Human geography Books

Book SynopsisWhat a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlandsand how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography, Michael Dear investigates the making of cross-border identity and community in the territories between two nations. Border Witness introduces a new border film genre just now entering its golden age. A geographer and activist, Dear adopts an accessible and engaged perspective, combining the stories told by these films with insights drawn from his own decades-long research and travel. From early silent films to virtual reality, and from revolution to the present global crisis, border films provide fresh evidence for real and imagined politics and for envisioning future transborder architectures carved from in-between spaces.In an era of global geopolitics that favors walls and war over diplomacy, Dear's insights have relevance for borders around the world.Trade Review"Dear’s book is a magnificent chronicle of borderlands films over a century that should be a “must-read” for border scholars and perhaps used not only in film classes but also in border studies courses to supplement the often-dry readings assigned in our twenty-first century visual world." * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"A deep historical context along with solid cinematic summaries of a less discussed cinematic genre: the border film. . . . The author devotes a good deal of the book to the US's relationship with immigrants, the border patrol, and Mexican officials, providing readers with a firm understanding of the difficulties surrounding the failed policies and procedures currently taking place at the border." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction   Part 1 Origins 1. Border Witness: From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico    2. Bisected Bodies: Early Silent Films 3. Making Filmscapes   4. Using Film as Evidence 5. Revolution and Modernization 6. The Great Migrations 7. Border Film Noir Part 2 Fusions 8. Borderlands before Borders 9. From Final Girl to Woman Warrior 10. Narco Nations: Men at War 11. Lives of the Undocumented 12. Moral Tales, Border Law 13. Border Walls: Screen Folly and Fantasy 14. The Mexican Dream/El Sueño Mexicano Part 3 Witness 15. A Golden Age for Border Film 16. Ways of Seeing the Border (Beyond Film) 17. Border Witness of the Future Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Chronological Filmography Appendix 2: Alphabetical Filmography Appendix 3: Map of US-Mexico Borderlands Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlandsand how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography, Michael Dear investigates the making of cross-border identity and community in the territories between two nations. Border Witness introduces a new border film genre just now entering its golden age. A geographer and activist, Dear adopts an accessible and engaged perspective, combining the stories told by these films with insights drawn from his own decades-long research and travel. From early silent films to virtual reality, and from revolution to the present global crisis, border films provide fresh evidence for real and imagined politics and for envisioning future transborder archiTrade Review"Dear’s book is a magnificent chronicle of borderlands films over a century that should be a “must-read” for border scholars and perhaps used not only in film classes but also in border studies courses to supplement the often-dry readings assigned in our twenty-first century visual world." * Journal of Borderlands Studies *"A deep historical context along with solid cinematic summaries of a less discussed cinematic genre: the border film. . . . The author devotes a good deal of the book to the US's relationship with immigrants, the border patrol, and Mexican officials, providing readers with a firm understanding of the difficulties surrounding the failed policies and procedures currently taking place at the border." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction   Part 1 Origins 1. Border Witness: From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico    2. Bisected Bodies: Early Silent Films 3. Making Filmscapes   4. Using Film as Evidence 5. Revolution and Modernization 6. The Great Migrations 7. Border Film Noir Part 2 Fusions 8. Borderlands before Borders 9. From Final Girl to Woman Warrior 10. Narco Nations: Men at War 11. Lives of the Undocumented 12. Moral Tales, Border Law 13. Border Walls: Screen Folly and Fantasy 14. The Mexican Dream/El Sueño Mexicano Part 3 Witness 15. A Golden Age for Border Film 16. Ways of Seeing the Border (Beyond Film) 17. Border Witness of the Future Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Chronological Filmography Appendix 2: Alphabetical Filmography Appendix 3: Map of US-Mexico Borderlands Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides students in human geography with a vital resource - a collection of writings critical to understanding the field as a whole and revealing the interactions of its component parts. It is designed to give students ready access to the literature their studies are most likely to lead them to consult. The book is divided into five parts. Parts I and II describe the nature of the enterprise and show the origins and current state of thinking on central issues. Part III is concerned with interactions between nature, culture and landscape. Part IV considers area differences and geographic units such as region, place and locality. Part V provides insights into the concepts of space, time and space-time. The editors have provided a general introduction, introductions to each part and contextual notes for each chapter. Each part concludes with sections of further reading by subject and the volume ends with a time chart of the main developments in geography. This collecTrade Review"This is an immensely useful book, aimed primarily at the undergraduate level. The editors have invested the readings with a coherence and sense of purpose that reflects very clearly their own powerful rendition of geographical tradition." Geography "... this anthology of human geography has it all. Covering a period of over 150 years, much care has been paid to include a variety of the most eminent geographers and a selection of the most important geographical concepts, making this anthology well worth waiting for." The Geographical Journal "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to be applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years. In short, I strongly recommend this wonderful anthology." Robert D. Sack, University of Wisconsin "Human Geography is an ambitious project which confronts the positive, enlightenment view of human behaviour and the processes that yield spatial patterns. Excellent value." Bryan H. Massam, York University, Canada "The book is for all who are seriously interested in the way their subject has developed and in the origins of ideas and approaches now so familiar as to be taken for granted. Teachers and students of undergraduate ideas and methods courses will find this invaluable." Times Educational Supplement "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years." Robert Sack, University of WisconsinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix General Introduction 1 Part I: Recounting Geography's History 17 Introduction 18 1. A Plea for the History of Geography 25 John K. Wright 2. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? 37 R. J. Johnston 3. Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography 54 Anne Buttimer 4. Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change 66 Horacio Capel 5. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto 95 David Harvey 6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 108 Donna Haraway Part II: The Enterprise 129 Introduction 130 7. What Geography Ought to Be 139 Peter Kropotkin 8. On the Scope and Methods of Geography 155 Halford J. Mackinder 9. The Study of Geography 173 Franz Boas 10. Meaning and Aim of Human Geography 181 Paul Vidal de la Blache 11. Geography without Human Agency: A Humanistic Critique 192 David Ley 12. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography 211 Derek Gregory Part III: Nature, Culture and Landscape 233 Introduction 234 13. Traces on the Rhodian Shore 246 Clarence J. Glacke 14. Influences of Geographic Environment 252 Ellen C. Semple 15. Civilizations: Organisms or Systems? 268 Karl W. Butzer 16. Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature 282 Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe 17. The Morphology of Landscape 296 Carl O. Sauer 18. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape 316 John B. Jackson 19. Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape 329 Stephen Daniels 20. Geography as a Science of Observation: The Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity 341 Gillian Rose 21. The Land Ethic 351 Aldo Leopold Part IV: Region, Place and Locality 365 Introduction 366 22. Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness 378 A. J. Herbertson 23. Human Regions 385 H. J. Fleure 24. The Character of Regional Geography 388 Richard Hartshorne 25. In What Sense a Regional Problem? 398 Doreen Massey 26. From Orientalism 414 Edward W. Said 27. Deconstructing the Map 422 J. B. Harley 28. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective 444 Yi-Fu Tuan 29. A Woman's Place? 458 Linda McDowell and Doreen Massey 30. The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies 476 Philip Cooke 31. The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept 492 George H. T. Kimbl Part V: Space, Time and Space-Time 513 Introduction 514 32. The Territorial Growth of States 525 Friedrich Ratzel 33. The Geographical Pivot of History 536 Halford J. Mackinder 34. Owners' Time and Own Time: The Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880 552 Nigel Thrift 35. Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination 571 F. K. Schaefer 36. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts 590 John D. Nystue 37. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation 600 David Harvey 38. Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology 623 Edward W. Soja 39. The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness 636 Alan Pred 40. Diorama, Path and Project 650 Torsten Hagerstrand 41. A View of the GIS Crisis in Geography 675 Stan Openshaw A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995 686 Alisdair Rogers

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. Brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. Uses international case studies to illustrate the theoretical positions. A helpful introduction by the editors sets the chapters in context. Enables teachers and students to explore the ways in which social nature is evident and to engage with the direct implications of this for human lives, ecologies and politics. Trade Review"Nature as a concept, it is often said, is elusive, complex, promiscuous and yet familiar. Social Nature is a superb introduction to nature's complexity from the vantage point of the very best of critical geography. An excellent introduction to the epistemological thickets which have grown up around, and which threaten to strangle, our understanding of Nature as artifice and artifact." Michael Watts "No other single volume summarizes and critically reviews the geographical research on social nature." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Socializing Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics: Noel Castree (University of Manchester). 2. Being Constructive About Nature?: David Demeritt (Kings College, London). 3. Nature, Poststructuralism, and Politics: Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) and Joel Wainwright (University of Minnesota). 4. The Nature of 'Race': Kay Anderson (Durham University). 5. Postcolonialism and the Production of Nature: Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia). 6. Gendered Natures: Feminism, Politics, and Social Nature: Jane Moeckli (University of Iowa) and Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota). 7. Social Nature and Environmental Policy in the South: Views from Verandah and Veld: Piers Blaikie (University of East Anglia). 8. Political Ecology: A Critical Agenda for Change?: Ray Bryant (King's College, London). 9. Natural Disasters?: Mark Pelling (University of Liverpool). 10. Marxism, Capitalism, and the Production of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester). 11. Dissolving Dualisms: Actor-networks and the Reimagination of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester) and Tom MacMillan (University of Manchester). 12. Solid Rock and Shifting Sands: The Moral Paradox of saving a Socially Constructed Nature: James Proctor (University of California, Santa Barbara). Index.

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Book Synopsis* The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. * Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth--century Britain. * Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.Trade Review'Through the appropriately "modern" concepts of survey, site and identity, Gilbert, Matless and Short offer us an enticing set of precise vignettes, framing a geographical interpretation of British modernity. This book sketches an agenda for what will be an enduring preoccupation among historical geographers in "millennial" Britain.' Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles "This landmark volume stands as the first work of historical geography to cover the whole span of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of broad patterns of change and the close scrutiny of particular spaces the contributors draw out the contours of British modernity since 1900 and demonstrate the vitality of contemporary historical geography." Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary College, University of London Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1. Historical Geographies Of British Modernity: Brian Short, David Gilbert And David Matless (University Of Sussex; Royal Holloway, University Of London; University Of Nottingham). Part I: Surveying British Modernity:. 2. A Century Of Progress? Inequalities In British Society 1901-2000: Danny Dorling (University Of Leeds). 3. The Conservative Century? Geography And Conservative Electoral Success During The Twentieth Century: Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling And David Rossiter (University Of Bristol; University Of Sheffield; University Of Leeds; University Of Leeds). 4. Mobility In The Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting For Migration? Colin G. Pooley (Lancaster University). 5. Qualifying The Evidence - Perceptions Of Rural Change In Britain In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century: Alun Howkins (University Of Sussex). Part II: Sites Of British Modernity:. 6. ‘A Power For Good Or Evil’: Geographies Of The M1 In Late-Fifties Britain: Peter Merriman (University Of Reading). 7. A New England: Landscape, Exhibition And Remaking Industrial Space In The 1930s: Denis Linehan (University College, Cork). 8. A Man’s World? Masculinity And Metropolitan Modernity At Simpson Piccadilly: Bronwen Edwards (London College Of Fashion, London Institute). 9. Mosques, Temples And Gurdwaras: New Sites Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Britain: Simon Naylor And James R. Ryan (University Of Bristol; Queen’s University, Belfast). Part III: Geography, Nation, Identity:. 10. ‘Stop Being So English’: Suburban Modernity And National Identity In The Twentieth Century: David Gilbert And Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway, University Of London; Royal College Of Art). 11. Nation, Empire And Cosmopolis: Ireland And The Break With Britain: Gerry Kearns (University Of Cambridge). 12. British Geographical Representations Of Imperialism And Colonial Development In The Early And Mid-Twentieth Century: Robin A. Butlin (University Of Leeds). Afterword: Emblematic Landscapes of the British Modern: David Matless, Brian Short and David Gilbert. Index

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Book SynopsisThe collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 50 million years ago created the Himalaya, along with massive glaciers, intensified monsoon, turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems. Today, the Himalaya is at risk of catastrophic loss of life. Maharaj Pandit outlines the mountain’s past in order to map a way toward a sustainable future.Trade ReviewIn this book, Maharaj K. Pandit, who grew up in the west Himalayas and conducted his Ph.D. research in the east Himalayas, brings an informed perspective on Himalayan history. Emphasizing people’s relationships with the mountains, Pandit discusses past phases of development and suggests a future of sustainable living. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of this threatened region. -- Trevor Price, University of ChicagoIn an engrossing narrative, Maharaj K. Pandit integrates biology and Earth sciences to explain how the unique Himalayan flora came to be and what we must do to conserve this biological treasure for future generations. -- Andrew Knoll, Harvard UniversityTravel buffs, interdisciplinary researchers, and those who want to explore this beautiful, vast and magnificent mountain range will find the book fascinating. -- Monika Koul * Current Science *Pandit has lucidly presented an overall picture of the past, present and likely future of the Himalayan ecosystems by combining anthropological, biological, ecological, socio-cultural and geological literature. -- Kumar Manish * Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution *Life in the Himalaya is a book true to its title. It’ll answer your questions about the region and better still, raise questions that would have never occurred to you…The book is nothing less than a weekend retreat to the mountains. -- Ishan Kukreti * Down to Earth *

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Book SynopsisA critique of the global emphasis on water’s economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in PeruTrade Review'This superb ethnography invites us to 'slow down' the assumption that water is either a resource or a vital force and attend to how its multiplicity implies a politics of entangled worldings. This book will change how you think about the politics of water!' -- Mario Blaser, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Memorial University, Canada'Though many recent researchers have examined water through a climate change lens, this highly original book is distinctive in examining climate change through a water lens' -- Ben Orlove, anthropologist and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York'This book expresses the power of ethnography. Using her kaleidoscopic notions, Astrid Stensrud presents an analysis of a politics of water that empirically emerging from multiple worlds to transform political ecology and political economy into pluriversal analytics' -- Marisol de la Caden, Professor of Anthropology at UC-Davis, California and author of 'Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds' (Duke, 2015)'An exemplary ethnographic analysis that, focusing on 'waterworlds' in Peru, illuminates the many and diverse ways that people conceptualise and value water, engage with water, and compose human and non-human relationships through water' -- Professor Veronica Strang FAcSS, Executive Director of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and author of 'Water, Culture and Nature' (Reaktion Press 2015)'A powerful engagement with contemporary anthropological debates on the heterogeneity of water. Working with a multiplicity of water practices, Stensrud makes a compelling case for recognizing the intrinsic value of remaining open to difference in the face of climate change' -- Professor Penny Harvey, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsMaps and Figures List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Words in Quechua and Spanish Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Water and Watershed Politics 1. Engineering Water Flows 2. Colonising the Desert 3. Water Payments 4. Water Uncertainties and Disasters 5. Water Efficiency 6. Legible and Illegible Water 7. Owning Water Conclusion: Water Multiplicity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsisaeo An accessible introduction to social theory, both classical and contemporary. aeo Focuses on the concept of modernity, which is used as a lens to examine a wide range of theoretical literature.Trade Review'Nigel Dodd is to be congratulated for a most intelligent, mature, organized, balanced, and sane account of the major trends in European social theory over the last century and a half. I know of no sounder secondary source on the theories of modernity and postmodernity. He brings clarity and order to a range of literature that is too often murky and unordered, and for that several generations of scholars and students will be grateful.' --Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford '[An] excellent guide to the state of the art in contemporary social theory...provide[s] excellent critical accounts of the evolution and contemporary relevance of modern social theory.' (Sociological Research Online) 'Dodd's work is thus both a survey of social theory...and an effort to find a new way forward. The book is consciously positioned as a college course text, meaning that unlike truckloads of others on the subject, it is both readable and explicable for those without an MA in the History of Consciousness.' (Canadian Journal of Political Science)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Modern and Postmodern Social Theory. Part I: Classical Social Theory. 1. Modernity and Society: Marx and Durkheim. 2. Modernity and Reason: Simmel and Weber. Part II: Modern Social Theory. 3. A Critique of Reason: Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. 4. Reason and Power: Foucault. 5. The Potential of Reason: Habermas. Part III: Postmodern Social Theory. 6. Reality in Retreat: Lyotard and Baudrillard. 7. Society under Suspicion: Bauman and Rorty. 8. Modernity Renewed: Giddens and Beck. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Very accessible and wide--ranging introduction to feminist perspectives on geography. aeo Clearly written with careful attention paid to defining key concepts and theories in the field.Trade Review"McDowell provides a sensitive and sophisticated reading of the feminist literature through a geographer's lens. Accessible, comprehensive, and contemporary, Gender, Identity and Place never loses sight of the feminist political project. A landmark book in feminist geography!" Susan Hanson, Head of Graduate School of Geography, Clark University "a text that usefully and thematically summarises an extant body of knowledge. Any tertiary student, new researcher or reluctant colleague wanting to understand the contribution of feminist geography to the discipline will find easy access to that story in the highly readable narrative that Linda McDowell has composed. Gender, Identity and Place has a strength that is often lacking in multiply authored or thematically focused texts. The cohesion of the argument is not simply evident in the introduction and conclusion but is threaded through each of the substantive sections theoretically, empirically and stylistically." Robyn Peace, University of Waikato, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. 1. Introduction: Place and Gender. 2. In and Out of Place: Bodies and Embodiment. 3. Home, Place and Identity. 4. Community, City and Locality. 5. Work/Workplaces. 6. In Public: the Street and Spaces of Pleasure. 7. Gendering the Nation-State. 8. Displacements. 9. Postscript: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Feminist Research. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How is community life changing in response to technological advances? Refreshingly accessible and built on fascinating case examples, this unique book provides not only the theoretical grounding necessary to understand how and why the burgeoning area of social network analysis can be useful in studying communities, but also clear technical explanations of the tools of network analysis and how to gather and analyze real-world network data. Network analysis allows us to see community life in a new perspective, with sometimes surprising results and insights, and this book enablTrade Review"Katherine Giuffre reveals the deep underlying relational commonalities of such diverse contexts as small town life at the end of Weimar, the Salem witch-frenzy, Boston's East End, and the rise of Apple in Silicon Valley with richly textured description carried by elegantly clear prose that makes reading Communities and Networks both incredibly informative and delightful."—Peter Bearman, Columbia University "If you are looking for a compelling introduction to basic concepts and methods of social network modeling that will expand your imagination and help you become a more astute analyst of society and culture, then this is the book for you. Katherine Giuffre writes with insight and verve."—Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona "Forty years ago, people thought of community as a neighborhood. Now social networks have busted the boundaries of communities. They are far-flung and much more than village-like solidarities. The Internet and Mobile Revolutions have pushed these processes even further: community is now in our pocket and on our screens. Communities have become networks; networks have become communities. Katherine Giuffre tells this story well, and supplies solid evidence to clinch the tale."—Barry Wellman, University of Toronto "Giuffre's Communities and Networks is one of the clearest and most engaging introductions to adopting a network perspective on urban and community issues and, by covering a wide range of substantive topics, will be of great interest to a broad audience of students." (Urban Studies, 2016) "Throughout the book, Giuffre attempts to explain the importance of social network analysis by using case studies from diverse communities (where abortion was legal, activism in local neighborhoods, and the ever-popular Silicon Valley) and by ending some chapters with technical details on how to gather and analyze real data. Her chapters are dedicated to broad but important questions." (Information, Communication & Society)Table of ContentsChapter 1: What is network analysis and how can it be useful? Chapter 2: What is a community? Where does it come from? Chapter 3: What do communities do for us? Chapter 4: How do communities shape identity? Chapter 5: What happens when communities become fractured? Chapter 6: How do communities mobilize for collective action and social movements? Chapter 7: How do communities foster creativity and innovation? Chapter 8: How do new communities differ from traditional communities? Glossary of Network Terms References

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Book SynopsisTakes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart?Trade Review"Katherine Giuffre reveals the deep underlying relational commonalities of such diverse contexts as small town life at the end of Weimar, the Salem witch-frenzy, Boston's East End, and the rise of Apple in Silicon Valley with richly textured description carried by elegantly clear prose that makes reading Communities and Networks both incredibly informative and delightful."—Peter Bearman, Columbia University "If you are looking for a compelling introduction to basic concepts and methods of social network modeling that will expand your imagination and help you become a more astute analyst of society and culture, then this is the book for you. Katherine Giuffre writes with insight and verve."—Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona "Forty years ago, people thought of community as a neighborhood. Now social networks have busted the boundaries of communities. They are far-flung and much more than village-like solidarities. The Internet and Mobile Revolutions have pushed these processes even further: community is now in our pocket and on our screens. Communities have become networks; networks have become communities. Katherine Giuffre tells this story well, and supplies solid evidence to clinch the tale."—Barry Wellman, University of Toronto "Giuffre's Communities and Networks is one of the clearest and most engaging introductions to adopting a network perspective on urban and community issues and, by covering a wide range of substantive topics, will be of great interest to a broad audience of students." (Urban Studies, 2016) "Throughout the book, Giuffre attempts to explain the importance of social network analysis by using case studies from diverse communities (where abortion was legal, activism in local neighborhoods, and the ever-popular Silicon Valley) and by ending some chapters with technical details on how to gather and analyze real data. Her chapters are dedicated to broad but important questions." (Information, Communication & Society)Table of ContentsChapter 1: What is network analysis and how can it be useful?Chapter 2: What is a community? Where does it come from?Chapter 3: What do communities do for us?Chapter 4: How do communities shape identity?Chapter 5: What happens when communities become fractured?Chapter 6: How do communities mobilize for collective action and social movements?Chapter 7: How do communities foster creativity and innovation?Chapter 8: How do new communities differ from traditional communities?Glossary of Network TermsReferences

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Book SynopsisTranslated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups.Trade Review"This elegantly written book develops a compelling argument about the role of migrations in the history of mankind. An eminent historical demographer, Livi-Bacci is able to bring the demographic perspective to bear on the highly complex phenomenon of migration - whether in the context of Ancient times or in today’s context of globalization, where immigration has become a highly controversial and politicized issue. A compelling read for a general audience wishing to understand the 'migration problem' and its relevance for today’s public policy." Bruno Ramirez, Université de Montréal "The appearance of any book by demographic historian Massimo Livi-Bacci is cause for celebration and one on migration especially welcome. Migration, more than most issues, is best understood in the context of long-term patterns. This book, drawing on research in several languages, deftly puts the European experience of both emigration and immigration into long-term historical perspective, distilling six centuries into fewer than 100 pages." J.R. McNeill, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One - Waves of Progress and Gradual Migration Chapter Two - Selection and Reproduction: The Settler Effect Chapter Three - Organized Migrations Chapter Four - Three Centuries: 1500-1800 Chapter Five - A Quickening Pace: 1800-1913 Chapter Six - The Last Century: The Trend Reverses, 1914-2010 Chapter Seven - Three Globalizations, Migration, and the Rise of America Chapter Eight - A Tumultuous Present and an Uncertain Future: 2010-2050 Chapter Nine - On the Move, in an Orderly Fashion Appendix

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Book SynopsisLabor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the very simple reason that working people have sentience.Trade Review"Superbly explicated and assisted by well-chosen case studies, Andrew Herod's analysis of the uniqueness of labor as a resource is both captivating and convincing. Wonderful work!"—Jon Agnone, University of Washington "In this bold and pithy text Herod reminds us that labor is a vital resource with a mind of its own. This book is an excellent introduction to the fast-changing world of work and why it matters so much."—Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London "... an accessible text for undergraduates, and while clearly driven by a geographic imagination, it should be read by all labor studies students."—Economic Geography "In his new book, geographer Andrew Herod brings the labor question back into the heart of understanding the global economic processes shaping the world we live in."—Antipode "Herod's Labor is an excellent book. It succeeds brilliantly as an introductory text, but also presents important arguments and evidence deserving a wider readership."—Journal of Industrial Relations "... fresh and compelling."—Rick Halpern, University of TorontoTable of Contents Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgement Introduction Chapter 1 – A Resource Unlike Any Other Labor as Object Labor as Subject Summary Chapter 2 – Labor in Global Context Moving On Rural to urban migration Intra-continental migration Inter-continental migration Growing in Place Summary Chapter 3 – Globalization and Labor FDI’s Implications for Labor GPNs and Labor as Object and Subject Waste, Global Destruction Networks, and Labor Summary Chapter 4 – Neoliberalism and Working Precariously Neoliberalism and Precarious Work Forms of Precarity and Their Present Dynamics Summary Chapter 5 – From Drudge Work to Emancipated Workers? Laboring in the Old Economy On the Swing to the Cancer in the Bush Iron Ore Mining in Western Australia Sweet Work? – Cocoa Plantation Workers in West Africa Fishy Business – Forced Labor in the Seafood Industry Summary Chapter 6 – Meet the New Economy – Same as the Old Economy? Laboring in the New Economy Chips off the Old (Economy) Block? Call Centers – Dark Satanic Mills of the New Economy? Ghost Workers of the New Economy Summary Chapter 7 – Workers Fight Back Workers Coming Together Organizing in the Age of Precarity Summary Chapter 8 – Concluding Thoughts Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLabor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the very simple reason that working people have sentience.Trade Review"Superbly explicated and assisted by well-chosen case studies, Andrew Herod's analysis of the uniqueness of labor as a resource is both captivating and convincing. Wonderful work!"—Jon Agnone, University of Washington "In this bold and pithy text Herod reminds us that labor is a vital resource with a mind of its own. This book is an excellent introduction to the fast-changing world of work and why it matters so much."—Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London "... an accessible text for undergraduates, and while clearly driven by a geographic imagination, it should be read by all labor studies students."—Economic Geography "In his new book, geographer Andrew Herod brings the labor question back into the heart of understanding the global economic processes shaping the world we live in."—Antipode "Herod's Labor is an excellent book. It succeeds brilliantly as an introductory text, but also presents important arguments and evidence deserving a wider readership."—Journal of Industrial Relations "... fresh and compelling."—Rick Halpern, University of TorontoTable of Contents Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgement Introduction Chapter 1 – A Resource Unlike Any Other Labor as Object Labor as Subject Summary Chapter 2 – Labor in Global Context Moving On Rural to urban migration Intra-continental migration Inter-continental migration Growing in Place Summary Chapter 3 – Globalization and Labor FDI’s Implications for Labor GPNs and Labor as Object and Subject Waste, Global Destruction Networks, and Labor Summary Chapter 4 – Neoliberalism and Working Precariously Neoliberalism and Precarious Work Forms of Precarity and Their Present Dynamics Summary Chapter 5 – From Drudge Work to Emancipated Workers? Laboring in the Old Economy On the Swing to the Cancer in the Bush Iron Ore Mining in Western Australia Sweet Work? – Cocoa Plantation Workers in West Africa Fishy Business – Forced Labor in the Seafood Industry Summary Chapter 6 – Meet the New Economy – Same as the Old Economy? Laboring in the New Economy Chips off the Old (Economy) Block? Call Centers – Dark Satanic Mills of the New Economy? Ghost Workers of the New Economy Summary Chapter 7 – Workers Fight Back Workers Coming Together Organizing in the Age of Precarity Summary Chapter 8 – Concluding Thoughts Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.Trade Review‘Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable place within it.’AbdouMalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Goldsmiths, University of London‘This is a book that needed to be written. It takes us beyond the common notion of cities as settings, and pulls us into layer after layer of what constitutes the urban. Written in a highly conceptualized way, it gives us the full experience of theoria in its original meaning: seeing.’Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"With this book and their earlier Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2000), Amin and Thrift present a compelling theoretical argument and take an extreme position amongst those who resist the determinativeness and embrace the relationality of cities. [...N]ot to know its argument is to be uneducated in the world of urban theory. Still, this is not a book for the faint-hearted. It offers no reassurance [...] that change can be managed and all will be well. Rather, it challenges us to re-think our fundamental understandings of what we mean by a city." Robert Beauregard, Urban Studies

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Book SynopsisSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.Trade Review�Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable place within it.�AbdouMalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Goldsmiths, University of London�This is a book that needed to be written. It takes us beyond the common notion of cities as settings, and pulls us into layer after layer of what constitutes the urban. Written in a highly conceptualized way, it gives us the full experience of theoria in its original meaning: seeing.�Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of ExpulsionsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Prologue 1 1 Looking through the City 9 2 Shifting the Beginning: The Anthropocene 33 3 How Cities Think 67 4 The Matter of Economy 99 5 Frames of Poverty 125 Epilogue 159 Notes 168 References 171 Index 190

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global.Trade Review"This is an exciting and illuminating documentation of the ideologies and practices of gentrification in different parts of the globalizing world. Theoretically inspirational and empirically comprehensive, this book provides an excellent role model to show how critical comparative studies can be done for fruitful knowledge production. It makes a timely contribution that will be highly appreciated by all from the global North and South, East and West."George C. S. Lin, Hong Kong University "The authors are leading urban scholars from three continents, who advance the thesis of global gentrification and its attendant injustices through the informative lens of comparative urbanism. In doing so, they critically engage with 'both academic globalization and the globalization of capital'."David Ley, University of British Columbia "This book profoundly extends the scope of gentrification from its London-based origins to a globalizing urban world. Using a comparative perspective, the authors examine urban restructuring and displacement not as the spread of Western social-spatial forms, but as a process of planetary globalization. This book is the most lucid, nuanced and theoretically coherent treatment of gentrification and its manifestation to date."Fulong Wu, University College London"The stellar achievement of this book is its success in making sense of a planetary mélange of contemporary case studies of urban growth and development. The three coauthors bring perspectives steeped in Anglo American, Asian, and Hispanic cultural identities, yielding a densely textured portrayal of the sociopolitical dimensions of land development."Journal of Urban Affairs"[The authors] unlearn existing conceptualizations/theories, ideologies and practices/policies around gentrification, and question how experience from around the globe may enrich gentrification theory and concepts […]. Overall, they argue that the study of gentrification can help us to understand the complexity of urbanization processes […and] that the differences they identify are not radical enough to warrant dilution or dismissal of the term."Environment and Urbanization "[The authors] not only provide the reader with significant material that should start new and stimulating discussions in gentrification studies, but also challenge the way of understanding and investigating processes of gentrification. This book proves itself to be an important addition to further gentrification theory and an answer for the long-due desire to expand gentrification to the cities of the Global South."Urban GeographyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. New Urbanizations3. New Economics4. Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State5. A Global Gentrification Blueprint?6. Slum Gentrification7. Mega-Gentrification and Displacement8. ConclusionReferences

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born.Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts. In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people''s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisBorrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.Trade Review"An innovative book by a recognized expert in the field. The specific models and examples bring the material alive and make it accessible to a broad audience. Moreover, given the rapid rise in home-based work, this book will be an important contribution to both policy and academic debates." -Pat Armstrong, author of Theorizing Women's WorkTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface 1 Putting Work in Its Place 2 Situating Homework in Time and Space 3 If You Worked Here You’d Be Home By Now: Pros and Cons ofHome-Based Telework 4 Are We There Yet? The Telework Centre Office 5 Your Mother Doesn’t Work Here: Learning from Existing Modelsof Co-Workplaces 6 Where Can I Sign Up? The Demand for Co-Workplaces 7 Planning the Co-Workplace: Six Scenarios 8 Humanizing Home-Based Work with the Co-Workplace Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Research Instruments References Index

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Book SynopsisBorrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface 1 Putting Work in Its Place 2 Situating Homework in Time and Space 3 If You Worked Here You’d Be Home By Now: Pros and Cons ofHome-Based Telework 4 Are We There Yet? The Telework Centre Office 5 Your Mother Doesn’t Work Here: Learning from Existing Modelsof Co-Workplaces 6 Where Can I Sign Up? The Demand for Co-Workplaces 7 Planning the Co-Workplace: Six Scenarios 8 Humanizing Home-Based Work with the Co-Workplace Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Research Instruments References Index

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Book SynopsisDescribes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. This book shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms.Trade ReviewTrial lawyers attending on Aboriginal claims will find this text usefully covers the history from 1500 forward, showing the changes from an Indigenous populated land to one organized on European terms. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister, Issue No.89 *This is a welcome antidote to the simplistic renderings of early Canadian history we are exposed to in high school social studies courses, political speeches and CBC mini-series. […] Harris has crafted a deeply insightful account of the history of what would become Canada. […] The Reluctant Land will be used in historical geography courses for many years to come – but it’s more than that, because Harris set himself the task of writing a scholarly book accessible to the general reader. […] Encountering The Reluctant Land is like listening to a series of articulate public lectures, organized on a regional basis, allowing for an exploration of each part of the country, in turn. -- Raymon Torchinsky * BC Bookworld, Vol.23, No.1, Spring 2009 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Lifeworlds, circa 15002 The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-16323 Acadia and Canada4 The Continental Interior, 1632-17505 Creating and Bounding British North America6 Newfoundland7 The Maritimes8 Lower Canada9 Upper Canada10 The Northwestern Interior, 1760-187011 British Columbia12 Confederation and the Pattern of CanadaIndex

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Book SynopsisJasper National Park is an international travel destination, world heritage site, and icon of Canadian identity. Although national parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, we are only beginning to understand how their visual imagery has shaped and continues to inform our perception of the natural world, ecological issues, and ourselves.In Manufacturing National Park Nature, J. Keri Cronin draws on visual images such as postcards and tourist snapshots to show that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image. Adopting an ecocritical approach to visual culture, she reveals that packaging Jasper as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals masks the real threats to the park's ecosystems. In telling the story of how various groups have used photography to shape our ideas about nature, this book sets the stage for a re-examination of protection policies and acknowledgTrade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Jasper National Park, this richly illustrated book shows how photography has shaped and continues to inform perceptions of nature and ecological issues in Canada.Trade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.Trade ReviewThis book makes a timely contribution to current debates regarding the nature of the profession, the need to consider urban and rural issues together, the need to think holistically across departmental boundaries, and the need to creatively consider the future of rural areas in the face of a declining population base, crumbling infrastructure, and energy crisis. -- Frank Palermo, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Wayne J. CaldwellRural Planning and Development by Thomas Adams with Commentaries1 Introductory / Commentary by Jeanne M. Wolfe2 Rural Population and Production in Canada / Commentary by Michael Troughton3 Present Systems of Surveying and Planning Land in Rural Areas / Commentary by Hok-Lin Leung4 Rural Transportation and Distribution: Railways and Highways / Commentary by Ian Wight5 Rural Problems that Arise in Connection with Land Development / Commentary by Len Gertler6 Organization of Rural Life and Rural Industries / Commentary by Tony Fuller7 Government Policies and Land Development / Commentary by Jill L. Grant8 Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement / Commentary by John Devlin9 Provincial Planning and Development Legislation / Commentary by Gary Davidson10 Outline of Proposals and General Conclusions / Commentary by Wayne J. CaldwellAppendicesIndexesContributors

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Book SynopsisThis updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.Trade ReviewThis book makes a timely contribution to current debates regarding the nature of the profession, the need to consider urban and rural issues together, the need to think holistically across departmental boundaries, and the need to creatively consider the future of rural areas in the face of a declining population base, crumbling infrastructure, and energy crisis. -- Frank Palermo, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Wayne J. CaldwellRural Planning and Development by Thomas Adams with Commentaries1 Introductory / Commentary by Jeanne M. Wolfe2 Rural Population and Production in Canada / Commentary by Michael Troughton3 Present Systems of Surveying and Planning Land in Rural Areas / Commentary by Hok-Lin Leung4 Rural Transportation and Distribution: Railways and Highways / Commentary by Ian Wight5 Rural Problems that Arise in Connection with Land Development / Commentary by Len Gertler6 Organization of Rural Life and Rural Industries / Commentary by Tony Fuller7 Government Policies and Land Development / Commentary by Jill L. Grant8 Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement / Commentary by John Devlin9 Provincial Planning and Development Legislation / Commentary by Gary Davidson10 Outline of Proposals and General Conclusions / Commentary by Wayne J. CaldwellAppendicesIndexesContributors

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Book SynopsisTemagami's Tangled Wild traces the processes and power relationships through which the Temagami area of northeastern Ontario has become emblematic of Canadian wilderness. In this sophisticated analysis, Jocelyn Thorpe uncovers how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made Temagami a site of wild Canadian nature. Despite the fact that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have for many generations understood the region as their homeland rather than as a wilderness, the forestry and tourism industries, as well as Canadian law, have refused to acknowledge this claim. Instead, the concept of wilderness has been employed to aid in Aboriginal dispossession and to create a home for non-Aboriginal Canadians on Native land.An eloquent critique and engaging history, Temagami's Tangled Wild challenges readers to acknowledge how colonial relations are embedded in our notions of wilderness, and to reconsider our understanding of the wilderness iTrade ReviewThe book’s short length and clear writing, which make it ideal for teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, belie not only this ambitious objective but also Thorpe’s carefully theorizing and rich historical detail. -- Rosemary-Claire Collard * The Goose, Issue 11, 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: Nature and Nation in a “Little Known District amid the Wilds of Canada” / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Welcome to n’Daki Menan (“Our Land”)1 Tangled Wild2 Timber Nature3 Virgin Territory for the Sportsman4 A Rocky Reserve5 Legal Landscapes6 Conclusion: A Return to n’Daki MenanNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisA series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. ReedPart 1: History, Trends, and Territory1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada’s Territorial North / Chris Southcott3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida and Howard RamosPart 2: Structure and Discourse4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: SocialTransformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha MacDonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta’s Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia’s Resource FrontierCommunities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg HalsethPart 3: Culture and Identity10 It’s Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-BasedCommunities of British Columbia’s Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Reframing the Culture of Forest Resource Dependence in Single-Industry Towns / Ryan Bullock14 The Social Transformation of Agriculture: The Case of Quebec / Christopher BryantPart 4: Voice and Action15 “That’s No Way to Run a Railroad”: The Battle River Branchline and the Politics of Technology in RuralAlberta / Darin Barney16 “It’s the Largest, Remotest, Most Wild, Undisturbed Area in the Province”: Outdoor Sport and EnvironmentalConflict in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia / Mark C.J. Stoddart17 Newfoundland and Labrador’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Transformation of Government–RuralCommunity Relations, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson18 Cultural and Creative Economy Strategies for Community Transformation: Four Approaches / Ross Nelson, Nancy Duxbury, and Catherine MurrayPostscript: The Future of Rural Studies in Canada / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed

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Book SynopsisA series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. ReedPart 1: History, Trends, and Territory1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada’s Territorial North / Chris Southcott3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida and Howard RamosPart 2: Structure and Discourse4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: SocialTransformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha MacDonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta’s Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia’s Resource FrontierCommunities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg HalsethPart 3: Culture and Identity10 It’s Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-BasedCommunities of British Columbia’s Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Reframing the Culture of Forest Resource Dependence in Single-Industry Towns / Ryan Bullock14 The Social Transformation of Agriculture: The Case of Quebec / Christopher BryantPart 4: Voice and Action15 “That’s No Way to Run a Railroad”: The Battle River Branchline and the Politics of Technology in RuralAlberta / Darin Barney16 “It’s the Largest, Remotest, Most Wild, Undisturbed Area in the Province”: Outdoor Sport and EnvironmentalConflict in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia / Mark C.J. Stoddart17 Newfoundland and Labrador’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Transformation of Government–RuralCommunity Relations, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson18 Cultural and Creative Economy Strategies for Community Transformation: Four Approaches / Ross Nelson, Nancy Duxbury, and Catherine MurrayPostscript: The Future of Rural Studies in Canada / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed

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Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, Hydro-Québec declared in a publicity campaign We Are Hydro-Québécois. The slogan symbolized the extent to which hydroelectric development in the North had come to both reflect and fuel French Canada's aspirations. The slogan helped Quebecers relate to the province's northern territory and to accept the exploitation of its resources.In Power from the North, Caroline Desbiens explores how this culture of hydroelectricity helped shape the landscape during the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project. Policy makers and citizens did not, she argues, view those who built the dams as mere workers they saw them as pioneers in a previously uninhabited land now inscribed with the codes of culture and spectacle. This insightful work shows that if Quebec hopes to engage in truly sustainable resource development, all actors must bring an awareness of their cultural histories and visions of nature, North, and nation to the negotiating table. Trade ReviewCaroline Desbiens explores the nexus of hydroelectricity, Québécois identity, and the cultural narratives that are used by southern Québécois to justify resource development in the northern regions of the province. The result is a wonderfully personal and critical reflection on the culture of hydroelectricity in Québec and “the importance of reading economic development through a cultural lens.” [It] is an excellent new contribution to the Nature|History|Society series from UBC Press. It connects beautifully with the other books in the series and will compliment work on the ways in which people conceptualize and transform the north through material, and particularly discursive, formations. -- Morgan Moffitt, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta * Journal of Polar Record *Table of ContentsForeword: Ideas of North / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Looking NorthPart 1: Power and the North1 The Nexus of Hydroelectricity in Quebec2 Discovering a New World: James Bay as Eeyou IstcheePart 2: Writing the Land3 Who Shall Convert the Wilderness into a Flourishing Country?4 From the Roman de la Terre to the Roman des RessourcesPart 3: Rewriting the Land5 Pioneers6 Workers7 SpectatorsConclusion: Ongoing Stories and Powers from the NorthNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA searing look at the socioeconomic, technological, and political forces that have transformed our food into edible commodities.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Food Environments from Palaeolithic Times1 Between Producers and Eaters: A Dietary Regime Approach2 Discordant Diets, Unhealthy People3 From Neolithic to Capitalist DietsPart 2: The Beginnings of the Industrial Diet, 1870-19494 From Patent Flour to Wheaties5 Pushing Product for Profit: Early BrandingPart 3: The Intensification of the Industrial Diet, 1940-806 Speeding Up the Making of Food7 The Simplification of Whole Food8 Adulteration and the Rise of Pseudo Foods9 The Spatial Colonization of the Industrial Diet: The Supermarket10 Meals Away from Home: The Health Burden of Restaurant ChainsPart 4: Globalization and Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Era11 The Industrial Diet Goes Global12 Transformative Food Movements and the Struggle for Healthy Eating13 Case Studies of a Transformative Food Movement14 Towards a Sustainable and Ethical Health-Based Dietary RegimeNotes, Index

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Book SynopsisA searing look at the socioeconomic, technological, and political forces that have transformed our food into edible commodities.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Food Environments from Palaeolithic Times1 Between Producers and Eaters: A Dietary Regime Approach2 Discordant Diets, Unhealthy People3 From Neolithic to Capitalist DietsPart 2: The Beginnings of the Industrial Diet, 1870-19494 From Patent Flour to Wheaties5 Pushing Product for Profit: Early BrandingPart 3: The Intensification of the Industrial Diet, 1940-806 Speeding Up the Making of Food7 The Simplification of Whole Food8 Adulteration and the Rise of Pseudo Foods9 The Spatial Colonization of the Industrial Diet: The Supermarket10 Meals Away from Home: The Health Burden of Restaurant ChainsPart 4: Globalization and Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Era11 The Industrial Diet Goes Global12 Transformative Food Movements and the Struggle for Healthy Eating13 Case Studies of a Transformative Food Movement14 Towards a Sustainable and Ethical Health-Based Dietary RegimeNotes, Index

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Book SynopsisThe Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Jiayan Zhang consults early records of catastrophic water events and explores their role in shaping Jianghan society in the Qing and Republican periods. In a constantly shifting environment, the peasants of Jianghan were forced to adapt their farming methods; cooperate on complex projects like dike building; and even organize social structures, tenancy arrangements, and lifestyles around the pressure and uncertainty of their environment. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Changes in the Environment of the Jianghan Plain2 Water Calamities and the Management of the Dike Systems3 The Dike Systems and the Jianghan Economy4 Agriculture, Commercialization, and Environmental Adaptability5 Tenancy and Environment6 Fisheries and the Peasant Economy7 A Water-Rich Society: Socio-Economic Life in a Marshy KingdomConclusionAppendix: The Yield of Rice in the Jianghan Plain in the Qing and the RepublicGlossary; Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThrough selected case studies, this volume explores the complex interplay between the public interest and private property rights in Canadian urban-planning policy.Trade ReviewThis collection accomplishes its goal, filling the gap in Canadian academic literature in the context of balancing private property rights and the public interest in urban planning … the problems identified in [Public Interest, Private Property] could have continuing relevance for future urban planning and legislation across Canada. -- Matthew Barnes * Saskatchewan Law Review *While these topics may seem familiar, the common thread – thinking deeply about private property rights – sets this collection apart and makes it an engaging read. The introduction alone would be worthwhile reading for any property law or planning law curriculum ... One of the reasons the book works so well is that at the heart of the collection is a shared belief among the writers in the value of dialogue as well as a desire to avoid artificially amplifying the public-private rights divide that can stunt public conversation of property rights. -- Michael Connell, WeirFoulds LLP * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Marcia Valiante and Anneke SmitPart 1: Contextualizing Canadian Private Property and Public Planning1 Private Property in Historical and Global Contexts and Its Lessons for Planning / Harvey M. Jacobs2 Bumble Bees Cannot Fly, and Restrictive Covenants Cannot Run / Bruce ZiffPart 2: Public Interest, Participation, and Planning Law3 The Disappearance of Planning Law in Ontario / Stanley M. Makuch4 In Search of the “Public Interest” in Ontario Planning Decisions / Marcia ValiantePart 3: Recent Shifts in Canadian Urban Planning and Private Property5 Transforming Toronto: Implementation and Impacts of Metropolitan-Scale Plans / Pierre Filion and Anna Kramer6 Green Development: New Entanglements of Property, Planning, and the Public Interest / Deborah CurranPart 4: Private Property, Natural Resources, and Planning7 Private Tree Protection Bylaws: In the Public Interest? / Eran S. Kaplinsky8 Planning for Potable Water: Public Interest and Property Rights / Jane Matthews GlennPart 5: Issues in Canadian Expropriation Law and Practice9 Expropriation: The Raw Edge of the Conflict between Public and Private Interests / Stephen F. Waqué and Ian Mathany10 Making Up for the Loss of “Home”: Compensation in Residential Property Expropriation / Anneke SmitIndex

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Book SynopsisThis extensively revised edition of Geography of British Columbia teaches students how to think like geographers as it takes them on a journey from the origins of the region’s diverse and unique landscapes to its more recent history as a province being reshaped by the forces of globalization.Trade ReviewGeography of British Columbia remains an excellent overview of BC geography. -- Ken Favrholdt * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Geographical Foundations1 British Columbia, a Region of Regions2 Physical Processes and Human Implications3 Geophysical Hazards and Their Risks4 Resource Development and ManagementPart 2: The Economic Geography of British Columbia5 “Discovering” Indigenous Lands and Shaping a Colonial Landscape6 Boom and Bust from Confederation to the Early 1900s7 Resource Dependency and Racism in an Era of Global Chaos8 Changing Values during the Postwar Boom9 Resource Uncertainty in the Late Twentieth Century10 The Twenty-First-Century Liberal LandscapeConclusionGlossary; Further Readings; Index

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Book SynopsisMuskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers' ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.Trade Review"… Making Muskoka is pertinent reading for those studying the impacts of tourism on landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them." -- Matthew Hatvany, Laval University * Canadian Geographies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Rural Identity and Resettlement of the Canadian Shield, 1860–802 Indigenous Identity, Settler Colonialism, and Tourism, 1850–19203 Rural Identity and Tourism, 1870–19004 The Promise of Wood-Resource Harvesting, 1870–19205 Fossil Fuels, Consumer Culture, and the Tourism Economy, 1900–20ConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisMaking Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.Trade Review"… Making Muskoka is pertinent reading for those studying the impacts of tourism on landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them." -- Matthew Hatvany, Laval University * Canadian Geographies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Rural Identity and Resettlement of the Canadian Shield, 1860–802 Indigenous Identity, Settler Colonialism, and Tourism, 1850–19203 Rural Identity and Tourism, 1870–19004 The Promise of Wood-Resource Harvesting, 1870–19205 Fossil Fuels, Consumer Culture, and the Tourism Economy, 1900–20ConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisIn an era of frantic vertical urbanization known as “condoism,” Condoland explores the planning and design of Toronto’s CityPlace, one of North America’s largest residential development projects – and reveals what can happen when the real estate industry comes to dominate city planning.Trade Review"Condoland is a clear, comprehensive case study of the planning, design governance, and real estate processes that shaped Toronto’s "Vancouverization" (vertical urbanization)." -- M. C. Childs. University of New Mexico * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Planning, Urban Design, and Condominiums in Toronto1 Planning and the Tools of Design Governance2 The Central Area Plan and Reformist Planning and Urban Design3 Urban Intensification, Flexible Planning, and Vertical Urbanization4 "Condo-ism" and the Impacts of Vertical UrbanizationPart 2: Designing and Developing the CityPlace Megaproject5 Visions for Toronto’s Railway Lands6 "Vancouverism" in Toronto7 The Condominium Megastructure8 CityPlace and the Affordable Housing Conundrum9 A Tale of Two Halves on the Wittington Blocks10 Completing CityPlaceConclusionAppendix: Railway Lands/CityPlace Planning, Design, and Development TimelineNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technology—and how and when geography still matters, tracing the networks, command structures, and training programs of Southeast Asian terrorist, insurgent, and criminal groups.Trade Review"No Man's Land is a useful and original contribution to the literature on terrorism from the perspective of political geography. It provides a different perspective from mainstream terrorism and strategic studies and gives a useful counter to the sometimes bloated claims of the advocates of globalization. Just as realists in International Relations argue that globalization has not meant the end of the state, Justin V. Hastings makes a compelling argument that territory matters and that it is not passé, despite the emergence of the global interlinked economy." -- Andrew T. H. Tan, Convenor for International Studies, University of New South Wales"Engaging and accessible, No Man's Land is a fascinating book on extremely timely and important topics—terrorism, insurgency, and cross-border crime." -- Peter Andreas, Brown University, author of Blue Helmets and Black MarketsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Grappling with Territory in a Globalizing World1. Territory and the Ideas of Clandestine Transnational Organization2. Territory, Politics, and the Technologies of GlobalizationPart II: Territory and Transnational Terrorism3. The Rise of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1985–1994. The Decline of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1999–20095. The Plots of Jemaah IslamiyahPart III: Extensions: Southeast Asia and Beyond6. Gerakan Aceh Merdeka7. Transnational Criminal Organizations in Southeast Asia8. Fluidity and Rigidity in Clandestine Transnational OrganizationsConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in...Trade Review"Drawing from geography, urban studies, and political science, The Neoliberal City is a good introduction to many debates in those disciplines and to some important arguments about the neoliberal city. Jason Hackworth's discussion of liberalism and neoliberalism is particularly valuable for its clarity and because it provides a punchy and well-argued account of the intellectual development of neoliberalism. By focusing on the roles of bond-rating agencies, real-estate agents, developers, and public housing authorities, Jason Hackworth successfully reveals the internal processes of neoliberalism in action." -- Joe Painter, University of Durham"In this fascinating book, Jason Hackworth explores the new geographies of inequality, exclusion and displacement that have been forged within U.S. cities during the last three decades of worldwide urban restructuring. Written in an accessible style and grounded upon an impressive assemblage of empirical evidence, The Neoliberal City will be an essential resource for anyone concerned to decipher the contemporary urban condition in the United States. The book provides, simultaneously, a serious engagement with key strands of contemporary critical urban theory, an illuminating exploration of several spheres of contemporary urban restructuring and a nuanced analysis of on-the-ground sociospatial changes and struggles in several major U.S. cities. The book will become an essential reference point in future debates on the nature of neoliberalized urbanization and in ongoing scholarly efforts to decipher the restlessly changing landscape of post-Keynesian urbanization both in the USA and beyond." -- Neil Brenner, New York University"Jason Hackworth grounds theories of neoliberalism in an astute analysis of urban governance, urban development, and social movements in cities. His empirical studies demonstrate that neoliberal processes are more contingent and more context-sensitive than abstract theorizations might suggest. The Neoliberal City makes a persuasive case that it is hard to understand contemporary cities without a more nuanced view of neoliberalism." -- Susan E. Clarke, University of Colorado at BoulderTable of Contents1. The Place, Time, and Process of Neoliberal UrbanismPart 1: Governing the Neoliberal City 2. Choosing the Neoliberal Path 3. The Glocalization of Governance 4. The Public-Private PartnershipPart 2: The Acceleration of Uneven Development 5. The Neoliberal Spatial Fix 6. The Reinvested Urban Core 7. Neoliberal Gentrification 8. Mega-Projects in the Urban Core: Bread or Circus?Part 3: Contesting the Neoliberal City 9. Social Struggle in a Neoliberal Policy Landscape 10. Alternative Futures at the End of HistoryReferences Index

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Book SynopsisRecent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast...Trade ReviewWhat unites these case studies is their view that commodification processes under the 'new' global order are increasingly complex and their critical stance toward the kinds of sociopolitical transformations that are wrought by a neoliberal market economy. The intractability of 'neoliberalist tendencies' is explained by, inter alia, the neoliberal market economy's ability to localize and contain fallouts; its effectiveness in limiting transnational resistance to its spread; and the particular historical, political contingencies in specific places that sustain such tendencies. Its resilience is also partly explained by its constant morphing into more (outwardly) benign forms. This edited volume is thus an important and much appreciated addition that deepens our understanding of pertinent social, economic, and political processes in Southeast Asia. It is especially significant and timely in illuminating how neoliberalizing processes make new commodities and remake old ones. * Economic Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoPart I. New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital1. Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests by Anna Tsing2. What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia’s Timber Industry by Paul K. Gellert3. Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers’ Resistance by Angie Ng?c Tr?n4. Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia by Daromir RudnyckyjPart II. New Enclosures and Territorializations5. China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure by Keith Barney6. Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong River by David Biggs 7. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park by Tania Murray Li8 Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma by Ken MacLeanPart III. New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors9. Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesia by Dorian Fougères10. Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung by Lesley Potter11. The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia by Sandra Smeltzer12. New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand by Peter VandergeestConcluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoNotes References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSo, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to...Trade ReviewIn researching her book, the author lived and worked for nearly two years in Viroqua, a small town in southwestern Wisconsin, where she tended bar at the American Legion and even served as vice president of the historical society's museum. This kind of work stands or falls by the vigilance and precision of the ethnographer's observations. Macgregor acquits herself brilliantly; she draws subtle distinctions within and between social groups, yet her analysis lets readers generalize about what some idealize and others castigate as small-town American values. For all their differences, the longtime residents (who might drive ATVs and snowmobiles) and the progressives (who favor Subaru Outbacks, the local Waldorf school, and organic produce) share a belief that raising children in Viroqua helps protect them from the 'excesses of consumerism.' Indeed, readers from non-flyover places will be struck by the subdued and skeptical consumerism and the commitment to thrift that Macgregor finds among Viroquans. Here's an unintentional paean to midwestern modesty that's especially noteworthy in our post-crash era. -- Benjamin Schwarz * The Atlantic Monthly *MacGregor's work is a powerful reminder to rethink our assumptions about how community transpires in small towns... MacGregor’s ethnographic approach is a reminder about the value of letting people speak and act for themselves. Habits of the Heartland is an important contribution for scholarsstudentsand planners interested in community and/or rural and small town life in the twenty-first century. -- Amanda Johnson Ashley * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Cultures of Community1. Three Halloweens, Three Viroquas 2. The Alternatives: A Kinder, Gentler Counterculture 3. The Main Streeters: The Busiest People in Town 4. The Regulars: Keeping Things Simple 5. Playing in the Same Sandbox?Part II: Commerce, Consumption, and Community in Viroqua6. Beneficent Enterprise and Viroquan Exceptionalism 7. Retail Morality 8. Consumption and Belonging in ViroquaEpilogue and ConclusionAppendix: Study Methods References Index

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Book SynopsisThe increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies of globalization, and difficult terrain poses many of the same problems today as it has throughout human history. In No Man''s Land, Justin V. Hastings examines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technologyand how and when geography still matters.Based on often difficult fieldwork in Southeast Asia, Hastings traces the logistics networks, command and control structures, and training programs of three distinct clandestine organizations: the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, the insurgent Free Aceh Movement, and organized criminals in the form of smugglers and maritime pirates. Hastings also compares the experiences of these groups to others outside SoTrade Review"No Man's Land is a useful and original contribution to the literature on terrorism from the perspective of political geography. It provides a different perspective from mainstream terrorism and strategic studies and gives a useful counter to the sometimes bloated claims of the advocates of globalization. Just as realists in International Relations argue that globalization has not meant the end of the state, Justin V. Hastings makes a compelling argument that territory matters and that it is not passé, despite the emergence of the global interlinked economy." -- Andrew T. H. Tan, Convenor for International Studies, University of New South Wales"Engaging and accessible, No Man's Land is a fascinating book on extremely timely and important topics—terrorism, insurgency, and cross-border crime." -- Peter Andreas, Brown University, author of Blue Helmets and Black MarketsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Grappling with Territory in a Globalizing World1. Territory and the Ideas of Clandestine Transnational Organization2. Territory, Politics, and the Technologies of GlobalizationPart II: Territory and Transnational Terrorism3. The Rise of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1985–1994. The Decline of Jemaah Islamiyah, 1999–20095. The Plots of Jemaah IslamiyahPart III: Extensions: Southeast Asia and Beyond6. Gerakan Aceh Merdeka7. Transnational Criminal Organizations in Southeast Asia8. Fluidity and Rigidity in Clandestine Transnational OrganizationsConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities. This book provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global. Cities are approached not as containers but as fluid and historically differentiated analytical entry points. Chapters explore migrants'' relationship to the neoliberal rebranding, redevelopment, and rescaTrade ReviewLocating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrantsis an attempt to examine migrants as integral to cities through analyses of scale, space, and temporal phenomena in different places. The editors want tosteer the study of migrants away froma narrow focus that has isolated ethnic communities and theorize the important role that migrants have had in shaping and being shaped by cities and the scale issues related to cities.. This book would be useful for anyone teaching courses in international planning, immigration, and planning, and planning history and theory. -- Elizabeth L. Sweet * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities by Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick SchillerPart I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications by Neil Brenner3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets by Michael Samers4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse CaglarPart II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban Neighborhoods, Cities, and Their Regions5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Place by Caroline B. Brettell6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces by Rijk van Dijk7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor by Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities by Judith Goode9. Rescaling Processes in Two "Global" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation by Monika Salzbrunn10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporation by Bela Feldman-Bianco12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality by Gunther SchleeBibliography Biographical Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the century as the Inland Empire included portions of the states of Washington and Idaho, as well as British Columbia. Katherine G. Morrissey traces the...Trade ReviewA thought-provoking work... The book's rich sources, entertaining case studies and eccentric characters make a lively and readable work. * Australasian Journal of American Studies *Mental Territories is an intellectual history.... This book is beautifully written.... The best history combines thoughtful analysis, fine writing, and good storytelling—and Morrissey excels at all three. * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *An example of fine interdisciplinary scholarship that draws on a wealth of theoretical support and on an impressive array of primary sources, Mental Territories may be considered a model of a new approach to regional history and geography... It is a book that I will recommend to colleagues and students looking for deeper ways of understanding America's regional diversity. * Journal of American History *Mental Territories offers a fresh focus on a part of the country that has long been outside the American mainstream. * Reviews in American History *A model case study of the nature of boosterism that was central to the aspirations of many of the West's would-be metropolitan centers. Morrissey's liberal use of a fascinating series of promotional maps and illustrations amply documents that municipal passion.... Mental Territories is a valuable study, and not just for a single community and subregion. It takes an in-depth look at the intellectual process itself and thus offers students of the West a good example of the analytical tools that can be used to examine municipal boosterism and the perceptual construction of region. * Western Historical Quarterly *Morrissey's book is a synthesis drawn from an extensive geographic literature that ranges from mental mapping and perceptual geographies to exhaustive regional studies.... Good bibliography of primary and secondary sources. * Choice *

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