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Book SynopsisThis timely and path-breaking book brings together a group of distinguished and emerging international scholars to critically consider the geographical implications of the worldâs super-rich, a privileged yet remarkably overlooked group.Trade Review‘The twelve chapters chart the global geography of the super-rich and provide an effective sociocultural framework for understanding and analyzing the practical economics of wealth at work, home, and play. In doing so, the authors articulate a new geography of abundance (p. 7) and globalization that heretofore has remained hidden behind the gates of country clubs, secure doors of skyboxes, and the confines of elite auction houses. . . In sum, the collection is solid and well thought out. Indeed, Hay has marshaled a collection that succinctly demonstrates the ways in which the culture, economics, and politics of the super-rich drive globalization.’ -- Jay D. Gatrell, Journal of Regional Science‘Globalization, it seems, has propelled the world’s uber-wealthy to new heights of power and money, with tremendous repercussions for the other 99.9 percent of us. At a time when neoliberalism has propelled the world into a new Gilded Age, with rising inequality everywhere, an aggressive class war being waged by the wealthy, and billionaires inserting themselves bluntly into the politicalf arena, understanding the behavior and spatiality of the super-rich has acquired a pressing urgency. This volume offers a richly textured suite of essays concerning how the super-rich have restructured local places, transforming landscapes as varied as London and Kentucky, Ireland and St. Barts, as well as domains as varied as art, thoroughbred horses, and housing.’ -- Barney Warf, University of Kansas, US‘The world’s super-rich, made up of just 11 million people, have access to about US$42.0 trillion of wealth. These are people who each have a spare million of “liquid” wealth. Their wealth is roughly equal to two thirds of global GDP. They own most of everything. As the editor of this books states “. . . library shelves and the pages of journals remain largely devoid of geographical work on the super-rich – a startling lacuna this volume sets out to fill”. The super-rich now own most of the planet. During the last year their share fell slightly. Times may be changing. Now is the time to begin to study the super–rich in detail, especially if you are worried about where all the wealth has gone.’ -- Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: From Kosrae to Kensington: Uncovering Cartographies of Abundance Iain Hay 1. Establishing Geographies of the Super-Rich: Axes for Analysis of Abundance Iain Hay 2. Economic Wealth and Political Power in the Second Gilded Age John Rennie Short 3. Overseeing the Fortunes of the Global Super-Rich: The Nature of Private Wealth Management in London’s Financial District Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Sarah J.E. Hall and Thomas Wainwright 4. ‘The World Needs a Second Switzerland’: Onshoring Singapore as the Liveable City for the Super-Rich Choon-Piew Pow 5. ‘Super-Rich’ Irish Property Developers and the Celtic Tiger Economy Laurence Murphy and Pauline McGuirk 6. The Homes of the Super-Rich: Multiple Residences, Hyper-mobility and Decoupling of Prime Residential Housing in Global Cities Chris Paris 7. A Study of the Dominance of the Super-Wealthy in London’s West End During the Nineteenth Century Kathryn Wilkins 8. The Elite Countryside: Shifting Rural Geographies of the Transnational Super-Rich Michael Woods 9. The Super-Rich, Horses and the Transformation of a Rural Landscape in Kentucky Susan M. Roberts and Richard H. Schein 10. The Sport of Kings, Queens, Sheiks and the Super-Rich: Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing as Leisure for the Super-Rich Phil McManus 11. Making Art History – Wealthy Private Collectors and Contemporary Visual Art Melanie Fasche 12. Islanders, Immigrants and Millionaires: The Dynamics of Upper-Class Segregration in St. Barts, French West Indies Bruno Cousin and Sébastien Chauvin Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘The crises threatening tourism’s future are causing reflective teachers to re-examine what they are teaching and why. This book synthesizes the knowledge and passion of 45 such educators from diverse origins and disciplines. It is truly a lighthouse in the storm. It sheds light by providing a strong philosophical framework for new approaches to developing tourism curricula focused on values and transformation. In addition to its strong axiological foundations, it contains a wealth of innovative activities and student engagement exercises to ensure its pedagogical relevance. Building on the work of Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI), this book is an inspiration and a much-needed bridge to a new and transformed tourism world. I recommend it as required reading for all tourism educators!’ -- Pauline Sheldon, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii, US‘Readers who regard education and learning as a transformative force will embrace this book. The editors and contributors are leading thinkers and educators, including early career and established academics. They have collaborated on chapters about a variety of topics, employing diverse pedagogical approaches to addressing the range of environmental, political and sociocultural issues that students will encounter as future leaders and members of society. Considering the need for inclusive, mindful approaches to reducing humanities’ environmental impacts, this collection is informed by principles that enable localised, values-based perspectives. Conversation starters and activities complement each chapter’s discussion and the end result provides thought-provoking inspiration for those who wish to refresh and revitalise their teaching of tourism studies.’ -- Anna Carr, University of Otago/ Te Whare Wananga o Otago, New Zealand‘This is a challenging book. It challenges us to think about what, why and how we teach. It does this by a deep inspection of axiology to understand the value(s) of tourism education. It challenges us to be creative in facilitating learning. It does this through its provocative questions and innovative student activities. And it challenges us to have a transformative effect on our students. It does this by engaging students with the pressing issues of tourism. The authors are to be commended for their practical scholarship, their collaborative approach to writing and for bringing clarity to complex issues. Highly recommended.’ -- John Tribe, York St. John University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface xxi Johan Edelheim, Marion Joppe and Joan Flaherty 1 Tourism didactics 1 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar; Elin Bommenel; Richard Ek; Stuart Reid; Mette Simonsen Abildgaard; Karla A. Boluk; Joanne Paulette Gellatly; Jaume Guia; Emily Höckert; Tazim Jamal; Ece Kaya; Monika Lüthje; Miranda Peterson 2 Axiology, value and values 12 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Emily Höckert; Karla A. Boluk; Jaume Guia; Miranda Peterson 3 Political values 21 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Jaume Guia; Stefanie Benjamin; Maja Turnšek 4 Ecological values 31 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Karla A. Boluk; Alexandra Coghlan; Tazim Jamal; Xavier Michel; Miranda Peterson; Bradley Rink; Sarah Ripper; Sudipta Kiran Sarkar; Chiaki Shimoyasuba; Maja Turnšek 5 Social values 40 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Karla A. Boluk; Elin Bommenel; Helene Balslev Clausen; Richard Ek; Stephen Fairbrass; Maggie C. Miller; Nick Naumov, Brendan Paddison; Stuart Reid; Sudipta Kiran Sarkar; Chiaki Shimoyasuba 6 Cultural values 50 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Emily Höckert; Monika Lüthje; Mette Simonsen Abildgaard; Linda Armano; Jonathon Day; Sisko Häikiö; Maria Huhmarniemi; Outi Kugapi; Nick Naumov; Carina Ren; Minna Väyrynen 7 Economic values 59 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Deborah Edwards; Joanne Paulette Gellatly; Ece Kaya; Xavier Michel; Nick Naumov; Kathleen Rodenburg 8 Ethics 71 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Xavier Michel; Kathleen Rodenburg 9 Stewardship 78 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Karla A. Boluk; Alexandra Coghlan; Brynhild Granås; Tazim Jamal; Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson; Miranda Peterson; Outi Rantala; Bradley Rink; Sarah Ripper; Kaarina Tervo-Kankare 10 Mutuality 87 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Mette Simonsen Abildgaard; Stefanie Benjamin; Blanca A. Camargo; Sisko Häikiö; Emily Höckert; Outi Kugapi; Tanja Lešnik Štuhec; Monika Lüthje; Carina Ren; Maja Turnšek; Minna Väyrynen 11 Knowledge 96 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar; Karla A. Boluk; Elin Bommenel; Helene Balslev Clausen; Richard Ek; Brynhild Granås; Maria Huhmarniemi; Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson; Outi Kugapi; Maggie C. Miller; Giang Phi; Outi Rantala; Stuart Reid; Bradley Rink; Kaarina Tervo-Kankare 12 Professionalism 107 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Elin Bommenel; Blanca A. Camargo; Helene Balslev Clausen; Émilie Crossley; Richard Ek; Outi Kugapi; Maggie C. Miller; Stuart Reid; Kathleen Rodenburg; Maja Turnšek 13 Activities 115 Activity 1: Meta-pedagogical meliorism 1 – didactics 115 Activity 2: Yes-and: how to create a brave space by incorporating improvisational theatre games 118 Activity 3: Tourism to promote political responsibility 122 Activity 4: Unintended consequences of policy implementation 124 Activity 5: Reflecting on sustainable behaviour 126 Activity 6: Climate action for a climate-friendly educational destination 129 Activity 7: Mobilising learners’ tourist memories towards a deeper, more authentic understanding and practice of tourism 133 Activity 8: Experiential learning in nature-based recreational settings 136 Activity 9: Iomante rituals – ecological and economic values meet cultural values 138 Activity 10: Meta-pedagogical meliorism 2 – social values 140 Activity 11: The value of the unintended in tourism education – Nepal 142 Activity 12: The Tourism Game 1 144 Activity 13: Film and tourism – constructing social realities 147 Activity 14: Values-based learning and storytelling 150 Activity 15: Experiential learning in gastronomy tourism 153 Activity 16: Access rights to the Commons 155 Activity 17: Enhancing culturally sensitive tourism in an online learning environment 157 Activity 18: Deep Cultural Interpretation Model – a tool to understand the tourists’ culture 159 Activity 19: Cultural awareness 163 Activity 20: Co-designing creative tourism activities for preserving and promoting local cultural traditions 165 Activity 21: Tourism and intangible heritage 167 Activity 22: The unfolding of SARS-CoV-2 169 Activity 23: Tourism resiliency post COVID-19 171 Activity 24: Authentic assessment – activating purposeful learning for a diverse student cohort 175 Activity 25: Tourism and World Heritage Sites 1 179 Activity 26: Tourism and World Heritage Sites 2 181 Activity 27: The dilemma of protecting workers in the face of entrepreneurship 182 Activity 28: The power of values to effect positive change 1 186 Activity 29: Industry ethics 187 Activity 30: Solving ethical dilemmas in the tourism industry 189 Activity 31: Introducing critical topics to transform our practice 192 Activity 32: Using systems thinking and the UN’s SDG framework as an opportunity for fostering critical dialogue 194 Activity 33: Calculating a carbon footprint 197 Activity 34: The limits to biocapacity 198 Activity 35: Stewardship – an in-field dialogue model 200 Activity 36: Promoting mutuality through service-learning – La Santa Catarina restaurant 202 Activity 37: Video project “Enjoy Lapland Safely” 206 Activity 38: Cooperation between students and the tourism industry to solve project challenges in sustainable rural destinations 209 Activity 39: Combating negative prejudice against young people 212 Activity 40: Tourism teaching and learning using spiritual pedagogy 216 Activity 41: Fostering critical thinking utilising Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire 218 Activity 42: Meta-pedagogical meliorism 3 – knowledge 220 Activity 43: Field trip findings presented through a photo essay 224 Activity 44: Design-based learning and design thinking for innovation education 226 Activity 45: Seeing tourism landscapes – teaching tourism at the confluence of theory and practice 228 Activity 46: The value of the unintended in tourism education – Mexican case 233 Activity 47: Professional practice review of learning 235 Activity 48: The power of values to effect positive change 2 238 Activity 49: Solving wicked world problems 240 Activity 50: Value-reflexive engagement and dialogue 241 Activity 51: Emotional labour and the future of automation 244 Activity 52: The TEFI Values Survey 247 Activity 53: The Tourism Game 2 253 References 268 index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, within which we are inter-dependent and reliant, and governed by laws in a dynamic process. It advances novel insights into the numerous intersections of space, place and law in our lives.Trade Review‘The editors make a distinct contribution to legal geography, shaping a diverse, expansive, and future-focused collection of essays which finely balance being critically attuned to unequal formations of law and power whilst offering optimistic approaches of how to do things with legal geography. The range of topics and breadth of imagination is undoubtedly impressive.’ -- Jessica Smith, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies'A must-have for readers paying attention to space, place and law. This edited book is a journey along a braided river, with 32 chapters on Indigenous issues, non-human others, cyberlaw, the sea, cities, energy, the underground and much more. Highly readable and packed with important insights, you will need to put this book down, but you will soon pick it up again.' -- Phil McManus, University of Sydney, Australia'The contributors, refreshingly, are diverse and differently situated. Intellectually, they also come from many worlds -- geography, law, planning, anthropology, and so on. Their work speaks to the crucial challenges, tied to systemic inequality, that we confront, while also reminding us of the diverse forms that legal geography takes. It insists that legal geography is needed now, more than ever.' -- from the Foreword by Nicholas Blomley'Legal geography has much promise in deepening our understanding of the linkages between societies, their governance, and the world we live in. The Handbook on Space, Place and Law offers not only a major consolidation of the field, but a significant extension. Bartel, Carter and colleagues scope widely across socio-legal contexts, policy sectors and environments, and offer deep insights of great value to geographers and lawyers alike, and indeed to anyone concerned with the conditions of people and their environments.' -- Stephen Dovers, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: What is legal geography? Why, and why now? xvii Nicholas Blomley Introduction to space, place and law xx Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter PART I WAY FINDING 1 How to make 1500 holes in the ground: accounting for law alongside other place-shaping factors in the making of an exceptional Cold War network 2 Luke Bennett 2 Legislative tenure and spatial economic analysis: an illustrative example of papaya production in Nadroga province, Fiji 14 Chethna Ben 3 In the eyes of the law: stalking and the legal (mis)construal of scopic relational spaces 26 David Delaney and Päivi Rannila 4 All the land was stolen: investigating the aporia of justice through countertopographies of Indigenous land rights and settler colonialism across the Americas 38 Joel E. Correia PART II JOURNEYING 5 Neighbourhoods for an ageing population in Singapore 50 Belinda Yuen 6 Sexual offences and to have done with the courtroom 61 Victoria Brooks 7 Performing law: space and the unfolding of gender and violence in India 72 Kalindi Kokal and Werner Menski 8 Place: sacrifice and property law in extra-territorial nation spaces 86 Lee Godden PART III BORDER CROSSINGS 9 Understanding the impact of customary land tenure and reform in Papua New Guinea 99 Flora Kwapena 10 The spatial management of sex work: placing marginality through formal and informal practices 109 Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns, Tom Baker and Octavia Calder-Dawe 11 Collision between two ‘public interests’ in housing demolition and relocation in Dalian, China 118 Chen Li, Min Jiang and Mark Yaolin Wang 12 Law, place and maps 129 Antonia Layard PART IV DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS 13 Activating rural spaces in the pursuit of unconventional energy and justice 142 Meg Sherval 14 Land territorialisation, contestation and informal place-laws of Indigenous peoples in Phuket and Phang Nga, Thailand 156 Daniel Robinson, Danielle Drozdzewski and Jaruwan Kaewmahanin Enright 15 Indigenous land conflict and the underlying life of laws: lessons from the Ipperwash Crisis 170 Nicole Latulippe 16 Extracting Indigenous jurisdiction on private land: the duty to consult and Indigenous relations with place in Canadian law 182 Estair Van Wagner PART V INTERSECTIONS 17 Paying attention to the spaces in between: the social production of space and Indigenous presence in cities 196 Melissa Nursey-Bray and Stephen Muecke 18 Negotiating privacy in the ‘vertical city’: regulating the gentrification of the skies 207 Phil Hubbard 19 Landscapes of colonial Australian entanglement: authorities, self-definition and cultural pedagogy 217 John Ryan and Baden Offord 20 Reclaiming land, reclaiming the ‘nomos’: towards a geography of emerging rights 229 Benno Fladvad, Silja Klepp and Florian Dünckmann PART VI FELLOW TRAVELLERS 21 Pets, pests and humane humans 241 Jennifer Carter and Mandy Paterson 22 Apples and oranges? Exchanging offsets for a place agency-based approach 254 Wendy Beck and Robyn Bartel 23 A case for ‘place’ in governing the energy–environment nexus 268 Amanda Kennedy and Cameron Holley 24 Dephysicalised property and shadow lands 281 Nicole Graham PART VII NEW HORIZONS 25 Territorializing Arrakis: competing for water and melange at the edge of the galactic empire – between desert gatherers and the spacefaring 293 Allan Charles Dawson and Ismael Vaccaro 26 Law underground: the legal geographies of gas transmission pipeline risk regulation 304 Brad Jessup 27 Place, space, and cyberlaw 316 Barney Warf 28 Freedom and constraint in sailing: exploring a gendered attachment to sea-places 327 Shelley A. Wright PART VIII WAYS FORWARD 29 Tackling corruption in urban development and planning: from compliance to integrity in Africa and beyond 339 Dieter Zinnbauer and Stephen Berrisford 30 Land, people and places: double visions and corporate land ownership 350 Radha D’Souza 31 Making there like here: is the impossible possible? 365 Robyn Bartel and Christopher Stone 32 Where to from here? From law to place and back again 382 Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.' -- Jennifer L. Fluri, University of Colorado, Boulder, US'This book explores vital new avenues of thought and political possibility across a wide range of geographical locations. O'Lear has brought together a crucial set of consequential analyses and interventions. This is an invaluable book for scholars of environmental and social justice.' -- – Rob Nixon, Author of Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'Engaging with the spatial and temporal complexities of slow violence requires innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. The chapters in this valuable collection do not disappoint. Essential reading for anyone interested in exploring diverse ways to analyze the practices and processes that shape contemporary forms of systemic and structural violence.' -- Kevin J. Grove, Florida International University, US'Peace is arguably more than just the absence of war. It should be about identifying and rooting out all the insidious forms of violence, particularly between human groups, that not only can lead to war but that also poison the everyday lives of people when unaddressed. This is the basis for investigating ''silent violence.'' Yet, as this innovative volume suggests, the spatial and temporal framings and contexts must also be central to that investigation, since it is the accumulation of threats over time and their embeddedness in places that makes them so intractable.' -- John Agnew, UCLA, US, and Co-Editor of The Handbook of Geographies of PowerTable of ContentsContents: 1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1 Shannon O’Lear 2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slow observation in Louisiana 21 Thom Davies 3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities at the intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41 Ruth Trumble 4 Complicating the role of sight: photographic methods and visibility in slow violence research 57 John Paul Henry 5 Tourism development as slow violence: dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73 Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, Megan Butler and Laura Aileen Sauls 6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climate change and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89 Daniel Abrahams 7 Enduring infrastructure 107 Kimberley Anh Thomas 8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123 Sheridan Bartlett 9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring and compassion, deconstructing the borderlands of reconciliation 137 Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson 10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives in Kyrgyzstan 155 Michele E. Commercio 11 When rednecks became meth heads: cultural violence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173 Aaron H. Gilbreath 12 The slow violence of law and order: governing through crime 189 Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet 13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205 Peter Vujakovic 14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathways on geographies of slow violence 225 Shannon O’Lear Index 233

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is an exciting addition to urban studies that provides scholars with new avenues to “get under the skin” of our chaotic and ever-changing urban environments by viewing these as an intricate relations existing between risk and uncertainty, vulnerability and resilience, and fragility and antifragility. I highly recommend the book to anyone whose work relates to the ‘wicked problems’ facing cities!’ -- Nancy Holman, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions 1 Francesco Curci and Daniele Chiffi PART I CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY 1 Disentangling antifragility from resilience 6 Daniele Chiffi and Francesco Curci 2 Forms of rationality facing uncertainty: wisdom’s possible key role in antifragility 24 Simona Chiodo 3 Antifragility: politics and common knowledge 39 Gabriele Pasqui PART II MODELS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS IN AN ANTIFRAGILE PERSPECTIVE 4 Planning for the unseen 57 Alessandro Balducci 5 Urban policy design for antifragility 70 Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini 6 Institutional fragility and institutional malleability: a reflection starting from the Covid-19 pandemic 90 Stefano Moroni 7 Fragility as a condition: the landscape perspective 107 Antonio Longo and Annalisa Metta 8 Antifragile architecture: under what conditions is an architectural project antifragile? 134 Stefano Guidarini PART III CASES AND APPLICATIONS 9 Antifragile strategies for abandoned heritage: new approaches and a dialogue between humanism and technique 149 Annunziata Maria Oteri 10 Territorial variety as an antifragile resource: the Italian case 165 Antonio De Rossi and Arturo Lanzani 11 Italian social policies coping with fragility: the challenge of continuity in time, space and life pathways 181 Massimo Bricocoli and Stefania Sabatinelli 12 Urban heritage fragility and antifragility: Matera and the 2019 European Capital of Culture 195 Davide Ponzini, Zachary M. Jones, Enrico Tommarchi, Stefano D’Armento, Alessandro Scandiffio and Franco Bianchini 13 Governing the commons on an Aegean island: the management of water resources on Sifnos, Greece 210 Amalia Zepou and Manos Matsaganis Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectives.Trade Review‘I consider this edited volume to be more than a welcome contribution and a notorious collection for all scholars, keen to understand the theoretical grounding, practices, patterns and types of leadership, as well as the manifestation of that leadership in local and regional socio-economic development and policy.’ -- Eduardo Oliveira, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook on City and Regional Leadership is the first comprehensive overview of place leadership in urban and regional research, edited by pioneers of the concept, Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer. Publication of the Handbook is very timely with the significant growth of research on the importance of agency in regional development in recent years. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics ranging from theoretical issues and empirical studies to methodological questions. It contains a rich and stimulating compilation of chapters and is a must-read for researchers as well as policy makers interested in promoting place leadership.’Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT 1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2 Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer 2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19 Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen Ayles PART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS 3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisational conceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders ‘actually’ do to make things happen 41 Alyson Nicholds 4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57 Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani 5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71 John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds 6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society leadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91 Oto Potluka 7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108 Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala 8 Place-based leadership ‘beyond place’: the rise of international city diplomacy 131 Robin Hambleton 9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152 Markku Sotarauta PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES 10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in the emergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region 168 Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň 11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in Italian industrial districts 187 Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini 12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path development in peripheral regions 203 Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen 13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226 Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth 14 Establishing leadership in a ‘busy’ governance structure 248 Martin Quinn 15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development: perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266 Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-Garzón PART IV METHODOLOGY 16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity 281 Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving 17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302 Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta 18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of territorial leadership 324 James Karlsen and Miren Larrea 19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343 Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon over a quarter of a centuryâs worth of research, The Urban Now illuminates our present urban condition. John Rennie Short captures the main features of this moment of urban significance, investigating the city as a crucial arena strategically located between global flows and national surfaces.Trade Review‘The Urban Now is a brilliant synthesis of John Rennie Short’s recent work that covers the gambit of topics like globalization, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the informal economy while weaving in wonderful chapters to connect our daily experiences of the city in all its magic and its dangers. This book, just one of Short’s latest greatest hits, is a journey through, for example, the urban imaginary of the Weimar Bauhaus project, the resilience of informal communities in different cities, the perils of traffic and, in contrast, the joy of walking the city. Despite the various crises and problems discussed in the book, it is remarkably positive and, writing with characteristic clarity and buoyancy, Short demonstrates yet again his wonderful ability to make what can be complicated, accessible and a joy to read.’ -- Bernadette Hanlon, Ohio State University, US‘The Urban Now presents a panoramic view of critical issues facing the urban planet, ranging from sprawl and pandemics to climate change and social inclusion. The book is a masterful examination of how to build a good city and why it matters.’ -- Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University, US‘A leading scholar and public intellectual of contemporary urbanism, John Rennie Short presents a tour de force in his treatise The Urban Now. This riveting and engaging book is essential reading for anyone who cares about the urban moment that we live in, reckoning with the future of cities and humanity. Scholars and students alike will benefit from Short’s astute and prescient observations of urban globalism for generations to come.’ -- Thomas J. Vicino, Northeastern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 The urban moment PART I URBAN IMAGINARIES 2 Imaginaries of the urban now 3 Imaginaries of City and Nature 4 Suburban imaginaries 5 The legacy of the Weimar Bauhaus for the urban now PART II GLOBALIZATIONS AND THE CITY 6 Globalization and its discontents 7 Global cities 8 From global cities to gateway cities 9 City marketing in an era of globalization 10 Urban mega-events and globalization 11 The second Gilded Age 12 The new middle class in the global South PART III CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CITY 13 Cities and climate change 14 Cities in a time of rapid climate change 15 A perfect storm: climate change and network failure 16 Fire at the urban‒wilderness interface PART IV COVID-19 AND THE CITY 17 The city in the time of COVID-19 18 Traffic in the postpandemic city 19 The informal economy in the postpandemic city 20 The convivial city PART V CITIES AND TRAFFIC 21 No accident: traffic in the modern city 22 Dangerous cities 23 Unwilling to pay 24 Congestion pricing 25 The silent epidemic on wheels PART VI CITIES OF THE URBAN NOW 26 The liquid city of Megalopolis 27 The creative postcolonial city 28 Reimagined city: Syracuse, New York 29 Informal city: Cali, Colombia 30 Informal cities: Nigeria PART VII LIFE IN THE URBAN NOW 31 The age of distraction in the city 32 Social inclusion in the city 33 Does the city make you fat? 34 Security and safety in the city 35 Walking in the city A very brief guide to further reading References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe the book by Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus brings new dialogues and bridges the dichotomy of an “east” and “west” understanding of heritage that has been taken for granted as two different dichotomies. This book offers an insight on how the western world itself is also not homogenous in the understanding of what heritage is and heritage is not always tangible in the “west”. This book shows readers that there is no universal European understanding of heritage and planning. Only in specific divisions of European countries and mostly in urban contexts does so-called European heritage understanding dominate the discourse and planning. This book aims to not only elaborate on heritage planning and research in Europe, but also push beyond a Eurocentric approach, and examine the research this approach produces and the foundation on which it is developed, as well as give funding to the projects and people who work in this field.’ -- Cut Dewi, Built Heritage‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning offers an ambitious reflection on the complex articulation of research, practice and policy that inform the uses of heritage in Europe today. Editors Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus gather a coherent, wide-ranging selection of cases, successfully stressing heritage’s decisive role in solving Europe's current identity, climate and developmental challenges. As an extensive recount of the latest research advancements, this book will exceed the expectations of those exploring the frontiers of heritage, and enlighten readers about the profound transcendence of its planning in contemporary societies.’ -- Plácido González Martínez, Tongji University, China‘This edited volume by Stegmeijer and Veldpaus provides a ground-breaking Research Agenda for heritage planning and would be useful not only for practitioners, but also for academics, students and politicians.’ -- Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: some key challenges for heritage science research xix PART I SETTING THE SCENE FOR HERITAGE PLANNING: PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: the state of heritage planning in Europe 31 Eva Stegmeijer, Loes Veldpaus and Joks Janssen 2 Heritage research in the 21st century: departing from the useful futures of sustainable develoment 49 Višnja Kisić 3 The value of heritage in sustainable development and spatial planning 67 Koenraad Van Balen and Aziliz Vandesande PART II CURRENT RESEARCH IN HERITAGE PLANNING: PROJECTS FROM EUROPE SECTION A HERITAGE AND IDENTITY 4 Introduction to heritage and identity: from planning and policies to communities, and back 85 Remi Wacogne 5 Exploring archaeology’s place in participatory European cultural landscape management: perspectives from the ‘REFIT’ project 89 Tom Moore and Gemma Tully 6 Industrial heritage and conservation planning, changing governance practices, examples from Europe 103 Loes Veldpaus and Remi Wacogne 7 Developing participation through digital reconstruction and communication of ‘lost’ heritage 115 Laura Loredana Micoli, Gabriele Guidi, Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Diego González-Aguilera 8 Cultural heritage and European identity in European Union law and policy 127 Francesca Fiorentini, Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski SECTION B HERITAGE AND CLIMATE 9 Introduction to heritage and climate change: current gaps and scientific challenges 143 Claudio Margottini 10 New uses for old waterways 149 Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin 11 Satellite monitoring of geo-hazards affecting cultural heritage 161 Daniele Spizzichino and Claudio Margottini 12 Archaeological site monitoring and risk assessment using remote sensing technologies and GIS 171 Stefano De Angeli and Fabiana Battistin SECTION C HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT 13 Introduction to heritage and development: the agency of heritage in rural and urban development practices 183 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist 14 Cultural heritage and improvised music in European festivals 189 Tony Whyton and Beth Perry 15 Cultural heritage at work for economy and society 201 Stefano Della Torre and Rossella Moioli 16 Gastronomy and creative entrepreneurship in rural tourism: encouraging sustainable community development 213 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Anna de Jong, Romà Garrido Puig, Giuseppa Romeo and Wilhelm Skoglund PART III RESEARCH AGENDA FOR HERITAGE PLANNING. PERSPECTIVES FOR EUROPE (AND BEYOND) 17 Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures 227 Loes Veldpaus, Višnja Kisić, Eva Stegmeijer and Joks Janssen Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.Trade Review'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities 1 Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY LANDSCAPES 2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13 Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa 3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh 27 Ingrid Boas 4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42 Joris Schapendonk PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS 5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58 Guus van Westen 6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76 Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers 7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92 Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch 8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of ‘impairing destruction’ 110 Alberto Alonso-Fradejas PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131 Marja Spierenburg 10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development 147 Kei Otsuki PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF LARGE-SCALE MINING 11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162 Chris Huggins 12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: the case of Suriname 179 Marjo de Theije 13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains: insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191 Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES 14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows ‘touching ground’? 206 Femke van Noorloos 15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the sustainability coin 218 Murtah Shannon 16 Conclusions 232 Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers Index

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Book SynopsisHighlighting the importance of travel narratives in understanding tourism imaginaries, Jennifer and Warwick Frost present global examples of the enduring stories that underpin the way we conceptualise and imagine travel.

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Book SynopsisThis forward-looking book examines emotional geographies as both a subdiscipline and a practice. Written collaboratively, the authors demonstrate the diverse ways in which emotions influence research, knowledge and everyday life, inviting readers to recognise emotions as a fundamental component of human understanding, actions and relationships

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In a lucid and timely call for new research, Colin Sage has curated chapters from leading food scholars on major issues affecting the global food system, and offers hope that both pragmatic and visionary solutions are emerging, which will benefit from a targeted research agenda. Sage’s book is vital, compelling reading for students, scientists, and the wider world of people concerned about our future food system.’ -- Molly D. Anderson, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and Middlebury College, US‘A clarion call to anyone desiring more sustainable and just food systems, emphasizing such outcomes cannot be had without insights from the social sciences. The chapters interrogate barriers and opportunities for change; analyses that are as comprehensive as they are enjoyable to read.’ -- Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, US‘This is a fine and wonderful book. We know that food systems worldwide have been transformed in recent decades. They have made food a raging success, more people fed than ever. They also cause vast ill-health and planetary harm, and leave hundreds of millions of people still hungry. This is a book about the urgent need for redesign and collective action. It brings vital clarity to the right questions, and shows how improvements in social justice can occur.’ -- Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: The urgency of food systems research xiii Tim Lang Acknowledgements xix PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Food Systems 3 Colin L. Sage PART II ISSUES 2 The rise of big food and agriculture: corporate influence in the food system 45 Jennifer Clapp 3 The food system, planetary boundaries and eating for 1.5°C: the case for mutualism and commensality within a safe and just operating space for humankind 67 Colin L. Sage 4 Agricultural labour in the global food system 89 Alicia Reigada and Carlos de Castro 5 Food systems and food poverty 111 Martin Caraher 6 Reconfiguring animals in food systems: an agenda for research 129 Lewis Holloway PART III ‘SOLUTIONS?’ 7 The fourth agricultural revolution: technological developments in primary food production 151 David Christian Rose, Mondira Bhattacharya, Auvikki de Boon, Ram Kiran Dhulipala, Catherine Price and Juliette Schillings 8 Of fake meat and an anxious Anthropocene: towards a cultural political economy of alternative proteins and their implications for future food systems 175 Alexandra E. Sexton and Michael K. Goodman 9 Urban food systems: the case for municipal action 199 Jess Halliday 10 Circular food systems: a blueprint for regenerative innovations in a regional UK context 221 Steffen Böhm, Rebecca Sandover, Stefano Pascucci, Laura Colombo, Sophie Jackson and Matt Lobley 11 Design at the end of the food system: hybrid foodscapes in the realm of consumption 243 Kata Fodor Index 259

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Book SynopsisWritten in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence.Trade Review‘Urban Violence, Resilience and Security provides a unique intervention in the study of urban violence in the Global South. Challenging conventional accounts of urban violence modeled after cities in the Global North, contributors provide theoretically sophisticated and empirically-grounded case studies to highlight the myriad and geographically contingent forms of resilience and resistance. A must-read for scholars concerned with the urban condition of life and death in the Global South.’ -- James Tyner, Kent State University, Ohio, US‘Urbanization is one of the most significant mega-trends of the modern era. It is also one of the most profoundly misunderstood. This knowledge gap is explored by Michael Glass, Taylor Seybolt and Phil Williams who examine the multiple causes, consequences and characteristics of global urban transformation. In their sweeping edited volume, contributors reflect on how the history, politics and economics of urbanization influences (and is influenced by) urban violence. A series of vivid case studies of under-studied cities from Africa, Asia and the Americas also reveal the complex relationships between urbanization, insecurity and resilience.’ -- Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Igarape Institute and SecDev Group, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xi Ariel C. Armony Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction to Urban Violence, Resilience and Security 1 Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil Williams PART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO URBAN VIOLENCE, RESILIENCE AND SECURITY 2 Urban violence in the Global South: drug traffickers, gangs, and organized crime 21 Phil Williams 3 Urban resilience for the 21st century 39 Savannah Cox 4 Urban governance in conflict zones: contentious politics, not “resilience” 53 Daniel E. Esser 5 Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience 72 Jon Coaffee 6 Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin America and the Caribbean 88 Enrique Desmond Arias PART II DIMENSIONS OF URBAN VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 7 Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence: Caracas and the Latin American city 101 Roberto Briceño-León 8 Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration: a case study of female migrants in Isipingo, Durban, South Africa 120 Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj 9 Shoot first, ask later: violence and anti-crime policies in Mexico’s Cuidad Juárez and Pakistan’s Karachi 138 Vanda Felbab-Brown 10 Strain between two worlds: a sociological approach to the rise and fall of crime and violence in Guatemala City 160 Daniel Núñez 11 Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America 177 Eduardo Moncada Index 193

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC.Trade Review'This is a fascinating collection of discussions by leading authors, ranging from philosophical perspectives to conceptual frameworks and mathematical models across many disciplines. A unifying theme is the role of human cognition and decision making, addressed via psychology, uncertainty and risk, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics and more. The book should be a reference to anyone interested in the history of the field and as a source of ideas for the opportunities (and challenges) of treating cities as complex systems in contrast to less holistic approaches to urban planning and policy.' -- Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Cities and Complexity 1 Juval Portugali PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Cities, complexity and beyond 13 Juval Portugali 2 The emergence of complexity theories: an outline 28 Hermann Haken 3 City systems and complexity 48 Michael Batty 4 Major transitions in the story of urban complexity 64 Stephen Marshall and Nick Green PART II COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES 5 Complexity: the evolution and planning of towns and cities 86 Peter M. Allen 6 Synergetic cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity 136 Denise Pumain 8 Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities 154 Pierre Frankhauser 9 Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities 176 Yanguang Chen 10 Cybernetic cities: designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems 195 Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti PART III COMPLEXITY, LANGUAGE AND CITIES 11 New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: an overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised 210 Christopher Alexander 12 The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems 233 Alan Penn PART IV MODELING COMPLEX CITIES 13 Modelling car traffic in cities 260 Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy 14 Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning 274 Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal 15 The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking 295 Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman PART V COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND DESIGN 16 Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning 319 Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi 17 Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space 331 Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo 18 Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning 349 Sara Encarna..o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali 19 Homo faber, Homo ludens and the city: a SIRNIA view on urban planning and design 370 Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19 391 Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book offers a deep and stimulating insight into how geographies of communication are changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructures, and why we need to rethink questions of geography, media and communication with today's geomediatization.’ -- Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany‘This book offers an innovative and exciting framework for understanding how the digitally mediated world is increasingly experienced: logistically. Its sustained attention to the entanglement of spatiality and communicative media, as well as to the differentiated possibilities for everyday human agency that then emerge, is particularly insightful and welcome.’ -- Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking communication geographies 2. Dwelling under geomedia 3. The culture of streamability 4. Transmedia travel 5. Guidance landscapes 6. Geomedia as the human condition Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In this rich compendium, Yeoh and Collins bring together leading scholars of transnationalism to look afresh at this important topic. Exploring both new empirical cases and new concepts, the authors provide novel insights into transnational relations and processes. This is a must-read book for those interested in cross-border interactions in the contemporary era.’ -- Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘Since the turn of the millennium, transnationalism has gradually taken its place as a key concept in social science. This welcome new Handbook provides fresh overviews alongside critical advances concerning a range of ever-salient, if not increasingly significant, theoretical understandings of transformative cross-border phenomena.’ -- Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany‘An up-to-date, invaluable mapping of the causes and consequences of social life across borders. The contributions to this volume go far beyond mobility and migration. They use a transnational lens to understand a range of institutions, processes, and relationships that have not been brought together before, including youth, labor unions, urbanization, and emotions. By doing so, they challenge fundamental assumptions about how identity, community, governance, and rights actually work in this early part of the twenty-first century. Theoretically rich and carefully argued, this Handbook is a welcome synthesis of this ever-more-present, dynamic understanding of social relations.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US‘This is an invaluable collection of voices from the field of transnationalism research. The volume offers a rich new lexicon based on innovative case studies that will set the agenda for conceptualising transnationalism in years to come.’ -- Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Handbook on Transnationalism 1 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. Collins PART I CONCEPTUALISING TRANSNATIONALISM 2 Pre-national transnationalism and translocalism 30 David Featherstone 3 What, when and how transnationalism matters: a multi-scalar framework 45 Biao Xiang 4 Transnationalism and time: beyond the self, unity and relation 60 Sergei Shubin 5 Transnational ageing and the later life course 77 Vincent Horn 6 Transnationalism, affect and emotion 93 Raelene Wilding and Loretta Baldassar 7 Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism 110 Jørgen Carling PART II VARIETIES OF TRANSNATIONALISM 8 Transnational state practices and authoritarian politics 128 Gerasimos Tsourapas 9 Transnational migration and homemaking 141 Paolo Boccagni 10 Transnational organisations 155 Ludger Pries and Rafael Bohlen 11 The politics of transnational activism 169 Michele Ford 12 Transnational families in an age of migration 182 Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam and Shirlena Huang 13 Transnational young people: growing up and being active in a transnational social field 198 Valentina Mazzucato and Joan van Geel 14 Transnational urbanism in the South 211 Arnisson A.C. Ortega and Evangeline O. Katigbak 15 Transnational higher education 230 Johanna Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung 16 Transnational popular culture 246 Youna Kim 17 Transnational religion 262 Dominic Pasura PART III TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS 18 Transnationalism and temporary labour migration 277 Matt Withers and Nicola Piper 19 International students as transnational migrants 294 Gracia Liu-Farrer 20 Transnational marriage migration in Asia and its friction 310 Juan Zhang 21 Transnational mobilities and return migration 325 Anastasia Christou and Brenda S.A. Yeoh 22 Connecting more than the origin and destination: multinational migrations and transnational ties 340 Anju M. Paul PART IV TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND CIRCULATIONS 23 Migrant transnationalism, remittances and development 356 Marta Bivand Erdal 24 Communications technologies and transnational networks 371 Jolynna Sinanan and Heather A. Horst 25 Transnationalism and care circulation: mobility, caregiving, and the technologies that shape them 388 Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding 26 Ethnic entrepreneurship and its transnational linkages 404 Jacob R. Thomas and Min Zhou 27 Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles 420 Sin Yee Koh Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of refugee housing across Europe. Esteemed scholars bridge the knowledge gap between the broader immigrant integration process and refugee housing, examining different approaches to organization, funding, policy, and administration within various multi-level governance systems.

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Agenda explores the crucial need to understand the social impact of tourism in order to manage industry growth sustainably. Highlighting the multifaceted nature of tourism, chapters uncover the intricate relationships between tourists and host communities and investigate this complex social fabric.

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Book SynopsisGeopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice Based on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven years Focuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniform Moves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Introduction: The Crown Jewel 1 1 The Dead Relative: Bounding Europe in Europe 12 Geopolitics by Nobody; Carving Places out of Space; Embodied Europes 2 Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields 32 Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields; "The work of reciprocal elucidation" 3 Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place 61 Planet Brussels; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals; The Political and the Technical – and the Social 4 Transnational Diplomats: Representing Europe in EU 27 86 European External Action Service; Curved Mirrors: Negotiating the National; The Group for Which There is no Term: The New Member States 5 Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization 112 A New Object of Knowledge; Fields of Expertise in the European Quarter; "Most people just want to do what they are told" 6 Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the European Quarter 133 Symbolic Capital; "We are dealing with elites"; "In the third degree of depth"; "An urbane, subtle approach"; Shifts and Spirals 7 Political Geographies of Expertise 171 Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market; "Things are evolving"; Managing Difference Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge 195 References 209 Index 225

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

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Book SynopsisAfrica's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continentTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii 1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1 2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25 3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47 4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73 5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113 6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147 7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176 8 Conclusion 200 References 215 Index 243

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

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Book SynopsisBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich,Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts. Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has beeninfluential in designing out crime to date, and has beenapplied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond Evaluates themovement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible spacefrom the US to the UK and into English housing policyandpractice Exploresthe multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level DrawiTrade Review‘Design against crime? What could be better! This compelling story of where ‘defensible space’ came from, how the idea has changed, and what difference it has made to cities and social life is unputdownable. It turns on a riveting account of the individuals who championed (and some who resisted) the concept – a band of unlikely influencers whose mix of conviction, charisma and common sense became embedded in domestic space.’Susan J. Smith, Mistress of Girton College and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography, University of Cambridge, UK‘This book by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick is essentially a great detective story – a whodunnit of how allegedly research-based theory can translate into policy and ultimately into accepted practice. There is a cast of many well-known characters whose interaction on the question of whether physical determinism can affect human behaviour is rich and fascinating. With planning and urban design again at the centre of politics, this book is an essential source.’Ben Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, Former Past President of RIBA and Historic England Commissioner‘Rarely do I savour a book with such enthusiasm, absorbed by the detail and delighted by the presentation. This is the missing text that I have craved – a text that explains, in meticulous detail, how the rather abstract concept of Defensible Space managed to jump the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge and successfully embed itself into practice.’Rachel Armitage, Professor of Criminology, University of Huddersfield, UK‘Defensible Space on the Move is a fine historiography based on meticulous research and a forensic investigative approach to its subject matter. The book will appeal to a broad readership, including academic researchers, policy makers, students, and lay people. The book is seminal in its careful documentation, and discussion, of one of the more important ideas about what the good city is or ought to be. Through a careful assembling of material, the authors have elevated, and enhanced, the understanding about policy mobilities, in which the fluid, often contradictory, and messy nature of practice is highlighted.’Rob Imrie (reviewing in Buildings & Cities)Table of ContentsList of Figures vi List of Tables viii Glossary of Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii Preface xiii 1 Defensible Space: An Introduction 1 2 Defensible Space Is Mobilised in England 32 3 Defensible Space Goes on Trial but Attracts Those in Power 64 4 Operationalising Defensible Space 102 Case Study ‘ The Mozart Estate: A Laboratory for Defensible Space’ 141 5 Evaluations of Defensible Space 156 6 The Uptake and Resilience of Defensible Space Ideas 187 7 Defensible Space: A Common Sense, Middle-range Theory 219 References 251 Index 279

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Book SynopsisThe city is a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, analyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban researchers, architects, developers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists? What capacity do concepts and methods have to travel from one context to another? How can they be transferred?The strength of Urban Translations lies in its disciplinary and geographical comparison and dialogue on a global scale. It openly targets an international audience, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines (urban planning, sociology, architecture and anthropology) and presenting case studies from highly contrasting urban settings, including Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Cape Town, Dubai, Montreal, Geneva, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Berlin.Table of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Urban Translations, 3. Planning, 4. Order, 5. Nature, 6. Cultures, 7. Image, 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisYour map to understanding human geography Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography, and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? It's not about drawing maps all over your body (although you're welcome to do that if you wantno judgment). Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. Inside, you'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few. This learner-friendly Dummies guide explains all the key concepts clearly and succinctly. Find out how location and geography impact population, culture, economics, and politicsLearn about contemporary issues in human migration, health, and global peace and stabilityGet a clear understanding of all the key concepts covered in your

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Book SynopsisPeter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England's M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography Contains 38 high quality illustrations Based on extensive, original archive work Trade Review"While I wish that he had synthesized his research in a strong conclusion, this criticism should not diminish the merits of the book. The empirical results and the study's framework deserve a firm place in the history of technology." (Technology & Culture, 1 January 2011) "Merriman’s systematic, detailed and precisely documented description of the cultural context of the M1 will itself stand as a valuable documentary resource for researchers and students alike" (Area, December 2008) "Thoroughly researched and full of rich … Driving Spaces presents the historical trajectory of the M1 Motorway through a series of cultural and political stages." (Journal of British Studies, October 2008) “Merriman provides a fascinating perspective on the social and cultural aspects of driving and highways … in this multidisciplinary study. Includes … numerous references … .Recommended.” (Choice)Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Series Editors’ Preface xii Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction: Driving Spaces 1 Mobilities 4 Driving, Space, Social Relations 6 Driving, Landscape, Visuality 12 Geographies of the Modern Road 16 Contents of the Book 20 2 Envisioning British Motorways 23 Motoring and the Motor-Car Way, 1896–1930 24 The German Autobahnen: The Politics and Aesthetics of a Nation’s Roads 31 Motorways for Britain? National Plans, National Defence 38 Motorways, War and Reconstruction 43 Motorways and the British Landscape 46 3 Designing and Landscaping the M1 60 Legislating and Campaigning: Towards a National Motorway Network 61 Locating the M1: Regional Planning, Local Protests and the Authority of the Engineer 67 Landscape Architecture and the Post-war, Modern Road 73 ‘A New Look at the English Landscape’: Landscape Architecture, Movement and the Aesthetics of a Modern Motorway 83 Towards a Road Style: Service Areas in the Landscape 90 ‘Cutting Holes in the Landscape’: Britain’s Motorway Signs 97 4 Constructing the M1 103 ‘Operation Motorway’: Constructing the M1 Motorway 104 Song of a Road: Folk Song, Working-Class Culture and the Labour of a Motorway 124 5 Driving, Consuming and Governing the M 1 141 Motorway Driving, Embodiment, Competence 143 ‘Motorway Madness’: Driving, Governing, Expertise 152 Motorway Modern: Consuming the M 1 162 Motorway Service Areas and the Motorist-Consumer 178 Assessing the M1’s Performance: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scientific Experiments, Accidents 186 6 Motorways and Driving since the 1960s 200 The ‘M1 Corridor’ 202 Motorways and ‘the Environment’ 204 Dystopian and Marginal Landscapes? 208 Placeless Environments? 210 Placing the M1 in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 213 Appendix: Archival Sources 219 Notes 224 References 246 Index 285

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Book SynopsisA lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography.Trade Review"The editors have been ambitious in their intentions and ... Have met their aims handsomely." (Progress in Human Geography, April 2009) "A relatively good spread of world regions is covered in the remaining chapters of the book.... 'Geography, Culture and Prosperity' by Oppenheimer is particularly interesting. I am sure these abbreviated chapters will appeal to many undergraduate students." (South African Geographical Journal, 2008) "What is remarkable about this book is its suitability both as an introductory text and companion reader for first, second and third year undergraduate students of human geography… It should capture students’ imagination or sense of wonder while simultaneously helping them to engage in critical thinking… Highly recommended." (Geographical Research: Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers)“Pieces are well contextualized and work effectively together ….This title would be appropriate to all levels of undergraduate study.” (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsNotes on the Editors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Situating Human Geography. Part I: Introductory Readings:. 1. “The Four Traditions of Geography”: William D. Pattison. 2. “Geography’s Perspectives”: National Research Council. 3. “Geography and Foreign Policy”: H.J. de Blij. 4. “Reflections of an American Geographer on the Anniversary of September 11th” : William G. Moseley. 5. From How to Lie with Maps: Mark Monmonier. 6. “Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make”: Jerome E. Dobson. Part II: Population and Migration:. 7. “An Essay on the Principle of Population”: Thomas Robert Malthus. 8. “Population Growth and a Sustainable Environment”: Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen. 9. “Population Geography and HIV/AIDS: The Challenge of a Wholly Exceptional Disease”: W.T.S. Gould and R.I. Woods. 10. “Interprovincial Migration, Population Redistribution, and Regional Development in China: 1990 and 2000 Census Comparisons”: C. Cindy Fan. Part III: Environment, Agriculture and Society:. 11. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”: Jared Diamond. 12. “The Future of Traditional Agriculture”. Donald Q. Innis. 13. “Geography and the Global Environment”: Diana M.Liverman. 14. “Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East”: Christine Drake. 15. From Americans and Their Weather: William B. Meyer. 16. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”: William Cronon. Part IV: Cultural Geography and Place:. 17. “Minnesota: Nature’s Playground”: David A. Lanegran. 18. “American Microbreweries and Neolocalism: ‘Ale-ing’ for a Sense of Place”: Wes Flack. 19. “Transplanting Pilgrimage Traditions in the Americas”: Carolyn V. Prorok. 20. “Kitchenspace, Fiestas, and Cultural Reproduction in Mexican House-Lot Gardens”: Maria Elisa Christie. Part V: Urban Geography:. 21. “Greenville: From Back Country to Forefront”: Eugene A. Kennedy. 22. “Ethnic Residential Concentrations in United States Metropolitan Areas”: James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. 23. “South Africa’s National Housing Subsidy Program and Apartheid’s Urban Legacy”: Kimberly Lanegran and David Lanegran. 24. “World-City Network: A New Metageography?”: Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, and Peter J. Taylor. Part VI: Economic Geography:. 25. “Geographies of Knowledge, Practices of Globalization: Learning from the Oil Exploration and Production Industry”: Gavin Bridge and Andrew Wood. 26. “The Impact of Containerization on Work on the New York–New Jersey Waterfront”: Andrew Herod. 27. “Wine, Spirits and Beer: World Patterns of Consumption”: David Grigg. 28. “Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn”: Paul Robbins and Julie T. Sharp. 29. “Women at Work”: Mona Domosh and Joni Seager. Part VII: The Geography of Development and Underdevelopment:. 30. “The Re-scaling of Uneven Development in Ghana and India”: Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. 31. “Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory”: A.J. Bebbington and D.H. Bebbington. 32. “Rural Development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, Neoliberalism and Environmental Risk”: Julie Cupples. 33. “The Sahel of West Africa: A Place for Geographers?”: Simon Batterbury. 34. “Geography, Culture and Prosperity”: Andres Oppenheimer. Part VIII: Political Geography:. 34. “Revisiting the ‘pivot’: the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan’s international relations”: Nick Megoran. 35. “Euroregions in Comparative Perspective: Differential Implications for Europe’s Borderlands”: Joanna M.M. Kepka and Alexander B. Murphy. 36. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy”: Don Mitchell. Index

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Book SynopsisA lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography.Trade Review"This is an entertaining, enlightening, challenging book. If you anticipate that it is just another compendium of classics in geography, think again. This book is an engaging combination of substance and opinion, proof of the vitality of geography and its relevance to current events. It is a winning combination. This is a book not just to be read, but to be mined, for the nuggets are many and surprises abound." Harm de Blij, Michigan State University "This reader is comprehensive and thoughtfully organized, providing a central place for some of the most accessible and provocative pieces on human geography today. By including the range of contemporary conceptual concerns and highly accessible empirical material it invites student engagement in an array of exciting disciplinary conversations." Sallie A. Marston, University of Arizona “Pieces are well contextualized and work effectively together ….This title would be appropriate to all levels of undergraduate study.” Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsNotes on the Editors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Situating Human Geography. Part I: Introductory Readings:. 1. “The Four Traditions of Geography”: William D. Pattison. 2. “Geography’s Perspectives”: National Research Council. 3. “Geography and Foreign Policy”: H.J. de Blij. 4. “Reflections of an American Geographer on the Anniversary of September 11th” : William G. Moseley. 5. From How to Lie with Maps: Mark Monmonier. 6. “Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make”: Jerome E. Dobson. Part II: Population and Migration:. 7. “An Essay on the Principle of Population”: Thomas Robert Malthus. 8. “Population Growth and a Sustainable Environment”: Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen. 9. “Population Geography and HIV/AIDS: The Challenge of a Wholly Exceptional Disease”: W.T.S. Gould and R.I. Woods. 10. “Interprovincial Migration, Population Redistribution, and Regional Development in China: 1990 and 2000 Census Comparisons”: C. Cindy Fan. Part III: Environment, Agriculture and Society:. 11. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”: Jared Diamond. 12. “The Future of Traditional Agriculture”. Donald Q. Innis. 13. “Geography and the Global Environment”: Diana M.Liverman. 14. “Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East”: Christine Drake. 15. From Americans and Their Weather: William B. Meyer. 16. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”: William Cronon. Part IV: Cultural Geography and Place:. 17. “Minnesota: Nature’s Playground”: David A. Lanegran. 18. “American Microbreweries and Neolocalism: ‘Ale-ing’ for a Sense of Place”: Wes Flack. 19. “Transplanting Pilgrimage Traditions in the Americas”: Carolyn V. Prorok. 20. “Kitchenspace, Fiestas, and Cultural Reproduction in Mexican House-Lot Gardens”: Maria Elisa Christie. Part V: Urban Geography:. 21. “Greenville: From Back Country to Forefront”: Eugene A. Kennedy. 22. “Ethnic Residential Concentrations in United States Metropolitan Areas”: James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. 23. “South Africa’s National Housing Subsidy Program and Apartheid’s Urban Legacy”: Kimberly Lanegran and David Lanegran. 24. “World-City Network: A New Metageography?”: Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, and Peter J. Taylor. Part VI: Economic Geography:. 25. “Geographies of Knowledge, Practices of Globalization: Learning from the Oil Exploration and Production Industry”: Gavin Bridge and Andrew Wood. 26. “The Impact of Containerization on Work on the New York–New Jersey Waterfront”: Andrew Herod. 27. “Wine, Spirits and Beer: World Patterns of Consumption”: David Grigg. 28. “Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn”: Paul Robbins and Julie T. Sharp. 29. “Women at Work”: Mona Domosh and Joni Seager. Part VII: The Geography of Development and Underdevelopment:. 30. “The Re-scaling of Uneven Development in Ghana and India”: Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. 31. “Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory”: A.J. Bebbington and D.H. Bebbington. 32. “Rural Development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, Neoliberalism and Environmental Risk”: Julie Cupples. 33. “The Sahel of West Africa: A Place for Geographers?”: Simon Batterbury. 34. “Geography, Culture and Prosperity”: Andres Oppenheimer. Part VIII: Political Geography:. 34. “Revisiting the ‘pivot’: the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan’s international relations”: Nick Megoran. 35. “Euroregions in Comparative Perspective: Differential Implications for Europe’s Borderlands”: Joanna M.M. Kepka and Alexander B. Murphy. 36. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy”: Don Mitchell. Index

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Book SynopsisThe study of inequalities is the cornerstone of social geographic research. This book explores how cities as well as rural spaces are organized in ways that construct and maintain social inequality. A global perspective is maintained throughout, drawing on experiences, theories, and ideas from the global north and south.Trade Review"By not taking the well-trodden route of segmenting discussions of social geographies of gender, race, age, sex and so on, Del Casino is breaking the mould. He is offering something far superior ... [and] very accessible and student friendly." (Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2012) Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Boxes. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Cover Image. Introduction. Part I Historicizing Social Geography: From Theory to Methodology. 1 Social Geography? What's That? 2 Social Geography in Three Acts and an Epilogue. 3 Thinking Methodologically. Part II Social Geographies across the Life Course. 4 Social Geography and the Geographies of Health. 5 Communities and Organizations. 6 Social Activism/Social Movements/Social Justice. Part III Social Geographies through the Life Course. 7 On the Geographies of Children and Young People. 8 Social Geographies of the "Mid-Life"? 9 Ageing and the "New" Social Geographies of Older People. Part IV Conclusions. 10 Epilogue v. 2.0. 11 Rethinking the Social Geographies of Difference and Inequality. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisUtilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and presentincluding both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistance Examines the productive geographies of contestation Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connection between different place-based struggles and argues that such solidarities are essential to produce more plural forms of globalization Trade Review"This is a book that demands the attention and engagement of geographers, and others 'inside' and 'outside' academia, working on the intersections between social movements, political identities and the neoliberal state, ultimately offering a productive and uniquely positive approach to understanding and acting on the issues raised by such concerns." (Area, February 2011) "Featherstone has produced a book as dexterous, creative, and wide-ranging as the political networks it seeks to describe." (Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning D, February 2011) "This reviewer thinks we should be rather more generous - for, whatever the political objectives, we should be hugely grateful for Featherstone's rescuing of the past relational geographies of resistance." (Progress in Human Progress in Human Progress, February 2011) "This persuasive, important, and well-written book rethinks resistance to dominant forms of globalization by emphasizing the translocal, often transnational, character of subaltern protest ... Featherstone has produced a book as dexterous, creative, and wide-ranging as the political network it seeks to describe." (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2010) "In summary, RSPI is an incisive and stimulating work that significantly enhances our understanding of the construction and operation of counter-globalization networks. It extends and develops relational accounts of political identities and space in important ways, contributing to debates in political theory, human geography and social movement." (Social Movement Studies, 22 October 2010) "Featherstone's book contributes to our understanding of the formation of counter-global networks. He shows that transnational networks are not void of place.... This book provides a good starting point for scholars who seek an understanding what happens to networks when subaltern relationships are spread across the globe." (Mobilization, March 2010) "This optimistic take on the role of political contestation in world-making processes is a welcome change from the gloom and doom so typical of other geographical texts." (Environment and Planning A, 2009)Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political 1 Part I Networking the Political 13 1 Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities 15 2 Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms 36 Part II Geographies of Connection and Contestation 57 3 Labourers’ Politics and Mercantile Networks 59 4 Making Democratic Spatial Practices 79 5 Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms 99 Part III Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement 119 6 Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization Movement 121 7 Constructing Transnational Political Networks 149 Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection 177 Notes 190 References 196 Index 221

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Book SynopsisUpdated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell''s A Companion to the City Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Materialities 3 Introducing Materialities 5 1 The Great Towns 11 Friedrich Engels 2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17 William Cronon 3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32David Harvey 4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40Manuel Castells 5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49Allen J. Scott 6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60Ash Amin 7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72Sujata Patel 8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen 9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack Part II Mobilities 95 Introducing Mobilities 97 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103Georg Simmel 11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111Michel de Certeau 12 The Arcades Project 119Walter Benjamin 13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126Saskia Sassen 14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero 15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138Arjun Appadurai 16 Connections 144John Urry 17 Driving in the City 152Nigel Thrift 18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu Part III Division and Difference 169 Introducing Division and Difference 171 19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186William Julius Wilson 21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193Mike Davis 22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201Neil Smith 23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211Don Mitchell 24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221Michel Foucault 25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228Iris Marion Young 26 City A/Genders 237Sophie Watson 27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243George Chauncey Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253 Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255 28 The Public Realm 261Richard Sennett 29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273Jane Jacobs 30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278Nancy N. Chen 31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284Setha M. Low 32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293Sharon Zukin 33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303Judith R. Walkowitz 34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311Franco Moretti 35 Writing the City 317Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley 36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323James Donald Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331 Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333 37 The Growth of the City 339Ernest W. Burgess 38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345Le Corbusier 39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355James Holston 40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365Anthony D. King 41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374Edward W. Soja 42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382John Hull Mollenkopf 43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch 44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402Susan S. Fainstein 45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419John Friedmann 47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang Index 433

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Book SynopsisUpdated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell''s A Companion to the City Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Materialities: Introducing Materialities 1.. The Great Towns (Frederick Engels). 2. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (William Cronon). 3. The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis (David Harvey). 4.. An Introduction to the Information Age (Manuel Castells). 5. Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form (Allen J. Scott). 6. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities (Ash Amin). 7. The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: the Mega-City of a Poor Country (Sujata Patel). 8. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale (Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen). 9. Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies (Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack). Part II: Mobilities: Introducing Mobilities10. The Metropolis and Mental Life (Georg Simmel). 11. The Practice of Everyday Life (Michel de Certeau). 12. The Arcades Project (Walter Benjamin). 13. The Global City: Introducing a Concept (Sakia Sassen). 14. Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California (Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero). 15. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Arjun Appadurai) 16. Connections (John Urry). 17. Driving in the City (Nigel Thrift). 18. Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor (Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu). Part III: Division and Difference: Introducing Division and Difference 19. The Continuing Causes of Segregation (Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton). 20. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy (William Julius Wilson). 21. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Mike Davis). 22. After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City (Neil Smith). 23. The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the "Purely Atomic" Individual (Don Mitchell). 24. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Michel Foucault). 25. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference (Iris Marion Young). 26. City A/Genders (Sophie Watson). 27. Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: the Village and Harlem (George Chauncey). Part IV: Urban Publics and Urban Cultures: Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures. 28. The Public Realm (Richard Sennett). 29. Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs). 30. China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life (Nancy N. Chen). 31. Spatializing Culture: the Social Construction. of Public Space in Costa Rica (Setha M. Low). 32. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Sharon Zukin). 33. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Judith R. Walkowitz). 34. Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality (Franco Moretti). 35. Writing the City (Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley). 36. Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces (James Donald). Part V: Urban Politics and Planning: Introducing Urban Politics and Planning. 37. The Growth of the City (Ernest W. Burgess). 38. The City of Tomorrow and its Planning (Le Corbusier). 39. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília (James Holston). 40. Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy (Anthony D. King). 41. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis (Edward W. Soja). 42. How to Study Urban Political Power (John Hull Mollenkopf). 43. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch). 44. New Directions in Planning Theory (Susan S. Fainstein). 45. Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism (Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore). 46. China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future (John Friedmann). 47. Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China (Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang). Index.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinkedTable of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue1 OverviewSECTION I. “IN A QUIET SWAMP, THERE ARE DEVILS WANDERING”: RUINS AND GHOSTS IN BATUMIIntroduction2 Walking a Ruined City3 Devils and BrotherhoodsConclusion: A Period Made PastSECTION II. DAILY INTO THE BLUE? YOUNG LIVES BETWEEN LONGING AND ENGAGEMENTIntroduction4 The White Georgian5 A Tale of Two ArtistsConclusion: “Because of” or “In Order To”?SECTION III. THE FUTURE HAUNTING THE PRESENTIntroduction6 Subjunctive Moods and Imperative Reminders7 Subjunctive MaterialitiesConclusion: Horizons in MotionSECTION IV. APPARITIONSIntroduction8 Social Afterlives and the Creation of Temporal MarginsEpilogueReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.Having immersed herself in a year of fieldwork, Griffin maps multiple engagements with the flexible bus, shared van, and private taxi services to demonstrate that the politics of mobility are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle. Griffin uses critical border studies to look at the contested nature of mobility at the sites of transit, where Palestinians practice self-determination through routine participation, spectacular political organizing and demonstration, and artisticTrade Review"[A] unique and invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination....[T]he publication of Vehicles of Decolonization is notable and worth celebrating.... [I]t succeeds in showing how the shape of public transportation is connected to a set of broader political and economic contradictions.... For scholars eager to think about public transportation outside the strictures of land use debates or environmental sustainability, Vehicles of Decolonization remains important precisely in its ability to place public transportation squarely within debates on political power, identity, and political economy."—City and Community"Griffin highlights public transportation as a site of collective Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank. She begins by illuminating the Israeli systems of border crossings, surveillance, and permits that seek to impede Palestinians’ movement in the region. The book then investigates the ways Palestinians use routes, human interactions surrounding transportation, and vehicles themselves to subvert these systems. Griffin also presents the history of political protests on West Bank buses and anti-occupation art that depicts public transit as examples of Palestinian social struggle centered around mobility."—Middle East Journal"[A] rich piece of political geography that celebrates the agency of people whose every movement can be controlled. With no apologies for her activist and sympathetic posture, Griffin describes the quotidian travails of daily life in the West Bank, where a modern highway system and buses for Jewish settlers are largely off limits for Palestinians.... [T]his well-researched monograph presents a positive picture of resilience, imagination, and community often missing in accounts of the West Bank.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Griffin provides a compelling examination of what she refers to as the 'regime of im/mobility' imposed by Israel on Palestinians inside the West Bank."—Contemporary Sociology"Griffin's writing contextualises the ramifications of public transportation for Palestinians from within Israel's colonial framework, thus setting the scene for readers to engage with a political reality that is either denied or obfuscated."—Middle East Monitor“A critical aspect of colonial biopolitics is the control of body and its movement. Maryam Griffin’s highly insightful Vehicles of Decolonization is the first detailed study of not only how Israeli occupation restrains the daily movement of the Palestinians through walls, checkpoints, permits, and road systems, but especially how Palestinians resist this regime of enclosure by reclaiming mobility through mundane yet highly contested venues of public transit and collective interaction. A timely book.”—Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“A lively and accessible read, Griffin’s book is the first in-depth study of im/mobility in the West Bank. In a landscape pockmarked by politically created closures, constrained movements, and forbidden spaces, public transport takes on important and contested meaning. Griffin’s account demonstrates how despite the intricacies of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians carve out spaces that provide possibilities for social connections and decolonial power, sometimes through mundane practices such as seatbelt clicks, hand-drawn maps, and a metro network art installation, which, given the political conditions, are rendered spectacular.”—Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and coeditor of Gaza as Metaphor"Vehicles of Decolonization is an original study about the restricted daily life and hardships Palestinians have been experiencing under Israeli occupation since 1967; it is also about the imaginative alternatives they have deployed to assert their rights and agency. This study would be of interest to scholars and students in Middle East history, Palestine and Settler Colonial Studies, and the social sciences."—Arab Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisExamining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.Having immersed herself in a year of fieldwork, Griffin maps multiple engagements with the flexible bus, shared van, and private taxi services to demonstrate that the politics of mobility are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle. Griffin uses critical border studies to look at the contested nature of mobility at the sites of transit, where Palestinians practice self-determination through routine participation, spectacular political organizing and demonstration, and artisticTrade Review"[A] unique and invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination....[T]he publication of Vehicles of Decolonization is notable and worth celebrating.... [I]t succeeds in showing how the shape of public transportation is connected to a set of broader political and economic contradictions.... For scholars eager to think about public transportation outside the strictures of land use debates or environmental sustainability, Vehicles of Decolonization remains important precisely in its ability to place public transportation squarely within debates on political power, identity, and political economy."—City and Community"Griffin highlights public transportation as a site of collective Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank. She begins by illuminating the Israeli systems of border crossings, surveillance, and permits that seek to impede Palestinians’ movement in the region. The book then investigates the ways Palestinians use routes, human interactions surrounding transportation, and vehicles themselves to subvert these systems. Griffin also presents the history of political protests on West Bank buses and anti-occupation art that depicts public transit as examples of Palestinian social struggle centered around mobility."—Middle East Journal"[A] rich piece of political geography that celebrates the agency of people whose every movement can be controlled. With no apologies for her activist and sympathetic posture, Griffin describes the quotidian travails of daily life in the West Bank, where a modern highway system and buses for Jewish settlers are largely off limits for Palestinians.... [T]his well-researched monograph presents a positive picture of resilience, imagination, and community often missing in accounts of the West Bank.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Griffin provides a compelling examination of what she refers to as the 'regime of im/mobility' imposed by Israel on Palestinians inside the West Bank."—Contemporary Sociology"Griffin's writing contextualises the ramifications of public transportation for Palestinians from within Israel's colonial framework, thus setting the scene for readers to engage with a political reality that is either denied or obfuscated."—Middle East Monitor“A critical aspect of colonial biopolitics is the control of body and its movement. Maryam Griffin’s highly insightful Vehicles of Decolonization is the first detailed study of not only how Israeli occupation restrains the daily movement of the Palestinians through walls, checkpoints, permits, and road systems, but especially how Palestinians resist this regime of enclosure by reclaiming mobility through mundane yet highly contested venues of public transit and collective interaction. A timely book.”—Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“A lively and accessible read, Griffin’s book is the first in-depth study of im/mobility in the West Bank. In a landscape pockmarked by politically created closures, constrained movements, and forbidden spaces, public transport takes on important and contested meaning. Griffin’s account demonstrates how despite the intricacies of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians carve out spaces that provide possibilities for social connections and decolonial power, sometimes through mundane practices such as seatbelt clicks, hand-drawn maps, and a metro network art installation, which, given the political conditions, are rendered spectacular.”—Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and coeditor of Gaza as Metaphor"Vehicles of Decolonization is an original study about the restricted daily life and hardships Palestinians have been experiencing under Israeli occupation since 1967; it is also about the imaginative alternatives they have deployed to assert their rights and agency. This study would be of interest to scholars and students in Middle East history, Palestine and Settler Colonial Studies, and the social sciences."—Arab Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisReveals how activism to reclaim gentrifying urban spaces, even in a supposedly equitable welfare state, is dramatically impacted by the physical and social geography of the movement's context.Trade Review“Beginning with a charming portrait of one small Swedish neighborhood, Kimberly Creasap demonstrates the power of the concept of a social movement ‘scene,’ a concentrated network of activists and the places they congregate. Scenes are not just a resource for politics; they are an accomplishment in their own right. Who really owns a city? And how?”—James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements“A must-read on autonomous social movements resisting gentrification in Swedish cities that draws on a conceptual apparatus made up of centrality, concentration, and visibility. Making a Scene is rich in contextual detail, description, and, critically, a sense of hope for activists everywhere. Creasap puts the spatial into the social of social movement research and contributes to the rapidly growing literature on resistance in gentrification studies.”—Loretta Lees, Incoming Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, and coauthor of Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification"Creasap offers the reader ethnographic glimpses and comparisons of the local social movement scenes in Sweden’s three major cities of Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö.... [Her] main argument serves as an important contribution to the scholarship on social movement scenes. This book also presents an important call for thinking more critically about spatiality in the sociology of social movements more generally."—Social Forces"Creasap's comparative analysis of autonomous movements across these three different urban spaces provides a nuanced contribution not just to social movement studies but to urban social science, as well.... Making a Scene provides important insights that will be invaluable for social movement scholars, political sociologists, and urban social scientists studying gentrification and neighborhood change."—Mobilization"This book contributes to the understanding of autonomist and anarchist movements in Sweden’s three major cities.... Creasap’s concise and clear writing style helps readers follow the storyline and makes the sociological picture of the activist scenes more palatable for a wider, non-academic audience. The book also enriches the literature by analysing urban activism and radical politics in Sweden at a very specific historical period.... [I]t represents a well-crafted research effort and offers important insights to consider when addressing theoretical questions at the intersection of urban sociology, urban movements, and far-left radical politics in the somewhat unique Swedish context."—Acta Sociologica“Creasap examines an important issue in the social movement literature—the centrality of place for the rise and fall of social movements. Introducing the concept of social movement scenes, she theorizes their importance and the interplay between these scenes and the political economies of their cities. Moreover, Making a Scene engages in an interesting discussion of how gentrification contributes to both sharpening the grievances of urban activists and destroying the environment they need to survive and thrive."—Walter J. Nicholls, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship"This slim sociological study provides welcome data on gentrification and oppositional social movements outside the US, while also providing a counterpoint to generalized readings of the overall success of the Swedish welfare state.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"[A] detailed ethnographic study of the social movement 'scenes' in Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmo in Sweden. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, it is the kind of ethnographic work that allows for deep exploration of issues and people, and that uses that exploration to raise complex questions.... [I]t adds admirably to the large body of work on urban social movements, and is worth reading by those interested in dynamics and processes in such movements.... [T]his is a good book that should be of real interest to scholars who are interested in urban social movements, and those who simply want to read an interesting set of stories about these scenes."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisFishing in Contested Waters demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: Re-membering Burnt Church Chapter 2 "Those Relationships Became Countries" Chapter 3 Contested Place Chapter 4 Seeking Justice: Rights and Religion in the Dispute Chapter 5 Conservation Talk: Negotiating Power and Place Chapter 6 The Canadian Way Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America's premier multicultural metropolises - Toronto, New York, and Los AngelesTrade Review'Qadeer brings to bear an in-depth knowledge about multicultural cities, their urban institutions and structures and insights into ways these institutions and structures are evolving and cultural differences negotiated.' -- Carlos Teixeira Journal of Urban Affairs January 2017Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Cultures and the City Chapter 2: Multiculturalism: Diversity Rights and Common Ground Chapter 3: Making Multicultural Cities Chapter 4: Social Geography of Multicultural Cities Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Urban Economy Chapter 6: Patterns of Community Life Chapter 7: Experiences of Living in Multicultural Cities Chapter 8: Political Incorporation and Diversity Chapter 9: Pluralism of Urban Services Chapter 10: Urban Planning for Cultural Diversity Chapter 11: Imagining Multicultural Cities Appendix 1. Theoretical Discourse on Multiculturalism

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually, provide for student and general reader stimulating analysis of social phenomena which are under lively examination these days in Canada and beyond both in popular and semi-popular journals and magazines and in learned writings.Nathan Keyfitz opens the volume with a valuable background analysis of the way in which the population of Canada has reached its present numbers and distribution and examines the effects of immigration and of changing rates of birth and death. S.D. Clark deals with the controversial question of what the real characteristics of the suburban community can be seen to be and comments forcefully on the 'suburbia' of Riesman, Whyte, et al. W.E. Mann present

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