Human geography Books
Taylor & Francis Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and
Book SynopsisTakezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature.Racism is not a uniquely transatlantic phenomenon but, because it is most often understood within Euro-American paradigms, its salience in other contexts is often less visible. The chapters in this volume analyze the process by which fundamentally invisible differences have been made visible, and various groups and communities have been marked, essentialized, and substantialized under a range of social, political, and cultural conditions. Focusing on the space between the visible and invisible, they evaluate the dynamics by which invisible differences are rendered visible, and by which visible differences render other differences invisible. In doing so, they promote a decentering of Western-centered frameworks and eluc
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Taylor & Francis Nonrepresentational and morethanhuman research
Book SynopsisThis book fosters new links between non-representational theories and more-than-human perspectives. Offering multidisciplinary perspectives, from geography and anthropology, to social theory and qualitative research methodologies, it reimagines the boundaries of research by arguing for a new concept of âœdata.âOriginal, bold, and creative contributions provocatively push us to reimagine what is meant by data. No longer something we can unproblematically understand as an empirical given, the notion of data is reimagined as the relational outcome of encounters, engagements, attachments, and more-than-human relations. As such the book expands the field of non-representational scholarship, challenging the ideas of data collection, analysis, and representation.This innovative book provides a courageous contemporary theoretical and methodological intervention. It will be valuable for students, researchers and arts practitioners across the social sciences, and will serve as the beginning of new methodological dialogues for years to come.
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Taylor & Francis On the Logics of Planetary Computing
Book SynopsisA new breed of low Earth orbit satellites is making planetary-scale observation and analysis ubiquitous. This book explores how this condition feeds spatially explicit artificial intelligence, GeoAI, in redefining the study of landscapes, and how it impacts one particular land dispute in the Alas Mertajati in Central Bali, Indonesia.This book combines scholarship from the humanities and engineering to forge a novel way of presenting planetary computing in its GeoAI vernacular. From data collection to model evaluation, the book describes how multi-spectral, high-resolution satellite data and machine learning algorithms respond to uncommon land cover conditions, including sustainable land care practices such as agroforestry while contextualizing the operations within science and media studies. Together with the installation logics-of-geoai.org, this book offers full-spectrum immersion into the unstable nexus of geography and artificial intelligence.This book will be of i
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Taylor & Francis Researching Displacement Together
Book SynopsisThis book showcases how to co-produce research when we are unable to meet in the same geographical space. It details a remote and hybrid audio-visual participatory methodology through which women share their experiences of displacement, gender and the city. Writing as researchers and filmmakers in the UK and Colombia, alongside 24 displaced women in Bogotà and MedellÃn, this participatory audio-visual project explores displacement from the womenâs perspectives. The book is innovative in its collaborative writing and its combination of audiovisual and textual material. It presents a methodology for remote and hybrid research, advocating for more inclusive, equitable, and decolonizing research interactions. Through three co-written chapters, it contributes to themes of displacement, gender, and the city, as displaced women share testimonies and audiovisual outputs, revealing experiences of violence, conflict, and aspirations for change as they rebuild their lives. This book stands out for its collaborative authorship and integration of text with audiovisual material, offering rich insights. It will interest researchers and practitioners working inside and outside Universities who are interested in developing remote, hybrid and audio-visual participatory methodologies as well as to those who want to understand more about displacement and the challenges of urban resettlement from womenâs perspectives. After reading this book we'd appreciate if you could let us know what you think by answering some quick questions: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/co-producing-knowledge-with-displaced-women-in-colombia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Predator Control
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Rymour Books Drystone
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Political Geographies of Piracy Constructing
Book SynopsisThis book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia.Trade Review"Brittany Gilmer offers readers a fascinating, front row seat to the institutional response to piracy. Her ethnography is a detailed and innovative examination of how piracy has become securitized. Understood through Gilmer's critical lens, the front line workers of development themselves become the lucrative subjects of securitization as they compete for funding and become 'piratized' in the process." - Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Setting the Stage: Studies, Geographies, and Approaches 2. State of Crisis: Rooting Piracy in Security and Development 3. Pirate Mania: Global Discourse, Unlikely Partnerships, and New Strategies 4. Behind Office Doors: Constructing Threats, Campaigns, and Identities 5. On the Ground in Somalia: Gender, Security, and Social Reproduction 6. At Sea and Inside Prisons: Marked Bodies, Mobilities, and Resistance 7. Pirate Pie: Political Economy, Piratization, and Institutional Survival 8. Beyond Intervention: Preventing Actions, Containing Bodies, and Making Profits
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Taylor & Francis Sacred Ecology
Book SynopsisSacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. With updates of relevant links for further learning and over 180 new references, the fourth edition gives increased voice to indigenous authors, and reflects the remarkable increase in published local observations of climate change.Table of Contents1 Context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge 2 Traditional Knowledge Comes of Age 3 Intellectual Roots of Traditional Ecological Knowledge4 Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice 5 Cree Worldview "From the Inside" 6 A Story of Caribou and Social Learning 7 Cree Fishing Practices as Adaptive Management 8 Climate Change and Indigenous Ways of Knowing 9 Holism of Indigenous Knowledge, Complex Systems, and Fuzzy Logic10 How Local and Traditional Knowledge Develops11 Indigenous Knowledge in Context: Myths, Worldviews, Contemporary Applications12 Toward a Unity of Mind and Nature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary
Book SynopsisLearning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School has become the widely recommended textbook for student and new teachers of geography. It helps you acquire a deeper understanding of the role, purpose and potential of geography within the secondary curriculum, and provides the practical skills needed to design, teach and evaluate stimulating and challenging lessons.It is grounded in the notion of social justice and the idea that all students are entitled to a high-quality geography education. The very practical dimension provides you with support structures through which you can begin to develop your own philosophy of teaching and debate key questions about the nature and purpose of the subject in school.Thoroughly updated to take account of the latest research, evidence and policy, this new edition reflects new developments in technology as well as current thinking on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Exploring the fundamentals of teaching and learning gTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions of Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School…'This is a practical and visionary book, as well as being superbly optimistic. It has as much to offer the experienced teacher as the novice and could be used to reinvigorate geography departments everywhere. Practical activities and ideas are set within a carefully worked out, authoritative, conceptual framework.' - The Times Educational Supplement'This is a modern, powerful, relevant and comprehensive work…a standard reference for many beginning teachers on geography initial teacher training courses.' - Educational ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why teach geography? 2. The geography curriculum 3. Pedagogy 4. Pupils’ learning 5. Inclusion 6. Resources 7. Fieldwork 8. Assessment 9. For ‘citizenship’ 10. Professional development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Borderlands
Book SynopsisThe expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe but rather they have changed, become more varied and, in a certain sense, mobile, taking on an important role in the everyday lives of more people than ever before. Furthermore, it is now widely accepted that borders do not just hinder communication and the formation of relationships, but also channel and prefigure them in a positive way. Presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, this book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges. Focusing on established' Western European borderlands with the exception of three contrasting cases the book attempts a turn from conflict to harmony in the study of borderlands and thus examines the moTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living in European BorderlandsPart I. Border Crossings and Border Politics1. A Routine-Based Model of Everyday Mobility in Border Regions2. Dybbøl 2014 – Constructing Familiarity by Remembrance?3. Cross-Border Urbanism on the German-Polish Border – Between Spatial De-Boundarization and Social (Re-)FrontierizationPart II. Communities, Relationships and Identities in Borderlands4. What Makes a Place – Traces of the Border in Rural Villages Affected by Cross-Border Residential Migration5. Crossing Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries? Observations on the German and French Workforce in the Spa Town of Baden-Baden, c. 1840–18706. Crossing Borders – Politico-Geographical and Mental Borders in Contemporary German-Language Literature in Belgium7. The Impact of Commuting on Close Relations – Case Study of Estonian Men in Finland Part III. Living Across the Border8. Residential Cross-Border Mobility of People Working in Luxembourg – Developments and Impacts9. Dwelling in (Un)Familiarity – Examples from the Luxembourg-German Borderland10. The Residential and Symbolic Dimensions of Cross-Border Mobility – Looking at Members of the French Middle Class in the Agglomeration of Lille11. Asymmetries in the Formation of the Transnational Borderland in the Slovak-Hungarian Border Region
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Dutch environmental policy has undergone some pivotal changes, the most significant of which have been decentralization and deregulation, encouraging local communities to develop and deliver policies which are tailor-made to their particular situation. These changes have led to the development of some innovative practical instruments for aiding sustainable environmental spatial policy. This book discusses these new ''methods for environmental externalities'' and their significance in the development and delivery of Dutch environmental policies, particularly how they ensure that issues such as health and hygiene are introduced in the early stages of spatial planning processes. This book highlights the most prominent and relevant of these innovative ''methods for environmental externalities'' as well as comparing them with some of the classic methods, and analysing strengths and weaknesses. It argues that having such a broad and varied choice of methods is the key toTable of ContentsPreface; Smart methods: methods in a changing environmental policy climate; Part A Context and Conditions: Developments in environmental policy: standards, remediation, politics and integrated environmental management; Diversity uncovered: a comparative framework for methods for environmental externalities; Methods in different shapes and sizes: variation for coping with varying circumstances. Part B Methods and Tools: Environmental zoning approaches: separating the a "gooda (TM) and the a "bada (TM); Checklist methods: between quantity and quality; Quality perspectives: towards tailor-made area-specific solutions; 'Zip' methods:integrating by doing; Information methods: showing is knowing; Other methods: outside the box. Part C Relations and Reflections: The methods in relation to each other: going beyond descriptions; Reflection: what does it all mean?; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Companion to Development Studies
Book SynopsisThe Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development, globalization and development, rural development, urbanization and development, environment and development, gender, health and education, the political economy of violence and insecurity, and governance and development.This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knoTable of ContentsPart 1. The Nature of Development and Development Studies 1.1 Development in a Global-Historical Context 1.2 What’s in a Name? From Third World to Poor Countries 1.3 The Origins and Nature of Development Studies 1.4 The Impasse in Development Studies 1.5 Development and Economic Growth 1.6 Development and Social Welfare - Human Rights 1.7 Development as Freedom 1.8 Race and Development 1.9 Culture and Development 1.10 Ethics and Development 1.11 New Institutional Economics and Development 1.12 Measuring Development: from GDP to HDI 1.13 Poverty and Development: Definitions and Measures 1.14 The Millennium Development Goals 1.15 BRICs and Development Part 2. Theories and Strategies of Development 2.1. Theories, Strategies and Ideologies of Development 2.2. Smith, Ricardo and the World Marketplace 1776-2011 2.3. The Enlightenment and the Era of Modernity 2.4. Dualistic and Unilinear Perspectives on Development 2.5. Neoliberalism: Globalization’s Neoconservative Enforcer of Austerity 2.6. Dependency Theories 2.7. New World Dependency Theory 2.8. World Systems Theory 2.9 Indigenous Knowledge and Development 2.10. Participatory Development 2.11 Post-Colonialism and Development 2.12 Postmodernism and Development 2.13 Post-development 2.14 Social Capital and Development Part 3. Globalisation, Employment and Development 3.1 Globalisation: an Overview 3.2 The ‘new’ International Division of Labour 3.3 Global Shift: Industrialization and Development 3.4 Globalisation and Localisation 3.5 Trade and Industrial Policy in Developing Countries 3.6 The Knowledge-based Economy and the Digital Divisions of Labour 3.7 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Development 3.8 The Informal Economy in Cities of the South 3.9 Child Labour 3.10 Pro-poor Globalisation 3.11 Migration and Transnationalism 3.12 Diaspora and Development Part 4 Rural Development 4.1 Rural Poverty 4.2 Rural Livelihoods 4.3 Food Security 4.4 Famines 4.5 Genetically Modified Crops and Development 4.6 Rural Co-operatives 4.7 Land Reform 4.8 Gender, Agriculture and Land Rights 4.9 The Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Part 5. Urbanisation and Development 5.1 Urbanization in Low- and Middle-Income Nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America 5.2 Urban Bias 5.3 Global Cities and the Production of Uneven Development 5.4 Studies in Comparative Urbanism 5.5 Prosperity or Poverty? Wealth, Inequality and Deprivation in Urban Areas 5.6 Housing the Urban Poor 5.7 Urbanisation and Environment in Low and Middle-income Countries 5.8 Transport and Urban Development 5.9 Cities, Crime and Development Part 6. Environment and Development 6.1 Sustainable Development 6.2 International Regulation and the Environment 6.3 Climate Change and Development: An Overview 6.4 Changing Climate and African Development 6.5 Vulnerability & Disasters 6.6 Ecosystems Services for Development 6.7 Natural Resource Management: A Critical Appraisal 6.8 Water and Hydropolitics 6.9 Energy and Development 6.10 Tourism and Environment 6.11 Transport and Sustainability: Developmental Pathways Part 7. Gender and Development 7.1 Demographic Changes and Gender 7.2 Women and the State 7.3 Gender, Families and Households 7.4 Feminism and Feminist Issues in the South 7.5 Rethinking Gender and Empowerment 7.6 Gender and Globalisation 7.7 Migrant Women in the New Economy: Understanding the Gender-Migration-Care Nexus 7.8 Women and Political Representation Shirin M. Rai 7.9 Sexualities and Development 7.10 Hegemonic Masculinities 7.11 Indigenous Fertility Control Part 8. Health and Education 8.1 Nutritional Problems, Policies and Intervention Strategies in Developing Economies 8.2 Motherhood and Child Health 8.3 The Development Impact of HIV/AIDS 8.4 Ageing and Poverty 8.5 Health and Inequality 8.6 Disability 8.7 Social Protection in Development Context 8.8 Female Participation in Education 8.9 The Challenge of Skill Formation and Training 8.10 Development Education, Global Citizenship and International Volunteering Part 9. Political Economy of Violence and Insecurity 9.1 Gender and Age-Based Violence 9.2 Fragile States 9.3 Refugees 9.4 Humanitarian Aid 9.5 Rights and Social Justice 9.6 Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society 9.7 Peace-building Partnerships and Human Security 9.8 Nationalism 9.9 Ethnic Conflict and the State 9.10 Religions and Development Part 10. Governance and Development 10.1 Foreign Aid in a Changing World 10.2 The Rising Powers as Development Donors and Partners 10.3 Aid Conditionality 10.4 Aid Effectiveness 10.5 Global Governance Issues and Current Crisis 10.6 Change Agents: A History of Hope in NGOs, Civil Society, and the 99% 10.7 Corruption and Development 10.8 Role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) 10.9 Non-Governmental Public action Networks and Global Policy Processes 10.10 Multilateral Institutions and the Financing of Development 10.11 Challenges to the World Trade Organisation 10.12 Is there a Legal Right to Development?
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Sage Publications Ltd Your Human Geography Dissertation
Book SynopsisAn undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages: Designing: Deciding on your approach, your topic and your research question, and ensuring your project is feasible Doing: Situating your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation project Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this book offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography dissertation.Trade ReviewThis excellent new text guides students carefully, intelligently and sympathetically through the process of doing a human geography dissertation. It offers grounded advice - from the question of what a dissertation is, to the mechanics of data analysis - which will be indispensable for students researching the full diversity of topics covered by contemporary human geography. The insights, advice and reflections from both previous students and academic staff who currently teach human geography add valuable insights that will both reassure students and help them avoid making common mistakes. -- Peter KraftlThis book will be an invaluable read for all Human Geography dissertation students. It conveys the excitement and possibilities of Human Geography research, whilst also alerting the reader to its challenges and pitfalls. This is certainly not a generic ‘how to do your dissertation’ textbook; instead it engages with Human Geography as a discipline and the role of the dissertation student as a producer of geographic knowledge. The book’s clear sections on designing, doing and delivering your dissertation, have useful examples, include input from the author’s students themselves, making this an accessible and comprehensive text. -- Katie WillisKim Peters has written a much needed book that will be of great value to Geography students undertaking what is often the most challenging part of their degree, the dissertation. As a Geography lecturer I have often wished that a book such as this existed. Your Human Geography Dissertation goes way beyond a standard examination of the pros and cons of different research methods, covering a range of topics from the identification of dissertation subjects and the development of research questions through gathering data and writing up. It is a readable and highly accessible text full of helpful detail, practical advice and useful examples. Thank you Kim! -- Jo LittleThis book is fantastic! It is recommended reading for our second-year research design course, and I have used some of the ‘dissertation tips’ videos in lectures on this course during 2018/9. For my own dissertation students in supervision meetings, this book is my core recommendation of a text that will help students with their whole human geography dissertation journey. -- Dr Sarah MillsOf all the books that I recommend to my dissertation students, this book is always the first. Writing a dissertation is a daunting task, certainly the most demanding and challenging part of a degree, and Kim Peters, with her accessible style and useful and highly relevant advice, makes it a bit less intimidating. Your Human Geography Dissertation guides students through all the stages of their dissertation, helping them to think geographically, refine their research question and choose the appropriate research methods. This book is so recent but already feels like a classic. -- Dr Filippo MengaTable of Contents1. Your human geography dissertation: An introduction SECTION 1: DESIGNING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION 2: Starting Out: identifying your approach 3: Getting Going: finding a topic 4: The next step: developing your research question 5: Final preparations: is your project workable? SECTION 2: DOING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION 6: Doing reflexive research: situating your dissertation 7: Making research happen: the methods glossary 8: More on methods: approaching complex social worlds 9: Selecting your methods: how to make the right choices SECTION 3: DELIVERING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION 10: Dealing with data: approaching analysis 11: Writing up: where to start and how to finish 12: The last hurdle: final considerations
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Bristol University Press Beyond Neighbourhood Planning
Book SynopsisThe past three decades have seen an international 'turn to participation' letting those who will be affected by neighbourhood planning outcomes play an active role in decision-making. This innovative analysis brings theory, research, and practice together and gives insights into how and why citizen voices either become effective or get excluded.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Neighbourhood Planners and the Turn to Participation 2. Planning, Participation, and Democratisation 3. Knowledge, Politics and Care: Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies 4. Neighbourhoods, Identity and Legitimacy 5. Experience, Evidence and Examination 6. Expertise, Agency and Power 7. Care and Concern 8. Conclusions: Neighbourhood Planning and Beyond
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Guilford Publications Theories of Development Third Edition
Book SynopsisThis widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics (classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, neoliberal) before considering critical alternatives (Marxist, socialist, poststructuralist, and feminist). The book elucidates the basic ideas that underpin contemporary controversies and debates surrounding economic growth, environmental crisis, and global inequality. It highlights points of contention among the various theories andlinks them to historical and current world events. New to This Edition *Reflects the latest data and global development trends, such as the effects on economies of extreme weather events and climate change. *New discussions throughout the chapters, including the work of Thomas Piketty, Richard Florida, William Easterly, Niall Ferguson, and Arturo Escobar.Trade Review"Theories of Development, Third Edition, is as far reaching, widely referenced, and penetrating as its predecessors. The book has been updated with the work of Piketty, Ferguson, Escobar, and others, as well as strengthened argumentation throughout. Perhaps it is ironic to say this book has kept pace with global crisis. This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate programs in geography, international and development studies, and other social sciences focusing on social change. Beginning doctoral students will find the book useful for situating their own research in a wider context of social theory."--Piers Blaikie, PhD, Professor Emeritus, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom “Comprehensive, critical and accessible. This is the ideal text for graduate seminars and advanced undergraduate courses on development, in the fields of geography, development studies, sociology, political economy and (it is to be hoped!) economics. I have used earlier editions of this text in my graduate seminars for years. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes critical assessments of many current debates. I look forward to using this book in classes and recommending it as a go-to reference.”--Tom Perreault, PhD, Department of Geography, Syracuse University "Theories of Development, Third Edition, is a rare text covering the entire range of arguments, from classical and neoclassical economics to poststructuralism and feminism. The authors mount a devastating critique of mainstream economics, exposing its utterly contrived assumptions as well as its devastating consequences, especially for poorer people. But this is also an inspiring book, with a conclusion focused on alternative theories within a politics of a true democracy. A tour de force--read it to be outraged and then to find hope."--Robin Broad, PhD, International Development Program, School of International Service, American University "Peet and Hartwick provide both breadth and depth in their presentation of competing theories of development. They offer critical insights on the roots and dynamics of the north-south divide in contemporary world societies. Speaking to both larger global and structural patterns and the characteristics of individual cases, the book enables a thorough understanding of development and an analysis of meaningful data and trends. Students will benefit from the comprehensive approach grounded in historical context. This book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary discussions of development policy, neoliberalism, and the challenges of poverty and global inequality in multiple forms."--Stephen J. Scanlan, PhD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University "The third edition not only provides a comprehensive review of development theories, but also critiques them boldly, arguing that we need to fundamentally rethink the development project. This text offers a powerful indictment of global inequality and will be excellent for fostering provocative and engaging classroom discussion in upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses."--Kate Swanson, PhD, Department of Geography, San Diego State University -Peet's survey of development theories makes for eminent reading, especially since it weaves philosophical underpinnings in a coherent fashion and provides cogent criticism of each approach. I can see it being used as a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate courses related to development planning. (on the first edition)--Journal of the American Planning Association, 03/09/2015Table of Contents1. Introduction: Growth versus Development I. Conventional Theories of Development 2. Classical and Neoclassical Economics 3. From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism 4. Development as Modernization II. Nonconventional, Critical Theories of Development 5. Marxism, Socialism, and Development 6. Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism 7. Feminist Theories of Development III. Critical Modernism 8. Critical Modernism and Democratic Development
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John Murray Press Nomads
Book SynopsisA Sunday Times Best History Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year''A book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders'' The Times''Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . an important, generous and beautifully-written book'' William DalrympleThe ground-breaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history.Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people into the great cities of Uruk, Babylon, Rome and Chang''an, most of us continued to live lightly on the move and outside the pages of history. But recent discoveries have revealed another story . . . Wandering people built the first great stone monuments, such as the one at Göbekli Tepe, seven thousand years before the pyramids. They tamed the horse, fashioned the composite bow, fought with Trade ReviewIn a book of sensitivity and grace, Sattin does not just describe the nomadic way of life, but also evokes it . . . This is a book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders -- The TimesThoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . As fleet and light-footed as its subject, it takes us along a dizzying path, over many of the highest ridges of human history . . . An important, generous and beautifully-written book -- William Dalrymple, author of 'The Anarchy'A terrific storyteller -- New York TimesA fabulous piece of evocative writing, mixing personal stories with an epic sweep of history, the unique insight of location and an intimate connection to the subject. I loved it -- Jerry Brotton, author of 'A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Anthony Sattin's Nomads spreads before us a sweeping panorama of nomadismthat resonates through the past and echoes poignantly even in the present -- Colin Thubron, author of 'Shadow of the Silk Road'I was riveted by the shifts to nomadic culture, Sapiens-like, and by the feeling of learning lightly worn and deftly transmitted. This is a major book -- Roland Philipps, author of 'A Spy Named Orphan'I was riveted by the shifts to nomadic culture, Sapiens-like, and by the feeling of learning lightly worn and deftly transmitted. This is a major book -- Roland Philipps, author of 'A Spy Named Orphan'The saga of the lost mobile cultures and empires that have impacted global history . . . a spirited defence of freedom of conscience, freedom of movement and migration, a romantic tribute to independence and to free spirit, and to being in tune with the rhythms of nature -- Marc David Baer, author of 'The Ottomans'An incredible work combining brilliant scholarship with an epic, page-turning narrative . . . His landmark book -- Nicholas CraneSweeping . . . Poetic . . . Sattin brings together a huge range of material with great elegance, making it not only readable but also vital -- Literary ReviewExceptional . . . tender and beautifully written -- Jason Goodwin, Country LifeNomads is a kind of rhapsody on how this aspect of human nature has contributed as much, if not more, to civilization, than the tillers of the soil -- Asian Review of BooksNomads is a monumental work, exhaustively researched that sets out to explain nomadism, its importance, rise and decline over the centuries in the minutest detail -- Irish ExaminerTriumphantly tells the story of another way of living . . . This is a book that does not labour in the fields but gallops full stretch towards the horizon -- SpectatorA much-needed act of historical revisionism -- Times Literary SupplementAn unashamedly impressionistic paean to nomadic life interwoven with travelogue and memoir -- The Times
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Duke University Press Animal Traffic
Book SynopsisRosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.Trade Review“This is an immensely important book for anybody concerned with capitalist natures and traffics in the nonhuman. Combining scrupulous fieldwork with stunning theorizations of ‘lively capital’, Collard adapts Marxist and feminist thought to the double task of analyzing and contesting a global trade in exotic pets. By following how wild-caught species get made into thinglike forms of capital, this book spurs a profound rethinking of commodified and noncommodified life, fetishism, enclosure, and social-ecological reproduction.” -- Nicole Shukin, author of * Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times *“Animal Traffic brings the spaces and circuits of the exotic pet trade to life, casting light on an important aspect of defaunation in the tropics and an underappreciated way that animals are being commodified. Rosemary-Claire Collard presents rich ethnographic accounts of key sites of the exotic pet trade and weaves these together with a compelling discussion of the values, practices, and complications involved in reducing wild animals to ‘lively capital’ as well as the great barriers to decommodifying animals after their lives have been wrested from them. This is a moving and beautifully written book and a major contribution to the fields of critical animal studies, political ecology, and biodiversity conservation.” -- Tony Weis, author of * The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock *“Animal Traffic is a unique contribution to the existing robust studies about the legal and illegal wildlife trade. The uniqueness stems from Collard’s theoretical framework as well as her fieldwork.” -- Tanya Wyatt * Oryx *“There are so many things to say and think about in relation to this book, which is a testament to the richness of Collard’s research and the brilliance of her analysis.... We are left ... with a call to action to radically transform not only our theories but also our relationships with animals under and outside of capitalism....” -- Kathryn Gillespie * Antipode *“[Animal Traffic] is a timely book that poses provocative questions for conservation practice and regulation, while also proposing intermediate strategies and contributing empirical and conceptual resources. It will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students in social sciences and conservation.” -- Sophie Haines * Conservation and Society *“In bringing together an analysis of the capitalist commodity chain of the exotic pet trade through her concept of animal fetishism, [Collard] builds bridges between economists and animal studies researchers and opens plenty of doors for future work in both areas. . . . I believe this book will be an essential read for all human–animal and commodity researchers from this point forward.” -- Julie Urbanik * AAG Review of Books *“[Animal Traffic] will inspire reflection and questions. Importantly, in a very moving way, Collard brings into the light and theorizes well an entire world of suffering that is laden with human callousness, money, and violence—a world of which many have been for too long unaware.” -- Connie L. Johnston * Geographical Review *“Although Collard deals in complex theory, she writes with a clarity and sensitivity that is accessible to readers across disciplines . . . including Marxist theory, human geography, feminist political economy, and animal studies.” -- Rachel Matthews * Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy *Table of ContentsA Note on the Cover Art Acknowledgments Introduction 1. An Act of Severing 2. Noah's Ark on the Auction Block 3. Crafting the Unencounterable Animal 4. Wild Life Politics Notes References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Community as Urban Practice
Book SynopsisCommunity is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the non-durable, fluid encounters that constitute community, theorizing communities as shared urban practices in a globalizing world. The book proposes two core ways of thinking about community: the dimension of familiarity, defined by our ability to construct identities, and the dimension of access, defined by our freedom to enter and leave urban spaces. These dimensions form various urban configurations which enable us to experience and practise community in diverse ways. As this book maintains, community is after all an urban practice, not a fixed state of affairs.Trade Review"Everybody thinks they know what the concept of community means, but it proves increasingly elusive as you try to pin it down. Talja Blokland, one of the most perceptive observers of how we live together in cities, here offers a compelling interpretation that focuses on how we perform communities, especially by drawing their boundaries."—John Mollenkopf, Graduate Center, City University of New York"Talja Blokland's beautful book explains why the search for community retains its importance into the twenty-first century. She provides a wonderful, comprehensive overview of recent research to show that communities are not a nostalgic throwback, but continue to matter as they are produced by ongoing social ties, symbolic identities, and struggles."—Mike Savage, London School of Economics and Political Science"From fluid relations to ritualized, hierarchical performances, Blokland draws on a wide range of cases to show that "community" is neither homogeneous nor permanent, yet it remains a focus of longing in an anxious, urban world. Humans perform community to define society: an effort to find a place between intimacy and anonymity, the public and the private, the home and the world."—Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Traditions of Theorizing Community 3 Community as Culture 4 Engagements, Encounters, Social Ties 5 Relational Settings of Belonging 6 Practices of Exclusion 7 Conclusion References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to Brazil, India and Turkey, support has grown for a nativist politics attacking migrants, minorities, liberals and elites as enemies of the nation. Is there a politics of belonging that progressive forces could mobilize to counteract these trends? After Nativism takes up this question, arguing that disarming nativism will require more than improving the security and wellbeing of the ‘left-behind’. The lines drawn by nativism are of an affective nature about imagined community, with meanings of belonging and voice lying at the heart of popular perceptions of just dues. This, argues Ash Amin, is the territory that progressive forces – liberal, social democratic, socialist – need to reclaim in order to shift public sentiment away from xenophobic intolerance towards one of commonality amid difference as a basis for facing existential risk and uncertainty. The book proposes a relational politics of belonging premised on the encounter, fugitive aesthetics, public interest politics, collaboration over common existential threats, and daily collectives and infrastructures of wellbeing. There is ground for progressives to mount a counter-aesthetics of belonging that will convince the discontents of neoliberal globalization that there is a better alternative to nativism.Trade Review‘Ash Amin's book has the great virtue of explaining the failure of the progressive left to make arguments for renewed democratic politics which match the visceral appeals of the populist right. Amin's solution, which promotes an aesthetic mode of resistance based on tactile and experiential images of belonging, is sure to provoke a rich debate.’Arjun Appadurai, New York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Grounds of Belonging2. Street Affinities3. The Intimate Public Sphere4. Aesthetics of NationCodaBibliography
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Manchester University Press Living with Water: Everyday Encounters and Liquid
Book SynopsisLiving with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitationTrade Review'This edited collection explores how living, thinking and writing with water can act as a vehicle for exploring emerging and persistent social and ecological issues. Structured around three aquatic themes – float, flow, submerge – the contributions are methodologically and textually diverse, including the creative arts, social sciences, history and ethnography, and encompassing a pleasing diversity of writing styles ranging from the personal and confessional to the figurative, theoretical and critical. As a reading experience, it is delightful.' Karen Throsby, author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity and Professor of Gender Studies, University of Leeds‘I love to surf, swim, dive, fish, and sit rugged up in a blanket with hot drink in hand just before plunging into icy winter sea. By diving into this beautifully polymorphous collection of emotional, intoxicating, playful, and daring storytelling you will be carried away by waves of analysis that will in turn alarm you, send shivers of joy across your skin, prompt deep introspection, and leave you with a deeply embodied sense of contentment. The collection is a flowing unity saturated with uncompromising reflexivity, care, and vulnerability that not only enriches thinking, listening, imagining, creating, feeling, and learning with water but perhaps, most importantly of all, a necessary responsibility to this giver of life.’Clifton Evers, Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies, Newcastle University -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Jessica J. Lee1 Living with water – Kate Moles and Charlotte Bates 2 Jo¨kulsa´rlo´n 64°04'13''N 16°12'42''W – Wayne Binitie Float 3 Ryan and Alfie: the teenage fishers – Alys Tomlinson 4 Fereð ofer flodas: floating on a ferry – Eva McGrath5 Homes, happenings and everyday lives: afloat on London’s waterways – Lorna Flutter6 Bathed in feeling: water cultures and city life – Les Back 7 River crossings: the mighty London Thames – Sophie Watson 8 Living with/out water: media, memory and gender – Joanne Garde-HansenFlow9 How deep is your love? Spurting, surging, leaking and hissing in Calgary’s pressurised drinking water infrastructure – Becky Shaw10 Rain – Sans façon11 More than a body of water: disentangling the affective meshwork of the Belize Barrier Reef – Phillip Vannini and April Vannini12 Shifting tides: Anthropocene entanglements and unravellings in the Bay of Fundy – Aurora Fredriksen13 Follow the water – Perdita Phillips14 Glacial erratic – Stephanie KrzywonosSubmerge 15 17 bridges – Vanessa Daws 16 Churn – JLM Morton17 Submerging bodies in cold waters – Charlotte Bates and Kate Moles 18 How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility – Rebecca Olive 19 I just want an earth of cool mysteries – Samantha Walton20 Conjuring a swimming pond – Emily BatesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Colonial Present: Afghanistan. Palestine.
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 xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvi 1 The Colonial Present 1 Foucault’s Laughter 1 The Present Tense 5 2 Architectures of Enmity 17 Imaginative Geographies 17 “Why do they hate us?” 20 September 11 24 3 “The Land where Red Tulips Grew” 30 Great Games 30 Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism 36 The Sorcerer’s Apprentices 44 4 “Civilization” and “Barbarism” 47 The Visible and the Invisible 47 Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture 49 Deadly Messengers 56 Spaces of the Exception 62 Deconstruction 72 5 Barbed Boundaries 76 America’s Israel 76 Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster 78 Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization 89 Compliant Cartographies 95 Camp David and Goliath 102 6 Defiled Cities 107 Ground Zeros 107 Besieging Cartographies 117 Identities and Oppositions 138 7 The Tyranny of Strangers 144 “Not as conquerors or enemies . . .” 145 Coups and Conflicts 151 Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares 156 8 Boundless War 180 Black September 180 Killing Grounds 197 The Cutting-Room War 214 9 Gravity’s Rainbows 248 Connective Dissonance 248 The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel 256 Pandora’s Spaces 258 Notes 263 Guide to Further Reading 352 Index 359
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ESRI Press Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach
Book SynopsisDiscover the stories behind Jane Goodall’s visionary approach to community-led conservation. You know of Jane Goodall’s work with wild chimpanzees and her lifelong career advocating for environmental justice. But just as transformative is her work empowering local communities that live on the edge of human settlement to act to protect their natural resources—or to risk losing them forever. Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation is the story of the Jane Goodall Institute’s holistic approach to conservation, which puts the local people in charge of preserving their surrounding ecosystems. Rather than conservationists leading the effort and imposing their solutions, local communities that live in the affected regions make their own decisions. Working with science and technology and with the support of conservationists, these communities grow to understand their human impact on the environment. By choosing to adopt sustainable livelihoods, they decide their own path into the future, finding ways to balance their environmental impact with their communities’ needs. Story by story, Local Voices, Local Choices brings readers into the diverse perspectives behind this approach to community-driven conservation—not only those of JGI staff and program partners but also, and equally, those of the local people who lead these initiatives. Read about: The origins of the Tacare approach, originally designed as a 1994 reforestation project with an abbreviation pronounced “ta-CAR-reh” A retired village member keeping the knowledge of medicinal plants alive in his community Spiritual and cultural story-holders who are vital to the recording and preservation of their traditional ecological knowledge Local people participating as forest monitors, village health workers, beekeepers, small-business owners, and educators of the next generation Former poachers turned advocates for sustainable land management Written for conservationists, fans of Jane Goodall, and readers interested in environmental issues, Local Voices, Local Choices is a vibrant expression of Jane Goodall’s vision and her hope that the Tacare approach will be understood and adopted wherever there is a need for genuine community-driven conservation. Local voices matter, and their choices can make all the difference for generations to come.Table of ContentsForeword by Jack Dangermond Introduction: The birth of Tacare by Jane Goodall The Jane Goodall Institute’s method of community-led conservation. 1 The human-made island: Mzee Jumanne Kikwale meets Jane Goodall at an impressionable age. Dr. Anthony Collins arrives to study Gombe’s baboons. 2 Paradigms and problems: Mzee Jumanne Kikwale moves back to Kigoma to teach the next generation about trees. Dr. Anthony Collins recalls Tacare’s earliest steps — and missteps. 3 1994: Understanding deforestation: George Strunden and the genesis of TACARE. 4 1994: The forester: Mzee Aristides Kashula sees both the forests and the trees. 5 Cultivating a holistic approach: Mzee Emmanuel Mtiti dances with donors. 6 Creating a common language: Dr. Lilian Pintea uses mapping technologies to develop a dialogue between communities and conservationists. 7 Local ambassadors: Learning from and speaking for the chimps: Gabo Paulo, Eslom Mpongo, Hamisi Mkono, Fatuma Kifumu, and Yahaya Almas reflect on decades of chimp observation at Gombe. 8 A confluence of disciplines: Dr. Shadrack Kamenya explains why indigenous researchers are essential to outreach efforts. Dr. Deus Mjungu dedicates his career to creating habitat corridors for endangered wildlife. 9 The cycles of old and new: Japhet Mwanang’ombe educates and inspires the younger generation. Hamisi Matama preserves the traditional ecological knowledge his mother taught him. 10 Seeking homeostasis: KANYACODA, VHTs, PFOs, KIKACODA: Working toward human and ecological health in Uganda. 11 The fatal interface KACODA, Uganda: Finding successful strategies to reduce human/chimp conflict. 12 From the cloud to the ground: Ugandan Wildlife Authority: Obed Kareebi, Frank Sarube, and Philemon Tumwebaze on poverty, technology, and conservation. 13 Outreach through fire: Dario Merlo hears Jane’s words of hope as bombs fall on Goma. 14 The banks and the bees: Phoebe Samwel links microcredit to women’s empowerment Kapeeka Integrated Community Development Association (KICODA) harvests honey — and venom. 15 Changing the retirement plan: Mama Sonja manages difficult conversations about choice. 16 Of women champions: Alice Macharia paves the way for African women in conservation. Yakaka Saweya explains why so many village girls don’t complete their education. 17 The cycle of regeneration: Alice Macharia is in it for the long term — and the short term. 18 A “talking office” with maps: Joseline Nyangoma, Hoima district natural resources officer, wants science to tell a story. 19 People, pixels, and puff adders: Dr. Lilian Pintea contemplates different ways of knowing. Conclusion
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University Press of Colorado Archaeology of the Night: Life After Dark in the
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ECW Press Water Borne
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Reaktion Books Landscape and Englishness
Book SynopsisLandscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body. Landscape and Englishness is extensively illustrated and draws on a wide range of material - topographical guides, health manuals, paintings, poetry, architectural polemic, photography, nature guides and novels. The author first examines the inter-war period, showing how a vision of Englishness and landscape as both modern and traditional, urban and rural, progressive and preservationist, took shape around debates over building in the countryside, the replanning of cities, and the cultures of leisure and citizenship. He concludes by tracing out the story of landscape and Englishness down to the present day, showing how the familiar terms of debate regarding landscape and heritage are a product of the immediate post-war era, and asking how current arguments over care for the environment or expressions of the nation resonate with earlier histories and geographies.Trade Review' - cultural history at its best, subtle, multi-layered and full of new ideas and insights - this book is a "must".' - Contemporary British History ' - creates a convincing portrait of the changing meanings of the English landscape in the twentieth century.' - The Times Literary Supplement
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Cork University Press The Coastal Atlas of Ireland
Book SynopsisThe Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas takes an explicitly all-island approach; though the work has a much wider relevance and potential reader interest. It is organised into six sections, comprising a total of 33 chapters, that take the reader from the distant geological past, by way of the prehistoric era and a focus on the island's physical environments, through time and the human colonisation of Ireland, to the complex cultural and economic landscapes of the near past and the present day. It concludes with an assessment of the importance of coastal and marine environments in understanding the island's past, appreciating the present, and contemplating future opportunities and challenges. Although not claiming to be encyclopaedic, when read in its entirety the Atlas will provide readers with a fascinating and comprehensive excursion through time and space along Ireland's coastline. The Atlas is equally suited to being read in progression or, if preferred, can be dipped into and navigated according to the specific interests of the reader. Within each chapter, in addition to the core text, a series of featured subjects and case studies provide greater-depth explorations of particular topics or examples related to the central theme. In addition, the maps, photos and other illustrations that accompany the text have been provided with self-contained captions that may also be browsed before a more immersive reading is undertaken. Ireland has often emerged as a global leader in its many engagements with the sea, including in marine and coastal science, the pursuit of a 'blue' (and green) economy, the championing of conservation goals, and in the development of sustainable marine renewable-energy resources. In the middle of the current "UN Decade for Ocean Science"(UNESCO), the Atlas celebrates these achievements, while pointing the way for future research and explorations that build on these foundations. The complex of physical and human themes developed in this Atlas has international relevance for coastal communities worldwide, and especially those located in mid-latitudes. Nowhere else in the world has such an all-embracing and multifaceted exploration of a nation's, or an island's, coast been undertaken.Trade ReviewThe Coastal Atlas of Ireland is the definitive examination of Ireland's unique relationship to the sea. A rare combination of the historical and the natural, the book is as comprehensive as it is beautiful and accessible - Graham Norton, writer and broadcasterTable of ContentsChapter 1: Ireland's Coasts: Setting the Scene (Darius Bartlett, Barry Brunt, Robert Devoy, Val Cummins and Sarah Kandrot) Chapter 2: The Coastal Environment: Physical System Processes and Patterns (Robert Devoy, Andrew J. Wheeler, Barry Brunt and Kieran Hickey) - Box: Cold-water corals, reefs and carbonate mounds (Andrew J. Wheeler and Aaron Lim) - Box: Coasts as systems (Darius Bartlett) - Vignette: Night of the Big Wind (1839) (Kieran Hickey) - Box: Tides (Eugene Farrell) - Box: Impacts and Implications of Tsunami on Ireland (Robert Devoy) - Box: From Source to Sink: Studying a Coastal Catchment (Eugene Farrell and Robert Devoy) Chapter 3: Marine Biology and Ecology (Mark Jessopp and Michelle Cronin) - Case Study: Waterbirds in Irish Coastal Areas (John Quinn, Brian Burke, Sean Kelly) - Vignette: Maude Delap (Damien Haberlin) - Box: Ellen Hutchins: Ireland's First Female Botanist (Madeline Hutchins) - Case Study: Jellyfish in Irish Coastal Waters (Tom Doyle) - Box: Lessons leaned from long-term phytoplankton monitoring at Sherkin Island, West Cork (Matt Murphy) Chapter 4: People, Agriculture and the Coast (Barry Brunt, Michael Keane and David Meredith) - Box: Windmills (Robert Devoy) - Case Study: Blanket bogs and the cutting of peat/turf (Barry Brunt) - Case Study: Deep Geography: Memory, Community and Continuity of Coastal Place Names (Patrick O' Flanagan) - Box: The Dun Chaochain Placename Collection Project (Treasa Ni Gearraigh agus Uinsionn Mac Graith) - Vignette: Daniel O' Connell and Derrynane: The Coastal Connection (Robert Devoy) - Case Study: Sea and Shore Foods (Regina Sexton) - Chapter 5: Geological Foundations (Patrick A. Meere) - Vignette: The coast through the eyes of a geologist (Robert Devoy) - Vignette: Tetrapod Trackway, Valencia Island, County Kerry (Kenneth T. Higgs) - Box: The collection of geological data from shelf and coastal waters (Aaron Lim) Chapter 6: Glaciation and Ireland's Arctic Inheritance (Paul Dunlop) - Vignette: Ailsa Craig (Darius Bartlett) - Box: Tidewater glacial sedimentation in Ireland: Identification and Significance (Stephen McCarron) Chapter 7: Ancient Shorelines and Sea-level changes (Robin Edwards and Robert Devoy) - Box: Sea levels and Ireland's ancient seabeds (Andrew J. Wheeler) Chapter 8: Visualising, Mapping and Monitoring Coasts (Darius Bartlett) - Case Study: Ptolemy's Inventory for Ireland - Geographical Features and Places (Mick Monk) - Box: Geographical Information Systems (Darius Bartlett) - Case Study: The impact of coastal web atlas development (Kathrin Kopke, Sophie Power, Adam Leadbetter and Eoin O' Grady) - Case Study: Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures (Claire Connolly, Rachel Murphy, Breda Moriarty, Orla-Peach Power, Michael Waldron, Rob McAllen) - Box: Digital mapping and charting (Darius Bartlett) - Box: Textual and photographic descriptions of the coast for navigational purposes (Norman Kean) - Box: Vessel monitoring, identification and tracking systems (Darius Bartlett) - Box: Satellite remote sensing of the coastal regions of Ireland (Fiona Cawkwell) - Box: Laser Technologies (Sarah Kandrot) - Box: Sensors and autonomous data collecting devices (Darius Bartlett) - Box: Elfordstown Earthstation: Ireland's Strategic Link (Linda Fitzpatrick) Chapter 9: Underwater Surveys: the INFOMAR Project (Eoin Mac Craith, Sean Cullen, Charise McKeon, Eimear O' Keeffe, David O' Sullivan, Ronan O'Toole, Gill Scott and Xavier Monteys) - Box: Sonar (Darius Bartlett) - Box: UAVs for Coastal Zone Mapping (Ronan O' Toole) - Box: Investigating the wreck of the Guinness ship, the SS W.M. Barkley (Charise McKeon) - Box: Mapping herring spawning beds with reported fisheries and backscatter data (David O' Sullivan) - Box: Mapping the seabed geology of Inishbofin, County Geology with Bathymetric Data (Eoin Mac Craith) - Box: Habitat mapping of Kenmare river using multibeam echosounder data (Eimear O' Keeffe) - Box: Tanker Rock: A 'rare event' justification for the inshore mapping programme (Sean Cullen) Chapter 10: Rocky Coasts (Maxim Kozachenko, Ruth M. O'Riordan, Rob McAllen and Robert Devoy) - Box: Shore Platforms (Niamh Cullen and Mary Bourke) - Box: Coastal Boulder deposits on the Aran Islands (Ronadh Cox) - Box: Lough Hyne: a marine reserve in crisis (Rob McAllen, Cynthia Trowbridge, James Bell, Julia Nunn and Colin Little) Chapter 11: Beaches and Barriers (Julian Orford) - Vignette: Machair (Derek Jackson) - Box: Maerl (Eugene Farrell) - Vignette: Why do beaches erode? (Andrew Cooper) - Vignette: Why are dunes at the coast? (Derek Jackson) - Box: Coastal dunes (Derek Jackson) - Case Study: Ecology of sand dune habitats in Ireland (Aoife Delaney) - Vignette: Is sediment size the only determinant of transport potential? (Julian Orford) - Vignette: How high can beaches reach? (Julian Orford) - Box: Beaches and the problem of coastal defences (Andrew Cooper) Chapter 12: Coastal Wetlands (Deborah Chapman) - Case Study: Saltmarshes (Grace Cott) - Box: Salt marshes and global climate change: Blue Carbon (Grace Cott) - Box: Spartina in Ireland (Grace Cott) Chapter 13: Estuaries and Lagoons (Sorcha Ni Longphuirt and Robert Devoy) - Box: Estuary Types (Sorcha Ni Longphuirt and Robert Devoy) - Case Study: The Ecology of Mudflats: Clonakilty Harbour (John Davenport, Lesley J. Lewis and Thomas C. Kelly) - Case Study: Coastal Lagoons: A Barrier to the terrestrial environment and a filter for the marine environment (Susan Lettice (posthumously), Greg Beechinor and Deborah Chapman) Chapter 14: Imagining Coasts (Ronan Foley and Anna Ryan) - Box: The Coast of Ireland on Screen (Darius Bartlett) - Box: Architecture of Coastal Essences: Vico, Dublin Bay (Anna Ryan) - Box: Where land meets sea: An Exploration of Coastal Landscapes (Anna Ryan) - Vignette: Seal Woman Story (Roksana Niewadzisz) - Case Study: Between the tides: The influence of the coast on the life and work of the painter (John Simpson) - Box: Sand Sculpting: Making Shapes out of Sand (Kyle Fawkes) Chapter 15: Coastal Heritage (Beatrice Kelly, Val Cummins and Gerlanda Maniglia) - Box: Lore of the Shore: Skills, Story and Song (Cliona O' Carroll) - Box: Friends of the Murrough (Gerlanda Maniglia) - Box: Meitheal Mara (Val Cummins) - Case Study: The heritage of the Irish revolution: Coastal Legacies (John Borgonovo) - Box: Roger Casement, 1916 and the use of coast in the struggle for independence (Fiona Devoy McAuliffe) - Box: The Spanish Armada in Ireland (Hiram Morgan) - Box: RMS Lusitania - History of a Lost Liner (Eunan O' Halpin) - Box: Heritage Collections: Sources of Lore for research and enjoyment (Cliona O'Caroll) Chapter 16: The Inhabitants of Ireland's Early Coastal Landscapes (Peter Woodman (posthumously) and Robert Devoy) - Box: The role of sand dunes in coastal archaeology (Robert Devoy and Peter Woodman (posthumously) - Box: Mesolithic People and Ferriters Cove (Peter Woodman (posthumously) - Box: Shell Middens on the South Coast: Past, Present and Future (Peter Woodman (posthumously) - Case Study: Irish Promontory Forts (Muireann Ni Cheallachain) Chapter 17: The Vikings and Normans: Coastal Invaders and Settlers (John Sheehan and Michael Potterton) - Case Study: The Brendan Voyage (Darius Bartlett) - Box: Coastal Tide Mills (Colin Rynne) - Box: Norse Place Names (John Sheehan) - Box: A Hiberno-Scandinavian Settlement on Beginish Island, County Kerry (John Sheehan) Chapter 18: Era of Settlement: Trade, Plantation and Piracy (James Lyttleton) - Case Study: Piracy, Smuggling and Coastal Access (Connie Kelleher) - Vignette: Grace O' Malley (Barry Brunt) - Box: The Sack of Baltimore (Bernie McCarthy) - Case Study: Plantations (Annaleigh Margey) - Box: Ireland and Slavery: Coastal Connections that became bittersweet (Nini Rodgers) Chapter 19: Changing Coastal Landscapes (Patrick O' Flanagan) - Box: The Port and the Harbours of Dublin Bay (Rob Goodbody) - Box: Belfast Port and Shipbuilding (Stephen A. Royle) - Box: The Port of Limerick (Des McCafferty) - Case Study: Coastal Railways (Ray O'Connor and Richard Scriven) - Case Study: Seaside Resorts (Patrick O' Flanagan) Chapter 20: The Great Famine (Marita Foster and Barry Brunt) - Case Study: Relief efforts in Ring, County Waterford (Marita Foster) - Vignette: Shell Middens (Robert Devoy) Chapter 21: Ireland's Islands (Stephen A. Royle) - Case Study: Skellig Michael (Sceilg Mhichil) (John Crowley) - Case Study: The Aran Islands (Piaras Mac Einri) - Box: Spike Island, County Cork (Barra O' Donnabhain) - Case Study: Rathlin Island (Stephen A. Royle) Chapter 22: Underwater Cultural Heritage (Karl Brady, Connie Kelleher and Fionnbarr Moore) - Box: The Sixteenth-Century Drogheda Boat Wreck (Holger Schweitzer) - Box: The Late Bronze Age Gormanston Logboat (Niall Brady) - Box: La Surveillante: 1797 wreck of a French Armada frigate (Colin Breen) - Case Study: Encounter with the Irish Coast - the 1588 wrecks of the Spanish Armada (Connie Kelleher, Fionnbarr Moore and Karl Brady) - Case Study: Ireland and the first battle of the Atlantic (Karl Brady) - Box: The protected wreck site of RMS Lusitania: Management, Protection and Preservation of our Underwater Cultural Heritage (Fionnbarr Moore) Chapter 23: Maritime and Nautical Traditions and Institutions (Daire Brunicardi) - Case Study: Traditional Wooden Boats of Ireland (Criostoir Mac Carthaigh) - Box: Blessing of the Boats (Elaine O'Driscoll-Adam) - Box: The Aran Jumper - A Maritime Tradition (Ken Cotter) - Box: The Sea and the Songs (Ken Cotter) - Box: The Tradition of Pilotage: The life of a Pilot (Michael Barry and Cormac Gebruers) - Box: The Coast Watching Service (Daire Brunicardi) - Vignette: The Daunt Rock Lightship Rescue (Ken Cotter) - Case Study: The Irish Naval Service (Daire Brunicardi) - Box: Ireland and the Migration and Human Trafficking Crisis in the Mediterranean (Brian Fitzgerald) - Case Study: Irish Shipping during the Second World War (Daire Brunicardi) - Case Study: Nautical Education in Ireland (Daire Brunicardi) - Box: The Irish Coast Guard (Daire Brunicardi) - Box: The Commissioners of Irish Lights (Daire Brunicardi) - Box: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Dick Robinson) Chapter 24: Ports and Shipping (Barry Brunt) - Box: Whiddy Island Oil Terminal: Bantry Bay (Barry Brunt) - Box: Whitegate Oil Refinery, Cork Harbour (Barry Brunt) - Case Study: Ireland's Passenger Ferry Ports (Barry Brunt) Chapter 25: Urbanisation of Ireland's Coast (Barry Brunt) - Box: Dublin (Rob Goodbody) - Box: Reimagining Cork as a Port City (William Brady) - Box: The Port of Limerick Today (Des McCafferty) - Box: Belfast (Stephen A. Royle) Chapter 26: Coastal Fisheries & Aquaculture (Mike Fitzpatrick, John Dennis, Donal Maguire, Emmet Jackson, Roy Griffin) - Box: Interactions between Discards and Gannets (Mark Jessopp) - Box: Interactions between Seals and Fisheries (Michelle Cronin) - Box: Celtic Sea Herring Fishery (Mike Fitzpatrick) - Case Study: Aquaculture in the Republic of Ireland (Herbie (John) Dennis, BIM) - Vignette: Research and Development in Aquaculture (Val Cummins) - Case Study: Jellyfish and aquaculture interactions in Irish Coastal Waters (Damien Haberlin) - Case Study: The Seaweed harvesting industry in Ireland (Niamh O'Donoghue and Sarah Kandrot) - Box: Unregulated Harvesting: The Edible Periwinkle (Val Cummins) Chapter 27: Tourism and Leisure (Cathal O' Mahony and Stephen Conlon) - Box: Blue Flag Beaches (Cathal O'Mahony, Kathrin Kopke and Val Cummins) - Box: Surfing in Ireland (Tristan MacCana) - Box: The Wild Atlantic Way (Failte Ireland) - Box: Marinas and Coastal Tourism: The Case of Cobh (Liam Coakley) - Vignette: Dingle Town and Waterfront, County Kerry (Robert Devoy and Barry Brunt) - Vignette: Kinsale Harbour and Town, County Cork (Robert Devoy) - Box: Coastal Trails and Ireland's Ancient East (Cathal O' Mahony) - Box: The Causeway and Mournes Coastal Routeways (Robert Devoy) - Vignette: Sea and Coastal Angling (Val Cummins) - Box: Sailing in Ireland (Val Cummins) - Case Study: Coastal Gardening (Verney Naylor) - Case Study: The Burren and Cliffs of Moher Coastal Geopark: A model for sustainable tourism (Maria McNamara and Eamon Doyle) - Vignette: Coastal Food (Regina Sexton) - Box: Golf Tourism and Coastal Golf Courses (Barry Brunt and Robert Devoy) Chapter 28: Renewable Energies: Wind, Wave and Tidal Power (Fiona Devoy McAuliffe - Box: Gannets and Offshore Windfarms (Mark Jessop) - Vignette: The role of Ulva Lactuca in Biogas Production (David Wall) Chapter 29: Coastal Mining, Quarrying and Hydrocarbon Exploration (David Naylor) - Box: Mountain Mine, Allihies, Beara Peninsula (David Naylor) - Case Study: East Antrim Salt Deposits (David Naylor) - Box: Coastal Quarrying (Matthew Parks and Alastair Lings) - Box: The Coastal Millstone Quarries of Waterford Harbour (Niall Colfer) - Box: Marine Aggregates (Gerry Sutton) - Box: Kinsale Head Gas Field (David Naylor) - Box: The Corrib Gas Field (Marcus Lange) - Case Study: Ireland and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) (Barry Brunt) Chapter 30: Engineering for Vulnerable Coastlines (Jimmy Murphy) - Case Study: A recent history of coastal engineering in Waterville, County Kerry (Michael O'Shea) - Box: Rosslare Strang: Erosion and Protection (Jimmy Murphy) - Case Study: Maharees Conservation Association: A Case Study (Eugene Farrell) - Case Study: Buildings at the coast: An Architects Viewpoint (Anna Ryan) Chapter 31: Pollution (Evin McGovern and Shane O'Boyle) - Box: Sea Lettuce growth in response to high nutrient levels (Robert Wilkes) - Case Study: Plastics in the marine environment (Roisin Nash, Joao Frias, Alicia Mateos-Cardenas) - Vignette: The Betelgeuse Disaster (Darius Bartlett) - Box: The National Contingency Plan (David McMyler) - Box: Weighing the health benefits of seafood consumption against the risks: A case study on mercury in seafood (Evin McGovern and Christina Tlustos) - Box: Boats, Paint and Transgender Snails (Brendan McHugh and Michelle Giltrap) - Box: The impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals (Michelle Cronin and Mark Jessop) Chapter 32: Coastal Management and Planning (Anne Marie O'Hagan and Val Cummins) - Box: Irish extended continental shelf claims under the law of the sea (David Naylor) - Case Study: Ireland's Baselines (Eoin V. Fannon) - Case Study: The Bantry Bay Charter (Val Cummins) - Box: Planning for Ireland's Islands: A Matter of Perspective (Karen Ray and Brendan O'Sullivan) - Case Study: Planning for Ireland's Islands (Karen Ray and Brendan O'Sullivan) Chapter 33: Climate Change and Coastal Futures (Val Cummins, Robert Devoy, Barry Brunt, Darius Bartlett and Sarah Kandrot) - Case Study: Ocean Acidification (Evin McGovern and Triona McGrath) - Box: 'Save Cork City': An Architectural Perspective (John Hegarty) - Case Study: Lessons from a Pristine Palau (Val Cummins)
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Manchester University Press Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea:
Book SynopsisThis book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life below waterTrade Review'Brilliant...boldly bridging the conceptual gap between studies of work and the environment, McCall Howard's ethnography charts an innovative and ambitious course for research on the Anthropocene...tremendously compelling.'Brandon Hunter-Pazzara, Current Anthropology‘As Howard makes clear capital and its drive to profit must be challenged—this book is a weapon in that fight.’Sarah Ensor, International Socialism, A quarterly review of socialist theoryHow do the fishers relate to each other, their boats, their technologies, the sea, their catches? In this deeply researched book, written with an intimate feel for fishing and the sea, Penny McCall Howard answers these questions. Based on the Scottish industry, this important book shows how class relations continue to shape labour, working relationships, environments and at times life and death. Few researchers hold both a 100-ton captain’s licence from the US Merchant Marine and a doctoral degree; few are as at home on a fishing boat’s deck as they are in a library. Penny McCall Howard brings a unique blend of abilities to this compelling account of work and has produced an argument for rethinking how we understand the nature of labour in any industry and in all places. Professor Bradon Ellem, University of Sydney Business School‘It is rare to find a work that so compellingly integrates a phenomenological analysis of the experience of work, based on participant observation, with an account of the pressures of political economy and dynamic patterns of class relations in a specific industry. Inspired by Robert Desjarlais, Howard achieves a ‘critical phenomenology’, giving greater depth to phenomenological description by linking sensation, perception and subjectivity to pervasive systems of power and inequality. These in turn are connected to the mutually constitutive connections between workers and the environment that create productive fishing grounds.’Professor Linda Connor, The Australian Journal of Anthropology‘The description of the lived experiences of the author and fishers are used to create an absorbing and, at times, moving narrative….It is the ability to connect the daily lives of fishers to seemingly distant market forces that makes Environment, labour and capitalism at sea an exceptional book…There is an incredible amount to this text that will be of relevance to those interested in global supply chains, environment labour relations, social relations of work, neo-liberalism and regulation….McCall Howard’s deeply rich and confronting account of the social relations that face and at times overwhelm the fishers of the west coast of Scotland needs be read by people interested in work and our collective environmental future.’Dr. Caleb Goods, Journal of Industrial Relations ‘This story of how livelihoods are wrestled from the sea is an anthropological first. Never before has the work of commercial fishermen been brought to life with such vividness, depth and attention to detail, or subjected to such rigorous and hard-headed analysis.’ Professor Tim Ingold, Chair in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK‘Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea unpacks the broader social forces that mediate interactions between human beings and their marine environment while simultaneously drawing out the individual stories and life histories of Scottish fishers….It is well written and emotive. The honest portrayal of the suffering of conflicted fishers who struggle against forces beyond their control aids in our understanding of the root causes of environmental change and the metabolic relationship between humankind and nature. Readers who study environmental sociology, food, and agricultural systems would do well to read Howard’s work.’Timothy P. Clark, Human Ecology Review‘This well-written and memorable account provides thought-provoking reading on an industry that is poorly understood. As such it will merit a space on the shelves of those who are interested in fishing, in ethnography, and in the human costs of capitalism.’Helen Sampson Cardiff University, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, 24:4'Penny McCall Howard provides us with a thoroughly engaging and sensitively written account of the multiple forces that shape fishers’ lives at sea. Based on extended participant observation both on boats and on land on the west coast of Scotland, the richness of the material presented for analysis reveals the quality of her fieldwork practices and the strength of the relationships she forged with fishers during that time….Howard’s work represents a refreshing contribution to ethnographies of northern Scotland because it firmly dispels the tired tropes of rural idylls and bucolic landscapes that have long been associated with this part of the world.'Louise Rebecca Senior, Social Anthropology‘Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea is a remarkable work. It’s a first rate piece of Marxist anthropology that puts human labor at the center of a discussion about ecology. It shows how the biodiversity crisis in the oceans is related to wider social relations, and emphasizes again how the fight to prevent environmental destruction requires challenging the priorities of the system — not just changes to our diet. For radical environmentalists and Marxist ecologists this should be a required read.’Martin Empson, climate and Capitalism, June 2019'It has been a pleasure to read this book, and I highly recommend it to everyone.' Charles Menzies, Journal of Agrarian Change'Howard has written a rare book that presents complex and well-formulated arguments while also being immersive, exciting, and hugely enjoyable to read. Drawing together phenomenology and political economy, Howard analyzes labor through its perceptual engagement with the environment, insisting that the environment is not just land and sea, but also markets, competition, and traumatic experiences of loss.'Rebecca Prentice, Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: A metabolism of labour and environment1 'Working the ground'2 From Wullie's Peak to the Burma: naming places at seaPart II: Techniques and technologies3 Techniques to extend the body and its senses4 From 'where am I?' to 'where is that?' Rethinking navigationPart III: Capitalism and class5 'You just can't get a price': the difference political economy makes6 Structural violence in ecological systemsConclusion: labour, class, environments and anthropologyIndex
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Verso Books Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the
Book SynopsisWho owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals. Compared to New York or Tokyo, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population. Taken as a whole, London is the epicentre of the world's finance markets, an elite cultural hub, and a place to hide one's wealth.Alpha City moves from gated communities and the mega-houses of the super-rich to the disturbing rise of evictions and displacements from the city. It shows how the consequences of widening inequality have an impact on the urban landscape. Rowland Atkinson presents a history of the property boom economy, going back to the end of Empire. It tells the story of eager developers, sovereign wealth and grasping politicians, all paving the way for the wealthy colonisation of the cityscape. The consequences of this transformation of the capital for capital is the brutal expulsion of the urban poor, austerity, cuts, demolitions, and a catalogue of social injustices.Trade ReviewAlpha City is the heart-breaking, carefully-told, story of how London - its heart, mind and soul - was stolen from the people by the plutocrats and their minions. When, the book asks, will the greed of the super-rich end up strangling the city, whose body sustains them? Rowland Atkinson has delved deep to uncover the extent of the super-rich's grip on London. A masterpiece. -- Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and 1%London, Alpha City, tops the global power city index, but rankings aside what does this really mean? In this superb book Atkinson tells us - it means hyper-activity, hyper-consumption, and hyper-gentrification. The fall out is eviction and dispossession of the poor, even the middle classes, the city and its spaces territorialised by the super-wealthy, the collapse of any ethics of care. This is the shady, corrupt world of money destroying the city. And Atkinson tells the story so well through his vivid descriptions of London's neighbourhoods, streets, and buildings as captured, even stolen. This engaging and provocative book is a must read for Londoners, urbanists, and those interested in social, economic and political justice. -- Loretta Lees, King’s College, LondonIn Alpha Cities, Rowland Atkinson lays bare how London has been geared up as the world's monument to inequality. It exposes the tactics of gilded elites alongside their legions of enablers and hangers on, and the ways in which they have turned an already tough city into a 21st century dystopia, where the ultra-rich glide through pristine, soulless environments while the infrastructure we all need decays around us. This fast-paced guide to the new gilded age is a timely warning of how much damage inequality can do. -- Douglas Murphy, author of NincompoopolisA great book which provides vital insights into a strangely under researched group - the wealthiest people on the planet. -- Anna Minton, author of Big CapitalRowland Atkinson's excellent, lively and deeply researched book opens the lid on a can of dangerous worms. While Britain's policies to tempt the world's mobile hot money and its owners have blessed a small section of the population, Atkinson reveals how this has cursed far larger numbers of people, as the super rich have sucked away wealth, talent, investment, culture, government attention, and opportunities from the majority. As he puts it, "the rich kill the cities built to attract them." A welcome and urgently important corrective to the dominant British narrative that the super-rich benefit London and the wider nation. -- Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure IslandsTurning large swathes of London over to the Super-Rich was meant to generate a sloshing pool of wealth that would 'trickle down' to the rest of us. In practice, the detailed, informed and devastating trawl through the global capital of the ruling class in Alpha City proves the only thing that has trickled down is contempt -- Owen Hatherley, author of The Ministry of NostalgiaAtkinson writes with beautiful elegance. Almost every page has a sentence I wish I'd written myself! But his fundamental argument is hard-hitting and could not be more relevant for our troubled times. His analysis of London's 'alphahoods' is a reminder, if we need it, of how unequal cities-not just London-have become. -- Glyn Robbins * City *
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Knowledge and Civil Society
Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic engagement, such as the German landwomen’s associations, as well as novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks in their geographical context. The book also offers insider reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Place of Civil Society in the Making of Knowledge.- Part I: (Re-)Thinking Civil Society.- Chapter 2. The Dialectic of Civil and Uncivil Society—Fragility, Fault Lines, and Countervailing Forces.-Chapter 3. Civil Society as an Agent of Change.- Chapter 4. Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies.- Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations.- Chapter 5. Specialists for Crumble Cakes? The German LandFrauen Organizations in Social Innovation and as Educational, Social, and Political Institutions.- Chapter 6. Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists.- Chapter 7. Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline.- Part III: Spaces, Networks and Fields.- Chapter 8. Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food.- Chapter 9. The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field.- Chapter 10. Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Epistemic Power, Discursive Geographies, and the Creation of Civil Society Knowledge Networks.- Part IV: Doing Civil Society.- Chapter 11. Democracy Movement and Alternative Knowledge in Hong Kong.- Chapter 12. Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society.- Chapter 13. Seeding a New World: Lessons From the #FeesMustFall Movement for the Advancement of Social Justice.- Chapter 14. Civility, Education, and the Embodied Mind—Three Approaches to a New Sentimental Education.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Achieving a Just Transition to a Low-Carbon
Book SynopsisThe ambition of most countries across the world is to develop a low-carbon economy, evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of countries have signed the Paris COP21 agreement. This book contends that this global societal transition to a low-carbon economy must be just. As such, it will be an invaluable and accessible reference for scholars from all research disciplines who aim in their research to see a fairer, more equitable and inclusive world where sustainability is at the fore and climate targets are achieved.This is the first in-depth and original analysis to explore the central importance of law in achieving a just transition to a low-carbon economy. In addition, it advances the JUST framework, a unique framework for assessing the just transition. This important research and theoretical tool provides a practical perspective as it ensures the geographical space and timelines of development are factored into analysis. The research also provides analysis on the just transition movement around the world and the influence of international institutions.Through several case studies on Just Transition Commissions and Critical Mineral Development, the book details and demonstrates key elements of justice, including distributive, procedural, restorative, recognition, and cosmopolitan justice. It is clear from the analysis that while these are vast areas for analysis, if applied in practice, they all centrally contribute to ensuring society will advance in achieving a just transition to a low-carbon economy.Table of Contents1. Introduction – The Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy.- 2. What is the Just Transition?.- 3. The Just Framework.- 4. The Advance of Just Transitions Commissions.- 5. Just Transitions Around the World.- 6. The Elements of the Just Transition within International Institutions.- 7. Conclusion - The Just Transition Movement post pandemic, COP26 and the Financial Crisis.
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Springer International Publishing AG Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies: Understanding
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and methods that have been used to study theme parks in various academic disciplines and reviews the major contexts in which theme parks have been studied. By providing the necessary backgrounds, theories, and methods to analyze and understand theme parks both as a business field and as a socio-cultural phenomenon, this book will be a great resource to students, academics from all disciplines interested in theme parks, and professionals and policy-makers in the leisure and entertainment as well as the urban planning sector.Table of Contents1) Introduction 2) Attractions 3) Authenticity 4) Economic Strategy 5) History of Theme Parks 6) Immersion 7) Inclusion and Exclusion 8) Industry 9) Labor 10) Media 11) Metatexts and Reception 12) Methods 13) Planning and Layout 14) Space 15) Theming 16) Time 17) Visitors and Customers 18) Worldviews 19) Bibliography 20) Index
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Springer International Publishing AG Political Geography in Practice
Book SynopsisIt presents how theories, approaches and methodologies are adopted by researchers in practice, equipping political geographers at all stages to develop their own individual research projects.Download the SN More Media app for free, scan a link with play button and access audio directly on your smartphone or tablet.
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A A Balkema Publishers Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface: Proceedings
Book SynopsisTopics covered: Geochemical record of terrestrial environmental change, and global geochemical cycles; Chemical weathering and climate, river catchment studies; Environmental geochemistry of the terrestrial environment and its effect on health; Organic geochemistry; Marine and sedimentary geochemistry; Mineralogy, microbes and chemistry of weathering; Geochemical thermodynamics and kinetics; Geochemistry of crustal fluids and of catastrophic events.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Healthy Urbanism: Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places
Book SynopsisThe globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism. This book redefines the meaning and form of healthy urban environments, urging planners and design professionals to consider how their work impacts population health and wellbeing at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The concepts of equity, inclusion and sustainability are central to this framing, reversing the traditional focus on individuals, their genes and ‘lifestyle choices’ to one of structural factors that affect health. Integrating theory and concepts from social epidemiology, sustainable development and systems thinking with practical case studies, this book will be of value for students and practitioners. Table of Contents1 Introducing Healthy Urbanism 2 Shifting Priorities for Healthy Places 3 A Framework for Healthy Urbanism 4 Planetary Health 5 Ecosystem Health 6 Local Health: Neighbourhood Scale 7 Local Health: Building Scale 8 Practising Healthy Urbanism 9 Looking to the Future
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Palgrave Macmillan New Planning Histories
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part 1 Legacies of Colonialism.- Indigenous Relationality and Planning Futures.- Spatial Planning Ideas in African Cities: origination, circulation and hybridization.- Race in the Garden: eugenics and utopian planning.- Berlin as European City: omitting postcolonial conditions after 1989.- Planning histories and the new progressive planning agenda in Colombia.- Indigenous Futurities: Maori planning histories and ingenuity.- The History of Planning for Communities Living on Land under Traditional Authority in Africa.- Part 2 Silenced Themes and Voices.- "What is our city doing for us?" Placing Collective Care into Atlanta's Post-Public Housing Movements.- Women, Property-ownership and Finance: an under-examined contribution to settler city-building in North America.- The History of Children, Young People and Planning.- Uncovering Hidden Histories of Community-led Planning.- Mutualism in Housing Provision.- A Queer Lens for Planning History.- Sidelined by History: revising the evolution of green-space planning.- Conclusion.
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Transcript Verlag Post–Growth Geographies – Spatial Relations of
Book SynopsisPost-Growth Geographies examines the spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions from geography and its neighbouring disciplines and offers different perspectives on the possibilities, demands and critiques of post-growth transformation. Through case studies and interviews, the contributions combine voices from activism, civil society, planning and politics with current theoretical debates on socio-ecological transformation.
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University of Minnesota Press Landscapes of Fear
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An elegant encyclopedic treatise on anxiety and its various manifestations, down through the ages. Tuan is an interdisciplinary virtuoso, ranging effortlessly over history, psychology, and anthropology. An arresting and beautifully documented study." —Kirkus
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Duke University Press Rubble The Afterlife of Destruction
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research in the foothills of the Argentine Andes, Gastón R. Gordillo reveals the spatial, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. For the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.Trade Review"[I]t is the signal merit of Gordillo’s book to remind us of the value of the loose, but productive and fertile, horizontal connections and communities that make up the network of nodes and constellations that we too easily dismiss as 'mere' rubble." -- Jon Beasley-Murray * Posthegemony blog *“Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction is theoretically dense and richly illustrated with diagrams and photographs. The ethnographic detail is often engrossing, while the overall argument challenges heritage and regional specialists to engage in more penetrating analysis of how historic forces of destruction shape the world and add to the rubble that piles up along the way.” -- Diane Barthel-Bouchier * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Rubble is remarkable because Gordillo does not shy away from complex theorizing while also providing us with rich ethnographic storytelling. The result is a book that is as engaging as it is innovative, and which should capture the interest of a diverse audience. … dealing with the social production of space, racialized and ethnicized relations in Latin and South America, human-environment relationships, and affect theory. If the purpose of a book is to change the way one sees the world, Rubble succeeds.” -- Roberto E. Barr * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Both the idea of rethinking ruins and going deep into the Chaco region are original and a welcome foray into events and people that have been side-lined by official histories. ...Rubble gives us layers of history, of rubble, overlapping stories of indigenous identity and conquering violence.” -- Marcela López Levy * Latin America Bureau blog *“Rubble makes a series of generative interventions into the vast literature on memory and heritage studies in Latin America. Particularly rewarding for historians, anthropologists, and geographers interested in critical perspectives on modernity.” -- Mónica Salas Landa * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Constellations 1 Part One. Ghosts of Indians 1. A Haunted Frontier 31 2. On the Edge of the Void 53 Part Two. Lost Cities The Destruction of Space 77 3. Land of Curses and Miracles 85 4. The Ruins of Ruins 111 Part Three. Residues of a Dream World Treks across Fields of Rubble 125 5. Ships Stranded in the Forest 131 6. Bringing a Destroyed Place Back to Life 153 7. Railroads to Nowhere 169 Part Four. The Debris of Violence Bright Objects 185 8. Topographies of Oblivion 191 9. Piles of Bones 209 10. The Return of the Indians 229 Conclusion: We Aren't Afraid of Ruins 253 Notes 271 References 287 Index 303
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Urban Geography
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Duke University Press Spacing Debt
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Christopher Harker how Israel's use of debt to keep Palestinians economically unstable is a form of slow colonial violence embedded into the everyday lives of citizens.Trade Review“The first in-depth ethnographic research on debt formation in the contemporary Palestinian context, this groundbreaking work proposes a host of new ways for social geographers to rethink debt at multiple scales. Spacing Debt ambitiously engages theoretical debates across a wide array of disciplinary approaches and effectively links it with fascinating and carefully treated ethnographic cases and interview materials.” -- Deborah James, author of * Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa *“This is the first sustained treatment of the everyday lives of debt in the Palestinian context based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term engagement with the communities under study. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this groundbreaking study offers much-needed sociological insight into Palestine's neoliberal debt regime, while showing how Palestine as 'colonial exception' is a rich site to theorize social geographies of debt.” -- Rema Hammami, Birzeit University“Spacing Debt is an essential read for scholars of debt and finance, and for those interested in modes of theory-building that start from the ways in which people live and choose to narrate their lives.... Thinking of debt as endurance helps us see people living with debt as active agents." -- Enora Robin * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“Spacing Debt is a thorough and important book that will serve as a reference on the livelihood of urban Palestinians for years to come. Ethnographically grounded and theoretically ambitious, the book offers an interesting read on courses in economic sociology, global development, and the like.” -- Lotte Segal * Middle East Journal *
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Cornell University Press Contesting Race and Citizenship
Book SynopsisContesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on first-generation immigrants and refugees who traveled from Africa to Italy, there is little scholarship about the experiences of Black people who were born and raised in Italy. Camilla Hawthorne focuses on the ways Italians of African descent have become entangled with processes of redefining the legal, racial, cultural, and economic boundaries of Italy and by extension, of Europe itself. Contesting Race and Citizenship opens discussions of the so-called migrant crisis by focusing on a generation of Black people who, although born or raised in Italy, have been thrust into the same racist, xenophobic political climate as the immigrants and refugees who are arriving in Europe from the African continent. Hawthorne traces not only mobilizations for national citizenship but also the more capacious, transnatioTrade ReviewHawthorne embraces a scholarly commitment to clarity and a citation ethic rooted in careful engagement with works inside and outside the academy. * American Sociological Association *
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University of Minnesota Press The Solidarity Economy
Book SynopsisQuestioning the boundaries between politics and economics Jean-Louis Laville’s large body of work has focused on an intellectual history of the concept of solidarity since the Industrial Revolution. In The Solidarity Economy, his most famous distillation of this work, Laville establishes how the formations of economic solidarities (unions, activism, and other forms of associationalism) reveal that the boundaries between politics and economics are porous and structured such that politics, ideally a pure expression of ethics and values, is instead integrated with economic concerns. Exploring the possibilities and long histories of association, The Solidarity Economy identifies the power of contemporary social and solidarity movements and examines the history of postcapitalist practices in which democratic demands invade the heart of the economy. The Solidarity Economy ranges in focus from workers associations in France dating back to the nineteenth century, to associations of African Americans and feminists in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to a Brazilian landless-worker coalition in the twentieth century. Studying solidarity associations over time allows us to examine how we can recombine the economic and political spheres to address dependencies and inequalities. Ultimately, The Solidarity Economy has global scope and inspiring examples of associations that deepen democracy. Trade Review "The practices that can carry us toward a plural economy and a plural democracy already exist; the question is what kind of social change they can bring about." —from the Conclusion
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Bristol University Press Detroit after Bankruptcy: Are There Trends
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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Yale University Press The Yellow River
Book SynopsisA three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscapeTrade Review“A survey of three millennia, based on an innovative historical geographic-information system.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature, “Best Science Pick of the Week”“The author achieves the notable feat of telling this vast, complex history in a single readable volume.”—Christopher Ruane, Asian Affairs“The Yellow River is a thought-provoking contribution to environment history and, more specifically, Chinese river history.”—Pichamon Yeophantong, European Journal of East Asian StudiesWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, Pre-1900), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies“No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive account of the long-term changes in the river’s function and structure. I consider it to be the definitive work on the topic of the Yellow River to date.”—Peter C. Perdue, author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia“Ruth Mostern masterfully explores the ‘natural and unnatural’ impacts of the Yellow River. Her approach, emphasizing continuity and change over the longue durée, reveals a complex river that connects, dissects, transports, and displaces.”—David A. Pietz, author of The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China“This unique book is testimony to the great value of spatial analysis and digital approaches. Read it for methodological innovation and let that change how you study history, humanities, and beyond!”—Ling Zhang, author of The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128“In her three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River, Ruth Mostern provides a genuinely new take, full of surprising insights, that makes compelling reading. A pioneering example of quantitatively informed environmental history.”—Valerie Hansen, author of The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began“An outstanding merger of science and history, giving us a deeper understanding of the long, often tragic history of efforts to manage the Yellow River and the land it flows through.”—Kenneth Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
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Duke University Press The Surrounds
Book SynopsisIn The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the suTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Exposing the Surrounds as Urban Infrastructure 1 1. Without Capture: From Extinction to Abolition 21 2. Forgetting Being Forgotten 61 3. Rebellion without Redemption 100 Coda. Extensions beyond Value 134 References 139 Index 153
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Cornell University Press Rare Earth Frontiers
Book SynopsisRare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems.Trade ReviewRare Earth Frontiers is a timely text. As Klinger notes, rare earths are neither rare nor technically earths, but they are still widely believed to be both. Although her approach focuses on the human, or cultural, geography of rare earths mining, she does not ignore the geological occurrence of these mineral types, both on Earth and on the moon.... This volume is excellently organized, insightfully written, and extensively sourced. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Are Rare Earth Elements? 2. Placing China in the World History of Discovery, Production, and Use 3. "Welcome to the Hometown of Rare Earths" 4. Rude Awakenings 5. From the Heartland to the Head of the Dog 6. Extraglobal Extraction Conclusion Appendix Notes References
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MU - University of Texas Press Portugals Other Kingdom The Algarve
Book SynopsisThe geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Algarve: The Association of Men and Land 2. Agriculture of the Coastal Plain 3. Fishermen and Fishing Towns 4. The Limestone Zone 5. The Caldeirão Mountains 6. Monchique Some Final Words Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Ruderal City
Book SynopsisIn Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal—originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks—to theorize Berlin as a “ruderal city.” Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries—gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields—to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today’s uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals Table of ContentsPreface: Forest Tracks vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Rubble 1. Botanical Encounters 35 Gardens 2. Gardening the Ruins 67 Parks 3. Provisioning against Austerity 103 4. Barbecue Area 138 Forests 5. Living in the Unheimlich 173 6. Stories of the “Wild East” 205 Epilogue: Seeding Livable Futures 239 Notes 245 References 283 Index 319
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