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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new understandings of the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden, and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of intergenerational change, social mobility and identity. By exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality. Chapter 10 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking from the Margins - David Farrugia and Signe Ravn Part I: Inequalities: Education and Aspiration on the Margins 1. Peripheries Within the City: The Role of Place in Shaping Youth Educational Transitions and Identities - Aina Tarabini, Judith Jacovkis and Alejandro Montes 2. Disrupting the Discourse of Under-representation: The Place of Rural Students in Australian Higher Education Equity Policy - Sally Patfield, Jennifer Gore and Leanne Fray 3. Becoming a Young Organic Farmer in the Indian Punjab - Trent Brown Part II: Materialities: Spatiality and Sensory Embodiment 4. Reimagining Space, Reorganising Lives: Environmental activism in Myanmar - Johanna Garnett 5. ‘A Quiet Place’: The Natural Environment as a Sphere of (Non)Belonging for Refugee-background Young People in Regional Resettlement Locations - Caitlinn Nunn 6. Bright Lights, No City: Investigating Young People’s Suburban and Rural Drinkscapes - Laura Fenton, Claire Markham and Samantha Wilkinson Part III: Identities: Mobility, Rootedness and Belonging 7. Thinking Beyond the Neighbourhood and National Territory: Exploring Central American Migration from a Mobilities Perspective - Lirio del Carmen Gutiérrez Rivera 8. Youth Transitions and Spatiality: The Case of a Deprived Coastal Town in the UK - Aniela Wenham 9. Homeownership Beyond the Metropolis: Housing and Rootedness in Regional Tasmania - Julia Cook, Helen Cahill and Dan Woodman Part IV: Temporalities: Historicising Space and Place 10. Places of Belonging, Places of Detachment. Placemaking and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Finnish Rural Youth - Kaisa Vehkalahti and Helena Pennanen 11. Backward Youth? Racist Trolling and Political (in)Correctness among Young People in Rural Sweden - Susanna Areschoug 12. At the Margins: The Persistent Inequalities of Youth, Place and Class - Rob MacDonald

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Book SynopsisWhat role does physical and virtual space play in gender-based violence (GBV)? Experts from the Global North and South use wide-ranging case studies - from public harassment in India and Kenya to harassment on Twitter - to examine how spaces can facilitate or prevent GBV and showcase strategies for prevention and intervention. Students and academics from a range of disciplines will discover how existing research connects with practice and policy developments, the current gaps in research and a future agenda for GBV studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Hannah Bows and Bianca Fileborn Part 1: Gender-Based Violence in Urban and Community Spaces 1. Gender-Based Violence and Urban Spaces: From Security to Self-Determination – Insights from the Italian Debate - Giada Bonu, Chiara Belingardi, Federica Castelli and Serena Olcuire 2. ‘Everywhere’ or ‘Over There’? Managing and Spatializing the Perceived Risks of Gender-Based Violence on a Girls’ Night Out - Emily Nicholls 3. Internal Homelessness and Hiraeth: Boys’ Spatial Journeys Between Childhood Domestic Abuse and On-Road - Jade Levell 4. Using Community Asset Mapping to Understand Neighbourhood-Level Variation in the Predictors of Domestic Abuse - Ruth Weir Part 2: Gender-Based Violence in ‘Local-Level’ and Transitionary Spaces, from Public Transport to Rural and Digital Spaces 5. Sexual Violence on Public Transport: Applying the Whole-Journey Approach to Assess Women Students’ Victimization in Paris and the Île-de-France Region - Hugo d’Arbois de Jubainville 6. Woman Abuse in Rural Places: Towards a Spatial Understanding - Walter DeKeseredy 7. Algorithmic Bias in Digital Space: Twitter’s Complicity in Gender-Based Violence - Cat Morgan and Sarah Hewitt Part 3: Transnational and Political Spaces 8. Not the Wild West: Femonationalism, Gendered Security Regimes and Brexit - Alexandra Fanghanel 9. Transnational Regimes of Family Violence: When Violence Against Women Crosses Borders - Anja Bredal 10. Between NGO-ization and Militarization: Women’s Rights in Fragile Geographies of Niger - Kristine Anderson Part 4: Institutional Spaces 11. Neither Seen Nor Heard: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women Prisoners in ‘Australia’ - Debbie Kilroy, Tabitha Lean and Suzi Quixley 12. ‘There Is Always a Reason for the Beatings’: Interrogating the Reproduction of Gender-Based Violence Within Private and Public Spaces - Haje Keli Part 5: Space, Place and ‘Justice’ 13. Adaptations to Sexual Violence: Reduced Access to Opportunity Structures by Women Victimized by Sexual Abuse and Harassment - Suzanne Goodney Lea, Elsa D’Silva and Jane Anyango 14. ‘It’s Not Your Fault’: Place, Promises to the Future and Honouring the Memory of Eurydice Dixon - Claire Loughnan 15. Resisting Violence Through the Arts: Theatre and Poetry as Spaces for Speaking Out and Seeking Change - Amelia Walker and Corinna Di Niro

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Book SynopsisSupported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, they examine key travel motivations, including the importance of travel for human wellbeing, and how these can be reconciled with challenges such as reducing our carbon footprint, adapting new mobility technologies, and improving the quality of our journeys. The book shows how our travel choices are shaped by a wide range of social, physical, psychological and cultural factors, which have profound implications for the design of future transport policies. Offering thought-provoking and practical new perspectives, this fascinating book will be essential for all those who have ever wondered why we travel and how it relates to our fundamental needs.Table of ContentsForeword by Tony Wheeler, co-founder, Lonely Planet 1. Why Travel? An Introduction – Matthew Niblett and Kris Beuret Part I: Fundamental Motivations 2. Biological Perspectives on Travel – Charles Pasternak 3. Travel and The Mind – Tony Hiss 4. Philosophy and Travel: The Meaning of Movement – Matthew Niblett 5. The Economics of Travel: It’s Not the Destination, It’sthe Journey – Matthew Dillon and Alexander Jan PART II: Travel for Exploration and Knowing Ourselves 6. Why Travel? The Sociological Perspective – Kris Beuret and Roger Hall 7. Religious and Spiritual Travel – Alison Kuznets 8. Travel in Art and Literature – Alison Kuznets and Matthew Niblett 9. Why People Travel: An Anthropological View – Tom Selwyn 10. Tourist Travel – Hazel Andrews 11. Travel as Exploration: Science, the Unknown, and Personal Discovery – Emily Thomas Part III: Limits and New Horizons 12. Technology and Travel – Glenn Lyons 13. Placemaking and Travel: The City Is Where the People Choose to Go – Deborah Saunt and Tom Greenall 14. Travel’s Place in the Environment – Terry Hill 15. Conclusion: What Have We Learnt? – Kris Beuret and Matthew Niblett

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Book SynopsisSupported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, they examine key travel motivations, including the importance of travel for human wellbeing, and how these can be reconciled with challenges such as reducing our carbon footprint, adapting new mobility technologies, and improving the quality of our journeys. The book shows how our travel choices are shaped by a wide range of social, physical, psychological and cultural factors, which have profound implications for the design of future transport policies. Offering thought-provoking and practical new perspectives, this fascinating book will be essential for all those who have ever wondered why we travel and how it relates to our fundamental needs.Table of ContentsForeword by Tony Wheeler, co-founder, Lonely Planet 1. Why Travel? An Introduction – Matthew Niblett and Kris Beuret Part I: Fundamental Motivations 2. Biological Perspectives on Travel – Charles Pasternak 3. Travel and The Mind – Tony Hiss 4. Philosophy and Travel: The Meaning of Movement – Matthew Niblett 5. The Economics of Travel: It’s Not the Destination, It’sthe Journey – Matthew Dillon and Alexander Jan PART II: Travel for Exploration and Knowing Ourselves 6. Why Travel? The Sociological Perspective – Kris Beuret and Roger Hall 7. Religious and Spiritual Travel – Alison Kuznets 8. Travel in Art and Literature – Alison Kuznets and Matthew Niblett 9. Why People Travel: An Anthropological View – Tom Selwyn 10. Tourist Travel – Hazel Andrews 11. Travel as Exploration: Science, the Unknown, and Personal Discovery – Emily Thomas Part III: Limits and New Horizons 12. Technology and Travel – Glenn Lyons 13. Placemaking and Travel: The City Is Where the People Choose to Go – Deborah Saunt and Tom Greenall 14. Travel’s Place in the Environment – Terry Hill 15. Conclusion: What Have We Learnt? – Kris Beuret and Matthew Niblett

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Book SynopsisFeeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues – yet there’s no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, Peter Hetherington sets out the innovative measures needed for nature’s recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food production and ‘re-peopling’ remote areas. In the first book to tackle these issues holistically, he argues that we need to re-shape the countryside with an adventurous new agenda at the heart of government.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Going Local Land of Promise Learning From History Small Is Beautiful: The New Revolutionaries Feeding Britain The Hills Were Alive The Climate Challenge: Land Versus Water Re-Wilding: Rich Persons’ Plaything or Real Hope for People? Communities Renewed or Housing Denied Land Renewing: Reworking for All

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Book SynopsisFeeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues – yet there’s no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, Peter Hetherington sets out the innovative measures needed for nature’s recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food production and ‘re-peopling’ remote areas. In the first book to tackle these issues holistically, he argues that we need to re-shape the countryside with an adventurous new agenda at the heart of government.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Going Local Land of Promise Learning From History Small Is Beautiful: The New Revolutionaries Feeding Britain The Hills Were Alive The Climate Challenge: Land Versus Water Re-Wilding: Rich Persons’ Plaything or Real Hope for People? Communities Renewed or Housing Denied Land Renewing: Reworking for All

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Book SynopsisThis accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and private sectors. Offering invaluable insights for the future of night-time governance during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, this book deepens our understanding of the benefits, challenges and impacts of a neglected aspect of the economy.Table of Contents1. Into the Night 2. Who Governs the Night in Cities? 3. Placing Night-Time Governance: In or Out? 4. Night Time Governance Trajectories: A Public–Private Affair? 5. Night Time Governance Trajectories: The Importance of Scales and Politics 6. What Night-Time Agendas? 7. Whose Night Is It? 8. The Night-Time and the Pandemic 9. Urban Governance after Dark: Eight Propositions

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Book SynopsisThis accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and private sectors. Offering invaluable insights for the future of night-time governance during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, this book deepens our understanding of the benefits, challenges and impacts of a neglected aspect of the economy.Table of Contents1. Into the Night 2. Who Governs the Night in Cities? 3. Placing Night-Time Governance: In or Out? 4. Night Time Governance Trajectories: A Public–Private Affair? 5. Night Time Governance Trajectories: The Importance of Scales and Politics 6. What Night-Time Agendas? 7. Whose Night Is It? 8. The Night-Time and the Pandemic 9. Urban Governance after Dark: Eight Propositions

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing. Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case studies from around the world examine issues around gentrification, housing processes, design, systems, finance and policy. Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik Part 1: Housing Markets, Systems, Design and Policies Is COVID-19 a Housing Disease? Housing, COVID-19 Risk and COVID-19 Harms in the UK ~ Becky Tunstall De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? Debating the Impact of COVID-19 on Anglo-American Urban Gentrification ~ Derek Hyra and Loretta Lees ‘Living in a Glass Box’: The Intimate City in the Time of COVID-19 ~ Phil Hubbard Mardin Lockdown Experience: Strategies for a More Tolerant Urban Development ~ Zeynep Atas and Yuvacan Atmaca Towards the Post-Pandemic (Healthy) City: Barcelona’s Poblenou Superblock Challenges and Opportunities ~ Federico Camerin and Luca Maria Francesco Fabris Urban Crises and COVID-19 in Brazil: Poor People, Victims Again ~ Wescley Xavier Flexible Temporalities, Flexible Trajectories: Montreal’s Nursing Home Crisis as an Example of Temporary Workers’ Complicated Urban Labour Geographies ~ Lukas Stevens Part 2: Experiences of Housing and Home During the Pandemic Bold Words, a Hero or a Traitor? Fang Fang’s Diaries of the Wuhan Lockdown on Chinese Social Media ~ Liangni Sally Liu, Guanyu Jason Ran and Yu Wang The COVID-19 Lockdown and the Impact of Poor-Quality Housing on Occupants in the UK ~ Philip Brown, Rachel Armitage, Leanne Monchuk, Dillon Newton and Brian Robson Aging at Home: The Elderly in Gauteng, South Africa in the Context of COVID-19 ~ Alexandra Parker and Julia De Kadt COVID-19, Lockdown(s) and Housing Inequalities Amongst Families Who Have Children With Autism in London ~ Rosalie Warnock Detroit’s Work To Address the Pandemic for Older Adults: A City of Challenge, History and Resilience ~ Tam E. Perry, James McQuaid, Claudia Sanford and Dennis Archambault Ethnic Enclaves in a Time of Plague: A Comparative Analysis of New York City and Chicago ~ Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen Migration in the Times of Immobility: Geographies of Walking and Dispossession in India ~ Kamalika Banerjee and Samadrita Das Living Through a Pandemic in the Shadows of Gentrification and Displacement: Experiences of Marginalized Residents in Waterloo Region, Canada ~ William Turman, Brian Doucet and Faryal Diwan Cities Under Lockdown: Public Health, Urban Vulnerabilities and Neighbourhood Planning in Dublin ~ Carla Maria Kayanan, Niamh Moore-Cherry and Alma Clavin Conclusion ~ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik

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Book SynopsisThis accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Omnipresent Nature of Building The Significance of Building and Construction Building and the Construction State Speculation and Building Booms Disruption, Displacement and Dispossession Demolition: Wasting the City and Teardown Building Why Building More Housing Won’t Work Building That Matters to People Constructing for Species Survival Building and Construction That Cares

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Book SynopsisThis accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Omnipresent Nature of Building The Significance of Building and Construction Building and the Construction State Speculation and Building Booms Disruption, Displacement and Dispossession Demolition: Wasting the City and Teardown Building Why Building More Housing Won’t Work Building That Matters to People Constructing for Species Survival Building and Construction That Cares

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Book SynopsisEscape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and white flight. By contrast, urban community growing projects are often considered by practitioners and commentators as communal havens in a stressful cityscape. Drawing on ethnographic research in urban growing projects in Glasgow, this book explores the spatial politics and dynamics of community, asking who benefits from such projects and how they relate to the wider city. A timely consideration of localism and community empowerment, the book sheds light on key issues of urban land use, the right to the city and the value of social connection.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Urban Growing in Glasgow 3. The Rhythms of Urban Escape 4. Who Gets to Escape? 5. Ownership, Autonomy and the Commons 6. Escape into Responsibility 7. Field Dynamics and Stretegic Neutrality 8. The Political Imagination of Common Justice 9. Escape, Crisis and Social Change 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSince the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society – but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, a public space, a social space, an economic space or a combination of these? The focus on automotive travel over the past century has changed the role of streets in cities. This has degraded the quality of urban life and contributed to public health issues. This book offers a unique look at streets as locations that can evolve to support the economic, social, cultural and natural aspects of cities. Using modern urban design examples, it challenges readers to focus not only on the livability and travel benefits of roads, but on how the power of streets can be harnessed. In so doing, it shapes more dynamic spaces for walking, biking and living, and aims to stimulate urban vitality and community regeneration, encouraging policymakers and individuals to make changes in their own communities.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A Recent History of the Street 3. The Street for Transport 4. The Street as Economic Space 5. The Street as Social Space 6. The Street as Cultural Space 7. The Street as a Natural Space 8. The Challenges to Ending the Road 9. Beyond Streets: Integrating Behavior 10. A Window into the Future: New Vehicles, New Streets 11. A Call to Action: Streets as the Heart of the City

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Book SynopsisFrom earthquakes to oil spills, Italy is recurrently affected by different kinds of disasters. This book brings a critical perspective to post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, which can impact in both the short- and long- term upon society, politics and organizations. It is often assumed that disaster-hit areas return to normality or even 'build back better' thanks to the interventions of experts. Giuseppe Forino considers the complexities of disaster recovery and the sometimes radical changes in individual and collective behaviours that persist following such events. Bringing together the impacts of natural hazards (including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic), this edited book will stimulate debate on policy and practice in disaster recovery.Table of ContentsIntroduction – An Overview of the Book: Beyond Conventional Approaches to Disaster Recovery - Giuseppe Forino Part 1: Making Sense of Post-disaster Changes in Society and Space 1. Risk Perception, Climate Change and Disasters of the Alpine Environments: The Mont de La Saxe Landslide - Elisabetta Dall’Ò 2. The Isolation of the Island: The Social Impasse in Ischia after the Earthquake and Tourism Crises (2017–22) - Giovanni Gugg 3. The Permanent Red Zone: An Ethnography of Spatial Practices in the Areas of the Italian Central Apennines Affected by Earthquakes (2016–17) - Enrico Mariani 4. Adaptive Disaster Memories: Voices from the Post-earthquake Irpinia (23 November 1980) - Gabriele Ivo Moscaritolo Part 2: Post-disaster Politics 5. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Ladder of Power: Local Politics and Society in Italy - Pietro Saitta 6. Afar from Vesuvius but Still at Risk: The Unstoppable Urbanization of the Naples Volcano’s Yellow Zone - Giovanni Gugg 7. Local Communities as Strangers In-between: The Paradigm of Aleatory Politics in Post-earthquake Central Italy (2016–17) - Francesco Danesi della Sala Part 3: Disasters and Conflicting Knowledges 8. Under the Smart City Paradigm: The Social and Spatial Transformation of L’Aquila City Centre - Isabella Tomassi 9. Expertise Versus Aspiration: Ethnography of Post-earthquake Reconstruction in Emilia (Italy) - Silvia Pitzalis 10. Local and Professional Knowledge in Post-disaster Reconstruction: Overlaps and Differences in Maierato (Calabria, Southern Italy) - Francesco De Pascale and Loredana Antronico Part 4: Organizations Adapting to Post-disaster Changes 11. Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Distance Learning Experience of the University of Milan-Bicocca - Sara Zizzari and Brunella Fiore 12. The National and Local Dimension of the Italian Civil Protection System: Evolution and Implementation of DRR Policies - Monia Del Pinto, Ksenia Chmutina, Lee Bosher and Garyfalia (Falli) Palaiologou 13. When the Unexpected Becomes Frequent - Mattia Bertin 14. Conclusions: The ‘Italian Case’ from a Global Disaster Perspective - Giuseppe Forino

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused approaches emerging today in the social and political sciences and policy scholarship. The chapters overview a variety of mainstream approaches and radical critiques of justice to illustrate their value in addressing the pressing problems of climate change and economic development. Stressing the value of assessing justice theories in light of the material conditions of our changing world, the book concludes with an in-depth synthesis of how these wide ranging approaches to justice will be useful for students, scholars and practitioners concerned with realising justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Johanna Ohlsson and Stephen Przybylinski Part I: Politico-philosophical and Normative Traditions of Justice 1. Liberal Theories of Justice - Stephen Przybylinski 2. Libertarian Theories of Justice - Darren McCauley and Corine Wood-Donnelly 3. Cosmopolitan Theories of Justice - Tracey Skillington 4. Feminist Theories of Justice - Don Mitchell 5. Radical Justice: Anarchism, Utopian Socialism, Marxism and Critical Theory - Don Mitchell and Johanna Ohlsson 6. Radical Justice Through Injustice: Postcolonial Approaches - Johanna Ohlsson and Don Mitchell 7. Indigenous Approaches to Justice - Stephen Przybylinski and Johanna Ohlsson 8. The Capabilities Approach - Stephen Przybylinski and Roman Sidortsov Part II: Applied Justice Theories Preface to Part II - Stephen Przybylinski and Johanna Ohlsson 9. Environmental Justice - Corrine Wood-Donnelly 10. Climate Justice - Tracey Skillington 11. Energy Justice - Roman Sidortsov and Darren McCauley 12. Spatial Justice - Stephen Przybylinski 13. Landscape Justice - Don Mitchell 14. Intergenerational Justice - Johanna Ohlsson and Tracey Skillington 15. Just Transitions - Darren McCauley Conclusion - Johanna Ohlsson, Stephen Przybylinski and Don Mitchell,

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how the intensive use of data changes politics, power relations, and everyday life in contemporary cities. Across the volume, expert contributors show how urban actors, from the state to activists, are increasingly using data as a resource to empower their actions and support their claims, while also demonstrating how times of crisis are moments when the power of data is made visible. Focusing on the different dimensions of data power and politics in the urban realm, this is an important contribution to our understanding of how datafication transforms the places in which we live and how we experience them.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Urban data Politics in Times of Crisis - Ola Söderström and Ayona Datta Part 1: Framing Urban Data Politics 1. Urban data, governmentality, capitalism, ethics and justice - Rob Kitchin 2. Platforms as states: The rise of governance through data power - Petter Törnberg 3. Data Ethics in Practice: Rethinking scales, trust and autonomy - Alison Powell 4. The contingencies of urban data: between the interoperable and inoperable - AbdouMaliq Simone Part 2: Strategies 5. Experiments in practice: New directions in municipal data policy and governance - Sarah Barns 6. Webinars and War-rooms: Techno-politics of data in shaping COVID19 narratives - Ayona Datta and Ola Söderström 7. The Smartmentality of Urban Data Politics: Evidence from Two Chinese Cities - Robin Xu Ying, Federico Caprotti and Crison Chien Part 3: Tactics 8. Platform work, everyday life, and survival in times of crisis: views and experiences from Nairobi - Prince K Guma 9. An urban data politics of scale: Lessons from South Africa - Jonathan Cinnamon 10. Beyond ‘data positivism’. Civil society organizations’ data and knowledge tactics in South Africa - Evan Blake, Nancy Odendaal, Ola Söderström Epilogue: Data, crisis, and learning - Orit Halpern

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Book SynopsisDetroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. This book critically examines the evidence for and against this claim. Joe T. Darden analyzes whether Detroit’s patterns of race and class neighborhood inequality have persisted or whether investments have led to improvements in academic achievement, homeownership, employment, and reductions in poverty and violent crime. He measures, quantitatively, the benefits and disadvantages of staying in urban Detroit or moving to the suburbs, and provides evidence to answer whether Detroit, after bankruptcy, is becoming an inclusive city.Table of Contents1. Antecedents to Bankruptcy 2. Detroit Bankruptcy: The Characteristics of the Decision-Makers and the Differential Benefits Afterwards 3. Post-bankruptcy Social and Spatial Structure of Metropolitan Detroit: Anatomy of Class and Racial Residential Segregation 4. Gentrification: A New Method to Measure Where the Process is Occurring by Neighborhoods 5. Uneven Distribution of Economic Redevelopment: Which Neighborhoods are Excluded? 6. Black and Hispanic Underrepresentation of Business Ownership in a Majority Black City 7. Racial Inequality Between Student Academic Achievement: A Neighborhood Solution to the Problem 8. Unequal Exposure to Crime in the City: a New Method to Measure Exposure by the Characteristics of Neighborhoods 9. Solving the Problem of Extreme Race and Class Inequality: Implementing the Spatial Mobility Alternative 10. Conclusions: The Status of Residents of Detroit After Bankruptcy

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Book SynopsisRelocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garces has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history.The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Cities & Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Exile & Identity. Re-readings of Gender Representation. Literature & Globalisation. Index.

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisBased on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding areas. Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the Bronx. The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups and to parts of the Third World. He shows that such views have led to fundamental misconceptions about the pattern of the spread of the disease and about those who will be most at risk, now and in the immediate future.Trade Review"Stimulating, with sharp and pungent writing. The author's wide-ranging observations and speculations are full of energy and passion." Nature "The Slow Plague is a clearly written introduction to geographical understanding in HIV/Aids research." Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases "This fascinating book should attract a wide readership." Applied Geography "The book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "This makes reading this alarming book a truly fascinating experience. I use the term 'alarming' because the book is about a catastrophic pandemic which, according to World Health Organization estimates, may claim 40 million lives world-wide by the year 2000." "Gould is exceptionally good at presenting the 'forest' and never letting the reader get lost in the 'trees'." "This book would work nicely in an undergraduate geography or interdisciplinary topics course. It would certainly generate enough material to keep lively discussions going throughout the semester and provide every student with something to pursue in more detail for a course paper." Journal of Regional Science "The Slow Plague is the most interesting and provocative publication by an academic that I can recall reading. Without any mincing of words, Gould lifts the lid on HIV, on bumbling bureaucracies and narrow-minded investigators." Australian Geographical StudiesTable of ContentsList of maps and figures. Preface: Why a geographer writes about AIDS. Acknowledgements: Intellectual Antennae. Prologue: New Plagues for Old: The Horseman Rides Again. 1. The Killer: HIV and What it does. 2. The Origins of HIV: Closing an Open Question?. 3. The Thin Tendrils of Effects. 4. Sex on a Set: A Backcloth for Disaster. 5. Transmission Break: The Geography of the Condom. 6. How Things Spread: Hierarchical Jumps and Geographic Oozings. 7. Africa: A Continent in Catastrophe. 8. Thailand: How to Optimize an Epidemic. 9. America: Leaks in the System. 10. The Bronx: Poverty, Crack and HIV. 11. The Response: How Many Bureaucrats can Dance on the Head of a Pin?. 12. Time but no Space: the Failure of a Paradigm. 13. The Geography in Confidentiality. 14. Education and Planning: Predicting the Next Maps. 15. Herd Immunity: Riding the Coattails of the HIV. 16. Epilogue: Old Plagues for New. Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature. The first analysis of the “war on terror” to connect events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Traces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people. Richly illustrated and packed with empirical detail. Trade Review“This is a great book. 'Gregory has written a book entwining global geography with social danger. The Colonial Present takes us through the contemporary wars in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Iraq as connected projects of imperial ambition... The Colonial Present is a refreshingly angry book, with all the geographical and historical scholarship to buttress its indictment of American, Israeli and British behavior around the world. It is exquisitely written... This book's screaming truths are must-read heresy." Neil Smith, Los Angeles Times "An impassioned plea by one of the world’s most eminent geographers to displace the distorted imaginative geographies that have so corrupted our representations of the Islamic world with a geographical imagination that enlarges and enhances our understandings. The long historical geography of the colonial encounter in the Middle East is here laid bare in all its twisted detail in order to comprehend the fractures underpinning contemporary political impasses in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The Colonial Present is a ‘must read’ for all those concerned for peace and justice in our time.” David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism "The originality and profundity of Derek Gregory's The Colonial Present puts it at the top of my list." Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton; author most recently of The Great Terror War (2003) “Brilliantly condenses the multiple geographies of colonialism ... so that their contemporary entanglements with the flexings of modern imperial power crackle with intensity. Using September 11 2001 as a political fulcrum, Gregory traces the searing effects of fluid but durable cartographies of violence in the intersecting wars in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq.” Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, CityUniversity of New York “Powerfully and persuasively argued. Passionately written. A daring, brilliant analysis … Quite simply the most significant book written by a geographer in some time.” Allan Pred, University of California, Berkeley “The Colonial Present marshals concepts of imaginative geography and insight from the spatialisation of cultural and social theory developed in the past thirty years … An impassioned but theoretically rich critique of the ‘war on terror’ and the wider Zeitgeist that it shapes and embodies … Crucially, the book is a compelling critique of and American Empire … This is a significant book … Vintage Gregory again; enticing and provoking his audience … There is no doubting that The Colonial Present sets both standards and agendas.” Environment and Planning D "The Colonial Present is an important and politiclly engaged book." AreaTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part 1: The Colonial Present:. 1.1 Foucault’s Laughter. 1.2 The Present Tense. Part 2: Architectures of Enmity:. 2.1 Imaginative Geographies. 2.2 “Why do they hate us?”. 2.3 September 11. Part 3: The Land Where Red Tulips Grew:. 3.1 Great Games. 3.2 Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism. 3.3 The Sorcerer’s Apprentices. Part 4 Civilization and Barbarism:. 4.1 The Visible and the Invisible. 4.2 Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture. 4.3 Deadly Messengers. 4.4 Spaces of the Exception. 4.5 Deconstructions. Part 5 Barbed Boundaries:. 5.1 America’s Israel. 5.2 Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster. 5.3 Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization. 5.4 Camp David and Goliath. Part 6: Defiled Cities:. 6.1 Ground Zeros. 6.2 Besieging Cartographies. 6.3 Identities and Oppositions. Part 7: The Tyranny of Strangers:. 7.1 “Not as conquerors or enemies…”. 7.2 Coups and Conflicts. 7.3 Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares. Part 8: Boundless War:. 8.1 Black September. 8.2 Killing Grounds. 8.3 The Cutting-room War. Part 9: Gravity’s Rainbows:. 9.1 Connective Dissonance. 9.2 The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel. 9.3 Pandora’s Spaces. Guide to Further Reading. Index

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Book SynopsisMetaphysical conceptions have always influenced how human societies create the built environment. Mexico - with its rich culture, full of symbol and myth, its beautiful cities, and its evocative ruins - is an excellent place to study the interplay of influences on space and place. In this volume, the authors consider the ideas and views that give the constructed spaces and buildings of Mexico - especially, of Queretaro - their particular ambience. They explore the ways the built world helps people find meaning and establish order for their earthly existence by mirroring their metaphysical assumptions, and they guide readers through time to see how the transformation of worldviews affects the urban evolution of a Mexican city. The authors, then, construct a ""metaphysical archeology"" of space and place in the built landscape of Mexico. In the process, they identify the intangible, spiritual aspects of this land. Not only scholars of architecture, but also archeologists and anthropologists - particularly those interested in Mexican backgrounds and culture - will appreciate the authors' approach and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello investigate specific policy problems encountered as international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to "manage" a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology.Trade Review"Accessible and welcoming. The theoretical underpinnings are clearly explicated, and strong. The book will be particularly useful as an introductory text in classes on globalization and information technology for those in the first two years of their undergraduate studies." Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin "The main strength of this book is its strong theoretical framework... Managing the Infosphere will prove useful as a foundational text for anyone who wants to explore deeply how governance, cultural practices and technology shape and territorialize the space of information - and sometimes the other way around."- Spring 2009 issue of Global Media Journal "The book's strength lies in its cogent look at the space that hosts the virtual in order to help users understand mobile technologies--whether in applications of communication, tourism, or institution... What is particularly impressive in this work is the authors' depth of analysis despite handling so many and varied concepts... Managing the Infosphere is a stimulating book." Journalism & Mass Communication, Spring 2009 "The authors do admirably in taking a difficult and fluid topic and discussing it in such a way you can readily make sense of it... Like any good scholarly work, this [book] offers no solutions, only cautions and insights. In that sense, Managing the Infosphere may prove a valuable work for scholars and researchers looking for light to help them forge the way ahead."-Technical Communication, May 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Managing the Infosphere Chapter 2: Managing Technological Change Chapter 3: Scales of Governance, Governance of ScalesChapter 4: Communication Technology, Mobility, and Cultural ConsumptionChapter 5: Internet Names, Semiotics, and Alternative Spaces of GovernanceChapter 6: Fixity, Mobility, and the Governance of Internet NamesChapter 7: The Infosphere: A World of Places, an Ocean of Information or a Special Administrative Region?References

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the American lawn and how caring for it impacts people's livesTrade Review"[Robbins] offers a clever exploration of the political ecology and actor network theory, and a sharp insight into the cynicism of capitalism in the form of the chemical industry. That is a lot for a slim, nicely illustrated and well-written book to achieve, but it does it with style and intelligence... [T]he book is readable and wide-ranging in its arguments...its analysis is relevant wherever suburban values extend... This book should be widely read and discussed." -Environmental ConservationTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 : Explaining Lawn People " A Profile of Lawn People " Interrogating Assumptions in Apolitical Economy " The Mutual Tyrannies of Urban Political Ecology Chapter 2 : Is the Lawn an Expression of American Culture? " The Manor House Tradition: Labor, Land and Grass " Ecological Imperialism and American Turf " The American Law Tradition " Democratic Landscape? The Spread of the Modern Lawn " Lawn Culture for Lawn Subjects Chapter 3 : Does the Lawn Necessarily Require Inputs? " What is Turfgrass and How Does it Grow? " Turfgrass Structure and Growth " Why Lawns Need So Much Care? " The Lawn's needs become those of the Turfgrass Subject Chapter 4 : Are Lawn Inputs a Hazzard? " The Dawn and Maturing of Lawn Chemistry " The Contemporary Chemical Suite " Lawn Risks Defy Regulation Chapter 5 : Does the Industry Meet or Produce Demand? " Demand or Supply? " The Lawn Commodity Chain " Producers: Searching for Buyers " Applicators: Tending the Weed Business Chapter 6 : Do Lawn People Choose Lawns? " Chemical Communities " The Lawns of Kingberry Court " Risk Citizens, Contradiction Reconcilers, Networked Actors Chapter 7 : Can Lawn People Choose Alternatives? " Landscape Alternatives " Elusiveness of Alternatives " Are Lawn Alternatives really Alternative? Chapter 8 : Becoming Turfgrass Subjects " Anxiety, Objects, Subjects and Political Economy " Epilogue: Rescuing the Environment from Determinism Appendix A: Suggestion and Sources for Lawn Alternatives " Some General Rules " Resources and Allies Appendix B: Data Development and Analysis " The National Homeowner Survey " The Applicator Survey " The Kingberry Court Interviews " The Land Cover Survey " Current Published Resources

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Book SynopsisEmphasizes the influence of regional demographics over the cult of Berlusconi's personalityTrade Review"This book presents a novel argument in a succinct manner, offering a new perspective on a big issue: the rise to prominence of Silvio Berlusconi. It adds considerably to our understanding of the Berlusconi phenomenon." Martin Bull, University of Salford "Short but detailed...The book is written in part as a reaction to notions that political geography no longer matters, and that personality and national media are dominant in Italian politics and Western politics generally...The most crucial chapters...detail how Berlusconi put together center-right coalitions with differing allies in different parts of Italy. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice "This book is not just another of the many explanations of why and how Berlusconi keeps returning to power. It is, rather, an impressive and, in my view, a much needed correction to overly facile claims about the effects on elections of modern systems of communication, and particularly of television... highly recommended." - Perspectives on Politics, March 2009 "Political geographers Michael Shin and John Agnew offer historians of contemporary Italy fresh insights with their in-depth study entitled Berlusconi's Italy. They challenge the common explanations for Berlusconi's rise in Italian politics...In sum, this is a thought-provoking book with a highly convincing argument." The Journal of Contemporary History, July 2009 "Shin and Agnew illustrate [their] argument with a convincing narrative sustained by sophisticated spatial analyses... In making [their] argument so well, sustained by careful analyses of the rich electoral data available, Shin and Agnew have not only illuminated Italy's recent electoral history as, in fact, a historical geography, but have also provided a paradigm for studies elsewhere. This short book is a worthy extension of Agnew's work on Italy and on the role of place in politics and a fine example of what geography has to offer to electoral analysis." Party Politics, May 2011Table of ContentsPreface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Geography of the New Bipolarity, 1994-2006; 3 Party Replacement, Italian Style; 4 The Geographical Secret to Berlusconi's Success; 5 What Went Up Later Came Down; 6 Conclusion; References

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Book SynopsisExamines the changing political and social strategies of contemporary young people around the globeTrade Review"Telling Young Lives provides us with thirteen in depth portraits of young people around the globe, as they navigate their way through homelessness, precarious labor, ethnic conflict, religious persecutions and simple everyday challenges of growing up. Told in rich, often lyrical detail, and through the voices of these young people themselves, each narrative is supplemented with suggested additional scholarly readings. Telling Young Lives provides the reader with a compelling introduction into the politics of everyday life as shaped and experienced by contemporary young people. A great read."—Sue Ruddick, Associate Professor of Geography, University of TorontoTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Saka: Growing Up in the Indian Himalayas 3. "All My Life, I've Bounced Around": A Portrait of Blacc 4. Vusi Majola: "Walking Until the Shoes Is Finsihed" 5. Young, White, Male, and Working Class: A Portrait of Richard 6. Young, Male, Scottish, and Muslim: A Portrait of Kabir 7. Politics, Lifestyle, and Identity: The Story of Sven, Eastern Germany 8. "Each and Every Single Story About Me…There's Like a Huge Twist to It": Growing Up at Risk in the United States —A A Portrait of Mike 9. Zilho's Journeys: Displacement and Return in Bosnia-Herzegovina 10. Rocks: A Portrait of Mohammed 11. From Footballs to Fixer: Suresh and the New Politicians in North India 12. Telling Nala's Story: Negotiating the Global Agendas and Local Politics of Maasai Development in Tanzania 13. Darkest Whiteness: Race, Class, and Culture in Global Times: A Portrait of Helena 14. Young, Deaf, and Lesbian: A Portrait of Susannah 15. Afterword: Global Portraits and Local Snapshots About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSocial scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy.The authors outline the major ideas that have shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area of communities and crime. Each chapter examines the problem of the community through a defining critical or theoretical lens: the community as social disorganization; as a system of associations; as a symptom of larger structural forces; as a result of criminal subcultures; as a broken window; as crime opportunity; and as a site of resilience. Focusing on these changing images of community, the empirical adequacy of these images, and how they have resulted in concrete programs to reduce crime, Communities and Crime theorizes about and reflects upon why some neighborhoods produce so much crime. The result is a tour of the dominant theories of place in social science today.Trade Review"Wilcox, Cullen, and Feldmeyer provide an intellectual history of communities and crime in the US. They look at seven perceptions of the inner-city community—community as socially disorganized, as system, as truly disadvantaged, as criminal culture, as broken window, as criminal opportunity, and as collective efficacy—devoting a chapter to each. The authors emphasize the macro context, i.e., the idea that though particular images of community convey static differences, inner-city criminalistic communities are not islands but have distinct ongoing linkages with surrounding communities and neighborhoods and with the larger region of the city.... Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisSocial scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy.The authors outline the major ideas that have shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area of communities and crime. Each chapter examines the problem of the community through a defining critical or theoretical lens: the community as social disorganization; as a system of associations; as a symptom of larger structural forces; as a result of criminal subcultures; as a broken window; as crime opportunity; and as a site of resilience. Focusing on these changing images of community, the empirical adequacy of these images, and how they have resulted in concrete programs to reduce crime, Communities and Crime theorizes about and reflects upon why some neighborhoods produce so much crime. The result is a tour of the dominant theories of place in social science today.Trade Review"Wilcox, Cullen, and Feldmeyer provide an intellectual history of communities and crime in the US. They look at seven perceptions of the inner-city community—community as socially disorganized, as system, as truly disadvantaged, as criminal culture, as broken window, as criminal opportunity, and as collective efficacy—devoting a chapter to each. The authors emphasize the macro context, i.e., the idea that though particular images of community convey static differences, inner-city criminalistic communities are not islands but have distinct ongoing linkages with surrounding communities and neighborhoods and with the larger region of the city.... Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisCollaborative applications of a variety of modeling methodologies have multiplied in recent decades due to widespread recognition of the power of models to integrate information from multiple sources, test assumptions about policy and management choices, and forecast the future states of complex systems.However, information about these modeling efforts often is segregated by both discipline and modeling approach, preventing modelers from learning from one another. This volume addresses the need for cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological communication about collaborative modelling. To enhance a shared understanding of systems problems, scientists and stakeholders need strategies for integrating information from their respective fields, dealing with issues of scale and focus, and rigorously investigating assumptions.The chapters in this volume first explore modeling methodologies for enhanced collaboration, then offer case studies of collaborative modeling across different complex systems problems. The volume will be useful for experienced and beginning modelers as well as scientists and stakeholders who work with modellers.

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Book SynopsisGreat Salt Lake is a celebrated, world-recognized natural landmark. It, and the broader region bound to it, is also a thoroughly cultural landscape; generations of peoples made their lives there. In an eminently readable narrative, Steven Simms, one of the foremost archaeologists of the region, traces the scope of human history dating from the Pleistocene, when First Peoples interacted with the lapping waters of Lake Bonneville, to nearly the present day. Through vivid descriptions of how people lived, migrated, and mingled, with persistence and resilience, Simms honors the long human presence on the landscape. First Peoples of Great Salt Lake takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical of archaeology. Deemphasizing categories and labels, it traces changing environments, climates, and peoples through the notion of place. It challenges the Pristine Myth, the cultural bias that Indigenous peoples were timeless, changeless, primitive, and the landscapes they lived in sparsely populated. First Peoples and their descendants modified the forests and understory vegetation, shaped wildlife populations, and adapted to long-term climate change. Native Americans of Great Salt Lake were very much part of their world, and the story here is one of long continuity through dramatic cultural change.Trade ReviewAn incredible, publicly accessible, general readership gateway into complex worlds of geology, ecology, and archaeology, not to mention a dozen other fields that are seamlessly and uniquely folded into the narrative." - Christopher W. Merritt, Utah State Historic Preservation Office "A well-written, approachable, and comprehensive history of humans in the Great Basin. It relies on sound science and scholarship, but it is written in a manner that invites a general audience. There isn’t really a comparable book." - Geoffrey M. Smith, University of Nevada, Reno

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Book SynopsisGreat Salt Lake is a celebrated, world-recognized natural landmark. It, and the broader region bound to it, is also a thoroughly cultural landscape; generations of peoples made their lives there. In an eminently readable narrative, Steven Simms, one of the foremost archaeologists of the region, traces the scope of human history dating from the Pleistocene, when First Peoples interacted with the lapping waters of Lake Bonneville, to nearly the present day. Through vivid descriptions of how people lived, migrated, and mingled, with persistence and resilience, Simms honors the long human presence on the landscape. First Peoples of Great Salt Lake takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical of archaeology. Deemphasizing categories and labels, it traces changing environments, climates, and peoples through the notion of place. It challenges the Pristine Myth, the cultural bias that Indigenous peoples were timeless, changeless, primitive, and the landscapes they lived in sparsely populated. First Peoples and their descendants modified the forests and understory vegetation, shaped wildlife populations, and adapted to long-term climate change. Native Americans of Great Salt Lake were very much part of their world, and the story here is one of long continuity through dramatic cultural change.Trade ReviewAn incredible, publicly accessible, general readership gateway into complex worlds of geology, ecology, and archaeology, not to mention a dozen other fields that are seamlessly and uniquely folded into the narrative." - Christopher W. Merritt, Utah State Historic Preservation Office"A well-written, approachable, and comprehensive history of humans in the Great Basin. It relies on sound science and scholarship, but it is written in a manner that invites a general audience. There isn’t really a comparable book." - Geoffrey M. Smith, University of Nevada, Reno

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Book SynopsisRecognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review“In eight wide-ranging essays by prominent scholars, this groundbreaking collection challenges how Enlightenment and long-eighteenth-century researchers need to reassess the interdisciplinary nature, cultural richness, and international scope of this topic. The study ventures into new territories in the international and cultural terrain of distance studies, uncovering uncharted research and future prospects in the digital humanities.” -- Mark Pedreira * Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras *“With his characteristic intellectual amplitude, Kevin L. Cope presents in this volume essays on the eighteenth-century ‘prospect’ in art and literature, the function of distance in Italian architecture, the European travel of two South Indian priests, the dislocations and adaptations of ‘long distance’ imaginary voyages, and the possible advantages of ‘distant’ reading—among others. While novel in its core supposition, the volume pays respect to an older, distinguished scholarly orientation that is perfectly in line with our own multidisciplinary moment: the history of ideas.” -- John Scanlan * coeditor of The Age of Johnson *“In eight wide-ranging essays by prominent scholars, this groundbreaking collection challenges how Enlightenment and long-eighteenth-century researchers need to reassess the interdisciplinary nature, cultural richness, and international scope of this topic. The study ventures into new territories in the international and cultural terrain of distance studies, uncovering uncharted research and future prospects in the digital humanities.” -- Mark Pedreira * Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras *“With his characteristic intellectual amplitude, Kevin L. Cope presents in this volume essays on the eighteenth-century ‘prospect’ in art and literature, the function of distance in Italian architecture, the European travel of two South Indian priests, the dislocations and adaptations of ‘long distance’ imaginary voyages, and the possible advantages of ‘distant’ reading—among others. While novel in its core supposition, the volume pays respect to an older, distinguished scholarly orientation that is perfectly in line with our own multidisciplinary moment: the history of ideas.” -- John Scanlan * coeditor of The Age of Johnson *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Part I: Best Seen at a Distance: The Art of the Far Away Looking Down: Observations on Elevation, Prospect Vision, and Eighteenth-Century Imagination Roger D. Lund Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone’s Architecture William Stargard Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century Bärbel Czennia Part II: Culture Over and As Distance Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe Brijraj Singh Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohun Roy, an Indian Transnationalist Chandrava Chakravarty Part III: The Nature of Distance New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity Rachel Mann Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities Kevin L. Cope Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research Phyllis Thompson Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, violence and ecocide, when radical concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do researchers and students of ethnographic work decide what concepts to work with or renew?Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study.A major contribution of this collection is the merging of theory with praxis, resulting in invaluable research tools for postgraduate students. These include applying 'gendered labour' practices among workers in South Africa, reading 'racial capitalism' through agrarian debates, using 'relational comparison' in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking 'multiple socio-spatial trajectories' in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa's 'second economy', revisiting 'development' processes and 'Development' discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci's 'conjunctures' geographically, finding divergent 'articulations' in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring 'nationalism' as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill. Together, the chapters show how important the ongoing reworking of radical concepts is to ethnographic critiques of power.Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for social and environmental change towards a collective future.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart —Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter and Melanie Samson Chapter 1 The Politics of ‘Gendered Labour’: Gillian Hart’s Relational ‘Conjunctures’ —Bridget Kenny Chapter 2 Micro-foundations for ‘Racial Capitalism’: ‘Interlocking Transactions’ —Sharad Chari Chapter 3 ‘Relational Comparison’ and Geography’s Question of Method —Mark Hunter Chapter 4 ‘Multiple Trajectories of Globalisation’ —Jennifer Devine Chapter 5 A Conversation with Gillian Hart about Mbeki’s ‘Second Economy’ —Ahmed Veriava Chapter 6 ‘D/developments’ after the War on Terror —Jennifer Greenburg Chapter 7 ‘Articulation’, ‘Translation’, ‘Populism’: Gillian Hart’s Engagements with Gramsci —Michael Ekers, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus Chapter 8 Make ‘Articulation’ Gramscian Again —Zachary Levenson Chapter 9 What is ‘Nationalism’? Thinking Alongside Hart at a South African Landfill —Melanie Samson Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis'This book, although relatively short, is a tour de force. The book is elegantly written, offering a persuasive narrative in which the arguments and the prose flow smoothly from one theme to another. The reader is pulled along various lines of argument running parallel, but ultimately these are brought back together in a concluding synthesis. This is a superb book. I know of no other recent volume with a similar broad scope, internal cohesion, and argumentative rigour, as well as persuasive writing style. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in global economic transformations and the expanded role of global city regions.'- Larry S. Bourne, Canadian Studies in PopulationThis innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and altering the processes of urbanization.Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism s increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation.Professors and students in areas such as geography, urban planning, sociology, and economics will find much to admire in this pioneering volume, as will journalists, policy-makers, and other professionals with an interest in urban studies.Trade Review'This is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour d horizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading.' --Peter Hall, University College London, UK'In this book, Allen Scott enriches his longstanding research into the ways in which city-regions function as the main economic engines of global capitalism. The end result is a seminal synthesis of how city-regions are increasingly enchained with one another in intensifying relations of competition and cooperation, and is a must-read for students and scholars alike.' --Ben Derudder, Monash University, Australia and Ghent University, Belgium'Scott's book is a remarkable treatment of the emerging global economy, weaving together the frontiers of technology and the ways in which labor is managed and surplus created with the cities of tomorrow. His book challenges conventional notions of the 'global city' to provide a more nuanced account of the ways in which the emerging cultural-cognitive economy of the 21st century is producing urban landscapes. His conception of the city of tomorrow is informed by deep knowledge of the contemporary city around the world and provides the reader with the conceptual building blocks to re-frame how we think about urbanization now and in the future.' --Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A Brief Historical Geography of Capitalism 2. On Urbanization and Urban Theory 3. Toward a New Economy: Technology, Labor, Globalization 4. Economic Geography and the World System 5. Emerging Cities of the Third Wave 6. Human Capital and the Urban Hierarchy 7. Symbolic Analysts and the Service Underclass 8. Social Milieu and Built Form of the City 9. Interstitial Geographies: The Cultural Economy of Landscape 10. Cosmopolis 11. Brave New World? References Index

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Book Synopsis'This book, although relatively short, is a tour de force. The book is elegantly written, offering a persuasive narrative in which the arguments and the prose flow smoothly from one theme to another. The reader is pulled along various lines of argument running parallel, but ultimately these are brought back together in a concluding synthesis. This is a superb book. I know of no other recent volume with a similar broad scope, internal cohesion, and argumentative rigour, as well as persuasive writing style. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in global economic transformations and the expanded role of global city regions.'- Larry S. Bourne, Canadian Studies in PopulationThis innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and altering the processes of urbanization.Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism s increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation.Professors and students in areas such as geography, urban planning, sociology, and economics will find much to admire in this pioneering volume, as will journalists, policy-makers, and other professionals with an interest in urban studies.Trade Review'This is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour d horizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading.' --Peter Hall, University College London, UK'In this book, Allen Scott enriches his longstanding research into the ways in which city-regions function as the main economic engines of global capitalism. The end result is a seminal synthesis of how city-regions are increasingly enchained with one another in intensifying relations of competition and cooperation, and is a must-read for students and scholars alike.' --Ben Derudder, Monash University, Australia and Ghent University, Belgium'Scott's book is a remarkable treatment of the emerging global economy, weaving together the frontiers of technology and the ways in which labor is managed and surplus created with the cities of tomorrow. His book challenges conventional notions of the 'global city' to provide a more nuanced account of the ways in which the emerging cultural-cognitive economy of the 21st century is producing urban landscapes. His conception of the city of tomorrow is informed by deep knowledge of the contemporary city around the world and provides the reader with the conceptual building blocks to re-frame how we think about urbanization now and in the future.' --Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A Brief Historical Geography of Capitalism 2. On Urbanization and Urban Theory 3. Toward a New Economy: Technology, Labor, Globalization 4. Economic Geography and the World System 5. Emerging Cities of the Third Wave 6. Human Capital and the Urban Hierarchy 7. Symbolic Analysts and the Service Underclass 8. Social Milieu and Built Form of the City 9. Interstitial Geographies: The Cultural Economy of Landscape 10. Cosmopolis 11. Brave New World? References Index

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Book SynopsisFewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a landmark multidisciplinary evaluation of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution.Drawing on international case studies, leading experts from across the social sciences offer 22 accessible and coherently organized chapters, which critically analyse a range of topics including: the legitimacy of extreme wealth from a moral economic perspective biographies of illicit super-wealth London's housing markets how the very wealthy fly the environmental consequences of super-rich lives crafting immigration policies to attract the rich. Students and scholars studying a host of topics such as development studies, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology will find this book eminently engaging. It will also be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations and NGOs concerned with wealth and income distributions.Contributors: R. Atkinson, J.V. Beaverstock, L. Budd, R. Burrows, L. Crewe, A. Davison, A.D. Dixon, R. Forrest, D.R. Green, S. Hall, T. Hall, I. Hay, I. Kapoor, S.Y. Koh, G. Mangraviti, A. Martin, I.A. Osuoka, A. Owens, R. Palan, C. Paris, D. Rhodes, A. Sayer, P.G. Schervish, S. Schulz, J.R. Short, E. Spence, A. Watson, B. Wissink, M. Woods, A. ZalikTrade Review'All you ever wanted to know about the super-rich but were too embarrassed to ask - because we are not really supposed to talk that much about money, especially not about people with huge amounts of money, people who are so very far above us. Thankfully nearly three dozen scholars have decided to break the usual taboos and reveal all about our wealthiest of fellow human beings. Just what have they done for us, how did they get so rich, what is their individual carbon footprint and so much more. The new gilded age is coming to an end. It begins to end as we study those who live in the most gilded of cages, no longer in admiration but with great inquisitiveness, and accuracy.' --Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UKVery highly recommended for both community and academic library reference collections, Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich will also prove to be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations, governmental policy makers, NGO activists, and the non-specialist general reader concerned with wealth and income distributions.' --The Midwest Book Review Table of ContentsContents: 1. ‘They’ve Never Had it so Good’: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Rich and Wealth Inequality Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Iain Hay 2. Reconsidering the Super-Rich: Variations, Structural Conditions, and Urban Consequences Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink and Ray Forrest PART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY 3. Historical Geographies of Wealth: Opportunities, Institutions and Accumulation, C.1800–1930 Alastair Owens and David R. Green 4. On Plutonomy: Economy, Power and the Wealthy Few in the Second Gilded Age Iain Hay 5. Interrogating the Legitimacy of Extreme Wealth: A Moral Economic Perspective Andrew Sayer 6. Billionaire Philanthropy: ‘Decaf Capitalism’ Ilan Kapoor 7. Making Money and Making a Self: The Moral Career of Entrepreneurs Paul G. Schervish 8. Taking Up Caletrío’s Challenge: Silence and the Construction of Wealth Eliteness in Jamie Johnson’s Documentary Film Born Rich Sam Schulz and Iain Hay 9. “One Time I’ma Show You How To Get Rich!” Rap Music, Wealth and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Mogul Allan Watson 10. Biographies of Illicit Super-Wealth Tim Hall PART II LIVING WEALTHY 11. Capital City? London’s Housing Markets and the ‘Super-Rich’ Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows and David Rhodes 12. The Residential Spaces of the Super-Rich Chris Paris 13. Reconfiguring Places – Wealth and the Transformation of Rural Areas Michael Woods 14. Performing Wealth and Status: Observing Super-yachts and the Super-rich in Monaco Emma Spence 15. Flights of Indulgence (Or How the Very Wealthy Fly): The Aeromobile Patterns and Practices of the Super-Rich Lucy Budd 16. Looking at Luxury: Consuming Luxury Fashion in Global Cities Louise Crewe and Amber Martin 17. The Luxury of Nature: The Environmental Consequences of Super-Rich Lives Aidan Davison PART III WEALTH AND POWER 18. Attracting Wealth: Crafting Immigration Policy to Attract the Rich John Rennie Short 19. Sovereign Wealth and the Nation-State Adam D. Dixon 20. Super-Rich Capitalism: Managing and Preserving Private Wealth Management in the Offshore World Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Sarah Hall 21. Troubling Tax Havens: Multi-Jurisdictional Arbitrage and Corporate Tax Footprint Reduction Ronen Palan and Giovanni Mangraviti 22. No Change There! Wealth and Oil Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka and Anna Zalik Index

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Book SynopsisFewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a landmark multidisciplinary evaluation of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution.Drawing on international case studies, leading experts from across the social sciences offer 22 accessible and coherently organized chapters, which critically analyse a range of topics including: the legitimacy of extreme wealth from a moral economic perspective biographies of illicit super-wealth London's housing markets how the very wealthy fly the environmental consequences of super-rich lives crafting immigration policies to attract the rich. Students and scholars studying a host of topics such as development studies, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology will find this book eminently engaging. It will also be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations and NGOs concerned with wealth and income distributions.Contributors: R. Atkinson, J.V. Beaverstock, L. Budd, R. Burrows, L. Crewe, A. Davison, A.D. Dixon, R. Forrest, D.R. Green, S. Hall, T. Hall, I. Hay, I. Kapoor, S.Y. Koh, G. Mangraviti, A. Martin, I.A. Osuoka, A. Owens, R. Palan, C. Paris, D. Rhodes, A. Sayer, P.G. Schervish, S. Schulz, J.R. Short, E. Spence, A. Watson, B. Wissink, M. Woods, A. ZalikTrade Review'All you ever wanted to know about the super-rich but were too embarrassed to ask - because we are not really supposed to talk that much about money, especially not about people with huge amounts of money, people who are so very far above us. Thankfully nearly three dozen scholars have decided to break the usual taboos and reveal all about our wealthiest of fellow human beings. Just what have they done for us, how did they get so rich, what is their individual carbon footprint and so much more. The new gilded age is coming to an end. It begins to end as we study those who live in the most gilded of cages, no longer in admiration but with great inquisitiveness, and accuracy.' --Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UKVery highly recommended for both community and academic library reference collections, Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich will also prove to be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations, governmental policy makers, NGO activists, and the non-specialist general reader concerned with wealth and income distributions.' --The Midwest Book Review Table of ContentsContents: 1. ‘They’ve Never Had it so Good’: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Rich and Wealth Inequality Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Iain Hay 2. Reconsidering the Super-Rich: Variations, Structural Conditions, and Urban Consequences Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink and Ray Forrest PART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY 3. Historical Geographies of Wealth: Opportunities, Institutions and Accumulation, C.1800–1930 Alastair Owens and David R. Green 4. On Plutonomy: Economy, Power and the Wealthy Few in the Second Gilded Age Iain Hay 5. Interrogating the Legitimacy of Extreme Wealth: A Moral Economic Perspective Andrew Sayer 6. Billionaire Philanthropy: ‘Decaf Capitalism’ Ilan Kapoor 7. Making Money and Making a Self: The Moral Career of Entrepreneurs Paul G. Schervish 8. Taking Up Caletrío’s Challenge: Silence and the Construction of Wealth Eliteness in Jamie Johnson’s Documentary Film Born Rich Sam Schulz and Iain Hay 9. “One Time I’ma Show You How To Get Rich!” Rap Music, Wealth and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Mogul Allan Watson 10. Biographies of Illicit Super-Wealth Tim Hall PART II LIVING WEALTHY 11. Capital City? London’s Housing Markets and the ‘Super-Rich’ Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows and David Rhodes 12. The Residential Spaces of the Super-Rich Chris Paris 13. Reconfiguring Places – Wealth and the Transformation of Rural Areas Michael Woods 14. Performing Wealth and Status: Observing Super-yachts and the Super-rich in Monaco Emma Spence 15. Flights of Indulgence (Or How the Very Wealthy Fly): The Aeromobile Patterns and Practices of the Super-Rich Lucy Budd 16. Looking at Luxury: Consuming Luxury Fashion in Global Cities Louise Crewe and Amber Martin 17. The Luxury of Nature: The Environmental Consequences of Super-Rich Lives Aidan Davison PART III WEALTH AND POWER 18. Attracting Wealth: Crafting Immigration Policy to Attract the Rich John Rennie Short 19. Sovereign Wealth and the Nation-State Adam D. Dixon 20. Super-Rich Capitalism: Managing and Preserving Private Wealth Management in the Offshore World Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Sarah Hall 21. Troubling Tax Havens: Multi-Jurisdictional Arbitrage and Corporate Tax Footprint Reduction Ronen Palan and Giovanni Mangraviti 22. No Change There! Wealth and Oil Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka and Anna Zalik Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the foundations of human geography and regional science, there has now emerged a powerful theoretical basis that underpins a spatially integrated approach in social science research. This approach explicitly recognizes the key role that geographical (or spatial) concepts - such as distance, distribution, location, proximity, connectivity, place, neighborhood and region - play in human society and the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations. It also promotes research that advances the understanding of spatial patterns and processes.The chapters in this unique Handbook provide broad coverage of the theoretical foundations and methodologies that typify research using a Spatially Integrated Social Science (SISS) approach. This insightful volume is intended chiefly as an introduction for students and budding researchers who wish to investigate social, economic and behavioural phenomena by giving explicit consideration to the roles of space and place. The majority of chapters provide an emphasis on demonstrating applications of methods, tools and techniques that are used in SISS research, including long-established and relatively new approaches.Accessible and packed with key instructions on organizing SISS research, the book is structured into five distinct parts which give the reader a unparalleled overview of the field:- A Spatially Integrated Social Science Approach- Setting Up Your Research- Data Sources, Data Collection and Information Generation- Research Tools and Techniques and Applications- Producing Research OutputThis volume will appeal to all students and researchers with an interest in understanding the techniques, method and application of the spatial dimension of social sciences.Contributors: Imran Azeezullah, Irfan Azeezullah, A. Beer, M. Bell, D. Brown, C. Brunsdon, P. Chhetri, J. Corcoran, G. Daraganova, D. Faulkner, M. Goodchild, K. Grossner, A. Harding, K.E. Haynes, B.W. Head, G. Hugo, D.G. Janelle, R. McCrea, T. McGee, P. McGuirk, L. Mazerolle, W. Mitchell, A. Murray, K. O'Connor, P. O'Neill, L. Mazerolle, P. Pattison, J. Poot, K. Risley, D. Rohde, T.-K. Shyy, A. Sorensen, R.J. Stimson, R. Stough, R. Tanton, M. Watts, M. Western, R. WickesTable of ContentsContents: Preface Robert J. Stimson PART I: A SPATIALLY INTEGRATED SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH 1. A Spatially Integrated Approach to Social Science Research Robert J. Stimson 2. Critical Spatial Thinking Michael Goodchild, Donald G. Janelle and Karl Grossner 3. Time Space Convergence Donald G. Janelle PART II: SETTING UP YOUR RESEARCH 4. Approaches to Conducting Research Robert J. Stimson 5. The Literature Review: The Fundamental Element of a Research Project Kevin O’Connor PART III: DATA SOURCES, DATA COLLECTION AND INFORMATION GENERATION 6. Issues to do with Data Robert J. Stimson 7. Using Census Data: An Australian Example Graeme Hugo 8. Survey Research Methods Robert J. Stimson 9. Using Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences Mark Western 10. Qualitative Methods in Socio-spatial Research Philip O’Neill and Pauline McGuirk 11. How to Use Primary and Secondary Data Andrew Beer and Debbie Faulkner 12. Forecasting in Social Science Research: Imperatives and Pitfalls Tony Sorensen 13. Meta-Analysis of Previous Empirical Research Findings Jacques Poot PART IV: RESEARCH TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS 14. Classification for Visualizing Data: Integrating Multiple Attributes and Space for Choropleth Display Tung-Kai Shyy, Imran Azeezullah, Irfan Azeezullah, Robert J. Stimson and Alan T. Murray 15. Spatial Indexes: A Focus on Segregation Martin Watts 16. Shift Share Analysis: Decomposition of Spatially Integrated Systems Kingsley E. Haynes and Jitendra Parajuli 17. Spatial Econometric Modelling William Mitchell 18. Spatial Clustering: Issues and Methods for Identifying Industry Clusters Roger R. Stough 19. Analysing Spatial Interactions: Inter-regional Migration Flows Martin Bell and Dominic Brown 20. Using Circular Statistics to Analyse Spatial Flow Data and temporal data Jonathan Corcoran and Chris Brunsdon 21. Analysing Human Social Networks Galina Daraganova and Philippa Pattison 22. Modelling the Effect of Intervening Variables Using Path Analysis Rod McCrea 23. Merging Survey and Spatial Data Using GIS-Enabled Analysis and Modelling Prem Chhetri and Robert J. Stimson 24. Web-based GIS to Support Visualization and Analysis of Community Variations in Crime Tung-Kai Shyy, Lorraine Mazerolle, Kate Risley and Robert J. Stimson 25. Policy and People at the Small Area Level: Using Micro-simulation to Create Synthetic Spatial Data Ann Harding and Robert Tanton 26. Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks as a Spatial Analytical Tool David Rohde and Jonathan Corcoran PART V: PRODUCING RESEARCH OUTPUT 27. Research and its Policy Relevance Brian W. Head 28. Navigating a Successful Doctoral Research Experience Rebecca Wickes and Tara McGee Index

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Book SynopsisSettlements at the Edge examines the evolution, characteristics, functions and shifting economic basis of settlements in sparsely populated areas of developed nations. With a focus on demographic change, the book features theoretical and applied cases, which explore the interface between demography, economy, wellbeing and the environment. This book offers a comprehensive and insightful knowledge base for understanding the role of population in shaping the development and histories of northern sparsely populated areas of developed nations including Alaska (USA), Australia, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland and other nations with territories within the Arctic Circle.In the past, many remote settlements were important bases for opening up vast areas for resource extraction, working as strategic centers and as national representations of the conquering of frontiers. With increased contemporary interest from governments, policy makers, multinational companies and other stakeholders, this book explores the importance of understanding relationships between settlement populations and the economy at the local level. It features international and expert contributors who present insightful case studies on the role of human geography, primarily population issues, in shaping the past, present and future of settlements in remote areas. They also provide analysis on opportunities and challenges for northern settlements and the effects of climate change, resource futures, and tourism. A chapter on the issues of populating future space settlements highlights that many issues for settlement change and functions in isolated and remote spatial realms are universal. This book will appeal to those interested in the past, present and future importance of settlements 'at the edge' of developed nations as well as those working in policy and program contexts. College students enrolled in courses such as demography, population studies, human studies, regional development, social policy and/or economics will find value in this book as well.Contributors include: P. Berggren, D. Bird, O.J. Borch, A. Boyle, H. Brokensha, F. Brouard, D. Carson, D. Carson, T. Carter, B. Charters, J. Cleary, J. Cokley, S. de la Barre, W. Edwards, S. Eikeland, M. Eimermann, P.C. Ensign, J. Garrett, G. Gísladóttir, K. Golebiowska, J. Guenther, P. Hanrick, L. Harbo, S. Harwood, P. Heinrich, L. Huskey, G. Jóhannesdóttir, I. Kelman, A. Koch, N. Krasnoshtanova, V. Kuklina, J. Lovell, R. Marjavaara, M. McAuliffe, R. McLeman, J.J. McMurtry, T. Nilsen, L.M. Nilsson, P. Peters, A. Petrov, G. Pétursdóttir, B. Prideaux, W. Rankin, J. Roto, J. Salmon, G. Saxinger, A. Schoo, P. Sköld, A. Taylor, M. Thompson, P. Timony, A. Vuin, M. Warg Næss, E. Wenghofer, E. Wensing, D.R. White, D ZoellnerTrade Review'This book is truly international in relevance and its authorship - with over 50 authors from at least 10 different countries. The topics covered are wide-ranging yet comprehensive and unified by an interesting descriptive theory (the 8 D's of Beyond Periphery). The book's contents, and the 8D's theory in particular, should be essential reading and provide rich food for thought (and possibly debate) for anyone researching the demographics or economics of remote communities, or more generally anyone grappling with the complexities of trying to contribute to sustainable futures for these communities.' --Anthony Barnes, Charles Darwin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Tomas Mörtsell Preface PART I SETTLEMENT HISTORIES AND THEIR REPRESENTATIONS 1 Introduction: settlements at the edge Andrew Taylor 2 The dynamic history of government settlements at the edge Lee Huskey and Andrew Taylor 3 Boom back or blow back? Growth strategies in mono-industrial resource towns – ‘east’ and ‘west’ Gertrude Saxinger, Andrey Petrov, Natalia Krasnoshtanova, Vera Kuklina and Doris A. Carson 4 International migration and the changing nature of settlements at the edge Kate Golebiowska, Tom Carter, Alicia Boyle and Andrew Taylor 5 Gender matters: the importance of gender to settlements at the edge of the Nordic Arctic Lisbeth Harbo and Johanna Roto 6 Place-based planning in remote regions: Cape York Peninsula, Australia and Nunavut, Canada Sharon Harwood, Ed Wensing and Prescott C. Ensign PART II UNDERSTANDING SETTLEMENT POPULATIONS IN SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS 7 Sources of data for settlement level analyses in sparsely populated areas Paul Peters, Andrew Taylor, Dean B. Carson and Huw Brokensha 8 New mobilities – new economies? Temporary populations and local innovation capacity in sparsely populated areas Doris A. Carson, Jen Cleary, Suzanne de la Barre, Marco Eimermann and Roger Marjavaara 9 Land rights and their influence on settlement patterns Jan Salmon and Wayne Edwards 10 Re-evolution of growth pole settlements in northern peripheries? Reflecting the emergence of an LNG hub in Northern Australia with experiences from Northern Norway Sveinung Eikeland, Trond Nilsen and Andrew Taylor 11 Contemporary Aboriginal settlements: understanding mixed-market approaches Judith Lovell, Don Zoellner, John Guenther, François Brouard and J.J. McMurtry 12 Modelling settlement futures: techniques and challenges Paul Peters, Andrew Taylor, Dean B. Carson and Andreas Koch PART III FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENTS AT THE EDGE 13 Climate change and settlement level impacts Deanne Bird, Robert McLeman, Gudrún Gísladóttir, Ilan Kelman, Marius Warg Næss and Gurun Jóhannesdóttir 14 Recruitment and retention of professional labour: the health workforce at settlement level Dean B. Carson, Elizabeth Wenghofer, Patrick Timony, Adrian Schoo, Peter Berggren and Brian Charters 15 Renewing and re-invigorating settlements: a role for tourism? Bruce Prideaux, Michelle Thompson and Sharon Harwood 16 The local demography of resource economies: long-term implications of natural resource industries for demographic development in sparsely populated areas Dean B. Carson, Peter Sköld, Doris A. Carson and Lena Maria Nilsson 17 Entrepreneurship and innovation at the edge: creating inducements for people and place Prescott C. Ensign and Odd Jarl Borch 18 The ultimate edge: the case for planning media for sustaining space communities John Cokley, William Rankin, Marisha McAuliffe, Pauline Heinrich and Phillipa Hanrick 19 Conclusion Dean B. Carson Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in and concerning space, place, and environment. It provides the broadest and most inclusive coverage of the field so far, including work relevant to human geography, cartography, and geographic information science.Behavioral and cognitive geography originated as a contrast to aggregate approaches to human geography that treat people as homogenous and interchangeable; to models of human activity based on simplistic and psychologically implausible assumptions; and to conceptualizations of humans as passive responders to their environment. This Handbook is highly multi- and interdisciplinary, featuring scholars from geography, geographic information science, and more than ten other academic disciplines; including: psychology, linguistics, computer science, engineering, architecture and planning, anthropology, and neuroscience. The contributors adhere to scientific rigor in their approach, while fully engaging with issues of emotion, subjectivity, consciousness, and human variability.Thoroughly informed by the history of geography and of the cognitive sciences but also providing guideposts for future research and application, this Handbook will be an essential resource for researchers, lecturers and students in geography, psychology, and other social, behavioral, cognitive, and design sciences.Contributors include: P. Agarwal, A.P. Boone, T.T. Brunyé, H. Burte, R.C. Dalton, C. Davies, R.M. Downs, S.I. Fabrikant, A.L. Gardony, N.A. Giudice, P. Gober, K.G. Goulias, S. Hadavi, M. Hegarty, S.C. Hirtle, C. Hölscher, T. Ishikawa, P. Jankowski, J. Krukar, C.A. Lawton, H.J. Miller, D.R. Montello, J. Portugali, M. Raubal, V.R. Schinazi, W.C. Sullivan, H.A. Taylor, T. Tenbrink, T. Thrash, P.M. Torrens, D.H. UttalTrade Review'This book is an extremely timely and welcome synthesis of the state of knowledge in behavioral and cognitive geography. It comes at a time of rapidly growing interest, stimulated at least in part by the growth of wayfinding apps and other location-based services, and the challenge of designing useful and effective human interfaces to what is in reality highly complex technology.' --Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbaraâ , USTable of ContentsContents: PART I Introduction and Background 1. Behavioral and Cognitive Geography: Introduction and Overview Daniel R. Montello 2. History and Theoretical Perspectives of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography Juval Portugali PART II Spatial Behavior and Decision-Making 3. Behavioral Decision Theory in Spatial Decision-Making Models Piotr Jankowski 4. Travel Behavior Models Konstadinos G. Goulias 5. Time Geography Harvey J. Miller PART III Environmental Spatial Cognition 6. Environmental Knowledge: Cognitive Flexibility in Structures and Processes Holly A. Taylor, Aaron L. Gardony, and Tad T. Brunyé 7. Learning the Environment: The Acquisition of Cognitive Maps Toru Ishikawa 8. Wayfinding and Orientation: Cognitive Aspects of Human Navigation Stephen C. Hirtle 9. Cognitive Neuroscience of Spatial and Geographic Thinking Victor R. Schinazi and Tyler Thrash PART IV Cognitive Aspects of Geographic Information 10. Cognitive Perspectives on Cartography and Other Geographic Information Visualizations Daniel R. Montello, Sara Irina Fabrikant, and Clare Davies 11. Cognition and Geographic Information Technologies Martin Raubal 12. Natural Language and Geography: The Meaning and Use of Spatial Concepts in Geographical Contexts Thora Tenbrink PART V Individual and Group Differences in Geographic Behavior and Cognition 13. Individual Differences in Large-Scale Spatial Abilities and Strategies Mary Hegarty, Heather Burte, and Alexander P. Boone 14 Sex and Gender in Geographic Behavior and Cognition Carol A. Lawton 15. Navigating without Vision: Principles of Blind Spatial Cognition Nicholas A. Giudice PART VI Environmental Attitudes 16. Place Pragya Agarwal 17. Environmental Aesthetics Sara Hadavi and William C. Sullivan 18. Environmental Risks and Hazards from a Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective Patricia Gober PART VII Further Disciplinary Applications of Cognitive-Behavioral Geography 19. Architectural Cognition and Behavior Ruth Conroy Dalton, Jakub Krukar, and Christoph Hölscher 20. Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Geography Paul M. Torrens 21. Early Geographic Education: Cognitive Considerations Dave H. Uttal PART VIII Coda 22. The Future of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography: A Coda Roger M. Downs Index

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Book SynopsisDynamo Island is an account of a contemporary ideal world set in an Ireland-sized island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It expresses the possibility of a modern society living in harmonious ecological balance with its environment. The ethos of the place is built around the notion of the human being as a dynamo managing and self-regulating energy in a way that draws on without harming the natural world. One of the island's main features is that there are no cars, only bicycles along with a comprehensive public tram and electric train network.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook offers an insightful and comprehensive overview from a geographic perspective of the numerous and varied technologies that are shaping the contemporary world. It shows how geography and technology are intimately linked by examining the origins, growth, and impacts of 27 different technologies and highlighting how they influence the structure and spatiality of society. Following summaries of important conceptual issues such as diffusion, gender and science studies, the book explores various technologies, which are grouped into six main categories: Computational: code, location-based services and virtual reality Communications: fiber optics, satellites, the internet, radio, cell phones and television Transportation: automobiles, aviation, drones, railroads, and shipping and ports Energy: biofuels, dams, fracking, geothermal energy, pipelines, solar energy and LEED buildings Manufacturing: robotics, just-in-time systems and nanotechnology Life sciences: new technologies of health care, biotechnology and biometrics. Significantly, the book includes in-depth explorations of new technologies that have so far received very little attention from geographers. This much-needed Handbook offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art summary of the geographies of major technologies and how they affect society, economies, geographies and everyday life. It will appeal to academics and advanced students interested in geography, planning and the social sciences in general.Contributors include: R. Baghel, M. Batty, R.E. Baxter, T. Birtchnell, M.J. Blair, L. Cabral, K.E. Calvert, M. Chen, J. Cidell, J.C. Comer, D. Comfort, S.W. Cunningham, M. Dodge, A.R. Goetz, A. Golub, A. Grech, D. Hillier, A. Holl, J.P. Howell, A. Johnson, P. Jones, A. Kellerman, L. Kurdgelashvili, L. Li, H. Lin, R. Lobato, B.P.Y. Loo, A. López Peláez, E. Louie, S. Maalsen, W.E. Mabee, J.D. Makholm, J. McLean, M. Nüsser, G. Popescu, R. Rama, P.L. Robertson, J.-P. Rodrigue, M.W. Rosenberg, B. Solomon, J.D. Stephen, D. Sui, G. Timilsina, N. Waldbrook, B. Warf, T.A. Wikle, C. WilkinsonTrade Review'An innovative and most valuable tour de force about geography/technology intersections in economic, social and political contexts. The thirty one chapters discuss the histories of specific technologies, 20th century advances and most recent innovations, the leading producers and consumers and current technology/social policy issues. The technologies addressed by author teams (mostly geographers) include railroads, air transport, automobiles, ports, radio, television, satellites, pipelines, geothermal sites, dams and more recent advances: the internet, drones, fiber optics, mobile phones, fracking, solar energy, nanotechnology, biometrics, location based services, code-spaces, virtual realities, LEED buildings, gender/technology interfaces, just-in-time technologies and health care advances. An excellent source of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and international literatures. Many chapters include maps and graphics. Useful for disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses and seminars and also workshops in universities, government and the private sector where cutting-edge advances are explored. This reference source will be cited and used by junior and senior scholars for the coming decades.' --(Stanley D. Brunn, University of Kentucky, US)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Barney Warf PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Technological Diffusion in Local, Regional, National and Transnational Settings Paul L. Robertson 3. Beyond the Binaries: Geographies of Gender-Technology Relations Jessica McLean, Sophia Maalsen and Alana Grech 4. Space for STS: An Overview of Science and Technology Studies Jordan P. Howell PART II: COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES 5. Code/Space and the Challenge of Software Algorithms Martin Dodge 6. Understanding Locational-based Services: Core Technologies, Key Applications, and Major Concerns Daniel Sui 7. Virtual Realities, Analogies and Technologies in Geography Michael Batty, Hui Lin and Min Chen PART III: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES 8. Fiber Optics: Nervous System of the Global Economy Barney Warf 9. The Internet as Geographic Technology Aharon Kellerman 10. Tuning in to the Geographies of Radio Catherine Wilkinson 11. Eyes in the Sky: Satellites and Geography Barney Warf 12. The Geography of Mobile Telephony Jonathan C. Comer and Thomas A. Wikle 13. Streaming Services and the Changing Global Geography of Television Ramon Lobato PART IV: TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES 14. Automobility in Space and Time Aaron Golub and Aaron Johnson 15. Air Transport: Speed, Global Connectivity and Time-Space Convergence Andrew R. Goetz 16. Drones in Human Geography Thomas Birtchnell 17. Geography of Railroads Linna Li and Becky P.Y. Loo 18. Ports and Maritime Technology Jean-Paul Rodrigue PART V: ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES 19. Assessing the Spatial, Economic, and Environmental Implications of Biorefining Technologies: Insights from North America Kirby E. Calvert, Jamie D. Stephen, M.J. Blair, Laura Cabral, Ryan E. Baxter and Warren E. Mabee 20. The Emergence of Technological Hydroscapes in the Anthropocene: Socio-hydrology and Development Paradigms of Large Dams Marcus Nüsser and Ravi Baghel 21. Fracking for Shale in the UK: Risks, Reputation and Regulation Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort, and David Hillier 22. Geography of Geothermal Energy Technologies Edward Louie and Barry Solomon 23. LEED Buildings Julie Cidell 24. The Interaction of Pipelines and Geography in Support of Fuel Markets Jeff D. Makholm 25. The Evolution of Solar Energy Technologies and Supporting Policies Govinda Timilsina and Lado Kurdgelashvili PART VI: MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES 26. Just-in-Time and Space Ruth Rama and Adelheid Holl 27. Robotics Antonio López Peláez 28. The Geography of Nanotechnology Scott W. Cunningham PART VII: LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES 29. Biotechnology: Commodifying Life Barney Warf 30. Creating New Geographies of Health and Health Care through Technology Mark W. Rosenberg and Natalie Waldbrook 31. Biometric Technologies and the Automation of Identity and Space Gabriel Popescu Index

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Book SynopsisAdopting a geographically diverse and theoretically rigorous approach, this Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity is a cutting-edge study of creativity as it has emerged in policy, academic, activist, and cultural discourse over the last two decades. A range of sectors are explored with in-depth engagement and understanding, including: dance, music, craft, visual art, circus arts and fashion. This Handbook departs from conventional modes of analysing creativity by industry, region or sector, and instead identifies key themes that thread through shifting contexts of the creative, namely creativity as imaginary, locality, mobility, labour, culture, intervention and method. By tracing the myriad spatialities of creativity, the chapters map its inherently paradoxical features: reinforcing persistent conditions of inequality even as it opens avenues for imagining and enacting more equitable futures. The conceptual framework proposed for critically appraising present debates and articulating future directions for creative and cultural industries will be useful for scholars and academics researching culture, media and design. Policy makers and professionals working in creative and cultural industries (CCIs) will find the wide range of case studies in this Handbook an essential tool for further understanding the field. Contributors include: S.T. Allison, S. Baker, J. Banfield, D. Bennett, S. Black, C. Brennan-Horley, A.R. Brown, P. Carter, S. Ching-Kiu Chan, K. Connell, A. de Dios, S. de Leeuw, O. Efthimiou, C. Gibson, S. Hannon, H. Hawkins, M. Keane, L. Kong, D. Leslie, S. Luckman, H. McLean, S. McQuire, J. O'Connor, N. Papastergiadis, J. Peck, N.M. Rantisi, A. Rogers, J. Smith, J. Wang, S. Warren, D. Wyatt, C. Veal, A. Yue, L. ZhangTrade Review'Two decades after the original promotion of creative industries, there is a period of global rethinking. With talk of a ''creative economy'' that goes beyond the traditional sectors, critiques of creative cities, and a stalling of three decades of economic globalization, it is a timely opportunity for critical work on geographies of creativity. This collection draws together a diverse and accomplished collection of scholars well equipped to undertake this important task.' --Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Geographies of Creativity: Inherited Concepts, Revised Vistas ANJELINE DE DIOS AND LILY KONG PART I. Creativity as Imaginary 2. The Creative Imaginary: Cultural and Creative Industries and the Future of Modernity JUSTIN O’CONNOR 3. Culture Club: Creative Cities, Fast Policy, and the New Symbolic Order JAMIE PECK 4. From Cultural industries to Creative Industries and Back? Towards Clarifying Theory and Rethinking Policy LILY KONG PART II. Creativity as Locality 5. Creativity as Locality: The Role of Artists and Galleries in a Toronto Creative District DEBORAH LESLIE AND SHANNON BLACK 6. Beyond the ‘Buzz’: Locating Critical Geographies of Creativity CHRIS GIBSON AND CHRIS BRENNAN-HORLEY 7. The Role of Arts and Culture in Resilient Cities: Creativity and Place-Making AUDREY YUE PART III. Creativity as Mobility 8. The Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at Work: Mobility of the Creative Workforce JUNE WANG AND LUYUE ZHANG 9. The Creative Mobilities of Cultural Identity: Transnational Tours of Philippine Performing Arts Ensembles ANJELINE DE DIOS 10. People, Places and Processes: Crafting Authenticity Through Situating the Local in the Global SUSAN LUCKMAN PART IV. Creativity as Labour 11. The Role of Heroic Creativity and Leadership in Creative Work DAWN BENNETT, OLIVIA EFTHIMIOU AND SCOTT T. ALLISON 12. The Rise and Fall of Professional Singers: A Typology of Creative Careers in the Performing Arts KATHLEEN CONNELL, ANDREW R. BROWN AND SARAH BAKER PART V. Creativity as Culture 13. Contemporary Cambodian Dance and Sites of National Culture: Chumvan Sodhachivy’s YouTube Page AMANDA ROGERS 14. Whose Culture? Spatialising Artful Institutions, Migration and Belonging in Manchester SASKIA WARREN 15. Ambient Culture: Making Sense of Everyday Participation in Open, Public Space NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS, STEPHANIE HANNON, SCOTT MCQUIRE, DANIELLE WYATT AND PAUL CARTER PART VI. Creativity as Intervention 16. En/Acting Radical Change\: Theories, Practices, Places and Politics of Creativity as Intervention HEATHER MCLEAN AND SARAH DE LEEUW 17. Performing Alterity: Creative Practice as Intervention in Postcolonial Cultural Politics STEPHEN CHING-KIU CHAN 18. Cultures of Creativity and Innovation in Greater China MICHAEL KEANE 19. From Social ‘Integration’ to Transformation: Supporting the Emancipatory Potential of Circus Arts Creativity DEBORAH LESLIE, NORMA RANTISI AND JESSIE SMITH PART VII. Creativity as Method 20. Making as Geographical Method JANET BANFIELD 21. Creativity as Method: Exploring Challenges and Fulfilling Promises? CHARLOTTE VEAL AND HARRIET HAWKINS Index

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Book SynopsisIt is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification' was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence. Scholarly contributions are drawn from both established and up and coming experts in gentrification studies world-wide, and a deliberate attempt has been made to broaden the geographical scope of study. As such, the Handbook covers processes of gentrification in the global north and the global south. It also looks at different mutations of gentrification and pays proper attention to both resistance to gentrification and the importance of thinking about alternatives. The Handbook challenges readers to look at both the future of gentrification studies as well as the actual process of gentrification itself. Gentrification studies is interdisciplinary and this Handbook will be especially useful to scholars in many fields including geography, sociology, anthropology, planning, law, urban studies, policy studies, rural studies, development studies, and cultural studies. It will also be of value to those activists fighting gentrification worldwide.Trade Review‘This Handbook undertakes such a critical and authoritative assessment of the emergent field having an important dialogue between existing theories and new conceptualizations of gentrification.’ -- Saraswati Raju, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘This excellent, wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook deals with comparative gentrification theory, key concepts in gentrification, different types and dimensions of gentrification and resistance to gentrification. It includes a wide range of authors and looks at gentrification in a variety of global contexts. All in all, a valuable addition to the literature.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, China‘The Handbook truly is a useful resource for urban scholars and students as it offers well-written entries by established urban scholars and several promising new researchers on various subjects within gentrification research. As such, it provides a wealth of knowledge on the processes and modalities of gentrification, as well as new research agendas on a variety of topics.’ -- Wouter van Gent, International Journal of Housing Policy‘This volume draws on an impressive cast of contributors and embraces a dizzying array of interrelated topics.’ -- Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘This Handbook of Gentrification Studies will be useful for graduates studying anthropology of cities, urbanism, geography, and new urban identities. There is no more complete Handbook on gentrification in the English language to date.’ -- Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal‘The world’s leading analyst of gentrification convenes an extraordinary team of contributors to map the evolving contours of planetary gentrification. This Handbook is your essential guide to the cosmopolitan cultures of capital that are intensifying the competitive nature of life everywhere on an urbanizing planet — from big cities to small agricultural villages, from the postindustrial consumption landscapes of the Global North to the hybrid hyper-modernities of the Global South and East.’ -- Elvin Wyly, The University of British Columbia, Canada‘The Handbook of Gentrification Studies is useful and informative. It is a good starting point for encountering the variety of debates on the topic of gentrification and its current vexations. It demonstrates clearly the need to think in flexible, cosmopolitan and comparative ways about gentrification, and consider seriously the complicated potential offered by communal resistance to gentrification.’ -- Helen Traill, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Towards a C21st Global Gentrification Studies Loretta Lees SECTION I RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION (THEORY) 2. Beyond Anglo-American Gentrification Theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales 3. Beyond the Elephant of Gentrification: relational approaches to a chaotic problem Freek de Hann 4. Comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or progress? Loretta Lees SECTION II KEY/CORE CONCEPTS IN GENTRIFICATION STUDIES 5. From class to gentrification and back again Michaela Benson and Emma Jackson 6. Gentrification and Landscape Change Martin Phillips 7. Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequality Patrick Rérat 8. Rent gaps Tom Slater 9. Gentrification-induced Displacement Zhao Zhang and Shenjing He SECTION III SOCIAL CLEAVAGES IN ADDITION TO CLASS 10. Non-normative sexualities and gentrification Petra Doan 11. Age, lifecourse and generation in gentrification processes Cody Hochstenbach and Willem Boterman 12. Gentrification and ethnicity Tone Huse 13. Rethinking the Gender–Gentrification Nexus Bahar Sakizlioglu SECTION IV TYPES OF GENTRIFICATION 14. Slum gentrification Eduardo Ascensão 15. New-build gentrification Mark Davidson 16. The Gentrification of Public Housing Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia 17. Tourism Gentrification Agustin Cocola-Gant 18. Retail Gentrification Phil Hubbard 19. Gentle gentrification in the exceptional city of LA? Juliet Kahne 20. New directions in urban environmental/green gentrification research Hamil Pearsall 21. Gentrification, artists and cultural economy Andy Pratt 22. Wilderness gentrification: moving ‘off-the-beaten rural tracks’ Darren Smith, Martin Phillips and Chloe Kinton SECTION V LIVING AND RESISTING GENTRIFICATION 23. Resisting gentrification Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso 24. Alternatives to gentrification: exploring urban community land trusts and urban ecovillage practices Susannah Bunce 25. Immigration and gentrification Geoffrey DeVerteuil 26. Property and planning law in England: facilitating and countering gentrification Antonia Layard 27. Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline Jess Steele Index

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Book SynopsisConfronting questions of globalization, mobilities and space in the Mediterranean, and more specifically in the eastern Mediterranean, this book introduces a new type of complexity and ambiguity to the study of the global. In this theoretical frame an increasingly urban articulation of global logics and struggles, and an escalating use of urban space to make political claims, not only by citizens but also by foreigners, can be found. By emphasizing the interplay between global, regional and local phenomena, the book examines new forms and conditions, such as the transformation of borders, the reconfiguration of transnational communities, the agency of transnational families, new mobilities and diasporas, and transnational networks of humanitarian response. The contributions from a variety of disciplines demonstrate that the reconfiguration of mobilities and the accompanying problem of inhospitable politics towards refugees at different levels, as well as humanitarian responses to it, is one of the major impacts, globally speaking, of the Arab Spring. Through the reconfiguration of such new mobilities there is an urgency to properly map the space of the many trajectories of those transnational connections. The editor concludes that there is, however, great difficulty in doing so as it is constantly disconnected by new arrivals, constantly waiting to be determined by the configuration and reconfiguration of both historical and contemporary relations.This exploration of migration, mobilities and the Arab Spring, is essential reading for scholars across a multitude of disciplines. The book's themes are of major interest and importance for policymakers and administrators at national and international levels.Contributors include: H. Afailal, R. Al Akash, C. Beaugrand, K. Boswall, C. Denaro, K. Doraï, V. Geisser, L. Navone, N. Ribas-Mateos, S. Sassen, S. Schmelter, C.H. SchwarzTrade Review'Natalia Ribas-Mateos has produced a brilliant analysis of the consequences of the Arab Spring in terms of new and ongoing mobilities, migrations and displacement of populations - an essential component to understanding current global changes in the region and beyond. Empirically grounded and theoretically innovative, the book is a wonderful example of comparative interdisciplinary scholarship on an issue with both local and global resonance.' --Russell King, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Saskia Sassen: Membership and its Instabilities PART I MAPPING KEY CONCEPTS AFTER 2011 1. Eastern Mediterranean Mobilities After the Arab Spring: Transformations Over Time or Sudden Change? Natalia Ribas-Mateos 2. The Role of Diasporas, Migrants and Exiles in the Arab Revolutions and Political Transitions Claire Beaugrand and Vincent Geisser 3. Euro-Mediterranean Relations in the Field of Migration Management: Contrasting Morocco and Turkey as Case Studies Hafsa Afailal PART II UNDERSTANDING MOBILITY AND ENCLOSURE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 4. The Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Migration Routes After the War in Syria: Narratives of the ‘Egyptian Route’ to Italy (and Beyond) Chiara Denaro 5. Refugees From Syria as ‘Guests’ in Germany: The Moral Economy of German Refugee Policy In 2014 Christoph H. Schwarz PART III RESEARCHING BORDER ZONES: NEW MOBILITIES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS OF HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE 6. The Field Before the Battle: Palestinian Mobilities and the Gaza-Israel-Egypt Triangular Border Before (and After) The 2011 Egyptian Uprising Lorenzo Navone 7. Listening to the Voices of Syrian Women and Girls Living as Urban Refugees in Northern Jordan: A Narrative Ethnography of Early Marriage Ruba Al Akash and Karen Boswall 8. Palestinian Refugees and the Current Syrian Conflict: From Settled Refugees to Stateless Asylum Seekers? Kamel Doraï 9. The Question of Governing Syrian Refugees: An Ethnography of Lebanon's Humanitarian Regime Susanne Schmelter Index

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