Human geography Books
Indiana University Press Global Mountain Regions Conversations toward the
Book SynopsisNo matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. Trade ReviewGlobal Mountain Regions is an outstanding addition to the inventory of the interdisciplinary field of montology, the study of mountains. For any scholar or student interested in the human dimensions of mountain regions, many if not all of the essays will be valuable references. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsContentsSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Hard Times" 1: Introduction: Listening to Voices across Global Mountain Regions Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar BalasundaramSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Mother Jones' Farewell (I Was There)" 2: After Coal, through FilmTom Hansell and Patricia Beaver Song Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Wigan Pier" 3: Mountains, Coal, and Life in British Columbia and West Virginia Paul S. Ciccantell4: Black Diamonds Crystal Good5: Historicizing Poverty and Marginalization in the Southern Mountain Regions of Malawi Tony MilanziSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Momma Was a Union Woman" 6: Voices for Community Rights in Amazonia Monica ChujíSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Blue Ridge Mountain Refugee"7: Indigenous Social Movements in Mountain RegCarmen Martinez Novo, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Annapurna Devi Pandey, and Luis Alberto Tuaza CastroSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "People Like You"8: Rebuilding Mountain Communities after Natural and Human-Made DisastersJude L. Fernando, Lina Maria Calandra, Stephanie McSpirit, Pam Oldfield Meade, Jeremy Paden and Shaunna L. ScottSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "The Border Line"9: Moving Heaven and Earth behind MountainsDaniel JosephSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Black Gold"10: Environment, Health, and JusticeMary K. Anglin, Gregory V. Button, and Dolores Molina-RosalesSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "When the Morning Breaks"11: Circulating News in Rural China and AppalachiaAl Cross and You You12: Thinking About the FutureJane Jensen, Marco Pitzalis, Mir Afzal Tajik, and Alan J. DeYoung13: Jirga: Everyday Peace-Building in Rural Mountain Communities of PakistanSajjad Ahmad Jan14: Mapping and Measuring Digital Divides in Mountain RegionsStanley D. Brunn and Maria ParadisoSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "My Old Times"15: Artifacts of HomeSaakshi Joshi16: Resonating with the TreesJasper Waugh-QuasebarthSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Traveler"17: Appalachian and Carpathian ExchangesJessica Murray and Iryna Galuschchak18: Appalachian and Columbian Connections through Cerulean Warbler MigrationRegina Donour19: Experience and ExpertiseLisa B. Markowitz20: Sustainable Livelihoods in Extreme LandsDipak R. PantSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Aragon Mill"21: Comparing Rural Livelihood Transitions in the Catalan and Sardinian Regions of Europe and the Appalachian Region of the United StatesDomenica Farinella, Ann Kingsolver, Ismael Vaccaro, and Oriol BeltranSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Wild Rose of the Mountain"22: Honey Corridors in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and Appalachian Coal Production Areas Tammy Horn Potter and Kunal SharmaSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "The Gap ($8,825) an Hour"23: Agricultural Sovereignty and Arabica Coffee Production in EthiopiaAklilu RedaSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "The Flume"24: Creating Sustainable Post-extraction Livelihoods in the Central Appalachian CoalfieldsNathan HallSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Gone, Gonna Rise Again"25: Reforestation Can Contribute to a Regenerative Economy in Global Mining RegionsChristopher D. Barton, Kenton Sena, and Patrick N. AngelSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "We're Still Here"26: Palestinian Responsible Tourism for Cross-Cultural UnderstandingAsma Jaber and Michel AwadSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "A Time for Us All"27: Conclusion: Looking Toward the Future in Global Mountain RegionsFelix Bivens, Sasikumar Balasundaram, and Ann KingsolverIndex
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Indiana University Press Starting from Quirpini
Book SynopsisThe people of Quirpini, a rural community in the Bolivian Andes, are in constant motion. They visit each other's houses, work in their fields, go to nearby towns for school, market, or official transactions, and travel to Buenos Aires for wage labour. This work argues that by their travels, they play a role in shaping the places they move through.Trade Review... an important contribution to the existing bibliography on the politics of movement.May 4, 2011 * Journal of Folklore Research *[O]ffers a nuanced portrait of life in rural Chuquisaca during the 1990s, which sheds light on the dynamic and multi-scalar processes that go into the making of a place. The book contributes to the . . . literature on the social construction of place . . . .Oct. 2013 * Bulletin of Latin American Research *[A] groundbreaking book . . . Rockefeller's in-depth descriptions and theoretically savvy analysis guide the reader through the process by which space and place [are] constituted.79.1 2014 * Rural Sociology *Starting from Quirpini is a beautifully crafted, accomplished text that is essential reading for those interested in migration, transnationalism, Andean ethnography, and the anthropology of space. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *[T]his is an important book that should be widely read by scholars of the Andes and of migration, as well as those interested in the construction of places and borders. * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Inscriptions Introduction: Disorientations 1. Places and History in and about QuirpiniPart 2. Facets of a Place 2. Bicycles and Houses 3. The Geography of Planting Corn 4. Carnival and the Spatial Practice of CommunityPart 3. From Quirpini 5. Ethnic Politics and the Control of Movement 6. Placing Bolivia in Quirpini: Civic Ritual and the Power of Context 7. Where Do You Go When You Go to Buenos Aires?Conclusion: Coming Back to QuirpiniGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.99
Indiana University Press The Spatial Humanities
Book SynopsisApplying the analytical tools of GIS to new fields of researchTrade ReviewThe first attempt to tackle the issue of the humanities as an epistemic unit head-on, and to consider what the use of GIS . . . can bring to them. . . . The technical quality of the chapters is uniformly high: side-by-side they form a wide-ranging account, admirable in its ambition and scope, and authored by contributors who are recognized experts in their fields. The documentation and footnoting are exemplary, and the reader new to the field will find the further reading sections at the end extremely valuable. * Literary and Linguistic Computing *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Turning toward Place, Space, and Time / Edward L. Ayers2. The Potential of Spatial Humanities / David J. Bodenhamer3. Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities / Karen K. Kemp4. Exploiting Time and Space: A Challenge for GIS in the Digital Humanities / Ian Gregory5. Qualitative GIS and Emergent Semantics / John Corrigan6. Representations of Space and Place in the Humanities / Gary Lock7. Mapping Text / May Yuan8. The Geospatial Semantic Web, Pareto GIS, and the Humanities / Trevor M. Harris, L. Jesse Rouse, and Susan Bergeron9. GIS, e-Science, and the Humanities Grid / Paul S. Ell10. Challenges for the Spatial Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda / Trevor M. Harris, John Corrigan, and David J. BodenhamerSuggestions for Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Irish Ethnologies
Book SynopsisIrish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work in multiple disciplines including but not limited to anthropology and ethnomusicology.These essays, first published in French in the journal Ethnologie française, illuminate the complex history of Ireland and exhibit the maturity of Irish anthropology. Martine Segalen contends that these essays are part of a larger movement that galvanized the quiet revolution in the domain of the ethnology of France. They did so by making specific examples, in this instance Ireland, inform a larger definition of a European identity. The essays, edited by Ó Giolláin, also significantly explain, expand, and challenge Irish ethnography. From twelfth-century accounts to Anglo-Irish RomTrade Review“This anthology is a significant and original contribution to scholarship in several related fields: anthropology, ethnology, folkloristics, history, sociology, religious history, and others. The essays are well organized and contextualize each other beautifully. Together they furnish the reader (not least the reader from outside of Ireland) with many inroads to understanding Ireland (North and South), Irish culture, religion, history, and the development of the ‘ethnological sciences’ in Ireland and comparatively. ” —Barbro Klein, Uppsala University"The clarity of the title says it all. Ó Giolláin assembles articulate, engaged, informed, and theoretically savvy scholars from around the world (including Ireland) to present their best research-based thoughts about Irish society and culture, urban and rural, north and south, in the twenty-first century. The result greatly exceeds the sum of its parts. Readable, sure-footed, rich in detail, and hugely informative, this interdisciplinary collection digs deep into existing scholarship to offer new insights. It is at once an encyclopaedia and a kaleidoscope for anyone interested in the complexities of this small island." —Angela Bourke, professor emerita, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, Dublin"From its stunning historical overview of anthropological and folkloristic studies of Ireland through chapters that open new doors into the spaces in which culture, tradition, materiality, and museums are made, unmade, and rebaptized as heritage or carnival, Irish Ethnologies demonstrates why Ireland and Northern Ireland continue to be remarkably productive of insights into colonialism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism." —Charles L. Briggs, co-author of Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
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University of Notre Dame Press The Practice of Human Development and Dignity
Book SynopsisAlthough deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this gap by showing the implications of human dignity for international development theory, policy, and practice. Pushing against ideas of development that privilege the efficiency of systems that accelerate economic growth at the expense of human persons and their agency, the essays in this volume show how development work that lacks sensitivity to human dignity is blind. Instead, genuine development must advance human flourishing and not merely promote economic betterment. At the same time, the essays in this book also demonstrate that human dignity must be assessed in the context of real human experiences and practices. This volume therefore considers the meaning of human dignity inducTrade Review“The Practice of Human Development and Dignity is a very timely book and starts a fascinating conversation. Doing dignity is a question of presence and relationship. Any intervention then should begin by offering my presence, my hearth, and that deep form of listening that opens the source of our shared dignity.” —Mathias Nebel, co-editor of Searching for the Common Good
£45.00
University of Washington Press Pushed Out
Book SynopsisA small town weighs the economic compromises of growth in the Rocky Mountain WestWhat happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from thriving timber mill town to economically depressed small town to trendy second-home location over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities. Sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram explores the structural forces driving rural gentrification and examines how social and environmental inequality are written onto these landscapes. Based on in-depth interviews and archival data, she grounds this highly readable ethnography in a long view of the region that takes account of geological history, settler colonialism, and histories of power and exploitation within capitalism. Pilgeram's analysis reveals the processes and mechanisms that make such communities vulnerable to gentrTrade Review"The book...combines narrative storytelling, historical research and sociological theory to paint a complete and compelling picture." * Sandpoint Reader *"In clean and engaging prose, Pilgeram describes the heartache of a disenfranchised population, while also delivering a tough scholarly analysis." * Bookmonger *"Through extensive interviews and archival work, this sociological study draws on the descriptive power of ethnographic writing to trace the path of rural development in an engaging and accessible book." * Choice *"[I]t speaks to urgent changes in the contemporary West...the book's closing reminder that we can imagine, and enact, different futures is a hopeful and necessary one." * Western American Literature *"Pilgeram’s work constitutes an excellent intervention into the problems associated with rural gentrification." * Contemporary Sociology *"Pilgeram's book is a thoroughly engaging, well researched, and important exploration of a type of gentrification often ignored and misunderstood in the broader social discussion of displacement." * Growth and Change *
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University of Washington Press Sustaining Natures
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Sarah R. Osterhoudt and K. Sivaramakrishnan FARMING AND FOOD 1 . THE FARMING OF TRUST: ORGANIC CERTIFICATION AND THE LIMITS OF TRANSPARENCY IN UTTARAKHAND, INDIA Shaila Seshia Galvin 2 . A "QUEER-LOOKING COMPOUND": RACE, ABJECTION, AND THE POLITICS OF HAWAIIAN POI Hi'ilei Julia Hobart URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 3 . HOW THE GRASS BECAME GREENER IN THE CITY: ON URBAN IMAGININGS AND PRACTICES OF SUSTAINABLE LIVING IN SWEDEN Cindy Isenhour 4 . CIRCULARITY AND ENCLOSURES: METABOLIZING WASTE WITH THE BLACK SOLDIER FLY Amy Zhang ENERGY AND ENERGY ALTERNATIVES 5 . LANDSCAPES OF POWER: RENEWABLE ENERGY ACTIVISM IN DINÉ BIKÉYAH Dana E. Powell and Dáilan J. Long 6 . DECOLONIZING ENERGY: BLACK LIVES MATTER AND TECHNOSCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE AMID SOLAR TRANSITIONS Myles Lennon NONHUMAN LIFE 7 . "THE GOAT THAT DIED FOR FAMILY": ANIMAL SACRIFICE AND INTERSPECIES KINSHIP IN INDIA'S CENTRAL HIMALAYAS Radhika Govindrajan 8 . PASSIVE FLORA? RECONSIDERING NATURE'S AGENCY THROUGH HUMAN-PLANT STUDIES John Charles Ryan CLIMATE, LANDSCAPE, AND IDENTITY 9 . IMAGINING THE ORDINARY IN PARTICIPATORY CLIMATE ADAPTATION Sarah E. Vaughn 10. WHAT THE SANDS REMEMBER Vanessa Agard-Jones LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Landscape Nature and the Body Politic From
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the origins and lasting influence of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words ""landscape"", ""country"", ""scenery"", and, ""nature"". The ideas of land and country are tracked through Anglo-American history.
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University of Wisconsin Press Rise of the Brao Ethnic Minorities in
Book SynopsisBased on detailed research and interviews, Ian G. Baird documents the golden age of the Brao, including the voices of those who are too frequently omitted from official records. Rise of the Brao challenges scholars to look beyond the prevailing historical narratives to consider the nuanced perspectives of peripheral or marginal regions.Table of Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Glossary xv Introduction: The Golden Age of the Brao of Northeastern Cambodia 3 PART 1 1 The Brao and Their Early Involvement in the Khmer Rouge 25 2 Brao Discontent with the Khmer Rouge and Their Exodus from Cambodia to Vietnam and Laos 63 3 The Deterioration of Vietnam-Cambodia Relations, Preparations in Vietnam, and the Attack on the Khmer Rouge 94 PART 2 4 Organizing Post–Khmer Rouge Northeastern Cambodia and the Rise of the Brao 145 5 The Development of Northeastern Cambodia, 1979 to 1989 171 6 The Security and Military Circumstances in Northeastern Cambodia, 1979 to 1989 202 7 Experiences with People from Vietnam, Laos, and Eastern Europe, 1979 to 1989 233 PART 3 8 Transitions in Northeastern Cambodia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s 265 Conclusion: Lessons from the 1980s 281 Appendix: Prominent People 291 Notes 305 References 333 Index 351
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Yale University Press The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art
Book SynopsisTracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and timeTrade Review“[The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art] is a very welcome and admirable contribution to a topic right at the forefront of the study of Islamic visual and cultural material and should provide an excellent model for future symposium-related publications.”—Cailah Jackson, English Historical Review
£49.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd The West African City
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1. Three Cities In West Africa: Nouakchott, Dakar And Abidjan 2. The African City 3. Nouakchott: New City, Old Concept 4. Dakar: The City; Pikine: The Suburbs 5. Abidjan: The Capital of French-Speaking West-Africa 6. The Three Cities Compared Part 2. Urban Planning 7. Master Plan for Urban Development of Nouakchott 8. Urban Master Plan for Dakar (2025) 9. Master Plan for Greater Abidjan 10. Three Cities, Three Plans Part 3. The Press 11. Public Space As Seen Through the Media 12. The Media, Public Space and the City of Nouakchott 13. The Media, Public Space and the City of Dakar 14. The Media, Public Space and the City of Abidjan 15. Commonalities and Differences Part 4. Images and Cities 16. Photographing Public Space 17. The Streets of Nouakchott 18. The Streets of Dakar 19. The Streets of Abidjan 20. Frames: City Summaries Part 5. Cities That Are Different, But Similar 21. Virtually Identical Cities 22. Urban Planning and Urban Models 23. Planning, the Media, Photography and Public Space 24. Recommendations
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Internet on Earth
Book SynopsisA fascinating and vital area of research, the geography of information describes the role of information as both economic and commercial product and its distribution and movement across boundaries of cyberspace and conventional geography. Written by a pioneer in telecommunications geography research, this prize winning title (AAG award 2003) applies information geography to the world of high-tech, examining the latest wrinkles in the Internet, Silicon Valley, mobile telephony, and other key areas. the first book to provide both a context for the geography of information and a critical overview of recent research. Includes location-specific references and case studies. Examines the information society, information economy, telecommunications and its geographical impact. Trade Review"...an excellent textbook...provides very rich descriptions...should be congratulated for presenting 'hot-button' issues..." (New Media & Society, Vol 6(3), June 2004) "...a useful book that synthesises a great deal of contemporary literature..." (Environment & Planning B: Planning and Design, Vo. 31, No.3 2004) "Its collection and subsequent organization of references, as well as the clarity of its presentation, should make it highly appealing to a wide audience." (Urban Studies, July 2005)Table of ContentsContexts Information and Knowledge The Information Society The Information Economy Information Politics Information Law Conclusion Basics The Scope of Information Geography Space Place Conclusion Technology Information and Technology Technology and Flows Knowledge Innovation Technology Information Technology Regions Conclusion Information Volumes and Origins The Internet: Evolution and Structure A Conceptual Framework for Information Production Ranking Urban Centers of Information Production Global Centers: New York and Los Angeles IT R&D Information Production Conclusion Contents Content Demand and Location Capital as Information E-Commerce and Location Geographic Language Conclusion Transmission The Internet Backbones Flows US Leadership in Telecommunications Conclusion Media Leading Nations The Digital Divide Conclusion Consumption Social Uses of the Internet Internet Consumption in Cities Use and Location Broadband Conclusion Beyond Challenges Geography of Information
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Bridges to CubaPuentes a Cuba
Book SynopsisFor fifty-five years US-Cuban relations were couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remained in their homeland. This collection of Cuban and Cuban-American writing and art celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have maintained through artistic, academic, family, and other ties.Trade Review“Essential reading for Cuba-watchers who want to go beyond traditional social science research to appreciate the extraordinary cultural talents of Cubans.”—Latin American Research Review""A vital and interesting anthology about contemporary Cuba.""—Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love""Looks at Cuban creativity from an integrated perspective, refusing to kneel before the painful and often arbitrary divisions that have split the voices of this passionate culture into forever separate bands. The results are magnificent. Read this book and get a long overdue understanding of contemporary Cuban literature and art.""—Margaret Randall, author of Women in Cuba: Twenty Years Later""In order for memory to be recovered, there must be a community that remembers and tells the story...Bridges to Cuba displays a wealth of insights that leave the reader with a sense of having experienced firsthand the intricate web of thought and feeling that is Cuban life.""—Latino Review of Books“Unquestionably one of the most suggestive and imaginative anthologies of Cuban voices published in English in recent years. By bringing together personal essays, poetry, fiction, historical writings, and art, this collection is able to illuminate both the Cuban diaspora and cultural and political debates on the island.”—Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Princeton University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Life Earth Colony
Book SynopsisExplores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), famous for developing the foundations of geopolitical thought. Ratzel produced a remarkable body of work that revolutionized the study of space, movement, colonization, and war.Trade Review“Ian Klinke has written the Ratzel biography we have been waiting for. Skillfully blending biography, conceptual history, and political theory, Klinke provides a critically minded account of one of the most fascinating intellectuals of the imperial age. He uncovers the cosmopolitan liberal progressive who admired US settler colonialism, the theorist of civilization preoccupied with extermination and death, the academic who unwittingly forged a vocabulary for fascism. Written in wonderful prose, the result is a compelling study that will endure.”—Gerard Toal, Virgina Tech“Friedrich Ratzel was an equally influential and contradictory scientist of the nineteenth century: political geographer, convinced racist, and a dreamy critic of substance dualism. Ian Klinke succeeds in locating the Leipzig geographer in his scientific and political context in a way that is both remarkably readable and intellectually outstanding. The book balances elegantly between Ratzel’s life-historical background, his colonial political agitation and academic research—the result is an excellent intellectual biography that undoubtedly sets high standards.”—Ulrike Jureit, Hamburger Institut fÜr Sozialforschung“Ian Klike’s Life, Earth, Colony is an outstanding achievement. While the significance of the geographer Friedrich Ratzel for discourses of imperial expansion and settler colonialism in Wilhelmine Germany has been increasingly noted in recent historiography, Klinke is the first to unpack these issues in their full complexity. By training a zoologist, Ratzel offered a naturalist perspective in which expansion and colonization were projected as inherent processes of the natural world, as typical (and by implication as legitimate) for arctic lichens and ant communities as they were for European societies in the nineteenth century. Klinke argues that this biologism, which culminated in the concept of Lebensraum, was shaped by necropolitics, a preoccupation with death and decay in which ‘biology, race, and sovereignty were fundamentally fused.’ Informative and provocative in equal measure, Klinke’s study will be of great value to all those interested in ideologies of European colonialism, the development of ecological theory, and the origins of Geopolitik.”—Mark Bassin, SÖdertÖrn UniversityTable of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. Soldier and scientist 3. Race and slavery 4. Life and earth 5. Colonisation and war 6. Death and necropolitics 7. Ratzel after Ratzel 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Violence and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. It ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman Violence-Prone Area or International Transition? Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan Violence Susan L. Woodward Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror Allen Feldman Circumcision, Body, Masculinity: The Ritual Wound and Collective Violence Deepak Mehta Teach Me How to Be a Man: An Exploration of the Definition of Masculinity Mamphela Ramphele On Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory, Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict Jonathan Spencer The Ground of All Making: State Violence, the Family, and Political Activists Pamela Reynolds Violence, Suffering, Amman: The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War Zone Patricia Lawrence The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity Veena Das The Violences of Everyday Life: The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social Violence Arthur Kleinman Body and Space in a Time of Crisis: Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi Emma Tarlo The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal Margaret Lock Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories Kay B. Warren Reconciliation and Memory in Postwar Nigeria Murray Last Mood, Moment, and Mind E. Valentine Daniel LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
£26.10
University of California Press Imperial San Francisco With a New Preface
Book SynopsisA history of San Francisco, this work traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others - who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media.Trade Review"One of the very best books I have ever read about a place is Imperial San Francisco, by Gray Brechin.... With its tales of skullduggery, brilliant enterprise, racist arrogance, environmental ruin, and ruthless competition, it will be an astonishment to anyone who knows modern San Francisco only as the gentlest of American cities." - Jan Morris, Independent (UK) "Books of the Year," November 2000" Included in the Los Angeles Times Book Review's "Best Nonfiction of 2000", Named a "Book of the Year" in the Independent (UK) San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller List, December 1999, Honorable Mention for the Pacific Coast Branch Award, American Historical Association.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface to the 2006 Edition Preface to the First Edition: The Urban Maelstrom Introduction: New Romes for a New World Part I: Foundations of Dominion 1. The Pyramid of Mining 2. Water Mains and Bloodlines Part II: The Thought Shapers 3. The Scott Brothers: Arms and the Overland Mutiny 4. The De Youngs: Society Invents Itself 5. The Hearsts: Racial Supremacy and the Digestion of "All Mexico" Part III: Remote Control 6. Toward Limitless Energy 7. The University, the Gate, and "the Gadget" Notes A Note on Sources Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Being There
Book SynopsisChallenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj Abdellah Hammoudi 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit Lisa Stevenson 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India Leo Coleman 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania Sally Falk Moore 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation Stefan Senders 8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) Eugene Raikhel 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat John Borneman 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork Abdellah Hammoudi and John Borneman Biographical Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Concrete Jungle
Book SynopsisIf they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity.Trade Review"Both born and bred New Yorkers, the authors masterfully make their case by telling it through the history of their city's growth and development, starting with the area's underlying geology and tracing New York's settlement and eventual development into perhaps the archetypal modern metropolis. The book persuasively makes the case that the world's concrete jungles may in fact be one of our best tools for saving the actual jungles and the rest of the planet's biodiversity." -- Ray Bert Civil Engineering "Concrete Jungle delivers a "think globally, act locally" message for New York City." -- S. Hammer CHOICE "A fascinating read, and New Yorkers will find much to interest them in discovering often overlooked historical features." -- Dr. Leighton Dann The BiologistTable of ContentsPreface: The Yin and Yang of Cities 1. Regarding Broadway: The Urban Saga and the New York Microcosm 2. Forest Primeval Building Stones 3. Landscape Transformed Around the American Museum of Natural History East River Shoreline 4. Growth of the Concrete Jungle One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Street Queensboro Bridge and East River 5. Fouling, and Cleaning, the Nest The High Bridge 6. Invasion and Survival John Torrey Fort Tryon Park The Battery The Sea Wall 7. Resilience, Restoration, and Redemption Canyonlands and the Future 8. Cities, Globalization, and the Future of Biodiversity Notes, References, and Suggestions for Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press The Birth of the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent." -- Robert Macfarlane * The Guardian *"I can’t recall another book that positions the present global crisis in Earth’s deep history so well, in a form that can be readily understood by non-specialists. Every ecosocialist should read it." * Climate and Capitalism *"The first book you would want to read to find out the origins, philosophies, and debate surrounding the 'Anthropocene'. . . . A fascinating tour of natural history." * Capitalism Nature Socialism *“Jeremy Davies' concise, erudite and highly-engaging book, The Birth of the Anthropocene, will, I am sure, soon be regarded as one of the best introductions to this new and rapidly evolving field. All [readers] will certainly appreciate Davies' knack for making the complex comprehendible and the daunting manageable.” -- Andrew Peterson * World History Connected *"Elegant and concise . . . alert to the new relationship that needs to be forged between culture and climate change.” * Times Literary Supplement *"A modest book of giant ambition... Davies’ work takes us on a much deeper dive into the history of the Earth itself." * The Quarterly Review of Biology *"Perhaps the best guide so far to the different senses and timeframes attached to the term [Anthropocene].” * London Review of Books *"Geological knowledge is mixed with political ideas without losing objectivity.... Davies introduces the difficulties of defining geological change, and contextualizes events within a proper time scale." * Conservation Biology *"An excellent commentary, which will serve both committed scholars and early undergraduates equally well . . . Davies’ most impressive accomplishment in this book is his ability to ease readers into the key contemporary debates." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This lucid and well-argued book stands out for the detailed seriousness and scholarship with which, against all the looser appropriations of the term now current, it considers the meaning of ‘the Anthropocene’." * Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism *"The Birth of the Anthropocene is a sweeping and ambitious positioning of our current place in the Earth’s long history. . . . Davies’ method of periodization carries him through to a new and persuasive way of thinking about the Anthropocene." * Journal of World History *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Living in Deep Time 2. Versions of the Anthropocene 3. Geology of the Future 4. Th e Rungs on the Ladder 5. An Obituary for the Holocene Conclusion: Not Even Past Notes Index
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University of California Press The New Food Activism
Book SynopsisThe New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers' pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.Trade Review"The New Food Activism is a valuable contribution to critical food studies that raises important questions about what kind of food system we, as scholars, organizers, eaters and workers want to see and how we are going to get there." * Antipode *"A shrewdly curated call to action... By depicting the diversity of opposition to conventional food systems and with keen depth of discussion, Alkon and Guthman stoke the embers of the change that has been smoldering for decades within the food system, demonstrating means of resistance that all new activists should emulate." * Graduate Journal of Food Studies *"The New Food Activism is both relevant and timely to ongoing academic conversations about food justice and the alternative food movement within the United States. . . . While this book adds to the critique of the alternative food movement by highlighting the ways in which it is apolitical and nonstrategic, its biggest impact is the illustration of the power of activism that is strategic, political, and collaborative." * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Introduction 1 Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman Part One Regulatory Campaigns 2 * Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California Jill Lindsey Harrison 3 * How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat Emily Eaton 4 * How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown Part Two Working For Workers 5 * Resetting the "Good Food" Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles Joshua Sbicca 6 * Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice Joann Lo and Biko Koenig 7 * Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Part Three Collective Practices 8 * Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice Andrew Zitcer 9 * Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago Meleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon 10 * Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property Michelle Glowa 11 * Boston's Emerging Food Solidarity Economy Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman 12 * Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent 13 * Conclusion: A New Food Politics Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman Contributors Index
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University of California Press RiskBased Policing EvidenceBased Crime
Book SynopsisRisk-based policing is a research advancement that improves public safety, and its applications prevent crime specifically by managing crime risks. InRisk-Based Policing, the authors analyze case studies from a variety of city agencies including Atlantic City, New Jersey; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Glendale, Arizona; Kansas City, Missouri; Newark, New Jersey; andothers. They demonstrate how focusing police resources on risky places and basing police work on smart uses of data can address the worst effects of disorder and crime while improving community relations and public safety. Topics include the role of big data; the evolution of modern policing; dealing with high-risk targets; designing, implementing, and evaluating risk-based policing strategies; and the role of multiple stakeholders in risk-based policing. The book also demonstrates how risk terrain modeling can be extended to provide a comprehensive view of prevention and deterrence.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART 1: THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF RISK-BASED POLICING 1. Introduction to Risk and Big Data Introduction to Risk-Based Policing in Crime Prevention The Importance of Risk Big Data Risk-Based Policing Conclusion 2. The Evolution of Modern Policing Introduction Police Reform and Professionalization From Professionalism to Problem-Solving The Importance of Places and Data Analysis in Contemporary Policing Conclusion 3. Policing in the New Era of Public Safety and Law Enforcement Focus on Places with Risk Terrain Modeling The Central Tenets of Risk-Based Policing Develop Spatial Risk Narratives Solicit and Value Input from Multiple Stakeholders Make Data-Driven Decisions Balance Strategies for Crime Risk Reduction Conclusion 4. Risk-Based Policing and ACTION Introduction Risk Governance and the Police Leader ACTION Meetings A Detailed Breakdown of the ACTION Agenda The Uncertainty in Risk Governance Conclusion PART 2: METHODS AND CASE STUDIES OF RISK-BASED POLICING 5. The Theory of Risky Places Introduction Theories Relevant to Risk-Based Policing Conclusion 6. High-Risk Target Areas and Priority Places Introduction Studying Exposure and Vulnerability to Crime Brooklyn as a Case Study Conclusion 7. The Role of Police in Risk-Based Policing: Case Studies of Colorado Springs, Glendale, Newark, and Kansas City Introduction Risk Assessment Methodology Findings Connecting Risk Assessments to Intervention Conclusion 8. Facilitators and Impediments to Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Risk-Based Policing Strategies: Insights from Completed Researcher–Practitioner Partnerships Introduction Researcher–Practitioner Partnerships Planned Change and Program Implementation Risk-Based Policing Partnerships Findings Conclusion 9. The Roles of Multiple Stakeholders in Risk-Based Policing: Case Studies of Jersey City and Atlantic City Introduction ACTION Meetings in Jersey City Risk-Based Policing in Atlantic City Conclusion 10. People Make Risk-Based Policing and Data Actionable Valuing Data: Lessons Learned Beyond Training and into Active Problem Solving Conclusion Epilogue References Index
£28.90
University of California Press Muybridge and Mobility
Book SynopsisA cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge's famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge's decades-long investigation into instantaneous photography, culminating in his masterpiece Animal Locomotion. Muybridge became one of the most influential photographers of his time, and his stop-motion technique helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later. Coauthored by cultural geographer Tim Cresswell and art historian John Ott, this book reexamines the motion studies as historical forms of mobility, in which specific forms of motion are given extraordinary significance and accrued value. Through a lively, interdisciplinary exchange, the authors explore how mobility is contextualized within the traTable of ContentsContents Introduction Anthony W. Lee Visualizing Mobility Tim Cresswell Race and Mobility John Ott Notes Index
£21.60
University of California Press Border Witness Reimagining the USMexico
Book SynopsisWhat a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlandsand how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography, Michael Dear investigates the making of cross-border identity and community in the territories between two nations. Border Witness introduces a new border film genre just now entering its golden age. A geographer and activist, Dear adopts an accessible and engaged perspective, combining the stories told by these films with insights drawn from his own decades-long research and travel. From early silent films to virtual reality, and from revolution to the present global crisis, border films provide fresh evidence for real and imagined politics and for envisioning future transborder architectures carved from in-between spaces.In an era of global geopolitics that favors walls and war over diplomacy, Dear's insights have relevance for borders around the world.Trade Review"Dear’s book is a magnificent chronicle of borderlands films over a century that should be a “must-read” for border scholars and perhaps used not only in film classes but also in border studies courses to supplement the often-dry readings assigned in our twenty-first century visual world." * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"A deep historical context along with solid cinematic summaries of a less discussed cinematic genre: the border film. . . . The author devotes a good deal of the book to the US's relationship with immigrants, the border patrol, and Mexican officials, providing readers with a firm understanding of the difficulties surrounding the failed policies and procedures currently taking place at the border." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Origins 1. Border Witness: From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico 2. Bisected Bodies: Early Silent Films 3. Making Filmscapes 4. Using Film as Evidence 5. Revolution and Modernization 6. The Great Migrations 7. Border Film Noir Part 2 Fusions 8. Borderlands before Borders 9. From Final Girl to Woman Warrior 10. Narco Nations: Men at War 11. Lives of the Undocumented 12. Moral Tales, Border Law 13. Border Walls: Screen Folly and Fantasy 14. The Mexican Dream/El Sueño Mexicano Part 3 Witness 15. A Golden Age for Border Film 16. Ways of Seeing the Border (Beyond Film) 17. Border Witness of the Future Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Chronological Filmography Appendix 2: Alphabetical Filmography Appendix 3: Map of US-Mexico Borderlands Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Border Witness
Book SynopsisWhat a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlandsand how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography, Michael Dear investigates the making of cross-border identity and community in the territories between two nations. Border Witness introduces a new border film genre just now entering its golden age. A geographer and activist, Dear adopts an accessible and engaged perspective, combining the stories told by these films with insights drawn from his own decades-long research and travel. From early silent films to virtual reality, and from revolution to the present global crisis, border films provide fresh evidence for real and imagined politics and for envisioning future transborder archiTrade Review"Dear’s book is a magnificent chronicle of borderlands films over a century that should be a “must-read” for border scholars and perhaps used not only in film classes but also in border studies courses to supplement the often-dry readings assigned in our twenty-first century visual world." * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"A deep historical context along with solid cinematic summaries of a less discussed cinematic genre: the border film. . . . The author devotes a good deal of the book to the US's relationship with immigrants, the border patrol, and Mexican officials, providing readers with a firm understanding of the difficulties surrounding the failed policies and procedures currently taking place at the border." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Origins 1. Border Witness: From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico 2. Bisected Bodies: Early Silent Films 3. Making Filmscapes 4. Using Film as Evidence 5. Revolution and Modernization 6. The Great Migrations 7. Border Film Noir Part 2 Fusions 8. Borderlands before Borders 9. From Final Girl to Woman Warrior 10. Narco Nations: Men at War 11. Lives of the Undocumented 12. Moral Tales, Border Law 13. Border Walls: Screen Folly and Fantasy 14. The Mexican Dream/El Sueño Mexicano Part 3 Witness 15. A Golden Age for Border Film 16. Ways of Seeing the Border (Beyond Film) 17. Border Witness of the Future Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Chronological Filmography Appendix 2: Alphabetical Filmography Appendix 3: Map of US-Mexico Borderlands Notes References Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Human Geography An Essential Anthology
Book SynopsisThis book provides students in human geography with a vital resource - a collection of writings critical to understanding the field as a whole and revealing the interactions of its component parts. It is designed to give students ready access to the literature their studies are most likely to lead them to consult. The book is divided into five parts. Parts I and II describe the nature of the enterprise and show the origins and current state of thinking on central issues. Part III is concerned with interactions between nature, culture and landscape. Part IV considers area differences and geographic units such as region, place and locality. Part V provides insights into the concepts of space, time and space-time. The editors have provided a general introduction, introductions to each part and contextual notes for each chapter. Each part concludes with sections of further reading by subject and the volume ends with a time chart of the main developments in geography. This collecTrade Review"This is an immensely useful book, aimed primarily at the undergraduate level. The editors have invested the readings with a coherence and sense of purpose that reflects very clearly their own powerful rendition of geographical tradition." Geography "... this anthology of human geography has it all. Covering a period of over 150 years, much care has been paid to include a variety of the most eminent geographers and a selection of the most important geographical concepts, making this anthology well worth waiting for." The Geographical Journal "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to be applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years. In short, I strongly recommend this wonderful anthology." Robert D. Sack, University of Wisconsin "Human Geography is an ambitious project which confronts the positive, enlightenment view of human behaviour and the processes that yield spatial patterns. Excellent value." Bryan H. Massam, York University, Canada "The book is for all who are seriously interested in the way their subject has developed and in the origins of ideas and approaches now so familiar as to be taken for granted. Teachers and students of undergraduate ideas and methods courses will find this invaluable." Times Educational Supplement "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years." Robert Sack, University of WisconsinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix General Introduction 1 Part I: Recounting Geography's History 17 Introduction 18 1. A Plea for the History of Geography 25 John K. Wright 2. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? 37 R. J. Johnston 3. Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography 54 Anne Buttimer 4. Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change 66 Horacio Capel 5. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto 95 David Harvey 6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 108 Donna Haraway Part II: The Enterprise 129 Introduction 130 7. What Geography Ought to Be 139 Peter Kropotkin 8. On the Scope and Methods of Geography 155 Halford J. Mackinder 9. The Study of Geography 173 Franz Boas 10. Meaning and Aim of Human Geography 181 Paul Vidal de la Blache 11. Geography without Human Agency: A Humanistic Critique 192 David Ley 12. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography 211 Derek Gregory Part III: Nature, Culture and Landscape 233 Introduction 234 13. Traces on the Rhodian Shore 246 Clarence J. Glacke 14. Influences of Geographic Environment 252 Ellen C. Semple 15. Civilizations: Organisms or Systems? 268 Karl W. Butzer 16. Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature 282 Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe 17. The Morphology of Landscape 296 Carl O. Sauer 18. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape 316 John B. Jackson 19. Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape 329 Stephen Daniels 20. Geography as a Science of Observation: The Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity 341 Gillian Rose 21. The Land Ethic 351 Aldo Leopold Part IV: Region, Place and Locality 365 Introduction 366 22. Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness 378 A. J. Herbertson 23. Human Regions 385 H. J. Fleure 24. The Character of Regional Geography 388 Richard Hartshorne 25. In What Sense a Regional Problem? 398 Doreen Massey 26. From Orientalism 414 Edward W. Said 27. Deconstructing the Map 422 J. B. Harley 28. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective 444 Yi-Fu Tuan 29. A Woman's Place? 458 Linda McDowell and Doreen Massey 30. The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies 476 Philip Cooke 31. The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept 492 George H. T. Kimbl Part V: Space, Time and Space-Time 513 Introduction 514 32. The Territorial Growth of States 525 Friedrich Ratzel 33. The Geographical Pivot of History 536 Halford J. Mackinder 34. Owners' Time and Own Time: The Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880 552 Nigel Thrift 35. Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination 571 F. K. Schaefer 36. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts 590 John D. Nystue 37. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation 600 David Harvey 38. Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology 623 Edward W. Soja 39. The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness 636 Alan Pred 40. Diorama, Path and Project 650 Torsten Hagerstrand 41. A View of the GIS Crisis in Geography 675 Stan Openshaw A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995 686 Alisdair Rogers
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Nature
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. Brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. Uses international case studies to illustrate the theoretical positions. A helpful introduction by the editors sets the chapters in context. Enables teachers and students to explore the ways in which social nature is evident and to engage with the direct implications of this for human lives, ecologies and politics. Trade Review"Nature as a concept, it is often said, is elusive, complex, promiscuous and yet familiar. Social Nature is a superb introduction to nature's complexity from the vantage point of the very best of critical geography. An excellent introduction to the epistemological thickets which have grown up around, and which threaten to strangle, our understanding of Nature as artifice and artifact." Michael Watts "No other single volume summarizes and critically reviews the geographical research on social nature." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Socializing Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics: Noel Castree (University of Manchester). 2. Being Constructive About Nature?: David Demeritt (Kings College, London). 3. Nature, Poststructuralism, and Politics: Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) and Joel Wainwright (University of Minnesota). 4. The Nature of 'Race': Kay Anderson (Durham University). 5. Postcolonialism and the Production of Nature: Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia). 6. Gendered Natures: Feminism, Politics, and Social Nature: Jane Moeckli (University of Iowa) and Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota). 7. Social Nature and Environmental Policy in the South: Views from Verandah and Veld: Piers Blaikie (University of East Anglia). 8. Political Ecology: A Critical Agenda for Change?: Ray Bryant (King's College, London). 9. Natural Disasters?: Mark Pelling (University of Liverpool). 10. Marxism, Capitalism, and the Production of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester). 11. Dissolving Dualisms: Actor-networks and the Reimagination of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester) and Tom MacMillan (University of Manchester). 12. Solid Rock and Shifting Sands: The Moral Paradox of saving a Socially Constructed Nature: James Proctor (University of California, Santa Barbara). Index.
£36.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geographies of British Modernity Space and
Book Synopsis* The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. * Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth--century Britain. * Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.Trade Review'Through the appropriately "modern" concepts of survey, site and identity, Gilbert, Matless and Short offer us an enticing set of precise vignettes, framing a geographical interpretation of British modernity. This book sketches an agenda for what will be an enduring preoccupation among historical geographers in "millennial" Britain.' Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles "This landmark volume stands as the first work of historical geography to cover the whole span of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of broad patterns of change and the close scrutiny of particular spaces the contributors draw out the contours of British modernity since 1900 and demonstrate the vitality of contemporary historical geography." Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary College, University of London Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1. Historical Geographies Of British Modernity: Brian Short, David Gilbert And David Matless (University Of Sussex; Royal Holloway, University Of London; University Of Nottingham). Part I: Surveying British Modernity:. 2. A Century Of Progress? Inequalities In British Society 1901-2000: Danny Dorling (University Of Leeds). 3. The Conservative Century? Geography And Conservative Electoral Success During The Twentieth Century: Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling And David Rossiter (University Of Bristol; University Of Sheffield; University Of Leeds; University Of Leeds). 4. Mobility In The Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting For Migration? Colin G. Pooley (Lancaster University). 5. Qualifying The Evidence - Perceptions Of Rural Change In Britain In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century: Alun Howkins (University Of Sussex). Part II: Sites Of British Modernity:. 6. ‘A Power For Good Or Evil’: Geographies Of The M1 In Late-Fifties Britain: Peter Merriman (University Of Reading). 7. A New England: Landscape, Exhibition And Remaking Industrial Space In The 1930s: Denis Linehan (University College, Cork). 8. A Man’s World? Masculinity And Metropolitan Modernity At Simpson Piccadilly: Bronwen Edwards (London College Of Fashion, London Institute). 9. Mosques, Temples And Gurdwaras: New Sites Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Britain: Simon Naylor And James R. Ryan (University Of Bristol; Queen’s University, Belfast). Part III: Geography, Nation, Identity:. 10. ‘Stop Being So English’: Suburban Modernity And National Identity In The Twentieth Century: David Gilbert And Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway, University Of London; Royal College Of Art). 11. Nation, Empire And Cosmopolis: Ireland And The Break With Britain: Gerry Kearns (University Of Cambridge). 12. British Geographical Representations Of Imperialism And Colonial Development In The Early And Mid-Twentieth Century: Robin A. Butlin (University Of Leeds). Afterword: Emblematic Landscapes of the British Modern: David Matless, Brian Short and David Gilbert. Index
£23.74
Harvard University Press Life in the Himalaya
Book SynopsisThe collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 50 million years ago created the Himalaya, along with massive glaciers, intensified monsoon, turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems. Today, the Himalaya is at risk of catastrophic loss of life. Maharaj Pandit outlines the mountain’s past in order to map a way toward a sustainable future.Trade ReviewIn this book, Maharaj K. Pandit, who grew up in the west Himalayas and conducted his Ph.D. research in the east Himalayas, brings an informed perspective on Himalayan history. Emphasizing people’s relationships with the mountains, Pandit discusses past phases of development and suggests a future of sustainable living. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of this threatened region. -- Trevor Price, University of ChicagoIn an engrossing narrative, Maharaj K. Pandit integrates biology and Earth sciences to explain how the unique Himalayan flora came to be and what we must do to conserve this biological treasure for future generations. -- Andrew Knoll, Harvard UniversityTravel buffs, interdisciplinary researchers, and those who want to explore this beautiful, vast and magnificent mountain range will find the book fascinating. -- Monika Koul * Current Science *Pandit has lucidly presented an overall picture of the past, present and likely future of the Himalayan ecosystems by combining anthropological, biological, ecological, socio-cultural and geological literature. -- Kumar Manish * Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution *Life in the Himalaya is a book true to its title. It’ll answer your questions about the region and better still, raise questions that would have never occurred to you…The book is nothing less than a weekend retreat to the mountains. -- Ishan Kukreti * Down to Earth *
£38.21
Pluto Press Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru
Book SynopsisA critique of the global emphasis on water’s economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in PeruTrade Review'This superb ethnography invites us to 'slow down' the assumption that water is either a resource or a vital force and attend to how its multiplicity implies a politics of entangled worldings. This book will change how you think about the politics of water!' -- Mario Blaser, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Memorial University, Canada'Though many recent researchers have examined water through a climate change lens, this highly original book is distinctive in examining climate change through a water lens' -- Ben Orlove, anthropologist and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York'This book expresses the power of ethnography. Using her kaleidoscopic notions, Astrid Stensrud presents an analysis of a politics of water that empirically emerging from multiple worlds to transform political ecology and political economy into pluriversal analytics' -- Marisol de la Caden, Professor of Anthropology at UC-Davis, California and author of 'Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds' (Duke, 2015)'An exemplary ethnographic analysis that, focusing on 'waterworlds' in Peru, illuminates the many and diverse ways that people conceptualise and value water, engage with water, and compose human and non-human relationships through water' -- Professor Veronica Strang FAcSS, Executive Director of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and author of 'Water, Culture and Nature' (Reaktion Press 2015)'A powerful engagement with contemporary anthropological debates on the heterogeneity of water. Working with a multiplicity of water practices, Stensrud makes a compelling case for recognizing the intrinsic value of remaining open to difference in the face of climate change' -- Professor Penny Harvey, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsMaps and Figures List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Words in Quechua and Spanish Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Water and Watershed Politics 1. Engineering Water Flows 2. Colonising the Desert 3. Water Payments 4. Water Uncertainties and Disasters 5. Water Efficiency 6. Legible and Illegible Water 7. Owning Water Conclusion: Water Multiplicity Notes Bibliography Index
£61.52
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Theory and Modernity
Book Synopsisaeo An accessible introduction to social theory, both classical and contemporary. aeo Focuses on the concept of modernity, which is used as a lens to examine a wide range of theoretical literature.Trade Review'Nigel Dodd is to be congratulated for a most intelligent, mature, organized, balanced, and sane account of the major trends in European social theory over the last century and a half. I know of no sounder secondary source on the theories of modernity and postmodernity. He brings clarity and order to a range of literature that is too often murky and unordered, and for that several generations of scholars and students will be grateful.' --Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford '[An] excellent guide to the state of the art in contemporary social theory...provide[s] excellent critical accounts of the evolution and contemporary relevance of modern social theory.' (Sociological Research Online) 'Dodd's work is thus both a survey of social theory...and an effort to find a new way forward. The book is consciously positioned as a college course text, meaning that unlike truckloads of others on the subject, it is both readable and explicable for those without an MA in the History of Consciousness.' (Canadian Journal of Political Science)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Modern and Postmodern Social Theory. Part I: Classical Social Theory. 1. Modernity and Society: Marx and Durkheim. 2. Modernity and Reason: Simmel and Weber. Part II: Modern Social Theory. 3. A Critique of Reason: Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. 4. Reason and Power: Foucault. 5. The Potential of Reason: Habermas. Part III: Postmodern Social Theory. 6. Reality in Retreat: Lyotard and Baudrillard. 7. Society under Suspicion: Bauman and Rorty. 8. Modernity Renewed: Giddens and Beck. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender Identity and Place Understanding Feminist
Book Synopsisaeo Very accessible and wide--ranging introduction to feminist perspectives on geography. aeo Clearly written with careful attention paid to defining key concepts and theories in the field.Trade Review"McDowell provides a sensitive and sophisticated reading of the feminist literature through a geographer's lens. Accessible, comprehensive, and contemporary, Gender, Identity and Place never loses sight of the feminist political project. A landmark book in feminist geography!" Susan Hanson, Head of Graduate School of Geography, Clark University "a text that usefully and thematically summarises an extant body of knowledge. Any tertiary student, new researcher or reluctant colleague wanting to understand the contribution of feminist geography to the discipline will find easy access to that story in the highly readable narrative that Linda McDowell has composed. Gender, Identity and Place has a strength that is often lacking in multiply authored or thematically focused texts. The cohesion of the argument is not simply evident in the introduction and conclusion but is threaded through each of the substantive sections theoretically, empirically and stylistically." Robyn Peace, University of Waikato, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. 1. Introduction: Place and Gender. 2. In and Out of Place: Bodies and Embodiment. 3. Home, Place and Identity. 4. Community, City and Locality. 5. Work/Workplaces. 6. In Public: the Street and Spaces of Pleasure. 7. Gendering the Nation-State. 8. Displacements. 9. Postscript: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Feminist Research. References. Index.
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communities and Networks
Book SynopsisIn Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How is community life changing in response to technological advances? Refreshingly accessible and built on fascinating case examples, this unique book provides not only the theoretical grounding necessary to understand how and why the burgeoning area of social network analysis can be useful in studying communities, but also clear technical explanations of the tools of network analysis and how to gather and analyze real-world network data. Network analysis allows us to see community life in a new perspective, with sometimes surprising results and insights, and this book enablTrade Review"Katherine Giuffre reveals the deep underlying relational commonalities of such diverse contexts as small town life at the end of Weimar, the Salem witch-frenzy, Boston's East End, and the rise of Apple in Silicon Valley with richly textured description carried by elegantly clear prose that makes reading Communities and Networks both incredibly informative and delightful."—Peter Bearman, Columbia University "If you are looking for a compelling introduction to basic concepts and methods of social network modeling that will expand your imagination and help you become a more astute analyst of society and culture, then this is the book for you. Katherine Giuffre writes with insight and verve."—Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona "Forty years ago, people thought of community as a neighborhood. Now social networks have busted the boundaries of communities. They are far-flung and much more than village-like solidarities. The Internet and Mobile Revolutions have pushed these processes even further: community is now in our pocket and on our screens. Communities have become networks; networks have become communities. Katherine Giuffre tells this story well, and supplies solid evidence to clinch the tale."—Barry Wellman, University of Toronto "Giuffre's Communities and Networks is one of the clearest and most engaging introductions to adopting a network perspective on urban and community issues and, by covering a wide range of substantive topics, will be of great interest to a broad audience of students." (Urban Studies, 2016) "Throughout the book, Giuffre attempts to explain the importance of social network analysis by using case studies from diverse communities (where abortion was legal, activism in local neighborhoods, and the ever-popular Silicon Valley) and by ending some chapters with technical details on how to gather and analyze real data. Her chapters are dedicated to broad but important questions." (Information, Communication & Society)Table of ContentsChapter 1: What is network analysis and how can it be useful? Chapter 2: What is a community? Where does it come from? Chapter 3: What do communities do for us? Chapter 4: How do communities shape identity? Chapter 5: What happens when communities become fractured? Chapter 6: How do communities mobilize for collective action and social movements? Chapter 7: How do communities foster creativity and innovation? Chapter 8: How do new communities differ from traditional communities? Glossary of Network Terms References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communities and Networks
Book SynopsisTakes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart?Trade Review"Katherine Giuffre reveals the deep underlying relational commonalities of such diverse contexts as small town life at the end of Weimar, the Salem witch-frenzy, Boston's East End, and the rise of Apple in Silicon Valley with richly textured description carried by elegantly clear prose that makes reading Communities and Networks both incredibly informative and delightful."—Peter Bearman, Columbia University "If you are looking for a compelling introduction to basic concepts and methods of social network modeling that will expand your imagination and help you become a more astute analyst of society and culture, then this is the book for you. Katherine Giuffre writes with insight and verve."—Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona "Forty years ago, people thought of community as a neighborhood. Now social networks have busted the boundaries of communities. They are far-flung and much more than village-like solidarities. The Internet and Mobile Revolutions have pushed these processes even further: community is now in our pocket and on our screens. Communities have become networks; networks have become communities. Katherine Giuffre tells this story well, and supplies solid evidence to clinch the tale."—Barry Wellman, University of Toronto "Giuffre's Communities and Networks is one of the clearest and most engaging introductions to adopting a network perspective on urban and community issues and, by covering a wide range of substantive topics, will be of great interest to a broad audience of students." (Urban Studies, 2016) "Throughout the book, Giuffre attempts to explain the importance of social network analysis by using case studies from diverse communities (where abortion was legal, activism in local neighborhoods, and the ever-popular Silicon Valley) and by ending some chapters with technical details on how to gather and analyze real data. Her chapters are dedicated to broad but important questions." (Information, Communication & Society)Table of ContentsChapter 1: What is network analysis and how can it be useful?Chapter 2: What is a community? Where does it come from?Chapter 3: What do communities do for us?Chapter 4: How do communities shape identity?Chapter 5: What happens when communities become fractured?Chapter 6: How do communities mobilize for collective action and social movements?Chapter 7: How do communities foster creativity and innovation?Chapter 8: How do new communities differ from traditional communities?Glossary of Network TermsReferences
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Short History of Migration
Book SynopsisTranslated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups.Trade Review"This elegantly written book develops a compelling argument about the role of migrations in the history of mankind. An eminent historical demographer, Livi-Bacci is able to bring the demographic perspective to bear on the highly complex phenomenon of migration - whether in the context of Ancient times or in today’s context of globalization, where immigration has become a highly controversial and politicized issue. A compelling read for a general audience wishing to understand the 'migration problem' and its relevance for today’s public policy." Bruno Ramirez, Université de Montréal "The appearance of any book by demographic historian Massimo Livi-Bacci is cause for celebration and one on migration especially welcome. Migration, more than most issues, is best understood in the context of long-term patterns. This book, drawing on research in several languages, deftly puts the European experience of both emigration and immigration into long-term historical perspective, distilling six centuries into fewer than 100 pages." J.R. McNeill, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One - Waves of Progress and Gradual Migration Chapter Two - Selection and Reproduction: The Settler Effect Chapter Three - Organized Migrations Chapter Four - Three Centuries: 1500-1800 Chapter Five - A Quickening Pace: 1800-1913 Chapter Six - The Last Century: The Trend Reverses, 1914-2010 Chapter Seven - Three Globalizations, Migration, and the Rise of America Chapter Eight - A Tumultuous Present and an Uncertain Future: 2010-2050 Chapter Nine - On the Move, in an Orderly Fashion Appendix
£42.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Labor
Book SynopsisLabor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the very simple reason that working people have sentience.Trade Review"Superbly explicated and assisted by well-chosen case studies, Andrew Herod's analysis of the uniqueness of labor as a resource is both captivating and convincing. Wonderful work!"—Jon Agnone, University of Washington "In this bold and pithy text Herod reminds us that labor is a vital resource with a mind of its own. This book is an excellent introduction to the fast-changing world of work and why it matters so much."—Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London "... an accessible text for undergraduates, and while clearly driven by a geographic imagination, it should be read by all labor studies students."—Economic Geography "In his new book, geographer Andrew Herod brings the labor question back into the heart of understanding the global economic processes shaping the world we live in."—Antipode "Herod's Labor is an excellent book. It succeeds brilliantly as an introductory text, but also presents important arguments and evidence deserving a wider readership."—Journal of Industrial Relations "... fresh and compelling."—Rick Halpern, University of TorontoTable of Contents Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgement Introduction Chapter 1 – A Resource Unlike Any Other Labor as Object Labor as Subject Summary Chapter 2 – Labor in Global Context Moving On Rural to urban migration Intra-continental migration Inter-continental migration Growing in Place Summary Chapter 3 – Globalization and Labor FDI’s Implications for Labor GPNs and Labor as Object and Subject Waste, Global Destruction Networks, and Labor Summary Chapter 4 – Neoliberalism and Working Precariously Neoliberalism and Precarious Work Forms of Precarity and Their Present Dynamics Summary Chapter 5 – From Drudge Work to Emancipated Workers? Laboring in the Old Economy On the Swing to the Cancer in the Bush Iron Ore Mining in Western Australia Sweet Work? – Cocoa Plantation Workers in West Africa Fishy Business – Forced Labor in the Seafood Industry Summary Chapter 6 – Meet the New Economy – Same as the Old Economy? Laboring in the New Economy Chips off the Old (Economy) Block? Call Centers – Dark Satanic Mills of the New Economy? Ghost Workers of the New Economy Summary Chapter 7 – Workers Fight Back Workers Coming Together Organizing in the Age of Precarity Summary Chapter 8 – Concluding Thoughts Bibliography
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Labor
Book SynopsisLabor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the very simple reason that working people have sentience.Trade Review"Superbly explicated and assisted by well-chosen case studies, Andrew Herod's analysis of the uniqueness of labor as a resource is both captivating and convincing. Wonderful work!"—Jon Agnone, University of Washington "In this bold and pithy text Herod reminds us that labor is a vital resource with a mind of its own. This book is an excellent introduction to the fast-changing world of work and why it matters so much."—Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London "... an accessible text for undergraduates, and while clearly driven by a geographic imagination, it should be read by all labor studies students."—Economic Geography "In his new book, geographer Andrew Herod brings the labor question back into the heart of understanding the global economic processes shaping the world we live in."—Antipode "Herod's Labor is an excellent book. It succeeds brilliantly as an introductory text, but also presents important arguments and evidence deserving a wider readership."—Journal of Industrial Relations "... fresh and compelling."—Rick Halpern, University of TorontoTable of Contents Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgement Introduction Chapter 1 – A Resource Unlike Any Other Labor as Object Labor as Subject Summary Chapter 2 – Labor in Global Context Moving On Rural to urban migration Intra-continental migration Inter-continental migration Growing in Place Summary Chapter 3 – Globalization and Labor FDI’s Implications for Labor GPNs and Labor as Object and Subject Waste, Global Destruction Networks, and Labor Summary Chapter 4 – Neoliberalism and Working Precariously Neoliberalism and Precarious Work Forms of Precarity and Their Present Dynamics Summary Chapter 5 – From Drudge Work to Emancipated Workers? Laboring in the Old Economy On the Swing to the Cancer in the Bush Iron Ore Mining in Western Australia Sweet Work? – Cocoa Plantation Workers in West Africa Fishy Business – Forced Labor in the Seafood Industry Summary Chapter 6 – Meet the New Economy – Same as the Old Economy? Laboring in the New Economy Chips off the Old (Economy) Block? Call Centers – Dark Satanic Mills of the New Economy? Ghost Workers of the New Economy Summary Chapter 7 – Workers Fight Back Workers Coming Together Organizing in the Age of Precarity Summary Chapter 8 – Concluding Thoughts Bibliography
£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Seeing Like a City
Book SynopsisSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.Trade Review‘Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable place within it.’AbdouMalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Goldsmiths, University of London‘This is a book that needed to be written. It takes us beyond the common notion of cities as settings, and pulls us into layer after layer of what constitutes the urban. Written in a highly conceptualized way, it gives us the full experience of theoria in its original meaning: seeing.’Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"With this book and their earlier Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2000), Amin and Thrift present a compelling theoretical argument and take an extreme position amongst those who resist the determinativeness and embrace the relationality of cities. [...N]ot to know its argument is to be uneducated in the world of urban theory. Still, this is not a book for the faint-hearted. It offers no reassurance [...] that change can be managed and all will be well. Rather, it challenges us to re-think our fundamental understandings of what we mean by a city." Robert Beauregard, Urban Studies
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Seeing Like a City
Book SynopsisSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.Trade Review�Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable place within it.�AbdouMalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Goldsmiths, University of London�This is a book that needed to be written. It takes us beyond the common notion of cities as settings, and pulls us into layer after layer of what constitutes the urban. Written in a highly conceptualized way, it gives us the full experience of theoria in its original meaning: seeing.�Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of ExpulsionsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Prologue 1 1 Looking through the City 9 2 Shifting the Beginning: The Anthropocene 33 3 How Cities Think 67 4 The Matter of Economy 99 5 Frames of Poverty 125 Epilogue 159 Notes 168 References 171 Index 190
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Planetary Gentrification
Book SynopsisThis is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global.Trade Review"This is an exciting and illuminating documentation of the ideologies and practices of gentrification in different parts of the globalizing world. Theoretically inspirational and empirically comprehensive, this book provides an excellent role model to show how critical comparative studies can be done for fruitful knowledge production. It makes a timely contribution that will be highly appreciated by all from the global North and South, East and West."George C. S. Lin, Hong Kong University "The authors are leading urban scholars from three continents, who advance the thesis of global gentrification and its attendant injustices through the informative lens of comparative urbanism. In doing so, they critically engage with 'both academic globalization and the globalization of capital'."David Ley, University of British Columbia "This book profoundly extends the scope of gentrification from its London-based origins to a globalizing urban world. Using a comparative perspective, the authors examine urban restructuring and displacement not as the spread of Western social-spatial forms, but as a process of planetary globalization. This book is the most lucid, nuanced and theoretically coherent treatment of gentrification and its manifestation to date."Fulong Wu, University College London"The stellar achievement of this book is its success in making sense of a planetary mélange of contemporary case studies of urban growth and development. The three coauthors bring perspectives steeped in Anglo American, Asian, and Hispanic cultural identities, yielding a densely textured portrayal of the sociopolitical dimensions of land development."Journal of Urban Affairs"[The authors] unlearn existing conceptualizations/theories, ideologies and practices/policies around gentrification, and question how experience from around the globe may enrich gentrification theory and concepts […]. Overall, they argue that the study of gentrification can help us to understand the complexity of urbanization processes […and] that the differences they identify are not radical enough to warrant dilution or dismissal of the term."Environment and Urbanization "[The authors] not only provide the reader with significant material that should start new and stimulating discussions in gentrification studies, but also challenge the way of understanding and investigating processes of gentrification. This book proves itself to be an important addition to further gentrification theory and an answer for the long-due desire to expand gentrification to the cities of the Global South."Urban GeographyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. New Urbanizations3. New Economics4. Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State5. A Global Gentrification Blueprint?6. Slum Gentrification7. Mega-Gentrification and Displacement8. ConclusionReferences
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Urban Worlds Inhabiting Dissonant Times
Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born.Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Urban Worlds
Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts. In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people''s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References
£18.04
University of British Columbia Press The CoWorkplace
Book SynopsisBorrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.Trade Review"An innovative book by a recognized expert in the field. The specific models and examples bring the material alive and make it accessible to a broad audience. Moreover, given the rapid rise in home-based work, this book will be an important contribution to both policy and academic debates." -Pat Armstrong, author of Theorizing Women's WorkTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface 1 Putting Work in Its Place 2 Situating Homework in Time and Space 3 If You Worked Here You’d Be Home By Now: Pros and Cons ofHome-Based Telework 4 Are We There Yet? The Telework Centre Office 5 Your Mother Doesn’t Work Here: Learning from Existing Modelsof Co-Workplaces 6 Where Can I Sign Up? The Demand for Co-Workplaces 7 Planning the Co-Workplace: Six Scenarios 8 Humanizing Home-Based Work with the Co-Workplace Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Research Instruments References Index
£73.95
MN - University of British Columbia Press The CoWorkplace
Book SynopsisBorrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface 1 Putting Work in Its Place 2 Situating Homework in Time and Space 3 If You Worked Here You’d Be Home By Now: Pros and Cons ofHome-Based Telework 4 Are We There Yet? The Telework Centre Office 5 Your Mother Doesn’t Work Here: Learning from Existing Modelsof Co-Workplaces 6 Where Can I Sign Up? The Demand for Co-Workplaces 7 Planning the Co-Workplace: Six Scenarios 8 Humanizing Home-Based Work with the Co-Workplace Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Research Instruments References Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press The Reluctant Land
Book SynopsisDescribes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. This book shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms.Trade ReviewTrial lawyers attending on Aboriginal claims will find this text usefully covers the history from 1500 forward, showing the changes from an Indigenous populated land to one organized on European terms. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister, Issue No.89 *This is a welcome antidote to the simplistic renderings of early Canadian history we are exposed to in high school social studies courses, political speeches and CBC mini-series. […] Harris has crafted a deeply insightful account of the history of what would become Canada. […] The Reluctant Land will be used in historical geography courses for many years to come – but it’s more than that, because Harris set himself the task of writing a scholarly book accessible to the general reader. […] Encountering The Reluctant Land is like listening to a series of articulate public lectures, organized on a regional basis, allowing for an exploration of each part of the country, in turn. -- Raymon Torchinsky * BC Bookworld, Vol.23, No.1, Spring 2009 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Lifeworlds, circa 15002 The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-16323 Acadia and Canada4 The Continental Interior, 1632-17505 Creating and Bounding British North America6 Newfoundland7 The Maritimes8 Lower Canada9 Upper Canada10 The Northwestern Interior, 1760-187011 British Columbia12 Confederation and the Pattern of CanadaIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Manufacturing National Park Nature
Book SynopsisJasper National Park is an international travel destination, world heritage site, and icon of Canadian identity. Although national parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, we are only beginning to understand how their visual imagery has shaped and continues to inform our perception of the natural world, ecological issues, and ourselves.In Manufacturing National Park Nature, J. Keri Cronin draws on visual images such as postcards and tourist snapshots to show that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image. Adopting an ecocritical approach to visual culture, she reveals that packaging Jasper as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals masks the real threats to the park's ecosystems. In telling the story of how various groups have used photography to shape our ideas about nature, this book sets the stage for a re-examination of protection policies and acknowledgTrade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
MN - University of British Columbia Press Manufacturing National Park Nature
Book SynopsisFocusing on Jasper National Park, this richly illustrated book shows how photography has shaped and continues to inform perceptions of nature and ecological issues in Canada.Trade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Rediscovering Thomas Adams Rural Planning and
Book SynopsisThis updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.Trade ReviewThis book makes a timely contribution to current debates regarding the nature of the profession, the need to consider urban and rural issues together, the need to think holistically across departmental boundaries, and the need to creatively consider the future of rural areas in the face of a declining population base, crumbling infrastructure, and energy crisis. -- Frank Palermo, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Wayne J. CaldwellRural Planning and Development by Thomas Adams with Commentaries1 Introductory / Commentary by Jeanne M. Wolfe2 Rural Population and Production in Canada / Commentary by Michael Troughton3 Present Systems of Surveying and Planning Land in Rural Areas / Commentary by Hok-Lin Leung4 Rural Transportation and Distribution: Railways and Highways / Commentary by Ian Wight5 Rural Problems that Arise in Connection with Land Development / Commentary by Len Gertler6 Organization of Rural Life and Rural Industries / Commentary by Tony Fuller7 Government Policies and Land Development / Commentary by Jill L. Grant8 Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement / Commentary by John Devlin9 Provincial Planning and Development Legislation / Commentary by Gary Davidson10 Outline of Proposals and General Conclusions / Commentary by Wayne J. CaldwellAppendicesIndexesContributors
£78.30
University of British Columbia Press Rediscovering Thomas Adams
Book SynopsisThis updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.Trade ReviewThis book makes a timely contribution to current debates regarding the nature of the profession, the need to consider urban and rural issues together, the need to think holistically across departmental boundaries, and the need to creatively consider the future of rural areas in the face of a declining population base, crumbling infrastructure, and energy crisis. -- Frank Palermo, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Wayne J. CaldwellRural Planning and Development by Thomas Adams with Commentaries1 Introductory / Commentary by Jeanne M. Wolfe2 Rural Population and Production in Canada / Commentary by Michael Troughton3 Present Systems of Surveying and Planning Land in Rural Areas / Commentary by Hok-Lin Leung4 Rural Transportation and Distribution: Railways and Highways / Commentary by Ian Wight5 Rural Problems that Arise in Connection with Land Development / Commentary by Len Gertler6 Organization of Rural Life and Rural Industries / Commentary by Tony Fuller7 Government Policies and Land Development / Commentary by Jill L. Grant8 Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement / Commentary by John Devlin9 Provincial Planning and Development Legislation / Commentary by Gary Davidson10 Outline of Proposals and General Conclusions / Commentary by Wayne J. CaldwellAppendicesIndexesContributors
£31.50
