Human geography Books
Duke University Press The Borders of Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrants exercising their right to the freedom of movement, leads states to create new technologies of regulating human movement, and prompts the questioning of the very idea of Europe.Trade Review"While enriching insights into current European border studies, these perspectives prompt theoretical insights into migration, refugees, and borders on a global scale. . . . Recommended." -- B. Osborne * Choice *“To immerse yourself in [The Borders of “Europe”] is to give timely reflection during a tumultuous time in migration studies, and reminds us that we can yet change course.” -- Paul Clewett * LSE Review of Books *“A great methodological contribution that challenges and changes the ways in which Europe, migration and borders are thought about and analyzed. . . . What is most remarkable is that the contributors to the volume did an amazing job in firmly grounding their sophisticated theoretical analysis in rigorous fieldwork.” -- Özden Ocak * Europe Now Journal *"This collection of original research provides a rich and valuable addition to the literature on migration and borders in contemporary Europe. The Borders of 'Europe' will be of interest to scholars and students working on migration issues in Europe and beyond." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Insightful. . . . Nicholas De Genova’s edited collection is an impeccable addition to migration literature in a transdisciplinary and critical way." -- Ali Bilgic * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *"The Borders of 'Europe' provides insight into a wide variety of border-related issues, ranging from Schengen visa applicants’ strategies to agricultural workers’ collective struggles, and informs us of a significant breadth of recent ethnographic research on migration." -- Ipek A. Celik Rappas * German Studies Review *"The Borders of 'Europe' is an indispensable read for fellow scholars interested in migration. The attention that the authors give to historical processes leading up to the current situation is particularly appreciated. . . . The book invites us to further reflect on the subtleties and difficulties of a European identity in these tumultuous political times, and to think about future implications of the continuing fortification of Europe. It is eminently useful for all who are interested in issues of migration, bordering and humanitarianism." -- Sabine De Graaf * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Borders of "Europe" and the European Question / Nicholas De Genova 1 1. "The Secret Is to Look Good on Paper": Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization / Stephan Scheel 37 2. Rescued and Caught: On the Humanitarian-Security Nexus at Europe's Frontiers / Ruben Andersson 64 3. Liquid Traces: Investigating Deaths of Migrants at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 95 4. The Mediterranean Question: Europe and Its Predicament in the Southern Perpheries / Laia Soto Bermant 120 5. Europe Confronted by Its Expelled Migrants: The Politics of Expelled Migrants' Associations in Africa / Clara Lecadet 141 6. Choucha beyond the Camp: Challenging the Border of Migration Studies / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 165 7. "Europe" from "Here": Syrian Migrants/Refugees in Istanbul and Imagined Migrations into and within "Europe" / Souad Osseiran 185 8. Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance: Border Entanglements in Greek EU-rope / Maurice Stierl 210 9. Dubliners: Unthinking Displacement, Illegality and Refugeeness within Europe's Geographies of Asylum / Fiorenza Picozza 233 10. The "Gran Ghettò: Migrant Labor and Militant Research in Southern Italy / Evelina Gambino 255 11. "We Want to Hear from You": Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe / Dace Dzenovska 283 References 299 Contributors 341 Index 345
£112.20
Duke University Press Diplomatic Material Affect Assemblage and
Book SynopsisApplying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the field of political geography.... Dittmer... provides a refreshing take on foreign policy by tracing the material circulations that continually influence how political elites understand the international community." -- Ed Bryan * Geopolitics *“The world is a much more complicated place than simple assumptions of international relations between autonomous territorial states often suggest; our task as scholars is to explicate the complexities, and Jason Dittmer has done us all a favour here by offering an exemplary text that shows us both how to do it and why it matters.” -- Simon Dalby * Social & Cultural Geography *"Dittmer’s achievement in the book (and perhaps that for which he should be most lauded) is that of dragging insights from the deepest, darkest depths of theoryland into the light of the everyday." -- Stephen Legg * Antipode *"Diplomatic Material is an innovative study that substantially broadens how we think about the makings of foreign policy." -- John A. Gentry * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Geopolitical Assemblages and Everyday Diplomacy 1 1. Materializing Diplomacy in the Nineteenth-Century Foreign Office 25 2. UKUSA Signals Intelligence Cooperation 49 3. Interoperability and Standardization in NATO 73 4. Assembling a Common Foreign and Security Policy 99 Conclusion 123 Notes 141 Bibliography 161 Index 171
£22.79
Duke University Press The Borders of Europe Autonomy of Migration
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrants exercising their right to the freedom of movement, leads states to create new technologies of regulating human movement, and prompts the questioning of the very idea of Europe.Trade Review"While enriching insights into current European border studies, these perspectives prompt theoretical insights into migration, refugees, and borders on a global scale. . . . Recommended." -- B. Osborne * Choice *“To immerse yourself in [The Borders of “Europe”] is to give timely reflection during a tumultuous time in migration studies, and reminds us that we can yet change course.” -- Paul Clewett * LSE Review of Books *“A great methodological contribution that challenges and changes the ways in which Europe, migration and borders are thought about and analyzed. . . . What is most remarkable is that the contributors to the volume did an amazing job in firmly grounding their sophisticated theoretical analysis in rigorous fieldwork.” -- Özden Ocak * Europe Now Journal *"This collection of original research provides a rich and valuable addition to the literature on migration and borders in contemporary Europe. The Borders of 'Europe' will be of interest to scholars and students working on migration issues in Europe and beyond." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Insightful. . . . Nicholas De Genova’s edited collection is an impeccable addition to migration literature in a transdisciplinary and critical way." -- Ali Bilgic * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *"The Borders of 'Europe' provides insight into a wide variety of border-related issues, ranging from Schengen visa applicants’ strategies to agricultural workers’ collective struggles, and informs us of a significant breadth of recent ethnographic research on migration." -- Ipek A. Celik Rappas * German Studies Review *"The Borders of 'Europe' is an indispensable read for fellow scholars interested in migration. The attention that the authors give to historical processes leading up to the current situation is particularly appreciated. . . . The book invites us to further reflect on the subtleties and difficulties of a European identity in these tumultuous political times, and to think about future implications of the continuing fortification of Europe. It is eminently useful for all who are interested in issues of migration, bordering and humanitarianism." -- Sabine De Graaf * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Borders of "Europe" and the European Question / Nicholas De Genova 1 1. "The Secret Is to Look Good on Paper": Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization / Stephan Scheel 37 2. Rescued and Caught: On the Humanitarian-Security Nexus at Europe's Frontiers / Ruben Andersson 64 3. Liquid Traces: Investigating Deaths of Migrants at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 95 4. The Mediterranean Question: Europe and Its Predicament in the Southern Perpheries / Laia Soto Bermant 120 5. Europe Confronted by Its Expelled Migrants: The Politics of Expelled Migrants' Associations in Africa / Clara Lecadet 141 6. Choucha beyond the Camp: Challenging the Border of Migration Studies / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 165 7. "Europe" from "Here": Syrian Migrants/Refugees in Istanbul and Imagined Migrations into and within "Europe" / Souad Osseiran 185 8. Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance: Border Entanglements in Greek EU-rope / Maurice Stierl 210 9. Dubliners: Unthinking Displacement, Illegality and Refugeeness within Europe's Geographies of Asylum / Fiorenza Picozza 233 10. The "Gran Ghettò: Migrant Labor and Militant Research in Southern Italy / Evelina Gambino 255 11. "We Want to Hear from You": Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe / Dace Dzenovska 283 References 299 Contributors 341 Index 345
£27.90
Duke University Press Designs for the Pluriverse
Book SynopsisArturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls “autonomous design”—a design practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.Trade Review"Escobar’s literature review and theoretical discussion stand out. Some of the ground he covers includes critical design studies, ethnographic approaches to design, participatory design, and decolonized design. Anthropology has a lot to offer design, Escobar argues, because we study the interplay of materiality, meaning, and practice. . . . Escobar’s discussion is built on a foundation of work emanating from a panopoly of Latin American scholars, all of whom appear to be fascinating in their own rights. . . . Through Escobar I felt like I was glimpsing the depth and breadth of that body of literature for the first time." -- Matt Thompson * Anthrodendum *"Designs for the Pluriverse is a heavy-hitting theoretical framework with potential to inform the practice of the design scholar or professional in any field, from planning or architecture to product design, engineering, and beyond. The work makes sense of generations of decolonial scholarship, pushing the reader towards understanding their design work as more relational, long-term-oriented, and transformative than previously assumed." -- Darien Williams * Carolina Planning Journal *“I can emphatically state that Designs for the Pluriverse is a superb and welcome addition both to the expanding literature on design in anthropology, and to design theory more broadly. . . . Indeed, there are so many ways to read this book that almost anyone who picks it up will find something to think with.” -- Keith M. Murphy * Anthropological Quarterly *“Designs for the Pluriverse is an excellent text for design studies scholars who are interested in exploring methodologies and theories of collective existence and creation, intertwining a series of case studies that support autonomous design with the theories to challenge modernist anthropocentrism. Together, they provide a strong foundation for readers to continue pursuing how to decolonize the world by redesigning the human being and designing the pluriverse, a world in which many worlds fit.” -- Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera * Design and Culture *“Escobar’s book brings together a wealth of relevant perspectives, initiatives, and references and is essential reading for all those interested in design and its potential for transition movements and the struggle of marginalized communities.” -- Ton Otto * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Design for the Real World: But Which "World"? What "Design"? What "Real"? 1. Out of the Studio and into the Flow of Socionatural Life 25 2. Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design 49 II. The Ontological Reorientation of Design 3. In the Background of Our Culture: Rationalism, Ontological Dualism, and Relationality 79 4. An Outline of Ontological Design 105 III. Designs for the Pluriverse 5. Design for Transitions 137 6. Autonomous Design and the Politics of Relationality and the Communal 165 Conclusion 202 Notes 229 References 259 Index 281
£75.65
University of Pittsburgh Press Rivers in History
Book SynopsisPresents a comparative history of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. This book examines the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers. It also analyzes the regional, national, and international politicization of rivers.
£37.95
University of Pittsburgh Press River City and Valley Life
Book SynopsisOften referred to as “the Big Tomato”, Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history.
£49.56
Fordham University Press Atopias
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Everything is in flux, as we are told over and over again. And yet, these are fluxes in which nothing ever really changes... Other thinkers have characterized globalized and financialized capitalism in this way; Neyrat sees it as a dilemma for critical thought as well... In a world where anything can be anyplace, and anything can switch places with anything else, philosophy must insist on its power to be, not everyplace, but noplace. It must never fit in, but always disturb its context, ... maintaining a relation with the very Outside that our dominant social, economic, and intellectual conditions seek to deny or suppress... Above all, Atopias is a work of ethics, exhorting us to recognize and find room for the many forms of existence with whom we share our planet." -- -from Steven Shaviro's ForewordTable of ContentsCritique of pure madness Book I: Toposophy 1.1 The undamaged and the contagious 1.2 Saturated immanence and transcendence x 1.3 Socratic divergence Book II: Theory of the trans-ject 2.1 Being-outside 2.2 Coalitions 2.3 Ab-solved freedom 2.4 Language and dis-joining 2.5 On the subject of animals Book III: The metaphysical proposition 3.1 The transgression of the principle of the excluded middle 3.2 The leap and the loop 3.3 The unlocatable 3.4 The madwoman of the out-of-place 3.5 Science(s), art, politics What cries out
£73.80
Fordham University Press The Disposition of Nature Environmental Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading for the Planet | 1 Part I: Citizens and Consumers 1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism | 49 2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story of the Niger Delta | 81 Part II: Resource Logics and Risk Logics 3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime | 141 4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient Forums and Corporate Comparison | 195 Epilogue: Fixing the World | 259 Acknowledgments | 265 Notes | 267 Bibliography | 303 Index | 327
£25.19
Fordham University Press The Disposition of Nature
Book SynopsisThis book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading for the Planet | 1 Part I: Citizens and Consumers 1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism | 49 2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story of the Niger Delta | 81 Part II: Resource Logics and Risk Logics 3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime | 141 4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient Forums and Corporate Comparison | 195 Epilogue: Fixing the World | 259 Acknowledgments | 265 Notes | 267 Bibliography | 303 Index | 327
£89.10
Fordham University Press On the Horizon of World Literature
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature | 1 1. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice: Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun | 23 2. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader: Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu’s Yinbian Yanyu | 50 3. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay: Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren’s Approaches to the Ordinary | 73 4. Between the Theater and the Novel: Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North | 92 Coda | 137 Acknowledgments | 141 Notes | 145 Index | 161
£24.69
University of Hawai'i Press Ryokan
Book SynopsisThe two dozen traditional inns, or ryokan, of the hot springs village resort of Kurokawa Onsen, draw nearly a million tourists a year Chris McMorran presents the realities of ryokan work - celebrated, messy, ignored, exploitative, and liberating - and introduces the people who keep the inns running by making guests feel at home.
£48.00
CABI Publishing Tourism in Western Europe
Book SynopsisThe last twenty years has seen a proliferation of the term "tourist destination". Improbable places, such as industrial cities and isolated rural environments have become legitimate places to visit. At the same time, traditional tourist destinations such as coastal resorts have declined in popularity. There is a shift from "old" to "new" tourism. These case histories examine these issues.The book is divided into three sections, dealing with political, economic and sociocultural reasons for change.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Tourism in Western Europe: a context of change, R Voase Part 1: The political context 3: The political context as dominant, R Voase 4: Selling the difference: tourism marketing in Devon and Cornwall, south-west England, K Meethan, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom 5: Leisure and tourism as political instruments: the case of Britain in the 1980s, 6: N Morpeth, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 7: The influence of political, economic and social change in a mature tourist destination: the case of the Isle of Thanet, south-east England, R Voase 8: Re-planning for tourism in a mature destination: a note on Mallorca, M A Robledo and J Batle, University of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca), Spain Part 2: The economic context 9: The economic context as dominant, R Voase 10: Tir Cymen and Tir Gofal: agri-environmental schemes and recreational access in rural Wales, A Lewis, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 11: Developing an historic tourist product: the case of Loviisa, Finland, K Lindroth and T Soisalon-Soininen, Helsinki Business Polytechnic, Porvoo, Finland 12: The Älvdalen story: marketing an inland destination in rural Sweden, S Böhn and J Elbe, Darlana University,Sweden Part 3: The sociocultural context 13: The sociocultural context as dominant, R Voase 14: From sport to spectacle: the emergence of football as a destination product attribute, M Finn, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 15: Literature, tourism and the politics of nature: the making of a 'Grand Site National' at La Pointe du Raz, Brittany, France, N Baron-Yelles, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France 16: Maturing markets for cultural tourism: Germany and the demand for the 'cultural' destination, M Lohmann,Institut für Tourismus und Bäderforschung in Nordeuropa (NIT), Germany and J W Mundt, University for Co-operative Education, Germany 17: Living in paradise: youth culture an tourism development in the mountains of Austria, K Luger, Universität Salzburg, Austria and P East, Fachhochschule München (Munich University of Applied Sciences), Germany
£81.45
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Global Infrastructure Networks The Transnational
Book SynopsisTaking a realist approach, this insightful book looks at the forces shaping the evolution of global infrastructure networks. Examined through the lens of economic infrastructure (including transport, energy and information) this book addresses the forces of integration and fragmentation in the development of global networks.Trade Review'Globalisation depends on the physical and digital connectivity that infrastructure systems provide, and it is powered by global energy networks. Yet globalisation is also transforming the nature of infrastructure, for example, establishing it as a financial asset class and reviving its colonial role as an instrument of power. Turner and Johnson look through the lens of political economy to untangle the complex processes of infrastructure development that are shaping societies, economies and landscapes worldwide.' --Jim Hall, University of Oxford, UK'This book can be considered as ''the next level'' in the analysis of global infrastructure networks. The term 'infrastructure' is used here to mean a wide range of technical, economic and political arrangements, including daily commuting systems, container shipping networks, airline networks, and energy networks. Collectively these infrastructures support the flows of people, ideas, knowledge, capital, goods, etc. that facilitate the (re)production of cities as strategic places in the economy. The guiding principle in this book is that (global) cities are not only prominently connected in infrastructure networks, but above all combine the advantages of assuming central positions in these networks to support the global work that is routinely done within and between these cities. A stimulating read for all interested in how global infrastructure networks perform such functions as control, integration, security, and growth.' --Frank Witlox, Ghent University, Belgium'By combining International Political Economy theory and new data, Turner and Johnson provide fresh insight into the evolution and recent trends in infrastructure development which will be of interest to specialists as well as social scientists in general.' --Judith Clifton, University of Cantabria, SpainTable of ContentsContents: 1. Infrastructure and Territoriality 2. The nature of the Global Infrastructure System 3. The Global Transport Infrastructure System 4. The Global Information Infrastructure System 5. The Global Energy System 6. Reflections on the Global Infrastructure System Index
£98.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Geographies of the SuperRich
Book SynopsisThis timely and path-breaking book brings together a group of distinguished and emerging international scholars to critically consider the geographical implications of the worldâs super-rich, a privileged yet remarkably overlooked group.Trade Review‘The twelve chapters chart the global geography of the super-rich and provide an effective sociocultural framework for understanding and analyzing the practical economics of wealth at work, home, and play. In doing so, the authors articulate a new geography of abundance (p. 7) and globalization that heretofore has remained hidden behind the gates of country clubs, secure doors of skyboxes, and the confines of elite auction houses. . . In sum, the collection is solid and well thought out. Indeed, Hay has marshaled a collection that succinctly demonstrates the ways in which the culture, economics, and politics of the super-rich drive globalization.’ -- Jay D. Gatrell, Journal of Regional Science‘Globalization, it seems, has propelled the world’s uber-wealthy to new heights of power and money, with tremendous repercussions for the other 99.9 percent of us. At a time when neoliberalism has propelled the world into a new Gilded Age, with rising inequality everywhere, an aggressive class war being waged by the wealthy, and billionaires inserting themselves bluntly into the politicalf arena, understanding the behavior and spatiality of the super-rich has acquired a pressing urgency. This volume offers a richly textured suite of essays concerning how the super-rich have restructured local places, transforming landscapes as varied as London and Kentucky, Ireland and St. Barts, as well as domains as varied as art, thoroughbred horses, and housing.’ -- Barney Warf, University of Kansas, US‘The world’s super-rich, made up of just 11 million people, have access to about US$42.0 trillion of wealth. These are people who each have a spare million of “liquid” wealth. Their wealth is roughly equal to two thirds of global GDP. They own most of everything. As the editor of this books states “. . . library shelves and the pages of journals remain largely devoid of geographical work on the super-rich – a startling lacuna this volume sets out to fill”. The super-rich now own most of the planet. During the last year their share fell slightly. Times may be changing. Now is the time to begin to study the super–rich in detail, especially if you are worried about where all the wealth has gone.’ -- Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: From Kosrae to Kensington: Uncovering Cartographies of Abundance Iain Hay 1. Establishing Geographies of the Super-Rich: Axes for Analysis of Abundance Iain Hay 2. Economic Wealth and Political Power in the Second Gilded Age John Rennie Short 3. Overseeing the Fortunes of the Global Super-Rich: The Nature of Private Wealth Management in London’s Financial District Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Sarah J.E. Hall and Thomas Wainwright 4. ‘The World Needs a Second Switzerland’: Onshoring Singapore as the Liveable City for the Super-Rich Choon-Piew Pow 5. ‘Super-Rich’ Irish Property Developers and the Celtic Tiger Economy Laurence Murphy and Pauline McGuirk 6. The Homes of the Super-Rich: Multiple Residences, Hyper-mobility and Decoupling of Prime Residential Housing in Global Cities Chris Paris 7. A Study of the Dominance of the Super-Wealthy in London’s West End During the Nineteenth Century Kathryn Wilkins 8. The Elite Countryside: Shifting Rural Geographies of the Transnational Super-Rich Michael Woods 9. The Super-Rich, Horses and the Transformation of a Rural Landscape in Kentucky Susan M. Roberts and Richard H. Schein 10. The Sport of Kings, Queens, Sheiks and the Super-Rich: Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing as Leisure for the Super-Rich Phil McManus 11. Making Art History – Wealthy Private Collectors and Contemporary Visual Art Melanie Fasche 12. Islanders, Immigrants and Millionaires: The Dynamics of Upper-Class Segregration in St. Barts, French West Indies Bruno Cousin and Sébastien Chauvin Index
£95.00
West Virginia University Press Presidential Musings from the Meridian
£999.99
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Teaching Tourism
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘The crises threatening tourism’s future are causing reflective teachers to re-examine what they are teaching and why. This book synthesizes the knowledge and passion of 45 such educators from diverse origins and disciplines. It is truly a lighthouse in the storm. It sheds light by providing a strong philosophical framework for new approaches to developing tourism curricula focused on values and transformation. In addition to its strong axiological foundations, it contains a wealth of innovative activities and student engagement exercises to ensure its pedagogical relevance. Building on the work of Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI), this book is an inspiration and a much-needed bridge to a new and transformed tourism world. I recommend it as required reading for all tourism educators!’ -- Pauline Sheldon, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii, US‘Readers who regard education and learning as a transformative force will embrace this book. The editors and contributors are leading thinkers and educators, including early career and established academics. They have collaborated on chapters about a variety of topics, employing diverse pedagogical approaches to addressing the range of environmental, political and sociocultural issues that students will encounter as future leaders and members of society. Considering the need for inclusive, mindful approaches to reducing humanities’ environmental impacts, this collection is informed by principles that enable localised, values-based perspectives. Conversation starters and activities complement each chapter’s discussion and the end result provides thought-provoking inspiration for those who wish to refresh and revitalise their teaching of tourism studies.’ -- Anna Carr, University of Otago/ Te Whare Wananga o Otago, New Zealand‘This is a challenging book. It challenges us to think about what, why and how we teach. It does this by a deep inspection of axiology to understand the value(s) of tourism education. It challenges us to be creative in facilitating learning. It does this through its provocative questions and innovative student activities. And it challenges us to have a transformative effect on our students. It does this by engaging students with the pressing issues of tourism. The authors are to be commended for their practical scholarship, their collaborative approach to writing and for bringing clarity to complex issues. Highly recommended.’ -- John Tribe, York St. John University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface xxi Johan Edelheim, Marion Joppe and Joan Flaherty 1 Tourism didactics 1 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar; Elin Bommenel; Richard Ek; Stuart Reid; Mette Simonsen Abildgaard; Karla A. Boluk; Joanne Paulette Gellatly; Jaume Guia; Emily Höckert; Tazim Jamal; Ece Kaya; Monika Lüthje; Miranda Peterson 2 Axiology, value and values 12 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Emily Höckert; Karla A. Boluk; Jaume Guia; Miranda Peterson 3 Political values 21 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Jaume Guia; Stefanie Benjamin; Maja Turnšek 4 Ecological values 31 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Karla A. Boluk; Alexandra Coghlan; Tazim Jamal; Xavier Michel; Miranda Peterson; Bradley Rink; Sarah Ripper; Sudipta Kiran Sarkar; Chiaki Shimoyasuba; Maja Turnšek 5 Social values 40 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Karla A. Boluk; Elin Bommenel; Helene Balslev Clausen; Richard Ek; Stephen Fairbrass; Maggie C. Miller; Nick Naumov, Brendan Paddison; Stuart Reid; Sudipta Kiran Sarkar; Chiaki Shimoyasuba 6 Cultural values 50 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Emily Höckert; Monika Lüthje; Mette Simonsen Abildgaard; Linda Armano; Jonathon Day; Sisko Häikiö; Maria Huhmarniemi; Outi Kugapi; Nick Naumov; Carina Ren; Minna Väyrynen 7 Economic values 59 Johan Edelheim; Marion Joppe; Joan Flaherty; Deborah Edwards; Joanne Paulette Gellatly; Ece Kaya; Xavier Michel; Nick Naumov; Kathleen Rodenburg 8 Ethics 71 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Xavier Michel; Kathleen Rodenburg 9 Stewardship 78 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Karla A. Boluk; Alexandra Coghlan; Brynhild Granås; Tazim Jamal; Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson; Miranda Peterson; Outi Rantala; Bradley Rink; Sarah Ripper; Kaarina Tervo-Kankare 10 Mutuality 87 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Mette Simonsen Abildgaard; Stefanie Benjamin; Blanca A. Camargo; Sisko Häikiö; Emily Höckert; Outi Kugapi; Tanja Lešnik Štuhec; Monika Lüthje; Carina Ren; Maja Turnšek; Minna Väyrynen 11 Knowledge 96 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar; Karla A. Boluk; Elin Bommenel; Helene Balslev Clausen; Richard Ek; Brynhild Granås; Maria Huhmarniemi; Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson; Outi Kugapi; Maggie C. Miller; Giang Phi; Outi Rantala; Stuart Reid; Bradley Rink; Kaarina Tervo-Kankare 12 Professionalism 107 Marion Joppe; Johan Edelheim; Joan Flaherty; Elin Bommenel; Blanca A. Camargo; Helene Balslev Clausen; Émilie Crossley; Richard Ek; Outi Kugapi; Maggie C. Miller; Stuart Reid; Kathleen Rodenburg; Maja Turnšek 13 Activities 115 Activity 1: Meta-pedagogical meliorism 1 – didactics 115 Activity 2: Yes-and: how to create a brave space by incorporating improvisational theatre games 118 Activity 3: Tourism to promote political responsibility 122 Activity 4: Unintended consequences of policy implementation 124 Activity 5: Reflecting on sustainable behaviour 126 Activity 6: Climate action for a climate-friendly educational destination 129 Activity 7: Mobilising learners’ tourist memories towards a deeper, more authentic understanding and practice of tourism 133 Activity 8: Experiential learning in nature-based recreational settings 136 Activity 9: Iomante rituals – ecological and economic values meet cultural values 138 Activity 10: Meta-pedagogical meliorism 2 – social values 140 Activity 11: The value of the unintended in tourism education – Nepal 142 Activity 12: The Tourism Game 1 144 Activity 13: Film and tourism – constructing social realities 147 Activity 14: Values-based learning and storytelling 150 Activity 15: Experiential learning in gastronomy tourism 153 Activity 16: Access rights to the Commons 155 Activity 17: Enhancing culturally sensitive tourism in an online learning environment 157 Activity 18: Deep Cultural Interpretation Model – a tool to understand the tourists’ culture 159 Activity 19: Cultural awareness 163 Activity 20: Co-designing creative tourism activities for preserving and promoting local cultural traditions 165 Activity 21: Tourism and intangible heritage 167 Activity 22: The unfolding of SARS-CoV-2 169 Activity 23: Tourism resiliency post COVID-19 171 Activity 24: Authentic assessment – activating purposeful learning for a diverse student cohort 175 Activity 25: Tourism and World Heritage Sites 1 179 Activity 26: Tourism and World Heritage Sites 2 181 Activity 27: The dilemma of protecting workers in the face of entrepreneurship 182 Activity 28: The power of values to effect positive change 1 186 Activity 29: Industry ethics 187 Activity 30: Solving ethical dilemmas in the tourism industry 189 Activity 31: Introducing critical topics to transform our practice 192 Activity 32: Using systems thinking and the UN’s SDG framework as an opportunity for fostering critical dialogue 194 Activity 33: Calculating a carbon footprint 197 Activity 34: The limits to biocapacity 198 Activity 35: Stewardship – an in-field dialogue model 200 Activity 36: Promoting mutuality through service-learning – La Santa Catarina restaurant 202 Activity 37: Video project “Enjoy Lapland Safely” 206 Activity 38: Cooperation between students and the tourism industry to solve project challenges in sustainable rural destinations 209 Activity 39: Combating negative prejudice against young people 212 Activity 40: Tourism teaching and learning using spiritual pedagogy 216 Activity 41: Fostering critical thinking utilising Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire 218 Activity 42: Meta-pedagogical meliorism 3 – knowledge 220 Activity 43: Field trip findings presented through a photo essay 224 Activity 44: Design-based learning and design thinking for innovation education 226 Activity 45: Seeing tourism landscapes – teaching tourism at the confluence of theory and practice 228 Activity 46: The value of the unintended in tourism education – Mexican case 233 Activity 47: Professional practice review of learning 235 Activity 48: The power of values to effect positive change 2 238 Activity 49: Solving wicked world problems 240 Activity 50: Value-reflexive engagement and dialogue 241 Activity 51: Emotional labour and the future of automation 244 Activity 52: The TEFI Values Survey 247 Activity 53: The Tourism Game 2 253 References 268 index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Space Place and Law
Book SynopsisThis innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, within which we are inter-dependent and reliant, and governed by laws in a dynamic process. It advances novel insights into the numerous intersections of space, place and law in our lives.Trade Review‘The editors make a distinct contribution to legal geography, shaping a diverse, expansive, and future-focused collection of essays which finely balance being critically attuned to unequal formations of law and power whilst offering optimistic approaches of how to do things with legal geography. The range of topics and breadth of imagination is undoubtedly impressive.’ -- Jessica Smith, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies'A must-have for readers paying attention to space, place and law. This edited book is a journey along a braided river, with 32 chapters on Indigenous issues, non-human others, cyberlaw, the sea, cities, energy, the underground and much more. Highly readable and packed with important insights, you will need to put this book down, but you will soon pick it up again.' -- Phil McManus, University of Sydney, Australia'The contributors, refreshingly, are diverse and differently situated. Intellectually, they also come from many worlds -- geography, law, planning, anthropology, and so on. Their work speaks to the crucial challenges, tied to systemic inequality, that we confront, while also reminding us of the diverse forms that legal geography takes. It insists that legal geography is needed now, more than ever.' -- from the Foreword by Nicholas Blomley'Legal geography has much promise in deepening our understanding of the linkages between societies, their governance, and the world we live in. The Handbook on Space, Place and Law offers not only a major consolidation of the field, but a significant extension. Bartel, Carter and colleagues scope widely across socio-legal contexts, policy sectors and environments, and offer deep insights of great value to geographers and lawyers alike, and indeed to anyone concerned with the conditions of people and their environments.' -- Stephen Dovers, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: What is legal geography? Why, and why now? xvii Nicholas Blomley Introduction to space, place and law xx Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter PART I WAY FINDING 1 How to make 1500 holes in the ground: accounting for law alongside other place-shaping factors in the making of an exceptional Cold War network 2 Luke Bennett 2 Legislative tenure and spatial economic analysis: an illustrative example of papaya production in Nadroga province, Fiji 14 Chethna Ben 3 In the eyes of the law: stalking and the legal (mis)construal of scopic relational spaces 26 David Delaney and Päivi Rannila 4 All the land was stolen: investigating the aporia of justice through countertopographies of Indigenous land rights and settler colonialism across the Americas 38 Joel E. Correia PART II JOURNEYING 5 Neighbourhoods for an ageing population in Singapore 50 Belinda Yuen 6 Sexual offences and to have done with the courtroom 61 Victoria Brooks 7 Performing law: space and the unfolding of gender and violence in India 72 Kalindi Kokal and Werner Menski 8 Place: sacrifice and property law in extra-territorial nation spaces 86 Lee Godden PART III BORDER CROSSINGS 9 Understanding the impact of customary land tenure and reform in Papua New Guinea 99 Flora Kwapena 10 The spatial management of sex work: placing marginality through formal and informal practices 109 Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns, Tom Baker and Octavia Calder-Dawe 11 Collision between two ‘public interests’ in housing demolition and relocation in Dalian, China 118 Chen Li, Min Jiang and Mark Yaolin Wang 12 Law, place and maps 129 Antonia Layard PART IV DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS 13 Activating rural spaces in the pursuit of unconventional energy and justice 142 Meg Sherval 14 Land territorialisation, contestation and informal place-laws of Indigenous peoples in Phuket and Phang Nga, Thailand 156 Daniel Robinson, Danielle Drozdzewski and Jaruwan Kaewmahanin Enright 15 Indigenous land conflict and the underlying life of laws: lessons from the Ipperwash Crisis 170 Nicole Latulippe 16 Extracting Indigenous jurisdiction on private land: the duty to consult and Indigenous relations with place in Canadian law 182 Estair Van Wagner PART V INTERSECTIONS 17 Paying attention to the spaces in between: the social production of space and Indigenous presence in cities 196 Melissa Nursey-Bray and Stephen Muecke 18 Negotiating privacy in the ‘vertical city’: regulating the gentrification of the skies 207 Phil Hubbard 19 Landscapes of colonial Australian entanglement: authorities, self-definition and cultural pedagogy 217 John Ryan and Baden Offord 20 Reclaiming land, reclaiming the ‘nomos’: towards a geography of emerging rights 229 Benno Fladvad, Silja Klepp and Florian Dünckmann PART VI FELLOW TRAVELLERS 21 Pets, pests and humane humans 241 Jennifer Carter and Mandy Paterson 22 Apples and oranges? Exchanging offsets for a place agency-based approach 254 Wendy Beck and Robyn Bartel 23 A case for ‘place’ in governing the energy–environment nexus 268 Amanda Kennedy and Cameron Holley 24 Dephysicalised property and shadow lands 281 Nicole Graham PART VII NEW HORIZONS 25 Territorializing Arrakis: competing for water and melange at the edge of the galactic empire – between desert gatherers and the spacefaring 293 Allan Charles Dawson and Ismael Vaccaro 26 Law underground: the legal geographies of gas transmission pipeline risk regulation 304 Brad Jessup 27 Place, space, and cyberlaw 316 Barney Warf 28 Freedom and constraint in sailing: exploring a gendered attachment to sea-places 327 Shelley A. Wright PART VIII WAYS FORWARD 29 Tackling corruption in urban development and planning: from compliance to integrity in Africa and beyond 339 Dieter Zinnbauer and Stephen Berrisford 30 Land, people and places: double visions and corporate land ownership 350 Radha D’Souza 31 Making there like here: is the impossible possible? 365 Robyn Bartel and Christopher Stone 32 Where to from here? From law to place and back again 382 Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow
Book SynopsisTrade Review'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.' -- Jennifer L. Fluri, University of Colorado, Boulder, US'This book explores vital new avenues of thought and political possibility across a wide range of geographical locations. O'Lear has brought together a crucial set of consequential analyses and interventions. This is an invaluable book for scholars of environmental and social justice.' -- – Rob Nixon, Author of Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'Engaging with the spatial and temporal complexities of slow violence requires innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. The chapters in this valuable collection do not disappoint. Essential reading for anyone interested in exploring diverse ways to analyze the practices and processes that shape contemporary forms of systemic and structural violence.' -- Kevin J. Grove, Florida International University, US'Peace is arguably more than just the absence of war. It should be about identifying and rooting out all the insidious forms of violence, particularly between human groups, that not only can lead to war but that also poison the everyday lives of people when unaddressed. This is the basis for investigating ''silent violence.'' Yet, as this innovative volume suggests, the spatial and temporal framings and contexts must also be central to that investigation, since it is the accumulation of threats over time and their embeddedness in places that makes them so intractable.' -- John Agnew, UCLA, US, and Co-Editor of The Handbook of Geographies of PowerTable of ContentsContents: 1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1 Shannon O’Lear 2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slow observation in Louisiana 21 Thom Davies 3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities at the intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41 Ruth Trumble 4 Complicating the role of sight: photographic methods and visibility in slow violence research 57 John Paul Henry 5 Tourism development as slow violence: dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73 Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, Megan Butler and Laura Aileen Sauls 6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climate change and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89 Daniel Abrahams 7 Enduring infrastructure 107 Kimberley Anh Thomas 8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123 Sheridan Bartlett 9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring and compassion, deconstructing the borderlands of reconciliation 137 Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson 10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives in Kyrgyzstan 155 Michele E. Commercio 11 When rednecks became meth heads: cultural violence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173 Aaron H. Gilbreath 12 The slow violence of law and order: governing through crime 189 Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet 13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205 Peter Vujakovic 14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathways on geographies of slow violence 225 Shannon O’Lear Index 233
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is an exciting addition to urban studies that provides scholars with new avenues to “get under the skin” of our chaotic and ever-changing urban environments by viewing these as an intricate relations existing between risk and uncertainty, vulnerability and resilience, and fragility and antifragility. I highly recommend the book to anyone whose work relates to the ‘wicked problems’ facing cities!’ -- Nancy Holman, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions 1 Francesco Curci and Daniele Chiffi PART I CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF FRAGILITY AND ANTIFRAGILITY 1 Disentangling antifragility from resilience 6 Daniele Chiffi and Francesco Curci 2 Forms of rationality facing uncertainty: wisdom’s possible key role in antifragility 24 Simona Chiodo 3 Antifragility: politics and common knowledge 39 Gabriele Pasqui PART II MODELS AND PARADIGM SHIFTS IN AN ANTIFRAGILE PERSPECTIVE 4 Planning for the unseen 57 Alessandro Balducci 5 Urban policy design for antifragility 70 Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini 6 Institutional fragility and institutional malleability: a reflection starting from the Covid-19 pandemic 90 Stefano Moroni 7 Fragility as a condition: the landscape perspective 107 Antonio Longo and Annalisa Metta 8 Antifragile architecture: under what conditions is an architectural project antifragile? 134 Stefano Guidarini PART III CASES AND APPLICATIONS 9 Antifragile strategies for abandoned heritage: new approaches and a dialogue between humanism and technique 149 Annunziata Maria Oteri 10 Territorial variety as an antifragile resource: the Italian case 165 Antonio De Rossi and Arturo Lanzani 11 Italian social policies coping with fragility: the challenge of continuity in time, space and life pathways 181 Massimo Bricocoli and Stefania Sabatinelli 12 Urban heritage fragility and antifragility: Matera and the 2019 European Capital of Culture 195 Davide Ponzini, Zachary M. Jones, Enrico Tommarchi, Stefano D’Armento, Alessandro Scandiffio and Franco Bianchini 13 Governing the commons on an Aegean island: the management of water resources on Sifnos, Greece 210 Amalia Zepou and Manos Matsaganis Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on City and Regional Leadership
Book SynopsisIn this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectives.Trade Review‘I consider this edited volume to be more than a welcome contribution and a notorious collection for all scholars, keen to understand the theoretical grounding, practices, patterns and types of leadership, as well as the manifestation of that leadership in local and regional socio-economic development and policy.’ -- Eduardo Oliveira, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook on City and Regional Leadership is the first comprehensive overview of place leadership in urban and regional research, edited by pioneers of the concept, Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer. Publication of the Handbook is very timely with the significant growth of research on the importance of agency in regional development in recent years. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics ranging from theoretical issues and empirical studies to methodological questions. It contains a rich and stimulating compilation of chapters and is a must-read for researchers as well as policy makers interested in promoting place leadership.’Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT 1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2 Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer 2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19 Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen Ayles PART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS 3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisational conceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders ‘actually’ do to make things happen 41 Alyson Nicholds 4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57 Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani 5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71 John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds 6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society leadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91 Oto Potluka 7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108 Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala 8 Place-based leadership ‘beyond place’: the rise of international city diplomacy 131 Robin Hambleton 9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152 Markku Sotarauta PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES 10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in the emergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region 168 Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň 11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in Italian industrial districts 187 Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini 12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path development in peripheral regions 203 Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen 13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226 Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth 14 Establishing leadership in a ‘busy’ governance structure 248 Martin Quinn 15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development: perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266 Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-Garzón PART IV METHODOLOGY 16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity 281 Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving 17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302 Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta 18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of territorial leadership 324 James Karlsen and Miren Larrea 19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343 Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook on Geographies of Education
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Urban Now
Book SynopsisDrawing upon over a quarter of a centuryâs worth of research, The Urban Now illuminates our present urban condition. John Rennie Short captures the main features of this moment of urban significance, investigating the city as a crucial arena strategically located between global flows and national surfaces.Trade Review‘The Urban Now is a brilliant synthesis of John Rennie Short’s recent work that covers the gambit of topics like globalization, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the informal economy while weaving in wonderful chapters to connect our daily experiences of the city in all its magic and its dangers. This book, just one of Short’s latest greatest hits, is a journey through, for example, the urban imaginary of the Weimar Bauhaus project, the resilience of informal communities in different cities, the perils of traffic and, in contrast, the joy of walking the city. Despite the various crises and problems discussed in the book, it is remarkably positive and, writing with characteristic clarity and buoyancy, Short demonstrates yet again his wonderful ability to make what can be complicated, accessible and a joy to read.’ -- Bernadette Hanlon, Ohio State University, US‘The Urban Now presents a panoramic view of critical issues facing the urban planet, ranging from sprawl and pandemics to climate change and social inclusion. The book is a masterful examination of how to build a good city and why it matters.’ -- Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University, US‘A leading scholar and public intellectual of contemporary urbanism, John Rennie Short presents a tour de force in his treatise The Urban Now. This riveting and engaging book is essential reading for anyone who cares about the urban moment that we live in, reckoning with the future of cities and humanity. Scholars and students alike will benefit from Short’s astute and prescient observations of urban globalism for generations to come.’ -- Thomas J. Vicino, Northeastern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 The urban moment PART I URBAN IMAGINARIES 2 Imaginaries of the urban now 3 Imaginaries of City and Nature 4 Suburban imaginaries 5 The legacy of the Weimar Bauhaus for the urban now PART II GLOBALIZATIONS AND THE CITY 6 Globalization and its discontents 7 Global cities 8 From global cities to gateway cities 9 City marketing in an era of globalization 10 Urban mega-events and globalization 11 The second Gilded Age 12 The new middle class in the global South PART III CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CITY 13 Cities and climate change 14 Cities in a time of rapid climate change 15 A perfect storm: climate change and network failure 16 Fire at the urban‒wilderness interface PART IV COVID-19 AND THE CITY 17 The city in the time of COVID-19 18 Traffic in the postpandemic city 19 The informal economy in the postpandemic city 20 The convivial city PART V CITIES AND TRAFFIC 21 No accident: traffic in the modern city 22 Dangerous cities 23 Unwilling to pay 24 Congestion pricing 25 The silent epidemic on wheels PART VI CITIES OF THE URBAN NOW 26 The liquid city of Megalopolis 27 The creative postcolonial city 28 Reimagined city: Syracuse, New York 29 Informal city: Cali, Colombia 30 Informal cities: Nigeria PART VII LIFE IN THE URBAN NOW 31 The age of distraction in the city 32 Social inclusion in the city 33 Does the city make you fat? 34 Security and safety in the city 35 Walking in the city A very brief guide to further reading References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe the book by Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus brings new dialogues and bridges the dichotomy of an “east” and “west” understanding of heritage that has been taken for granted as two different dichotomies. This book offers an insight on how the western world itself is also not homogenous in the understanding of what heritage is and heritage is not always tangible in the “west”. This book shows readers that there is no universal European understanding of heritage and planning. Only in specific divisions of European countries and mostly in urban contexts does so-called European heritage understanding dominate the discourse and planning. This book aims to not only elaborate on heritage planning and research in Europe, but also push beyond a Eurocentric approach, and examine the research this approach produces and the foundation on which it is developed, as well as give funding to the projects and people who work in this field.’ -- Cut Dewi, Built Heritage‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning offers an ambitious reflection on the complex articulation of research, practice and policy that inform the uses of heritage in Europe today. Editors Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus gather a coherent, wide-ranging selection of cases, successfully stressing heritage’s decisive role in solving Europe's current identity, climate and developmental challenges. As an extensive recount of the latest research advancements, this book will exceed the expectations of those exploring the frontiers of heritage, and enlighten readers about the profound transcendence of its planning in contemporary societies.’ -- Plácido González Martínez, Tongji University, China‘This edited volume by Stegmeijer and Veldpaus provides a ground-breaking Research Agenda for heritage planning and would be useful not only for practitioners, but also for academics, students and politicians.’ -- Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: some key challenges for heritage science research xix PART I SETTING THE SCENE FOR HERITAGE PLANNING: PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: the state of heritage planning in Europe 31 Eva Stegmeijer, Loes Veldpaus and Joks Janssen 2 Heritage research in the 21st century: departing from the useful futures of sustainable develoment 49 Višnja Kisić 3 The value of heritage in sustainable development and spatial planning 67 Koenraad Van Balen and Aziliz Vandesande PART II CURRENT RESEARCH IN HERITAGE PLANNING: PROJECTS FROM EUROPE SECTION A HERITAGE AND IDENTITY 4 Introduction to heritage and identity: from planning and policies to communities, and back 85 Remi Wacogne 5 Exploring archaeology’s place in participatory European cultural landscape management: perspectives from the ‘REFIT’ project 89 Tom Moore and Gemma Tully 6 Industrial heritage and conservation planning, changing governance practices, examples from Europe 103 Loes Veldpaus and Remi Wacogne 7 Developing participation through digital reconstruction and communication of ‘lost’ heritage 115 Laura Loredana Micoli, Gabriele Guidi, Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Diego González-Aguilera 8 Cultural heritage and European identity in European Union law and policy 127 Francesca Fiorentini, Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski SECTION B HERITAGE AND CLIMATE 9 Introduction to heritage and climate change: current gaps and scientific challenges 143 Claudio Margottini 10 New uses for old waterways 149 Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin 11 Satellite monitoring of geo-hazards affecting cultural heritage 161 Daniele Spizzichino and Claudio Margottini 12 Archaeological site monitoring and risk assessment using remote sensing technologies and GIS 171 Stefano De Angeli and Fabiana Battistin SECTION C HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT 13 Introduction to heritage and development: the agency of heritage in rural and urban development practices 183 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist 14 Cultural heritage and improvised music in European festivals 189 Tony Whyton and Beth Perry 15 Cultural heritage at work for economy and society 201 Stefano Della Torre and Rossella Moioli 16 Gastronomy and creative entrepreneurship in rural tourism: encouraging sustainable community development 213 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Anna de Jong, Romà Garrido Puig, Giuseppa Romeo and Wilhelm Skoglund PART III RESEARCH AGENDA FOR HERITAGE PLANNING. PERSPECTIVES FOR EUROPE (AND BEYOND) 17 Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures 227 Loes Veldpaus, Višnja Kisić, Eva Stegmeijer and Joks Janssen Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Translocal Development and Global
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.Trade Review'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities 1 Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY LANDSCAPES 2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13 Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa 3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh 27 Ingrid Boas 4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42 Joris Schapendonk PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS 5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58 Guus van Westen 6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76 Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers 7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92 Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch 8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of ‘impairing destruction’ 110 Alberto Alonso-Fradejas PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131 Marja Spierenburg 10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development 147 Kei Otsuki PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF LARGE-SCALE MINING 11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162 Chris Huggins 12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: the case of Suriname 179 Marjo de Theije 13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains: insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191 Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES 14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows ‘touching ground’? 206 Femke van Noorloos 15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the sustainability coin 218 Murtah Shannon 16 Conclusions 232 Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Understanding Travel Narratives
Book SynopsisHighlighting the importance of travel narratives in understanding tourism imaginaries, Jennifer and Warwick Frost present global examples of the enduring stories that underpin the way we conceptualise and imagine travel.
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Edward Elgar Publishing A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies
Book SynopsisThis forward-looking book examines emotional geographies as both a subdiscipline and a practice. Written collaboratively, the authors demonstrate the diverse ways in which emotions influence research, knowledge and everyday life, inviting readers to recognise emotions as a fundamental component of human understanding, actions and relationships
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Edward Elgar Publishing From Land Ownership to Landed Commons
Book Synopsis
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Food Systems
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In a lucid and timely call for new research, Colin Sage has curated chapters from leading food scholars on major issues affecting the global food system, and offers hope that both pragmatic and visionary solutions are emerging, which will benefit from a targeted research agenda. Sage’s book is vital, compelling reading for students, scientists, and the wider world of people concerned about our future food system.’ -- Molly D. Anderson, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and Middlebury College, US‘A clarion call to anyone desiring more sustainable and just food systems, emphasizing such outcomes cannot be had without insights from the social sciences. The chapters interrogate barriers and opportunities for change; analyses that are as comprehensive as they are enjoyable to read.’ -- Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, US‘This is a fine and wonderful book. We know that food systems worldwide have been transformed in recent decades. They have made food a raging success, more people fed than ever. They also cause vast ill-health and planetary harm, and leave hundreds of millions of people still hungry. This is a book about the urgent need for redesign and collective action. It brings vital clarity to the right questions, and shows how improvements in social justice can occur.’ -- Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: The urgency of food systems research xiii Tim Lang Acknowledgements xix PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Food Systems 3 Colin L. Sage PART II ISSUES 2 The rise of big food and agriculture: corporate influence in the food system 45 Jennifer Clapp 3 The food system, planetary boundaries and eating for 1.5°C: the case for mutualism and commensality within a safe and just operating space for humankind 67 Colin L. Sage 4 Agricultural labour in the global food system 89 Alicia Reigada and Carlos de Castro 5 Food systems and food poverty 111 Martin Caraher 6 Reconfiguring animals in food systems: an agenda for research 129 Lewis Holloway PART III ‘SOLUTIONS?’ 7 The fourth agricultural revolution: technological developments in primary food production 151 David Christian Rose, Mondira Bhattacharya, Auvikki de Boon, Ram Kiran Dhulipala, Catherine Price and Juliette Schillings 8 Of fake meat and an anxious Anthropocene: towards a cultural political economy of alternative proteins and their implications for future food systems 175 Alexandra E. Sexton and Michael K. Goodman 9 Urban food systems: the case for municipal action 199 Jess Halliday 10 Circular food systems: a blueprint for regenerative innovations in a regional UK context 221 Steffen Böhm, Rebecca Sandover, Stefano Pascucci, Laura Colombo, Sophie Jackson and Matt Lobley 11 Design at the end of the food system: hybrid foodscapes in the realm of consumption 243 Kata Fodor Index 259
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Understanding Place and Destination Branding
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Urban Violence Resilience and Security
Book SynopsisWritten in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence.Trade Review‘Urban Violence, Resilience and Security provides a unique intervention in the study of urban violence in the Global South. Challenging conventional accounts of urban violence modeled after cities in the Global North, contributors provide theoretically sophisticated and empirically-grounded case studies to highlight the myriad and geographically contingent forms of resilience and resistance. A must-read for scholars concerned with the urban condition of life and death in the Global South.’ -- James Tyner, Kent State University, Ohio, US‘Urbanization is one of the most significant mega-trends of the modern era. It is also one of the most profoundly misunderstood. This knowledge gap is explored by Michael Glass, Taylor Seybolt and Phil Williams who examine the multiple causes, consequences and characteristics of global urban transformation. In their sweeping edited volume, contributors reflect on how the history, politics and economics of urbanization influences (and is influenced by) urban violence. A series of vivid case studies of under-studied cities from Africa, Asia and the Americas also reveal the complex relationships between urbanization, insecurity and resilience.’ -- Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Igarape Institute and SecDev Group, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xi Ariel C. Armony Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction to Urban Violence, Resilience and Security 1 Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil Williams PART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO URBAN VIOLENCE, RESILIENCE AND SECURITY 2 Urban violence in the Global South: drug traffickers, gangs, and organized crime 21 Phil Williams 3 Urban resilience for the 21st century 39 Savannah Cox 4 Urban governance in conflict zones: contentious politics, not “resilience” 53 Daniel E. Esser 5 Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience 72 Jon Coaffee 6 Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin America and the Caribbean 88 Enrique Desmond Arias PART II DIMENSIONS OF URBAN VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 7 Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence: Caracas and the Latin American city 101 Roberto Briceño-León 8 Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration: a case study of female migrants in Isipingo, Durban, South Africa 120 Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj 9 Shoot first, ask later: violence and anti-crime policies in Mexico’s Cuidad Juárez and Pakistan’s Karachi 138 Vanda Felbab-Brown 10 Strain between two worlds: a sociological approach to the rise and fall of crime and violence in Guatemala City 160 Daniel Núñez 11 Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America 177 Eduardo Moncada Index 193
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Cities and Complexity
Book SynopsisWritten by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC.Trade Review'This is a fascinating collection of discussions by leading authors, ranging from philosophical perspectives to conceptual frameworks and mathematical models across many disciplines. A unifying theme is the role of human cognition and decision making, addressed via psychology, uncertainty and risk, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics and more. The book should be a reference to anyone interested in the history of the field and as a source of ideas for the opportunities (and challenges) of treating cities as complex systems in contrast to less holistic approaches to urban planning and policy.' -- Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Cities and Complexity 1 Juval Portugali PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Cities, complexity and beyond 13 Juval Portugali 2 The emergence of complexity theories: an outline 28 Hermann Haken 3 City systems and complexity 48 Michael Batty 4 Major transitions in the story of urban complexity 64 Stephen Marshall and Nick Green PART II COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES 5 Complexity: the evolution and planning of towns and cities 86 Peter M. Allen 6 Synergetic cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity 136 Denise Pumain 8 Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities 154 Pierre Frankhauser 9 Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities 176 Yanguang Chen 10 Cybernetic cities: designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems 195 Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti PART III COMPLEXITY, LANGUAGE AND CITIES 11 New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: an overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised 210 Christopher Alexander 12 The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems 233 Alan Penn PART IV MODELING COMPLEX CITIES 13 Modelling car traffic in cities 260 Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy 14 Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning 274 Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal 15 The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking 295 Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman PART V COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND DESIGN 16 Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning 319 Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi 17 Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space 331 Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo 18 Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning 349 Sara Encarna..o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali 19 Homo faber, Homo ludens and the city: a SIRNIA view on urban planning and design 370 Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19 391 Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Rethinking Communication Geographies
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book offers a deep and stimulating insight into how geographies of communication are changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructures, and why we need to rethink questions of geography, media and communication with today's geomediatization.’ -- Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany‘This book offers an innovative and exciting framework for understanding how the digitally mediated world is increasingly experienced: logistically. Its sustained attention to the entanglement of spatiality and communicative media, as well as to the differentiated possibilities for everyday human agency that then emerge, is particularly insightful and welcome.’ -- Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking communication geographies 2. Dwelling under geomedia 3. The culture of streamability 4. Transmedia travel 5. Guidance landscapes 6. Geomedia as the human condition Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and Adjustment
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Edward Elgar Publishing Environment Place and Growth
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Transnationalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In this rich compendium, Yeoh and Collins bring together leading scholars of transnationalism to look afresh at this important topic. Exploring both new empirical cases and new concepts, the authors provide novel insights into transnational relations and processes. This is a must-read book for those interested in cross-border interactions in the contemporary era.’ -- Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘Since the turn of the millennium, transnationalism has gradually taken its place as a key concept in social science. This welcome new Handbook provides fresh overviews alongside critical advances concerning a range of ever-salient, if not increasingly significant, theoretical understandings of transformative cross-border phenomena.’ -- Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany‘An up-to-date, invaluable mapping of the causes and consequences of social life across borders. The contributions to this volume go far beyond mobility and migration. They use a transnational lens to understand a range of institutions, processes, and relationships that have not been brought together before, including youth, labor unions, urbanization, and emotions. By doing so, they challenge fundamental assumptions about how identity, community, governance, and rights actually work in this early part of the twenty-first century. Theoretically rich and carefully argued, this Handbook is a welcome synthesis of this ever-more-present, dynamic understanding of social relations.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US‘This is an invaluable collection of voices from the field of transnationalism research. The volume offers a rich new lexicon based on innovative case studies that will set the agenda for conceptualising transnationalism in years to come.’ -- Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Handbook on Transnationalism 1 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. Collins PART I CONCEPTUALISING TRANSNATIONALISM 2 Pre-national transnationalism and translocalism 30 David Featherstone 3 What, when and how transnationalism matters: a multi-scalar framework 45 Biao Xiang 4 Transnationalism and time: beyond the self, unity and relation 60 Sergei Shubin 5 Transnational ageing and the later life course 77 Vincent Horn 6 Transnationalism, affect and emotion 93 Raelene Wilding and Loretta Baldassar 7 Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism 110 Jørgen Carling PART II VARIETIES OF TRANSNATIONALISM 8 Transnational state practices and authoritarian politics 128 Gerasimos Tsourapas 9 Transnational migration and homemaking 141 Paolo Boccagni 10 Transnational organisations 155 Ludger Pries and Rafael Bohlen 11 The politics of transnational activism 169 Michele Ford 12 Transnational families in an age of migration 182 Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam and Shirlena Huang 13 Transnational young people: growing up and being active in a transnational social field 198 Valentina Mazzucato and Joan van Geel 14 Transnational urbanism in the South 211 Arnisson A.C. Ortega and Evangeline O. Katigbak 15 Transnational higher education 230 Johanna Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung 16 Transnational popular culture 246 Youna Kim 17 Transnational religion 262 Dominic Pasura PART III TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS 18 Transnationalism and temporary labour migration 277 Matt Withers and Nicola Piper 19 International students as transnational migrants 294 Gracia Liu-Farrer 20 Transnational marriage migration in Asia and its friction 310 Juan Zhang 21 Transnational mobilities and return migration 325 Anastasia Christou and Brenda S.A. Yeoh 22 Connecting more than the origin and destination: multinational migrations and transnational ties 340 Anju M. Paul PART IV TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND CIRCULATIONS 23 Migrant transnationalism, remittances and development 356 Marta Bivand Erdal 24 Communications technologies and transnational networks 371 Jolynna Sinanan and Heather A. Horst 25 Transnationalism and care circulation: mobility, caregiving, and the technologies that shape them 388 Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding 26 Ethnic entrepreneurship and its transnational linkages 404 Jacob R. Thomas and Min Zhou 27 Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles 420 Sin Yee Koh Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook on Smart Growth
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Edward Elgar A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and
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Edward Elgar Publishing Refugee Housing in Europe
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of refugee housing across Europe. Esteemed scholars bridge the knowledge gap between the broader immigrant integration process and refugee housing, examining different approaches to organization, funding, policy, and administration within various multi-level governance systems.
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Edward Elgar Publishing From Land Ownership to Landed Commons
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Edward Elgar Publishing A Research Agenda for the Social Impacts of Tourism
Book SynopsisThis timely Research Agenda explores the crucial need to understand the social impact of tourism in order to manage industry growth sustainably. Highlighting the multifaceted nature of tourism, chapters uncover the intricate relationships between tourists and host communities and investigate this complex social fabric.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geopolitics and Expertise
Book SynopsisGeopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice Based on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven years Focuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniform Moves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Introduction: The Crown Jewel 1 1 The Dead Relative: Bounding Europe in Europe 12 Geopolitics by Nobody; Carving Places out of Space; Embodied Europes 2 Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields 32 Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields; "The work of reciprocal elucidation" 3 Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place 61 Planet Brussels; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals; The Political and the Technical – and the Social 4 Transnational Diplomats: Representing Europe in EU 27 86 European External Action Service; Curved Mirrors: Negotiating the National; The Group for Which There is no Term: The New Member States 5 Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization 112 A New Object of Knowledge; Fields of Expertise in the European Quarter; "Most people just want to do what they are told" 6 Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the European Quarter 133 Symbolic Capital; "We are dealing with elites"; "In the third degree of depth"; "An urbane, subtle approach"; Shifts and Spirals 7 Political Geographies of Expertise 171 Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market; "Things are evolving"; Managing Difference Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge 195 References 209 Index 225
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geopolitics and Expertise
Book SynopsisGeopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice Based on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven years Focuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniform Moves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Introduction: The Crown Jewel 1 1 The Dead Relative: Bounding Europe in Europe 12 Geopolitics by Nobody; Carving Places out of Space; Embodied Europes 2 Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields 32 Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields; "The work of reciprocal elucidation" 3 Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place 61 Planet Brussels; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals; The Political and the Technical – and the Social 4 Transnational Diplomats: Representing Europe in EU 27 86 European External Action Service; Curved Mirrors: Negotiating the National; The Group for Which There is no Term: The New Member States 5 Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization 112 A New Object of Knowledge; Fields of Expertise in the European Quarter; "Most people just want to do what they are told" 6 Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the European Quarter 133 Symbolic Capital; "We are dealing with elites"; "In the third degree of depth"; "An urbane, subtle approach"; Shifts and Spirals 7 Political Geographies of Expertise 171 Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market; "Things are evolving"; Managing Difference Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge 195 References 209 Index 225
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Everyday Moral Economies
Book SynopsisOffering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodity Bridges the fields of human geography and anthropology Approaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel way Provides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justice Enhanced by vivid photos from the field Trade Review“The book will be of interest to geographers engaged in debates on diverse economies, as well as those pursuing work on food security, food sovereignty, and/or the politics of food.” (The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien, 25 October 2015) “If I had to evaluate Everyday moral economies in just two words, these would most probably be ‘useful’ and ‘balanced’. Useful because to my knowledge it is the most comprehensive treatment on the theme of food consumption and production in Cuba, providing valuable information on the theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Balanced because, although it deals with an utterly political side of Cuba and the Revolution, it does not hastily take sides between a (neo)liberal or a socialist mode of production and political organization.” (Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23.3, 4 August 2017) Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xxiii List of Acronyms xxv 1 Introduction 1 2 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 33 3 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption 73 4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 99 5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society 121 6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector 153 7 Conclusion 181 Appendices 199 Index 211
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Africas Information Revolution
Book SynopsisAfrica's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continentTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii 1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1 2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25 3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47 4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73 5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113 6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147 7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176 8 Conclusion 200 References 215 Index 243
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Urban Land Rent
Book SynopsisThis book develops an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory. It analyzes land, rent theory, and the modern city, using Singapore as a case study. It examines the question of land from a variety of perspectives and incorporates discussion of the modern real estate market.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface ix Acknowledgements xi List of Figures xiii List of Tables xv List of Abbreviations xvii Glossary xix Preface xxi 1 Introduction: Singapore as a Case and Comparison 1 European Classics and Western Theories 6 Asian Studies: A Focus on Villages 8 Urban Studies 10 The Developmental State, Asian Values and Rent-seeking 12 Singapore as a Property State 15 The Chapters 21 Notes 24 2 Ideologies of Land 26 Land Regimes 27 Debates on Genealogies 33 Philosophies of Property 36 Myths of Frontier and Homeownership 38 The Economic, Moral and Political Land Question 43 Notes 45 3 Economic Arguments: Rent Theory and Property Rights Theory 46 Concepts and Forms of Rent 46 Rent and Social Problems 48 Extending the Rent Concept 51 Property Rights Theory 53 Ambiguous Property Rights and the Market for Development Rights 56 Rent as a Social Relation 57 Urban Land Rent 59 Notes 61 4 Land Reforms: Practical Solutions and Politics of Land 63 Radicals and Moralists 64 Two Chinese Models of Land Reform 69 Modern Land Reform 72 Land Value Tax 78 Neoliberal Land Reforms 80 From Revolutions to Pragmatism 82 Notes 85 5 Land Institutions and Housing 86 Land Institutions and the Second Round of Land Acquisitions 87 National and Urban Development 94 Housing the Nation 98 Housing Welfare 105 Private, Expatriate and Migrant Housing 107 Challenges 109 The Value of Public Land and Fiscalisation of Rent 113 Notes 119 6 Property Tycoons and Speculation 120 Rent-seeking 121 Property is a Hot Topic in Singapore 123 Rumours in Hong Kong 127 Conglomerates, Dynasties and Pension Funds 130 Private and Government-linked Companies in Singapore 134 Industrial Landscape and the Jurong Town Corporation 137 Private and Government Companies Sharing the Market 139 Transnational Property Companies 146 Capricious Landlords and Mean Developers: Absolute Rent 148 Land Without Speculation 152 Notes 156 7 Diversification of a Real Estate Portfolio: The World is Singapore’s Hinterland 158 Safe Haven for Global Real Estate Flows 160 Real Estate Investment Trusts 164 Singapore Colonising the World: Sovereign Wealth Funds 167 Real Estate Investment into Singapore 170 Property-minded People 172 Casinos and Singapore as the World’s Wealth Management Centre 176 Global Rent and Racism in the Real Estate Market 178 Notes 182 8 Financial Crises and Real Estate 183 Financial Centres 186 Singapore and Hong Kong as Financial Centres 187 Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings 192 The IMF in Singapore 195 The Asian Crisis 197 Bangkok and Real Estate Speculation 200 Singapore and the Financial Crisis 204 The Financialisation of Land and Derivative Rent 209 Notes 213 9 Conclusion: The Land, Urban and Rent Question 215 The Regime of Regulating Public Land 215 The Land Question 217 The Urban Question 221 The Rent Question 223 Annex: Note on Data 227 References 229 Index 261
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Defensible Space on the Move
Book SynopsisBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich,Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts. Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has beeninfluential in designing out crime to date, and has beenapplied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond Evaluates themovement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible spacefrom the US to the UK and into English housing policyandpractice Exploresthe multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level DrawiTrade Review‘Design against crime? What could be better! This compelling story of where ‘defensible space’ came from, how the idea has changed, and what difference it has made to cities and social life is unputdownable. It turns on a riveting account of the individuals who championed (and some who resisted) the concept – a band of unlikely influencers whose mix of conviction, charisma and common sense became embedded in domestic space.’Susan J. Smith, Mistress of Girton College and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography, University of Cambridge, UK‘This book by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick is essentially a great detective story – a whodunnit of how allegedly research-based theory can translate into policy and ultimately into accepted practice. There is a cast of many well-known characters whose interaction on the question of whether physical determinism can affect human behaviour is rich and fascinating. With planning and urban design again at the centre of politics, this book is an essential source.’Ben Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, Former Past President of RIBA and Historic England Commissioner‘Rarely do I savour a book with such enthusiasm, absorbed by the detail and delighted by the presentation. This is the missing text that I have craved – a text that explains, in meticulous detail, how the rather abstract concept of Defensible Space managed to jump the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge and successfully embed itself into practice.’Rachel Armitage, Professor of Criminology, University of Huddersfield, UK‘Defensible Space on the Move is a fine historiography based on meticulous research and a forensic investigative approach to its subject matter. The book will appeal to a broad readership, including academic researchers, policy makers, students, and lay people. The book is seminal in its careful documentation, and discussion, of one of the more important ideas about what the good city is or ought to be. Through a careful assembling of material, the authors have elevated, and enhanced, the understanding about policy mobilities, in which the fluid, often contradictory, and messy nature of practice is highlighted.’Rob Imrie (reviewing in Buildings & Cities)Table of ContentsList of Figures vi List of Tables viii Glossary of Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii Preface xiii 1 Defensible Space: An Introduction 1 2 Defensible Space Is Mobilised in England 32 3 Defensible Space Goes on Trial but Attracts Those in Power 64 4 Operationalising Defensible Space 102 Case Study ‘ The Mozart Estate: A Laboratory for Defensible Space’ 141 5 Evaluations of Defensible Space 156 6 The Uptake and Resilience of Defensible Space Ideas 187 7 Defensible Space: A Common Sense, Middle-range Theory 219 References 251 Index 279
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Translating the City
Book SynopsisThe city is a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, analyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban researchers, architects, developers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists? What capacity do concepts and methods have to travel from one context to another? How can they be transferred?The strength of Urban Translations lies in its disciplinary and geographical comparison and dialogue on a global scale. It openly targets an international audience, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines (urban planning, sociology, architecture and anthropology) and presenting case studies from highly contrasting urban settings, including Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Cape Town, Dubai, Montreal, Geneva, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Berlin.Table of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Urban Translations, 3. Planning, 4. Order, 5. Nature, 6. Cultures, 7. Image, 8. Conclusion
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Human Geography For Dummies
Book SynopsisYour map to understanding human geography Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography, and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? It's not about drawing maps all over your body (although you're welcome to do that if you wantno judgment). Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. Inside, you'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few. This learner-friendly Dummies guide explains all the key concepts clearly and succinctly. Find out how location and geography impact population, culture, economics, and politicsLearn about contemporary issues in human migration, health, and global peace and stabilityGet a clear understanding of all the key concepts covered in your
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