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

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Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century, an urgent investigation of environmental migrationthe most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change whereand howwe live.The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I''ll ever read.Mary RoachAn IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation. Bill McKibbenWe are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you've never heard of.Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present,

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Book SynopsisEdwina Attlee is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture.Trade ReviewStrayed Homes brings a valuable contribution on spaces as they’re occupied and used; a type of enquiry that is rare in architectural history, which tends to be concerned predominantly with designers. It would make heartening reading for architects who feel stuck in regulations and requirements and would like to rediscover spaces as sites of practices, movements and memories; and for anyone who enjoys cultural history written with care and attention to the small details, anxieties and pleasures of life in buildings. * Architect’s Journal *This highly-original study offers a celebration of ordinary spaces – from fire escapes to launderettes – that connect strangers in cities. Providing refuge from regulation, these spaces of temporary togetherness, waiting and daydreaming challenge readers to ask: in what places can citizenship thrive? * Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, University College London, UK *Strayed Homes explores everyday spaces that have none of the cultural or emotional investments of home but which, when examined as carefully as Edwina Attlee does here, tell us how we live. With an eye for the arresting detail and a poetic turn of phrase, Attlee opens up exciting new spaces for the study of everyday life. * Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. INTRODUCTION Rocks, Dreams and Extensions 1. Secular Eruvin 2. Question your teaspoons a. Reading: Roland Barthes b. The Everyday: Michel de Certeau c. Space: Gaston Bachelard 2. LAUNDERETTE 1. Gossip shops for lazy people 2. What was the state of Britain’s laundry in 1949? a. The public washhouse b. The commercial laundry 3. The arrival of the launderette 4. Play 5. Wait 3. COUCHETTE 1. Double negative: a. Location b. Consciousness 2. Cut up and carve 3. Hide and seek 4. Missing and Crossing 5. Strayed homes 4. FIRE ESCAPE 1. The long and heavy ladder 2. Trapdoor 3. Unmarried women 4. Theatre box 5. Left space 5. GREASY SPOON 1. The milk comes and the post goes 2. Home-cooking 3. Stay 4. Cramped 5. For the price of a cup of tea 5. STRAYED HOMES: Politics, Practices, Emotions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many different disciplines. The most applied book on the market, Demography: The Science of Population teaches students how to use the multitude of demographic resources available to them as consumers of data. Using case studies throughout to illustrate key concepts in a realistic and concrete manner, the authors also draw examples from recent U.S. Census data, United Nations and World Bank reports, tables from the National Center for Health Statistics, and other U.S. state- and county-level sources. New to the Second EditionThis second edition is divided into four main parts; each part begins with a short introduction, and all chapters include end-of-chapter summaries. All tables, related narrative, and graphics have been updated to include data from the 2000 and 2010 census counts, more recent estiTrade ReviewThe strength of the book is its many tables and graphs which illustrate many features of demography in an accessible and clear way. The case studies, for example, the way in which Zambia arrived at its population policy, are useful and well presented. * European Journal of Population *

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Book SynopsisThis richly-illustrated, full-color textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Geographic Information Systems. Written in a clear and accessible style, it makes the complex and sophisticated field of GIS and spatial thinking comprehensible for first-time users. Exercises in every chapter allow students to master GIS skills.

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Book SynopsisGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life.Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t.Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisIn March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching people across the globe, they are one of the world's best-kept secrets.

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Book SynopsisMuch recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. This book, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land -- the foundation of agricultural production and, by extension, of agricultural peoples. The volume traces the origins of agriculture, the transition to agrarian societies, the socio-cultural implications of agriculture, agriculture's effects on population, and the theory of carrying capacity, considering the relation of agriculture to the profound social changes that it wrought in the New World. Soil science plays a significant, though varied, role in each case study, and is the common component of each analysis. Soil chemistry is also of particular importance to several of the studies, as it determines the amount of food that can be produced in a particular soil and the effects of occupation or cultivation on that soil, thus having consequences for future cultivators. The book demonstrates that renewed investigation of agricultural production and demography can answer questions about the past, as well as stimulate further research. It will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, historical ecology and geography, and agricultural history.

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Book SynopsisAs David Kennedy points out in his foreword, the West was once seen as a beacon of opportunity, and it is still a place where many ways of life can flourish. But it is also a region that leaves some people isolated both culturally and geographically. The essays collected here, the results of a 2012 conference, consider the problems and prospects of the rural West and its residents.The issues are considered in four sections—Defining the Rural West, Community, Economy, and Land Use— each with an introduction by editor David Danbom. They highlight factors that set the region apart from the rest of the country and provide varied perspectives on challenges faced by those living in often remote areas, including the shortcomings of rural health care, disagreements about theuse of natural resources, conflicts over water, and cultural divides within communities.Fresh, informative, and insightful examinations of the complex problems facing the rural West, these essays will spur conversations and the search for solutions.

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Book SynopsisA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared futureA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being ‘out of place’—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

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

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Book SynopsisLabor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Denaturalizing the Slow Violence of WorkRyan HedigerSection One: Questioning “Anthropocene” FramesChapter 1: What’s Past is Prologue: The Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Golden SpikeDavid L. RodlandChapter 2: Anthropocene Performance: Work without EndsTed GeierSection Two: Rethinking Work in the AnthropoceneChapter 3: Unfree Labor: Slavery and the Anthropocene in the AmericasRyan HedigerChapter 4: The Rise of the Novel and the Narrative Labor of Horses in the English Novel of the Early AnthropoceneSinan AkıllıChapter 5: Reconstruction Agrarianism in Douglass and Burroughs: Relational Labor Against White Supremacist OwnershipDaniel ClausenChapter 6: The Work of the Globe: How the Unisphere, Icon of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, Illuminates the Nature of Modern WorkJames ArmstrongChapter 7: Leisure and Light Work: Coming of Age in Wendell Berry’s and Thomas Pynchon’s Novels of ExtractionMatt WanatSection Three: Learning from Leisure in the AnthropoceneChapter 8: Walking the Line between Leisure and Labor: Dorothy Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau in the English Lake DistrictAmanda AdamsChapter 9: Labor, Leisure and Love of Country: Rangering in the Age of the Alt-NPSJennifer K. LadinoChapter 10: Learning to Play in the Anthropocene: Winter Recreation and the Politics of Climate ChangeWill Elliot and Kevin MaierChapter 11: Weaving “Lifeworkings”: Goanna Walking between Humanism and Posthumanism, Dharug Women’s WayJo ReyCodaPedagogical Anthropo/Scenes: Reviving Craft in the AcademySharon O'DairAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 2012 the Landscape of Grand Pre, which includes the entire Grand Pre Marsh and portions of North Grand Pre, Hortonville, Grand Pre, and Lower Wolfville, was declared Nova Scotia's third UNESCO World Heritage Site. This newest addition to the Stories of our Past series details the area's physical and cultural evolution in an accessible, highly visual format. Grand Pre explores the interrelationship of the peoples and landscape of Grand Pre, from the legacies of the dykelands to the record-breaking tides of the Minas Basin. With a focus on the resilient first peoples of Grand Pre-the Mi'kmaq and the Acadians-the book explores the implications of the Grand Derangement, including the arrival of New England Planter and Scots settlers, the twentieth-century Acadian Renaissance, and the creation of the "Land of Evangeline." Includes informative sidebars and 50 colour photos.

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Book SynopsisThis collection broaches the intersections of critical motherhood studies and feminist geography. Contributors demonstrate that an important dimension of the social construction of motherhood is how mothering happens in space and place, leading to the articulation of diverse maternal geographies. Through 16 concise chapters divided into three thematic sections, the contributors provide an account of motherhood and mothering as spatial practices that are embedded in relations of power across time and place. While some contributors explore how dominant discourses of motherhood seek to keep mothers in their place, others take up the notion of maternal geographies as productive in their own right and follow their subjects as they create a new sense of place. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that mothers are produced and regulated as subjects in relation to space and place, and also that practices of mothering produce spatial relationships. The scholars gathered here bring interdisciplinary approaches from diverse fields including women’s and gender studies, sexuality studies, social geography, sociology, anthropology, fine arts, literary studies, and film studies. Chapters include submissions from authors who reference the geographical contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Eastern Caribbean, Great Britain, Japan and Samoa, and the United States.Trade Review“Maternal Geographies is an accessible collection that brings together a diverse set of arguments via engaging styles of presentations. The Editors position the contributions within an interdisciplinary backdrop through which authors detail the spatialities of mothering. Instead of the well-worn trope of mothers facing challenges, each of the authors foregrounds mothering as a process, bringing refreshingly neoteric angles to understanding what mothering is all about. Contributions provide personal accounts of sculpting spaces for conventionally understood as `out of place’ mothering, offer novel readings of art forms that bring a sensitivity to the complexity of the lives of women who mother, and advance methodological queries into embodied research practices that extend well beyond the research topic. This reorientation away from the idealizations of mother and motherhood toward mothering as a process will no doubt affect the way researchers approach mothers and motherhood through the practices of mothering.” - Professor Pamela Moss, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsChapter 1: “Maternal Geographies: Mothering In and Out of Place” by Jennifer Johnson & Krista Johnston Chapter 2: “Reconstructing `Home’ Through Mothering in Japan: A Case of Samoan Wives” by Minako Kuramitsu Chapter 3: “May: Mothering in Space and Place, Painting and Poem” by Wanda Campbell Chapter 4: “Mothering, Geography, and Spaces of Play” by Laurel O’Gorman Chapter 5: “Spatial Practices of Care, Knowledge and Becoming Among Mothers of Children with Autism” by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Chapter 6: “A Global Positioning System: On `Finding Myself’ as a Mother in the Romantic Landscape” by Elizabeth Philps Chapter 7: “Good Mothers?: Geographies of Sexualized Labour and Mothering in the Strip Trades in Northern Ontario” by Tracy Gregory and Jennifer Johnson Chapter 8: “PLACEnta: Finding Our Way Home” by Jules Koostachin Chapter 9: “Pregnancy, Gender and Career Progression: The Visible Mother in the Workplace” by Danielle Drozdzewski and Natasha Klocker Chapter 10: “Belly, Baby, Boundaries: The Effect of Pregnancy on Research Relationships” by Shana Calixte Chapter 11: “Fields of Care: (Auto)ethnography of the Politics of Pregnancy and Foodwork in Aotearoa New Zealand” by Emma Sharp Chapter 12: “Engineering the Good Mother: A Case Study of Opportunity NYC” by Carolyn Fraker Chapter 13: “Mothers Out of Place in Argentine Cinema” by Nadia Der-Ohannesian Chapter 14: “Geographies of Care and Peripheral Citizenship Among Mothers of the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program” by Nathalie Reis Itaboraí Chapter 15: “`Parce que sans ça tu les oublies, les chansons…’: Mothering Between Solidarity and Difference Through Francophone Places and Networks in Kingston, ON” by Laurence Simard-Gagnon Chapter 16: “LGBT Families and `Motherless’ Children: Tracking Heteronormative Resistances in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia” by Catherine Nash, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Kath Browne

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Book SynopsisFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for woman as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. In The Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities are built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. And offers an alternative vision of the feminist city.Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.Trade ReviewA damning stab at the subtle and overt manipulation of women in urban spaces. Kern's interwoven references to her personal experience through childhood, adulthood, and motherhood make her deeply researched and whip-smart work infinitely readable. Kern shows that the ability of all women to exploit the city fully is a valuable, necessary gauge for city worth -- Lezlie Lowe, author of No Place To GoThis original study of the gendering processes occurring in the neoliberal city is a significant addition to scholarly debate on cities and gender. Empirically grounded in the intricacies of the condo market in Toronto, it both adds to, and updates, the pathbreaking work around gendered critical urban analysis. An accessible and incisive text that will no doubt instigate future discussions -- Loretta Lees, Cities Group, Department of Geography, King’s College, London * [for Sex and the Revitalised City] *How do we begin to reckon with and ultimately reimagine our public realm in the #MeToo era? We can start by lifting up a greater diversity of experiences and voices that influence our thinking about what makes a place equitable, fun, accessible, safe, and dynamic for all. Kern's exploration is honest, timely, and intentional in acknowledging the work of women-fellow urbanists and others-in advancing the feminist city -- Lynn M. Ross, AICP, urban planner and feministThe next-generation urbanism book I've been waiting for! Leslie lays out a comprehensive guide to feminist world-building that our cities so desperately need. A must-read for all city officials and budding urbanists alike as we move into the female future of our urban environments. -- Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel UniversityCities aren't built to accommodate female bodies, female needs, female desires. In this rich, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the "city of men" into a city for everyone. Let's all move there immediately.' Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse -- Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse[An] insightful scholarly work ... This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists. * Publishers Weekly *This book totally opened my eyes! Feminist City is an incredibly incisive look at cities and urban design through the lens of gender, while also inspecting how acts of claiming urban space affect other marginalized groups. Combining academic and lived experience, Leslie Kern's intersectional approach clearly lays out just how cities are failing and what it might mean to imagine a more just urban life. Feminist City made me see my own experiences in a whole new light, and Kern makes the field of feminist geography completely accessible and exciting to the average city slicker. Anyone who considers themselves a feminist or activist should read this book! -- Julia DeVarti * Literati Bookstore *Approachable and based in thorough research ... In eye-opening detail, [Feminist City] argues that the privatization of security and heightened police presences endanger women of certain demographic groups, while marketers, who present condo living as the safest way to exist in a city, ironically turn women into accomplices in gentrification, forcing low-income women out of safer areas and into environments that are more dangerous. -- Tanisha Rule * Foreword Reviews *An optimistic, pragmatic book, which points to already extant solutions and looks forward to a more just, joyous urban future. -- Stephanie Sy-Quia * Tribune *In Feminist City, Kern imagines a world where public spaces are designed with women and equity in mind. * Bitch *Kern resists drawing a blueprint for a new master-planned feminist city. Instead, she believes we ought to take a closer look at how cities perpetuate inequality from the perspective of race, gender, ability, and class. -- Diana Budds * Curbed *An intersectional analysis of our urban environments through a combination of personal narrative, theory, and pop culture analysis. -- Leilah Stone * Metropolis Magazine *[Feminist City] examines the city's paradoxical ability to oppress and emancipate-how an environment teeming with gendered inconvenience, racial discrimination, and sexual violence can also be a locus of queer independence, community care, and emancipatory feminist world-making. ... Heavily researched but accessibly written, the book is a dynamic mix of high and low, facts and feelings, research and reality. * Hazlitt *Kern delves into the interlocking inequalities and systems of oppression that take concrete shape in cities, using an intersectional feminist approach to explore the gendered aspects of urban space...an enjoyable and accessible book that not only contributes to urban feminist geography, but to urban planning and policy more broadly * LSE Review of Books *Feminist City is brilliant because of the ways it lays out, quite clearly, the fact that cities are designed to discriminate in both overt and hidden ways and that it's possible to imagine something new-something that is more inclusive of different bodies and experiences. -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *[Feminist City is] a small but provocative book. It is both an introduction to feminist geography and to modern feminism, with its multiple meanings and numerous contradictions. ... In a world where the male gaze is so often the only gaze considered, so much so [that] most people don't even think of it as being gendered in any way, Feminist City is revelatory. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *Charting the physical aspects of the city that work against women, from inefficient public transport to a lack of supportive care networks for working mothers, Kern argues that there are ways to transform the city that would advance the liberation of women and marginalized people. ... Kern's analysis seems especially timely as we debate the role of police in our society and how we can better protect marginalized people. -- Nicole Froio * Bitch Media *Looking through the lens of geography, pop culture and public and personal history, the book exposes how female bodies are ostracised in urban spaces. * Refinery29 *Feminist City balances descriptions of our environment with the internal conversations or anxieties we feel as we wait for the bus, rush to pick up our child before daycare closes, and navigate space that's designed to keep us inside. -- Elizabeth Whitton * Greater Greater Washington *A joy to dip into * The Developer *There should be more books like this...Feminist City is wide-ranging and sophisticated, brief and engaging. * ICON Magazine *[Kern's] message is that thoughtful planners can and, eventually will, arrive at the feminist city as long as women's voices get the attention they deserve. -- Josh Stephens * California Planning & Development Report *A wide-ranging survey of social inequalities exacerbated by one-size-fits-all urban planning-inequalities ripe for improvement. -- Britta Shoot * KQED *Kern [wants] to envi­sion a more inclu­sive city that con­sid­ers the phys­i­cal and cul­tur­al needs of its most mar­gin­al­ized mem­bers. -- Apoorva Tadepalli * In These Times *[Kern] introduces readers to a number of different ways the city is at once emancipatory and endangering. She deploys an intersectional lens to explore such themes as mobility, protest, adolescence, and friendship, weaving together an impressive array of sources from academic writings and popular culture (Doreen Massey appears alongside Two Dope Queens). -- Sophie Gonick * Public Books *Feminist City presents a comprehensive analysis of how people of color are the folks that make our cities work, and yet, they are not the folks our cities were designed for. -- Audrey Kalman * The Daily Emerald *Reminds us that our cities are moulded by male fantasies and designed to serve gender-based structures. * New Welsh Review *A good introduction to reading the city from a feminist perspective. * Urban Design Group *So much to digest here - cities old and new, politics old and new. -- Rosita Sweetman * Irish Times *Feminist City is a call for gender equity in planning (and for intersectionality), and it's one that planners of all genders should heed. * Planetizen (The Top Urban Planning Books of 2020) *Kern works to identify what a feminist city actually is as she pushes readers to thinkbigger, to think more radically, to think in terms of proactive world- and community-building ratherthan reactionary, incrementalist, or singularly policy-based world-adjusting. ... Feminist City provides a fundamental critique of contemporary society through a feminist and urbanist lens. Itshould be considered a significant contribution to both fields of study. -- Anna Parnigoni * Journal of Urban Affairs *An excellent contribution ... Leslie Kern's clear laying out of feminist urban theory and empirical work generates both a personal and critical understanding of the city. * Gender & Development *I was hooked by this deep dive into how women's freedom is curtailed by the design and culture of man-made cities - and how we can reclaim space -- Moya Crockett * Stylist Loves *[Feminist City] encourages people to look around their community and ask: Who are these spaces meant for? Who feels included and safe and welcome, and who might feel excluded, unsafe or even pushed out of the city? -- Vawn Himmelsbach * Wheels.ca *Importantly, Kern shows how sexism in cities is also inextricably linked to other systems of privilege and oppression, particularly racism, classism, homophobia and ableism ... a noteworthy book for our times * The F-Word *Essential . Kern an excellent example of a writer who wants to amplify marginalised voices . Feminist City urges women to take up space in their environments and not to be afraid of the unknown. -- Becky Little * Bright Green *

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Book SynopsisSpatial analysis is an increasingly important tool for detecting and preventing numerous risk and crisis phenomena such as floods in a geographical area. This book concentrates on examples of prevention but also gives crisis control advice and practical case studies. Some chapters address urban applications in which vulnerabilities are concentrated in area; others address more rural areas with more scattered phenomena.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiii Chapter 1. From Prevention to Risk Management: Use of GIS 1 Sophie SAUVAGNARGUES-LESAGE 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. GIS and public security 3 1.3. Examples of applications for public security 8 1.3.1. SIGASC application 8 1.3.2. Application 12 1.3.3. SIG CODIS application 15 1.4. Prospects for development 18 1.5. Conclusion 19 1.6. Bibliography 19 Chapter 2. Coupled Use of Spatial Analysis and Fuzzy Arithmetic: Assessing the Vulnerability of a Watershed to Phytosanitary Products 23 Bertrand DE BRUYN, Catherine FREISSINET and Michel VAUCLIN 2.1. Introduction 23 2.2. Construction of the index 24 2.3. Implementation of fuzzy calculations 26 2.4. Application to the watershed of Vannetin: vulnerability to atrazine 28 2.4.1. The research site 28 2.4.2. Parameters of the watershed 28 2.4.3. Cell parameters 29 2.4.4. Fuzzy parameters 30 2.4.5. Representation of the indicator and of its related inaccuracy 31 2.5. Conclusion 33 2.6. Bibliography 36 Chapter 3. Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution 39 Philippe BOLO and Christophe BRACHET 3.1. Introduction 39 3.2. Mapping non-point source pollution phenomenon 40 3.2.1. Mapping principles 40 3.2.2. Description of the research phenomenon 41 3.2.3. Mapping steps 41 3.3. Territorial database building rules 42 3.3.1. Choosing software programs 43 3.3.2. Design of the implemented GIS 44 3.3.3. Organizing and creating geographic information layers 46 3.3.4. Organizing and creating attribute tables 47 3.4. The data sources used 48 3.4.1. Identifying the available information 48 3.4.2. Soil-related data 49 3.4.3. Topography-related data 52 3.4.4. Land use-related data 54 3.4.5. Land planning-related data 56 3.5. Pollution risk zoning 58 3.5.1. Treatments to be performed 58 3.5.2. An example of risk zoning 60 3.6. Risk zoning applications 66 3.6.1. Risk knowledge applications 67 3.6.2. Spatial planning applications 67 3.6.3. Applications related to monitoring water quality 68 3.7. Conclusion 69 3.8. Bibliography 70 Chapter 4. Cartographic Index and History of Road Sites that Face Natural Hazards in the Province of Turin 71 Paola ALLEGRA, Laura TURCONI and Domenico TROPEANO 4.1. Introduction 71 4.2. Principal risks 73 4.3. Research area 74 4.3.1. Geological insight 74 4.3.2. Morphology of the research areas 75 4.4. Working method 76 4.5. Computer-based synthetic analysis and transcription of historical data and information collected on the research area 78 4.6. First results 80 4.7. Structure of computer thematic mapping 82 4.8. Application and use of the method 84 4.9. Bibliography 85 Chapter 5. Forest and Mountain Natural Risks: From Hazard Representation to Risk Zoning – The Example of Avalanches 87 Frédéric BERGER and Jérôme LIÉVOIS 5.1. Introduction 87 5.1.1. General information on forests 87 5.1.2. The protective role of mountain forests 88 5.2. Identification of protective forest zones 90 5.2.1. General principle 90 5.2.2. Methodology 90 5.2.3. Building up a synthesis map of natural hazards 91 5.2.4. Building up the forest map 102 5.2.5. Building up the natural forest-hazard synthesis map 102 5.2.6. Building up the map of socio-economic issues and vulnerability 103 5.2.7. Building up the priority areas for forestry action map 104 5.3. Perspectives 105 5.4. The creation of green zones in risk prevention plans 106 5.4.1. Natural hazard prevention plans 106 5.4.2. Transfer from researchers to users 107 5.4.3. The method used 108 5.4.4. Consequences of these works 111 5.4.5. Reflections and perspectives 111 5.5. Conclusion: general recommendations 112 5.6. Bibliography 112 Chapter 6. GIS and Modeling in Forest Fire Prevention 115 Marielle JAPPIOT, Raphaële BLANCHI and Franck GUARNIERI 6.1. Understanding forest fire risks 115 6.1.1. Risk 116 6.1.2. Description of the phenomenon 116 6.1.3. Particularities of fire risk 117 6.1.4. A spatio-temporal variation of forest fire risk 122 6.2. Forest fire management: risk mapping and the use of spatial analysis 123 6.2.1. Requirements with respect to forest fire risk assessment 123 6.2.2. Forest fire risk assessment and mapping: the use of geographic information systems 126 6.3. Using GIS to map forest fire risks 137 6.3.1. Forest fire risk assessment and mapping in the Massif des Maures (Department of Var): raster GIS 138 6.3.2. WILFRIED – fire fighting support (coupling GIS and model) 143 6.4. Conclusion 147 6.5. Bibliography 148 Chapter 7. Spatial Decision Support and Multi-Agent Systems: Application to Forest Fire Prevention and Control 151 Franck GUARNIERI, Alain JABER and Jean-Luc WYBO 7.1. Introduction 151 7.2. Natural risk prevention support and the need for cooperation between the software programs 152 7.2.1. The cooperation issue between the information systems 152 7.2.2. The various approaches aiming at facilitating this type of cooperation 153 7.3. Towards an intelligent software agent model to satisfy the cooperation between the decision-support systems dedicated to natural risk prevention 154 7.3.1. The multi-agent paradigm 154 7.3.2. Intelligent software agents 155 7.3.3. A proposed intelligent software agent model 157 7.4. Experiment in the field of forest fire prevention and control 158 7.4.1. Context of the experiment 158 7.4.2. The experiment scenario 160 7.4.3. First part of the scenario 160 7.4.4. Second part of the scenario 161 7.4.5. An example of problem solving 165 7.4.6. Conclusion of the scenario 166 7.5. Conclusions and perspectives 166 7.6. Bibliography 167 Chapter 8. Flood Monitoring Systems 169 Jean-Jacques VIDAL and Noël WATRIN 8.1. Introduction 169 8.2. Flood monitoring and warning 170 8.3. Situation diversity 171 8.3.1. Spatial information for a better understanding of the phenomenon 173 8.3.2. Spatial information for flood impact assessment 174 8.4. Technical answers 175 8.4.1. Hydrological observing networks 175 8.4.2. Data processing 176 8.4.3. The integration of acquired knowledge in the natural hazard prevention policy 178 8.5. Conclusion 178 8.6. Bibliography 179 Chapter 9. Geography Applied to Mapping Flood-Sensitive Areas: A Methodological Approach 181 Christophe PRUNET and Jean-Jacques VIDAL 9.1. Introduction 181 9.2. A geographic analysis of flooding 182 9.2.1. Intensity 182 9.2.2. Frequency 182 9.2.3. Extension 185 9.3. A concrete example 188 9.4. Bibliography 190 Chapter 10. Information Systems and Diked Areas: Examples at the National, Regional and Local Levels 193 Pierre MAUREL, Rémy TOURMENT and William HALBECQ 10.1. Context 193 10.2. Analysis of the current situation for the management of diked areas 195 10.3. Spatial dimension and integrated management of diked areas 197 10.4. Examples of information systems dedicated to diked areas 198 10.4.1. An information system at the national level for dike inventory 199 10.4.2. An information system at the regional level to analyze dike failure risks in the Mid-Loire region 200 10.4.3. An information system at local level for the integrated management of diked areas 203 10.5. Recent progress and perspectives 212 10.6. Bibliography 213 Chapter 11. Geomatics and Urban Risk Management: Expected Advances 215 Jean-Pierre ASTÉ 11.1. Towns, risks and geomatics 215 11.1.1. An overview 215 11.1.2. City: a much sought after security area 216 11.1.3. Risk: a poorly understood notion 217 11.1.4. Geomatics as a data structuring and management tool 217 11.2. Prevention stakeholders: their responsibilities, their current resources and expectations 218 11.2.1. Ordinary state or emergency state 218 11.2.2. Government and institutional stakeholders 218 11.2.3. Municipal stakeholders and the populations they represent 219 11.2.4. Operational and technical stakeholders 220 11.2.5. Insurance agents 220 11.2.6. Scientific stakeholders 221 11.2.7. Compelled to live with an identified risk 222 11.3. Today’s methods and tools: strengths and weaknesses 223 11.3.1. Urban reference systems and the expected connection with the digitizing of cadastral maps 223 11.3.2. Managing experience 224 11.3.3. Knowledge and modeling of phenomena 226 11.3.4. Monitoring phenomena 227 11.3.5. Reducing vulnerability 227 11.3.6. Risk assessment 228 11.3.7. Macro and microeconomic approach 229 11.3.8. The means of exchange of experiences, skills and knowledge 230 11.3.9. Consultation, public information, training and culture 230 11.4. New potentialities using geomatic methods and tools 232 11.4.1. Geomatics 232 11.4.2. Acquiring and structuring spatial and temporal data 233 11.4.3. Modeling phenomena and behaviors 235 11.4.4. Task analysis and support to complete and control them 237 11.4.5. Managing experience and knowledge 238 11.4.6. Quantified and hierarchical appreciation of the risks involved 239 11.5. Some ongoing initiatives since the beginning of 2001 240 11.5.1. Examples from Lyon: the information system of the service of Balmes and the GERICO project 240 11.5.2. An Alpine concern: avalanche risk management 242 11.5.3. Risk management and natural or man-made subterranean caverns, mines and quarries 243 11.5.4. The RADIUS project of the international decade for natural disaster reduction (Décennie internationale pour la prevention des catastrophes naturelles (DIPCN)) 243 11.5.5. Bogotá and its risk and crisis information system (SIRE) 244 11.5.6. The COEUR project in preparation between the Rhône-Alpine and Mediterranean cities 244 11.5.7. The Base-In project of recording Grenoble’s historical floods 245 11.6. Assessment and outlook: fundamental elements of future systems 245 11.6.1. Territory 246 11.6.2. Phenomena 246 11.6.3. Stakeholders 247 11.7. Bibliography 247 List of Authors 249 Index 251

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Book SynopsisUnravels the entangled relationships between nature and culture. This title includes around 100 entries by leading names in geography and related disciplines that focus on various objects in the landscape - from beaches to battlefields, bees to horses, police stations to post-offices, trees to tractors.

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Book SynopsisThroughout human history, the rate of world population growth overall has been outpaced by the rate of urban population growth. Right now, more the half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion will only increase in the next fifty years. Rapid urban growth accelerates the exchange of ideas, the expansion of social networks, and the diversity of human interactions that accompany globalization. The present century is therefore the crucial phase, when the world's increasing interconnectedness may give rise to innovation and collaboration or intensify conflict and environmental disaster. Bringing together scholars of anthropology and social science as well as law and medicine, Globalization: The Crucial Phase presents a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the way the world is changing. The contributors reveal the changing scale of social, economic, and financial diversity, examine the impact of globalization on the environment, health, and nutrition; and consider the initiatives to address the social problems and opportunities that arise from global migration. Collectively, these diverse interdisciplinary perspectives provide an introduction to vital research and policy initiatives in a period that will bring great challenges but also great potential. Contributors: Nancy Biller, Christina Catanese, Robert J. Collins, Megan Doherty, Zhengxia Dou, Richard J. Estes, James Ferguson, David Galligan, Mauro Guillén, Cameron Hu, John D. Keenan, Alan Kelly, Janet M. Monge, Marjorie Muecke, Neal Nathanson, Sarah Paoletti, Adriana Petryna, Alan Ruby, Theodore G. Schurr, Brian Spooner, Joseph S. Sun, Zhiguo Wu, Huiquan Zhou.

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Book SynopsisA field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action—to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies. The original essays in this collection center three themes to unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site where differences generate both productive and immobilizing frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political struggle, and the embodied work of building the future.Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites, contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing it. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The book also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic spaces. Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge production, and gender's constitutive role in shaping social life.Trade ReviewFeminist Geography Unbound is a must-read for students and scholars interested in the diversity of feminist geographic thought, action, and activism. This is an exceptionally edited collection of leading scholars’ research and reflections on gender, race, sexuality, identity, vulnerability, and power relations. I highly recommend this book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses engaging with feminist geographic scholarship and methods." — Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and GriefTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction — Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith Part I. — Discomfort across Encounters — 1. Brown Scholar, Black Studies: On Suffering, Witness, and Materialist Relationality — Pavithra Vasudevan 2. The Path to Radical Vulnerability: Feminist Praxis and Community Food Collaborations — Carrie Chennault3. Toilets and the Public Imagination: Planning for Safe and Inclusive Spaces — Rachael Cofield and Petra L. Doan4. Interview with Kumarini Silva Part II. — Gendered Bodies as a Terrain of Political Struggle — 5. "Real" and "Mythical" Bodies Weaving Social Skin: Two Waorani Women Disrupting Genres of Amazonian Humanity — Gabriela Valdivia, Kati Álvarez, Alicia Weya Cawiya, Manuela Ima Omene, Dayuma Albán, and Flora Lu 6. (Tiny) Houses and Black Feminist Geographic Praxis: Building More Humanly Workable Geographies — Tia-Simone Gardner 7. Decolonizing Development, Challenging Patriarchy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Genders in Diné Bikeyah — Melanie K. Yazzie and Andrew Curley 8. Women-Only Spaces as a Method of Policing the Category of Woman — Abigail Barefoot 9. Interview with Petra Doan Part III. — Temporality and Feminist Futures — 10. Making Memory: Care and Dalit Feminist Archiving — Anusha Hariharan 11. From the Women's Movement to the Academy: Feminist Urban Planning, 1970–1985 — Bri Gauger 12. Challenging Anglocentric Feminist Geography from Latin American Feminist Debates on Territoriality — Sofia Zaragocin 13. Interview with LaToya Eaves Interlude: Calling All Collectives — Interviews with Feminist Geography Collectives — Jess Linz, Araby Smyth, Emily Billo, Winifred Curran, Roberta Hawkins, Beverley Mullings, Alison Mountz, Kate Parizeau, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Risa Whitson, Annie Elledge, Caroline Faria, Dominica Whitesell, Danya Al-Saleh, Elsa Noterman, and FLOCK Geography Collective Afterword — Lorraine Dowler Contributors — Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a story about aging in place in a world of global movement. Around the world, many older people have stayed still but have been profoundly impacted by the movement of others. Without migrating themselves, many older people now live in a far “different country” than the one of their memories. Recently, the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Trump have re-enforced prevalent stereotypes of “the racist older person”. This book challenges simplified images of the old as racist, nostalgic and resistant to change by taking a deeper, more nuanced look at older people’s complex relationship with the diversity and multiculturalism that has grown and developed around them. Aging in a Changing World takes a look at how some older people in New Zealand have been responding to and interacting with the new multiculturalism they now encounter in their daily lives. Through their unhurried, micro, daily interactions with immigrants, they quietly emerge as agents of the very social change they are assumed to oppose.Trade Review"Sure to become a classic of urban ethnography. A powerful and much needed account of the way in which older people respond to and negotiate change within urban communities. The research challenges views which present older people as 'victims' of global change, providing a highly nuanced description of both the perceived challenges of migration, but also the positive ways in which it is incorporated into new ways of adapting to social change."— Christopher Phillipson, coeditor of Precarity and Ageing: Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life "Molly George’s book beautifully upends common assumptions about the widespread racism among elderly white Americans, Brits, and New Zealanders, offering a much more nuanced portrait of how ethnicity and migration are viewed by older generations. Examining everyday interactions between long-term residents and newcomers, Aging in a Changing World challenges stereotypical views of what it means to 'age in place' when places, and the people who occupy them, are in fact ever-changing. The result is a thought-provoking examination of multiculturalism as lived experience for the elderly."— Susanna Trnka, author of Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech RepublicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Aging in Times of Great Change 2 Global Movement, Everyday Multiculturalism, and Aging 3 Constructing the Field and Recruiting the Urban Stranger 4 “Then and Now”: Narratives of Change 5 Older New Zealanders’ Immigration-Related Concerns 6 A Surprise Twist? Older New Zealanders as Approachable and Accepting 7 Mentoring “Kiwiness” 8 Cosmopolitan Cadences 9 Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisErotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions on subject bodies. The women strategically embody their sexual identities to challenge imposed subject categories and to contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging. Erotic Cartographies refers to the processes of mapping territories of self-knowing and self-expression, both cognitively in the imagination and on paper during the mapping exercise, exploring how meaning is given to space, and how it is transformed. Using the women’s quotes and maps, the book focuses on the false binary of public-private, the practices of home and family, and religious nationalism and spiritual self-seeking, to demonstrate the women’s challenges to the structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence of colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.Trade Review"Erotic Cartographies is a significant and a very welcome contribution to the small but growing body of scholarship on same-sex loving women in the Caribbean. Through subjective maps, Ghisyawan teases out Trinidadian women’s articulations of identity, passion, friendship, and family, as well as how they resist homophobia and find spaces of safety and belonging. It is a finely crafted study that is theoretically and methodologically rich, clearly produced with much care and respect. A vital text in Queer, Caribbean and decolonial studies." -- Kamala Kempadoo * author of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Hu *"Ghisyawan makes an outstanding contribution to Caribbean knowledge production in this profound and insightful study of Caribbean sexuality and same-sex desire. Through a much-needed focus on same-sex-loving women and space-making practices, she offers a unique decolonial methodology through subjective mapping and intersectional feminist praxis that demonstrates complex understandings of safety, visibility, place, identity, and queerness. Erotic Cartographies locates and affirms queer Caribbean belonging and spaces by examining lived experiences, creativity, spirituality, and erotic subjectivities that are fiercely and powerfully defiant." -- Angelique V. Nixon * author of Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture *"For Ghisyawan, the erotic is a kind of self-knowing that allows us to reshape space into safe havens, shifting and eliminating the boundaries of what it means to transgress, while also intuiting unsafe spaces and knowing the kinds of performances that become necessary around the potential hostilities of family members, friends, coworkers, and strangers. Ultimately, Erotic Cartographies challenges us to consider the role the erotic plays in our lives as what moves us toward decolonial spaces that are more than just safe enough. By allowing ourselves to inhabit our erotic selves more fully, we also allow ourselves to map the world anew." -- Jessica Díaz Rodríguez * Sx Salon *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on Trinidadian LanguageProloguePart I: Introduction and Methodology1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial MethodologyPart II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities4 Contesting “Home”: Unsettling Public-Private BoundariesPart III: State, Religion, and Personhood5 Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit6 “Dealing Up with the Spirit”: Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment7 ConclusionAppendix 1. Analytics Used for MapsAppendix 2. Bio-Data of Research ParticipantsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisSince its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices – star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) – and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights.

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