond. Includes contributions from an international group of scholars Focuses on the centrality of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale in understanding the rise of radical geography and its spread A celebration of radical geography from its early beginnings in the 1950s through to the 1980s, and after Draws on oral histories by leaders in the field and private and public archives Contains a wealth of never-before published historical material Serves as both authoritative introduction and indispensable professional reference Trade Review'How do you change the intellectual landscape of an entire discipline? This book answers the question, tracing the many shoots, leaves and branches of radical geography from the late 1960s onwards. It should inspire a new generation of faculty and students to believe that the smallest beginnings can, in time, build to transformative movements.'Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester, UK and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia 'This is an enormous gift to the discipline – a richly detailed history of radical geography. Instead of being relegated to a mere chapter in geography history texts, we can finally get a sense of how radical geography developed across different places, how it challenged mainstream geography and the difficulties it faced. Most importantly, however, it helps us understand the present.'Laura Pulido, Professor and Department Head of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, USATable of ContentsList of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Series Editors’ Preface xvii Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard Part I Radical Geography within North America 37 1 Issues of “Race” and Early Radical Geography: Our Invisible Proponents 39Audrey Kobayashi 2 Myths, Cults, Memories, and Revisions in Radical Geographic History: Revisiting the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute 59Gwendolyn C. Warren, Cindi Katz, and Nik Heynen 3 Radical Paradoxes: The Making of Antipode at Clark University 87Matthew T. Huber, Chris Knudson, and Renee Tapp 4 A “Necessary Stop on the Circuit”: Radical Geography at Simon Fraser University 117Nicholas Blomley and Eugene McCann 5 The Life and Times of the Union of Socialist Geographers 149Linda Peake 6 Baltimore as Truth Spot: David Harvey, Johns Hopkins, and Urban Activism 183Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes 7 Berkeley In‐Between: Radicalizing Economic Geography 211Jamie Peck and Trevor J. Barnes 8 Radical Geography in the Midwest 247Mickey Lauria, Bryan Higgins, Mark Bouman, Kent Mathewson, Trevor J. Barnes, and Eric Sheppard 9 Radical Geography Goes Francophone 273Juan‐Luis Klein Part II Radical Geography beyond North America 301 10 Japan: The Yada Faction versus North American Radical Geography 303Fujio Mizuoka 11 The Rise and Decline of Radical Geography in South Africa 315Brij Maharaj 12 The Geographies of Critical Geography: The Development of Critical Geography in Mexico 329Veronica Crossa 13 “Let’s here [sic] it for the Brits, You help us here”: North American Radical Geography and British Radical Geography Education 343Joanne Norcup 14 “Can these words, commonly applied to the Anglo‐Saxon social sciences, fit the French?” Circulation, Translation, and Reception of Radical Geography in the French Academic Context 357Yann Calberac Conclusion 371Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes Index 389

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth edition Since its initial publication, The Globalization Reader has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the issues surrounding globalization. Now in its sixth edition, the Reader has been thoroughly revised and updated and continues to review the most important global trends. Including readings by a variety of authors, the text offers a wide-ranging and authoritative introduction to the political, economic, cultural, and experiential aspects of globalization. The updated sixth edition presents the most accessible and comprehensive review of current debates and research. Contributions from scholars, activists, and organizations provide balanced viewpoints and expert coverage of the many aspects of globalization. The Globalization Reader offers readings on an exciting range of new topics as well as retaining key globalization topics such as the exTable of ContentsPreface to the Sixth Edition xii General Introduction 1 Part I Debating Globalization 7 Introduction 8 1 The Hidden Promise: Liberty Renewed 11John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge 2 How to Judge Globalism 19Amartya Sen 3 The Elusive Concept of Globalisation 25Cees J. Hamelink 4 The Clash of Civilizations? 32Samuel P. Huntington 5 The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 40United Nations Part I Questions 46 Part II Explaining Globalization 47 Introduction 48 6 The Modern World‐System as a Capitalist World‐Economy 52Immanuel Wallerstein 7 Sociology of the Global System 59Leslie Sklair 8 A Brief History of Neoliberalism 67David Harvey 9 World Society and the Nation‐State 73John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez 10 Globalization as a Problem 82Roland Robertson 11 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 90Arjun Appadurai Part II Questions 99 Part III Experiencing Globalization 101 Introduction 102 12 Waves in the History of Globalization 105Frank J. Lechner 13 McDonald’s in Hong Kong 112James L. Watson 14 The Transnational Villagers 121Peggy Levitt 15 Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization 129Aneesh Aneesh 16 Fear and Money in Dubai 137Mike Davis 17 Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism 142Sasha Issenberg 18 An Anthropology of Structural Violence 147Paul Farmer 19 Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche 154Ethan Watters Part III Questions 159 Part IV Globalization and the World Economy 161 Introduction 162 20 China Makes, the World Takes 167James Fallows 21 Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry 173Miguel Korzeniewicz 22 The Sticky Superpower 184The Economist 23 Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: In History and Now: An Overview 189Branko Milanovic 24 The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 194Paul Collier 25 The Global Financial Crisis and Its Effects 200Malcolm Edey 26 The Twin Excesses – Financialization and Globalization – Caused the Crash 207Ashok Bardhan 27 Globalism’s Discontents 210Joseph E. Stiglitz Part IV Questions 218 Part V Globalization and the Nation-State 219 Introduction 220 28 The Declining Authority of States 224Susan Strange 29 Global Organized Crime 231James H. Mittelman 30 Has Globalization Gone Too Far? 237Dani Rodrik 31 The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same‐Sex Sexual Relations, 1984–1995 244David John Frank and Elizabeth H. McEneaney 32 Abortion Liberalization in World Society, 1960–2009 251Elizabeth H. Boyle, Minzee Kim, and Wesley Longhofer Part V Questions 258 Part VI Global Governance 261 Introduction 262 33 The International Monetary Fund 266James Vreeland 34 ISO and the Infrastructure for a Global Market 273Craig N. Murphy and JoAnne Yates 35 Global Health Governance: A Conceptual Review 280Richard Dodgson, Kelley Lee, and Nick Drager 36 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grant‐Making Programmefor Global Health 286David McCoy, Gayatri Kembhavi, Jinesh Patel, and Akish Luintel 37 IMPACT: Transforming Business, Changing the World – The United Nations Global Compact 291DNV GL Group and United Nations Global Compact Part VI Questions 297 Part VII Globalization, INGOs, and Civil Society 299 Introduction 300 38 NGOs and Climate Crisis: Fragmentation, Lines of Conflict and Strategic Approaches 304Barbara Unmusig 39 The Evolution of Debates over Female Genital Cutting 313Elizabeth Heger Boyle 40 Women’s Human Rights and the Muslim Question: Iran’s One Million Signatures Campaign 320Rebecca L. Barlow 41 World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non‐Governmental Organization 328John Boli and George M. Thomas 42 Closing the Corruption Casino: The Imperatives of a Multilateral Approach 336Peter Eigen 43 Trading Diamonds Responsibly: Institutional Explanations for Corporate Social Responsibility 341Franziska Bieri and John Boli 44 Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development 348Ananya Roy Part VII Questions 354 Part VIII Globalization and Media 355 Introduction 356 45 Cultural Imperialism 360John Tomlinson 46 Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra‐Flow 370Daya Kishan Thussu 47 Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia 377Doobo Shim 48 Landing of the Wave: Hallyu in Peru and Brazil 383Nusta Corranza Ko, Song No, Jeong‐Nam Kim, and Ronald Gobbi Simoes 49 Watching Big Brother at Work: A Production Study of Big Brother Australia 389Jane Roscoe 50 Bollywood versus Hollywood: Battle of the Dream Factories 397Heather Tyrrell 51 Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care 405Tyler Cowen Part VIII Questions 411 Part IX Globalization and Religion 413 Introduction 414 52 Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims 418Charles Kurzman 53 Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah 423Olivier Roy 54 The Christian Revolution 429Philip Jenkins 55 American Evangelicals: The Overlooked Globalizers and Their Unintended Gospel of Modernity 437Joshua J. Yates 56 Religious Rejections of Globalization 443Frank J. Lechner 57 The Decontexualization of Asian Religious Practices in the Context of Globalization 450Brooke Schedneck Part IX Questions 455 Part X Globalization and Identity 457 Introduction 458 58 Moral Choices and Global Desires: Feminine Identity in a Transnational Realm 461Ernestine McHugh 59 Global/Indian: Cultural Politics in the IT Workplace 469Smitha Radhakrishnan 60 Strategic Inauthenticity 476Timothy D. Taylor 61 Orange Nation: Soccer and National Identity in the Netherlands 481Frank J. Lechner 62 Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture 486Ulf Hannerz 63 Cosmopolitanism & Humanism 492C. Martin Centner Part X Questions 495 Part XI Global Environmentalism 497 Introduction 498 64 Greenpeace and Political Globalism 502Paul Wapner 65 Environmental Advocacy Networks 510Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink 66 Toward Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development: Transnational Civil Society Organizing around Big Dams 519Sanjeev Khagram 67 Ozone Depletion 526Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown 68 Movements for Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide 531Brian Tokar 69 Speech of the IPCC Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, at the Opening Session of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland 539Rajendra K. Pachauri Part XI Questions 542 Part XII Contesting Globalization: Alternatives and Opposition 545 Introduction 546 70 Counterhegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Political Economy 550Peter Evans 71 The Global Justice Movement 557Geoffrey Pleyers 72 The Twelve Assumptions of an Alter‐Globalisation Strategy 563Gustave Massiah 73 The Global South: The WTO and Deglobalization 568Walden Bello 74 Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization 573Vandana Shiva 75 Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization 582World Social Forum 76 When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism 585Jonathan Haidt 77 The Globalization of Rage: Why Today’s Extremism Looks Familiar 591Pankaj Mishra Part XII Questions 595 Index 597

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Book SynopsisComprehensive coverage of the whole Earth system throughout its entire existence and beyond Complete with a new introduction by the authors, this updated edition helps provide an understanding of the past, present, and future processes that occur on and in our Earththe fascinating, yet potentially lethal, set of atmospheric, surface, and internal processes that interact to produce our living environment. It introduces students to our planet's four key interdependent systems: the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, focusing on their key components, the interactions between them, and environmental change. The book also uses geological case studies throughout, in addition to the modern processes. Topics covered in the Second Edition of Earth Environments: Past, Present and Future include: an Earth systems model; components systems and processes; atmospheric systems; oceanography; surface and internal geological systems; biogeography; aTable of ContentsAbout the Companion Website xxiii Introduction xxv Section I Introduction to Earth Systems 1 1 Introduction to Earth Systems 3 1.1 Introduction to Earth’s Formation 4 1.2 Introduction to Earth Spheres 5 1.3 Scales in Space and Time 7 1.4 Systems and Feedback 8 1.5 Open and Closed Flow Systems 9 1.6 Equilibrium in Systems 11 1.7 Time Cycles in Systems 13 Section II Atmospheric and Ocean Systems 17 2 Structure and Composition of the Atmosphere 19 2.1 Structure of the Atmosphere 20 2.2 Composition of the Atmosphere 21 2.3 Carbon Dioxide and Methane 23 2.4 Water Vapour 24 3 Energy in the Atmosphere and the Earth Heat Budget 27 3.1 Introduction 28 3.2 Solar Radiation 28 4 Moisture in the Atmosphere 41 4.1 Introduction 42 4.2 The Global Hydrological Cycle 42 4.3 Air Stability and Instability 46 4.4 Clouds 48 4.5 Precipitation 49 5 Atmospheric Motion 55 5.1 Introduction 56 5.2 Atmospheric Pressure 56 5.3 Winds and Pressure Gradients 58 5.4 The Global Pattern of Atmospheric Circulation 62 6 Weather Systems 67 6.1 Introduction 68 6.2 Macroscale Synoptic Systems 68 6.3 Meso‐Scale: local Winds 81 6.4 Microclimates 83 6.5 Weather Observation and Forecasting 89 7 World Climates 99 7.1 Introduction 100 7.2 Classification of Climate 100 8 Ocean Structure and Circulation Patterns 113 8.1 Introduction 114 8.2 Physical Structure of the Oceans 114 8.3 Temperature Structure of the Oceans 117 8.4 Ocean Circulation 117 8.5 Sea‐Level Change 121 9 Atmospheric Evolution 125 9.1 Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere 126 10 Principles of Climate Change 131 10.1 Introduction 132 10.2 Evidence for Climate Change 133 10.3 Causes of Climate Change 145 Section III Endogenic Geological Systems 159 11 Earth Materials: Mineralogy, Rocks and the Rock Cycle 161 11.1 What is a Mineral? 162 11.2 Rocks and the Rock Cycle 173 11.3 Vulcanicity and Igneous Rocks 175 11.4 Sedimentary Rocks, Fossils and Sedimentary Structures 176 11.5 Metamorphic Rocks 187 12 The Internal Structure of the Earth 191 12.1 Introduction 192 12.2 Evidence of Earth’s Composition from Drilling 192 12.3 Evidence of Earth’s Composition from Volcanoes 193 12.4 Evidence of Earth’s Composition from Meteorites 194 12.5 Using Earthquake Seismic Waves as Earth Probes 194 13 Plate Tectonics and Volcanism: Processes, Products, and Landforms 199 13.1 Introduction 200 13.2 Global Tectonics: how Plates, Basins, and Mountains are Created 200 13.3 Volcanic Processes and the Global Tectonic Model 204 13.4 Magma Eruption 215 13.5 Explosive Volcanism 220 13.6 Petrographic Features of Volcaniclastic Sediments 228 13.7 Transport and Deposition of Pyroclastic Materials 228 13.8 The Relationship Between Volcanic Processes and the Earth’s Atmosphere and Climate 238 13.9 Plate Tectonics, Uniformitarianism and Earth History 245 14 Geotectonics: Processes, Structures, and Landforms 255 14.1 Introduction 256 14.2 Tectonic Structures 256 14.3 Tectonic Structures as Lines of Weakness in Landscape Evolution 263 Section IV Exogenic Geological Systems 265 15 Weathering Processes and Products 267 15.1 Introduction 268 15.2 Physical or Mechanical Weathering 270 15.3 Chemical Weathering 281 15.4 Measuring Weathering Rates 293 15.5 Weathering Landforms 295 16 Slope Processes and Morphology 299 16.1 Introduction 300 16.2 Slopes: Mass Movement 300 16.3 Hillslope Hydrology and Slope Processes 329 16.4 Slope Morphology and its Evolution 336 17 Fluvial Processes and Landform-Sediment Assemblages 349 17.1 Introduction 350 17.2 Loose Boundary Hydraulics 350 17.3 The Energy of a River and Its Ability to Do Work 353 17.4 Transport of the Sediment Load 353 17.5 Types of Sediment Load 355 17.6 River Hydrology 356 17.7 The Drainage Basin 358 17.8 Drainage Patterns and their Interpretation 362 17.9 Fluvial Channel Geomorphology 362 18 Carbonate Sedimentary Environments and Karst Processes and Landforms 411 18.1 Introduction 412 18.2 Carbonate Sedimentary Environments and Carbonate Rock Characteristics 412 18.3 Evaporites 430 18.4 Carbonate Facies Models 430 18.5 Karst Processes 435 19 Coastal Processes, Landforms, and Sediments 467 19.1 Introduction to the Coastal Zone 468 19.2 Sea Waves, Tides, and Tsunamis 470 19.3 Tides 476 19.4 Tsunamis 480 19.5 Coastal Landsystems 485 19.6 Distribution of Coastal Land systems 527 19.7 The Impact of Climatic Change on Coastal Landsystems: What Lies in the Future? 530 20 Glacial Processes and Land Systems 535 20.1 Introduction 536 20.2 Mass Balance and Glacier Formation 538 20.3 Mass Balance and Glacier Flow 546 20.4 Surging Glaciers 548 20.5 Processes of Glacial Erosion and Deposition 552 20.6 Glacial Landsystems 574 21 Periglacial Processes and Landform‐Sediment Assemblages 605 21.1 Introduction to the Term ‘Periglacial’ 606 21.2 Permafrost 606 21.3 Periglacial Processes and Landforms 609 21.4 Frost Heaving and Frost Thrusting 612 21.5 Landforms Associated with Frost Sorting 614 21.6 Needle Ice Development 615 21.7 Frost Cracking and the Development of Ice Wedges 615 21.8 Growth of Ground Ice and Its Decay, and the Development of Pingos, Thufurs, and Palsas 620 21.9 Processes Associated with Snowbanks (Nivation Processes) 626 21.10 Cryoplanation or Altiplanation Processes and Their Resultant Landforms 628 21.11 The Development of Tors 633 21.12 Slope Processes Associated with the Short Summer Melt Season 638 21.13 Cambering and Associated Structures 645 21.14 Wind Action in a Periglacial Climate 645 21.15 Fluvial Processes in a Periglacial Environment 648 21.16 Alluvial Fans in a Periglacial Region 650 21.17 An Overview of the Importance of Periglacial Processes in Shaping the Landscape of Upland Britain 652 21.18 The Periglaciation of Lowland Britain 654 22 Aeolian (Wind) Processes and Landform-Sediment Assemblages 655 22.1 Introduction 656 22.2 Current Controls on Wind Systems 657 22.3 Sediment Entrainment and Processes of Sand Movement 657 22.4 Processes of Wind Transport 659 22.5 Aeolian Bedforms 661 22.6 Dune and Aeolian Sediments 677 22.7 Dust and Loess Deposition 678 22.8 Wind Erosion Landforms 682 Section V The Biosphere 687 23 Principles of Ecology and Biogeography 689 23.1 Introduction 690 23.2 Why Do Organisms Live Where They Do? 690 23.3 Components of Ecosystems 694 23.4 Energy Flow in Ecosystems 699 23.5 Food Chains and Webs 704 23.6 Pathways of Mineral Matter (Biogeochemical Cycling) 707 23.7 Vegetation Succession and Climaxes 714 23.8 Concluding Remarks 732 24 Soil-forming Processes and Products 733 24.1 Introduction 734 24.2 Controls on Soil Formation 735 24.3 Soils as Systems 738 24.4 Soil Profile Development 739 24.5 Soil Properties 744 24.6 Key Soil Types, with a Description and Typical Profile 752 24.7 Podsolization: Theories 756 24.8 Soil Classification 757 24.9 Regional and Local Soil Distribution 759 24.10 The Development of Dune Soils: An Example from the Sefton Coast 768 24.11 The Development of Woodland Soils in Delamere Forest 770 24.12 Intrazonal Soils Caused by Topographic Change 770 24.13 Palaeosols 771 25 World Ecosystems 775 25.1 Introduction 776 25.2 The Tundra Ecozone 778 25.3 The Tropical (Equatorial) Rain Forest, or Humid Tropics Sensu Stricto, Ecozone 786 25.4 The Seasonal Tropics or Savanna Ecozone 793 25.5 Potential Effects of Global Warming on the World’s Ecozones 800 Section VI Global Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future 807 26 The Earth as a Planet: Geological Evolution and Change 809 26.1 Introduction 810 26.2 How Unique is the Earth as a Planet? 810 26.3 What Do We Really Know About the Early Earth? 811 26.4 The Early Geological Record 811 26.5 The First Earth System 815 26.6 How Did the Earth’s Core Form? 817 26.7 Evolution of the Earth’s Mantle 818 26.8 Evolution of the Continental Crust 827 27 Atmospheric Evolution and Climate Change 831 27.1 Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere 832 27.2 Future Climate Change 833 28 Future Change in Ocean Circulation and the Hydrosphere 843 28.1 Introduction 844 28.2 Sea‐Level Change and the Supercontinental Cycle 844 28.3 Projected Long‐Term Changes in the Ocean 849 28.4 Future Changes in the Water Cycle 850 29 Biosphere Evolution and Change 855 29.1 Introduction 856 29.2 Mechanisms of Evolution in the Fossil Record 856 29.3 The Origins of Life 860 29.4 An Outline History of the Earth’s Biospheric Evolution 862 29.5 Mass Extinctions and Catastrophes in the History of Life on Earth 887 30 Environmental Change: Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth Phases and Climates Prior to Recent Changes 899 30.1 Introduction 900 30.2 Early Glaciations in the Proterozoic Phase of the Pre‐Cambrian (the Snowball Earth Hypothesis) 900 30.3 Examples of Changes from Greenhouse to Icehouse Climates in the Earth’s Past 908 30.4 Late Cenozoic Ice Ages: Rapid Climate Change in the Quaternary 922 30.5 Late Glacial Climates and Evidence for Rapid Change 932 30.6 The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Optimum and the LIA 942 31 Global Environmental Change in the Future 951 31.1 Introduction 952 31.2 Future Climate Change 952 31.3 Change in the Geosphere 955 31.4 Change in the Oceans and Hydrosphere 958 31.5 Change in the Biosphere 959 31.6 A Timeline for Future Earth 960 31.7 Causes for Future Optimism? 961 31.8 Concluding Remarks 965 Index 967

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Book SynopsisThe new, updated edition of the authoritative and comprehensive survey of modern sociology The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology, Second Edition is an authoritative survey of the major topics, current and emerging trends, and contemporary issues in the study of human social relationships and institutions. A collection of contributions from globally-recognized scholars and experts explore the theoretical and methodological foundations of sociology, new and established debates, and the most current research in the field. Broad in scope, this book covers a multitude of topics ranging from crime, urbanization, sexuality, and education to new questions surrounding big data, authoritarian capitalism, and the rise of nationalism. Since the first edition of the Companion was published, new developments have emerged and new problems have been created such as the omnipresence of social media, political and institutional upheaval, and the global refugee Table of ContentsContributors Bios vii Introduction xiiiGeorge Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy Part I Introduction 1 1 Classical Sociological Theory 3Alan Sica 2 Contemporary Social Theory 21Jeffrey Stepnisky 3 Quantitative Methods 39Russell K. Schutt 4 Qualitative Methods 57Mitchell Duneier Part II Basic Topics 67 5 Action, Interaction, and Groups 69Kimberly B. Rogers and Lynn Smith‐Lovin 6 Social Network Analysis 87Nick Crossley 7 Culturalizing Sociology 104Laura Grindstaff and Ming‐Cheng M. Lo 8 Deviance: A Sociology of Unconventionalities 124Nachman Ben‐Yehuda 9 Criminology 141Charles F. Wellford 10 Critical Sexualities Studies: Moving On 156Ken Plummer 11 Racial and Ethnic Issues: Critical Race Approaches in the United States 174Brittany C. Slatton and Joe R. Feagin 12 Families 190Medora W. Barnes 13 Sociology of Education 206Joseph J. Merry and Maria Paino 14 Sociology of Religion 224Robert D. Woodberry, Christian Smith, and Christopher P. Scheitle 15 Medicine and Health 250William C. Cockerham 16 Urbanization 267Kevin Fox Gotham and Arianna J. King 17 Environmental Sociology 283Richard York and Riley E. Dunlap 18 Social Movements, Protest, and Practices of Social Change 301Kevin Gillan 19 War and Society 319Miguel A. Centeno and Vicki Yang 20 Immigration 340Noriko Matsumoto 21 The Sociology of Consumption 358Christopher Andrews 22 Digital Technology, Social Media, and Techno‐Social Life 377Mary Chayko 23 Contemporary Feminist Theory 398Michelle Meagher Part III Cutting Edge Issues 417 24 Big Data for Sociological Research 419Jason Radford and David Lazer 25 Toward a Sociology of Debt 444Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy 26 Sociology of Sport 460Alan Tomlinson 27 From Fordism to Brexit and Trump: Is Authoritarian Capitalism on the Rise? 477 Robert J. Antonio and Alessandro Bonanno Index 496

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Book SynopsisA broad examination of the rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism throughout the world The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalismprovides expert insight intothecomplex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of human relations worldwide in a time of rising populist nationalism,intensifiedracial and religious tensions, andmountinghostilities towards immigrants and minorities. Analyzing the underlying forces which continue to drive global trends, this volume examines contemporary patterns based on the most recent evidence spanning five continentsoffering a diversity of interpretations, models and perspectives that address the challenges facing the study of race,ethnicity,and nationalism. TheCompanionfeatures original contributions by both established experts and emerging scholarsthatexploreanexpansiverangeof theoretical, historical,and empirical case studies. Organized into five sections, the text first discusses growing trends in theTable of ContentsContributor Information ix Introduction: Global Trends in a Field of Increasing Complexity 1 Part I Revising the Agenda: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism In the Twenty-First Century 11 1 Confrontational Politics: The Black Lives Matter Movement 13Rutledge Dennis and Kimya Dennis 2 From Obama to Trump: The Dialectics of Race and Nationalism in Contemporary America 29John Stone and Polly Rizova 3 The Future of Nationalism in a Transnational World 43Daniele Conversi 4 The Changing Nature of Global Racial and Ethnic Relations 61John Solomos 5 Why Populism? 77Rogers Brubaker 6 Racialization, Polyracism, and Global Racism 97Ian Law Part II Regional Responses to Global Changes 119 7 The Paradox of Nationalism and Globalism: China’s Participation in Global Capitalism 121Xiaoshuo Hou 8 East Asia 129John Lie and Jeffrey Weng 9 Imagining the Chinese Nation: The Writings of Liang Qichao (1873–1929) 147Kit Man 10 Central Asia 159Jennifer Murtazashvili 11 Hindu Nationalism, Identity Politics, and the Indian Diaspora in the United States 165Sonali Jain and Arun Swamy 12 Latin America 183Stanley R. Bailey 13 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the Caribbean Region 203Jerome Teelucksingh 14 Transforming Settler Colonialism in South Africa 211Kogila Moodley and Heribert Adam 15 The Rise of the Golden Dawn in Greece: Austerity and Its Impact on Democracy 227Ioanna Christodoulaki 16 The language of Freedom: Democracy, Humanity, and Nationality in the Architecture and Art of the Modern European National Parliament 245Athena S. Leoussi, with George Payne and Alibor Sulak Part III Migration In a Transnational World 277 17 The Strength and Fragility of Family Reunification Politics in Contemporary Western States 279Nazli Kibria 18 Migration, Cooperation, and Trust: What do We Know? 289Jonathan Eastwood 19 New Patterns of Internal Migration: Movement with Chinese Characteristics 307Xiaoping Luo 20 Refugees 321Mathias Czaika and Albert Kraler 21 The Unspoken Legacy of Asylum: Racism, Nationalism, and the Neo‐colonialist Social Construction of Asylum Policies 349Olga Jubany 22 Generational Change and the Future Multiracial Locus of Mixture 369Miri Song 23 Immigrant Acceptance in an Ethnic Country: The Foreign Labor Policies of Japan 379Hideki Tarumoto Part IV Violence, Genocide, Terrorism, and War 403 24 Genocide 405Susanne Karstedt 25 The Radicalization of Social Movements 421Chares Demetriou 26 Warfare, Nationalism, and Globalization 437John Hutchinson 27 The Creation and Dissolution of Multi‐National States 457Dusko Sekulic Part V The Policy Debates: Politics, Economy, and Society 469 28 Collective Violence and the American Dream 471Daniel J. Monti 29 Ethnicity, Race, and National Identity in Management and Organization Studies 487Koen Van Laer and Patrizia Zanoni 30 The Case for a Racially‐Conscious, Culturally Competent Restorative Movement 507Mikhail Lyubansky 31 Three Frameworks for Understanding Intractable Social Conflict: Reflections on Azar, Burton, and Beyond 527Kevin Avruch Index 539

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Book SynopsisEssential writings from classical and contemporary sociological theorists engagingly introduced and brought to life for students This Concise Reader in Sociological Theory contains excerpts from the writings of a wide range of key theorists who represent the dynamic breadth of classical and contemporary, macro- and micro-sociological theory. The selected writings elaborate on the core concepts and arguments of sociological theory, and, along with the commentary, explore topics that resonate today such as: crisis and change, institutions and networks, power and inequality, race, gender, difference, and much more. The text contains editorial introductions to each section that clearly explain the intellectual context of the theorists and their arguments and reinforce their relevance to sociological analysis and society today. The excerpts include writings from the classicists Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, W.E.B. Du Bois to the contemporary Patricia HTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I Classical Theorists 7 1 Karl Marx 9 1A Karl Marx from Wage Labour and Capital 12 II 13 1B Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 17 Profit of Capital 19 1C Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from The German Ideology 27 2 Emile Durkheim 31 2A Emile Durkheim from The Rules of Sociological Method 34 What is a Social Fact? 34 II 37 2B Emile Durkheim from Suicide: A Study in Sociology 41 3 Max Weber 47 3A Max Weber from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 50 Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification 50 3B Max Weber from Economy and Society 65 The Definition of Sociology and of Social Action 65 Types of Social Action 71 3C Max Weber from Essays in Sociology 75 Bureaucracy 75 Structures of Power 77 Class, Status, Party 78 The Sociology of Charismatic Authority 80 Science as a Vocation 83 Part II Structural Functionalism, Conflict, and Exchange Theories 89 4 Structural Functionalism 91 4A Robert K. Merton from On Social Structure and Science 94 The Ethos of Science 94 Universalism 94 “Communism” 95 Disinterestedness 95 Organized Skepticism 97 5 Conflict and Dependency Theories 99 5A Ralf Dahrendorf from Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society 101 5B Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto from Dependency and Development in Latin America 107 Theory of Dependency and Capitalistic Development 107 6 Social Exchange 111 6A Peter M. Blau from Exchange and Power in Social Life 113 6B James S. Coleman from Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital 116 Social Capital 116 Human Capital and Social Capital 118 Forms of Social Capital 118 6C Paula England from Sometimes the Social Becomes Personal: Gender, Class, and Sexualities 120 Defining Terms 121 Explaining the Gender Differences 123 Part III Symbolic Interaction, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 129 7 Symbolic Interaction 131 7A George H. Mead from Mind, Self & Society 134 From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist 134 7B Erving Goffman from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 136 Introduction 136 8 Phenomenology 141 8A Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 143 The Reality of Everyday Life 143 Origins of Institutionalization 147 9 Ethnomethodology 159 9A Harold Garfinkel from Studies in Ethnomethodology 161 Practical Sociological Reasoning: Doing Accounts in “Common Sense Situations of Choice” 161 9B Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West from Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change 166 “Difference” as an Ongoing Interactional Accomplishment 166 Common Misapprehensions 168 The Dynamics of Doing Difference 169 Part IV Major Postwar European Influences On Sociological Theory 173 10 Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School 175 10A Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno from Dialectic of Enlightenment 179 10B Jurgen Habermas from The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society 184 11 Pierre Bourdieu 189 11A Pierre Bourdieu from The Forms of Capital 191 Cultural Capital 193 Social Capital 194 11B Pierre Bourdieu from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste 196 Class Condition and Social Conditioning 198 The Habitus and the Space of Life‐Styles 199 12 Michel Foucault and Queer Theory 209 12A Michel Foucault from The History of Sexuality 212 Method 214 12B Steven Seidman from Queer Theory/Sociology 217 Part V Standpoint Theories Amid Globalization 223 13 Feminist Theories 225 13A Charlotte Perkins Gilman from The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 229 13B Arlie Hochschild from Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure 231 Framing Rules and Feeling Rules: Issues in Ideology 231 13C Dorothy E. Smith from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge 233 Relations of Ruling and Objectified Knowledge 235 Women’s Exclusion from the Governing Conceptual Mode 235 Women Sociologists and the Contradiction between Sociology and Experience 236 The Standpoint of Women as a Place to Start 238 13D Patricia Hill Collins from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 238 Black Feminist Thought as Critical Social Theory 238 Why U.S. Black Feminist Thought? 242 Black Women as Agents of Knowledge 243 Toward Truth 246 13E Patricia Hill Collins from Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas 249 Racial Formation Theory, Knowledge Projects, and Intersectionality 249 Epistemological Challenges 252 13F R.W. Connell and James W. Messerschmidt from Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept 254 What Should Be Retained 257 What Should Be Rejected 258 Gender Hierarchy 258 14 Postcolonial Theories 263 14A W. E. Burghardt Du Bois from The Souls of Black Folk 267 14B Edward W. Said from Orientalism 270 14C Frantz Fanon from Black Skin, White Masks 273 The Fact of Blackness 273 14D Stuart Hall from Cultural Identity and Diaspora 276 14E Raewyn Connell, Fran Collyer, Joao Maia, and Robert Morrell from Toward a Global Sociology of Knowledge: Post-Colonial Realities and Intellectual Practices 279 Southern Situations and Global Arenas 280 14F Alondra Nelson from The Social Life of DNA: Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality after the Genome 282 Postgenomic 282 Reconciliation Projects 284 Slavery and Justice 285 15 Globalization and the Reassessment of Modernity 287 15A Zygmunt Bauman from Liquid Modernity 290 After the Nation‐state 290 15B Anthony Giddens from Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age 296 15C Ulrich Beck from Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity 300 On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution 300 15D Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande from Varieties of Second Modernity: The Cosmopolitan Turn in Social and Political Theory and Research 305 15E Jurgen Habermas from Notes on Post-Secular Society 307 The Descriptive Account of a “Post‐Secular Society” – and the Normative Issue of How Citizens of Such a Society Should Understand Themselves 307 Index 311

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Book SynopsisThe online version ofKeywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50isfree to download here. Alternatively, print copiescan be purchasedfor just GB7 / US$10 here.******************************************************************************** To celebrate Antipode's 50th anniversary, we've brought together 50 short keyword essays by a range of scholars at varying career stages who all, in some way, have some kind of affinity with Antipode's radical geographical project. The entries in this volume are diverse, eclectic, and to an extent random, however they all speak to our discipline's past, present and future in exciting and suggestive ways Contributors have taken unusual or novel terms, concepts or sets of ideas important to their reseTable of ContentsSeries Editors' PrefaceKeywords in Radical Geography: An Introduction (Nik Theodore, Tariq Jazeel, Andy Kent and Katherine McKittrick)1. A Democratic Ethos (Sophie Bond)2. Agnotology (Tom Slater)3. Badge (Gavin Brown)4. Blues Clubs (David Wilson)5. Care (Lorraine Dowler, Dana Cuomo, A. M. Ranjbar, Nicole Laliberte and Jenna Christian)6. Children and Childhood (Cindi Katz)7. Classroom (John Paul Catungal)8. Combination (Jamie Peck)9. Community Economy (Community Economies Collective)10. Contract (Kendra Strauss)11. Corruption (Sapana Doshi and Malini Ranganathan)12. Counterhegemony (Andrea Gibbons)13. Decolonial Geographies (Michelle Daigle and Magie Ramírez)14. Digital (Jen Jack Gieseking)15. Doom (Geoff Mann)16. Earth-Writing (Spaciousness) (Sharad Chari)17. Economic Democracy (Andrew Cumbers)18. Emotions (Kye Askins)19. Enough (Natalie Oswin)20. Experimentations (Jenny Pickerill)21. Fieldwork (Kiran Asher)22. Fracking (Bruce Braun)23. Fragments (Colin McFarlane)24. Garrison Communities (Beverley Mullings)25. Geopoetics (Sarah de Leeuw and Eric Magrane)26. Illegality (Lise Nelson)27. Imagination (Amanda Thomas)28. Knowledges (Kate Derickson)29. Love (Oli Mould)30. Margin (Sophie Hadfield-Hill)31. Mental Health (Linda Peake and Beverley Mullings)32. Mercury (Becky Mansfield)33. Monument (Kanishka Goonewardena)34. New Left (David Featherstone)35. Offshore (Shaina Potts)36. Organising (Jane Wills)37. Peace (Sara Koopman)38. Political Consciousness (Divya P. Tolia-Kelly)39. Pride / Shame (Lynda Johnston)40. Prisons (Matthew L. Mitchelson)41. Racial Banishment (Ananya Roy)42. Radical Globalisation (Ipsita Chatterjee)43. Radical Vulnerability (Richa Nagar and Roozbeh Shirazi)44. Rift (Katherine McKittrick)45. Seeing (Brett Christophers)46. The Anthropo(Obs)cene (Erik Swyngedouw)47. The Common (Miriam Tola and Ugo Rossi)48. The Union of Socialist Geographers (Eric Sheppard and Linda Peake)49. “Value” (George Henderson)50. Wiggle Room (Jessica Dempsey and Geraldine Pratt)

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Book SynopsisBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affectpolitical actionamongst youth. Argues thaturban cultures challenge the verymeaning and contours of the political process Includesethnographies, delving into the perspectives andknowledgesofracialized youth,urban farmers,and voluntary risk takers, like dumpster divers,building climbers, andstudent protestors Theorizes thataesthetics are an increasinglycrucial form ofpolitical action inthecontemporary urban setting and explains the impact ofaesthetics on the political Examines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodimentto these youth's experience of being in the world Explainshowyouth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performanceof risky and disruptive behavior Table of ContentsList of Figures vii Series Editors’ Preface x Preface xi Introduction: Voices From Montreal 2 Space–Time–Affect: The Urban Logic of Political Action 5 Acting Aesthetically: Political Gestures, Political Acts, and Political Action 10 Youth Urban Worlds 21 The Global Urban Political Moment of the 2010s: Youthfulness in Action 26 Montreal in a World of Cities 29 A Methodological Note 31 The Organization of the Book 34 Notes 36 1 Montreal and the Urban Moment 38 Montreal’s Politico‐Sensuous Feel 41 Montreal’s Place in the Global Urban Cultures of the 1960s and 1970s 49 Changing Relations to Time 52 Changing Relations to Space 54 Conclusion 61 Notes 64 2 The Urban Political World of Racialized Youth: Moving Through and Being Moved By Saint‐Michel and Little Burgundy 69 Moving Through Saint‐Michel and Little Burgundy with an Epistemology of Blackness 75 Being Moved: Representations and Affective Aesthetic Relations 88 Racialization: Disembodied Profiling Entangled With Embodied Racist Encounters 94 Conclusion 98 Notes 101 3 The Urban Political World of Student Strikers 107 Becoming a Striker: Pregnant Moments ‘Breaking the Real’ 110 Walking the City: Space During and After the Strike 117 The Political Effects of Seduction and Provocation 123 Conclusion 133 Notes 135 4 The Urban Political World of Urban Farmers: ‘It’s Not Just Growing Food, It’s a Lot More Than That’ 143 Embodied Experiences of the Spatialities and Circulation of Food Commodities in the City 150 The Urban Logic of Action of Urban Agriculture Practices 157 Seduction and Attraction in the Garden 161 Conclusion 164 Notes 165 5 The Urban Political World of ‘Risk‐Takers’: Provocative Choreographic Power 169 The Risk‐Management Context 171 Urban Dancers and Diviners: Choreographic Power as Political Action 172 Voluntary Risk‐Takers? Fear and Youth Politics 177 Collective Edgework: Distributed Agency Through Provocation and Seduction 186 Conclusion 192 Notes 193 Conclusion 198 Forms of Aesthetic Politics Influenced by Youthfulness and Contemporary Conditions of Urbanity 201 Montreal in a World of Cities 206 Note 207 References 208 Index 220

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Book Synopsis>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE Laurent Fourchard's deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and at the same time how political linkages are forged between state and society, elites and subalterns, bureaucratic structures and personal relations.'Frederick Cooper, Professor of History, New York University, USA Violence, control, police and political order are essential dimensions of metropolis. In this exceptional book, Laurent Fourchard compares decentralised exercises of authority in providing vivid analysis of exclusion of youth and migrants, policing and riots, politics of Big men and fine-grained blurring between bureaucracy and society. A masterpiece of urban politics.'Patrick Le Galès, Dean of Urban School, Sciences Po Paris, France This book is a major contribution to retTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Classify, Exclude, Police 1 Part I Governing Colonial Urban Space 21 1 Classifying and Excluding Migrants 25 Race and Urban Space 28 Differentiating Urbans from Migrants in South Africa 33 Stabilisation Policies and Urban Residential Rights 34 Reinterpreting the Riots in Sharpeville and Langa 38 Differentiating Natives from Non‐Natives in Nigeria 45 The Birth of Territorial Enclaves: Non‐Native Neighbourhoods 46 Regionalism and Decolonisation 49 The Kano Riots 52 Conclusion 54 Notes 58 2 The Making of a Delinquent 63 Rise of Urban Poverty and Delinquency Issues 66 Between Psychometric Expertise and Penal Reform in South Africa 68 The Empire’s First Social Services in Lagos 71 Race, Gender and Welfare 73 From Preference to Racial Differentiation in South Africa 74 Juvenile Prostitution and the Construction of a Moral Space in Nigeria 77 A Coercive Incomplete Welfare State 81 From Financial Indigence to Flogging in Urban Nigeria 83 Violent Socialisation of Urban Youth in South African Institutions 85 Conclusion 88 Notes 90 Part II Policing the Neighbourhood 95 3 Vigilantism and Violence Under Colonialism and Apartheid 103 Policing in a Colonial Situation: Historiographical Detours 104 Violence and Vigilantism in South African Townships 107 Violence and the Making of Township Communities in the Cape Flats 111 Violence and Vigilantism in South‐West Nigeria 117 Honour and Violence in the Centre of Ibadan 120 Conclusion 123 Notes 125 4 Commodification, Politicisation and Uneven Pacification of Contemporary Vigilantism 129 State Regulation and Commodification in Nigeria 133 Commodifying Protection and Regulating Vigilante Violence in Ibadan 135 Return to Democracy and Uneven Pacification of Vigilantism 139 Politicisation, Bureaucratisation and Feminisation of Vigilantism in the Cape Flats 142 Politicisation of Security Initiatives 145 Limited Pacification and Bureaucratisation of Vigilantism 147 Feminisation of Vigilantism 153 Conclusion 157 Notes 159 Part III Politics of the Street, Politics in the Office 165 5 Patronage, Taxation and the Politicisation of Urban Space 171 Patronage and Urban Projects 174 The Amala Politics in Ibadan 176 The Metropolitan Project in Lagos 180 Revenues, Violence and Politicisation in Motor Parks 184 Extorting Money or Levying Taxes? 186 Governing Transport Between Patronage and Bureaucracy 190 Violence, Loyalty and Politicisation in Motor Parks 194 Conclusion 198 Notes 200 6 Bureaucrats, Indigenes and a New Urban Politics of Exclusion 203 Institutionalising Exclusion, Manufacturing New Urban Belonging 207 Producing Certificates, Identifying Urban Ancestry 215 Indigeneity, Segregation and Patronage 223 Conclusion 229 Notes 230 Conclusion: The Urban Legacy of Exclusion, Policing and Violence 233 References 243 Appendix 1: Dictionary 273 Index 279

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Book Synopsis>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE Laurent Fourchard's deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and at the same time how political linkages are forged between state and society, elites and subalterns, bureaucratic structures and personal relations.'Frederick Cooper, Professor of History, New York University, USA Violence, control, police and political order are essential dimensions of metropolis. In this exceptional book, Laurent Fourchard compares decentralised exercises of authority in providing vivid analysis of exclusion of youth and migrants, policing and riots, politics of Big men and fine-grained blurring between bureaucracy and society. A masterpiece of urban politics.'Patrick Le Galès, Dean of Urban School, Sciences Po Paris, France This book is a major contribution to retTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Classify, Exclude, Police 1 Part I Governing Colonial Urban Space 21 1 Classifying and Excluding Migrants 25 Race and Urban Space 28 Differentiating Urbans from Migrants in South Africa 33 Stabilisation Policies and Urban Residential Rights 34 Reinterpreting the Riots in Sharpeville and Langa 38 Differentiating Natives from Non‐Natives in Nigeria 45 The Birth of Territorial Enclaves: Non‐Native Neighbourhoods 46 Regionalism and Decolonisation 49 The Kano Riots 52 Conclusion 54 Notes 58 2 The Making of a Delinquent 63 Rise of Urban Poverty and Delinquency Issues 66 Between Psychometric Expertise and Penal Reform in South Africa 68 The Empire’s First Social Services in Lagos 71 Race, Gender and Welfare 73 From Preference to Racial Differentiation in South Africa 74 Juvenile Prostitution and the Construction of a Moral Space in Nigeria 77 A Coercive Incomplete Welfare State 81 From Financial Indigence to Flogging in Urban Nigeria 83 Violent Socialisation of Urban Youth in South African Institutions 85 Conclusion 88 Notes 90 Part II Policing the Neighbourhood 95 3 Vigilantism and Violence Under Colonialism and Apartheid 103 Policing in a Colonial Situation: Historiographical Detours 104 Violence and Vigilantism in South African Townships 107 Violence and the Making of Township Communities in the Cape Flats 111 Violence and Vigilantism in South‐West Nigeria 117 Honour and Violence in the Centre of Ibadan 120 Conclusion 123 Notes 125 4 Commodification, Politicisation and Uneven Pacification of Contemporary Vigilantism 129 State Regulation and Commodification in Nigeria 133 Commodifying Protection and Regulating Vigilante Violence in Ibadan 135 Return to Democracy and Uneven Pacification of Vigilantism 139 Politicisation, Bureaucratisation and Feminisation of Vigilantism in the Cape Flats 142 Politicisation of Security Initiatives 145 Limited Pacification and Bureaucratisation of Vigilantism 147 Feminisation of Vigilantism 153 Conclusion 157 Notes 159 Part III Politics of the Street, Politics in the Office 165 5 Patronage, Taxation and the Politicisation of Urban Space 171 Patronage and Urban Projects 174 The Amala Politics in Ibadan 176 The Metropolitan Project in Lagos 180 Revenues, Violence and Politicisation in Motor Parks 184 Extorting Money or Levying Taxes? 186 Governing Transport Between Patronage and Bureaucracy 190 Violence, Loyalty and Politicisation in Motor Parks 194 Conclusion 198 Notes 200 6 Bureaucrats, Indigenes and a New Urban Politics of Exclusion 203 Institutionalising Exclusion, Manufacturing New Urban Belonging 207 Producing Certificates, Identifying Urban Ancestry 215 Indigeneity, Segregation and Patronage 223 Conclusion 229 Notes 230 Conclusion: The Urban Legacy of Exclusion, Policing and Violence 233 References 243 Appendix 1: Dictionary 273 Index 279

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Book SynopsisDEEP LEARNING FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES Explore this insightful treatment of deep learning in the field of earth sciences, from four leading voices Deep learning is a fundamental technique in modern Artificial Intelligence and is being applied to disciplines across the scientific spectrum; earth science is no exception. Yet, the link between deep learning and Earth sciences has only recently entered academic curricula and thus has not yet proliferated. Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences delivers a unique perspective and treatment of the concepts, skills, and practices necessary to quickly become familiar with the application of deep learning techniques to the Earth sciences. The book prepares readers to be ready to use the technologies and principles described in their own research. The distinguished editors have also included resources that explain and provide new ideas and recommendations for new research especially useful to those involved in advanced research Table of ContentsForeword xvi by Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota Acknowledgments xvii List of Contributors xviii List of Acronyms xxiv 1 Introduction 1 Gustau Camps-Valls, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Devis Tuia, and Markus Reichstein 1.1 A Taxonomy of Deep Learning Approaches 2 1.2 Deep Learning in Remote Sensing 3 1.3 Deep Learning in Geosciences and Climate 7 1.4 Book Structure and Roadmap 9 Part I Deep Learning to Extract Information from Remote Sensing Images 13 2 Learning Unsupervised Feature Representations of Remote Sensing Data with Sparse Convolutional Networks 15 Jose E. Adsuara, Manuel Campos-Taberner, Javier García-Haro, Carlo Gatta, Adriana Romero, and Gustau Camps-Valls 2.1 Introduction 15 2.2 Sparse Unsupervised Convolutional Networks 17 2.2.1 Sparsity as the Guiding Criterion 17 2.2.2 The EPLS Algorithm 18 2.2.3 Remarks 18 2.3 Applications 19 2.3.1 Hyperspectral Image Classification 19 2.3.2 Multisensor Image Fusion 21 2.4 Conclusions 22 3 Generative Adversarial Networks in the Geosciences 24 Gonzalo Mateo-García, Valero Laparra, Christian Requena-Mesa, and Luis Gómez-Chova 3.1 Introduction 24 3.2 Generative Adversarial Networks 25 3.2.1 Unsupervised GANs 25 3.2.2 Conditional GANs 26 3.2.3 Cycle-consistent GANs 27 3.3 GANs in Remote Sensing and Geosciences 28 3.3.1 GANs in Earth Observation 28 3.3.2 Conditional GANs in Earth Observation 30 3.3.3 CycleGANs in Earth Observation 30 3.4 Applications of GANs in Earth Observation 31 3.4.1 Domain Adaptation Across Satellites 31 3.4.2 Learning to Emulate Earth Systems from Observations 33 3.5 Conclusions and Perspectives 36 4 Deep Self-taught Learning in Remote Sensing 37 Ribana Roscher 4.1 Introduction 37 4.2 Sparse Representation 38 4.2.1 Dictionary Learning 39 4.2.2 Self-taught Learning 40 4.3 Deep Self-taught Learning 40 4.3.1 Application Example 43 4.3.2 Relation to Deep Neural Networks 44 4.4 Conclusion 45 5 Deep Learning-based Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing 46 Devis Tuia, Diego Marcos, Konrad Schindler, and Bertrand Le Saux 5.1 Introduction 46 5.2 Literature Review 47 5.3 Basics on Deep Semantic Segmentation: Computer Vision Models 49 5.3.1 Architectures for Image Data 49 5.3.2 Architectures for Point-clouds 52 5.4 Selected Examples 55 5.4.1 Encoding Invariances to Train Smaller Models: The example of Rotation 55 5.4.2 Processing 3D Point Clouds as a Bundle of Images: SnapNet 59 5.4.3 Lake Ice Detection from Earth and from Space 62 5.5 Concluding Remarks 66 6 Object Detection in Remote Sensing 67 Jian Ding, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang, and Gui-Song Xia 6.1 Introduction 67 6.1.1 Problem Description 67 6.1.2 Problem Settings of Object Detection 69 6.1.3 Object Representation in Remote Sensing 69 6.1.4 Evaluation Metrics 69 6.1.4.1 Precision-Recall Curve 70 6.1.4.2 Average Precision and Mean Average Precision 71 6.1.5 Applications 71 6.2 Preliminaries on Object Detection with Deep Models 72 6.2.1 Two-stage Algorithms 72 6.2.1.1 R-CNNs 72 6.2.1.2 R-fcn 73 6.2.2 One-stage Algorithms 73 6.2.2.1 Yolo 73 6.2.2.2 Ssd 73 6.3 Object Detection in Optical RS Images 75 6.3.1 Related Works 75 6.3.1.1 Scale Variance 75 6.3.1.2 Orientation Variance 75 6.3.1.3 Oriented Object Detection 75 6.3.1.4 Detecting in Large-size Images 76 6.3.2 Datasets and Benchmark 77 6.3.2.1 Dota 77 6.3.2.2 VisDrone 77 6.3.2.3 Dior 77 6.3.2.4 xView 77 6.3.3 Two Representative Object Detectors in Optical RS Images 78 6.3.3.1 Mask OBB 78 6.3.3.2 RoI Transformer 82 6.4 Object Detection in SAR Images 86 6.4.1 Challenges of Detection in SAR Images 86 6.4.2 Related Works 86 6.4.3 Datasets and Benchmarks 88 6.5 Conclusion 89 7 Deep Domain Adaptation in Earth Observation 90 Benjamin Kellenberger, Onur Tasar, Bharath Bhushan Damodaran, Nicolas Courty, and Devis Tuia 7.1 Introduction 90 7.2 Families of Methodologies 91 7.3 Selected Examples 93 7.3.1 Adapting the Inner Representation 93 7.3.2 Adapting the Inputs Distribution 97 7.3.3 Using (few, well chosen) Labels from the Target Domain 100 7.4 Concluding remarks 104 8 Recurrent Neural Networks and the Temporal Component 105 Marco Körner and Marc Rußwurm 8.1 Recurrent Neural Networks 106 8.1.1 Training RNNs 107 8.1.1.1 Exploding and Vanishing Gradients 107 8.1.1.2 Circumventing Exploding and Vanishing Gradients 109 8.2 Gated Variants of RNNs 111 8.2.1 Long Short-term Memory Networks 111 8.2.1.1 The Cell State c t and the Hidden State h t 112 8.2.1.2 The Forget Gate f t 112 8.2.1.3 The Modulation Gate V T and the Input Gate I T 112 8.2.1.4 The Output Gate o t 112 8.2.1.5 Training LSTM Networks 113 8.2.2 Other Gated Variants 113 8.3 Representative Capabilities of Recurrent Networks 114 8.3.1 Recurrent Neural Network Topologies 114 8.3.2 Experiments 115 8.4 Application in Earth Sciences 117 8.5 Conclusion 118 9 Deep Learning for Image Matching and Co-registration 120 Maria Vakalopoulou, Stergios Christodoulidis, Mihir Sahasrabudhe, and Nikos Paragios 9.1 Introduction 120 9.2 Literature Review 123 9.2.1 Classical Approaches 123 9.2.2 Deep Learning Techniques for Image Matching 124 9.2.3 Deep Learning Techniques for Image Registration 125 9.3 Image Registration with Deep Learning 126 9.3.1 2D Linear and Deformable Transformer 126 9.3.2 Network Architectures 127 9.3.3 Optimization Strategy 128 9.3.4 Dataset and Implementation Details 129 9.3.5 Experimental Results 129 9.4 Conclusion and Future Research 134 9.4.1 Challenges and Opportunities 134 9.4.1.1 Dataset with Annotations 134 9.4.1.2 Dimensionality of Data 135 9.4.1.3 Multitemporal Datasets 135 9.4.1.4 Robustness to Changed Areas 135 10 Multisource Remote Sensing Image Fusion 136 Wei He, Danfeng Hong, Giuseppe Scarpa, Tatsumi Uezato, and Naoto Yokoya 10.1 Introduction 136 10.2 Pansharpening 137 10.2.1 Survey of Pansharpening Methods Employing Deep Learning 137 10.2.2 Experimental Results 140 10.2.2.1 Experimental Design 140 10.2.2.2 Visual and Quantitative Comparison in Pansharpening 140 10.3 Multiband Image Fusion 143 10.3.1 Supervised Deep Learning-based Approaches 143 10.3.2 Unsupervised Deep Learning-based Approaches 145 10.3.3 Experimental Results 146 10.3.3.1 Comparison Methods and Evaluation Measures 146 10.3.3.2 Dataset and Experimental Setting 146 10.3.3.3 Quantitative Comparison and Visual Results 147 10.4 Conclusion and Outlook 148 11 Deep Learning for Image Search and Retrieval in Large Remote Sensing Archives 150 Gencer Sumbul, Jian Kang, and Begüm Demir 11.1 Introduction 150 11.2 Deep Learning for RS CBIR 152 11.3 Scalable RS CBIR Based on Deep Hashing 156 11.4 Discussion and Conclusion 159 Acknowledgement 160 Part II Making a Difference in the Geosciences with Deep Learning 161 12 Deep Learning for Detecting Extreme Weather Patterns 163 Mayur Mudigonda, Prabhat Ram, Karthik Kashinath, Evan Racah, Ankur Mahesh, Yunjie Liu, Christopher Beckham, Jim Biard, Thorsten Kurth, Sookyung Kim, Samira Kahou, Tegan Maharaj, Burlen Loring, Christopher Pal, Travis O’Brien, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Michael F. Wehner, and William D. Collins 12.1 Scientific Motivation 163 12.2 Tropical Cyclone and Atmospheric River Classification 166 12.2.1 Methods 166 12.2.2 Network Architecture 167 12.2.3 Results 169 12.3 Detection of Fronts 170 12.3.1 Analytical Approach 170 12.3.2 Dataset 171 12.3.3 Results 172 12.3.4 Limitations 174 12.4 Semi-supervised Classification and Localization of Extreme Events 175 12.4.1 Applications of Semi-supervised Learning in Climate Modeling 175 12.4.1.1 Supervised Architecture 176 12.4.1.2 Semi-supervised Architecture 176 12.4.2 Results 176 12.4.2.1 Frame-wise Reconstruction 176 12.4.2.2 Results and Discussion 178 12.5 Detecting Atmospheric Rivers and Tropical Cyclones Through Segmentation Methods 179 12.5.1 Modeling Approach 179 12.5.1.1 Segmentation Architecture 180 12.5.1.2 Climate Dataset and Labels 181 12.5.2 Architecture Innovations: Weighted Loss and Modified Network 181 12.5.3 Results 183 12.6 Challenges and Implications for the Future 184 12.7 Conclusions 185 13 Spatio-temporal Autoencoders in Weather and Climate Research 186 Xavier-Andoni Tibau, Christian Reimers, Christian Requena-Mesa, and Jakob Runge 13.1 Introduction 186 13.2 Autoencoders 187 13.2.1 A Brief History of Autoencoders 188 13.2.2 Archetypes of Autoencoders 189 13.2.3 Variational Autoencoders (VAE) 191 13.2.4 Comparison Between Autoencoders and Classical Methods 192 13.3 Applications 193 13.3.1 Use of the Latent Space 193 13.3.1.1 Reduction of Dimensionality for the Understanding of the System Dynamics and its Interactions 195 13.3.1.2 Dimensionality Reduction for Feature Extraction and Prediction 199 13.3.2 Use of the Decoder 199 13.3.2.1 As a Random Sample Generator 201 13.3.2.2 Anomaly Detection 201 13.3.2.3 Use of a Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) Decoder 202 13.4 Conclusions and Outlook 203 14 Deep Learning to Improve Weather Predictions 204 Peter D. Dueben, Peter Bauer, and Samantha Adams 14.1 Numerical Weather Prediction 204 14.2 How Will Machine Learning Enhance Weather Predictions? 207 14.3 Machine Learning Across the Workflow of Weather Prediction 208 14.4 Challenges for the Application of ML in Weather Forecasts 213 14.5 The Way Forward 216 15 Deep Learning and the Weather Forecasting Problem: Precipitation Nowcasting 218 Zhihan Gao, Xingjian Shi, Hao Wang, Dit-Yan Yeung, Wang-chun Woo, and Wai-Kin Wong 15.1 Introduction 218 15.2 Formulation 220 15.3 Learning Strategies 221 15.4 Models 223 15.4.1 FNN-based Odels 223 15.4.2 RNN-based Models 225 15.4.3 Encoder-forecaster Structure 226 15.4.4 Convolutional LSTM 226 15.4.5 ConvLSTM with Star-shaped Bridge 227 15.4.6 Predictive RNN 228 15.4.7 Memory in Memory Network 229 15.4.8 Trajectory GRU 231 15.5 Benchmark 233 15.5.1 HKO-7 Dataset 234 15.5.2 Evaluation Methodology 234 15.5.3 Evaluated Algorithms 235 15.5.4 Evaluation Results 236 15.6 Discussion 236 Appendix 238 Acknowledgement 239 16 Deep Learning for High-dimensional Parameter Retrieval 240 David Malmgren-Hansen 16.1 Introduction 240 16.2 Deep Learning Parameter Retrieval Literature 242 16.2.1 Land 242 16.2.2 Ocean 243 16.2.3 Cryosphere 244 16.2.4 Global Weather Models 244 16.3 The Challenge of High-dimensional Problems 244 16.3.1 Computational Load of CNNs 247 16.3.2 Mean Square Error or Cross-entropy Optimization? 249 16.4 Applications and Examples 250 16.4.1 Utilizing High-Dimensional Spatio-spectral Information with CNNs 250 16.4.2 The Effect of Loss Functions in Retrieval of Sea Ice Concentrations 253 16.5 Conclusion 257 17 A Review of Deep Learning for Cryospheric Studies 258 Lin Liu 17.1 Introduction 258 17.2 Deep-learning-based Remote Sensing Studies of the Cryosphere 260 17.2.1 Glaciers 260 17.2.2 Ice Sheet 261 17.2.3 Snow 262 17.2.4 Permafrost 263 17.2.5 Sea Ice 264 17.2.6 River Ice 265 17.3 Deep-learning-based Modeling of the Cryosphere 265 17.4 Summary and Prospect 266 Appendix: List of Data and Codes 267 18 Emulating Ecological Memory with Recurrent Neural Networks 269 Basil Kraft, Simon Besnard, and Sujan Koirala 18.1 Ecological Memory Effects: Concepts and Relevance 269 18.2 Data-driven Approaches for Ecological memory Effects 270 18.2.1 A Brief Overview of Memory Effects 270 18.2.2 Data-driven Methods for Memory Effects 271 18.3 Case Study: Emulating a Physical Model Using Recurrent Neural Networks 272 18.3.1 Physical Model Simulation Data 272 18.3.2 Experimental Design 273 18.3.3 RNN Setup and Training 274 18.4 Results and Discussion 276 18.4.1 The Predictive Capability Across Scales 276 18.4.2 Prediction of Seasonal Dynamics 279 18.5 Conclusions 281 Part III Linking Physics and Deep Learning Models 283 19 Applications of Deep Learning in Hydrology 285 Chaopeng Shen and Kathryn Lawson 19.1 Introduction 285 19.2 Deep Learning Applications in Hydrology 286 19.2.1 Dynamical System Modeling 286 19.2.1.1 Large-scale Hydrologic Modeling with Big Data 286 19.2.1.2 Data-limited LSTM Applications 290 19.2.2 Physics-constrained Hydrologic Machine Learning 292 19.2.3 Information Retrieval for Hydrology 293 19.2.4 Physically-informed Machine Learning for Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling 294 19.2.5 Additional Observations 296 19.3 Current Limitations and Outlook 296 20 Deep Learning of Unresolved Turbulent Ocean Processes in Climate Models 298 Laure Zanna and Thomas Bolton 20.1 Introduction 298 20.2 The Parameterization Problem 299 20.3 Deep Learning Parameterizations of Subgrid Ocean Processes 300 20.3.1 Why DL for Subgrid Parameterizations? 300 20.3.2 Recent Advances in DL for Subgrid Parameterizations 300 20.4 Physics-aware Deep Learning 301 20.5 Further Challenges ahead for Deep Learning Parameterizations 303 21 Deep Learning for the Parametrization of Subgrid Processes in Climate Models 307 Pierre Gentine, Veronika Eyring, and Tom Beucler 21.1 Introduction 307 21.2 Deep Neural Networks for Moist Convection (Deep Clouds) Parametrization 309 21.3 Physical Constraints and Generalization 312 21.4 Future Challenges 314 22 Using Deep Learning to Correct Theoretically-derived Models 315 PeterA.G.Watson 22.1 Experiments with the Lorenz ’96 System 317 22.1.1 The Lorenz’96 Equations and Coarse-scale Models 318 22.1.1.1 Theoretically-derived Coarse-scale Model 318 22.1.1.2 Models with ANNs 319 22.1.2 Results 320 22.1.2.1 Single-timestep Tendency Prediction Errors 320 22.1.2.2 Forecast and Climate Prediction Skill 321 22.1.3 Testing Seamless Prediction 324 22.2 Discussion and Outlook 324 22.2.1 Towards Earth System Modeling 325 22.2.2 Application to Climate Change Studies 326 22.3 Conclusion 327 23 Outlook 328 Markus Reichstein, Gustau Camps-Valls, Devis Tuia, and Xiao Xiang Zhu Bibliography 331 Index 401

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Book SynopsisProducing Mayaland Producing Mayaland powerfully captures the extent to which the abstract spaces of global capital are infused with colonial fantasies, haunted by uncanny ruins, and plagued by monstrous manifestations of ecological breakdown. Through a compelling account of the maquiladora industry in the Yucatan Peninsula, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro vividly conveys the inextricable entanglements of the capitalist production of space and the coloniality of power. Japhy Wilson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK In Producing Mayaland, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro finds a unique voice to narrate the contested relations between everyday life, urbanization and the uneven development of capitalism in Motul, Yucatán, Mexico. The remarkable insights of this work emerge from her innovative synthesis of critical urban theory, anticolonialism and magical realism' all grounded in an imaginative appropriation of Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre on the prodTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface vi List of Abbreviations vii List of Figures and Table ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Postcolonizing Lefebvre? 30 3 Maquiladora Paradise 47 4 The Magical Maya 77 5 The Zone 103 6 The Maquila Leftovers 125 7 Understanding the Urban in/from Yucatán 168 8 Living with the Maquila 179 9 Conclusion 209 Bibliography 221 Index 250

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Book SynopsisProducing Mayaland Producing Mayaland powerfully captures the extent to which the abstract spaces of global capital are infused with colonial fantasies, haunted by uncanny ruins, and plagued by monstrous manifestations of ecological breakdown. Through a compelling account of the maquiladora industry in the Yucatan Peninsula, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro vividly conveys the inextricable entanglements of the capitalist production of space and the coloniality of power. Japhy Wilson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK In Producing Mayaland, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro finds a unique voice to narrate the contested relations between everyday life, urbanization and the uneven development of capitalism in Motul, Yucatán, Mexico. The remarkable insights of this work emerge from her innovative synthesis of critical urban theory, anticolonialism and magical realism' all grounded in an imaginative appropriation of Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre on the prodTrade Review‘Producing Mayaland powerfully captures the extent to which the abstract spaces of global capital are infused with colonial fantasies, haunted by uncanny ruins, and plagued by monstrous manifestations of ecological breakdown. Through a compelling account of the maquiladora industry in the Yucatan Peninsula, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro vividly conveys the inextricable entanglements of the capitalist production of space and the coloniality of power.’ Japhy Wilson, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK‘In Producing Mayaland, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro finds a unique voice to narrate the contested relations between everyday life, urbanization and the uneven development of capitalism in Motul, Yucatán, Mexico. The remarkable insights of this work emerge from her innovative synthesis of critical urban theory, anticolonialism and ‘magical realism’—all grounded in an imaginative appropriation of Henri Lefebvre’s oeuvre on the production of space.' Kanishka Goonewardena, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of TorontoTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface vi List of Abbreviations vii List of Figures and Table ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Postcolonizing Lefebvre? 30 3 Maquiladora Paradise 47 4 The Magical Maya 77 5 The Zone 103 6 The Maquila Leftovers 125 7 Understanding the Urban in/from Yucatán 168 8 Living with the Maquila 179 9 Conclusion 209 Bibliography 221 Index 250

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