Human geography Books
University of British Columbia Press Temagamis Tangled Wild
Book SynopsisTemagami's Tangled Wild traces the processes and power relationships through which the Temagami area of northeastern Ontario has become emblematic of Canadian wilderness. In this sophisticated analysis, Jocelyn Thorpe uncovers how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made Temagami a site of wild Canadian nature. Despite the fact that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have for many generations understood the region as their homeland rather than as a wilderness, the forestry and tourism industries, as well as Canadian law, have refused to acknowledge this claim. Instead, the concept of wilderness has been employed to aid in Aboriginal dispossession and to create a home for non-Aboriginal Canadians on Native land.An eloquent critique and engaging history, Temagami's Tangled Wild challenges readers to acknowledge how colonial relations are embedded in our notions of wilderness, and to reconsider our understanding of the wilderness iTrade ReviewThe book’s short length and clear writing, which make it ideal for teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, belie not only this ambitious objective but also Thorpe’s carefully theorizing and rich historical detail. -- Rosemary-Claire Collard * The Goose, Issue 11, 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: Nature and Nation in a “Little Known District amid the Wilds of Canada” / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Welcome to n’Daki Menan (“Our Land”)1 Tangled Wild2 Timber Nature3 Virgin Territory for the Sportsman4 A Rocky Reserve5 Legal Landscapes6 Conclusion: A Return to n’Daki MenanNotes; Bibliography; Index
£70.20
University of British Columbia Press Social Transformation in Rural Canada Community
Book SynopsisA series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. ReedPart 1: History, Trends, and Territory1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada’s Territorial North / Chris Southcott3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida and Howard RamosPart 2: Structure and Discourse4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: SocialTransformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha MacDonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta’s Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia’s Resource FrontierCommunities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg HalsethPart 3: Culture and Identity10 It’s Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-BasedCommunities of British Columbia’s Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Reframing the Culture of Forest Resource Dependence in Single-Industry Towns / Ryan Bullock14 The Social Transformation of Agriculture: The Case of Quebec / Christopher BryantPart 4: Voice and Action15 “That’s No Way to Run a Railroad”: The Battle River Branchline and the Politics of Technology in RuralAlberta / Darin Barney16 “It’s the Largest, Remotest, Most Wild, Undisturbed Area in the Province”: Outdoor Sport and EnvironmentalConflict in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia / Mark C.J. Stoddart17 Newfoundland and Labrador’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Transformation of Government–RuralCommunity Relations, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson18 Cultural and Creative Economy Strategies for Community Transformation: Four Approaches / Ross Nelson, Nancy Duxbury, and Catherine MurrayPostscript: The Future of Rural Studies in Canada / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Social Transformation in Rural Canada
Book SynopsisA series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. ReedPart 1: History, Trends, and Territory1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada’s Territorial North / Chris Southcott3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida and Howard RamosPart 2: Structure and Discourse4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: SocialTransformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha MacDonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta’s Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia’s Resource FrontierCommunities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg HalsethPart 3: Culture and Identity10 It’s Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-BasedCommunities of British Columbia’s Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Reframing the Culture of Forest Resource Dependence in Single-Industry Towns / Ryan Bullock14 The Social Transformation of Agriculture: The Case of Quebec / Christopher BryantPart 4: Voice and Action15 “That’s No Way to Run a Railroad”: The Battle River Branchline and the Politics of Technology in RuralAlberta / Darin Barney16 “It’s the Largest, Remotest, Most Wild, Undisturbed Area in the Province”: Outdoor Sport and EnvironmentalConflict in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia / Mark C.J. Stoddart17 Newfoundland and Labrador’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Transformation of Government–RuralCommunity Relations, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson18 Cultural and Creative Economy Strategies for Community Transformation: Four Approaches / Ross Nelson, Nancy Duxbury, and Catherine MurrayPostscript: The Future of Rural Studies in Canada / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Power from the North
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, Hydro-Québec declared in a publicity campaign We Are Hydro-Québécois. The slogan symbolized the extent to which hydroelectric development in the North had come to both reflect and fuel French Canada's aspirations. The slogan helped Quebecers relate to the province's northern territory and to accept the exploitation of its resources.In Power from the North, Caroline Desbiens explores how this culture of hydroelectricity helped shape the landscape during the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project. Policy makers and citizens did not, she argues, view those who built the dams as mere workers they saw them as pioneers in a previously uninhabited land now inscribed with the codes of culture and spectacle. This insightful work shows that if Quebec hopes to engage in truly sustainable resource development, all actors must bring an awareness of their cultural histories and visions of nature, North, and nation to the negotiating table. Trade ReviewCaroline Desbiens explores the nexus of hydroelectricity, Québécois identity, and the cultural narratives that are used by southern Québécois to justify resource development in the northern regions of the province. The result is a wonderfully personal and critical reflection on the culture of hydroelectricity in Québec and “the importance of reading economic development through a cultural lens.” [It] is an excellent new contribution to the Nature|History|Society series from UBC Press. It connects beautifully with the other books in the series and will compliment work on the ways in which people conceptualize and transform the north through material, and particularly discursive, formations. -- Morgan Moffitt, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta * Journal of Polar Record *Table of ContentsForeword: Ideas of North / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Looking NorthPart 1: Power and the North1 The Nexus of Hydroelectricity in Quebec2 Discovering a New World: James Bay as Eeyou IstcheePart 2: Writing the Land3 Who Shall Convert the Wilderness into a Flourishing Country?4 From the Roman de la Terre to the Roman des RessourcesPart 3: Rewriting the Land5 Pioneers6 Workers7 SpectatorsConclusion: Ongoing Stories and Powers from the NorthNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press The Industrial Diet
Book SynopsisA searing look at the socioeconomic, technological, and political forces that have transformed our food into edible commodities.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Food Environments from Palaeolithic Times1 Between Producers and Eaters: A Dietary Regime Approach2 Discordant Diets, Unhealthy People3 From Neolithic to Capitalist DietsPart 2: The Beginnings of the Industrial Diet, 1870-19494 From Patent Flour to Wheaties5 Pushing Product for Profit: Early BrandingPart 3: The Intensification of the Industrial Diet, 1940-806 Speeding Up the Making of Food7 The Simplification of Whole Food8 Adulteration and the Rise of Pseudo Foods9 The Spatial Colonization of the Industrial Diet: The Supermarket10 Meals Away from Home: The Health Burden of Restaurant ChainsPart 4: Globalization and Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Era11 The Industrial Diet Goes Global12 Transformative Food Movements and the Struggle for Healthy Eating13 Case Studies of a Transformative Food Movement14 Towards a Sustainable and Ethical Health-Based Dietary RegimeNotes, Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press The Industrial Diet
Book SynopsisA searing look at the socioeconomic, technological, and political forces that have transformed our food into edible commodities.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Food Environments from Palaeolithic Times1 Between Producers and Eaters: A Dietary Regime Approach2 Discordant Diets, Unhealthy People3 From Neolithic to Capitalist DietsPart 2: The Beginnings of the Industrial Diet, 1870-19494 From Patent Flour to Wheaties5 Pushing Product for Profit: Early BrandingPart 3: The Intensification of the Industrial Diet, 1940-806 Speeding Up the Making of Food7 The Simplification of Whole Food8 Adulteration and the Rise of Pseudo Foods9 The Spatial Colonization of the Industrial Diet: The Supermarket10 Meals Away from Home: The Health Burden of Restaurant ChainsPart 4: Globalization and Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Era11 The Industrial Diet Goes Global12 Transformative Food Movements and the Struggle for Healthy Eating13 Case Studies of a Transformative Food Movement14 Towards a Sustainable and Ethical Health-Based Dietary RegimeNotes, Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Coping with Calamity
Book SynopsisThe Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Jiayan Zhang consults early records of catastrophic water events and explores their role in shaping Jianghan society in the Qing and Republican periods. In a constantly shifting environment, the peasants of Jianghan were forced to adapt their farming methods; cooperate on complex projects like dike building; and even organize social structures, tenancy arrangements, and lifestyles around the pressure and uncertainty of their environment. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Changes in the Environment of the Jianghan Plain2 Water Calamities and the Management of the Dike Systems3 The Dike Systems and the Jianghan Economy4 Agriculture, Commercialization, and Environmental Adaptability5 Tenancy and Environment6 Fisheries and the Peasant Economy7 A Water-Rich Society: Socio-Economic Life in a Marshy KingdomConclusionAppendix: The Yield of Rice in the Jianghan Plain in the Qing and the RepublicGlossary; Notes; References; Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Public Interest Private Property
Book SynopsisThrough selected case studies, this volume explores the complex interplay between the public interest and private property rights in Canadian urban-planning policy.Trade ReviewThis collection accomplishes its goal, filling the gap in Canadian academic literature in the context of balancing private property rights and the public interest in urban planning … the problems identified in [Public Interest, Private Property] could have continuing relevance for future urban planning and legislation across Canada. -- Matthew Barnes * Saskatchewan Law Review *While these topics may seem familiar, the common thread – thinking deeply about private property rights – sets this collection apart and makes it an engaging read. The introduction alone would be worthwhile reading for any property law or planning law curriculum ... One of the reasons the book works so well is that at the heart of the collection is a shared belief among the writers in the value of dialogue as well as a desire to avoid artificially amplifying the public-private rights divide that can stunt public conversation of property rights. -- Michael Connell, WeirFoulds LLP * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Marcia Valiante and Anneke SmitPart 1: Contextualizing Canadian Private Property and Public Planning1 Private Property in Historical and Global Contexts and Its Lessons for Planning / Harvey M. Jacobs2 Bumble Bees Cannot Fly, and Restrictive Covenants Cannot Run / Bruce ZiffPart 2: Public Interest, Participation, and Planning Law3 The Disappearance of Planning Law in Ontario / Stanley M. Makuch4 In Search of the “Public Interest” in Ontario Planning Decisions / Marcia ValiantePart 3: Recent Shifts in Canadian Urban Planning and Private Property5 Transforming Toronto: Implementation and Impacts of Metropolitan-Scale Plans / Pierre Filion and Anna Kramer6 Green Development: New Entanglements of Property, Planning, and the Public Interest / Deborah CurranPart 4: Private Property, Natural Resources, and Planning7 Private Tree Protection Bylaws: In the Public Interest? / Eran S. Kaplinsky8 Planning for Potable Water: Public Interest and Property Rights / Jane Matthews GlennPart 5: Issues in Canadian Expropriation Law and Practice9 Expropriation: The Raw Edge of the Conflict between Public and Private Interests / Stephen F. Waqué and Ian Mathany10 Making Up for the Loss of “Home”: Compensation in Residential Property Expropriation / Anneke SmitIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Geography of British Columbia Fourth Edition
Book SynopsisThis extensively revised edition of Geography of British Columbia teaches students how to think like geographers as it takes them on a journey from the origins of the region’s diverse and unique landscapes to its more recent history as a province being reshaped by the forces of globalization.Trade ReviewGeography of British Columbia remains an excellent overview of BC geography. -- Ken Favrholdt * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Geographical Foundations1 British Columbia, a Region of Regions2 Physical Processes and Human Implications3 Geophysical Hazards and Their Risks4 Resource Development and ManagementPart 2: The Economic Geography of British Columbia5 “Discovering” Indigenous Lands and Shaping a Colonial Landscape6 Boom and Bust from Confederation to the Early 1900s7 Resource Dependency and Racism in an Era of Global Chaos8 Changing Values during the Postwar Boom9 Resource Uncertainty in the Late Twentieth Century10 The Twenty-First-Century Liberal LandscapeConclusionGlossary; Further Readings; Index
£40.50
University of British Columbia Press Making Muskoka
Book SynopsisMuskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers' ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.Trade Review"… Making Muskoka is pertinent reading for those studying the impacts of tourism on landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them." -- Matthew Hatvany, Laval University * Canadian Geographies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Rural Identity and Resettlement of the Canadian Shield, 1860–802 Indigenous Identity, Settler Colonialism, and Tourism, 1850–19203 Rural Identity and Tourism, 1870–19004 The Promise of Wood-Resource Harvesting, 1870–19205 Fossil Fuels, Consumer Culture, and the Tourism Economy, 1900–20ConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Making Muskoka Tourism Rural Identity and
Book SynopsisMaking Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.Trade Review"… Making Muskoka is pertinent reading for those studying the impacts of tourism on landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them." -- Matthew Hatvany, Laval University * Canadian Geographies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Rural Identity and Resettlement of the Canadian Shield, 1860–802 Indigenous Identity, Settler Colonialism, and Tourism, 1850–19203 Rural Identity and Tourism, 1870–19004 The Promise of Wood-Resource Harvesting, 1870–19205 Fossil Fuels, Consumer Culture, and the Tourism Economy, 1900–20ConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Condoland
Book SynopsisIn an era of frantic vertical urbanization known as “condoism,” Condoland explores the planning and design of Toronto’s CityPlace, one of North America’s largest residential development projects – and reveals what can happen when the real estate industry comes to dominate city planning.Trade Review"Condoland is a clear, comprehensive case study of the planning, design governance, and real estate processes that shaped Toronto’s "Vancouverization" (vertical urbanization)." -- M. C. Childs. University of New Mexico * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Planning, Urban Design, and Condominiums in Toronto1 Planning and the Tools of Design Governance2 The Central Area Plan and Reformist Planning and Urban Design3 Urban Intensification, Flexible Planning, and Vertical Urbanization4 "Condo-ism" and the Impacts of Vertical UrbanizationPart 2: Designing and Developing the CityPlace Megaproject5 Visions for Toronto’s Railway Lands6 "Vancouverism" in Toronto7 The Condominium Megastructure8 CityPlace and the Affordable Housing Conundrum9 A Tale of Two Halves on the Wittington Blocks10 Completing CityPlaceConclusionAppendix: Railway Lands/CityPlace Planning, Design, and Development TimelineNotes; References; Index
£31.50
Cornell University Press No Mans Land
Book SynopsisExamines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technology—and how and when geography still matters, tracing the networks, command structures, and training programs of Southeast Asian terrorist, insurgent, and criminal groups.Trade Review"No Man's Land is a useful and original contribution to the literature on terrorism from the perspective of political geography. It provides a different perspective from mainstream terrorism and strategic studies and gives a useful counter to the sometimes bloated claims of the advocates of globalization. Just as realists in International Relations argue that globalization has not meant the end of the state, Justin V. Hastings makes a compelling argument that territory matters and that it is not passé, despite the emergence of the global interlinked economy." -- Andrew T. H. Tan, Convenor for International Studies, University of New South Wales"Engaging and accessible, No Man's Land is a fascinating book on extremely timely and important topics—terrorism, insurgency, and cross-border crime." -- Peter Andreas, Brown University, author of Blue Helmets and Black MarketsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Grappling with Territory in a Globalizing World1. Territory and the Ideas of Clandestine Transnational Organization2. Territory, Politics, and the Technologies of GlobalizationPart II: Territory and Transnational Terrorism3. The Rise of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1985–1994. The Decline of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1999–20095. The Plots of Jemaah IslamiyahPart III: Extensions: Southeast Asia and Beyond6. Gerakan Aceh Merdeka7. Transnational Criminal Organizations in Southeast Asia8. Fluidity and Rigidity in Clandestine Transnational OrganizationsConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex
£81.00
Cornell University Press The Neoliberal City
Book SynopsisThe shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in...Trade Review"Drawing from geography, urban studies, and political science, The Neoliberal City is a good introduction to many debates in those disciplines and to some important arguments about the neoliberal city. Jason Hackworth's discussion of liberalism and neoliberalism is particularly valuable for its clarity and because it provides a punchy and well-argued account of the intellectual development of neoliberalism. By focusing on the roles of bond-rating agencies, real-estate agents, developers, and public housing authorities, Jason Hackworth successfully reveals the internal processes of neoliberalism in action." -- Joe Painter, University of Durham"In this fascinating book, Jason Hackworth explores the new geographies of inequality, exclusion and displacement that have been forged within U.S. cities during the last three decades of worldwide urban restructuring. Written in an accessible style and grounded upon an impressive assemblage of empirical evidence, The Neoliberal City will be an essential resource for anyone concerned to decipher the contemporary urban condition in the United States. The book provides, simultaneously, a serious engagement with key strands of contemporary critical urban theory, an illuminating exploration of several spheres of contemporary urban restructuring and a nuanced analysis of on-the-ground sociospatial changes and struggles in several major U.S. cities. The book will become an essential reference point in future debates on the nature of neoliberalized urbanization and in ongoing scholarly efforts to decipher the restlessly changing landscape of post-Keynesian urbanization both in the USA and beyond." -- Neil Brenner, New York University"Jason Hackworth grounds theories of neoliberalism in an astute analysis of urban governance, urban development, and social movements in cities. His empirical studies demonstrate that neoliberal processes are more contingent and more context-sensitive than abstract theorizations might suggest. The Neoliberal City makes a persuasive case that it is hard to understand contemporary cities without a more nuanced view of neoliberalism." -- Susan E. Clarke, University of Colorado at BoulderTable of Contents1. The Place, Time, and Process of Neoliberal UrbanismPart 1: Governing the Neoliberal City 2. Choosing the Neoliberal Path 3. The Glocalization of Governance 4. The Public-Private PartnershipPart 2: The Acceleration of Uneven Development 5. The Neoliberal Spatial Fix 6. The Reinvested Urban Core 7. Neoliberal Gentrification 8. Mega-Projects in the Urban Core: Bread or Circus?Part 3: Contesting the Neoliberal City 9. Social Struggle in a Neoliberal Policy Landscape 10. Alternative Futures at the End of HistoryReferences Index
£24.69
Cornell University Press Taking Southeast Asia to Market
Book SynopsisRecent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast...Trade ReviewWhat unites these case studies is their view that commodification processes under the 'new' global order are increasingly complex and their critical stance toward the kinds of sociopolitical transformations that are wrought by a neoliberal market economy. The intractability of 'neoliberalist tendencies' is explained by, inter alia, the neoliberal market economy's ability to localize and contain fallouts; its effectiveness in limiting transnational resistance to its spread; and the particular historical, political contingencies in specific places that sustain such tendencies. Its resilience is also partly explained by its constant morphing into more (outwardly) benign forms. This edited volume is thus an important and much appreciated addition that deepens our understanding of pertinent social, economic, and political processes in Southeast Asia. It is especially significant and timely in illuminating how neoliberalizing processes make new commodities and remake old ones. * Economic Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoPart I. New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital1. Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests by Anna Tsing2. What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia’s Timber Industry by Paul K. Gellert3. Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers’ Resistance by Angie Ng?c Tr?n4. Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia by Daromir RudnyckyjPart II. New Enclosures and Territorializations5. China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure by Keith Barney6. Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong River by David Biggs 7. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park by Tania Murray Li8 Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma by Ken MacLeanPart III. New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors9. Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesia by Dorian Fougères10. Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung by Lesley Potter11. The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia by Sandra Smeltzer12. New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand by Peter VandergeestConcluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoNotes References List of Contributors Index
£26.59
Cornell University Press Habits of the Heartland
Book SynopsisSo, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to...Trade ReviewIn researching her book, the author lived and worked for nearly two years in Viroqua, a small town in southwestern Wisconsin, where she tended bar at the American Legion and even served as vice president of the historical society's museum. This kind of work stands or falls by the vigilance and precision of the ethnographer's observations. Macgregor acquits herself brilliantly; she draws subtle distinctions within and between social groups, yet her analysis lets readers generalize about what some idealize and others castigate as small-town American values. For all their differences, the longtime residents (who might drive ATVs and snowmobiles) and the progressives (who favor Subaru Outbacks, the local Waldorf school, and organic produce) share a belief that raising children in Viroqua helps protect them from the 'excesses of consumerism.' Indeed, readers from non-flyover places will be struck by the subdued and skeptical consumerism and the commitment to thrift that Macgregor finds among Viroquans. Here's an unintentional paean to midwestern modesty that's especially noteworthy in our post-crash era. -- Benjamin Schwarz * The Atlantic Monthly *MacGregor's work is a powerful reminder to rethink our assumptions about how community transpires in small towns... MacGregor’s ethnographic approach is a reminder about the value of letting people speak and act for themselves. Habits of the Heartland is an important contribution for scholarsstudentsand planners interested in community and/or rural and small town life in the twenty-first century. -- Amanda Johnson Ashley * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Cultures of Community1. Three Halloweens, Three Viroquas 2. The Alternatives: A Kinder, Gentler Counterculture 3. The Main Streeters: The Busiest People in Town 4. The Regulars: Keeping Things Simple 5. Playing in the Same Sandbox?Part II: Commerce, Consumption, and Community in Viroqua6. Beneficent Enterprise and Viroquan Exceptionalism 7. Retail Morality 8. Consumption and Belonging in ViroquaEpilogue and ConclusionAppendix: Study Methods References Index
£22.39
Cornell University Press No Mans Land
Book SynopsisThe increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies of globalization, and difficult terrain poses many of the same problems today as it has throughout human history. In No Man''s Land, Justin V. Hastings examines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technologyand how and when geography still matters.Based on often difficult fieldwork in Southeast Asia, Hastings traces the logistics networks, command and control structures, and training programs of three distinct clandestine organizations: the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, the insurgent Free Aceh Movement, and organized criminals in the form of smugglers and maritime pirates. Hastings also compares the experiences of these groups to others outside SoTrade Review"No Man's Land is a useful and original contribution to the literature on terrorism from the perspective of political geography. It provides a different perspective from mainstream terrorism and strategic studies and gives a useful counter to the sometimes bloated claims of the advocates of globalization. Just as realists in International Relations argue that globalization has not meant the end of the state, Justin V. Hastings makes a compelling argument that territory matters and that it is not passé, despite the emergence of the global interlinked economy." -- Andrew T. H. Tan, Convenor for International Studies, University of New South Wales"Engaging and accessible, No Man's Land is a fascinating book on extremely timely and important topics—terrorism, insurgency, and cross-border crime." -- Peter Andreas, Brown University, author of Blue Helmets and Black MarketsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Grappling with Territory in a Globalizing World1. Territory and the Ideas of Clandestine Transnational Organization2. Territory, Politics, and the Technologies of GlobalizationPart II: Territory and Transnational Terrorism3. The Rise of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1985–1994. The Decline of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1999–20095. The Plots of Jemaah IslamiyahPart III: Extensions: Southeast Asia and Beyond6. Gerakan Aceh Merdeka7. Transnational Criminal Organizations in Southeast Asia8. Fluidity and Rigidity in Clandestine Transnational OrganizationsConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex
£21.24
Cornell University Press Locating Migration
Book SynopsisIn this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities. This book provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global. Cities are approached not as containers but as fluid and historically differentiated analytical entry points. Chapters explore migrants'' relationship to the neoliberal rebranding, redevelopment, and rescaTrade ReviewLocating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrantsis an attempt to examine migrants as integral to cities through analyses of scale, space, and temporal phenomena in different places. The editors want tosteer the study of migrants away froma narrow focus that has isolated ethnic communities and theorize the important role that migrants have had in shaping and being shaped by cities and the scale issues related to cities.. This book would be useful for anyone teaching courses in international planning, immigration, and planning, and planning history and theory. -- Elizabeth L. Sweet * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities by Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick SchillerPart I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications by Neil Brenner3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets by Michael Samers4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse CaglarPart II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban Neighborhoods, Cities, and Their Regions5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Place by Caroline B. Brettell6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces by Rijk van Dijk7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor by Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities by Judith Goode9. Rescaling Processes in Two "Global" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation by Monika Salzbrunn10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporation by Bela Feldman-Bianco12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality by Gunther SchleeBibliography Biographical Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Mental Territories Mapping the Inland Empire
Book SynopsisRarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the century as the Inland Empire included portions of the states of Washington and Idaho, as well as British Columbia. Katherine G. Morrissey traces the...Trade ReviewA thought-provoking work... The book's rich sources, entertaining case studies and eccentric characters make a lively and readable work. * Australasian Journal of American Studies *Mental Territories is an intellectual history.... This book is beautifully written.... The best history combines thoughtful analysis, fine writing, and good storytelling—and Morrissey excels at all three. * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *An example of fine interdisciplinary scholarship that draws on a wealth of theoretical support and on an impressive array of primary sources, Mental Territories may be considered a model of a new approach to regional history and geography... It is a book that I will recommend to colleagues and students looking for deeper ways of understanding America's regional diversity. * Journal of American History *Mental Territories offers a fresh focus on a part of the country that has long been outside the American mainstream. * Reviews in American History *A model case study of the nature of boosterism that was central to the aspirations of many of the West's would-be metropolitan centers. Morrissey's liberal use of a fascinating series of promotional maps and illustrations amply documents that municipal passion.... Mental Territories is a valuable study, and not just for a single community and subregion. It takes an in-depth look at the intellectual process itself and thus offers students of the West a good example of the analytical tools that can be used to examine municipal boosterism and the perceptual construction of region. * Western Historical Quarterly *Morrissey's book is a synthesis drawn from an extensive geographic literature that ranges from mental mapping and perceptual geographies to exhaustive regional studies.... Good bibliography of primary and secondary sources. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press The Conquest of a Continent
Book SynopsisIn The Conquest of a Continent, the historian W. Bruce Lincoln details Siberia''s role in Russian history, one remarkably similar to that of the frontier in the development of the United States.... It is a big, panoramic book, in keeping with the immensity of its subject.Chicago TribuneLincoln is a compelling writer whose chapters are colorful snapshots of Siberia''s past and present.... The Conquest of a Continent is a vivid narrative that will inform and entertain the broader reading public.American Historical ReviewThis story includes Genghis Khan, who sent the Mongols warring into Russia; Ivan the Terrible, who conquered Siberia for Russia; Peter the Great, who supported scientific expeditions and mining enterprises; and Mikhail Gorbachev, whose glasnost policy prompted a new sense of ''Siberian'' nationalism. It is also the story of millions of souls who themselves were conquered by Siberia.... Vast riches and great misery, often intertwined, mark this region.The Wall Street Jo
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University of Nebraska Press Crafting a Republic for the World
Book SynopsisIn the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant post-colonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish ""colonial legacy"".Trade Review"In Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia, Lina del Castillo offers a glimpse into the process of transforming Colombia into an Andean-Atlantic nation."—Sharika D. Crawford, Latin American Research Review"This ambitious and invigorating book will incite discussion for years to come. It sets an important precedent for describing nineteenth-century Latin America as a period of immense political, economic, scientific, and even cultural creativity rather than as a period consumed by caudillismo, corruption, and political fragmentation. . . . The book is tremendously successful."—Fidel J. Tavárez, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“This is the rare scholarly work that will make valuable contributions to not just one but three historical fields: the political history of republicanism, the cultural history of nineteenth-century mentalités, and the global history of science.”—James E. Sanders, professor of history at Utah State University“Lina del Castillo’s work deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America as part of the vanguard of democracy.”—Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick“Deeply researched and innovative, Crafting a Republic for the World shows how nineteenth-century Colombians invented the notion of colonial legacies and how this notion was essential to the creation of a new science of republicanism. An inspiring account of how ideas about the past shape politics and policy!”—Marixa Lasso, associate professor of history at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia“According to Del Castillo’s sharp and provocative analysis, Colombia’s oft-cited ‘colonial legacy’ was actually a nineteenth-century construct, one that has far outlived its early republican creators as an explanatory framework for all that is wrong with modern Latin America. Crafting a Republic for the World will spark scholarly debate by forcing us to rethink this legacy.”—Nancy Appelbaum, professor of history at Binghamton University, SUNYTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Postcolonial Inventions of Spanish American Colonial Legacies Chapter 1. Gran Colombian Print Culture and the Erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment Chapter 2. A Political Economy of Circulation Chapter 3. Calculating Equality and the Postcolonial Reproduction of the Colonial State Chapter 4. Political Ethnography and the Colonial in the Postcolonial Mind Chapter 5. Constitutions and Political Geographies Harness Universal Manhood Suffrage Chapter 6. Civic Religion vs. the Catholic Church and the Ending of a Republican Project Conclusion: A Continental Postcolonial Colombia Challenges the Latin Race Idea Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press The Figure of the Migrant
Book SynopsisAt a time when more people than ever are being constrained to move for political, economic, and environmental reasons, this book provides a new political theory of migration, one based on the social primacy of movement.Trade Review"Nail provides an innovative conceptual framework that disaggregates and contextualises social motions and movements throughout Western history. Beyond the originality of the kinopolitic theory, the real contribution is the focus on migrant's conditions that are too often neglected in the field of migration studies." -- Betty Rouland * Geopolitics *"Nail focuses on numerous ways that social and political developments can be viewed as a history of migrants . . . Nail concludes that migration is not derivative within a static framework but is primary to a history of society. Nail's book is a novel approach to history and political theory." * E.R. Gill CHOICE *"In this powerful book, Thomas Nail forces us to think migration from the perspective of movement and so builds both a theoretical argument and a political intervention. A bold and provocative engagement with one of the world's most pressing contemporary issues." -- Stuart Elden * University or Warwick *"Hardly a day goes by without some reference in the media to the "problem" of migration. In offering a theoretical account of the figure of the migrant throughout history, Thomas Nail's book thus performs an important service for the interdisciplinary study of one of the most important subjects of our century. Carefully argued, well informed, hugely ambitious, and analytically precise, it will become a standard reference for years to come." -- Tim Cresswell * Northeastern University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe Introduction lays out the objectives of the book as a whole. Given the contemporary importance of migration, this book develops a political theory of the migrant. In particular, the aim is to overcome two problems: the migrant has been predominantly understood from the perspective of stasis and the state. If we want to develop a political theory of the migrant itself and not of the migrant as a failed citizen, we need to reinterpret the migrant first and foremost according to its own defining feature: its movement. This allows us to conceptualize the emergence of the historical conditions that give rise to the different types of social expulsion that define the migrant and to diagnose the capacity of the migrant to create an alternative to its social expulsion. 1The Figure of the Migrant chapter abstractThis chapter defines "the figure of the migrant" as a political concept that identifies the common points where mobile figures are socially expelled or dispossessed as a result, or as the cause, of their mobility. The movement of the migrant is thus not simply from A to B but the constitutive condition for the qualitative transformation of society as a whole. This chapter defines the migrant as a figure, which is not a fixed identity or specific person but a mobile social position. One becomes a figure when one occupies this position and may do so to different degrees, at different times, and in different circumstances. The figure of the migrant, for example, is like a social persona that bears many masks (the nomad, barbarian, vagabond, proletariat) depending on the relative social conditions of expulsion. 2Kinopolitics chapter abstractThe history of the migrant is the history of social motion. This chapter defines and lays out the logical structure of social motion or "kinopolitics," the politics of movement. Instead of analyzing societies as primarily static, spatial, or temporal types of entities, kinopolitics or social kinetics understands them primarily as "regimes of motion." Societies are always in motion: directing people and objects, reproducing their social conditions (periodicity), and striving to expand their territorial, political, juridical, and economic power through diverse forms of expulsion. This chapter introduces three key concepts to understanding social motion: flow, junction, and circulation. In this way, it is possible to identify something like a political theory of movement. In particular, this chapter argues that the migrant is defined by two intertwined social motions: expansion and expulsion. 3Centripetal Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the first type of social expansion by expulsion: centripetal force. The first historically dominant type of expansion by expulsion can be described as a centripetal social force because its dominant motion is inward—toward the creation of the first stable social centers on the earth's center-less surface. Since centripetal social force is primarily concerned with accumulation, territorial expulsion remains an indirect phenomenon. Nomads were not first expelled because they were foreigners or social inferiors. Rather, the type of expulsion proper to territorial kinopower creates a centripetal remainder: leftovers—that which is not territorially accumulated. The figure of the nomad is simply expelled because there are not enough territorial flows left over for them, and they are in the way. 4Centrifugal Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the second type of social expansion by expulsion: centrifugal force. This force emerges historically alongside the ancient empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Political or centrifugal kinopower expands the curved movements of territorial control into a completely enclosed circle, brings all its stock into a shared resonance around a central axis, and radiates outward. It adds to the system of curved, centripetal expansion a system of concentric, centrifugal expansion and produces a new figure of the migrant: the barbarian. Territorial kinopower expands by creating a stock and expels only certain plants, animals, and people (nomads) as an indirect consequence: as an unaccumulated, aterritorial remainder. 5Tensional Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the third type of social expansion by expulsion: tensional force. This force emerges historically alongside the feudal societies of medieval Europe. This type of kinopower is "juridical" in the kinetic sense in which law binds the movement of social beings to one another and to a certain social condition or territory. Tensional migratory expulsion occurs when these juridical linkages are severed and release a social flow: vagabondage. However, just as easily as this network of juridical linkages can be dissolved, so the links can be reassembled into new circuits. Internally, juridical kinopower expels peasants and debtors from their legal right to the land and expands legal power by criminalizing them as vagabonds. Externally, juridical kinopower expels foreign peoples through war, colonialism, and kidnapping and expands its legal power by colonial legislation: the encomienda. 6Elastic Force I chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the fourth type of social expansion by expulsion: elastic force. This type of kinopower comes to dominance during the sociohistorical period between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and can be kinopolitically defined by the emergence of a newly dominant force of social motion: elasticity. This elastic force is a specifically "economic" type of kinopower in the sense that economics strives for the free arrangement and movement of things to and fro with a minimum of territorial, political, or juridical restrictions and with a maximum of equilibrium. The migrant proletariat is the spectrum of the proletariat that is economically expelled as a mobile social surplus. This chapter and the next analyze the specific social technologies of expulsion and mobilization that give rise to a variety of such migrant proletarian subjects and expand economic kinopower, including enclosures, capitalism, and eighteenth-century workhouses. 7Elastic Force II chapter abstractThis chapter continues to analyzes the fourth type of social expansion by expulsion: elastic force. Not only is a migrant proletariat created through an intensive expulsion—enclosures, capitalist valorization, and workhouses—in order to increase competition and production, but it is also produced through an extensive expulsion via penal transportation, emigration, and denationalization. The chapter describes the forms of external expansion by expulsion in their intensive forms (the Atlantic slave trade) and their extensive forms (British colonialism in Ireland and North America). 8Pedetic Force chapter abstractThe migrant has many different figures. The nomad, the barbarian, the vagabond, and the proletariat are only four major ones. Not only does each figure of the migrant emerge under different historical and social conditions of expansion and expulsion, but each figure also invents a form of kinetic power of its own that poses an alternative to social expulsion. Although each of the figures of the migrant deploys this force in its unique way, each is also the social expression of a more general "pedetic" social force. This chapter briefly outlines the concept of pedetic social force that is deployed by the four figures of the migrant analyzed in the following chapters of Part 3. 9The Nomad chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the first figure of pedetic social force: the nomad. The nomad is not simply the result of a primary territorial, centripetal expulsion. Early hunter-gathers were not simply left out from territorial society; they also actively left it and invented an entirely different form of social motion. Hunter-gathers moved to the mountains and cultivated the newly discovered art of animal raising. In cultivating this art so exclusively, they had to invent a form of social motion most conducive to it. Nomadism oscillates continually by following the earth's flows wherever they may go, without centripetal capture or accumulation. Nomadism also deploys a transportation of social kinetic disturbances: waves. The nomads' kinetic wave is a mass or common phenomenon that links them by force without producing a division in their motion. Finally, nomadism creates a social pressure against territorial barriers. 10The Barbarian chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the second figure of pedetic social force: the barbarian. The barbarian, like the nomad, is not merely the result of a kinetic expulsion. Barbarians also invent their own form of social motion that functions in a pedetic way. Just as "barbarian" in the ancient world was often etymologically or literally the word for the "slave by nature," it is not surprising that the ancient art of pedesis appears most predominantly in the oscillations, waves, and social pressures of refugees and slave revolts. 11The Vagabond chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the third figure of pedetic social force: the vagabond. The vagabond is not only the criminalized migrant expelled by the tensional force of law as the tramp, the debtor, the beggar, the pauper, the vagrant, the heretic, the witch, the Jew, the minstrel, the foreigner, the homeless. The vagabond, from the Latin vagus, meaning "to wander," from the Latin proprius, meaning "one's own way," is also the migrant whose free wandering has its own techniques of pedetic force found in the kinetic counterpower of rebellion: the direct battle with the forces of expulsion. 12The Proletariat chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the fourth figure of pedetic social force: the proletariat. The proletariat is not only a migratory surplus expelled by the elastic force of the economy; the proletariat also breaks free from the driving forces of oscillation (profit, equilibrium, competition, etc.). In other words, the proletariat responds to elastic force with a pedetic force of its own. This pedetic force is defined by the free oscillation of social movements, the wave of protests, communes, and the pressure of the strike in its various forms: the barricade, the labor strike, the hunger strike, the boycott, and others. 13Centripetal Force and Land Grabbing chapter abstractThe aim of the final part of this book is to deploy a hybrid theory of kinopolitical analysis to the increasingly complex phenomenon of contemporary migration. The history of the migrant this book has traced so far is not simply a history of the past; it is also a history of the present in which all of the historical conditions and figures of the migrant return and mix. This chapter describes the reemergence of centripetal social force seen in contemporary Mexico-US migration. While unquestionably mixed with several other types of social motion, centripetal force in its most basic form remains a crucial condition for the expulsion of the Mexican people and the expansion of US and private power. Today, we call this "land grabbing." This chapter describes two major periods of centripetal accumulation in Mexico: the Porfiriato and neoliberalism. 14Centrifugal Force and Federal Enforcement chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of centrifugal social force in Mexico-US migration. There are several ways centrifugal power operates through federal power in Mexico and the United States to expand its reach and expel migrants. The centrifugal force of the Mexican state expands its centralized force by the direct expulsion of indigenous farmers from public lands and the reappropriation of their labor by other means. It also uses direct police and military violence to expel migrants. When peasants will not migrate or sell their land "voluntarily" to these state-sponsored mega-projects, a centrally directed police and military force is sent out from the city to directly expel people from the territory. Finally, Mexico and the United States treat migrants as naturally inferior and depoliticized barbarians. 15Tensional Force and Illegal People chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of tensional social force in Mexico-US migration. Contemporary tensional force is created by the rise of multiple legal powers: international, supranational, humanitarian, and corporate law that now poses entirely new limitations on the executive power of sovereign governments. Today's tensional forces that bind social motions, although no longer feudal, still take the form of a vast network of legal contracts binding at every level of society, that is, between individuals, local law, states, nations, and other non-state international organizations. This is accomplished in several ways: the reform of the countryside in Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Zones and maquiladoras, the criminalization of labor in the United States, and the detention and expulsion of migrants in the United States. 16Elastic Force and Neoliberalism chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of elastic social force in Mexico-US migration. Elastic force expands and expels not by creating and breaking juridical tensions between social motions but by creating and redistributing a surplus of motion elsewhere. As long as a society is capable of producing and mobilizing its surplus and deficits, it will be able to pursue equilibrium and hopefully expand. Thus, elasticity expands and expels, not from the outside to the center (centripetally), nor from the center to the outside (centrifugally), nor by rigid links between centers (tension), but rather by the redistribution of a surplus wherever it is needed. This accomplished in several ways: the redistribution of surplus in Mexico, privatization, guest-worker programs, and undocumented migrant workers. 17Pedetic Force and Migrant Power chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes four types of contemporary migrant counterpower in the case of Mexico-US migration. Just as contemporary migration is produced by the forces of social expansion and expulsion, so it is also defined by the pedetic counterforces of oscillation, waves, and pressure. Social pedesis is the irregular movement of a collective body: a social turbulence. It is the force of motion of the social figure who moves outside the dominant forms of social motion: the migrant. This is expressed in four contemporary figures of Mexico-US migration: the nomadic seasonal worker, the barbarian invader, the vagabond rebel, and the proletarian occupier. Conclusion chapter abstractThe Conclusion recapitulates the main problems and consequences of the movement-oriented theory of the migrant presented throughout the book. Additionally, it highlights three major areas where further work is necessary. First, future work is necessary to analyze the kinopolitical technologies presented in this book (and others) according to their full historical and kinetic mixture or hybridization—which this book has presented only in their relative isolation. Second, many other major and interesting areas of contemporary migration remain to be analyzed with this framework, such as the landless peasant movement in Brazil, the recent home foreclosure process happening around the world, the recent land grabs and expulsions in Cambodia, and the sans-papiers (without papers) struggle in France. Third, future work is needed to examine additional figures of the migrant, such as tourists, commuters, diplomats, and business travelers, with respect to their degrees of expulsion and movement.
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Stanford University Press Gendered Commodity Chains
Book SynopsisFocuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis.Trade Review"A collective project between Virginia Tech and SUNY Binghamton, original essays from both novice researchers and senior scholars use ethnographic, archival, and some social survey data to provide alternatives to neoclassical and neoliberal economic analysis . . . Recommended." -- G. M. Massey * CHOICE *"[B]oth the analysis and case studies brought together in this book are based on strong scholarly research. Combined, they provide important insights into key aspects of the gendered dimensions of commodity chains, and rightly establish gender as central to the analysis. For those in accord with a World Systems perspective, the book is a must read that will provide a foundation for future investigation. For those with differing perspectives on gender, development, and global value chains, this is a thought-provoking book that will help to stimulate much needed future debate and research." -- Stephanie Ware Barrientos"Work on gender, while very difficult because of the resistance, is also very urgent. We have, as the saying goes, not a minute to lose, which is why this book constitutes an important contribution not merely to the social sciences but to the larger world political scene." * From the foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein *"This is a genuinely exciting collection that fills a critical need. Gendered Commodity Chains contains interesting empirical case studies, as well as probing conceptual pieces that synopsize larger bodies of recent research—and then push the envelope much further! It will be an invaluable addition to course readings in fields including development studies, comparative sociology, international studies, political economy, and feminist studies, and a must for academic libraries." -- David A. Smith, University of California * Irvine *"Wilma Dunaways's Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing women's Work and Households in Global Production is a stunning collaboration that will inspire further conceptual work and research in fields as diverse as anthropology, economics, development studios, sociology, and geography. The prose is crystal clear, accessible, and compelling." -- Altha J. Cravey * American Journal of Sociology *"Wilma A. Dunaway's edited volume contributes to the fields of economics, development, and gender studies by drawing attention to fundamental features of the capitalist system that have long exploited women . . . Dunaway superbly describes how women's unpaid labor and home-based production lowers the value of labor power, cheapens wage rates, externalized costs to households, and creates levels of exploitation to the direct benefit of capitalists . . . Dunaway's volume provides a pivotal contribution to the study of commodity chains by exposing how capitalists externalize hidden costs to women's uncompensated and inequitable reproductive and productive labor with direct ramifications on the sustainability of households. Communities, local economies, and ecosystems worldwide." -- Nicole Coffey Kellett"This volume enters uncharted territory. As well as a range of sectors and geographical case studies, it provides a far-reaching theoretical reappraisal of the significance of women's work—both paid and unpaid, hidden and visible—to the accumulation of capital and the social reproduction systems that underlie the accumulation of capital. Unmissable." -- Professor Ruth Pearson * University of Leeds *"From theoretical and methodological analysis to empirical work, this volume fills a vacuum in commodity chain studies to show how 'gender is everywhere.' Gendered Commodity Chains will be of great use for teaching and research, with many policy implications and suggestions for future research." -- Lourdes Benería * Cornell University *
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Louisiana State University Press The Place with No Edge
Book SynopsisFollows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.Trade ReviewThe Place with No Edge documents and interprets the environmental history of the Mississippi Delta in a way that also sheds light on the broader topic of human/environment interaction over time. Mandelman lays out the story of people reorganizing their environment, and in the process succumbing to the erroneous conclusion that they had managed to conquer and control nature in a more or less permanent way.
£39.91
University of Pennsylvania Press Afghanistan Declassified
Book SynopsisOriginally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the terrain, tribes, history, and course of the war for American troops, Afghanistan Declassified provides an essential background to the war in Afghanistan as well as offering a vivid account of the country's people, history, and geography.Trade Review"Williams's work adds personal experience and his deep knowledge of the culture and history of the country as he travels it, describing historical sites, a colorful, friendly people, and their sometimes friendly leaders." * Publishers Weekly *"A useful, well-written, and well-researched primer on Afghanistan." * Peter Bergen, author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Qaeda *"[Afghanistan Declassified's] style, depth, and anecdotes make it a substantially better read than many other surveys of the country. . . . For what it sets out to do, it succeeds very well." * Ronald Neumann, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction Part I. The Basics Chapter 1. The Ethnic Landscape Chapter 2. Extreme Geography Part II. History Lessons Chapter 3. Creating the Afghan State Chapter 4. Soviet Rule, the Mujahideen, and the Rise of the Taliban Chapter 5. The Longest War: America in Afghanistan Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Locked In Locked Out Gated Communities in a
Book SynopsisIn Locked In, Locked Out, Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores examines four communities in Ponce, Puerto Rico, showing how gates-in both physical and symbolic ways-distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social inequalities, and cement boundary lines of class and race.Trade Review"An elegant, unflinching dissection of the way gated housing in Puerto Rican communities produce and reinforce the symbolic and physical inequalities of our neoliberal era. In this far-ranging and original work, Dinzey-Flores maps out the zones of exclusion that are proliferating throughout our built spaces and which threaten our communal future." * Junot Díaz *"Riveting and beautifully written. Dinzey-Flores has given us a true ethnography of power and a must-read for understanding the making of race and class through social policy in Puerto Rico as well as urban societies more generally." * Arlene Davila, author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue. The Native Outsider Chapter 1. Fortress Gates of the Rich and Poor: Past and Present Chapter 2. Cachet for the Rich and Casheríos for the Poor: An Experiment in Class Integration Chapter 3. "Precaution: Security Knives in the Gates" Chapter 4. Community: Where Rights Begin and End Chapter 5. The Secret Gardens Chapter 6. Neighbors More Remote than Strangers Epilogue. The Gated Library Methodology Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Toronto
Book SynopsisToronto describes the diverse and remarkable transformations that have occurred in the urban landscapes of Toronto, especially over the last fifty years as it has grown from a provincial industrial city into multicentered, multicultural, world-city region that is one of the largest metropolitan areas in North America.Trade Review"U.S. urbanists are busy looking to Shanghai for the model of the coming metropolis. Edward Relph's study suggests that they should avoid the long plane trip and check out Toronto." * Carl Abbott, Portland State University *"A brilliant and much-needed book about Toronto! Published at a critical time in the history of the Canadian metropolis, Ted Relph's volume explains Toronto both to itself and to the world." * Roger Keil, York University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Urban Transformations Chapter 2. Confused Identities Chapter 3. Shaping the Old City Chapter 4. The Ascendancy of Metropolitan Toronto Chapter 5. A Post-suburban Skyscraper City Chapter 6. Diversity in the Outer Suburbs Chapter 7. Polycentricity Chapter 8. Globally Connected and Locally Divided Chapter 9. Containing Growth Chapter 10. A City for Everybody Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press The Tragedy of the Commodity Oceans Fisheries and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Impressive and compelling. The historical, political, and ecological perspectives? offered in The Tragedy of the Commodity are vital to understanding the link between the 'tragedy' inherent in many 'common property' situations." -- Bonnie McCay * author of The Question of the Commons and Oyster Wars and the Public Trust *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a timely, readable, comprehensive, and critical guide to what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and its creatures and what can be done to recreate this necessary relationship. A must read for anyone interested in knowing what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and how to go about changing it for the better." -- Dean Bavington * author of Managed Annihilation *"Consider[s] some of the most brutal aspects of the effects of capitalism in the process of turning every part of nature and every aspect of people's lives within it into something salable … The Tragedy of the Commodity also makes clear that to stop this destruction our society has to be organised in a completely different way and we have relatively little time to achieve it." * International Socialism *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a fantastic piece of literature that should be a staple book for graduate courses in environmental sociology." * Human Ecology Review *"A crucially important contribution to the discussions on the future of our oceans and our relationship to them." * Journal of Agrarian Change *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is an important step toward situating commons governance and ecological crises within a critique of the political economy of capitalism. " * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface1 Sea Change2 Human Ecology, Social Metabolism, and the Tragedy of the Commodity3 Managing a Tragedy4 From Tuna Traps to Ranches5 From Salmon Fisheries to Farms6 A Sea of Commodities7 Healing the RiftsNotesIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Tragedy of the Commodity Oceans Fisheries and Aquaculture
Trade Review"Impressive and compelling. The historical, political, and ecological perspectives? offered in The Tragedy of the Commodity are vital to understanding the link between the 'tragedy' inherent in many 'common property' situations." -- Bonnie McCay * author of The Question of the Commons and Oyster Wars and the Public Trust *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a timely, readable, comprehensive, and critical guide to what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and its creatures and what can be done to recreate this necessary relationship. A must read for anyone interested in knowing what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and how to go about changing it for the better." -- Dean Bavington * author of Managed Annihilation *"Consider[s] some of the most brutal aspects of the effects of capitalism in the process of turning every part of nature and every aspect of people's lives within it into something salable … The Tragedy of the Commodity also makes clear that to stop this destruction our society has to be organised in a completely different way and we have relatively little time to achieve it." * International Socialism *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a fantastic piece of literature that should be a staple book for graduate courses in environmental sociology." * Human Ecology Review *"A crucially important contribution to the discussions on the future of our oceans and our relationship to them." * Journal of Agrarian Change *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is an important step toward situating commons governance and ecological crises within a critique of the political economy of capitalism. " * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface1 Sea Change2 Human Ecology, Social Metabolism, and the Tragedy of the Commodity3 Managing a Tragedy4 From Tuna Traps to Ranches5 From Salmon Fisheries to Farms6 A Sea of Commodities7 Healing the RiftsNotesIndex
£105.40
Rutgers University Press From Workshop to Waste Magnet Environmental
Book SynopsisLike many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.Trade Review"Strong, innovative, and timely, From Workshop to Waste Magnet beautifully demonstrates the necessity of understanding the dynamism of environmental inequality struggles. A truly important and ambitious book." -- David N. Pellow * University of California, Santa Barbara *"From Workshop to Waste Magnet provides a rich analysis of how structures of class power and white privilege are the root causes of environmental inequality in Philadelphia. A critically important must-read for all those concerned with environmental justice." -- Daniel Faber * Northeastern University *“A richly layered study of hazardous waste and its many discontents … Sicotte's book offers a model multicausal analysis of environmental burdening. At one level, she shows that environmental burdens are spread across Philadelphia in ways that might encourage activists, business leaders, and politicians to work together and address common problems. At another level, she challenges scholars to refine their analyses of environmental justice in ways that highlight the intersection of class, ethnicity, and race. It is a timely and rewarding book." * H-Pennsylvania *"Booming postindustrial neighborhoods often overlook polluted past" by Patrick Sisson * Curbed *"Justice in Chester" documentary, WITF Harrisburg (PBS affiliate), interview with Diane Sicotte * Justice in Chester *Table of ContentsContents List of FiguresList of MapsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 20102 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 19695 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 19706 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality AppendixNotesIndex
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Rutgers University Press From Workshop to Waste Magnet Environmental
Book SynopsisLike many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.Trade Review"Strong, innovative, and timely, From Workshop to Waste Magnet beautifully demonstrates the necessity of understanding the dynamism of environmental inequality struggles. A truly important and ambitious book." -- David N. Pellow * University of California, Santa Barbara *"From Workshop to Waste Magnet provides a rich analysis of how structures of class power and white privilege are the root causes of environmental inequality in Philadelphia. A critically important must-read for all those concerned with environmental justice." -- Daniel Faber * Northeastern University *“A richly layered study of hazardous waste and its many discontents … Sicotte's book offers a model multicausal analysis of environmental burdening. At one level, she shows that environmental burdens are spread across Philadelphia in ways that might encourage activists, business leaders, and politicians to work together and address common problems. At another level, she challenges scholars to refine their analyses of environmental justice in ways that highlight the intersection of class, ethnicity, and race. It is a timely and rewarding book." * H-Pennsylvania *"Booming postindustrial neighborhoods often overlook polluted past" by Patrick Sisson * Curbed *"Justice in Chester" documentary, WITF Harrisburg (PBS affiliate), interview with Diane Sicotte * Justice in Chester *Table of ContentsContents List of FiguresList of MapsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 20102 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 19695 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 19706 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality AppendixNotesIndex
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Learning to Love Arranged Marriages and the
Book SynopsisMoves beyond the stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices.Trade Review"Marriage never went out of fashion, certainly among South Asians, though its forms, culture, and politics were never static. Learning to Love gives us a fine grained narration of fluid, changing practices and negotiations shaping ‘arranged marriage’ and intimacy through the voices of two generations of British Indians. Raksha Pande uncovers their making of culture, tradition, choice, modernity, and claims to citizenship contesting the stereotypes that prevail in the ‘west’." -- Rajni Palriwala * co-editor of Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalising World *"Amidst rising anti-immigrant sentiment, Learning to Love is a welcome intervention into entrenched, nationalist discourses of ‘arranged marriage’ that present it as anachronistic and utterly different from love marriage. Pande highlights the hopes and strategies of British-Indians, young and old, who talk of ‘rishta,’ matchmaking, intergenerational negotiation, modernity, and falling in love with the right person. A breath of fresh air!" -- Meena Khandelwal * author of Women in Ochre Robes *"Theoretically robust, lucid in style, and presented in an accessible manner. It is a welcome addition to the literature on marriage and spousal selection in general and diasporic marriages in particular. It will be of interest to scholars in the domain of geography, social anthropology, sociology, and gender studies working on questions of diaspora, marriage migration, and (informal) citizenship and anyone interested in the theme of marriage and transnational lives." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Preface and Acknowledgments 1 The Politics of Marriage and Migration in Postcolonial Britain 2 Becoming Modern and British: Enacting Citizenship through Arranged Marriages 3 Continuing Traditions as a Matter of Arrangement 4 Becoming a “Suitable Boy” and a “Good Girl” 5 Learning to Love 6 The Ties That Bind: Marriage, Belonging, and Identity 7 Conclusion References Index
£105.40
Wayne State University Press A Peoples Atlas of Detroit Great Lakes Books
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, A People's Atlas of Detroit aims to both chart and help build movements for social justice in the city.Trade ReviewA People's Atlas of Detroit is a remarkable achievement. Not only is Detroit one of the most important cities to understand, but this book includes a multiplicity of forms of knowledge, which, when woven together, tell a powerful story. A People's Atlas of Detroit offers a new model and standard for critical urban geography. This book not only works to understand the many ways Detroit has come to help establish the urban fabric of the United States, but does so through a deeply embodied and popular mode of analysis that feels generative well beyond the specifics of the city itself. Detroit organizing has always been among the smartest, sharpest, and innovative work throughout people's history. This is a project that provides more evidence of this fact-a thoughtful, important resource developed by the people in the very best tradition of community-led and -centered research and analysis. A People's Atlas of Detroit proves once again that if we seek to understand a place, we must break with the extractive practice of traditional 'research' and listen to the people who make it what it is.
£29.96
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Pleasure Zones Bodies Cities Spaces
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an entity constructed by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality and disability.Table of Contents- "Upstairs/Downstairs - Place Matters, Bodies Matter," Jon Binnie, Robin Peace, and Robyn Longhurst; - "Trim, Taught, Terrific, and Pregnant," Robyn Longhurst; - "Producing Lesbians: Canonical Properties," Robin Peace; - "(Dis)Comforting Identities," Ruth Holliday; - "Fragments for a Queer City," David Bell; - "The Erotic Possibilities of the City," Jon Binnie
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Paradoxes of Emancipation Radical Imagination
Book SynopsisTraces the formation of political subjectivity in times of crisis, by attending to the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens: the heart of the Greek anti-austerity movement. Dimitris Soudias conceives of the Syntagma Square occupation as a lens through which we can critically engage with broader theoretical and political issues.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Acronyms Map of the 2011 Syntagma Square occupation Introduction The Future Will Be Better Tomorrow 1. Modernizing Greece From Barbershops to Hair Salons 2. "Waking Up" Spatialized Crises and Unthought-Of Experiences 3. Aspiring the Utopian The Alter-Politics of Radical Imagination 4. Challenging the Dystopian The Anti-Politics of Demystification 5. Paradoxes of Emancipation Between Resistance and Reproduction 6. Toward an Alter-Neoliberal Critique Epilogue Bibliography Index
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Paradoxes of Emancipation
Book SynopsisTraces the formation of political subjectivity in times of crisis, by attending to the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens: the heart of the Greek anti-austerity movement. Dimitris Soudias conceives of the Syntagma Square occupation as a lens through which we can critically engage with broader theoretical and political issues.
£63.90
University of Arizona Press Blue Desert
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University of Arizona Press North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
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University of Minnesota Press Textures Of Place
Book SynopsisEssays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography. Geography/ Cultural StudiesEssays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography. A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume-distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature-investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Th
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Political Matter Technoscience Democracy and
Book SynopsisAn engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought 1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box? Isabelle Stengers 2. Thing-Power Jane Bennett 3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance William E. Connolly Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy Andrew Barry 5. Plastic Materialities Gay Hawkins 6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders Nigel Thrift Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings 7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things Noortje Marres 8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy Rosalyn Diprose 9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier 10. "Faitiche"-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies Lisa Disch Contributors Index
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University of Minnesota Press Fires on the Border
Book SynopsisFires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing—its “affect-culture”—on Mexico’s northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause. Trade Review"Fires on the Border addresses a clear gap in the scholarship on transnational movements and organizing along the Mexico-U.S. divide: the role of sexuality in the creation of affective bonds within social alliances and political networks that span the grassroots to the transnational. In this timely, excellent book, Rosemary Hennessy incorporates a political economic analysis in her discussion of affective alliances in social movements (binational and/or transnational) among workers affected by the maquiladora industry." —Melissa W. Wright, author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global CapitalismTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionI. History, Affect, Representation1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies2. The Materiality of Affect3. Bearing WitnessII. Sex, Labor, Movement4. Open Secrets5. The Value of a Second Skin6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice7. The North-South EncuentrosIII. The Utopian Question8. Love in the CommonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Answer the Call
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Answer the Call takes on the investigation of call centers in India and uses that case study to help us to theorize, in more supple and nuanced ways, the multiple shifts in consciousness and social imaginaries that contemporary globalizing forces enable." —Jane Desmond, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "This engagingly written book is an innovative analysis of the work that is done in call centers in India. The authors offer a careful academic examination of the time-virtual space issues connected to workers at these centers by asking readers to think about call-center work as a form of migration. The book draws on a number of disparate academic areas, demonstrating the strengths and necessity of interdisciplinary thinking in the social sciences. Readers will never think about call centers in the same way again." —Kum-Kum Bhavnani, University of California, Santa Barbara"A very relevant and timely work that addresses the issues of inclusion and exclusion in relation to globalization."—CHOICE "The persistence of call centers and India’s active participation in the global market make Answer the Call highly relevant for understanding of these communities."—Oral History Review"An important inquiry into how conceptions of national identity, the nation-state, and the borders between them are still present and defended in a globalized context."—Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsPreface: On the GroundAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Answering the Call1. The Rhythm of Ambition: Power Temporalities and the Production of the Call Center Agent in U.S. Popular Culture2. “I Used to Call Myself ‘Elvis’”: Suspended Mobilities in Indian Call Centers3. “I Interact with People from All Over the World”: The Politics of Virtual Citizenship4. “I’m Going to Sing It the Way Eminem Sings It”: India’s Network GeographyConclusion: Returning the Call NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Border Walls Gone Green Nature and Antiimmigrant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Strong, provocative, and insightful. . . John Hultgren advances the field theoretically through his critique and integration of competing perspectives on sovereignty in environmental politics."—John M. Meyer, author of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma"The premise is interesting, and the book is well researched and written."—CHOICE"Highly recommended. Border Walls Gone Green deserves to be read and appreciated."—Environmental History"A valuable contribution to our understanding of the politics surrounding immigration, environmentalism, sovereignty, and their inter- section."—Perspective on Politics"Raises stimulating and provocative questions about the links between nature and sovereignty, prompting the reader to think anew about the racialized logics and histories of American environmentalism."—New Political ScienceTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Earth Day Exclusions1. We Have Always Been Restrictionists2. Naturalizing Nativism3. The Challenge of Eco-Communitarian Restrictionism4. Responding to Restrictionism5. Toward an Environmental Political Theory of MigrationConclusion: Tear Down Those WallsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Death of Asylum
Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the
Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press New Lines Critical GIS and the Trouble of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With rapidly shifting digital technologies, geo-surveillance, everyday cartography, privatized georeferenced data, and neoliberalization, New Lines offers a reflexive reassessment of the scholarly praxis of critical GIS, an increasingly anachronistic term. Attentive also to contemporary philosophical debates, Matthew W. Wilson’s lively and ambitious manifesto pushes the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about the topic."—Eric Sheppard, author of Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development"This elegantly argued book offers a brilliantly original perspective on the many ‘troubles’—technical, epistemological, cultural, and political—associated with the contemporary proliferation of digital mapping systems. For anyone interested in understanding the rapidly changing sociohistorical, technological and institutional contexts in which cartographic practice occurs, Matthew W. Wilson’s New Lines will provide a foundational source of insight, wisdom, inspiration, and provocation."—Neil Brenner, Harvard University"The book is an important provocation for any mapmaker, cartographer, and spatial thinker. Ultimately, the book is a required read – even if only for the history alone – for any map user."—Rhizomes "New Lines reinvigorates some of the discussions that GIScience scholars have debated for decades by presenting material that is substantial without being impenetrable." —Cartographic PerspectivesTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: But Do You Actually Do GIS? 1. Criticality: The Urgency of Drawing and Tracing2. Digitality: Origins, or the Stories We Tell Ourselves3. Movement: Strange Concepts and the Essentially Subjective4. Attention: Memory Support and the Care of Community5. Quantification: Counting on Location-Aware Futures6. A Single Point Does Not Form a LineAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press A Movement of the People
Book SynopsisTells how a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama's environmental consciousness. A Movement of the People is a detailed history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA). The AEQA helped to establish groundbreaking environmental protection and natural resource preservation policies for the state and the region.Trade ReviewAn interesting and unique perspective on environmentalism in Alabama. A valuable addition to the history of Alabama's environmental movement."" - Robert W. Hastings, author of The Lakes of Pontchartrain: Their History and Environments and recipient of the 2015 Special Service Award of the National Sierra Club""This book documents the process by which lay people affected public policy in an important area for the state of Alabama. I found it interesting reading and accurate from my view of the movement."" - Milla D. Boschung, dean of the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama
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The University of Alabama Press Suburban Dreams
Book SynopsisStarting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the good life' their residents pursue.
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