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Book SynopsisTHE POLITICS OF INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.'Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, FranceFor anyone interested in urban governance, The Politics of Incremental Progressivism is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques Part I Urban Politics and Political Institutions 43 1 Governments, Mayors and Policies 45Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler 2 The Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations 69Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler 3 The Politics of Municipal Budgets 92Ursula Dias Peres Part II Governing Urban Services 117 4 Struggling to Replace the Car Paradigm: Politics and Mobility Change 119Carolina Requena 5 Increasingly Governing Bus Services Through Policy Instruments 136Marcos Lopes Campos 6 Technocratic Decisions and Financial Arrangements in Subway Services 155Daniela Costanzo 7 The Incremental Politics of Waste Management Regulation 175Samuel Ralize de Godoy Part III Governing Land and Housing 193 8 Continuities and Changes in the Diversification of Public Housing 195Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Magaly Marques Pulhez 9 Developers and Politicians in the Institutionalizing of Development Regulation 217Telma Hoyler 10 Conflicts and Incremental Change in Urban Renewal Instruments 235Betina Sarue and Stefano Pagin 11 Circulation of Institutional Formats in Urban Regeneration: From São Paulo to Porto Maravilha 257Betina Sarue Conclusion: The Political Production of Incremental Progressivism 278Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques Index 287

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Book SynopsisTHE POLITICS OF INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.'Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, FranceFor anyone interested in urban governance, The Politics of Incremental Progressivism is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques Part I Urban Politics and Political Institutions 43 1 Governments, Mayors and Policies 45Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler 2 The Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations 69Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler 3 The Politics of Municipal Budgets 92Ursula Dias Peres Part II Governing Urban Services 117 4 Struggling to Replace the Car Paradigm: Politics and Mobility Change 119Carolina Requena 5 Increasingly Governing Bus Services Through Policy Instruments 136Marcos Lopes Campos 6 Technocratic Decisions and Financial Arrangements in Subway Services 155Daniela Costanzo 7 The Incremental Politics of Waste Management Regulation 175Samuel Ralize de Godoy Part III Governing Land and Housing 193 8 Continuities and Changes in the Diversification of Public Housing 195Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Magaly Marques Pulhez 9 Developers and Politicians in the Institutionalizing of Development Regulation 217Telma Hoyler 10 Conflicts and Incremental Change in Urban Renewal Instruments 235Betina Sarue and Stefano Pagin 11 Circulation of Institutional Formats in Urban Regeneration: From São Paulo to Porto Maravilha 257Betina Sarue Conclusion: The Political Production of Incremental Progressivism 278Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques Index 287

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Book SynopsisSince its first appearance,Geography: Realms, Regions, and Conceptshas consistently broken new ground in the interpretation and teaching of world regional geography. For more than four decades ithas explained the contemporary world's geographic realms and their natural environments and human dimensions. The authors look at the ways people have organized their living space, adapted to changing social as well as environmental circumstances, and continue to confront forces largely beyond their control ranging from globalization to climate change. This book was the first to introduce an approach to Geography that meshes theoretical concepts with regional realities. The evolving regional content of the chapters in the 18thedition reflects the dynamic nature of the world's geography; the changing and growing number of concepts mirror the progress of the discipline; and the ongoing introduction of new digital features reflects the instructional possibilities of new technologiTable of Contents1 Introduction: World Regional Geography 3 A World on Maps 4 Technology & Geography: Geospatial Data: Understanding Our World 5 Geography’s Perspective 6 World Geographic Realms 7 Regions Within Realms 11 The Physical Setting 12 Global Climate Change: The Anthropocene 15 Realms of Population 18 Realms of Culture 21 A World of States 23 Geographies of Development 25 Globalization 28 Geographic Information Analysis: The Geography of CO2 Emissions 30 Geographic Information Analysis: Global Migration Flows 31 2 The North American Realm 35 Defining the Realm 37 Population Clusters 38 North America’s Physiography 39 Global Climate Change in North America 41 The Federal Map of North America 44 The Distribution of Natural Resources 46 Urbanization and the Spatial Economy 47 Regional Planning Case: Savannah, Georgia’s Expanding Port 50 Technology & Geography: GPS, Sensors, and Self-Driving Cars 52 Geographies of Inequality 52 Geographic Information Analysis: Geography and Elections in the United States 55 Geographic Information Analysis: Race and Housing Values in Los Angeles 56 The Making of a Multicultural Realm 57 Regionalism in Canada: Divisive Forces 58 Regionalism and Ethnicity in the United States 60 3 The Middle American Realm 71 Defining the Realm 72 The Realm’s Northern Boundary 73 Physical Geography of Middle America 76 Cultural Geography 78 Political and Economic Fragmentation 79 Regional Issue: The Tourism Industry in Middle America 82 Geographic Information Analysis: Connectivity and Development in Middle America 83 Regions of Middle America 84 Region Mexico 84 Region The Central American Republics 91 Technology & Geography: The Shipping Container 96 Regional Planning Case: The Nicaragua Canal 98 Geographic Information Analysis: Remittances Between the United States and Middle America 99 Region The Lesser Antilles 103 4 The South American Realm 107 Defining the Realm 108 States Ancient and Modern 109 Cultural Geographies 112 Economic Geography 113 Urbanization and Its Regional Expressions 116 The United States and China in South America 117 Geographic Information Analysis: Income Inequality in South American States and Cities 120 Regions of South America 121 Region The Caribbean North 122 Region The Andean West 126 Global Climate Change on Bolivia’s Altiplano 131 Region The Southern Cone 132 Geographic Information Analysis: Wine Growing Regions of the World 135 Region Brazil: Giant of South America 136 Regional Planning Case: The Madeira River Dams 142 5 The European Realm 145 Defining the Realm 146 Europe’s Eastern Boundary 146 Physical Geography 147 Global Climate Change in Europe 149 Technology & Geography Interactive: What is GIS? 150 Modern Historical Geography 150 Contemporary Europe: A Dynamic Realm 152 Consequences of Unification 157 Regional Issue: Should Europe Welcome Refugees? 166 Geographic Information Analysis: Demography is Destiny? 167 Migration, Multicultural Challenges, and Prospects of Integration 168 Regions of Europe 168 Region Western Europe 170 Regional Planning Case: Amsterdam’s North-South Line 176 Region Northern Europe 180 Region Mediterranean Europe 183 Region Eastern Europe 188 Geographic Information Analysis: Ukraine: A Linguistic and Economic Transition Zone 194 Europe’s Future Prospects 195 6 The Russian/Central Asian Realm 197 Defining the Realm 198 Physical Geography of Russia/Central Asia 199 Global Climate Change in Russia 202 Technology & Geography: Russia’s Nuclear Icebreakers in the Arctic Ocean 205 Russia’s Czarist Roots 205 The Soviet Experiment (1922–1991) 208 Post-Soviet Russia and the Near Abroad 210 Regional Issue: Does Russia Need to Build Up Its Military? 212 Regions of Russia and Central Asia 215 The New Russia 216 Geographic Information Analysis: Population Change Across Russia 220 Region The Russian Core 221 Region Southern Siberia 223 Region Northern Siberia 225 Region The Russian Far East 225 Region Transcaucasia 226 Region Central Asia 228 Geographic Information Analysis: Ethnic Geographies of Southern Russia and Transcaucasia 229 Regional Planning Case: Astana, Kazakhstan: Planned Capital City 232 7 The North African/Southwest Asian Realm 235 Defining the Realm 236 Ancient Hearths of Cultures 238 Stage for Islam 239 The Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath 242 Economic Geography 242 Technology & Geography: Global Water Needs and Desalination 247 Geographic Information Analysis: Development and Democracy 249 The Refugee Problem 253 Regions of North Africa/Southwest Asia 254 Region Egypt and the Lower Nile Basin 256 Region The Middle East 259 Region The Arabian Peninsula 264 Regional Planning Case: Saudi Arabia’s Economic Cities 267 Region The Empire States 268 Region The Maghreb and Its Neighbors 273 Region The African Transition Zone 275 8 The Subsaharan African Realm 281 Defining the Realm 282 Africa’s Physiography 282 Africa’s Historical Geography 284 Geographic Information Analysis: Ethnic Groups of Subsaharan Africa 286 Human–Environment Relations 289 Regional Issue: Neocolonial Land Grabs? 292 Population and Health 293 Cultural Geographies 295 Urbanization and Africa’s Dual Economies 296 Africa Rising? 297 Geographic Information Analysis: China’s Exports to Subsaharan Africa 302 Regions of Subsaharan Africa 304 Region West Africa 305 Regional Planning Case: The New Lagos: Eko-Atlantic City 308 Region East Africa 311 Region Equatorial Africa 315 Technology & Geography: Mobile Money in Subsaharan Africa 316 Region Southern Africa 318 Global Climate Change in Subsaharan Africa 321 9 The South Asian Realm 329 Defining the Realm 330 South Asia’s Physiography 331 Birthplace of Civilizations and Religions 333 Foreign Invaders 334 Regional Issue: Who Should Govern Kashmir? 340 Technology & Geography: Drones of War 341 Geographic Information Analysis: Comparing the Megacities of Dhaka and Los Angeles 344 Global Climate Change in South Asia 346 Geographic Information Analysis: Female/Male Sex Ratios across India 350 Regions of South Asia 351 Region The West: Afghanistan’s Transition Zone 352 Region The West: Pakistan 354 Regional Planning Case: The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor 357 Region India: Giant of the Realm 358 Region Bangladesh 366 Region The Northern Mountain States 368 Region The Southern Islands 371 10 The East Asian Realm 375 Defining the Realm 376 Environment and Population 377 Regional Planning Case: China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project 382 Peoples of the East Asian Realm 382 East Asia’s Economic Transformation 385 East Asia’s Population Dynamics 387 Geopolitics in East Asia Today 389 Geographic Information Analysis: Where Can North Korea’s Missiles Reach? 392 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) 393 Regions of East Asia 394 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) 396 Technology & Geography: High-Speed Rail in China 402 Region China’s Coastal Core 402 Geographic Information Analysis: Urbanization and Economic Growth in China 403 Geographic Information Analysis: Population Change in the Pearl River Delta 407 Region China’s Interior 407 Region China’s Western Periphery 410 Region Mongolia 414 Region The Korean Peninsula 415 Region Japan 417 Region Taiwan 421 11 The Southeast Asian Realm 425 Defining the Realm 426 Physical Geography 427 Population Geography 430 Cultural Geographies 432 Economic Geography of Southeast Asia 435 Regional Issue: The Chinese Presence in Southeast Asia 436 Geographic Information Analysis: Trade Patterns in Southeast Asia 438 Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 438 Hybrid Warfare in the South China Sea 442 Geographic Information Analysis: Maritime Claims in the South China Sea 443 Regions of Southeast Asia 444 Region Mainland Southeast Asia 445 Technology & Geography: Making the Invisible Visible—LiDAR at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat 448 Region Insular Southeast Asia 454 Regional Planning Case: Dawei, Myanmar 455 12 The Austral Realm 465 Defining the Realm 466 Physiography of the Austral Realm 466 The Realm’s Asian Turn 470 Regions of the Austral Realm 471 Region Australia 471 Global Climate Change in Australia 477 Geographic Information Analysis: The Aboriginal Population Distribution 478 Regional Planning Case: Rebuilding Christchurch after the 2010–2011 Earthquakes 481 13 The Pacific Realm and Polar Regions 483 Defining the Pacific Realm 484 Colonization and Independence in the Pacific Realm 485 The Pacific Realm and Its Marine Geography 485 Technology & Geography: The Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific 486 Regions of the Pacific Realm 489 Regional Issue: Who Should Own the Oceans? 490 Region Melanesia 490 Region Micronesia 492 Region Polynesia 494 The Polar Regions 495 Partitioning the Antarctic 495 Geopolitics and Global Climate Change in the Arctic Basin 498 Geographic Information Analysis: The Shrinking North Polar Ice Cap 499 Appendix Metric (Standard International [SI]) and Customary Units and Their Conversions A-1 Glossary G-1 Index I-1

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface x Introduction 1 Gabriel Feltran A Phone Call 7 A Global Market 9 Theoretical Framework: Normative Regimes 11 Inequalities 18 Methods: About Journeys, Tacking, and Our Collaborative Research Team 21 A Collective Research Team 27 Ethical Issues, Diversity, and Typical Days 29 Chapter Structure 31 1 Crime, Violence, and Inequality in São Paulo 37 Gregorio Zambon and Gabriel Feltran 7 a.m. (Fiat Strada) 39 10:00 a.m. (Hyundai HB20) 43 5:15 p.m. (Fiat Palio) 47 8:40 p.m. (Ford Ka) 53 Urban Violence and Market Regulation 56 2 State Reaction 63 Gabriel Feltran Police Use of Lethal Force 66 Imprisonment 74 The “Clearing of Public Roads” 78 Political Legitimation 80 3 Designing the Market 87 Deborah Fromm Insurance as a Mediator 94 The Automobile Business: From the Streets of São Paulo to the Panama Papers 99 4 Auctions and Mechanisms 104 André de Pieri Pimentel and Luiz Gustavo Simão Pereira Central Circuits: Insurance Companies that Sell at Auctions 109 Some Numbers 111 Marginal Circuits: Car Dealerships and Chop-shops that Buy at Auctions 115 Auctioneers: Economics and Politics 121 5 Dismantling a Stolen Car 127 Isabela Vianna Pinho, Gregório Zambon, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva Family, Market, Politics 130 Between Extremes: From “Recicla” to “Sheds” 135 Prices and Stratification 143 6 Regulating an Illegal Market 147 Luana Motta, Janaina Maldonado, and Juliana Alcântara A Brief Chronology of the Dismantling Law 149 Old Practices, New “Political Merchandise”: The Everyday Experience of the Dismantling Law 152 The Political Centrality of Police Officers 158 Police Regulation and Violence 161 7 Not Criminals, Legislators 165 Deborah Fromm and Luana Motta New Laws, New Markets 169 Illegal Markets, Microfinance, Corporate Philanthropy 171 Action and Reaction 174 Parallel Insurance and the Protection Market 175 The Law that Governs the Market, the Market that Governs the Law 181 8 Globalization and Its Backroads 187 André de Pieri Pimentel, Gabriel Feltran, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva A Global Market and Its Margins 190 Connecting Markets 194 Urban Reconfigurations 198 North–South Urban Inequalities 202 Conclusions 208 Gabriel Feltran Afterword: Following Cars in a Latin American Metropolis: Inequality, Illegalisms, and Formalization 220 Daniel Veloso Hirata References 228 Index 245

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Something of an instant classic, Stolen Cars pins its researcher’s sights on the moving targets selected by the thieves and robbers of Sao Paulo’s criminal networks. Those expecting only underworld revelations are quickly re-educated to see how acts of illicit acquisition form part of a more complex and vast urban economy whose shadow embraces both the formal and the illicit. Stolen Cars is a detailed, complex and exciting story with an intellectual energy that matches the turbo-charged vehicles so prized by Sao Paulo’s thieves.’Rowland Atkinson, Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield, UK‘This book should be an instant classic. Theft and crime shape urban livelihoods and everyday experiences in many cities, at the frontiers of often extreme inequality. But these themes are absent from the canon of urban theory. Through a detailed ethnography of car theft in Sao Paulo, Stolen Cars traces the deep ties of these illegal circuits with insurance, finance, auto production and repair, as well as the international drug trade. A highly innovative account of crucial transnational networks shaping urban life and urban economies, this book represents an essential new starting point for global urban studies.’ Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College London, UKTable of Contents Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface x Introduction 1 Gabriel Feltran A Phone Call 7 A Global Market 9 Theoretical Framework: Normative Regimes 11 Inequalities 18 Methods: About Journeys, Tacking, and Our Collaborative Research Team 21 A Collective Research Team 27 Ethical Issues, Diversity, and Typical Days 29 Chapter Structure 31 1 Crime, Violence, and Inequality in São Paulo 37 Gregorio Zambon and Gabriel Feltran 7 a.m. (Fiat Strada) 39 10:00 a.m. (Hyundai HB20) 43 5:15 p.m. (Fiat Palio) 47 8:40 p.m. (Ford Ka) 53 Urban Violence and Market Regulation 56 2 State Reaction 63 Gabriel Feltran Police Use of Lethal Force 66 Imprisonment 74 The “Clearing of Public Roads” 78 Political Legitimation 80 3 Designing the Market 87 Deborah Fromm Insurance as a Mediator 94 The Automobile Business: From the Streets of São Paulo to the Panama Papers 99 4 Auctions and Mechanisms 104 André de Pieri Pimentel and Luiz Gustavo Simão Pereira Central Circuits: Insurance Companies that Sell at Auctions 109 Some Numbers 111 Marginal Circuits: Car Dealerships and Chop-shops that Buy at Auctions 115 Auctioneers: Economics and Politics 121 5 Dismantling a Stolen Car 127 Isabela Vianna Pinho, Gregório Zambon, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva Family, Market, Politics 130 Between Extremes: From “Recicla” to “Sheds” 135 Prices and Stratification 143 6 Regulating an Illegal Market 147 Luana Motta, Janaina Maldonado, and Juliana Alcântara A Brief Chronology of the Dismantling Law 149 Old Practices, New “Political Merchandise”: The Everyday Experience of the Dismantling Law 152 The Political Centrality of Police Officers 158 Police Regulation and Violence 161 7 Not Criminals, Legislators 165 Deborah Fromm and Luana Motta New Laws, New Markets 169 Illegal Markets, Microfinance, Corporate Philanthropy 171 Action and Reaction 174 Parallel Insurance and the Protection Market 175 The Law that Governs the Market, the Market that Governs the Law 181 8 Globalization and Its Backroads 187 André de Pieri Pimentel, Gabriel Feltran, and Lucas Alves Fernandes Silva A Global Market and Its Margins 190 Connecting Markets 194 Urban Reconfigurations 198 North–South Urban Inequalities 202 Conclusions 208 Gabriel Feltran Afterword: Following Cars in a Latin American Metropolis: Inequality, Illegalisms, and Formalization 220 Daniel Veloso Hirata References 228 Index 245

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Book SynopsisRESCALING URBAN POVERTY In this path-breaking book, Mahito Hayashi explores the rescaled geographies of homelessness that have been produced in contemporary Japanese cities. Through an original synthesis of regulationist political economy and immersive place-based research, Hayashi situates urban homelessness in Japan in comparative-international contexts. The book offers new theoretical perspectives from which to decipher emergent forms of urban marginality and their contestation. Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Chicago Mahito Hayashi traces the shifting spatial strategies of unhoused people as they create spaces of emancipation within Japanese cities. Attending to the complexities of contentious class politics and livelihoods barely sustained by the survival economies, Rescaling Urban Poverty is a unique and valuable contribution to the study of the geographies of urban social movements. Nik Theodore,Table of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xiv List of Abbreviations xv Series Editor's Preface xvi Preface and Acknowledgements xvii Part One Theory, Method, Context 1 1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework 3 Urban Political Economy: For Homelessness? 7 State Rescaling: The Central Concept of this Book 9 Subcomponent 1: National States 13 Subcomponent 2: Public and Private Spaces 17 Subcomponent 3: Urban Social Movements 21 The Method of Theorisation in this Book 26 Postcolonial Urban Theory 30 Between Abstract and Concrete 30 The Structure of this Book 32 2. Japanese Context and the Regulationist Ethnography 37 Theory Specification 1: National States 38 Theory Specification 2: Public and Private Spaces 40 Theory Specification 3: Urban Social Movements 44 Regulationist Ethnography 45 Sites of Participatory Observation 49 The Nature of Data 53 Subaltern Materials 56 Conclusion 59 Part Two National States and Public and Private Spaces 61 3. Scales of Societalisation: Integral State and the Rescaling of Poverty 63 Theory and Its "Deviants" 64 Theoretical Framework 67 Mobilising the Theory for Japan 77 Nationalised Space of Poverty Regulation in Japan 79 New Regulatory Spaces in Japan 93 Conclusion 100 4. Rescaling Urban Metabolism I: Homeless Labour for "Housing" 103 The Urban Matrix and the Housing Classes 104 Metabolism, Societalisation, Rescaling 107 Specification of Theory 116 Metabolism and Regulation I: Locational Ethnography 122 Metabolism and Regulation II: Multicity Ethnography 130 Conclusion 132 5. Rescaling Urban Metabolism II: Homeless Labour for Money 135 Homeless Recyclers: A Regulationist Approach 136 Homeless Recyclers in Japan 139 Regulationist Ethnography I: Regulating the Recycling Metabolism 143 Regulationist Ethnography II: New Recycling Strategies 147 Regulationist Ethnography III: Movements for Homeless Recyclers 150 Conclusion 153 Part Three Urban Social Movements 155 6. Placemaking in the Inner City: Social and Cultural Niches of Homeless Activism 157 The Inner City: Beyond Regulation 158 Lefebvre in the Inner City 159 Japanese Contexts 166 Placemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: From Run-Ups to the 1970s 170 Placemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: The 1980s 176 Placemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: The 1990s 180 Conclusion 183 7. Commoning around the Inner City: Whose Public? Whose Common? 186 Commoning, Habiting, Othering 187 Commoning against Othering 189 Japanese Parameters of Commoning 191 Commoning in Yokohama in the 1970s 192 Commoning in Yokohama in the 1980s 198 Commoning in Yokohama in the 1990s-2000s 203 Conclusion 214 8. Translating to New Cities: Geographical and Cultural Expansion 216 Outlying Cities 217 Brokerage and Translation 220 Placemaking in the Outlying Cities 224 Commoning in the Outlying Cities 229 Solidarity against a New Rescaling 234 Conclusion 236 Part Four Towards the Future of Rescaling Studies 239 9. New Rescalings in Japan 241 Upscaling of Homeless Politics in the Late 2000s 241 Neoliberalisation and Workfarist Reform in the 2010s 246 Rescaling for All 249 When Public Spaces Are Closed 251 Repoliticising the Urban 253 The Inner City against Gentrification 254 COVID-19, Rescaling, Recommoning 256 10. Conclusion 258 Urban Theory and Ethnography 261 Remapping Urban Political Economy 262 Habitat and Urban Class Relations 263 Integral State Rescaling 264 References 265 Index 294

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xiv List of Abbreviations xv Series Editor's Preface xvi Preface and Acknowledgements xvii Part One Theory, Method, Context 1 1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework 3 Urban Political Economy: For Homelessness? 7 State Rescaling: The Central Concept of this Book 9 Subcomponent 1: National States 13 Subcomponent 2: Public and Private Spaces 17 Subcomponent 3: Urban Social Movements 21 The Method of Theorisation in this Book 26 Postcolonial Urban Theory 30 Between Abstract and Concrete 30 The Structure of this Book 32 2. Japanese Context and the Regulationist Ethnography 37 Theory Specification 1: National States 38 Theory Specification 2: Public and Private Spaces 40 Theory Specification 3: Urban Social Movements 44 Regulationist Ethnography 45 Sites of Participatory Observation 49 The Nature of Data 53 Subaltern Materials 56 Conclusion 59 Part Two National States and Public and Private Spaces 61 3. Scales of Societalisation: Integral State and the Rescaling of Poverty 63 Theory and Its "Deviants" 64 Theoretical Framework 67 Mobilising the Theory for Japan 77 Nationalised Space of Poverty Regulation in Japan 79 New Regulatory Spaces in Japan 93 Conclusion 100 4. Rescaling Urban Metabolism I: Homeless Labour for "Housing" 103 The Urban Matrix and the Housing Classes 104 Metabolism, Societalisation, Rescaling 107 Specification of Theory 116 Metabolism and Regulation I: Locational Ethnography 122 Metabolism and Regulation II: Multicity Ethnography 130 Conclusion 132 5. Rescaling Urban Metabolism II: Homeless Labour for Money 135 Homeless Recyclers: A Regulationist Approach 136 Homeless Recyclers in Japan 139 Regulationist Ethnography I: Regulating the Recycling Metabolism 143 Regulationist Ethnography II: New Recycling Strategies 147 Regulationist Ethnography III: Movements for Homeless Recyclers 150 Conclusion 153 Part Three Urban Social Movements 155 6. Placemaking in the Inner City: Social and Cultural Niches of Homeless Activism 157 The Inner City: Beyond Regulation 158 Lefebvre in the Inner City 159 Japanese Contexts 166 Placemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: From Run-Ups to the 1970s 170 Placemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: The 1980s 176 Placemaking in Yokohama's Inner City: The 1990s 180 Conclusion 183 7. Commoning around the Inner City: Whose Public? Whose Common? 186 Commoning, Habiting, Othering 187 Commoning against Othering 189 Japanese Parameters of Commoning 191 Commoning in Yokohama in the 1970s 192 Commoning in Yokohama in the 1980s 198 Commoning in Yokohama in the 1990s-2000s 203 Conclusion 214 8. Translating to New Cities: Geographical and Cultural Expansion 216 Outlying Cities 217 Brokerage and Translation 220 Placemaking in the Outlying Cities 224 Commoning in the Outlying Cities 229 Solidarity against a New Rescaling 234 Conclusion 236 Part Four Towards the Future of Rescaling Studies 239 9. New Rescalings in Japan 241 Upscaling of Homeless Politics in the Late 2000s 241 Neoliberalisation and Workfarist Reform in the 2010s 246 Rescaling for All 249 When Public Spaces Are Closed 251 Repoliticising the Urban 253 The Inner City against Gentrification 254 COVID-19, Rescaling, Recommoning 256 10. Conclusion 258 Urban Theory and Ethnography 261 Remapping Urban Political Economy 262 Habitat and Urban Class Relations 263 Integral State Rescaling 264 References 265 Index 294

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson’s approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.’Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore ‘How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.’AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield ‘Jenny Robinson’s strong belief in the need to experiment with comparative methods, theories and concepts in urban studies for ‘a globally diverse urban’ has long inspired many of us. In this book, she takes this plea forward in a comprehensive journey through philosophy, anthropology and geography. Her wonderful voice in this book takes the reader by the hand through a landscape of ideas and a heartfully felt passion for comparative urbanism. Written by one of the most original geographers of our times, it provides resources to make interdisciplinary scholarship work by drawing on many theoretical angles from various corners of the field of social sciences and humanities. It is a must-read for all of us interested in that ‘impossible’ object of our studies, the urban, whether we are starting to explore this field of study or share the dearly felt need to re-imagine our central concepts in this rapidly changing world.’Talja Blokland, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin Table of Contents Series Editors’ Preface Preface ix Introduction 1 Part I Reformatting Comparison 23 1 Ways of Knowing the Global Urban 25 Uncertain Territories, ‘Strategic Essentialisms’: Regions, the Global South and beyond 27 The Disappearing City: Planetary Urbanisation and its Critics 35 Decolonial, Developmental, Emergent: Different Starting Points, or Incomparability? 41 Dimensions of a Comparative Urban Imagination 47 Conclusion 50 2 The Limits of Comparative Methodologies in Urban Studies 53 Some Analytical Limits to the ‘World’ of Cities: Beyond Incommensurability 54 Conventional Strategies for Comparison in Urban Studies 57 The Potential of Comparative Research 69 Conclusion 76 3 Comparative Urbanism in the Archives: Thinking with Variety, Thinking with Connections 79 Expanding the Comparative Gesture 80 Thinking with Variety 83 Stretching Comparisons: Thinking with Connections 91 Conclusion 104 4 Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Reformatting Comparison 107 Thinking with Concrete Totalities 108 Singularities, Repeated Instances, Concepts 119 Genetic and Generative Grounds for Urban Comparisons 125 Conclusion: From Grounds to Tactics 128 Part II Genetic Comparisons 135 5 Connections 137 Connections as Urbanisation Processes 138 Connections Producing Repeated Instances 146 Every Case Matters 154 Conclusion 159 6 Relations 161 Wider Processes 164 Urban Neoliberalisation, Comparatively 171 Connected Contexts 186 More Spatialities of the Urban: Topologies, Partial Connections, Submarine Relations 191 Conclusion 195 Part III Generative Comparisons 199 7 Generating Concepts 201 The Conceptualising Subject: Institutions, Horizons, Grounds 204 A Life of Concepts: Ideal Types 217 Thinking the ‘Concrete’ 230 Negotiated Universals: Concepts ‘In-common’ 235 Conclusion 243 8 Composing Comparisons 247 Working with ‘Conjuncture’ 249 Conceptualising from Specificity 263 Thinking across Diversity 271 Conclusion 276 9 Conversations 279 Shifting Grounds: Comparison as Practice 280 Comparison as Conversations 284 Theoretical Reflections 292 Mobile Concepts, or ‘Arriving at’ Concepts 295 Conclusion 301 Part IV Thinking from the Urban as Distinctive 305 10 Territories 307 Thinking from Territories 308 Which Territorialisations? 312 Assembling Territories 320 Conclusion 325 11 Into the Territory, or, the Urban as Idea 329 Detachment 331 Suturing 336 Standstill 340 Ideas 346 Informality, as Idea 357 Conclusion 362 Conclusion: Starting Anywhere, Thinking with (Elsew)here 369 A Reformatted Urban Comparison 370 Conceptualisation 376 An Explosion of Urban Studies 383 References 387 Index 441

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Book SynopsisWhat does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists into conversation to propose an approach to the urban that recognises social reproduction both as foundational to urban transformations and as a methodological entry-point for urban studies. Offers an approach feminist urban theory that remains intentionally cautious of universal uses of social reproduction theory, instead focusing analytical attention on historical contingency and social difference Eleven chapters that collectively address distinct elements of the contemporary crisis in social reproduction and the urban through the lenses of infrastructure and subjectivity formation as well as through feminist efforts to decolonize urban knowledge production Deepens understandings of how people shape and reshape the spatial forms of their everyday lives, furtTrade Review‘Our time is fraught—global, intimate, differentiated—lived at different speeds with different horizons, but its insecurities and possibilities place social reproduction at its heart. This collection creatively and incisively reveals how centering social reproduction as theory and method reshapes the social ontology of the urban. Across sites and scales, an international group of authors offer compelling and original analyses of the material social practices and struggles that make social reproduction such a resonant frame to reimagine and remake urban social life so that it sings with possibility.’Cindi Katz, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Environmental Psychology at The City University of New York, Graduate Center, USATable of ContentsList of Contributors xi Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface xv 1 Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban 1Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Rajyashree N. Reddy, darren patrick/dp, and Susan Ruddick Introduction 1 Social Reproduction 5 Social Reproduction and the Urban 10 Making the Urban Through Feminist Knowledge Production 13 Infrastructures 13 Subjectivities 17 Decolonizing Feminist Urban Knowledge 21 Methodologies 25 The Limits of Social Reproduction 29 Coda: Social Reproduction and the Urban During a Pandemic 31 References 34 2 Sociability and Social Reproduction in Times of Disaster: Exploring the Role of Expressive Urban Cultural Practices in Haiti and Puerto Rico 42Nathalia Santos Ocasio and Beverley Mullings Introduction 42 The Hidden Transcript of Resilience and Its Social Reproductive Roots 47 Sociability, Expressive Cultural Practice, and Social Reproduction in the Caribbean 51 Social Reproduction and the Unbearable Subversions of Expressive Cultural Practice: Exploring the Power of Rabòday and Plena 53 The Possibilities and Limits of Expressive Cultural Practice to Transformational Change 56 References 61 3 ‘Never/Again’: Reading the Qayqayt Nation and New Westminster in Public Poetry Installations 66Emily Fedoruk Introduction 66 Social Reproduction and the Urban in the Context of Settler Colonialism 69 Ask Again: Authorship and a Short History of the Qayqayt 74 Colonial Legibility and the Postmodern Media of Recognition 80 References 89 4 Gender in Resistance: Emotion, Affective Labour, and Social Reproduction in Athens 92Mantha Katsikana Introduction 92 Protest and Resistance in Athens 93 Feminist Social Reproduction in the Context of Urban Activism 96 Placing Social Reproduction in the Anti-authoritarian/Anarchist Commons 97 The Commons and the De-politicization of the Personal 101 Anarchist Commons: Performances and Cultures of Resistance and the Re-making of Safe Spaces 105 Politicizing Emotion: Dispossession and Empowering Practices of Social Reproduction in the Urban 107 Conclusion 110 References 112 5 ‘Sustaining Lives is What Matters’: Contested Infrastructure, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Urban Praxis in Catalonia 115James Angel Introduction 115 Positionality and Praxis 117 Social Reproduction, Infrastructure, and the Urban 119 Contested Catalonia 121 #AguaParaEsther 123 Feminist Praxis 126 Reproducing the Urban Otherwise 130 Conclusion 132 References 134 6 Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Its Invisible Work in Urban Revitalization 138Faranak Miraftab Introduction 138 A Landscape of New Inequalities in the Rustbelt and Its Social and Spatial Transformation 140 Social Reproduction and Its Global Restructuring 143 Relational Framing and Radical Feminist Urban Scholarship 144 Social Reproduction and Feminist Urban Scholarship 147 Outsourced Social Reproduction and Revitalization of Urban Space 150 Conclusion 153 References 157 7 From the Kampung to the Courtroom: A Feminist Intersectional Analysis of the Human Right to Water as a Tool for Poor Women’s Urban Praxis in Jakarta 162Meera Karunananthan Introduction 162 Methodology and Positionality 163 Water, the Urban, and Social Reproduction 164 The Privatization of Water and Anti-privatization Struggles in Indonesia 169 Solidaritas Perempuan Jakarta and Poor Women’s Rights to Water 171 Legal Challenges Against Privatization 172 Community-based Research on the Impacts of Privatization 174 Conclusion 178 References 181 8 Re-imagine Urban Antispaces! for a Decolonial Social Reproduction 186Natasha Aruri Introduction: Linking the ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ and Socio-Spacio-Cide 186 The ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ in Palestine 190 Socio-cide: Spatial Militarization and Antispaces 192 Ramallah’s Tomorrow: Between Individualisms and Commons 200 Refiguring and Reconfiguring for Resilience: Takhayyali [Imagine] Ramallah 203 References 211 9 Forced Displacement, Migration, and (Trans)national Care Networks: Practices of Urban Space Production in Colombia and Spain 215Camila Esguerra Muelle, Diana Ojeda, and Friederike Fleischer Introduction 215 (Trans)national Care Networks, Social Reproduction, and Urban Space 217 War, Migration, and Care: Colombian Care Workers in Spain 221 Communitarian Mothers in Colombia 225 Conclusion 229 References 232 10 Tenga Nehungwaru: Navigating Gendered Food Precarity in Three African Secondary Urban Settlements 236Belinda Dodson and Liam Riley Introduction 236 Food and Social Reproduction in African Cities 239 The Consuming Urban Poverty (CUP) Project: Research Methods and Researcher Positionality 241 Urban Food Systems and Food Insecurity in Kitwe, Kisumu, and Epworth 244 Lived Urban Geographies of Food Access and Food Poverty in Kitwe, Kisumu, and Epworth 247 Marital Status, Household Form, and Gendered Occupations 247 Food Procurement and Access 251 Conclusion 255 References 258 11 Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: Dialogic Collaboration and Feminist Comparative Urbanism 262Tom Gillespie and Kate Hardy Introduction 262 Feminist Urban Scholarship and Comparative Urbanism 263 Thinking Comparatively Between Córdoba and London 265 Dialogic Collaboration 268 Situated Knowledge 269 Solidarity 270 Collaboration 271 Iteration 272 Gendered Urban Struggles in Córdoba and London 273 Subjectivation 273 Demands 275 Strategy 276 Infrastructures of Social Reproduction and the Urban 279 Conclusion 280 References 281 Index 285

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Book SynopsisHow Cities Learntraces the circulation of bus rapid transit (BRT) to understand how and why it was widely adopted in South Africa. Investigates the global proliferation and localization of BRT Examines the production and distribution of transportation knowledge in the global south Addresses the spatial and social legacy of apartheid in South African cities Reveals a new way of understanding the intersections between policy, people and place Essential reading for scholars of geography, politics, sociology and transportation, as well as urban planners and practitioners Trade Review'This carefully written and researched study offers detailed analysis of South African cities’ uneven implementation of bus rapid transit systems. Scholars who participate in the lively global conversation on urban policy will find much to contemplate within this thoughtful book.'Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford'Urban problems are becoming increasingly complex requiring the actors and institutions of governance to continually learn, adapt and innovate. But how does this learning happen? This book provides an extraordinary case study. It describes with uncommon clarity an intricate process of policy transfer involving global actors and circulations but also embedded local concerns, politics and governmental arrangements. It is essential reading for urban scholars and public policymakers.'Philip Harrison, South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg “…the book is a significant contribution to urban studies scholarship. It would make an excellent read for anyone interested in the political economy of knowledge transfer, decolonial perspectives on urban transport, and southern urbanism.” – Urban Studies, 2023, Vol. 60(14)Table of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Abbreviations x Series Editors’ Preface xii Acknowledgements xiii 1. Introduction 1 BRT Arrives in South Africa 1 Understanding the South African City 2 Transport Geography, Policy Mobilities and Learning in and from the South 5 Using Policy Mobilities as a Methodology 9 Structure of the Book 13 2. Geographies of Knowledge 16 Building an Analytic for Tracing 16 Tracing through Policy Models 18 Tracing through Actors and Associations 20 Tracing through Cities 23 Tracing through Temporalities 25 3. Translating BRT to South Africa 27 Introduction 27 The Geography of BRT 28 Forming the Bogotá Model of BRT 31 Introducing BRT in South African Cities 35 Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya 36 Cape Town’s MyCiTi 39 Tshwane’s A Re Yeng 41 Rustenburg’s Yarona 44 Nelson Mandela Bay’s Libhongolethu 45 eThekwini’s Go Durban! 46 A South African Interpretation of BRT 48 About the Station Platform 51 About the Bus 52 About the Bus Lane 53 About the Route 55 BRT and Taxi Transformation 58 The South African Taxi Industry 59 State Intervention in Transportation 61 Negotiating with Taxi Operators 65 Conclusion 68 4. Actors and Associations Circulating BRT 70 Introduction 70 An Analytic for Studying Policy Actors 71 Redefining the Role of Policy Actors 74 Policy Mobilizers of BRT Circulation 75 Intermediaries of BRT Circulation 78 Local Pioneers of BRT Circulation 81 Learning through Networks 85 Networks of Internationals 86 Networks of South Africans 88 Power Dynamics of Networks 94 Conclusion 96 5. The Local Politics of BRT 97 Introduction 97 The International Context of BRT Circulation 98 Learning from South America 99 Learning from Africa 102 Learning from India 105 Learning from the North 106 The National Context of BRT Circulation 107 Political Interactions between South African Localities 108 Technical Exchanges between South Africa Localities 111 The Municipal Context of BRT Circulation 114 Conclusion 117 6. Repetitive Processes of BRT Adoption 119 Introduction 119 Tracing Transportation Innovation in South Africa 120 Planting the Seeds of BRT in South Africa 124 Gradual Processes of Learning 127 Repetitive Processes of Circulation 128 Delayed Processes of Adoption 130 Transportation Innovations Not Adopted 133 Conclusion 138 7. Conclusion 140 Introduction 140 Reflecting on How Cities Learn 141 Reflecting on BRT in South Africa 145 Appendix A: Interview Schedule 147 Appendix B: Features of BRT systems in South Africa 154 References 166 Index 185

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Book SynopsisCONCRETE CITY Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West Africa. From post-independence high modernist ambitions to building the opportunities to make a living, the emerging transnational corridor along the West African coast provides a starting point for insights which will expand and inform understanding of both established and newly emerging urbanization processes in many different contexts. Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College of London, UK In this very innovative and superbly illustrated book, Armelle Choplin makes cement vibrant with affect, politics, economic interests and cultural meanings. She takes us to a fascinating journey along the West African urban corridor following the social life of concrete and showing how this material shapes contemporary urbanization and everyday life. Ola Söderström, ProfTable of ContentsList of Figures xi Series Editors’ Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Introduction: Concrete and the City 1 A Gray Matter 1 Age of Concrete 4 Africa Rising and Cement’s New Frontier 6 The Lagos- Abidjan Corridor: A Megacity Region under Construction 8 Cement As A Theoretical Binder 12 (Afri)Capitalism and Neoliberalism 13 Material Matters 15 Building, Dwelling, and Inhabiting a Postcolonial World 18 Tracking Urban Materiality: A Methodological Approach 21 Following Bags of Cement and the City under Construction 21 Thinking Cities Through West Africa 24 Notes 30 1 Concrete Politics 31 Africanizing Cement 33 From Colonial Import to Gray Gold “Made in Africa” 33 Patriotic Consumption and National Identity 37 Dangote, a Cement Magnate 39 Cement Business 42 Conquering Africa 42 “The Price of Cement Is like the Stock Market” 45 On the Road: Trucks and Logistics 47 The Rhetoric of Development 51 Emerging Through Concrete 53 Promoting Cement and Boosting the Economy 53 From Developmental States to Entrepreneurial Presidents 55 Builder Businessmen and Other Africapitalists 58 Conclusion 61 Notes 63 2 Making the City Concrete 65 The Multi faceted Concrete City 67 Premium City–Megaprojects and the Business of the City 67 Affordable City–Social Housing Programs 72 Low Cost City–Autoconstruction in the Outskirts 76 A Booming Building Sector 83 Real Estate Agent: From Broker to Preacher 83 Property Developers and the Diaspora 86 Architects and Building Permits 88 Wholesalers and Retailers: Lebanese, Indian, and Chinese Connections 90 Materials: From Foundations to Finishing 93 A Matter of Sand 95 Reinforcing Steel and Corrugated Iron 98 Tiling from Floor- to- Ceiling 100 Digital Banking or How to Buy your Cement Online 102 Conclusion 104 Notes 106 3 The Social Life of Concrete 109 Caution – Work in Progress! 111 Concrete – Child’s Play? 111 Concrete Block: The Ingot of the Poor 115 The Plot and the Block 117 I Build (with Concrete) Therefore I Am 117 The Incremental City: “Building Bit by Bit” 120 Right to Concrete for a Right to the City 125 Afropolitan Modernity, Imaginaries, and Experience 128 Desire and Success 128 Women at Work! Virility, Gender, and Emancipation 130 Concrete Palace, or Walter Benjamin in Lagos 134 Six- Bedroom- Villas 136 Concrete Fetishes and Voodoo 139 Conclusion 142 Notes 143 4 Uninhabitable Concrete 145 (De)Construction and Destruction 148 Collapse, Rubble, and Ruins 148 Sustainability and Greenwashing 151 Sand: Rarer than you Think 154 Green Expectations: Alternatives to Concrete? 156 Heritage and Vernacular Architecture 157 Back to Earth, Back to the Local 159 “Tropicalizing” Construction 163 Toward Innovation in the Concrete Industry 167 Putting African Architecture on the Map 169 Conclusion 172 Notes 173 Conclusion: Concrete Utopia 177 The West African Corridor: An Urban Laboratory 178 Utopia/Dystopia and Afro/Africanfuturism 182 Toward A Post- concrete World 185 References 189 Index 209

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Book SynopsisATLAS OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES An extensive compilation of case studies in structural geology and geomorphology for interpreting remotely sensed images In the Atlas of Structural Geological and Geomorphological Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images, a team of experts delivers an extensive collection of over 20 different examples of structural geological and geomorphological studies by remote sensing. The book demonstrates how to properly interpret geological features and gather robust and reliable information from remote sensing images. This atlas contains high-quality colour images that depict a diversity of structures and geomorphic features from different tectonic regimes and geographic localities in the Americas, Europe, and Australasia. While its primary emphasis is on structural geology, geomorphology is considered in some depth as well. The examples also cover geological hazards, including volcanic eruptions and eartTable of ContentsSection A: Background Introduction to “Atlas of Structural Geological and Geomorphological Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images” Remote Sensing Fundamentals Classification of Remote Sensing Depending on Data Type, Source, Platform, and Imaging Media Section B: Geomorphology Geodynamic Quantification of Mid-Channel Bar Morphology: A Spatio-Temporal Study Geomorphic Indicators of Glacier Retreat from Jorya-Garang Glacier of Baspa Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India Aerial Views of the 2018 Kilauea Eruption, Hawaii, U.S.A. Depositional Systems – An Overview Via Google Earth The Lateritic Badlands of Garbeta (West Bengal, India) Geomorphology Along the West Coast of India, Through Remote Sensing Fluvial Geomorphology in a part of the Spiti River Basin, Himachal Pradesh, India Section C: Structural Geology Deformation Bands Mapped in the Miocene Sandstone-Dominated Outcrops, Sengkurong, Brunei Darussalam, SE Asia Disaggregation Deformation Bands Dominate the Trapping and Sealing Process at The Lion King Fault Zone, Brunei, SE Asia Surface Deformation Along Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Evidenced by Satellite and DEM Data Tectonics, Fault Zones, and Topography in the Alaska-Canada Cordillera with a Focus on the Alaska Range and Denali Fault Zone Use of Remote Sensing in Lineament Analysis Tectonic Structures Interpretation using Airborne-Based LiDAR DEM on the Examples from the Polish Outer Carpathians Spatial Variability of Tectonic Influences on Drainage Networks Archival Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) Image of Faults in a Mixed Carbonate-Clastic Succession, Northwestern Spring Mountains, Nevada, USA Coseismic Surface Rupture and Related Disaster During the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu Earthquake, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia Structural and Alteration Mapping using ASTER imagery and DEM for Gold Mineralization in the Gadag Schist Belt of Karnataka, India Identifying Subtle Deformation Structures from Satellite Images in Parts of the Mesozoic Kachchh (Kutch) Basin, Kachchh District, Gujarat, India Lineament Analysis in a Part of the Son River Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India Meso Scale Sinistral Shear, Eastern Dharwar Craton, Telangana, India Regional Polyclinal Fold with Faulted Limbs, Rajasthan, India Drainage Architecture and Bar Formation of the Rangit Tributaries, Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya, India

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Book SynopsisTHEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver's seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the wider social sciences for years to come. The timing of this intervention is pitch-perfect, as scholars search for ways to understand and intervene in an increasingly distrustful and polarized world.KATHARYNE MITCHELL, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA In Theory and Explanation in Geography Yeung presents us with a rare thing - an argument for geographical theory with forms of causal explanation at its heart. The book is both modest and ambitious. Modest in its insistence on mid-level theory without a call for some new turn or advocacy for any particular approach. Ambitious in its insistence that existing theoretical traditions are inadequate or incomplete insofar as they lack causal explanatoTrade Review"With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver's seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the wider social sciences for years to come. The timing of this intervention is pitch-perfect, as scholars search for ways to understand and intervene in an increasingly distrustful and polarized world." - Katharyne Mitchell, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "Critical human geography possesses a distinctive theory culture—pluralist, creative, distributed, restless, contested—prone to “turning,” wary of orthodoxies and fixed positions. In this original and provocative contribution, the leading economic geographer Henry Yeung steps out beyond his home turf to engage styles and practices of theorizing across this diverse field, carving out a new remit and rubric for middle-range theorizing." - Jamie Peck, Canadian Research Chair and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia, Canada Table of ContentsList of Tables ix List of Figures x Preface and Acknowledgement xi 1. Critical Human Geography Today: A Multitude of Approaches and Concepts? 1 Main Argument and Approach 5 Important Caveats: What This Book Is Not About 9 Key Considerations: Of/For Theory and Explanation 15 Chapter Outlines 20 Notes 26 2. Contemporary Geographical Thought: Theory and Explanation 36 Theory in Marxism 42 Theories in Poststructuralism and Post-Phenomenology/Posthumanism 44 Actor-Network Theory 45 Non-Representational Theory 50 Assemblage Theory 54 Post-Phenomenology and Posthumanism 62 Theories in Feminism and Postcolonialism 67 Feminist Theory 69 Postcolonial Theory 76 Notes 81 3. What Kind of Theory for What Kind of Human Geography? 95 Analytical Geographies: Theory and Explanation in Geography 97 From Concepts to Theories 99 From Theory to Explanation in Geography 103 Mid-Range Theories: Critical Realism, Causal Mechanisms, and Relational Thinking 107 What Realism -- Critical and/or Speculative? 109 Causal Mechanisms and Relational Thinking in Mid-Range Theories 116 Notes 121 4. Relational Theory 129 Relationality and Relational Thought in Contemporary Human Geography 131 Relationality in Marxian and Institutional Geographies 134 Relational Thought in Poststructuralist, Feminist, and Postcolonial Geographies 139 Making Things Happen: Towards a Relational Theory 151 Rethinking Relational Thought: Relationality and Power 153 Causal Powers and Relationality in Relational Geometries 157 Notes 165 5. Mechanism and Process in Causal Explanation 173 Theorizing Mechanism in Causal Explanation 175 Reconceptualizing Mechanism, Process, and Context 178 Causal Theory and Actors 185 Processual Thought in Geography 188 From Process to Mechanism: Explanatory Theory/Theorizing in Geography 195 Why Neoliberalization? 196 Neoliberalization: What's in a Process and What Can Go Wrong? 199 Explaining Neoliberalism 'with Chinese Characteristics': How Might the Process-Mechanism Distinction Work? 203 Notes 207 6. Theorizing Globalization: Explanatory Theory, Situated Knowledges, and 'Theorizing Back' 212 Globalization as Geographical Processes 215 A Causal Theory of Global Production Networks: Explaining Globalization and Its Socio-Spatial Outcomes 221 Beyond Situated Knowledges: 'Theorizing Back' and Making Theory Work 228 Are Situated Knowledges Good Enough? 229 Theorizing Back: Strategic Coupling and Global Economic Geographies 235 Making Theory Work: The Trouble with Global Production Networks 240 Notes 245 7. What Kind of Geography for What Kind of Social Science? 252 Towards Analytical Geographies: Mid-Range Geographical Theories for Social Science 256 Beyond 'Academic Esotericism': Analytical Geographies for Public Engagement and Policy 261 Notes 266 References 269 Index 313

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Book SynopsisHOUSING BOOMS IN GATEWAY CITIES David Ley examines the development of housing booms, and policies intended to stimulate or limit them. Utilising a comparative approach in five gateway cities, he provides a superb understanding of the politics of booms, lifting the debate beyond narrow housing and real estate studies. This book is required reading for anyone interested in global cities, housing markets, or comparative urbanism. Manuel B. Aalbers, Professor of Human Geography, KU Leuven, Belgium A stellar contribution to housing and its financialisation as central to the capitalist project globally, Housing Booms offers a wonderful window into the ascendancy of the secondary circuit of real estate in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver, and London. Critically, through careful, empirically rigorous comparison, an eminent urban social scientist urges us to understand the importance of placing urban housing theoretically. Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University Mastering a wealth of information and insights from five gateway cities, David Ley provides fresh and inspiring explanation of both common global logics and diverse local trajectories of housing booms in the era of financialisation and asset-based accumulation. A timely and ground-breaking contribution, (re)positioning housing to the centrality pervasively felt in everyday life but largely unacknowledged in mainstream social science. George Lin, Chair Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong In Housing Booms in Gateway Cities, renowned geographer Dr. David Ley delivers a detailed exploration of housing markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver, and London and explains why these gateway cities have seen dramatic increases in residential real estate prices since the 1980s. The author describes how the globalization of real estate has rapidly inflated demand and uncoupled local housing prices from local wages, causing acute problems of affordability, availability, and inequality. The book implicates government policy in massive real estate price inflation, describing a shift from welfare-based to asset-based societies. It also highlights the relatively unique experience in Singapore, where asset-based housing policy has encouraged the dispersion of ownership and accumulation through an increased supply of subsidized leasehold apartments and the regulation of disruptive investment flows. Housing Booms in Gateway Cities is an ideal resource for academics, students and policymakers with an interest in urban geography, sociology, and planning, housing studies, and any of the cities discussed in the book. It is an innovative treatment of housing as a central category in wealth accumulation in urban economies and societies.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface viii Acknowledgements ix List of Figures xi List of Tables xii 1 Introduction: Housing as Asset 1 The New Centrality of Housing 2 The Volatile Housing Markets of Gateway Cities 5 The Globalisation of Residential Markets 7 A Narrative of Key Relationships 10 Homeownership and Asset-based Welfare 13 Corollaries of Homeownership in Asset Society 17 Concerning Method 18 Notes 21 2 Singapore: Housing and Nation Building 23 The Busy Life of House and Home in Singapore 24 The Property State 30 Global Pressures… 36 …and National Defences 39 Reproducing Labour: Housing Costs and Fertility 45 The Immigration Fix 49 Tears in the Seamless Society: Housing Affordability 51 The 2011 General Election and Since 53 Conclusion 56 Notes 57 3 Housing Divides: Property and Society in Hong Kong 61 The Tycoons and the Property Market 63 Hong Kong's Land Supply 66 Collusion: A Cohesive Growth Coalition 68 Housing Prices and Their Causes 73 The Response of Government Policy 83 Cooling Measures 86 Inequality in the Housing Market and Beyond 89 Residential Alienation and Its Discontents 95 Conclusion 97 Notes 98 4 Sydney: Investors, Offshore Relations, and the 2013-2017 Residential Boom 102 Sydney's House Price Profile 105 Consequences of House Price Inflation 108 Maurice Daly and the International Drivers of Sydney's Property Market 112 From the British Empire to an Asian Hegemon: Australia Pivots 116 The Economic Contexts of the 2013-2017 Housing Boom 119 Off-shore Residential Investors: Evidence from the Foreign Investment Review Board 121 China and the 2013-2017 Real Estate Boom 124 Gifted Migrants from China 129 From External to Internal Relations: Investor Profiles 131 The Domestic Property Investor and Tax-Subsidised Rental Assets 134 From Financial Policy to Cooling Measures 137 Housing Policy: What Policy? 139 Conclusion 141 Notes 144 5 Vancouver: From Housing Deregulation to Reregulation? 149 Vancouver Housing: The Back Story 152 Ownership, Assets, Gains 155 Spring 2015: An Emerging Counter-Narrative 158 The Angus Reid Survey and the Shaking of an Ideology 161 Governments and Elections: All Change 164 Towards Reregulation? Clipping the Libertarian Wings of the Real Estate Council 166 Serious Reregulation? 169 Assessment: Reregulation Achieved? 173 Conclusion 178 Notes 181 6 London 2012: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 184 London's House Prices 187 The Significance of Prime London 190 ‘The World Capital for Property Investment' 196 Opaque Investment and Money Laundering 201 Global Property Developers 203 The Supply-Demand Imbalance 205 Public Policy and the Transformation of Housing Supply 209 Austerity: The Metanarrative 213 Austerity Vs. Social Housing 215 Conclusion 220 Notes 223 Contents vii 7 Conclusion: The Place of Housing 228 Intercity Generalisations 229 Gateways and Nations 229 Housing Booms in Time and Space 230 The Globalisation of Residential Markets 232 Housing Inequality 235 Housing Booms: Market-Based Causes 236 The State's Role in Incentivising and Cooling Housing Booms 238 Homeownership and an Asset-Based Society 242 Placing Urban Housing Theoretically 250 Notes 257 References 259 Index 310

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Book SynopsisUnderstand and respond to a changing coastline with this comprehensive reference Coastal engineering concerns society's interactions with coastlines and relates, for example, to coastal flooding, beach erosion, seawalls and breakwaters, and the design of marinas. As climate change drives sea level rise, coastal engineering is critical in responding to increased coastal flooding and receding shorelines. The need to develop coastal infrastructure while minimizing environmental impacts makes this a vital field. An Introduction to Coastal Engineering offers a comprehensive overview of this subject, designed to bridge existing gaps in the general civil engineering literature. Covering all major aspects of coastal engineering, including ocean wave behaviour, structures, sediments, mixing processes, and modelling, the book emphasizes practical solutions and applications for students and practicing engineers alike. Thorough and rigorous, yet highly readable, the book is a must-own tool for dev

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Book SynopsisDomicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent. Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora. Trade Review‘This is a first rate book. Alison Blunt studies a community that has been reinventing ‘itself’, and its senses of home and belonging, in the period since 1947. She shows how these reinventions have been pursued in different ways by different community leaders, including in the run-up to India’s independence, and how another set of reinventions is playing out around the dress and marriage choices of Anglo-Indian women.’ Stuart Corbridge, Professor/Doctor Geography & Regional Studies, London School of Economics 'Alison Blunt has defined and shaped this research area. Perceptive accounts of Anglo-Indian women's lives are woven through a scholarly analysis of community and identity in India and a wider diaspora through the twentieth century. She has produced an absorbing and refreshing book.' Morag Bell, Professor of Cultural Geography, Loughborough University "This is an accessible and clearly written book and would be useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on cultural and postcolonial geographies" The Geographical Journal "Alison Blunt's latest offering Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home provides a rich and flavourful repast of the betwixt and in-between people of part-British and part-Indian descent... Blunt delivers a cogent, deeply historicized, and creatively theorized account of the cultural and spatial contours of Anglo-Indian domesticity." The Journal of Black Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. Series Editors’ Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction. Domicile. Diaspora. Home, Memory and Nostalgia. Methodology. Chapter Outline. 2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and National Identity. Imperial Domesticity. Nationalist Domesticity. Domicile and Domesticity. ‘Land of our Mothers’. Home, Identity and Nationality. Conclusions. 3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity and Embodying Modernity. Domesticating Identity. Embodying Modernity. Domestic Transgression. Home, Community and Nation. Conclusions. 4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands. Homelands and Settlements. Anglo-Indian Colonization and Settlement. Colonizing McCluskieganj. Anglo-Indian Home-making. Dreams of the Future. McCluskieganj Today. Conclusions. 5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain. Migration and Resettlement. Britishness, Whiteness and Mixed Descent. Documenting Paternity and Recolonizing Identity. Unsettled Domesticity. Embodied Identities and the Limits of Familiarity. Conclusions. 6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947. Anglo-Indians in White Australia. HMAS Manoora. Anglo-Indian Migration in the Wake of HMAS Manoora. From ‘Race’ to ‘Culture’. From White Australia to Multiculturalism. Anglo-Indians in Multicultural Australia. Conclusions. 7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity and National Identity. Staying on in India. Nationality and Community. Anglo-Indian Women in Independent India. Dress. Home and Work. Marriage. Conclusions. 8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions. Bibliography. Appendix 1 Archival Sources. Appendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisDomicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent. Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora. Trade Review‘This is a first rate book. Alison Blunt studies a community that has been reinventing ‘itself’, and its senses of home and belonging, in the period since 1947. She shows how these reinventions have been pursued in different ways by different community leaders, including in the run-up to India’s independence, and how another set of reinventions is playing out around the dress and marriage choices of Anglo-Indian women.’ Stuart Corbridge, Professor/Doctor Geography & Regional Studies, London School of Economics 'Alison Blunt has defined and shaped this research area. Perceptive accounts of Anglo-Indian women's lives are woven through a scholarly analysis of community and identity in India and a wider diaspora through the twentieth century. She has produced an absorbing and refreshing book.' Morag Bell, Professor of Cultural Geography, Loughborough University "This is an accessible and clearly written book and would be useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on cultural and postcolonial geographies" The Geographical Journal "Alison Blunt's latest offering Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home provides a rich and flavourful repast of the betwixt and in-between people of part-British and part-Indian descent... Blunt delivers a cogent, deeply historicized, and creatively theorized account of the cultural and spatial contours of Anglo-Indian domesticity." The Journal of Black Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. Series Editors’ Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction. Domicile. Diaspora. Home, Memory and Nostalgia. Methodology. Chapter Outline. 2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and National Identity. Imperial Domesticity. Nationalist Domesticity. Domicile and Domesticity. ‘Land of our Mothers’. Home, Identity and Nationality. Conclusions. 3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity and Embodying Modernity. Domesticating Identity. Embodying Modernity. Domestic Transgression. Home, Community and Nation. Conclusions. 4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands. Homelands and Settlements. Anglo-Indian Colonization and Settlement. Colonizing McCluskieganj. Anglo-Indian Home-making. Dreams of the Future. McCluskieganj Today. Conclusions. 5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain. Migration and Resettlement. Britishness, Whiteness and Mixed Descent. Documenting Paternity and Recolonizing Identity. Unsettled Domesticity. Embodied Identities and the Limits of Familiarity. Conclusions. 6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947. Anglo-Indians in White Australia. HMAS Manoora. Anglo-Indian Migration in the Wake of HMAS Manoora. From ‘Race’ to ‘Culture’. From White Australia to Multiculturalism. Anglo-Indians in Multicultural Australia. Conclusions. 7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity and National Identity. Staying on in India. Nationality and Community. Anglo-Indian Women in Independent India. Dress. Home and Work. Marriage. Conclusions. 8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions. Bibliography. Appendix 1 Archival Sources. Appendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. * Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. * Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today.Trade Review"A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography, revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoretical perspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reach of its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical and rigorous, the Companion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feminist research at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought in the field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors, this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of the discipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid not only for other fields but for a range of political movements as well." Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York "Though each of the essays can be read for its own distinctive contribution, the anthology as a whole is designed to provide a mosaic of feminist geography for both scholars and students." Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005 "An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkers and practitioners...All Blackwell Companions are relevant to academics, researchers and students in their disciplines and beyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have more general appeal" Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xviii 1 Introduction 1 Lise Nelson and Joni Seager Part I Contexts 13 2 Situating Gender 15 Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson 3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32 Audrey Kobayashi 4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41 Pamela Moss 5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60 Brenda S. A. Yeoh Part II Work 75 6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77 Kim England and Victoria Lawson 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93 Marlène Elias and Judith Carney 8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109 Altha J. Cravey 9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123 Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre 10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138 Rachel Silvey 11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150 Ayda Eraydýn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil 12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166 Vidyamali Samarasinghe 13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179 Susan Hanson and Megan Blake 14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating “Thus Far and No Further” Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194 Saraswati Raju Part III City 209 15 Feminist Geographies of the “City”: Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211 Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag 16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth-century Information Economy 228 Kate Boyer 17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging 242 Tovi Fenster 18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed 257 Hille Koskela 19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan 271 Kamiya Hiroo 20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa 291 Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr 21 Moving beyond “Gender and GIS” to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Women’s IT Needs 305 Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci 22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy 322 Phil Hubbard Part IV Body 335 23 Situating Bodies 337 Robyn Longhurst 24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women’s Prison 350 Teresa Dirsuweit 25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman’s Body 363 Kawango Agot 26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation 379 Robina Mohammad 27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad 398 Jasbir Kaur Puar Part V Environment 417 28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the “Woman Question” in Sustainable Development to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana–Chacuey, Dominican Republic 419 Dianne Rocheleau 29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods 434 Anoja Wickramasinghe 30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology 445 Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik 31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures 458 Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang 32 Geographic Information and Women’s Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example 486 Sara McLafferty 33 Performing a “Global Sense of Place”: Women’s Actions for Environmental Justice 496 Giovanna Di Chiro Part VI State/Nation 517 34 Feminist Political Geographies 519 Eleonore Kofman 35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 534 Mona Domosh 36 Virility and Violation in the US “War on Terrorism” 550 Matthew G. Hannah 37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 565 Jennifer Hyndman 38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa 578 Glen S. Elder 39 Women’s Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change 590 Maureen Hays-Mitchell Index 607

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Book SynopsisQuestioning Geography introduces students to the fundamental debates that animate geography today. Each of the chapters focuses on a key issue that has divided or galvanised geographers in their work. Covers both human and physical geography. Includes essay questions and suggestions for further reading. Demonstrates to students the distinctiveness and vitality of modern geography. Trade Review‘Questioning Geography brings together some of the world’s leading geographical thinkers in an honest, refreshing, intellectually vibrant and accessible set of encounters that simultaneously illuminate and develop key debates. While individual chapters show the diversity of philosophical, methodological and substantive concerns in geography, this book ultimately celebrates the vitality of a challenging and robust discipline.’ Adam Tickell, University Of Bristol ‘Questioning Geography is that rare thing – a volume for undergraduates that brings human and physical geographers into meaningful conversation.’ Sarah J. Whatmore, University of Oxford ‘This book doesn’t just summarize the debates currently raging in geography: it adds all kinds of informed judgements and critical commentary which make it into an essential resource for students, a resource which is much more than the sum of its parts. It is the place to go for an up to date overview.’ Nigel Thrift, University of OxfordTable of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Questioning Geography. (Douglas Sherman, Alisdair Rogers and Noel Castree). Part I: The ‘Nature’ of Geography. 1. Geography-Coming Apart at the Seams? (Ron Johnston). 2. A Divided Discipline? Heather Viles. 3. What Difference Does Difference Make to Geography? (Katherine McKittrick and Linda Peake). Part II: Approaches in Geography. 5. Is Geography a Science? (Noel Castree). 6. Beyond Science? Human Geography, Interpretation and Critique. (Maureen Hickey and Vicky Lawson). Part III: Key Debates in Geography. 8. General/Particular. (Tim Burt). 9. Representation/Reality. (Matthew Hannah). 10. Meta-Theory/Many Theories. (Michael Curry). Part IV: The Practice of Geography. 11. Cartography and Visualization. (Scott Orford). 12. Models, Modelling and Geography. (David Demeritt and John Wainwright). 13.Ethnography and Fieldwork. (Steve Herbert, Jacqueline Gallagher and Garth Myers) 14. Counting and Measuring. (Danny Dorling). 15. Theory and Theorizing. (Elspeth Graham). Part V: The Uses of Geography. 16. A Policy-Relevant Geography for Society? (Alisdair Rogers). 17. Whose Geography? Education as Politics. (Noel Castree). Index.

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Book SynopsisRedundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called ''crisis of masculinity'' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Looks at how the labour market is changing. Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities. Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity. Trade Review"This book will appeal to a wide audience. It so adroitly sums up the state of play in a number of arenas: the contemporary UK economy and the future of work, current debates about gender and identity, the “crisis” of masculinity, and the emerging “problem” of white, working-class boys floundering to hold down jobs and identities that are increasingly ‘redundant’." --Rosemary Pringle, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, UK "Much has been written about the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' but rarely have its contours been charted in such as precise way and with such clear empathy for those at its cutting edge." --Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK "I recommend , and sincerely hope, that this book is widely read, inside and outside academia." (Enviroment and Planning D: Society and Space) "Linda McDowell has produced a highly readable and accessible book, packed with rich and original empirical data, and written with a lightness of touch that belies the complexity of the theoretical debates pulled together within it. Redundant Masculinities combines an impressive synthesis of contemporary theoretical debates and perspectives, with a thorough empirical methodology to produce a first-class piece of applied research." (Work, Employment and Society) "McDowell offers a groundbreaking and often intensely sympathetic portrait of the ruptures and fragmentations of white, working class male hegemony under neoliberalism. Through deft use of narrative and analysis, she humanizes masculinity and masculine development in a manner heretofore rarely seen in sociological research." (Area 2005, vol 34/4)Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class. 2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities. 3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come) A Man or The Problem of/for Boys. 4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and Sheffield. 5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further Education. 6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners. 7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The Excluded and Escape Attempts. 8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities. 9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys? Postscript. Appendix 1: Research Methodology. Appendix 2: The Participants. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science.Trade Review"Each chapter contains a valuable list of literature, and the book ends with an exten­sive, 15-page index. This makes this textbook a valuable and useful companion for students of geoinformation, geoinformatics, geocompu­tation, and geoprocessing (GIScience), as well as for experienced scientists and professionals applying GIS." (Geologos, 2010) "This book is quite extraordinary value providing a timely and extensive review of much of the discipline. Serious researchers and students alike should see it as an essential addition to their GIScience library." (Journal of Regional Science, May 2009) "The topics covered are wide ranging, covering many aspects of GI science.... A good spread of authors from Europe, North America and Australia." (Reference Reviews, Issue 6 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Geographic Information Science: An Introduction: A. Stewart Fotheringham (National University of Ireland) and John P. Wilson (University of Southern California). Part I: Data Issues:. 1. The Availability of Geographic Data: The Current Technical and Institutional Environment: David J. Cowen (University of South Carolina). 2. Social Data: David J. Martin (University of Southampton). 3. Remote Sensing: Brian G. Lees (University of New South Wales). 4. Spatialization: Andre Skupin (San Diego State University) and Sara I. Fabrikant (University of Zurich). 5. Uncertainty in Spatial Databases: Ashley Morris (DePaul University). 6. On the Identification of Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Their Quantification with Probability Distribution Functions: James D. Brown (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Gerald B. M. Heuvelink (Wageningen University and Research Centre). Part II: Database Trends and Challenges:. 7. Object-Oriented Database Management Systems: Shashi Shekhar and Ranga Raju Vatsavai (University of Minnesota). 8. Adding the Z Dimension: Michael F. Hutchinson (Australian National University). 9. Adding Time into Geographic Information Science Databases: May Yuan (University of Oklahoma). 10. Geospatial Data Integration: Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California). Part III: Visualization:. 11. Mapping in a Digital Age: William E. Cartwright (RHIT University). 12. Generalization of Spatial Databases: William A. Mackaness (University of Edinburgh). 13. Geographic Information Science and Surfaces: Nicholas J. Tate (University of Leicester), Peter F. Fisher (City University), and David J. Martin (University of Southampton). 14. Fuzzy Classification and Mapping: Vincent B. Robinson (University of Toronto). 15. Rule-Based Mapping: A-Xing Zhu (University of Wisconsin). 16. Multivariate Geovisualization: Mark Gahegan (Pennsylvania State University). 17. Virtual Reality in Geographic Information Science: Michael Batty (University College London). Part IV: Knowledge Elicitation:. 18. Inference and Spatial Data: Chris Brunsdon (University of Leicester). 19. Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Harvey J. Miller (University of Utah). 20. The Geospatial Semantic Web: Frederico Fonseca (Pennsylvania State University). Part V: Spatial Analysis:. 21. Quantitative Methods and Geographic Information Systems: Martin Charlton (National University of Ireland). 22. Spatial Cluster Analysis: Geoffrey M. Jacquez (BioMedware, Inc., Ann Arbor). 23. Terrain Analysis: Yongxin Deng (Western Illinois University), John P. Wilson (University of Southern California), and John C. Gallant (CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra). 24. Dynamic Modeling: Jochen Albrecht (City University of New York). Part VI GIS and Society:. 25. Institutional Geographic Information Science and GI Partnering: David Tulloch (State University of New Jersey). 26. Participatory Geographic Information Science: Daniel Weiner and Trevor M. Harris (West Virginia University). 27. Geographic Information Science and Participatory Decision Making: Piotr Jankowski (San Diego State University) and Timothy L. Nyerges (University of Washington). 28. Surveys of People and Place: Peter H. Dana (Georgetown). 29. Geographic Information, Personal Privacy, and the Law: George C. H. Cho (University of Canberra). 30. Geographic Information in Education: Joseph J. Kerski (Denver Federal Center). Part VII: Future Trends and Challenges:. 31. Web-based Geographic Information Science: Christopher B. Jones (Cardiff University) and Ross S. Purves (University of Zurich). 32. Location-based Services and Geographic Information Science: Allan J. Brimicombe (University of East London). 33. Geographic Information Science: The Grand Challenges: Michael F. Goodchild (University of California). 34. Geographic Information Science: Where Next?: Andreas Reuter (European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg) and Alexander Zipf (University of Applied Sciences FH Mainz). Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science.Trade Review"Each chapter contains a valuable list of literature, and the book ends with an exten­sive, 15-page index. This makes this textbook a valuable and useful companion for students of geoinformation, geoinformatics, geocompu­tation, and geoprocessing (GIScience), as well as for experienced scientists and professionals applying GIS." (Geologos, 2010) "This book is quite extraordinary value providing a timely and extensive review of much of the discipline. Serious researchers and students alike should see it as an essential addition to their GIScience library." (Journal of Regional Science, May 2009) "The topics covered are wide ranging, covering many aspects of GI science.... A good spread of authors from Europe, North America and Australia." (Reference Reviews, Issue 6 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Geographic Information Science: An Introduction: A. Stewart Fotheringham (National University of Ireland) and John P. Wilson (University of Southern California). Part I: Data Issues:. 1. The Availability of Geographic Data: The Current Technical and Institutional Environment: David J. Cowen (University of South Carolina). 2. Social Data: David J. Martin (University of Southampton). 3. Remote Sensing: Brian G. Lees (University of New South Wales). 4. Spatialization: Andre Skupin (San Diego State University) and Sara I. Fabrikant (University of Zurich). 5. Uncertainty in Spatial Databases: Ashley Morris (DePaul University). 6. On the Identification of Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Their Quantification with Probability Distribution Functions: James D. Brown (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Gerald B. M. Heuvelink (Wageningen University and Research Centre). Part II: Database Trends and Challenges:. 7. Object-Oriented Database Management Systems: Shashi Shekhar and Ranga Raju Vatsavai (University of Minnesota). 8. Adding the Z Dimension: Michael F. Hutchinson (Australian National University). 9. Adding Time into Geographic Information Science Databases: May Yuan (University of Oklahoma). 10. Geospatial Data Integration: Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California). Part III: Visualization:. 11. Mapping in a Digital Age: William E. Cartwright (RHIT University). 12. Generalization of Spatial Databases: William A. Mackaness (University of Edinburgh). 13. Geographic Information Science and Surfaces: Nicholas J. Tate (University of Leicester), Peter F. Fisher (City University), and David J. Martin (University of Southampton). 14. Fuzzy Classification and Mapping: Vincent B. Robinson (University of Toronto). 15. Rule-Based Mapping: A-Xing Zhu (University of Wisconsin). 16. Multivariate Geovisualization: Mark Gahegan (Pennsylvania State University). 17. Virtual Reality in Geographic Information Science: Michael Batty (University College London). Part IV: Knowledge Elicitation:. 18. Inference and Spatial Data: Chris Brunsdon (University of Leicester). 19. Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Harvey J. Miller (University of Utah). 20. The Geospatial Semantic Web: Frederico Fonseca (Pennsylvania State University). Part V: Spatial Analysis:. 21. Quantitative Methods and Geographic Information Systems: Martin Charlton (National University of Ireland). 22. Spatial Cluster Analysis: Geoffrey M. Jacquez (BioMedware, Inc., Ann Arbor). 23. Terrain Analysis: Yongxin Deng (Western Illinois University), John P. Wilson (University of Southern California), and John C. Gallant (CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra). 24. Dynamic Modeling: Jochen Albrecht (City University of New York). Part VI GIS and Society:. 25. Institutional Geographic Information Science and GI Partnering: David Tulloch (State University of New Jersey). 26. Participatory Geographic Information Science: Daniel Weiner and Trevor M. Harris (West Virginia University). 27. Geographic Information Science and Participatory Decision Making: Piotr Jankowski (San Diego State University) and Timothy L. Nyerges (University of Washington). 28. Surveys of People and Place: Peter H. Dana (Georgetown). 29. Geographic Information, Personal Privacy, and the Law: George C. H. Cho (University of Canberra). 30. Geographic Information in Education: Joseph J. Kerski (Denver Federal Center). Part VII: Future Trends and Challenges:. 31. Web-based Geographic Information Science: Christopher B. Jones (Cardiff University) and Ross S. Purves (University of Zurich). 32. Location-based Services and Geographic Information Science: Allan J. Brimicombe (University of East London). 33. Geographic Information Science: The Grand Challenges: Michael F. Goodchild (University of California). 34. Geographic Information Science: Where Next?: Andreas Reuter (European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg) and Alexander Zipf (University of Applied Sciences FH Mainz). Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging such neoliberal assumptions as the death of distance and suggestions that geography no longer matters within a shrinking globe, Geographies of Globalization is a critical introduction to the concepts and realities surrounding what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.Trade Review"Part of the ‘Critical Introductions to Geography' series, this text is intended for ‘upper-level undergraduates and graduate students' (p x) to help them ‘explore the debate around how the geography of the world economy is being transformed by contemporary processes' (p. ix) . . . On completing these chapters, a good student will have derived an acute sense of both the contested complexity of globalization and its importance as a political tool for promoting a professed ‘inevitable' change." (Area, 2011) "Herod presents in a concise manner a number of critical perspectives on globalization in a way that makes them easily accessible without dumbing them down.” (CHOICE, October 2009) "An important introduction to the debates about the geography of globalization. Critical but never shrill, the book works unerringly to expose and render intelligible the intellectual and practical pressure points that are the result of the multiple processes of globalization. As good a starting point as any you'll find." Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick "Writing for an upper level undergraduate readership, Andrew Herod has produced a challenging critical interpretation of geographies of globalization that is both historically informed and geographically sensitive." Peter Dicken, University of Manchester Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. A Note on Terminology, Naming, and the Calculation of Historical Monetary Values. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Envisioning Global Visions. 3. Interpreting Globalization. 4. Talking Globalization. 5. Globalizing Empires. 6. Manufacturing Globalization. 7. Governing Globalization. 8. Globalizing Labor. 9. Conclusion. References. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge. Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003). Trade Review‘The Form of Cities is an important critique and synthesis of recent thinking about urban design … a powerful analysis of the emergence, logic, and political meaning of the built environment in given historical contexts.’ Allen J. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Geography, UCLA ‘A major achievement in the radical spirit of Manuel Castells’ and Mike Davis’ writings. Cuthbert repositions urban design theory … to reveal the bedrock systems of material and symbolic production shaping modern cities.’ Chris Abel, Architectural critic and author of Architecture, Technology, Process and Architecture and Identity ‘Truly an impressive piece of work. … This book will become seminal not only for urban design students and practitioners, and those engaged in the study and practice of urban policy-making and planning, but also for students of urban geography and political science.’ Harry T. Dimitriou, Bartlett Professor of Planning Studies, UCL "[Cuthbert] sets out not only to make the professional case for urban design but also the disciplinary case. What ensues is an immense and far-reaching catalog of ideas that in many ways is a tour de force." Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Theory. Introduction: The Problem. Urban Design: Definitions. Urban Design: ‘Theory’. Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design. 2. History. Introduction: What is History?. History and Urban Design. Chronologies. Typologies. Utopias. Fragments. Materialist Theory Overview. 3. Philosophy. Introduction: Implications from Philosophy. Philosophy and Urbanism Paradigms. Philosophy and Urban Design 4. Politics. Introduction: Politics and Ideology. Power: Rights and Laws Law as Ideology. Politics and Urban Planning. The Public Realm. 5. Culture. Introduction: Culture and Urban Design. The Culture of Modernism. Postmodern Culture. Globalisation, Culture, Economy. Authenticity and Symbolic Representation. The New Ruralism/Urbanism. 6. Gender. Introduction: Gender the Missing Component. Gender and Society Gender and Patriarchy. Gender and Capital. Gender and Space. Gender and Urban Design. 7. Environment. Introduction: Nature and the City. Origins and Development. People-Nature. Sustainability and Development. Sustainable Cities. Sustainable Urban Design. 8. Aesthetics. Introduction: Aesthetics – Objects and Experience. The Aesthetics of Urban Form. Mathematics and the Divine Order. Contextualism. Rationalism. Symbolic Capital. Regulation. Theming. 9. Typologies. Introduction: Taxonomy, Typology, Morphology, System. Typologies Derived from Associated Disciplines. Typologies Derived from Traditional Urban Design Perspectives. Implications from Spatial Political Economy. 10. Pragmatics. Introduction: Cultural Capital. Professional Intervention. Professions and Knowledge Systems. Professions and Space. Urban Design Education Postscript. References. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge. Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003). Trade Review‘The Form of Cities is an important critique and synthesis of recent thinking about urban design … a powerful analysis of the emergence, logic, and political meaning of the built environment in given historical contexts.’ Allen J. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Geography, UCLA ‘A major achievement in the radical spirit of Manuel Castells’ and Mike Davis’ writings. Cuthbert repositions urban design theory … to reveal the bedrock systems of material and symbolic production shaping modern cities.’ Chris Abel, Architectural critic and author of Architecture, Technology, Process and Architecture and Identity ‘Truly an impressive piece of work. … This book will become seminal not only for urban design students and practitioners, and those engaged in the study and practice of urban policy-making and planning, but also for students of urban geography and political science.’ Harry T. Dimitriou, Bartlett Professor of Planning Studies, UCL "[Cuthbert] sets out not only to make the professional case for urban design but also the disciplinary case. What ensues is an immense and far-reaching catalog of ideas that in many ways is a tour de force." Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Theory. Introduction: The Problem. Urban Design: Definitions. Urban Design: ‘Theory’. Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design. 2. History. Introduction: What is History?. History and Urban Design. Chronologies. Typologies. Utopias. Fragments. Materialist Theory Overview. 3. Philosophy. Introduction: Implications from Philosophy. Philosophy and Urbanism Paradigms. Philosophy and Urban Design 4. Politics. Introduction: Politics and Ideology. Power: Rights and Laws Law as Ideology. Politics and Urban Planning. The Public Realm. 5. Culture. Introduction: Culture and Urban Design. The Culture of Modernism. Postmodern Culture. Globalisation, Culture, Economy. Authenticity and Symbolic Representation. The New Ruralism/Urbanism. 6. Gender. Introduction: Gender the Missing Component. Gender and Society Gender and Patriarchy. Gender and Capital. Gender and Space. Gender and Urban Design. 7. Environment. Introduction: Nature and the City. Origins and Development. People-Nature. Sustainability and Development. Sustainable Cities. Sustainable Urban Design. 8. Aesthetics. Introduction: Aesthetics – Objects and Experience. The Aesthetics of Urban Form. Mathematics and the Divine Order. Contextualism. Rationalism. Symbolic Capital. Regulation. Theming. 9. Typologies. Introduction: Taxonomy, Typology, Morphology, System. Typologies Derived from Associated Disciplines. Typologies Derived from Traditional Urban Design Perspectives. Implications from Spatial Political Economy. 10. Pragmatics. Introduction: Cultural Capital. Professional Intervention. Professions and Knowledge Systems. Professions and Space. Urban Design Education Postscript. References. Index

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Book SynopsisThis short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term territory in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term territory. Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author's strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective. Trade Review"This book is a brilliant, accessible excursion through the many dimensions of a key aspect of social space. Delaney weaves together provocative illustrations, detailed case studies, and an original theoretical synthesis in order to track the many ways in which territory structures our everyday lives. Thanks to Delaney’s lucid writing style and his broad, interdisciplinary expertise, the book will be a tremendously useful resource for students at all levels." --Neil Brenner, New York University "Dividing ourselves up into territories is a pervasive but remarkably ill-understood feature of human life. This book succinctly and expertly explores why territory matters and surveys the ways in which we can better understand it." --John Agnew, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgments. 1 Entering the Territory of Territory. 2 Disciplining and Undisciplining Territory. 3 Human Territoriality and its Boundaries. 4 Parsing Palisraelestine. 5: Further Explorations. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisMapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines Represents the first in-depth summary of the new cartography that has appeared since the early 1990s Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi List of Figures viii List of Tables xi About the Cover: Size Matters xii 1 Maps – A Perverse Sense of the Unseemly 1 2 What Is Critique? 13 3 Maps 2.0: Map Mashups and New Spatial Media 25 4 What Is Critical Cartography and GIS? 39 5 How Mapping Became Scientific 49 6 Governing with Maps: Cartographic Political Economy 62 7 The Political History of Cartography Deconstructed: Harley, Gall, and Peters 81 8 GIS After Critique: What Next? 98 9 Geosurveillance and Spying with Maps 112 10 Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds 128 11 The Cartographic Construction of Race and Identity 144 12 The Poetics of Space: Art, Beauty, and Imagination 160 13 Epilogue: Beyond the Cartographic Anxiety? 177 References 185 Index 203

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Book SynopsisMilitary Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. * A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism.Trade Review"Military Geographies ... is a must for anyone who opposes the military's use of our special landscapes. This authoritive book, by an expert in military land-use, is about the paternalistic, arrogant and unnecessarily secretive way in which the military occupies land. Woodward warns that 'we should be cautious about assuming an automatic economic benefit to a locality from military presence'. A fascinating book, and a useful campaigning tool." (Open Space, Vol 28/2, Spring 2005)Table of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgements. Series Editors' Preface. List of Abbreviations. 1. Military Geography, Militarism’s Geographies. 2. Military Space. 3. Military Economic Geographies. 4. Militarized Environments. 5. Military Landscapes. 6. Challenging Military Geographies. 7. The Study of Military Geographies. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisThis enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War II Makes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine field Makes an important contribution to debates about the theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of geography Trade Review Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Putting Women in their Place: Women in the Historiography of Geography. 2. Women and British Geographical Societies: Medals, Membership, Inclusion and Exclusion. 3. Marion Newbigin and the Liminal Role of the Geographical Editor: Hired Help or Disciplinary Gatekeeper? 4. Women Travellers: Inside or Outside the Canon? 5. Women in Geographical Education: Demand for Geography Teachers and Teaching by Example. 6. Diplomas, Degrees and Appointments: The First Generation of Women Geographers in Academia. 7. Fieldwork and War Work: Interwar University Geographers. 8. The War Years and Immediate Post-War Period. 9. University Expansion, Specialisation and Quantification: 1950–70. 10. Conclusion: Mapping the ‘Hidden’ Women in British Geography 1900–70. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War II Makes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine field Makes an important contribution to debates about the theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of geography Trade Review"Complex locations should be included on all undergraduate courses about the history of the discipline, and should be read widely by other researchers interested in women and the history of geography, science and education." (Area Book Reviews, 1 November 2010) Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Putting Women in their Place: Women in the Historiography of Geography. 2. Women and British Geographical Societies: Medals, Membership, Inclusion and Exclusion. 3. Marion Newbigin and the Liminal Role of the Geographical Editor: Hired Help or Disciplinary Gatekeeper? 4. Women Travellers: Inside or Outside the Canon? 5. Women in Geographical Education: Demand for Geography Teachers and Teaching by Example. 6. Diplomas, Degrees and Appointments: The First Generation of Women Geographers in Academia. 7. Fieldwork and War Work: Interwar University Geographers. 8. The War Years and Immediate Post-War Period. 9. University Expansion, Specialisation and Quantification: 1950–70. 10. Conclusion: Mapping the ‘Hidden’ Women in British Geography 1900–70. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisGlobalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism Trade Review"Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption." (Breitbart.com: Business Wire, 29 November 2010)Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction: Politicizing Consumption in an Unequal World. 1.1 The Moralization of Consumption. 1.2 Justice, Responsibility and the Politics of Consumption. 1.3 Relocating Agency in Ethical Consumption. 1.4 Problematizing Consumption. Part One Theorizing Consumption Differently. 2 The Ethical Problematization of 'The Consumer'. 2.1 Teleologies of Consumerism and Individualization. 2.2 Theorizing Consumers as Political Subjects. 2.3 The Responsibilization of the Consumer. 2.4 What Type of Subject Is 'The Consumer'? 2.5 Does Governing Consumption Involve Governing the Consumer? 2.6 The Ethical Problematization of the Consumer. 2.7 Conclusion. 3 Practising Consumption. 3.1 The Antinomies of Consumer Choice. 3.2 Theorizing Consumption Practices. 3.3 Problematizing Choice. 3.4 Articulating Background. 3.5 Conclusion. 4 Problematizing Consumption. 4.1 Consumer Choice and Citizenly Acts. 4.2 Articulating Consumption and the Consumer. 4.3 Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer. 4.4 Articulating the Ethical Consumer. 4.5 Conclusion. Part Two Doing Consumption Differently. 5 Grammars of Responsibility. 5.1 Justifying Practices. 5.2 Researching the (Ir)responsible Consumer. 5.3 Versions of Responsibility. 5.4 Dilemmas of Responsibility. 5.5 Conclusion. 6 Local Networks of Global Feeling. 6.1 Locating the Fair Trade Consumer. 6.2 Re-evaluating Fair Trade Consumption. 6.3 Managing Fair Trade, Mobilizing Networks. 6.4 Doing Fair Trade: Buying, Giving, Campaigning. 6.5 Conclusion. 7 Fairtrade Urbanism. 7.1 Rethinking the Spatialities of Fair Trade. 7.2 Re-imagining Bristol: From Slave Trade to Fair Trade. 7.3 Putting Fair Trade in Place. 7.4 Fair Trade and 'The Politics of Place Beyond Place'. 7.5 Conclusion. 8 Conclusion: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register. 8.1 Beyond the Consumer. 8.2 Doing Responsibility. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisGlobalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism Trade Review"Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption." (Breitbart.com: Business Wire, 29 November 2010)Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction: Politicizing Consumption in an Unequal World. 1.1 The Moralization of Consumption. 1.2 Justice, Responsibility and the Politics of Consumption. 1.3 Relocating Agency in Ethical Consumption. 1.4 Problematizing Consumption. Part One Theorizing Consumption Differently. 2 The Ethical Problematization of 'The Consumer'. 2.1 Teleologies of Consumerism and Individualization. 2.2 Theorizing Consumers as Political Subjects. 2.3 The Responsibilization of the Consumer. 2.4 What Type of Subject Is 'The Consumer'? 2.5 Does Governing Consumption Involve Governing the Consumer? 2.6 The Ethical Problematization of the Consumer. 2.7 Conclusion. 3 Practising Consumption. 3.1 The Antinomies of Consumer Choice. 3.2 Theorizing Consumption Practices. 3.3 Problematizing Choice. 3.4 Articulating Background. 3.5 Conclusion. 4 Problematizing Consumption. 4.1 Consumer Choice and Citizenly Acts. 4.2 Articulating Consumption and the Consumer. 4.3 Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer. 4.4 Articulating the Ethical Consumer. 4.5 Conclusion. Part Two Doing Consumption Differently. 5 Grammars of Responsibility. 5.1 Justifying Practices. 5.2 Researching the (Ir)responsible Consumer. 5.3 Versions of Responsibility. 5.4 Dilemmas of Responsibility. 5.5 Conclusion. 6 Local Networks of Global Feeling. 6.1 Locating the Fair Trade Consumer. 6.2 Re-evaluating Fair Trade Consumption. 6.3 Managing Fair Trade, Mobilizing Networks. 6.4 Doing Fair Trade: Buying, Giving, Campaigning. 6.5 Conclusion. 7 Fairtrade Urbanism. 7.1 Rethinking the Spatialities of Fair Trade. 7.2 Re-imagining Bristol: From Slave Trade to Fair Trade. 7.3 Putting Fair Trade in Place. 7.4 Fair Trade and 'The Politics of Place Beyond Place'. 7.5 Conclusion. 8 Conclusion: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register. 8.1 Beyond the Consumer. 8.2 Doing Responsibility. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisBy considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.Trade ReviewMexico is well known for its vulnerability to a variety of disasters, ranging from droughts and floods to devastating epidemics. Using extensive archival resources in Mexico and Spain, environmental historian Endfield (Univ. of Nottingham) focuses on three regions with their diverse environments--the Rio Conchos Basin in the state of Chihuahua, Guanajuato and the Chichimec territory, and the Valley of Oaxaca--to compare and contrast the impact of climate crises on the economic and social-political systems of the agrarian Indian and Spanish societies of colonial Mexico from 1521 to 1820. The author discusses climate disasters of the late pre-Hispanic period, as well as the prehistory of the three study regions. Repeated climate events resulted in societal disruption, demographic changes, and conflict. Endfield shows how the societies in these three regions coped with and adapted to the risks and hazards of extreme weather over the centuries. This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- J. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh (Choice, February 2009)Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 A Vulnerable Society. Introduction. Changing Vulnerabilities. Climate Change and the 'Double-Sided' Structure of Vulnerability 5 Exploring Climate and Society in Mexico. Climate History and Vulnerability in Mexico. Case Studies and Approach. 2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period. Environmental Marginality and Society in the Conchos Basin, Chihuahua. Guanajuato and the Chichimec Territory. Power and Political Growth in the Central Valley of Oaxaca. 3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. The Tools of Conquest and Colonization. The Emergence of Regional Colonial Political Economies. Climatic Variability and Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico: A Preview. 4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Moral Economic and Institutional Responses to Climate and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Speculation and Scarcity: Capitalizing on Climate Knowledge. Trade in Grains: Providing for the 'Engines' of the Colonial Political Economy. Tribute, Food Aid and the Supernatural: Appealing to a Common Sense of Loss. 'Compadrazgo', Community Engagement and Public Works. 'Most sensitive and saddening events': Flood Risk and Social Capital Response in Colonial Guanajuato. 'Great floods' and 'Strong winds': Damaging Events, Adaptation and 'Non-Adaptation' in Colonial Oaxaca. Responding Strategically: Climate, Consciousness and Experimentation. 5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Water and Local 'Everyday Conflicts' in the Country and City. Regional Resistance: Drought, Disease and Rebellion in Northern Mexico. Vulnerability, Riots and Rebellions: Rare Events or 'Tipping Points'? 6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Decline and Depression in Seventeenth-Century Mexico. Economic Boom and Bust: Absolutism and Globalization in Late Colonial Mexico. 'A time of calamity': A Synthesis of Climate and Crises in Late Colonial Mexico. From Crisis to Insurrection: Vulnerability and Popular Unrest in the Early Nineteenth Century. 7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Prolonged Drought and the Conditions of Crisis in Late Colonial Chihuahua. Drought, Risk and the Social Construction of Flooding in the Bajío. Resilience and the Rare Event: Climate, Society and Human Choice in the Indigenous South. Crises in Context and Historical 'Double Exposure'. Closing Comments. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBy considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.Trade Review“This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” (CHOICE, February 2009) "Mexico is well known for its vulnerability to a variety of disasters, ranging from droughts and floods to devastating epidemics. Using extensive archival resources in Mexico and Spain, environmental historian Endfield (Univ. of Nottingham) focuses on three regions with their diverse environments--the Rio Conchos Basin in the state of Chihuahua, Guanajuato and the Chichimec territory, and the Valley of Oaxaca--to compare and contrast the impact of climate crises on the economic and social-political systems of the agrarian Indian and Spanish societies of colonial Mexico from 1521 to 1820. The author discusses climate disasters of the late pre-Hispanic period, as well as the prehistory of the three study regions. Repeated climate events resulted in societal disruption, demographic changes, and conflict. Endfield shows how the societies in these three regions coped with and adapted to the risks and hazards of extreme weather over the centuries. This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere." (J. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh, Choice, February 2009) Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 A Vulnerable Society. Introduction. Changing Vulnerabilities. Climate Change and the 'Double-Sided' Structure of Vulnerability 5 Exploring Climate and Society in Mexico. Climate History and Vulnerability in Mexico. Case Studies and Approach. 2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period. Environmental Marginality and Society in the Conchos Basin, Chihuahua. Guanajuato and the Chichimec Territory. Power and Political Growth in the Central Valley of Oaxaca. 3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. The Tools of Conquest and Colonization. The Emergence of Regional Colonial Political Economies. Climatic Variability and Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico: A Preview. 4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Moral Economic and Institutional Responses to Climate and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Speculation and Scarcity: Capitalizing on Climate Knowledge. Trade in Grains: Providing for the 'Engines' of the Colonial Political Economy. Tribute, Food Aid and the Supernatural: Appealing to a Common Sense of Loss. 'Compadrazgo', Community Engagement and Public Works. 'Most sensitive and saddening events': Flood Risk and Social Capital Response in Colonial Guanajuato. 'Great floods' and 'Strong winds': Damaging Events, Adaptation and 'Non-Adaptation' in Colonial Oaxaca. Responding Strategically: Climate, Consciousness and Experimentation. 5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Water and Local 'Everyday Conflicts' in the Country and City. Regional Resistance: Drought, Disease and Rebellion in Northern Mexico. Vulnerability, Riots and Rebellions: Rare Events or 'Tipping Points'? 6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Decline and Depression in Seventeenth-Century Mexico. Economic Boom and Bust: Absolutism and Globalization in Late Colonial Mexico. 'A time of calamity': A Synthesis of Climate and Crises in Late Colonial Mexico. From Crisis to Insurrection: Vulnerability and Popular Unrest in the Early Nineteenth Century. 7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico. Introduction. Prolonged Drought and the Conditions of Crisis in Late Colonial Chihuahua. Drought, Risk and the Social Construction of Flooding in the Bajío. Resilience and the Rare Event: Climate, Society and Human Choice in the Indigenous South. Crises in Context and Historical 'Double Exposure'. Closing Comments. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisA student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.Trade Review"I would argue that in all aspects—insight, critique, challenge, and reflection—the editors have crafted an excellent tome and one from which undergraduates, policy makers, communities, and individuals will certainly benefit." (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2009) "A timely, policy-relevant and cutting-edge collection which confirms the centrality of transport not only in how we understand contemporary globalised processes, but how these mobilities and flows are intimately woven into the fabric of everyday life." (Geographical Journal, 2009) "A valuable edited collection ... comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date guide.... A wealth of student-friendly features and the collection is lavishly illustrated ... An excellent way into the topic." (Times Higher Education)Table of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Part 1: Fundamentals of Transport Geographies:. 1. Introducing Transport Geographies: Jon Shaw (University of Plymouth), Richard Knowles (University of Salford) and Iain Docherty (University of Glasgow). 2. Transport and Economic Development: Danny MacKinnon (University of Aberdeen), Gordon Pirie (University of the Western Cape) and Matthias Gather (Erfurt University of Applied Sciences). 3. Transport and the Environment: Stephen Potter (Open University) and Ian Bailey (University of Plymouth). 4. Transport and Social Justice: Julian Hine (University of Ulster). 5. Transport Governance and Ownership: Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty. Part 2: Transport Flows and Spaces:. 6. Connected Cities: Iain Docherty, Genevieve Giuliano (University of Southern California) and Donald Houston (University of Dundee). 7. Geographies of Rural Transport: David Gray (Robert Gordon University), John Farrington (University of Aberdeen) and Andreas Kagermeier (University of Trier). 8. Inter-urban and Regional Transport: Clive Charlton (University of Plymouth) and Tim Vowles (Colorado State University). 9. Global Air Transport: Brian Graham (University of Ulster) and Andrew R. Goetz (University of Denver). 10. International Maritime Freight Movements: Jean-Paul Rodrigue (Hofstra University) and Michael Browne (University of Westminster). 11. Individual Transport Patterns: Stephen Stradling (Napier University) and Jillian Anable (Robert Gordon University). 12. Transport, Tourism and Leisure: Derek Hall (Scottish Agricultural College). Part 3: Future Transport Geographies:. 13. Transport Directions to the Future: Glenn Lyons (University of the West of England) and Becky Loo (University of Hong Kong). 14. Revitalized Transport Geographies: John Preston (University of Southampton) and Kevin O’Connor (University of Melbourne). References. Index

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Book SynopsisA student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.Trade Review"I would argue that in all aspects—insight, critique, challenge, and reflection—the editors have crafted an excellent tome and one from which undergraduates, policy makers, communities, and individuals will certainly benefit." (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2009) "A timely, policy-relevant and cutting-edge collection which confirms the centrality of transport not only in how we understand contemporary globalised processes, but how these mobilities and flows are intimately woven into the fabric of everyday life." (Geographical Journal, 2009) "A valuable edited collection ... comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date guide.... A wealth of student-friendly features and the collection is lavishly illustrated ... An excellent way into the topic." (Times Higher Education)Table of ContentsList of figures vii Notes on contributors xi Preface xvii List of abbreviations xix Part 1 Fundamentals of transport geographies 1 1 Introducing transport geographies 3Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty 2 Transport and economic development 10Danny MacKinnon, Gordon Pirie and Matthias Gather 3 Transport and the environment 29Stephen Potter and Ian Bailey 4 Transport and social justice 49Julian Hine 5 Transport governance and ownership 62Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty Part 2 Transport flows and spaces 81 6 Connected cities 83Iain Docherty, Genevieve Giuliano and Donald Houston 7 Geographies of rural transport 102David Gray, John Farrington and Andreas Kagermeier 8 Inter-urban and regional transport 120Clive Charlton and Tim Vowles 9 Global air transport 137Brian Graham and Andrew R. Goetz 10 International maritime freight movements 156Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Michael Browne 11 Individual transport patterns 179Stephen Stradling and Jillian Anable 12 Transport, tourism and leisure 196Derek Hall Part 3 Future transport geographies 213 13 Transport directions to the future 215Glenn Lyons and Becky Loo 14 Revitalized transport geographies 227John Preston and Kevin O’Connor References 238 Index 278

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents more than 30 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars that provide a summary of the state of the art in environmental geography and look ahead to future research developments in the field.Trade Review"A Companion to Environmental Geography will likely become a landmark, not only for having put forward the basics of a potentially emergent subfield in geography but also because of its contribution to the development of an agenda for geography at large, concerning both the conversation across the divide and geography's current entanglements with other scientific fields." (Geographical Review, 1 January 2012) "All of the chapters have detailed bibliographies, and the index provides comprehensive cross-listings." (Choice, 1 February 2010) "Well considered, written and presented. A timely addition to Wiley-Blackwell's Companion series." (Progress in Psychical Geography, September 2009)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii List of Contributors ix 1 Introduction: Making Sense of Environmental Geography 1Noel Castree, David Demeritt and Diana Liverman Part I Concepts 17 2 Nature 19Bruce Braun 3 Sustainability 37Becky Mansfield 4 Biodiversity 50Karl S. Zimmerer 5 Complexity, Chaos and Emergence 66Steven M. Manson 6 Uncertainty and Risk 81James D. Brown and Sarah L. Damery 7 Scale 95Nathan F. Sayre 8 Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change: Ecological and Social Perspectives 109W. Neil Adger and Katrina Brown 9 Commodification 123Scott Prudham Part II Approaches 143 10 Earth-System Science 145John Wainwright 11 Land Change (Systems) Science 168B. L. Turner II 12 Ecology: Natural and Political 181Matthew D. Turner 13 Quaternary Geography and the Human Past 198Jamie Woodward 14 Environmental History 223Georgina H. Endfield 15 Landscape, Culture and Regional Studies: Connecting the Dots 238Kenneth R. Olwig 16 Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation 253Arthur P. J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren 17 Marxist Political Economy and the Environment 266George Henderson 18 After Nature: Entangled Worlds 294Owain Jones Part III Practices 313 19 Remote Sensing and Earth Observation 315Heiko Balzter 20 Modelling and Simulation 336George L. W. Perry 21 Integrated Assessment 357James Tansey 22 Ethnography 370Kevin St. Martin and Marianna Pavlovskaya 23 Analysing Environmental Discourses and Representations 385Tom Mels 24 Deliberative and Participatory Approaches in Environmental Geography 400Jason Chilvers Part IV Topics 419 25 Ecosystem Prediction and Management 421Robert A. Francis 26 Environment and Development 442Tom Perreault 27 Natural Hazards 461Daanish Mustafa 28 Environmental Governance 475Gavin Bridge and Tom Perreault 29 Commons 498James McCarthy 30 Water 515Karen Bakker 31 Energy Transformations and Geographic Research 533Scott Jiusto 32 Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World 552Richard Le Heron 33 Environment and Health 567Hilda E. Kurtz and Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic Index 580

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. Essential resource for contextualizing and understanding the revolts occurring in the French ''badland'' neighbourhoods in autumn 2005 Challenges overarching generalizations about urban policy and contributes new research data to the wider body of urban policy literature Identifies a strong urban and spatial dimension within the shift towards more nationalistic and authoritarian policy governing French citizenship and immigration Trade Review“This is a knowledgeable, intelligent, and highly readable account of an issue that has featured prominently in French politics and public policy during the last quarter of a century.” (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 8 September 2008) "It's a fine book. Doubly so, for not only does it meld theoretical deftness with convincing empirical information, it also has the virtue of taking us out of our English speaking milieu...Are you an inquisitive urban geographer? If so, having read Dikeç as your indispensable primer, next time you're in Paris leave the Eiffel Tower behind and go out to La Courneuve. Or in Strasbourg, view the cathedral but then board the Line C tram right next to it which takes you out to Le Neuhof, like La Courneuve one of the original sixteen social development urban neighborhoods. Get a taste of another, and real, urban France. Dikeç has." (Geographical Review, December 2010) "This brilliant empirical riff by Mustafa Dikeç on Ranciere's idea of the 'given' of governmental intervention as applied to the 'banlieue' of French cities shows how attempts to realize the ideal of 'the one and indivisible republic' through planning founder because French urban policy is also profoundly involved with making places that violate that very ideal." John Agnew, UCLA "This book is an extraordinary achievement. Hardly a year after the momentous revolts in the banlieues of France's big cities, Mustafa Dikeç offers not only a razor-sharp dissection of urban struggles, but, more importantly, demonstrates how the politics of space work in today's France and how a progressive urban politics can be reclaimed. A must read for all those interested in urban social movements and have not given up on the possibilities for a genuinely humanising urban politics." Erik Swyngedouw, Manchester UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Series Editors’ Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Badlands:. 1. Introduction: The Fear of ‘the Banlieue’. The Colour of Fear. Organization of the Book. 2. State’s Statements: Urban Policy as Place-Making. Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization and the City. The Republican State and Its Contradictions. The Republican Penal State and Urban Policy. Part II: The Police:. 3. The Right to the City? Revolts and the Initiation of Urban Policy. The Hot Summer of 1981: How Novel is ‘Violence’?. Brixton in France? The Haunting of the French Republic. The ‘Founding Texts’ of Urban Policy. The ‘Anti-immigrant Vote’. Consolidation of Urban Policy. Conclusions: Consolidation of the Police. 4. Justice, Police, Statistics: Surveillance of Spaces of Intervention. When the Margin is at the Centre. The ‘Return of the State’. ‘I Like the State’. Justice, Police, Statistics. Conclusions: Looking for a ‘Better’ Police …. … a ‘Republican’ One. 5. From ‘Neighbourhoods in Danger’ to ‘Dangerous Neighbourhoods’: The Repressive Turn in Urban Policy. Encore! The Ghost Haunting the French Republic. Pacte de Relance: Old Ghosts, New Spaces. ‘They are Already Stigmatized’: Affirmative Action à la française. Is ‘Positive Discrimination’ Negative?. Insecurity Wins the Left: The Villepinte Colloquium. Remaking Urban Policy in Republican Terms. Whither Urban Policy?. The Police Order and the Police State. Back to the Statist Geography. Conclusions: Repressive Police. Part III: Justice in Banlieues:. 6. A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’: Voices from a Banlieue. Vaulx-en-Velin between Official Processions and Police Forces. Vaulx-en-Velin after the trentes glorieuses. A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’. A Toil of Two Cities (in One). Whose List is More ‘Communitarian’?. Conclusions: Acting on the Spaces of the Police. 7. Voices into Noises: Revolts as Unarticulated Justice Movements. Revolting Geographies. Geographies of Repression: ‘Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere’. Policies of Urgency: ’20 Years for Unemployment, 20 Years for Insecurity’. Conclusions: Form a ‘Just Revolt of the Youth’ to ‘Urban Violence’. 8. Conclusion: Space, Politics and Urban Policy. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. Essential resource for contextualizing and understanding the revolts occurring in the French ''badland'' neighbourhoods in autumn 2005 Challenges overarching generalizations about urban policy and contributes new research data to the wider body of urban policy literature Identifies a strong urban and spatial dimension within the shift towards more nationalistic and authoritarian policy governing French citizenship and immigration Trade Review“This is a knowledgeable, intelligent, and highly readable account of an issue that has featured prominently in French politics and public policy during the last quarter of a century.” (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 8 September 2008) "It's a fine book. Doubly so, for not only does it meld theoretical deftness with convincing empirical information, it also has the virtue of taking us out of our English speaking milieu...Are you an inquisitive urban geographer? If so, having read Dikeç as your indispensable primer, next time you're in Paris leave the Eiffel Tower behind and go out to La Courneuve. Or in Strasbourg, view the cathedral but then board the Line C tram right next to it which takes you out to Le Neuhof, like La Courneuve one of the original sixteen social development urban neighborhoods. Get a taste of another, and real, urban France. Dikeç has." (Geographical Review, December 2010) "Dikec¸’s examination of French national policy development toward the suburban banlieues is tight and focused in its objectives and execution." (Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Professional Geographer)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Series Editors’ Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Badlands:. 1. Introduction: The Fear of ‘the Banlieue’. The Colour of Fear. Organization of the Book. 2. State’s Statements: Urban Policy as Place-Making. Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization and the City. The Republican State and Its Contradictions. The Republican Penal State and Urban Policy. Part II: The Police:. 3. The Right to the City? Revolts and the Initiation of Urban Policy. The Hot Summer of 1981: How Novel is ‘Violence’?. Brixton in France? The Haunting of the French Republic. The ‘Founding Texts’ of Urban Policy. The ‘Anti-immigrant Vote’. Consolidation of Urban Policy. Conclusions: Consolidation of the Police. 4. Justice, Police, Statistics: Surveillance of Spaces of Intervention. When the Margin is at the Centre. The ‘Return of the State’. ‘I Like the State’. Justice, Police, Statistics. Conclusions: Looking for a ‘Better’ Police …. … a ‘Republican’ One. 5. From ‘Neighbourhoods in Danger’ to ‘Dangerous Neighbourhoods’: The Repressive Turn in Urban Policy. Encore! The Ghost Haunting the French Republic. Pacte de Relance: Old Ghosts, New Spaces. ‘They are Already Stigmatized’: Affirmative Action à la française. Is ‘Positive Discrimination’ Negative?. Insecurity Wins the Left: The Villepinte Colloquium. Remaking Urban Policy in Republican Terms. Whither Urban Policy?. The Police Order and the Police State. Back to the Statist Geography. Conclusions: Repressive Police. Part III: Justice in Banlieues:. 6. A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’: Voices from a Banlieue. Vaulx-en-Velin between Official Processions and Police Forces. Vaulx-en-Velin after the trentes glorieuses. A ‘Thirst for Citizenship’. A Toil of Two Cities (in One). Whose List is More ‘Communitarian’?. Conclusions: Acting on the Spaces of the Police. 7. Voices into Noises: Revolts as Unarticulated Justice Movements. Revolting Geographies. Geographies of Repression: ‘Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere’. Policies of Urgency: ’20 Years for Unemployment, 20 Years for Insecurity’. Conclusions: Form a ‘Just Revolt of the Youth’ to ‘Urban Violence’. 8. Conclusion: Space, Politics and Urban Policy. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault's lecture courses Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life Trade Review"Profound." (Progress in Human Geography, February 2010) "The breadth of scholarship is impressive, and anyone wishing to learn about colonial Delhi will find this book a valuable source. What Legg ultimately delivers is a critique of liberal government, showing how colonial power works in illiberal ways to assert the domination of the British over the native population." (American Journal of Sociology, July 2009) "The main strength of this book is its conceptual rigour. Legg draws on Foucault's recently translated 1978 lecture series.... The book provides a detailed, theoretically informed analysis of three landscapes of ordering in Delhi, Old and New.... Spaces of colonialism rewards persistence, and will be required reading for scholars of urban governmentality, and of considerable interest to post-colonial and urban geographers more generally." (Area, March 2009) "Legg has mined and marshaled his written sources superbly and his extrapolations of Foucault are lucid and provocative." (Planning Perspectives, January 2009) "Legg uses these (Foucault's) well-tried concepts to extremely good effect in interpreting some fascinating archival material.... [The book] also has new things to say about New Delhi and colonial urbanism generally." (Comparative Studies in Society and History, December 2008) "Writers have long recognised that social rules are at a premium in urban areas, and many discussions of governmentality have taken cities as their subject. Spaces of Colonialism, a case study of Delhi in the first half of the twentieth century that is published in the RGS-IBG book series, makes a significant contribution to such debates." (Journal of Historical Geography)Table of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations. Archival references. 1. Imperial Delhi. 1.1 New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty. 1.2 Colonial Governmentality. 2. Residential and Racial Segregation: a Spatial Archaeology. 2.1 The Spatial Administration of Precedence. 2.2 The Spatial Dissolution of Order. 3. Disciplining Delhi. 3.1 New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire. 3.2 Anti-colonial nationalism and urban order. 3.3 “Religious Nationalism” and Urban Diagrams. 4. Biopolitics and the Urban Environment. 4.1 Population expansion and urban disorder. 4.2 Congestion relief, calculation, and the “intensity map”. 4.3 The Western Extension, protest, and failed relief. 4.4 Slum clearance and the strictures of imperial finance. 5. Conclusions: within and beyond the city. 5.1 Interlinked landscapes of ordering. 5.2 Beyond colonial Delhi. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault's lecture courses Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life Trade Review"Profound." (Progress in Human Geography, February 2010) "The breadth of scholarship is impressive, and anyone wishing to learn about colonial Delhi will find this book a valuable source. What Legg ultimately delivers is a critique of liberal government, showing how colonial power works in illiberal ways to assert the domination of the British over the native population." (American Journal of Sociology, July 2009) "The main strength of this book is its conceptual rigour. Legg draws on Foucault's recently translated 1978 lecture series.... The book provides a detailed, theoretically informed analysis of three landscapes of ordering in Delhi, Old and New.... Spaces of colonialism rewards persistence, and will be required reading for scholars of urban governmentality, and of considerable interest to post-colonial and urban geographers more generally." (Area, March 2009) "Legg has mined and marshaled his written sources superbly and his extrapolations of Foucault are lucid and provocative." (Planning Perspectives, January 2009) "Legg uses these (Foucault's) well-tried concepts to extremely good effect in interpreting some fascinating archival material.... [The book] also has new things to say about New Delhi and colonial urbanism generally." (Comparative Studies in Society and History, December 2008) "Writers have long recognised that social rules are at a premium in urban areas, and many discussions of governmentality have taken cities as their subject. Spaces of Colonialism, a case study of Delhi in the first half of the twentieth century that is published in the RGS-IBG book series, makes a significant contribution to such debates." (Journal of Historical Geography)Table of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations. Archival references. 1. Imperial Delhi. 1.1 New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty. 1.2 Colonial Governmentality. 2. Residential and Racial Segregation: a Spatial Archaeology. 2.1 The Spatial Administration of Precedence. 2.2 The Spatial Dissolution of Order. 3. Disciplining Delhi. 3.1 New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire. 3.2 Anti-colonial nationalism and urban order. 3.3 “Religious Nationalism” and Urban Diagrams. 4. Biopolitics and the Urban Environment. 4.1 Population expansion and urban disorder. 4.2 Congestion relief, calculation, and the “intensity map”. 4.3 The Western Extension, protest, and failed relief. 4.4 Slum clearance and the strictures of imperial finance. 5. Conclusions: within and beyond the city. 5.1 Interlinked landscapes of ordering. 5.2 Beyond colonial Delhi. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, an international group of scholars investigate the global building cleaning industry to reveal the extent of neoliberalism''s impact on cleaners. This book provides the first intensive study focusing on building cleaners and their global experiences Brings together an international group of scholars and experts to investigate different national contexts and examples Draws out important commonalities and highlights significant differences in these experiences Examines topics including erosion of cleaners'' industrial citizenship rights, the impact of outsourcing upon their working conditions, economic security, and the intensification of their work and its negative effects on physical health Considers how cleaners are mobilizing to resist and respond to the restructuring of their work. Trade Review"An important collection drawing attention to the invisible workers whose work it is to fashion the visible.... The debates raised in this volume could be developed in many directions and it is no bad thing that we are left wanting more." (Geographical Journal, September 2008) “Outhwaite’s familiarity with his subject matter is unquestionable, as is his desire to cover it thoroughly, and the book will serve well as a guide for philosophers to the most important work done by theoretical sociologists on the nature of society.” (Philosophy In Review) “The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism offers a varied and insightful examination of the global restructuring of the cleaning industry and its implications for workers and their struggles. It offers a good mix of more structural and poststructural perspectives on these processes and their inherently scalar nature. Moreover, many of its most effective chapters, such as those by Bezuidenhuit and Fakier, show how work and social reproduction are strongly interrelated.” (Annals of the Association of American Geographers)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neoliberalism (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). SECTION 1. 1. Introduction: Geographies of Neoliberalism (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). 2. Janitors and Sweatshop Citizenship in Canada (Luis L M Aguiar). 3. Maria’s Burden: Contract Cleaning and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Andries Bezuidenhout and Khayaat Fakier). 4. Restructuring the Architecture of State Regulation in the Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Cleaning Industries and the Growth of Precarious Employment (Shaun Ryan and Andrew Herod). 5. Manufacturing Modernity: Cleaning, Dirt, and Neoliberalism in Chile (Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper and Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler). SECTION 2. 6. Introduction: Ethnographies of the Cleaning Body (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). 7. The Cleaners You Aren’t Meant to See: Order, Hygiene and Everyday Politics in a Bangkok Shopping Mall (Alyson Brody). 8. Cleaning Up After Globalization: An Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity of Hotel Cleaners (Ana María Seifert and Karen Messing). 9. Work Design and the Labouring Body: Examining the Impacts of Work Organization on Danish Cleaners’ Health (Karen Sögaard, Anne Katrine Blangsted, Andrew Herod and Lotte Finsen). 10. Introduction: Cleaners’ Agency (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). 11. Cleaners’ Organizing in Britain from the 1970s: A Personal Account (Sheila Rowbotham). 12. The Privatization of Health Care Cleaning Services in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada: Union Responses to Unprecedented Government Actions (Marcy Cohen). 13. Justice for Janitors: Scales of Organizing and Representing Workers (Lydia Savage). Notes on Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya Trade Review"Wainwright is to be applauded for marshalling his considerable intellectual skills to advancing our understanding of Maya colonial experiences (past and present) in the confines of Belize." (Social & Cultural Geography, February 2009) "Theoretically sophisticated.... It has some important things to say that are relevant to both scholars and practitioners concerned with development practices in the South today." (Geographical Journal, 2009) "Culture studies sometimes receive a hasty, often incoherent introduction.... Fortunately, this book is an exception. Wainwright provides a meticulous and actually readable explanation of the culture studies 'manifesto.' One of the interesting issues discussed was the Mayas' 'development' into settled farming, as opposed to their original milpa (i.e., slash and bum) agriculture. Recommended." (CHOICE, December 2008)Table of ContentsList of figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part I: Colonizing the Maya. 1. The territorialization of southern Belize. 2. The matter of the Maya farm system. 3. An archaeology of Mayanism. Part II: Aporias of development. 4. From colonial to development knowledge. 5. Settling: fieldwork in the ruins of development. 6. Finishing the critique of cultural ecology. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisUsing an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Every chapter is co-authored by an urban China expert and an outside expert on the wider topic. Together they offer a broad historical and theoretical comparison.Trade ReviewThese essays on recent Chinese urban developments--particularly trends in migration, labor economics, housing, economic and sociospatial inequality, and governance--offer macro and micro perspectives through analysis of nationwide patterns or developments in specific cities, thus capturing the regional diversity and types of cities in China. Editor Logan is careful not to present the Chinese instance as exceptional, but to situate it within a wider context through comparative analysis. He pairs up scholars from different disciplines and areas for each essay in order to set up comparison between Chinese urban developments and those in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Logan asked the contributors to view their data through four theoretical lenses: modernization (Simon Kuznet's model), dependency/world system, developmental state, and market transition. By doing so, contributors discover meaningful differences that reveal trends unique to the Chinese context. On the whole, this collection offers undergraduates an accessible introduction to contemporary urban developments in China and to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analyses commonly used in the social sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- L. Teh, University of Chicago (Choice, February 2009)Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Urban China in Comparative Perspective 1John R. Logan and Susan S. Fainstein Part I: Market Transition in Work Units and the Labor Market 25 1 Two Decades of Reform: The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms 27Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima 2 The Myth of the “New Urban Poverty”? Trends in Urban Poverty in China, 1988–2002 48Simon Appleton and Lina Song 3 Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance? 66Yanjie Bian and Theodore P. Gerber 4 Gender and the Labor Market in China and Poland 89C. Cindy Fan and Joanna Regulska Part II: Changing Places 113 5 Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001 115Michael J. White, Fulong Wu, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 6 Growth on the Edge: The New Chinese Metropolis 140Yixing Zhou and John R. Logan 7 Mirrored Reflections: Place Identity Formation in Taipei and Shanghai 161Jennifer Rudolph and Hanchao Lu 8 Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities 182Youqin Huang and Setha M. Low Part III: Impacts of Migration 2039 Urbanization in China in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations 205Zai Liang, Hy Van Luong, and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen 10 Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou 226Min Zhou and Guoxuan Cai 11 Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States 250Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum Part IV: Social Control in the New Chinese City 269 12 Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition 271Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt 13 Migration, Urbanization, and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Empirical and Theoretical Observations in China and Indonesia 294Christopher J. Smith and Graeme Hugo 14 The State’s Evolving Relationship with Urban Society: China’s Neighborhood Organizations in Comparative Perspective 315Benjamin L. Read and Chun-Ming Chen Subject index 336 Author index 355

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces. Offers a ''hopeful epistemology'' not typically found in mental health-related research Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and ''the local'' <Trade Review"Hester Parr's book delivers a welcome and unusually close-up engagement with the practiced geographies of mental health. In particular it seeks to extend our grasp of how individuals with mental health problems feel; how they relate to community, citizenship and how they contribute to the constitution of their social spaces". (Area Book Reviews, 2010)"Hester Parr's book delivers a welcome and unusually close-up engagement with the practiced geographies of mental health." (Area, December 2010) "This inspiring book offers a highly original account of the social spaces created and inhabited by people with mental health problems. Hester Parr paints a vivid picture, which foregrounds hopeful possibilities for empowerment and integration. It will be invaluable to anyone seeking to understand mental (ill) health in the twenty-first century." Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh "Parr’s efforts to advance a 'cautious optimism”'about the lived social geographies of people with mental health problems, based on rich empirical material and thoughtful conceptual articulation, make this an essential read for anyone interested in the changing social geographies of mental health. The book also has considerable relevance for broader debates about social inclusion and active citizenship in contemporary Western societies." Robert Wilton, McMaster University “Parr has … redefine[ed] ‘the mental patient’, a crucial undertaking if social citizenship for people with mental illness is to become an enduring reality.” Metapsychology “This book could appeal to psychologists who enjoy relevant work in other disciplines, who find ideas of people like Freud and Foucault interesting, and who value small case studies.” PsycCritiques Table of ContentsList of figures. Series editors' preface. Preface and acknowledgements. 1 Geographies of difference: understanding mental (ill) health and social space. 2 Placing mental health: community, inclusion and citizenship. 3 Cultural landscapes: rural communities and mental health. 4 Therapeutic natures? urban gardening, citizenship and social inclusion. 5 Artistic spaces: the arts and mental health. 6 Virtual communities: the Internet and on-line geographies of self-help. Conclusion: innovative geographies of mental health. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography. Covers the complete range of the development of theoretical knowledge of the field, from ancient geography to contemporary non-representational theory Presents theories in an accessible manner through the author''s engaging writing style Examines the influence of Darwin and Marx, the emergence of anarchist geographies, the impact of feminism, and myriad other important bodies of thought Stresses the importance of geographic thought and its relevance to our understanding of what it is to be human, and to the people, places, and cultures of the world in which we live Trade Review“As a platform for thinking about geography as a cultural literacy, I recommend this title to any teacher who is considering exposing his or her students to the fundamentally different ways in which geographical thought has been Constructed.” (New Zealand Geographer, 13 August 2014) “On the whole, this is a very good book that will deserved by widely deployed in ‘history and philosophy of geography’ courses. A quick second edition with a revised.” (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 7 July 2014 “This is absolutely the type of book I wish I had been given at the beginning of my own geographical education.” (Cultural Geographies, 1 October 2013) “Nevertheless, the author has reduced what is complex to a very readable level that will be of utility to students of geography and the history of science. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 October 2013)Table of ContentsPreface viii 1 Introduction 1 2 Early Geographies 14 3 The Emergence of Modern Geography 35 4 Thinking About Regions 58 5 Spatial Science and the Quantitative Revolution 79 6 Humanistic Geographies 103 7 Marxist Geographies 122 8 Feminist Geographies 147 9 Postmodernism and Beyond 170 10 Toward Poststructuralist Geographies 196 11 Relational Geographies 218 12 More-than-Human Geographies 239 13 Geography's Exclusions 261 Glossary 275 Index 283

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