Human geography Books
MY - University of Toronto Press Kouchibouguac Removal Resistance and Remembrance
Book SynopsisIn Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin tells the story of the park's establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.Trade Review'This is an important book that tells a story, we think we know, in a new and different way... A significant contribution to the regional and national history of Canada.' -- Tina Loo Acadiensis September 2016 'Historians, civil servants, students, and general public will find it a stimulating and valuable interpretation of the time and events.' -- Sheila Andrew Canadian Historical Review vol 97:04:2016 "Kouchibouguac is an excellent book, not only as a resource, but as enlightening reading for anyone with a social conscience. Ronald Rudin is to be applauded for his intensive and extensive research and his obvious concern for getting the Kouchibouguac story told properly and lucidly." -- James M. Fisher The Miramichi Reader, August 24, 2016Table of ContentsPrologue: On the Road Again Part I: Removal Chapter 1: People Before the Park Chapter 2: Planning Without People Chapter 3: Removal and Rehabilitation Part II: Resistance Chapter 4: Gone Fishing Chapter 5: The Acadian Freedom Fighter Part III: Remembrance Chapter 6: Art for a Cause Chapter 7: Reconciliation Epilogue: Chez Comeau
£49.30
University of Toronto Press Canadian Population and Northern Colonization
Book SynopsisIn their annual sessions the various Sections of the Royal Society are accustomed to take up for general discussion a topic of current interest and this gives Fellows and special guests from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities an opportunity for useful communication across the disciplines on an important subject.In 1961 the topic was an especially vital issue, the population explosion, and this volume, based on the papers given at the meeting, has much valuable information and many pertinent and provocative comments on this phenomenon particularly as it affects Canada.T.W.M. Cameron leads off with a general background on the causes and consequences of the population increase around the world. Then come a group of papers presenting various aspects of the population in Canada’s settled areas. Pierre Dagenais studies the growth in that population in recent years; Guy Rocher presents developments in our labour force in the 1900’s with
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Iron Curtains
Book SynopsisIron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University''s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography. Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe<Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables viii Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Public, Private, Privatism 14 3 The Post-socialist City 34 4 Post-modern Urbanism Revisited 60 5 Sofia: Wither the Socialist City 81 6 The Ninth Ring: Suburbanizing Sofia 105 7 Iron Curtains I: Gated Homes 131 8 Iron Curtains II: Gated Complexes 149 9 Architecture of Disunity 170 10 Possibilities 191 References 198 Index 220
£18.99
Bristol University Press The Future of Planning
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environmentTrade Review"In this excellent book, Yvonne Rydin skilfully critiques the current growth-dependent British planning system while offering a comprehensive and progressive agenda for its reform using the concept of `just sustainability.’" Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA."Contains much that will engage anyone who has an interest in the kinds of villages, towns and cities we should build in Britain." International Planning StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Introducing growth-dependent planning; Embedding Growth-Dependence in the Planning System; The Growth-Dependent Planning Paradigm; The Flawed Economic Assumptions of Growth Dependent Planning; The Environmental and Social Consequences of Growth Dependent Planning; Reforming the Planning Agenda; Alternative Development Models; Protecting and Improving Existing Places; Assets in Common; Reforming the Planning System.
£22.79
Bristol University Press The Future of Planning
Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environmentTrade Review"In this excellent book, Yvonne Rydin skilfully critiques the current growth-dependent British planning system while offering a comprehensive and progressive agenda for its reform using the concept of `just sustainability.’" Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA."Contains much that will engage anyone who has an interest in the kinds of villages, towns and cities we should build in Britain." International Planning StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Introducing growth-dependent planning; Embedding Growth-Dependence in the Planning System; The Growth-Dependent Planning Paradigm; The Flawed Economic Assumptions of Growth Dependent Planning; The Environmental and Social Consequences of Growth Dependent Planning; Reforming the Planning Agenda; Alternative Development Models; Protecting and Improving Existing Places; Assets in Common; Reforming the Planning System.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Sustainable London
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.Trade Review"This book is both topical and timely given the extensive debate about sustainability and the challenges caused by financial austerity and welfare reform." Dr Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"A valuable resource for those interested in the study of sustainable development strategies and policies." Town Planning Review"Sustainability is a term that has risen in prominence just as global cities like London are becoming ever less sustainable. This important new book calls for a renewed emphasis on social justice in urban policy making. The authors remind us of the things that really matter in life and the political battles that need to be won over wages, housing, transport and the environment." Professor Jane Wills, Queen Mary University of London"It’s no longer a surprise that the words `sustainable development’ at best are marginal adjustments, or more likely, cynical greenwash. Sustainable London explores the results in ruthless detail – seen in the `post-political’, socially cleansed `mixed communities’, complete with their `poor doors’ and `anti-homeless spikes’. It is a waymarker which sets the agenda." Joe Ravetz, Co-Director, Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy, University of Manchester“This is an innovative and accessible book that makes a significant and unique contribution to the discussion around sustainability, providing a high level of commentary and analysis from a range of strong contributors.” Dr John Flint, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsPreface; Foreword ~ Ben Rogers; Part 1: Sustaining London: the key challenges; London’s future and sustainable city building ~ Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees; Privatising London: a conversation with Anna Minton; Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London ~ Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee; Part 2: Sustaining London in an era of austerity; Sustainable governance and planning in London ~ Emma Street; Privatisation, managerialism and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London ~ Mike Raco; Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour ~ Cathy McIlwaine and Kavita Datta; Sustaining London’s welfare in an age of austerity ~ Chris Hamnett; Part 3: The challenges for a socially sustainable London; The death of sustainable communities in London? ~ Loretta Lees; From supermarkets to community building: Tesco PLC, sustainable place making and urban regeneration ~ Rob Imrie and Mike Dolton; Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence? ~ Tim Butler; Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London? ~ James Fournière; Part 4: Sustaining London’s environmental future; Rhetoric in transitioning to sustainable travel ~ Robin Hickman; Building the healthy city in London ~ Clare Herrick; Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London ~ Franklin Ginn and Robert A Francis; Part 5: Postscript; Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London ~ Loretta Lees and Rob Imrie.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Sustainable London
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.Trade Review"This book is both topical and timely given the extensive debate about sustainability and the challenges caused by financial austerity and welfare reform." Dr Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"A valuable resource for those interested in the study of sustainable development strategies and policies." Town Planning Review"Sustainability is a term that has risen in prominence just as global cities like London are becoming ever less sustainable. This important new book calls for a renewed emphasis on social justice in urban policy making. The authors remind us of the things that really matter in life and the political battles that need to be won over wages, housing, transport and the environment." Professor Jane Wills, Queen Mary University of London"It’s no longer a surprise that the words `sustainable development’ at best are marginal adjustments, or more likely, cynical greenwash. Sustainable London explores the results in ruthless detail – seen in the `post-political’, socially cleansed `mixed communities’, complete with their `poor doors’ and `anti-homeless spikes’. It is a waymarker which sets the agenda." Joe Ravetz, Co-Director, Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy, University of Manchester“This is an innovative and accessible book that makes a significant and unique contribution to the discussion around sustainability, providing a high level of commentary and analysis from a range of strong contributors.” Dr John Flint, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsPreface; Foreword ~ Ben Rogers; Part 1: Sustaining London: the key challenges; London’s future and sustainable city building ~ Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees; Privatising London: a conversation with Anna Minton; Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London ~ Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee; Part 2: Sustaining London in an era of austerity; Sustainable governance and planning in London ~ Emma Street; Privatisation, managerialism and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London ~ Mike Raco; Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour ~ Cathy McIlwaine and Kavita Datta; Sustaining London’s welfare in an age of austerity ~ Chris Hamnett; Part 3: The challenges for a socially sustainable London; The death of sustainable communities in London? ~ Loretta Lees; From supermarkets to community building: Tesco PLC, sustainable place making and urban regeneration ~ Rob Imrie and Mike Dolton; Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence? ~ Tim Butler; Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London? ~ James Fournière; Part 4: Sustaining London’s environmental future; Rhetoric in transitioning to sustainable travel ~ Robin Hickman; Building the healthy city in London ~ Clare Herrick; Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London ~ Franklin Ginn and Robert A Francis; Part 5: Postscript; Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London ~ Loretta Lees and Rob Imrie.
£30.39
Bristol University Press Regenerating Deprived Urban Areas
Book SynopsisThis book compares the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. It applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning.Trade Review"A well-structured and well-documented book, which analyses urban policies and local institutional framework in great detail and depth." Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction; New Localism(s) in Europe; Policies for deprived urban areas; Conceptualising New Localism(s): exploring local variations in urban governance practices across Europe; Lost in transformation: urban governance practices and the New Deal for Communities (NDC) in Bristol; Local government experiments to cope with structural change: The Social City Programme in Duisburg; The crystallization of New Localism(s) in Bristol and Duisburg: a cross-case comparison; The neo-institutional study of New Localism(s) as an analytical window for comparative urbanism: concluding reflections; Appendices.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in
Book SynopsisGulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics and ethnic politics of education in multicultural cities.Trade Review"In this highly original book, Gulson and Webb make an informed and exciting contribution to post-structural approaches to policy analysis." Patrick Bailey, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: education policy and multicultural cities; Policy events; Policy and biopolitics: the event of race-based statistics in Toronto; The (micro)politics of racial neoliberalism; 'Up in the northwest corner of the city': the city, race and locating the school; Difference and recognition; Policy events, race and the future of the city.
£66.50
Policy Press Locating Localism
Book SynopsisCombines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.Trade Review“It is brilliant news that our ongoing campaigns about the need to strengthen local democracy has been recognised and supported by such an influential voice as Prof Wills. We would urge all to read this book regardless of who you are.” Cllr Ken Browse, chair of the National Association of Local Councils"This book makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on localism and its implications for changing state-society relationships and the location of power and control." Urban Geography"Localism is now a highly influential discourse in contemporary English politics. Jane Wills goes beyond the burgeoning advocacy and commentary to provide a thorough-going and subtle analysis of its qualities. A vital read for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and activists." John Tomaney, University College LondonTable of ContentsMaking sense of localism; The geo-constitution and the long history of localism; The place of the people; Localist local government; Institution building for localism; Community organising, past and present; Back to the Parish: the importance of place.
£75.99
Policy Press Locating Localism
Book SynopsisCombines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.Trade Review“It is brilliant news that our ongoing campaigns about the need to strengthen local democracy has been recognised and supported by such an influential voice as Prof Wills. We would urge all to read this book regardless of who you are.” Cllr Ken Browse, chair of the National Association of Local Councils"This book makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on localism and its implications for changing state-society relationships and the location of power and control." Urban Geography"Localism is now a highly influential discourse in contemporary English politics. Jane Wills goes beyond the burgeoning advocacy and commentary to provide a thorough-going and subtle analysis of its qualities. A vital read for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and activists." John Tomaney, University College LondonTable of ContentsMaking sense of localism; The geo-constitution and the long history of localism; The place of the people; Localist local government; Institution building for localism; Community organising, past and present; Back to the Parish: the importance of place.
£26.59
Policy Press After Urban Regeneration
Book SynopsisFocusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008Trade Review"An accessible piece of literature that will add to the knowledge of many academics in this field." Town Planning Review"A genuinely fresh, and admirably provocative, attempt to reshape the way we seek to understand the evolving urban policy agenda." Housing Studies"After Urban Regeneration an excellent book and it is very well crafted and organised. The chapters are critical in tone and characterised by incisive critiques of community and urban policy and practice. There is nothing like this on the market that examines the impact of localism on communities, and the diverse ways in which community groups are cultivating new knowledges and practices of self government." Professor Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of London"This important contribution to the urban policy and regeneration literature is the first major text to critically examine urban policy in the UK since 2008, and proposes that we have entered a period of `post-regeneration’ in the UK. This contribution will be of use to academics, policy makers and communities alike." Andrew Tallon, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; Section 1: After regeneration?; Urban Policy and Communities ~ Stuart Wilks-Heeg; Connecting community to the post-regeneration era ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; When things fall apart ~ Sue Cohen and Morag McDermont; Section 2: Exploring Epistemologies; Microsolutions for Megaproblems: What works in urban regeneration policy? ~ Max Nathan; The work of art in the age of mechanical co-production. Steve Pool and Kate Pahl; There is no local here, love ~ Rebecca Bernstein, Antonia Layard, Martin Maudsley and Hilary Ramsden; Section 3: New places for communities; Forging Communities: the CAER Heritage Project and the dynamics of co-production ~ Clyde Ancarno, Oliver Davis and David Wyatt; Lessons from `The Vale’ – the role of hyperlocal media in shaping reputational geographies ~ David Harte; Contemporary Governance Discourse and Digital Media: Convergences, Prospects & Problems for the `Big Society’ Agenda ~ Chris Speed, Amadu Wurie Khan, Sharon Baurley and Martin Phillips; Section 4: new spaces for policy; Localism, neighbourhood planning and community control: the MapLocal pilot ~ Phil Jones, Antonia Layard, Colin Lorne, Chris Speed; Translation across borders: Exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Peter Matthews; Conclusion ~ Dave O’Brien and Peter Matthews.
£75.99
Bristol University Press After Urban Regeneration
Book SynopsisFocusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008Trade Review"An accessible piece of literature that will add to the knowledge of many academics in this field." Town Planning Review"A genuinely fresh, and admirably provocative, attempt to reshape the way we seek to understand the evolving urban policy agenda." Housing Studies"After Urban Regeneration an excellent book and it is very well crafted and organised. The chapters are critical in tone and characterised by incisive critiques of community and urban policy and practice. There is nothing like this on the market that examines the impact of localism on communities, and the diverse ways in which community groups are cultivating new knowledges and practices of self government." Professor Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of London"This important contribution to the urban policy and regeneration literature is the first major text to critically examine urban policy in the UK since 2008, and proposes that we have entered a period of `post-regeneration’ in the UK. This contribution will be of use to academics, policy makers and communities alike." Andrew Tallon, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; Section 1: After regeneration?; Urban Policy and Communities ~ Stuart Wilks-Heeg; Connecting community to the post-regeneration era ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; When things fall apart ~ Sue Cohen and Morag McDermont; Section 2: Exploring Epistemologies; Microsolutions for Megaproblems: What works in urban regeneration policy? ~ Max Nathan; The work of art in the age of mechanical co-production. Steve Pool and Kate Pahl; There is no local here, love ~ Rebecca Bernstein, Antonia Layard, Martin Maudsley and Hilary Ramsden; Section 3: New places for communities; Forging Communities: the CAER Heritage Project and the dynamics of co-production ~ Clyde Ancarno, Oliver Davis and David Wyatt; Lessons from ‘The Vale’ – the role of hyperlocal media in shaping reputational geographies ~ David Harte; Contemporary Governance Discourse and Digital Media: Convergences, Prospects & Problems for the ‘Big Society’ Agenda ~ Chris Speed, Amadu Wurie Khan, Sharon Baurley and Martin Phillips; Section 4: new spaces for policy; Localism, neighbourhood planning and community control: the MapLocal pilot ~ Phil Jones, Antonia Layard, Colin Lorne, Chris Speed; Translation across borders: Exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Peter Matthews; Conclusion ~ Dave O’Brien and Peter Matthews.
£26.59
Policy Press Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid
Book SynopsisA wide range of contributors bring expertise from both developed and developing countries, to provide a big picture assessment of Bus Rapid Transit as part of an affordable process for restructuring transit systemsTrade Review"This is a must-read for those who wish to invest the time, intellectual energy, and building of political will required for BRT to help foster more sustainable cities." Fred Salvucci, former Secretary of Transportation for Massachusetts, USA??"A very thorough and comprehensive review of the role of Bus Rapid Transit, drawing on a wide range of in-depth research. Set in a broader institutional and policy context, the issues discussed are of wider application to public transport operation as a whole." Professor Peter White, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsThe promise of BRT ~ Laurel Paget-Seekins & Juan Carlos Munoz; Global overview of BRT and bus corridors ~ Luis Antonio Lindau, Cristina Albuquerque Moreira da Silva, Guillermo Petzhold & Daniela Facchini; Section 1: Institutional Relationships; The path toward integrated systems ~ Dario Hidalgo, Juan Carlos Munoz & Juan Miguel Velásquez; BRT as a tool for negotiated re-regulation ~ Onesimo Flores Dewey; Institutional design and regulatory frameworks ~ Rosário Macário, Maria Spandou & Luis Neves Filipe; Strategic participation for change ~ Lake Sagaris; Designing bus concession contracts ~ Patricia Galilea & Marco Batarce; Fare structures ~ Marco Batarce & Corinne Mulley; Section 2: BRT and the City; Conflict over public space ~ Laurel Paget-Seekins; Designing BRT-oriented development ~ Chris Zegras, Anson Stewart, Rosanna Forray, Rocío Hidalgo, Cristhian Figueroa, Fábio Duarte & Jan Wampler; Preferences for BRT and light rail – David Hensher, Corinne Mulley & John Rose; User preferences and route choice ~ Sebastián Raveau, Juan Carlos Munoz & Juan de Dios Ortúzar; Passenger information systems ~ Carola Zurob, José Manuel Allard, Rosário Macário, Bernardo Garcia and Camila Garcia; Section 3: Operations and Design; Opportunities provided by automated data collection systems ~ Nigel Wilson; Designing a BRT-based network under integrated operations ~ Homero Larrain, Omar Ibarra, Juan Carlos Munoz & Corinne Mulley; Assessing corridor performance ~ Juan Carlos Herrera, Juan Carlos Munoz, David Hensher, Corinne Mulley, Zheng Li & Luis Antonio Lindau; BRRT: adding an R for reliability ~ Felipe Delgado, Juan Carlos Munoz & Ricardo Giesen; Managing drivers and vehicles for cost-effective operations in regulated transit systems ~ Omar Ibarra & Ricardo Giesen; Road safety impact of BRT and busway features ~ Nicolae Duduta & Luis Antonio Lindau; Looking forward ~ Juan Carlos Munoz, Laurel Paget-Seekins.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Why Detroit Matters
Book SynopsisThis edited book examines why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities around the world. Bridging academic and non-academic voices, contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by some of the city's most influential writers, planners, artists and activists.Trade Review“This is a most welcome addition to the growing body of literature that not only is bringing long overdue attention to Detroit but also seeks to provide much needed nuance and complexity to Manichean debates. Doucet challenges readers to dissect the conscious choices that led Detroit into and out of bankruptcy rather than accept what transpired as inevitable.” Journal of Urban Affairs"This is an important and unique book in the context of the future of cities globally. In considering Detroit as a symbol of aspects of post-industrial decline and regeneration, it gives voice to a range of normally excluded voices and narratives. It therefore provides a valuably rounded set of perspectives and visions which, together, help the reader to understand the forces that have shaped the city, and wider lessons for creating more inclusive cities." John McCarthy, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Detroit Matters ~ Brian Doucet; Section I: Lessons from Detroit; Detroit’s Bankruptcy: Treating the symptom, not the cause ~ George Galster; Detroit in Bankruptcy: What are the Lessons to be Learned? ~ Reynolds Farley ; Between economic revival and social disruption: The redevelopment of Greater Downtown and the emergence of new socio-spatial Inequalities ~ René Kreichauf; A new urban medicine show: On the limits of blight remediation ~ Joshua Akers; Reshaping the gray spaces: Resident self-provisioning and urban form in Detroit ~ Kimberley Kinder; Preserving Detroit by preserving Its baseball history ~ Jason Roche; This is (not) Detroit: Projecting the future of Germany’s Ruhr region ~ Julia Sattler; Intermezzo I: ‘You may not know my Detroit’ ~ jessica Care moore; Section II: Practices from Detroit; Evolution of municipal government in Detroit ~ John Gallagher; Detroit’s emerging innovation in urban infrastructure: how liabilities become assets for energy, water, industry and informatics ~ Dan Kinkead; Visions In conflict: A city of possibilities ~ Sharon Howell and Richard Feldman; Reconstructing Detroit: the resilient city ~ Khalil Ligon; Reawakening culture among Detroit’s resident majority ~ Jessica Brooke Williams; Make sure you’re helping: Experts, solidarity and effective partnering with locals ~ Drew Philp; New Strategies DMC, takin’ it all back home: Lessons from Detroit for arts practices in the Netherlands ~ Friso Wiersum, Bart Witte and Niko Doulos; Intermezzo II: My Detroit ~ Tyree Guyton; Section III: Conversations from Detroit; Lowell Boileau, artist and founder of DetroitYES; Sandra Hines, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Dan Carmody, Eastern Market Corporation; Jackie Victor, Avalon International Breads; Phil Cooley, Entrepreneur, owner of Slows Bar-B-Q and Ponyride; Wayne Curtis and Myrtle Thompson-Curtis, Feedom Freedom Farmers; Julia Putnam, Amanda Rosman and Marisol Teachworth, The James and Grace Lee Boggs School; Yusef Shakur, author and neighbourhood organizer; Grace Lee Boggs, activist; Conclusion: Detroit and the future of the city ~ Brian Doucet.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Why Detroit Matters
Book SynopsisThis edited book examines why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities around the world. Bridging academic and non-academic voices, contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by some of the city's most influential writers, planners, artists and activists.Trade Review“This is a most welcome addition to the growing body of literature that not only is bringing long overdue attention to Detroit but also seeks to provide much needed nuance and complexity to Manichean debates. Doucet challenges readers to dissect the conscious choices that led Detroit into and out of bankruptcy rather than accept what transpired as inevitable.” Journal of Urban Affairs"This is an important and unique book in the context of the future of cities globally. In considering Detroit as a symbol of aspects of post-industrial decline and regeneration, it gives voice to a range of normally excluded voices and narratives. It therefore provides a valuably rounded set of perspectives and visions which, together, help the reader to understand the forces that have shaped the city, and wider lessons for creating more inclusive cities." John McCarthy, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Detroit Matters ~ Brian Doucet; Section I: Lessons from Detroit; Detroit’s Bankruptcy: Treating the symptom, not the cause ~ George Galster; Detroit in Bankruptcy: What are the Lessons to be Learned? ~ Reynolds Farley ; Between economic revival and social disruption: The redevelopment of Greater Downtown and the emergence of new socio-spatial Inequalities ~ René Kreichauf; A new urban medicine show: On the limits of blight remediation ~ Joshua Akers; Reshaping the gray spaces: Resident self-provisioning and urban form in Detroit ~ Kimberley Kinder; Preserving Detroit by preserving Its baseball history ~ Jason Roche; This is (not) Detroit: Projecting the future of Germany’s Ruhr region ~ Julia Sattler; Intermezzo I: ‘You may not know my Detroit’ ~ jessica Care moore; Section II: Practices from Detroit; Evolution of municipal government in Detroit ~ John Gallagher; Detroit’s emerging innovation in urban infrastructure: how liabilities become assets for energy, water, industry and informatics ~ Dan Kinkead; Visions In conflict: A city of possibilities ~ Sharon Howell and Richard Feldman; Reconstructing Detroit: the resilient city ~ Khalil Ligon; Reawakening culture among Detroit’s resident majority ~ Jessica Brooke Williams; Make sure you’re helping: Experts, solidarity and effective partnering with locals ~ Drew Philp; New Strategies DMC, takin’ it all back home: Lessons from Detroit for arts practices in the Netherlands ~ Friso Wiersum, Bart Witte and Niko Doulos; Intermezzo II: My Detroit ~ Tyree Guyton; Section III: Conversations from Detroit; Lowell Boileau, artist and founder of DetroitYES; Sandra Hines, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Dan Carmody, Eastern Market Corporation; Jackie Victor, Avalon International Breads; Phil Cooley, Entrepreneur, owner of Slows Bar-B-Q and Ponyride; Wayne Curtis and Myrtle Thompson-Curtis, Feedom Freedom Farmers; Julia Putnam, Amanda Rosman and Marisol Teachworth, The James and Grace Lee Boggs School; Yusef Shakur, author and neighbourhood organizer; Grace Lee Boggs, activist; Conclusion: Detroit and the future of the city ~ Brian Doucet.
£27.54
Bristol University Press Towards a Spatial Social Policy
Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke
£75.99
Bristol University Press Towards a Spatial Social Policy
Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke
£25.64
Bristol University Press Children and Young Peoples Participation in
Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on participatory international research, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles in responding, planning and adapting to disasters. It demonstrates how child-centred ways of working will benefit all those involved.Table of ContentsIIntroducing CUIDAR: A Child Centred Approach to Disasters ~ Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Ana Delicado Chapter 1., Children, Participation and Disasters in Europe: A Poor Record ~ Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez Chapter 2., Dialogues with Children, Mutual Learning Exercises and National Policy Debates ~ Anna Grisi, Flaminia Cordani, Sofia Ribeiro, Charikleia Kanari, Vassilis Argyropoulos, Miriam Arenas and Ana Delicado Chapter 3., Rights, Information, Needs and Active Involvement in Disaster Management ~ Ana Delicado, Miriam Arenas, Magda Nikolaraizi, Charikleia Kanari, Anna Grisi, Flaminia Cordani, Stefanie Keir Chapter 4., Building a Framework for Child-Centred Disaster Risk Management in Europe ~ Israel Rodriguez, Maggie Mort, Ana Nunes de Almeida, Ana Sofia Ribeiro Chapter 5., Participatory Tools for Disaster Risk Management with Children and Young People ~ Jussara Rowland, Miriam Arenas, Flamina Cordani, Anna Grisi, Magda Nikolaraizi, Maria Papazafiri, Alison Lloyd Williams, Aya Goto and Amanda Bingley Concluding Remarks: Reimagining Children’s Place in Disaster Risk Management ~ Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Maggie Mort, Ana Delicado
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Bristol University Press Local Civil Society
Book SynopsisDrawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Civil society as a field of local action 2. Community and local civil society: time, continuity and change 3. Uncovering local civil society in two Welsh villages 4. Civil society through the narratives of place and time 5. Civil society and local associational life 6. The entwining of civil society, economy and state at local levels Conclusion
£76.00
Bristol University Press Beyond Neighbourhood Planning
Book SynopsisThe past three decades have seen an international ‘turn to participation’ – letting those who will be affected by neighbourhood planning outcomes play an active role in decision-making. This innovative analysis brings theory, research, and practice together and gives insights into how and why citizen voices either become effective or get excluded.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Neighbourhood Planners and the Turn to Participation 2. Planning, Participation, and Democratisation 3. Knowledge, Politics and Care: Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies 4. Neighbourhoods, Identity and Legitimacy 5. Experience, Evidence and Examination 6. Expertise, Agency and Power 7. Care and Concern 8. Conclusions: Neighbourhood Planning and Beyond
£77.39
The University of North Carolina Press Environments of Empire
Book SynopsisAdvances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.Trade ReviewReaders are left with a range of new perspectives and methodologies that examine the varied aspects of ecological imperialism. Agricultural historians will find the collection especially helpful given that many of the essays focus on the development of colonial and modern agricultural practices.--Agricultural History
£26.36
University of Texas Press The Individuality of Portugal
Book SynopsisThe factors that caused Portugal to become a separate nation when other regions of the Iberian peninsula became part of Spain.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Landforms of Northwest and West Iberia 2. The Climate of Western Iberia 3. The Soils of Northern and Western Iberia 4. Vegetation Regions of Northern and Western Iberia 5. Prehistoric Immigrants into Iberia 6. Early Central European Influences in Iberia 7. Contacts between the Ancient Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Iberia 8. The Period of Roman Conquest and Control 9. The Germanic Conquest 10. Moslem Domination 11. The Reconquest of Iberia 12. Final Steps toward Portuguese Independence 13. Completion of the Portuguese State 14. Development of Portuguese International Relations 15. The Geography of Portuguese-Spanish Boundaries 16. Environment and Culture 17. The Geographical Basis of Portuguese Political Independence: A Summation Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Shifting Sands
Book SynopsisHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, Shifting Sands addresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization. Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands Part I. Exchanges and Flows The International Development of China Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) Part II. Corridors and Concessions China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands Part III. Settlements and Memories Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements Southwestern Borderlands Northwestern Borderlands Northeastern Borderlands Epilogue Index
£35.10
Duke University Press The Promise of Infrastructure
Book SynopsisAttending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating new ways to theorize time, politics, and promise.Trade Review"The Promise of Infrastructure offers a provocative reflection on the current academic, social, and political moment that we find ourselves in. . . . While The Promise of Infrastructure as a whole offers a surprisingly comprehensive condemnation of the 'radically human-centered thinking' that has produced the Anthropocene challenge that we now face, it also suggests the tools we will need to map out possible futures. Appropriately, these are not prescriptions promising a better future. Rather they are openings for possibility, for action, and for wonder." -- Tim Oakes * Technology and Culture *"The volume offers a highly valuable contribution to the study of human/non-human relations. Taking up Brian Larkin’s call against a premature separation of the material from the discursive, the editors argue that infrastructural matter becomes political only in relation to human ideologies, aesthetics or histories." -- Laura Kemmer * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"The Promise of Infrastructure is a timely and compelling account of the myriad ways in which infrastructures can be theorized and the limits and potentials of the same." -- Siddharth Menon * AAG Review of Books *"The Promise of Infrastructure is a stellar collection of essays by anthropologists and social scientists who explore roads, buildings, bridges, water meters, pipelines, power stations, and other structures which we encounter on a daily basis but whose contribution to the production of difference we frequently overlook." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *"This book presents a combination of insightful theorisations and an engaging ethnography." -- Sudha Vasan * Economic & Political Weekly *"The Promise of Infrastructure is essential reading for scholars and students who wish to more fully understand the ethical and social role of the 'Ideal Infrastructure,' its history, its criticisms and its (uncertain) future destiny." -- Marco Spada * Environment and History *“The edited collection by Anand, Gupta, and Appel highlights infrastructures as a promising site for ethnographic research.... [It] reveal[s] the potential of infrastructural ethnography to make visible power inequalities and exclusionary practices and expose infrastructures as powerful sites for redefining governance and belonging.” -- Daivi Rodima-Taylor * American Anthropologist *“The Promise of Infrastructure teaches the reader how large state-run infrastructures can possibly induce and solidify regimes in pursuing their political promises. . . . Insights stemming out of The Promise of Infrastructure—especially the concept of ‘ruination’—enable researchers to acquire a ‘fuller’ account of the lifecycle of an infrastructure.” -- Alex Christian * Journal of Cultural Economy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta 1 Part I. Time 1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel 41 2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 62 3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey 80 4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel 102 Part II. Politics 5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler 133 6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand 155 Part III. 7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin 175 8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker 203 9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer 223 Contributors 245 Index 249
£72.25
Duke University Press The Politics of Operations
Book SynopsisSandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.Trade Review"The Politics of Operations is a challenging, highly ambitious work. . . . Ultimately, the reorientation that Mezzadra and Neilson are proposing is a subtle one, indebted to a rich archive of political ideas. But they rework and recombine those ideas into a book that is shrewdly reasoned, superbly written, and thick with insight into the contemporary moment." -- Martin Danyluk * Society and Space *"Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson outline a novel perspective on the startling disjunctive synthesis of homogenization and heterogenization processes that characterize the global expansion of capitalist economy. Their second collaborative, book-length study offers a compelling account of the economic, political, and social relations to which these movements respond." -- Nicolas Schneider * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition 17 2. Operations of Capital 55 3. Capital, State, Empire 94 4. Extraction, Logistics, Finance 133 5. Vistas of Struggle 168 6. The State of Capitalist Globalization 209 References 253 Index 287
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Duke University Press Cartographic Memory
Book SynopsisJuan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space.Trade Review“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood. . . . In these two ways—its analysis of the movement’s dynamic production of space, and in its focus on Oakland—Cartographic Memory is a signal achievement.” -- Laura Barraclough * Society and Space *"This book will helpfully inform the next generation of geographers, activists, and students on the crucial impact space has on social movements, and the ways social movements shape space and place." -- Aída R. Guhlincozzi * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Putting Fruitvale on the “Map” 1 1. Making Place 31 2. The Other Minority 61 3. Revolution Interrupted 89 4. Development for the People! 114 5. Mapping Interlinkages 144 Conclusion. Activism in Space-Time 171 Notes 197 References 219 Index 231
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Duke University Press Futureproof
Book SynopsisSecurity is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life. Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martinez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin ZeidermanTrade Review“This provocative book reframes the issue of security, considering it at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It opens new possibilities of critique and of understanding, using ethnographies to expose several dimensions of our everydayness that normalize fear, risk, violence, and the invisibilization of growing inequalities. It will become mandatory reading for all interested in criticizing contemporary formations of power and the ways in which violence and security are lived and felt in the everyday.” -- Teresa P. R. Caldeira, author of * City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo *“This volume offers a critical analysis of ‘security’ as a mode of power and form of governance by examining its aesthetic dimensions. The authors explore the institutions and discourses that sell protection from almost every aspect of everyday life. By focusing on the political and social aesthetics of how security claims and threats control human lives, they argue that it is these aesthetic manipulations that provide an affective infrastructure and set of practices that manage human life. An important addition to the anthropology of security, Futureproof provides a provocative glimpse into the future.” -- Setha Low, coeditor of * Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control *"The development of the concept of security as an aesthetic and sensory experience is an interesting line of research, and the broad sample of cases evaluated in Futureproof was well chosen. This is a reference text I would recommend for security practitioners as well as advanced students and scholars of security and strategic theories. Far from the typical security text, there are philosophical elements and advanced concepts that lend more to a scholar’s eye, but this text will prove educational for anyone with an interest in the staging and portrayal of security." -- Courteney J. O’Connor * LSE Review of Books *"This is a worthy and relevant contribution to security studies, a field which will likely become even more prominent in the post–COVID-19 world." -- R. P. Lorenzo * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Catherine Lutz vii Introduction. Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical / D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann, and Daniel M. Goldstein 1 1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three American Museum Exhibits / Victoria Bernal 33 2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Bogotá / Austin Zeiderman 63 3. "We All Have the Same Red Blood": Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border / Ieva Jusionyte 87 4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras / Jon Horne Carter 114 5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe 134 6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn's Real Estate / Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores and Alexandra Demshock 156 7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools / Rachel Hall 175 8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk / Limor Samimian-Darash 200 9. Securing "Standby" and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in Search of Forms / AbdouMaliq Simone 225 10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against "Informality" in Mexico City / Alejandra Leal Martínez 245 Afterword. The Age of Security / Didier Fassin 271 Acknowledgments 277 Contributors 279 Index 285
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Duke University Press Cloud Ethics
Book SynopsisLouise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.Trade Review“Beautifully written and richly documented, Louise Amoore's Cloud Ethics analyzes the workings of algorithms in contemporary society, from those assessing security risks to self-learning and self-programming neural nets. She draws on her extensive interviews with experts in the field to explore the nuances of algorithmic doubt and certainty. Finally, she calls for a new ethics of doubt in which the individual components of algorithms are scrutinized to open new spaces for critique that can ‘crack open’ the seemingly certain fabulations of algorithmic calculation. Technically stunning and critically informed, this book is required reading for anyone interested in how to resist the current trends toward algorithmic governmentality.” -- N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles“Calling for an embrace of the contingency and doubt that is inherent in the structure and working of algorithms, this important book refuses mythologies of certainty and machinic omnipotence. Framing computation as a partial accounting, Cloud Ethics moves beyond the unproductive binaries of ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ to consider algorithms as generative of complex political possibilities.” -- Caren Kaplan, author of * Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above *"Similar to scholars such as N. Katherine Hayles, Amoore engages with a wide range of philosophers and novelists to make sense of the ethicopolitical implications of algorithms. As a result, the book is highly engaging and is densely packed with novel ideas and concepts (e.g., ‘space of play’ and ‘algorithmic author function’) that will undoubtedly take on a life of their own in future research. Given their proliferation in society, there has never been a more apt time to examine the ethicopolitical impact of algorithms, and Louise Amoore’s Cloud Ethics is the book to turn to." -- Ben Jacobsen * Information, Communication & Society *"Amoore . . . has written what I consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical and political analysis of our digital condition." -- Davide Panagia * Public Books *“Amoore’s text will be of great interest to critical communication scholars, political scientists, and researchers from other disciplines and fields interested in critical algorithm studies. ...Cloud Ethics is a text that will exceed its source, one that will benefit debates and contention within the academic fields it touches on as well as society at large.” -- Catherine Jeffery * International Journal of Communication *“[Cloud Ethics] substantially advances our understanding of the ethical and political considerations necessary for navigating this ever-changing world.... It also subtly offers a methodology for the social sciences to intervene in discussions on the algorithmic, through reading against the grain of technical books and fabulation as a tool of critique.” -- Andrew C. Dwyer * AAG Review of Books *“Cloud Ethics is a demanding, exciting, and timely read. . . . It will travel well across most social sciences and even humanities, and will be of interest to scholars in ethics, politics, government and technology, but also aesthetics, law, and literature.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms 1 Part 1. Condensation 1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason 29 2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition 56 Part 2. Attribution 3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution 85 4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts 108 Part 3. Ethics 5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts 133 6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics 154 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Index 212
£72.25
Duke University Press Voluminous States
Book SynopsisConceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance.Trade Review“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty, Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.” -- Marilyn Strathern, author of * Relations: An Anthropological Account *“Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics, Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.” -- Stuart Elden, author of * Shakespearean Territories *“[Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.” -- Martin T. Fromm * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Voluminous: An Introduction / Franck Billé 1 Sovereignty 1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline Humphrey 39 2. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn 52 3. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss 64 4. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris 78 5. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Applying Governance / Marcel LaFlamme 91 Materiality 6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds 105 7. Downwind: Three Phases of a Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee 119 8. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary Cunningham 131 9. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong / Clancy Wilmott 146 10. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / Gastón Gordillo Territorial Imagination 11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green 175 12. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong 191 13. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons 204 14. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassu / Franck Billé 217 15. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Lisa Sang-Mi Min 230 Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia 243 Bibliography 253 Index 279
£98.60
Duke University Press Pluriversal Politics
Book SynopsisReflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.Trade Review“Conveying a powerful message about the dire state of the world, Arturo Escobar offers a monumental critique: the crisis we face is civilizational; the tools that modernity has made available are inadequate to the tasks we face; and the only viable way forward entails a radical break from conventional practices. Escobar's vigorous call to decolonize our imaginaries in order to liberate our individual and collective sense of what is possible is compelling, deeply inspiring, and sure to spark urgently needed dialogue.” -- Charles R. Hale, coeditor of * Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics *“With optimism of the will and of the intellect, Arturo Escobar does not tell us what is or what could be; rather he contributes tools to imagine possibility differently—to dare think the unthinkable. The pluriverse he proposes is unknown practice, that, however, does not authorize us to think it is impossible practice.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *"Escobar begins with a fundamental question: “are we really the autonomous individuals we imagine ourselves to be?” (5). . . . Over the course of subsequent chapters, Escobar convincingly demonstrates how modern individualism, far from being an innate condition of contemporary reality, is rather one possibility among many that has prevailed only because it forecloses other worldviews." -- Pedro Ponce * SFRA Review *“Pluriversal Politics is an inspirational book that not only makes us believe in the possibilities of civilizational transitions, but also offers some theoretical tools and intuitive clues for academics. . . . The book is a great entry point to the work of one of the most influential social scientists from Latin America.” -- Paola Solís Huertas * KULT Online *“Escobar calls for us to think about the possibility of another world by asking if we can separate ourselves from the nonhuman things we have created. . . . Escobar presents a woven tapestry of revolutionism, social movements, social struggles, and bottom-up approaches to call for transformation.” -- Tavis D. Jules & Benjamin D. Scherrer * Comparative Education Review *"Pluriversal Politics is a valuable contribution to conversations around politics in theAnthropocene and potential transitions. Its regional focus makes it of particular interest to thoseengaged in Latin America, but should be stimulating to anyone interested in environmental orpolitical anthropology, more-than-human anthropology, or the ontological turn more widely." -- Gabriel Urlich Lennon * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Escobar] offers ways of philosophizing life that not only have a strong emphasis on but also rootedness in praxis and activism. . . . In addition, despite the volume’s regional focus on Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América, Escobar’s decolonial lens and focus on the (re)localization of action invite any reader to extrapolate his ideas to other contexts.” -- Lisa Ausic * Politics, Religion & Ideology *Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition ix Prologue xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible 1 1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible 13 2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes 31 3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity 46 4. Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South 67 5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory 84 6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva) 97 7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions 120 8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia 136 Notes 159 References 175 Index 185
£72.25
Duke University Press Mekong Dreaming
Book SynopsisAs vast infrastructure projects transform the Mekong River, Andrew Alan Johnson explores of how rapid environmental change affects how people live, believe, and dream.Trade Review“Mekong Dreaming is both an exemplary work of ethnography and a timely and important intervention in contemporary debates in anthropological theory. Focusing on northeast Thailand and the effects of dam construction on the Mekong among local fishing and farming communities, this book's original contribution consists in its foregrounding of uncertainty and unknowability in the lived experience of non-western cosmologies.” -- Stuart J. McLean, coeditor of * Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing *“Andrew Alan Johnson's lucid and richly detailed ethnography of the Thai-Lao border shows how the inchoate and the unknowable can be apprehended through genuinely empirical research. In this masterful analysis, Johnson shows how a marginalized population grapples with the intensified environmental uncertainties generated by modern technology and political upheaval by deploying a cosmological vision that enfolds piety, potentiality, and materiality in a tangled experiential frame.” -- Michael Herzfeld, author of * Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"The book is clearly written, presenting a compelling narrative of daily life and also delving into complex topics without drowning in academic jargon. As such it is accessible for both students and experts. . . . The power of Johnson’s approach is that rather than simply casting uncertainty as a negative, he explores the ways in which uncertainty—the power of 'maybe'—can act as a potency rather than simply something to be worked around." -- Erin B. Taylor * Anthropology Book Forum *“Mekong Dreaming is a lovely, fluent ethnography of a river and its political ecology, focusing on the people on one bank of the Mekong where it forms a border between Thailand and Laos…. Johnson’s style is crisp and engaging and his dealings with recent theory are all concrete and pointed…. Johnson has produced political ethnography of a high order.” -- Leo Coleman * PoLAR Online *“This accessible anthropological work, Mekong Dreaming, demonstrates how infrastructural projects—in this case, hydropower dams on the Mekong—interrupt and reconfigure the social life of the river and relations of those whose fate has long been intertwined with its currents.” -- Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre * LSE Review of Books *“Johnson’s argument is complex, deftly interweaving fields as diverse as environmental anthropology, migration studies, Thai animism and mediumship, border studies, and more. The resulting ethnography is illuminating and compelling.” -- Mary Beth Mills * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Johnson’s writing is a pleasure: eclectic, erudite and sometimes eccentric.... He handles weighty concepts lightly, and doesn’t let unwieldy terminology upset the flow of the very reader-friendly text. He comes across as a committed, skilled and very human fieldworker.” -- Ashley Carruthers * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“[Mekong Dreaming] will be a useful text in anthropology courses. I highly recommend this book as it...provides new and important insights.” -- Ian G. Baird * Sojourn *“[Mekong Dreaming] provides crucial insights into the interconnectedness between daily life, environment, and religious experiences.” -- Grzegorz Fraszczak * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Through a Glass, Darkly 1 1. Naga and Garuda 29 2. River Beings 69 3. Dwelling under Distant Suns 104 4. The River Grew Tired of Us 130 5. Human and Inhuman Worlds 161 Notes 171 Bibliography 179 Index 193
£90.10
Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.Trade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
£75.65
Duke University Press Animal Traffic
Book SynopsisRosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.Trade Review“This is an immensely important book for anybody concerned with capitalist natures and traffics in the nonhuman. Combining scrupulous fieldwork with stunning theorizations of ‘lively capital’, Collard adapts Marxist and feminist thought to the double task of analyzing and contesting a global trade in exotic pets. By following how wild-caught species get made into thinglike forms of capital, this book spurs a profound rethinking of commodified and noncommodified life, fetishism, enclosure, and social-ecological reproduction.” -- Nicole Shukin, author of * Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times *“Animal Traffic brings the spaces and circuits of the exotic pet trade to life, casting light on an important aspect of defaunation in the tropics and an underappreciated way that animals are being commodified. Rosemary-Claire Collard presents rich ethnographic accounts of key sites of the exotic pet trade and weaves these together with a compelling discussion of the values, practices, and complications involved in reducing wild animals to ‘lively capital’ as well as the great barriers to decommodifying animals after their lives have been wrested from them. This is a moving and beautifully written book and a major contribution to the fields of critical animal studies, political ecology, and biodiversity conservation.” -- Tony Weis, author of * The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock *“Animal Traffic is a unique contribution to the existing robust studies about the legal and illegal wildlife trade. The uniqueness stems from Collard’s theoretical framework as well as her fieldwork.” -- Tanya Wyatt * Oryx *“There are so many things to say and think about in relation to this book, which is a testament to the richness of Collard’s research and the brilliance of her analysis.... We are left ... with a call to action to radically transform not only our theories but also our relationships with animals under and outside of capitalism....” -- Kathryn Gillespie * Antipode *“[Animal Traffic] is a timely book that poses provocative questions for conservation practice and regulation, while also proposing intermediate strategies and contributing empirical and conceptual resources. It will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students in social sciences and conservation.” -- Sophie Haines * Conservation and Society *“In bringing together an analysis of the capitalist commodity chain of the exotic pet trade through her concept of animal fetishism, [Collard] builds bridges between economists and animal studies researchers and opens plenty of doors for future work in both areas. . . . I believe this book will be an essential read for all human–animal and commodity researchers from this point forward.” -- Julie Urbanik * AAG Review of Books *“[Animal Traffic] will inspire reflection and questions. Importantly, in a very moving way, Collard brings into the light and theorizes well an entire world of suffering that is laden with human callousness, money, and violence—a world of which many have been for too long unaware.” -- Connie L. Johnston * Geographical Review *“Although Collard deals in complex theory, she writes with a clarity and sensitivity that is accessible to readers across disciplines . . . including Marxist theory, human geography, feminist political economy, and animal studies.” -- Rachel Matthews * Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy *Table of ContentsA Note on the Cover Art Acknowledgments Introduction 1. An Act of Severing 2. Noah's Ark on the Auction Block 3. Crafting the Unencounterable Animal 4. Wild Life Politics Notes References Index
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Duke University Press Spacing Debt
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Christopher Harker how Israel's use of debt to keep Palestinians economically unstable is a form of slow colonial violence embedded into the everyday lives of citizens.Trade Review“The first in-depth ethnographic research on debt formation in the contemporary Palestinian context, this groundbreaking work proposes a host of new ways for social geographers to rethink debt at multiple scales. Spacing Debt ambitiously engages theoretical debates across a wide array of disciplinary approaches and effectively links it with fascinating and carefully treated ethnographic cases and interview materials.” -- Deborah James, author of * Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa *“This is the first sustained treatment of the everyday lives of debt in the Palestinian context based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term engagement with the communities under study. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this groundbreaking study offers much-needed sociological insight into Palestine's neoliberal debt regime, while showing how Palestine as 'colonial exception' is a rich site to theorize social geographies of debt.” -- Rema Hammami, Birzeit University“Spacing Debt is an essential read for scholars of debt and finance, and for those interested in modes of theory-building that start from the ways in which people live and choose to narrate their lives.... Thinking of debt as endurance helps us see people living with debt as active agents." -- Enora Robin * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“Spacing Debt is a thorough and important book that will serve as a reference on the livelihood of urban Palestinians for years to come. Ethnographically grounded and theoretically ambitious, the book offers an interesting read on courses in economic sociology, global development, and the like.” -- Lotte Segal * Middle East Journal *
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Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisIn Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city''s strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect chaTrade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
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Duke University Press Viapolitics
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301
£75.65
Duke University Press The Nature of Space
Book SynopsisIn The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragmented realities and partial truths without trying to theorize their way around them. Based on these premises, Santos examines the role of space, which he defines as indissoluble systems of objects and systems of actions in social processes, while providing a geographic contribution to the production of a critical social theory.Trade Review“Milton Santos was one of the most important Black thinkers in the Americas writing in the last four decades, one of the most important Brazilian intellectuals of all time, and one of the most cited and noteworthy geographers in Latin America. This extremely important translation subverts our tendencies to ignore scholarship being produced in the global South and marks a key step in decolonizing thought in US academe.” -- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, author of * Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil *“Milton Santos is one of the most distinguished intellectuals of our epoch. So many of us have learned from him. I have long seen in his work something that became one of my modus operandi: transversality . . . not the familiar knowledge silos but the cutting across of those silos.” -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"Milton Santos has offered one map for crossing the perilous terrain of academic specialties. At a time when so many take geography for granted as maps appear at our fingertips with the click of a button, this deeply humanistic guide may prompt us to ask anew where in the world we have been set down." -- Lawrence Rosen * Boston Review *"There is little doubt that Milton Santos (1926–2001) is the most important Brazilian geographer of all time. . . . The most obvious audience of this work is advanced graduate students and scholars from departments across social sciences. Geographers will benefit from being exposed to one of the most important Brazilian books in our field of knowledge, and other social scientists will acquire tools to increasingly recognize the importance of space as a relevant category of analysis of society in our current times, a mo(ve)ment that is long overdue." -- Thiago Bogossian * AAG Review of Books *"The Nature of Space was originally published twenty-five years ago, but its insights about the unavoidable, unstable dialectical relationships between global rationality and local responses have since been reinforced in various ways by social media, climate change, and now the Covid-19 pandemic. . . . Santos was right. The world has shifted to a new geographical reality. This English translation of his book offers a valuable point of departure for making some sense of it." -- Edward Relph * Society & Natural Resources *“Opening this book [connected] me to a world of geography scholarship for the most part ignored, actively or otherwise, in the Anglophone academy.” -- David McLaughlin * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the English-Language Edition: Milton Santos: Rebel of the Backlands, Insurgent Academic, Prescient Scholar / Susanna Hecht vii Introduction 1 Part I. An Ontology of Space: Founding Ideas 1. Techniques, Time, and Geographic Space 13 2. Space: Systems of Objects, Systems of Action 34 3. Geographic Space, a Hybrid 53 Part II. The Production of Content-Forms 4. Space and the Notion of Totality 69 5. From the Diversification of Nature to the Territorial Division of Labor 81 6. Time (Events) and Space 91 Part III. For a Geography of the Present 7. The Current Technical System 111 8. Unicities: The Production of Planetary Intelligence 124 9. Objects and Actions Today: Norms and Territory 142 10. From the Natural Milieu to the Technical-Scientific-Informational Milieu 157 11. For a Geography of Networks 177 12. Horizontalities and Verticalities 192 13. Spaces of Rationality 198 Part IV. The Power of Place 14. Place and the Everyday 215 Universal Order, Local Order: Summary and Conclusion 229 Notes 237 References 241 Index 273
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Duke University Press Viapolitics
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301
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Duke University Press The Surrounds
Book SynopsisIn The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the suTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Exposing the Surrounds as Urban Infrastructure 1 1. Without Capture: From Extinction to Abolition 21 2. Forgetting Being Forgotten 61 3. Rebellion without Redemption 100 Coda. Extensions beyond Value 134 References 139 Index 153
£71.10
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
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Duke University Press Staple Security
Book SynopsisJessica Barnes explores the central role that bread and wheat play in Egyptian daily life as well as the anxieties surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out these staples.Trade Review"The book’s forte lies in the wider use of a range of sources, including ethnography, interviews with various actors in Egypt, participant observation, newspapers and archival materials. . . . Another strength is how the book draws connections with issues of staple security in countries in Africa but also from other continents. Barnes also provides extensive illustrations that are well linked to the content of each chapter. The concept of staple security is of value to anyone interested in the subject of food and politics as well as food histories." -- Chama Kaluba Jickson * H-Environment *"Barnes’s Staple Security is an important contribution to the existing literature that unravels the myriad relationships, histories, and politics coalescing around one commodity or staple, similar, for example, to studies of sugar, coffee, and rice. One could imagine scholars and students from agrifood studies, Middle East and North Africa studies, anthropology, and geography finding much value in this text." -- Megan A. Carney * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Units vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Staple Becomings 39 2. Gold of the Land 81 3. Grain on the Move 113 4. Subsidized Bread (with Mariam Taher) 153 5. Homemade Bread 191 Conclusion 225 Notes 239 References 271 Index 289
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Duke University Press Ruderal City
Book SynopsisIn Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal—originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks—to theorize Berlin as a “ruderal city.” Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries—gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields—to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today’s uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals Table of ContentsPreface: Forest Tracks vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Rubble 1. Botanical Encounters 35 Gardens 2. Gardening the Ruins 67 Parks 3. Provisioning against Austerity 103 4. Barbecue Area 138 Forests 5. Living in the Unheimlich 173 6. Stories of the “Wild East” 205 Epilogue: Seeding Livable Futures 239 Notes 245 References 283 Index 319
£73.95
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£19.79
Duke University Press Staple Security
Book SynopsisEgyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail, she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain, and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to secure their consistent availability and quality.Trade Review"The book’s forte lies in the wider use of a range of sources, including ethnography, interviews with various actors in Egypt, participant observation, newspapers and archival materials. . . . Another strength is how the book draws connections with issues of staple security in countries in Africa but also from other continents. Barnes also provides extensive illustrations that are well linked to the content of each chapter. The concept of staple security is of value to anyone interested in the subject of food and politics as well as food histories." -- Chama Kaluba Jickson * H-Environment *"Barnes’s Staple Security is an important contribution to the existing literature that unravels the myriad relationships, histories, and politics coalescing around one commodity or staple, similar, for example, to studies of sugar, coffee, and rice. One could imagine scholars and students from agrifood studies, Middle East and North Africa studies, anthropology, and geography finding much value in this text." -- Megan A. Carney * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Units vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Staple Becomings 39 2. Gold of the Land 81 3. Grain on the Move 113 4. Subsidized Bread (with Mariam Taher) 153 5. Homemade Bread 191 Conclusion 225 Notes 239 References 271 Index 289
£19.79
Duke University Press The Black Geographic
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated.Trade Review“This volume takes on the monumental task of pulling together scholarship from different geographic areas, time periods, and disciplines to put forth a view on the current state of Black Geographies while gesturing toward new futures. Pushing the field, The Black Geographic is a defining text.” -- Ashanté M. Reese, author of * Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. *“The Black Geographic will continue to extend and push the tradition of Black Geographies in fresh, insightful, and important new ways through the insights of the newest generation of scholars who are defining and redefining the terrain of these discussions and debates. A superb collection.” -- Nik Heynen, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study / Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis 1 Part I. Praxis 1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies / Danielle Purifoy 27 2. Shaking the Basemap / Judith Madera 50 3. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe / Chiyuma Elliott 72 Part II. Resistances 4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara / Ampson Hagan 97 5. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy / Diana Negrin 124 6. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City / Jordanna Matlon 145 7. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries / Solange Munoz 167 Part III. Futurity 8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City / C. N. E. Corbin 189 9. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta 213 10. The San Francisco Blues / Lindsey Dillon 246 11. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension / Anna Livia Brand 264 12. A Black Geographic Reverie & Reckoning in Ink and Form / Sharita Towne 287 Contributors 323 Index 327
£77.35
Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisThrough an ethnography of rapidly transforming urban neighborhoods in Istanbul and Cairo, Sarah El-Kazaz shows how the battle for housing has shifted away from the redistributive politics of the welfare state to neoliberal urban planning and design practices.Trade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£78.30
Duke University Press How to Lose the Hounds
Book SynopsisExamining historically Black maroon communities in Maryland that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power, Celeste Winston explores how the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery anticipates future Black refusals of policing.Trade Review“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” -- Neil Roberts, author of * Freedom as Marronage *“With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology 21 2. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies 37 3. Maroon Justice 65 4. Community beyond Policing 87 5. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy 109 Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore 129 Notes 133 References 139 Index 159
£70.55
