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Book SynopsisPeter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England's M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography Contains 38 high quality illustrations Based on extensive, original archive work Trade Review"While I wish that he had synthesized his research in a strong conclusion, this criticism should not diminish the merits of the book. The empirical results and the study's framework deserve a firm place in the history of technology." (Technology & Culture, 1 January 2011) "Merriman’s systematic, detailed and precisely documented description of the cultural context of the M1 will itself stand as a valuable documentary resource for researchers and students alike" (Area, December 2008) "Thoroughly researched and full of rich … Driving Spaces presents the historical trajectory of the M1 Motorway through a series of cultural and political stages." (Journal of British Studies, October 2008) “Merriman provides a fascinating perspective on the social and cultural aspects of driving and highways … in this multidisciplinary study. Includes … numerous references … .Recommended.” (Choice)Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Series Editors’ Preface xii Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction: Driving Spaces 1 Mobilities 4 Driving, Space, Social Relations 6 Driving, Landscape, Visuality 12 Geographies of the Modern Road 16 Contents of the Book 20 2 Envisioning British Motorways 23 Motoring and the Motor-Car Way, 1896–1930 24 The German Autobahnen: The Politics and Aesthetics of a Nation’s Roads 31 Motorways for Britain? National Plans, National Defence 38 Motorways, War and Reconstruction 43 Motorways and the British Landscape 46 3 Designing and Landscaping the M1 60 Legislating and Campaigning: Towards a National Motorway Network 61 Locating the M1: Regional Planning, Local Protests and the Authority of the Engineer 67 Landscape Architecture and the Post-war, Modern Road 73 ‘A New Look at the English Landscape’: Landscape Architecture, Movement and the Aesthetics of a Modern Motorway 83 Towards a Road Style: Service Areas in the Landscape 90 ‘Cutting Holes in the Landscape’: Britain’s Motorway Signs 97 4 Constructing the M1 103 ‘Operation Motorway’: Constructing the M1 Motorway 104 Song of a Road: Folk Song, Working-Class Culture and the Labour of a Motorway 124 5 Driving, Consuming and Governing the M 1 141 Motorway Driving, Embodiment, Competence 143 ‘Motorway Madness’: Driving, Governing, Expertise 152 Motorway Modern: Consuming the M 1 162 Motorway Service Areas and the Motorist-Consumer 178 Assessing the M1’s Performance: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scientific Experiments, Accidents 186 6 Motorways and Driving since the 1960s 200 The ‘M1 Corridor’ 202 Motorways and ‘the Environment’ 204 Dystopian and Marginal Landscapes? 208 Placeless Environments? 210 Placing the M1 in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 213 Appendix: Archival Sources 219 Notes 224 References 246 Index 285

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Book SynopsisA lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography.Trade Review"The editors have been ambitious in their intentions and ... Have met their aims handsomely." (Progress in Human Geography, April 2009) "A relatively good spread of world regions is covered in the remaining chapters of the book.... 'Geography, Culture and Prosperity' by Oppenheimer is particularly interesting. I am sure these abbreviated chapters will appeal to many undergraduate students." (South African Geographical Journal, 2008) "What is remarkable about this book is its suitability both as an introductory text and companion reader for first, second and third year undergraduate students of human geography… It should capture students’ imagination or sense of wonder while simultaneously helping them to engage in critical thinking… Highly recommended." (Geographical Research: Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers)“Pieces are well contextualized and work effectively together ….This title would be appropriate to all levels of undergraduate study.” (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsNotes on the Editors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Situating Human Geography. Part I: Introductory Readings:. 1. “The Four Traditions of Geography”: William D. Pattison. 2. “Geography’s Perspectives”: National Research Council. 3. “Geography and Foreign Policy”: H.J. de Blij. 4. “Reflections of an American Geographer on the Anniversary of September 11th” : William G. Moseley. 5. From How to Lie with Maps: Mark Monmonier. 6. “Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make”: Jerome E. Dobson. Part II: Population and Migration:. 7. “An Essay on the Principle of Population”: Thomas Robert Malthus. 8. “Population Growth and a Sustainable Environment”: Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen. 9. “Population Geography and HIV/AIDS: The Challenge of a Wholly Exceptional Disease”: W.T.S. Gould and R.I. Woods. 10. “Interprovincial Migration, Population Redistribution, and Regional Development in China: 1990 and 2000 Census Comparisons”: C. Cindy Fan. Part III: Environment, Agriculture and Society:. 11. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”: Jared Diamond. 12. “The Future of Traditional Agriculture”. Donald Q. Innis. 13. “Geography and the Global Environment”: Diana M.Liverman. 14. “Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East”: Christine Drake. 15. From Americans and Their Weather: William B. Meyer. 16. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”: William Cronon. Part IV: Cultural Geography and Place:. 17. “Minnesota: Nature’s Playground”: David A. Lanegran. 18. “American Microbreweries and Neolocalism: ‘Ale-ing’ for a Sense of Place”: Wes Flack. 19. “Transplanting Pilgrimage Traditions in the Americas”: Carolyn V. Prorok. 20. “Kitchenspace, Fiestas, and Cultural Reproduction in Mexican House-Lot Gardens”: Maria Elisa Christie. Part V: Urban Geography:. 21. “Greenville: From Back Country to Forefront”: Eugene A. Kennedy. 22. “Ethnic Residential Concentrations in United States Metropolitan Areas”: James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. 23. “South Africa’s National Housing Subsidy Program and Apartheid’s Urban Legacy”: Kimberly Lanegran and David Lanegran. 24. “World-City Network: A New Metageography?”: Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, and Peter J. Taylor. Part VI: Economic Geography:. 25. “Geographies of Knowledge, Practices of Globalization: Learning from the Oil Exploration and Production Industry”: Gavin Bridge and Andrew Wood. 26. “The Impact of Containerization on Work on the New York–New Jersey Waterfront”: Andrew Herod. 27. “Wine, Spirits and Beer: World Patterns of Consumption”: David Grigg. 28. “Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn”: Paul Robbins and Julie T. Sharp. 29. “Women at Work”: Mona Domosh and Joni Seager. Part VII: The Geography of Development and Underdevelopment:. 30. “The Re-scaling of Uneven Development in Ghana and India”: Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. 31. “Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory”: A.J. Bebbington and D.H. Bebbington. 32. “Rural Development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, Neoliberalism and Environmental Risk”: Julie Cupples. 33. “The Sahel of West Africa: A Place for Geographers?”: Simon Batterbury. 34. “Geography, Culture and Prosperity”: Andres Oppenheimer. Part VIII: Political Geography:. 34. “Revisiting the ‘pivot’: the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan’s international relations”: Nick Megoran. 35. “Euroregions in Comparative Perspective: Differential Implications for Europe’s Borderlands”: Joanna M.M. Kepka and Alexander B. Murphy. 36. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy”: Don Mitchell. Index

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Book SynopsisA lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography.Trade Review"This is an entertaining, enlightening, challenging book. If you anticipate that it is just another compendium of classics in geography, think again. This book is an engaging combination of substance and opinion, proof of the vitality of geography and its relevance to current events. It is a winning combination. This is a book not just to be read, but to be mined, for the nuggets are many and surprises abound." Harm de Blij, Michigan State University "This reader is comprehensive and thoughtfully organized, providing a central place for some of the most accessible and provocative pieces on human geography today. By including the range of contemporary conceptual concerns and highly accessible empirical material it invites student engagement in an array of exciting disciplinary conversations." Sallie A. Marston, University of Arizona “Pieces are well contextualized and work effectively together ….This title would be appropriate to all levels of undergraduate study.” Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsNotes on the Editors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Situating Human Geography. Part I: Introductory Readings:. 1. “The Four Traditions of Geography”: William D. Pattison. 2. “Geography’s Perspectives”: National Research Council. 3. “Geography and Foreign Policy”: H.J. de Blij. 4. “Reflections of an American Geographer on the Anniversary of September 11th” : William G. Moseley. 5. From How to Lie with Maps: Mark Monmonier. 6. “Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make”: Jerome E. Dobson. Part II: Population and Migration:. 7. “An Essay on the Principle of Population”: Thomas Robert Malthus. 8. “Population Growth and a Sustainable Environment”: Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen. 9. “Population Geography and HIV/AIDS: The Challenge of a Wholly Exceptional Disease”: W.T.S. Gould and R.I. Woods. 10. “Interprovincial Migration, Population Redistribution, and Regional Development in China: 1990 and 2000 Census Comparisons”: C. Cindy Fan. Part III: Environment, Agriculture and Society:. 11. “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”: Jared Diamond. 12. “The Future of Traditional Agriculture”. Donald Q. Innis. 13. “Geography and the Global Environment”: Diana M.Liverman. 14. “Water Resource Conflicts in the Middle East”: Christine Drake. 15. From Americans and Their Weather: William B. Meyer. 16. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”: William Cronon. Part IV: Cultural Geography and Place:. 17. “Minnesota: Nature’s Playground”: David A. Lanegran. 18. “American Microbreweries and Neolocalism: ‘Ale-ing’ for a Sense of Place”: Wes Flack. 19. “Transplanting Pilgrimage Traditions in the Americas”: Carolyn V. Prorok. 20. “Kitchenspace, Fiestas, and Cultural Reproduction in Mexican House-Lot Gardens”: Maria Elisa Christie. Part V: Urban Geography:. 21. “Greenville: From Back Country to Forefront”: Eugene A. Kennedy. 22. “Ethnic Residential Concentrations in United States Metropolitan Areas”: James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. 23. “South Africa’s National Housing Subsidy Program and Apartheid’s Urban Legacy”: Kimberly Lanegran and David Lanegran. 24. “World-City Network: A New Metageography?”: Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, and Peter J. Taylor. Part VI: Economic Geography:. 25. “Geographies of Knowledge, Practices of Globalization: Learning from the Oil Exploration and Production Industry”: Gavin Bridge and Andrew Wood. 26. “The Impact of Containerization on Work on the New York–New Jersey Waterfront”: Andrew Herod. 27. “Wine, Spirits and Beer: World Patterns of Consumption”: David Grigg. 28. “Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn”: Paul Robbins and Julie T. Sharp. 29. “Women at Work”: Mona Domosh and Joni Seager. Part VII: The Geography of Development and Underdevelopment:. 30. “The Re-scaling of Uneven Development in Ghana and India”: Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. 31. “Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory”: A.J. Bebbington and D.H. Bebbington. 32. “Rural Development in El Hatillo, Nicaragua: Gender, Neoliberalism and Environmental Risk”: Julie Cupples. 33. “The Sahel of West Africa: A Place for Geographers?”: Simon Batterbury. 34. “Geography, Culture and Prosperity”: Andres Oppenheimer. Part VIII: Political Geography:. 34. “Revisiting the ‘pivot’: the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan’s international relations”: Nick Megoran. 35. “Euroregions in Comparative Perspective: Differential Implications for Europe’s Borderlands”: Joanna M.M. Kepka and Alexander B. Murphy. 36. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy”: Don Mitchell. Index

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Book SynopsisThe study of inequalities is the cornerstone of social geographic research. This book explores how cities as well as rural spaces are organized in ways that construct and maintain social inequality. A global perspective is maintained throughout, drawing on experiences, theories, and ideas from the global north and south.Trade Review"By not taking the well-trodden route of segmenting discussions of social geographies of gender, race, age, sex and so on, Del Casino is breaking the mould. He is offering something far superior ... [and] very accessible and student friendly." (Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2012) Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Boxes. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Cover Image. Introduction. Part I Historicizing Social Geography: From Theory to Methodology. 1 Social Geography? What's That? 2 Social Geography in Three Acts and an Epilogue. 3 Thinking Methodologically. Part II Social Geographies across the Life Course. 4 Social Geography and the Geographies of Health. 5 Communities and Organizations. 6 Social Activism/Social Movements/Social Justice. Part III Social Geographies through the Life Course. 7 On the Geographies of Children and Young People. 8 Social Geographies of the "Mid-Life"? 9 Ageing and the "New" Social Geographies of Older People. Part IV Conclusions. 10 Epilogue v. 2.0. 11 Rethinking the Social Geographies of Difference and Inequality. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisUtilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and presentincluding both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistance Examines the productive geographies of contestation Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connection between different place-based struggles and argues that such solidarities are essential to produce more plural forms of globalization Trade Review"This is a book that demands the attention and engagement of geographers, and others 'inside' and 'outside' academia, working on the intersections between social movements, political identities and the neoliberal state, ultimately offering a productive and uniquely positive approach to understanding and acting on the issues raised by such concerns." (Area, February 2011) "Featherstone has produced a book as dexterous, creative, and wide-ranging as the political networks it seeks to describe." (Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning D, February 2011) "This reviewer thinks we should be rather more generous - for, whatever the political objectives, we should be hugely grateful for Featherstone's rescuing of the past relational geographies of resistance." (Progress in Human Progress in Human Progress, February 2011) "This persuasive, important, and well-written book rethinks resistance to dominant forms of globalization by emphasizing the translocal, often transnational, character of subaltern protest ... Featherstone has produced a book as dexterous, creative, and wide-ranging as the political network it seeks to describe." (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2010) "In summary, RSPI is an incisive and stimulating work that significantly enhances our understanding of the construction and operation of counter-globalization networks. It extends and develops relational accounts of political identities and space in important ways, contributing to debates in political theory, human geography and social movement." (Social Movement Studies, 22 October 2010) "Featherstone's book contributes to our understanding of the formation of counter-global networks. He shows that transnational networks are not void of place.... This book provides a good starting point for scholars who seek an understanding what happens to networks when subaltern relationships are spread across the globe." (Mobilization, March 2010) "This optimistic take on the role of political contestation in world-making processes is a welcome change from the gloom and doom so typical of other geographical texts." (Environment and Planning A, 2009)Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political 1 Part I Networking the Political 13 1 Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities 15 2 Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms 36 Part II Geographies of Connection and Contestation 57 3 Labourers’ Politics and Mercantile Networks 59 4 Making Democratic Spatial Practices 79 5 Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms 99 Part III Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement 119 6 Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization Movement 121 7 Constructing Transnational Political Networks 149 Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection 177 Notes 190 References 196 Index 221

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Book SynopsisUpdated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell''s A Companion to the City Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Materialities 3 Introducing Materialities 5 1 The Great Towns 11 Friedrich Engels 2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17 William Cronon 3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32David Harvey 4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40Manuel Castells 5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49Allen J. Scott 6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60Ash Amin 7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72Sujata Patel 8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen 9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack Part II Mobilities 95 Introducing Mobilities 97 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103Georg Simmel 11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111Michel de Certeau 12 The Arcades Project 119Walter Benjamin 13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126Saskia Sassen 14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero 15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138Arjun Appadurai 16 Connections 144John Urry 17 Driving in the City 152Nigel Thrift 18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu Part III Division and Difference 169 Introducing Division and Difference 171 19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186William Julius Wilson 21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193Mike Davis 22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201Neil Smith 23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211Don Mitchell 24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221Michel Foucault 25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228Iris Marion Young 26 City A/Genders 237Sophie Watson 27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243George Chauncey Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253 Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255 28 The Public Realm 261Richard Sennett 29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273Jane Jacobs 30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278Nancy N. Chen 31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284Setha M. Low 32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293Sharon Zukin 33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303Judith R. Walkowitz 34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311Franco Moretti 35 Writing the City 317Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley 36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323James Donald Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331 Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333 37 The Growth of the City 339Ernest W. Burgess 38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345Le Corbusier 39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355James Holston 40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365Anthony D. King 41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374Edward W. Soja 42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382John Hull Mollenkopf 43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch 44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402Susan S. Fainstein 45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419John Friedmann 47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang Index 433

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Book SynopsisUpdated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell''s A Companion to the City Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Materialities: Introducing Materialities 1.. The Great Towns (Frederick Engels). 2. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (William Cronon). 3. The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis (David Harvey). 4.. An Introduction to the Information Age (Manuel Castells). 5. Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form (Allen J. Scott). 6. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities (Ash Amin). 7. The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: the Mega-City of a Poor Country (Sujata Patel). 8. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale (Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen). 9. Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies (Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack). Part II: Mobilities: Introducing Mobilities10. The Metropolis and Mental Life (Georg Simmel). 11. The Practice of Everyday Life (Michel de Certeau). 12. The Arcades Project (Walter Benjamin). 13. The Global City: Introducing a Concept (Sakia Sassen). 14. Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California (Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero). 15. Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Arjun Appadurai) 16. Connections (John Urry). 17. Driving in the City (Nigel Thrift). 18. Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor (Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu). Part III: Division and Difference: Introducing Division and Difference 19. The Continuing Causes of Segregation (Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton). 20. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy (William Julius Wilson). 21. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Mike Davis). 22. After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City (Neil Smith). 23. The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the "Purely Atomic" Individual (Don Mitchell). 24. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Michel Foucault). 25. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference (Iris Marion Young). 26. City A/Genders (Sophie Watson). 27. Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: the Village and Harlem (George Chauncey). Part IV: Urban Publics and Urban Cultures: Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures. 28. The Public Realm (Richard Sennett). 29. Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs). 30. China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life (Nancy N. Chen). 31. Spatializing Culture: the Social Construction. of Public Space in Costa Rica (Setha M. Low). 32. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Sharon Zukin). 33. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Judith R. Walkowitz). 34. Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality (Franco Moretti). 35. Writing the City (Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley). 36. Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces (James Donald). Part V: Urban Politics and Planning: Introducing Urban Politics and Planning. 37. The Growth of the City (Ernest W. Burgess). 38. The City of Tomorrow and its Planning (Le Corbusier). 39. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília (James Holston). 40. Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy (Anthony D. King). 41. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis (Edward W. Soja). 42. How to Study Urban Political Power (John Hull Mollenkopf). 43. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch). 44. New Directions in Planning Theory (Susan S. Fainstein). 45. Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism (Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore). 46. China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future (John Friedmann). 47. Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China (Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang). Index.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinkedTable of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue1 OverviewSECTION I. “IN A QUIET SWAMP, THERE ARE DEVILS WANDERING”: RUINS AND GHOSTS IN BATUMIIntroduction2 Walking a Ruined City3 Devils and BrotherhoodsConclusion: A Period Made PastSECTION II. DAILY INTO THE BLUE? YOUNG LIVES BETWEEN LONGING AND ENGAGEMENTIntroduction4 The White Georgian5 A Tale of Two ArtistsConclusion: “Because of” or “In Order To”?SECTION III. THE FUTURE HAUNTING THE PRESENTIntroduction6 Subjunctive Moods and Imperative Reminders7 Subjunctive MaterialitiesConclusion: Horizons in MotionSECTION IV. APPARITIONSIntroduction8 Social Afterlives and the Creation of Temporal MarginsEpilogueReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.Having immersed herself in a year of fieldwork, Griffin maps multiple engagements with the flexible bus, shared van, and private taxi services to demonstrate that the politics of mobility are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle. Griffin uses critical border studies to look at the contested nature of mobility at the sites of transit, where Palestinians practice self-determination through routine participation, spectacular political organizing and demonstration, and artisticTrade Review"[A] unique and invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination....[T]he publication of Vehicles of Decolonization is notable and worth celebrating.... [I]t succeeds in showing how the shape of public transportation is connected to a set of broader political and economic contradictions.... For scholars eager to think about public transportation outside the strictures of land use debates or environmental sustainability, Vehicles of Decolonization remains important precisely in its ability to place public transportation squarely within debates on political power, identity, and political economy."—City and Community"Griffin highlights public transportation as a site of collective Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank. She begins by illuminating the Israeli systems of border crossings, surveillance, and permits that seek to impede Palestinians’ movement in the region. The book then investigates the ways Palestinians use routes, human interactions surrounding transportation, and vehicles themselves to subvert these systems. Griffin also presents the history of political protests on West Bank buses and anti-occupation art that depicts public transit as examples of Palestinian social struggle centered around mobility."—Middle East Journal"[A] rich piece of political geography that celebrates the agency of people whose every movement can be controlled. With no apologies for her activist and sympathetic posture, Griffin describes the quotidian travails of daily life in the West Bank, where a modern highway system and buses for Jewish settlers are largely off limits for Palestinians.... [T]his well-researched monograph presents a positive picture of resilience, imagination, and community often missing in accounts of the West Bank.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Griffin provides a compelling examination of what she refers to as the 'regime of im/mobility' imposed by Israel on Palestinians inside the West Bank."—Contemporary Sociology"Griffin's writing contextualises the ramifications of public transportation for Palestinians from within Israel's colonial framework, thus setting the scene for readers to engage with a political reality that is either denied or obfuscated."—Middle East Monitor“A critical aspect of colonial biopolitics is the control of body and its movement. Maryam Griffin’s highly insightful Vehicles of Decolonization is the first detailed study of not only how Israeli occupation restrains the daily movement of the Palestinians through walls, checkpoints, permits, and road systems, but especially how Palestinians resist this regime of enclosure by reclaiming mobility through mundane yet highly contested venues of public transit and collective interaction. A timely book.”—Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“A lively and accessible read, Griffin’s book is the first in-depth study of im/mobility in the West Bank. In a landscape pockmarked by politically created closures, constrained movements, and forbidden spaces, public transport takes on important and contested meaning. Griffin’s account demonstrates how despite the intricacies of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians carve out spaces that provide possibilities for social connections and decolonial power, sometimes through mundane practices such as seatbelt clicks, hand-drawn maps, and a metro network art installation, which, given the political conditions, are rendered spectacular.”—Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and coeditor of Gaza as Metaphor"Vehicles of Decolonization is an original study about the restricted daily life and hardships Palestinians have been experiencing under Israeli occupation since 1967; it is also about the imaginative alternatives they have deployed to assert their rights and agency. This study would be of interest to scholars and students in Middle East history, Palestine and Settler Colonial Studies, and the social sciences."—Arab Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisExamining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.Having immersed herself in a year of fieldwork, Griffin maps multiple engagements with the flexible bus, shared van, and private taxi services to demonstrate that the politics of mobility are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle. Griffin uses critical border studies to look at the contested nature of mobility at the sites of transit, where Palestinians practice self-determination through routine participation, spectacular political organizing and demonstration, and artisticTrade Review"[A] unique and invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination....[T]he publication of Vehicles of Decolonization is notable and worth celebrating.... [I]t succeeds in showing how the shape of public transportation is connected to a set of broader political and economic contradictions.... For scholars eager to think about public transportation outside the strictures of land use debates or environmental sustainability, Vehicles of Decolonization remains important precisely in its ability to place public transportation squarely within debates on political power, identity, and political economy."—City and Community"Griffin highlights public transportation as a site of collective Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank. She begins by illuminating the Israeli systems of border crossings, surveillance, and permits that seek to impede Palestinians’ movement in the region. The book then investigates the ways Palestinians use routes, human interactions surrounding transportation, and vehicles themselves to subvert these systems. Griffin also presents the history of political protests on West Bank buses and anti-occupation art that depicts public transit as examples of Palestinian social struggle centered around mobility."—Middle East Journal"[A] rich piece of political geography that celebrates the agency of people whose every movement can be controlled. With no apologies for her activist and sympathetic posture, Griffin describes the quotidian travails of daily life in the West Bank, where a modern highway system and buses for Jewish settlers are largely off limits for Palestinians.... [T]his well-researched monograph presents a positive picture of resilience, imagination, and community often missing in accounts of the West Bank.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Griffin provides a compelling examination of what she refers to as the 'regime of im/mobility' imposed by Israel on Palestinians inside the West Bank."—Contemporary Sociology"Griffin's writing contextualises the ramifications of public transportation for Palestinians from within Israel's colonial framework, thus setting the scene for readers to engage with a political reality that is either denied or obfuscated."—Middle East Monitor“A critical aspect of colonial biopolitics is the control of body and its movement. Maryam Griffin’s highly insightful Vehicles of Decolonization is the first detailed study of not only how Israeli occupation restrains the daily movement of the Palestinians through walls, checkpoints, permits, and road systems, but especially how Palestinians resist this regime of enclosure by reclaiming mobility through mundane yet highly contested venues of public transit and collective interaction. A timely book.”—Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“A lively and accessible read, Griffin’s book is the first in-depth study of im/mobility in the West Bank. In a landscape pockmarked by politically created closures, constrained movements, and forbidden spaces, public transport takes on important and contested meaning. Griffin’s account demonstrates how despite the intricacies of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians carve out spaces that provide possibilities for social connections and decolonial power, sometimes through mundane practices such as seatbelt clicks, hand-drawn maps, and a metro network art installation, which, given the political conditions, are rendered spectacular.”—Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and coeditor of Gaza as Metaphor"Vehicles of Decolonization is an original study about the restricted daily life and hardships Palestinians have been experiencing under Israeli occupation since 1967; it is also about the imaginative alternatives they have deployed to assert their rights and agency. This study would be of interest to scholars and students in Middle East history, Palestine and Settler Colonial Studies, and the social sciences."—Arab Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisReveals how activism to reclaim gentrifying urban spaces, even in a supposedly equitable welfare state, is dramatically impacted by the physical and social geography of the movement's context.Trade Review“Beginning with a charming portrait of one small Swedish neighborhood, Kimberly Creasap demonstrates the power of the concept of a social movement ‘scene,’ a concentrated network of activists and the places they congregate. Scenes are not just a resource for politics; they are an accomplishment in their own right. Who really owns a city? And how?”—James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements“A must-read on autonomous social movements resisting gentrification in Swedish cities that draws on a conceptual apparatus made up of centrality, concentration, and visibility. Making a Scene is rich in contextual detail, description, and, critically, a sense of hope for activists everywhere. Creasap puts the spatial into the social of social movement research and contributes to the rapidly growing literature on resistance in gentrification studies.”—Loretta Lees, Incoming Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, and coauthor of Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification"Creasap offers the reader ethnographic glimpses and comparisons of the local social movement scenes in Sweden’s three major cities of Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö.... [Her] main argument serves as an important contribution to the scholarship on social movement scenes. This book also presents an important call for thinking more critically about spatiality in the sociology of social movements more generally."—Social Forces"Creasap's comparative analysis of autonomous movements across these three different urban spaces provides a nuanced contribution not just to social movement studies but to urban social science, as well.... Making a Scene provides important insights that will be invaluable for social movement scholars, political sociologists, and urban social scientists studying gentrification and neighborhood change."—Mobilization"This book contributes to the understanding of autonomist and anarchist movements in Sweden’s three major cities.... Creasap’s concise and clear writing style helps readers follow the storyline and makes the sociological picture of the activist scenes more palatable for a wider, non-academic audience. The book also enriches the literature by analysing urban activism and radical politics in Sweden at a very specific historical period.... [I]t represents a well-crafted research effort and offers important insights to consider when addressing theoretical questions at the intersection of urban sociology, urban movements, and far-left radical politics in the somewhat unique Swedish context."—Acta Sociologica“Creasap examines an important issue in the social movement literature—the centrality of place for the rise and fall of social movements. Introducing the concept of social movement scenes, she theorizes their importance and the interplay between these scenes and the political economies of their cities. Moreover, Making a Scene engages in an interesting discussion of how gentrification contributes to both sharpening the grievances of urban activists and destroying the environment they need to survive and thrive."—Walter J. Nicholls, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship"This slim sociological study provides welcome data on gentrification and oppositional social movements outside the US, while also providing a counterpoint to generalized readings of the overall success of the Swedish welfare state.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"[A] detailed ethnographic study of the social movement 'scenes' in Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmo in Sweden. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, it is the kind of ethnographic work that allows for deep exploration of issues and people, and that uses that exploration to raise complex questions.... [I]t adds admirably to the large body of work on urban social movements, and is worth reading by those interested in dynamics and processes in such movements.... [T]his is a good book that should be of real interest to scholars who are interested in urban social movements, and those who simply want to read an interesting set of stories about these scenes."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisFishing in Contested Waters demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: Re-membering Burnt Church Chapter 2 "Those Relationships Became Countries" Chapter 3 Contested Place Chapter 4 Seeking Justice: Rights and Religion in the Dispute Chapter 5 Conservation Talk: Negotiating Power and Place Chapter 6 The Canadian Way Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America's premier multicultural metropolises - Toronto, New York, and Los AngelesTrade Review'Qadeer brings to bear an in-depth knowledge about multicultural cities, their urban institutions and structures and insights into ways these institutions and structures are evolving and cultural differences negotiated.' -- Carlos Teixeira Journal of Urban Affairs January 2017Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Cultures and the City Chapter 2: Multiculturalism: Diversity Rights and Common Ground Chapter 3: Making Multicultural Cities Chapter 4: Social Geography of Multicultural Cities Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Urban Economy Chapter 6: Patterns of Community Life Chapter 7: Experiences of Living in Multicultural Cities Chapter 8: Political Incorporation and Diversity Chapter 9: Pluralism of Urban Services Chapter 10: Urban Planning for Cultural Diversity Chapter 11: Imagining Multicultural Cities Appendix 1. Theoretical Discourse on Multiculturalism

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually, provide for student and general reader stimulating analysis of social phenomena which are under lively examination these days in Canada and beyond both in popular and semi-popular journals and magazines and in learned writings.Nathan Keyfitz opens the volume with a valuable background analysis of the way in which the population of Canada has reached its present numbers and distribution and examines the effects of immigration and of changing rates of birth and death. S.D. Clark deals with the controversial question of what the real characteristics of the suburban community can be seen to be and comments forcefully on the 'suburbia' of Riesman, Whyte, et al. W.E. Mann present

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Book SynopsisIn Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin tells the story of the park's establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.Trade Review'This is an important book that tells a story, we think we know, in a new and different way... A significant contribution to the regional and national history of Canada.' -- Tina Loo Acadiensis September 2016 'Historians, civil servants, students, and general public will find it a stimulating and valuable interpretation of the time and events.' -- Sheila Andrew Canadian Historical Review vol 97:04:2016 "Kouchibouguac is an excellent book, not only as a resource, but as enlightening reading for anyone with a social conscience. Ronald Rudin is to be applauded for his intensive and extensive research and his obvious concern for getting the Kouchibouguac story told properly and lucidly." -- James M. Fisher The Miramichi Reader, August 24, 2016Table of ContentsPrologue: On the Road Again Part I: Removal Chapter 1: People Before the Park Chapter 2: Planning Without People Chapter 3: Removal and Rehabilitation Part II: Resistance Chapter 4: Gone Fishing Chapter 5: The Acadian Freedom Fighter Part III: Remembrance Chapter 6: Art for a Cause Chapter 7: Reconciliation Epilogue: Chez Comeau

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Book SynopsisIn their annual sessions the various Sections of the Royal Society are accustomed to take up for general discussion a topic of current interest and this gives Fellows and special guests from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities an opportunity for useful communication across the disciplines on an important subject.In 1961 the topic was an especially vital issue, the population explosion, and this volume, based on the papers given at the meeting, has much valuable information and many pertinent and provocative comments on this phenomenon particularly as it affects Canada.T.W.M. Cameron leads off with a general background on the causes and consequences of the population increase around the world. Then come a group of papers presenting various aspects of the population in Canada’s settled areas. Pierre Dagenais studies the growth in that population in recent years; Guy Rocher presents developments in our labour force in the 1900’s with

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Book SynopsisIron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University''s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography. Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe<Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables viii Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Public, Private, Privatism 14 3 The Post-socialist City 34 4 Post-modern Urbanism Revisited 60 5 Sofia: Wither the Socialist City 81 6 The Ninth Ring: Suburbanizing Sofia 105 7 Iron Curtains I: Gated Homes 131 8 Iron Curtains II: Gated Complexes 149 9 Architecture of Disunity 170 10 Possibilities 191 References 198 Index 220

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environmentTrade Review"In this excellent book, Yvonne Rydin skilfully critiques the current growth-dependent British planning system while offering a comprehensive and progressive agenda for its reform using the concept of `just sustainability.’" Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA."Contains much that will engage anyone who has an interest in the kinds of villages, towns and cities we should build in Britain." International Planning StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Introducing growth-dependent planning; Embedding Growth-Dependence in the Planning System; The Growth-Dependent Planning Paradigm; The Flawed Economic Assumptions of Growth Dependent Planning; The Environmental and Social Consequences of Growth Dependent Planning; Reforming the Planning Agenda; Alternative Development Models; Protecting and Improving Existing Places; Assets in Common; Reforming the Planning System.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environmentTrade Review"In this excellent book, Yvonne Rydin skilfully critiques the current growth-dependent British planning system while offering a comprehensive and progressive agenda for its reform using the concept of `just sustainability.’" Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA."Contains much that will engage anyone who has an interest in the kinds of villages, towns and cities we should build in Britain." International Planning StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Introducing growth-dependent planning; Embedding Growth-Dependence in the Planning System; The Growth-Dependent Planning Paradigm; The Flawed Economic Assumptions of Growth Dependent Planning; The Environmental and Social Consequences of Growth Dependent Planning; Reforming the Planning Agenda; Alternative Development Models; Protecting and Improving Existing Places; Assets in Common; Reforming the Planning System.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.Trade Review"This book is both topical and timely given the extensive debate about sustainability and the challenges caused by financial austerity and welfare reform." Dr Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"A valuable resource for those interested in the study of sustainable development strategies and policies." Town Planning Review"Sustainability is a term that has risen in prominence just as global cities like London are becoming ever less sustainable. This important new book calls for a renewed emphasis on social justice in urban policy making. The authors remind us of the things that really matter in life and the political battles that need to be won over wages, housing, transport and the environment." Professor Jane Wills, Queen Mary University of London"It’s no longer a surprise that the words `sustainable development’ at best are marginal adjustments, or more likely, cynical greenwash. Sustainable London explores the results in ruthless detail – seen in the `post-political’, socially cleansed `mixed communities’, complete with their `poor doors’ and `anti-homeless spikes’. It is a waymarker which sets the agenda." Joe Ravetz, Co-Director, Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy, University of Manchester“This is an innovative and accessible book that makes a significant and unique contribution to the discussion around sustainability, providing a high level of commentary and analysis from a range of strong contributors.” Dr John Flint, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsPreface; Foreword ~ Ben Rogers; Part 1: Sustaining London: the key challenges; London’s future and sustainable city building ~ Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees; Privatising London: a conversation with Anna Minton; Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London ~ Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee; Part 2: Sustaining London in an era of austerity; Sustainable governance and planning in London ~ Emma Street; Privatisation, managerialism and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London ~ Mike Raco; Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour ~ Cathy McIlwaine and Kavita Datta; Sustaining London’s welfare in an age of austerity ~ Chris Hamnett; Part 3: The challenges for a socially sustainable London; The death of sustainable communities in London? ~ Loretta Lees; From supermarkets to community building: Tesco PLC, sustainable place making and urban regeneration ~ Rob Imrie and Mike Dolton; Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence? ~ Tim Butler; Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London? ~ James Fournière; Part 4: Sustaining London’s environmental future; Rhetoric in transitioning to sustainable travel ~ Robin Hickman; Building the healthy city in London ~ Clare Herrick; Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London ~ Franklin Ginn and Robert A Francis; Part 5: Postscript; Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London ~ Loretta Lees and Rob Imrie.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.Trade Review"This book is both topical and timely given the extensive debate about sustainability and the challenges caused by financial austerity and welfare reform." Dr Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"A valuable resource for those interested in the study of sustainable development strategies and policies." Town Planning Review"Sustainability is a term that has risen in prominence just as global cities like London are becoming ever less sustainable. This important new book calls for a renewed emphasis on social justice in urban policy making. The authors remind us of the things that really matter in life and the political battles that need to be won over wages, housing, transport and the environment." Professor Jane Wills, Queen Mary University of London"It’s no longer a surprise that the words `sustainable development’ at best are marginal adjustments, or more likely, cynical greenwash. Sustainable London explores the results in ruthless detail – seen in the `post-political’, socially cleansed `mixed communities’, complete with their `poor doors’ and `anti-homeless spikes’. It is a waymarker which sets the agenda." Joe Ravetz, Co-Director, Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy, University of Manchester“This is an innovative and accessible book that makes a significant and unique contribution to the discussion around sustainability, providing a high level of commentary and analysis from a range of strong contributors.” Dr John Flint, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsPreface; Foreword ~ Ben Rogers; Part 1: Sustaining London: the key challenges; London’s future and sustainable city building ~ Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees; Privatising London: a conversation with Anna Minton; Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London ~ Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee; Part 2: Sustaining London in an era of austerity; Sustainable governance and planning in London ~ Emma Street; Privatisation, managerialism and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London ~ Mike Raco; Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour ~ Cathy McIlwaine and Kavita Datta; Sustaining London’s welfare in an age of austerity ~ Chris Hamnett; Part 3: The challenges for a socially sustainable London; The death of sustainable communities in London? ~ Loretta Lees; From supermarkets to community building: Tesco PLC, sustainable place making and urban regeneration ~ Rob Imrie and Mike Dolton; Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence? ~ Tim Butler; Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London? ~ James Fournière; Part 4: Sustaining London’s environmental future; Rhetoric in transitioning to sustainable travel ~ Robin Hickman; Building the healthy city in London ~ Clare Herrick; Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London ~ Franklin Ginn and Robert A Francis; Part 5: Postscript; Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London ~ Loretta Lees and Rob Imrie.

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Book SynopsisThis book compares the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. It applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning.Trade Review"A well-structured and well-documented book, which analyses urban policies and local institutional framework in great detail and depth." Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction; New Localism(s) in Europe; Policies for deprived urban areas; Conceptualising New Localism(s): exploring local variations in urban governance practices across Europe; Lost in transformation: urban governance practices and the New Deal for Communities (NDC) in Bristol; Local government experiments to cope with structural change: The Social City Programme in Duisburg; The crystallization of New Localism(s) in Bristol and Duisburg: a cross-case comparison; The neo-institutional study of New Localism(s) as an analytical window for comparative urbanism: concluding reflections; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisGulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics and ethnic politics of education in multicultural cities.Trade Review"In this highly original book, Gulson and Webb make an informed and exciting contribution to post-structural approaches to policy analysis." Patrick Bailey, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: education policy and multicultural cities; Policy events; Policy and biopolitics: the event of race-based statistics in Toronto; The (micro)politics of racial neoliberalism; 'Up in the northwest corner of the city': the city, race and locating the school; Difference and recognition; Policy events, race and the future of the city.

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Book SynopsisCombines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.Trade Review“It is brilliant news that our ongoing campaigns about the need to strengthen local democracy has been recognised and supported by such an influential voice as Prof Wills. We would urge all to read this book regardless of who you are.” Cllr Ken Browse, chair of the National Association of Local Councils"This book makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on localism and its implications for changing state-society relationships and the location of power and control." Urban Geography"Localism is now a highly influential discourse in contemporary English politics. Jane Wills goes beyond the burgeoning advocacy and commentary to provide a thorough-going and subtle analysis of its qualities. A vital read for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and activists." John Tomaney, University College LondonTable of ContentsMaking sense of localism; The geo-constitution and the long history of localism; The place of the people; Localist local government; Institution building for localism; Community organising, past and present; Back to the Parish: the importance of place.

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Book SynopsisCombines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.Trade Review“It is brilliant news that our ongoing campaigns about the need to strengthen local democracy has been recognised and supported by such an influential voice as Prof Wills. We would urge all to read this book regardless of who you are.” Cllr Ken Browse, chair of the National Association of Local Councils"This book makes an important contribution to the emerging literature on localism and its implications for changing state-society relationships and the location of power and control." Urban Geography"Localism is now a highly influential discourse in contemporary English politics. Jane Wills goes beyond the burgeoning advocacy and commentary to provide a thorough-going and subtle analysis of its qualities. A vital read for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and activists." John Tomaney, University College LondonTable of ContentsMaking sense of localism; The geo-constitution and the long history of localism; The place of the people; Localist local government; Institution building for localism; Community organising, past and present; Back to the Parish: the importance of place.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008Trade Review"An accessible piece of literature that will add to the knowledge of many academics in this field." Town Planning Review"A genuinely fresh, and admirably provocative, attempt to reshape the way we seek to understand the evolving urban policy agenda." Housing Studies"After Urban Regeneration an excellent book and it is very well crafted and organised. The chapters are critical in tone and characterised by incisive critiques of community and urban policy and practice. There is nothing like this on the market that examines the impact of localism on communities, and the diverse ways in which community groups are cultivating new knowledges and practices of self government." Professor Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of London"This important contribution to the urban policy and regeneration literature is the first major text to critically examine urban policy in the UK since 2008, and proposes that we have entered a period of `post-regeneration’ in the UK. This contribution will be of use to academics, policy makers and communities alike." Andrew Tallon, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; Section 1: After regeneration?; Urban Policy and Communities ~ Stuart Wilks-Heeg; Connecting community to the post-regeneration era ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; When things fall apart ~ Sue Cohen and Morag McDermont; Section 2: Exploring Epistemologies; Microsolutions for Megaproblems: What works in urban regeneration policy? ~ Max Nathan; The work of art in the age of mechanical co-production. Steve Pool and Kate Pahl; There is no local here, love ~ Rebecca Bernstein, Antonia Layard, Martin Maudsley and Hilary Ramsden; Section 3: New places for communities; Forging Communities: the CAER Heritage Project and the dynamics of co-production ~ Clyde Ancarno, Oliver Davis and David Wyatt; Lessons from `The Vale’ – the role of hyperlocal media in shaping reputational geographies ~ David Harte; Contemporary Governance Discourse and Digital Media: Convergences, Prospects & Problems for the `Big Society’ Agenda ~ Chris Speed, Amadu Wurie Khan, Sharon Baurley and Martin Phillips; Section 4: new spaces for policy; Localism, neighbourhood planning and community control: the MapLocal pilot ~ Phil Jones, Antonia Layard, Colin Lorne, Chris Speed; Translation across borders: Exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Peter Matthews; Conclusion ~ Dave O’Brien and Peter Matthews.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008Trade Review"An accessible piece of literature that will add to the knowledge of many academics in this field." Town Planning Review"A genuinely fresh, and admirably provocative, attempt to reshape the way we seek to understand the evolving urban policy agenda." Housing Studies"After Urban Regeneration an excellent book and it is very well crafted and organised. The chapters are critical in tone and characterised by incisive critiques of community and urban policy and practice. There is nothing like this on the market that examines the impact of localism on communities, and the diverse ways in which community groups are cultivating new knowledges and practices of self government." Professor Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of London"This important contribution to the urban policy and regeneration literature is the first major text to critically examine urban policy in the UK since 2008, and proposes that we have entered a period of `post-regeneration’ in the UK. This contribution will be of use to academics, policy makers and communities alike." Andrew Tallon, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; Section 1: After regeneration?; Urban Policy and Communities ~ Stuart Wilks-Heeg; Connecting community to the post-regeneration era ~ Peter Matthews and Dave O’Brien; When things fall apart ~ Sue Cohen and Morag McDermont; Section 2: Exploring Epistemologies; Microsolutions for Megaproblems: What works in urban regeneration policy? ~ Max Nathan; The work of art in the age of mechanical co-production. Steve Pool and Kate Pahl; There is no local here, love ~ Rebecca Bernstein, Antonia Layard, Martin Maudsley and Hilary Ramsden; Section 3: New places for communities; Forging Communities: the CAER Heritage Project and the dynamics of co-production ~ Clyde Ancarno, Oliver Davis and David Wyatt; Lessons from ‘The Vale’ – the role of hyperlocal media in shaping reputational geographies ~ David Harte; Contemporary Governance Discourse and Digital Media: Convergences, Prospects & Problems for the ‘Big Society’ Agenda ~ Chris Speed, Amadu Wurie Khan, Sharon Baurley and Martin Phillips; Section 4: new spaces for policy; Localism, neighbourhood planning and community control: the MapLocal pilot ~ Phil Jones, Antonia Layard, Colin Lorne, Chris Speed; Translation across borders: Exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process ~ Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Peter Matthews; Conclusion ~ Dave O’Brien and Peter Matthews.

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Book SynopsisA wide range of contributors bring expertise from both developed and developing countries, to provide a big picture assessment of Bus Rapid Transit as part of an affordable process for restructuring transit systemsTrade Review"This is a must-read for those who wish to invest the time, intellectual energy, and building of political will required for BRT to help foster more sustainable cities." Fred Salvucci, former Secretary of Transportation for Massachusetts, USA??"A very thorough and comprehensive review of the role of Bus Rapid Transit, drawing on a wide range of in-depth research. Set in a broader institutional and policy context, the issues discussed are of wider application to public transport operation as a whole." Professor Peter White, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsThe promise of BRT ~ Laurel Paget-Seekins & Juan Carlos Munoz; Global overview of BRT and bus corridors ~ Luis Antonio Lindau, Cristina Albuquerque Moreira da Silva, Guillermo Petzhold & Daniela Facchini; Section 1: Institutional Relationships; The path toward integrated systems ~ Dario Hidalgo, Juan Carlos Munoz & Juan Miguel Velásquez; BRT as a tool for negotiated re-regulation ~ Onesimo Flores Dewey; Institutional design and regulatory frameworks ~ Rosário Macário, Maria Spandou & Luis Neves Filipe; Strategic participation for change ~ Lake Sagaris; Designing bus concession contracts ~ Patricia Galilea & Marco Batarce; Fare structures ~ Marco Batarce & Corinne Mulley; Section 2: BRT and the City; Conflict over public space ~ Laurel Paget-Seekins; Designing BRT-oriented development ~ Chris Zegras, Anson Stewart, Rosanna Forray, Rocío Hidalgo, Cristhian Figueroa, Fábio Duarte & Jan Wampler; Preferences for BRT and light rail – David Hensher, Corinne Mulley & John Rose; User preferences and route choice ~ Sebastián Raveau, Juan Carlos Munoz & Juan de Dios Ortúzar; Passenger information systems ~ Carola Zurob, José Manuel Allard, Rosário Macário, Bernardo Garcia and Camila Garcia; Section 3: Operations and Design; Opportunities provided by automated data collection systems ~ Nigel Wilson; Designing a BRT-based network under integrated operations ~ Homero Larrain, Omar Ibarra, Juan Carlos Munoz & Corinne Mulley; Assessing corridor performance ~ Juan Carlos Herrera, Juan Carlos Munoz, David Hensher, Corinne Mulley, Zheng Li & Luis Antonio Lindau; BRRT: adding an R for reliability ~ Felipe Delgado, Juan Carlos Munoz & Ricardo Giesen; Managing drivers and vehicles for cost-effective operations in regulated transit systems ~ Omar Ibarra & Ricardo Giesen; Road safety impact of BRT and busway features ~ Nicolae Duduta & Luis Antonio Lindau; Looking forward ~ Juan Carlos Munoz, Laurel Paget-Seekins.

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Book SynopsisThis edited book examines why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities around the world. Bridging academic and non-academic voices, contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by some of the city's most influential writers, planners, artists and activists.Trade Review“This is a most welcome addition to the growing body of literature that not only is bringing long overdue attention to Detroit but also seeks to provide much needed nuance and complexity to Manichean debates. Doucet challenges readers to dissect the conscious choices that led Detroit into and out of bankruptcy rather than accept what transpired as inevitable.” Journal of Urban Affairs"This is an important and unique book in the context of the future of cities globally. In considering Detroit as a symbol of aspects of post-industrial decline and regeneration, it gives voice to a range of normally excluded voices and narratives. It therefore provides a valuably rounded set of perspectives and visions which, together, help the reader to understand the forces that have shaped the city, and wider lessons for creating more inclusive cities." John McCarthy, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Detroit Matters ~ Brian Doucet; Section I: Lessons from Detroit; Detroit’s Bankruptcy: Treating the symptom, not the cause ~ George Galster; Detroit in Bankruptcy: What are the Lessons to be Learned? ~ Reynolds Farley ; Between economic revival and social disruption: The redevelopment of Greater Downtown and the emergence of new socio-spatial Inequalities ~ René Kreichauf; A new urban medicine show: On the limits of blight remediation ~ Joshua Akers; Reshaping the gray spaces: Resident self-provisioning and urban form in Detroit ~ Kimberley Kinder; Preserving Detroit by preserving Its baseball history ~ Jason Roche; This is (not) Detroit: Projecting the future of Germany’s Ruhr region ~ Julia Sattler; Intermezzo I: ‘You may not know my Detroit’ ~ jessica Care moore; Section II: Practices from Detroit; Evolution of municipal government in Detroit ~ John Gallagher; Detroit’s emerging innovation in urban infrastructure: how liabilities become assets for energy, water, industry and informatics ~ Dan Kinkead; Visions In conflict: A city of possibilities ~ Sharon Howell and Richard Feldman; Reconstructing Detroit: the resilient city ~ Khalil Ligon; Reawakening culture among Detroit’s resident majority ~ Jessica Brooke Williams; Make sure you’re helping: Experts, solidarity and effective partnering with locals ~ Drew Philp; New Strategies DMC, takin’ it all back home: Lessons from Detroit for arts practices in the Netherlands ~ Friso Wiersum, Bart Witte and Niko Doulos; Intermezzo II: My Detroit ~ Tyree Guyton; Section III: Conversations from Detroit; Lowell Boileau, artist and founder of DetroitYES; Sandra Hines, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Dan Carmody, Eastern Market Corporation; Jackie Victor, Avalon International Breads; Phil Cooley, Entrepreneur, owner of Slows Bar-B-Q and Ponyride; Wayne Curtis and Myrtle Thompson-Curtis, Feedom Freedom Farmers; Julia Putnam, Amanda Rosman and Marisol Teachworth, The James and Grace Lee Boggs School; Yusef Shakur, author and neighbourhood organizer; Grace Lee Boggs, activist; Conclusion: Detroit and the future of the city ~ Brian Doucet.

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Book SynopsisThis edited book examines why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities around the world. Bridging academic and non-academic voices, contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by some of the city's most influential writers, planners, artists and activists.Trade Review“This is a most welcome addition to the growing body of literature that not only is bringing long overdue attention to Detroit but also seeks to provide much needed nuance and complexity to Manichean debates. Doucet challenges readers to dissect the conscious choices that led Detroit into and out of bankruptcy rather than accept what transpired as inevitable.” Journal of Urban Affairs"This is an important and unique book in the context of the future of cities globally. In considering Detroit as a symbol of aspects of post-industrial decline and regeneration, it gives voice to a range of normally excluded voices and narratives. It therefore provides a valuably rounded set of perspectives and visions which, together, help the reader to understand the forces that have shaped the city, and wider lessons for creating more inclusive cities." John McCarthy, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Detroit Matters ~ Brian Doucet; Section I: Lessons from Detroit; Detroit’s Bankruptcy: Treating the symptom, not the cause ~ George Galster; Detroit in Bankruptcy: What are the Lessons to be Learned? ~ Reynolds Farley ; Between economic revival and social disruption: The redevelopment of Greater Downtown and the emergence of new socio-spatial Inequalities ~ René Kreichauf; A new urban medicine show: On the limits of blight remediation ~ Joshua Akers; Reshaping the gray spaces: Resident self-provisioning and urban form in Detroit ~ Kimberley Kinder; Preserving Detroit by preserving Its baseball history ~ Jason Roche; This is (not) Detroit: Projecting the future of Germany’s Ruhr region ~ Julia Sattler; Intermezzo I: ‘You may not know my Detroit’ ~ jessica Care moore; Section II: Practices from Detroit; Evolution of municipal government in Detroit ~ John Gallagher; Detroit’s emerging innovation in urban infrastructure: how liabilities become assets for energy, water, industry and informatics ~ Dan Kinkead; Visions In conflict: A city of possibilities ~ Sharon Howell and Richard Feldman; Reconstructing Detroit: the resilient city ~ Khalil Ligon; Reawakening culture among Detroit’s resident majority ~ Jessica Brooke Williams; Make sure you’re helping: Experts, solidarity and effective partnering with locals ~ Drew Philp; New Strategies DMC, takin’ it all back home: Lessons from Detroit for arts practices in the Netherlands ~ Friso Wiersum, Bart Witte and Niko Doulos; Intermezzo II: My Detroit ~ Tyree Guyton; Section III: Conversations from Detroit; Lowell Boileau, artist and founder of DetroitYES; Sandra Hines, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Dan Carmody, Eastern Market Corporation; Jackie Victor, Avalon International Breads; Phil Cooley, Entrepreneur, owner of Slows Bar-B-Q and Ponyride; Wayne Curtis and Myrtle Thompson-Curtis, Feedom Freedom Farmers; Julia Putnam, Amanda Rosman and Marisol Teachworth, The James and Grace Lee Boggs School; Yusef Shakur, author and neighbourhood organizer; Grace Lee Boggs, activist; Conclusion: Detroit and the future of the city ~ Brian Doucet.

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Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke

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Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on participatory international research, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles in responding, planning and adapting to disasters. It demonstrates how child-centred ways of working will benefit all those involved.Table of ContentsIIntroducing CUIDAR: A Child Centred Approach to Disasters ~ Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Ana Delicado Chapter 1., Children, Participation and Disasters in Europe: A Poor Record ~ Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez Chapter 2., Dialogues with Children, Mutual Learning Exercises and National Policy Debates ~ Anna Grisi, Flaminia Cordani, Sofia Ribeiro, Charikleia Kanari, Vassilis Argyropoulos, Miriam Arenas and Ana Delicado Chapter 3., Rights, Information, Needs and Active Involvement in Disaster Management ~ Ana Delicado, Miriam Arenas, Magda Nikolaraizi, Charikleia Kanari, Anna Grisi, Flaminia Cordani, Stefanie Keir Chapter 4., Building a Framework for Child-Centred Disaster Risk Management in Europe ~ Israel Rodriguez, Maggie Mort, Ana Nunes de Almeida, Ana Sofia Ribeiro Chapter 5., Participatory Tools for Disaster Risk Management with Children and Young People ~ Jussara Rowland, Miriam Arenas, Flamina Cordani, Anna Grisi, Magda Nikolaraizi, Maria Papazafiri, Alison Lloyd Williams, Aya Goto and Amanda Bingley Concluding Remarks: Reimagining Children’s Place in Disaster Risk Management ~ Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Maggie Mort, Ana Delicado

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Book SynopsisDrawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Civil society as a field of local action 2. Community and local civil society: time, continuity and change 3. Uncovering local civil society in two Welsh villages 4. Civil society through the narratives of place and time 5. Civil society and local associational life 6. The entwining of civil society, economy and state at local levels Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe past three decades have seen an international ‘turn to participation’ – letting those who will be affected by neighbourhood planning outcomes play an active role in decision-making. This innovative analysis brings theory, research, and practice together and gives insights into how and why citizen voices either become effective or get excluded.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Neighbourhood Planners and the Turn to Participation 2. Planning, Participation, and Democratisation 3. Knowledge, Politics and Care: Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies 4. Neighbourhoods, Identity and Legitimacy 5. Experience, Evidence and Examination 6. Expertise, Agency and Power 7. Care and Concern 8. Conclusions: Neighbourhood Planning and Beyond

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Book SynopsisAdvances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.Trade ReviewReaders are left with a range of new perspectives and methodologies that examine the varied aspects of ecological imperialism. Agricultural historians will find the collection especially helpful given that many of the essays focus on the development of colonial and modern agricultural practices.--Agricultural History

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Book SynopsisEvery year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the US and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020.

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Book SynopsisEvery year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the US and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020.

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Book SynopsisThe factors that caused Portugal to become a separate nation when other regions of the Iberian peninsula became part of Spain.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Landforms of Northwest and West Iberia 2. The Climate of Western Iberia 3. The Soils of Northern and Western Iberia 4. Vegetation Regions of Northern and Western Iberia 5. Prehistoric Immigrants into Iberia 6. Early Central European Influences in Iberia 7. Contacts between the Ancient Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Iberia 8. The Period of Roman Conquest and Control 9. The Germanic Conquest 10. Moslem Domination 11. The Reconquest of Iberia 12. Final Steps toward Portuguese Independence 13. Completion of the Portuguese State 14. Development of Portuguese International Relations 15. The Geography of Portuguese-Spanish Boundaries 16. Environment and Culture 17. The Geographical Basis of Portuguese Political Independence: A Summation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, Shifting Sands addresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization. Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands Part I. Exchanges and Flows The International Development of China Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) Part II. Corridors and Concessions China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands Part III. Settlements and Memories Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements Southwestern Borderlands Northwestern Borderlands Northeastern Borderlands Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisAttending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating new ways to theorize time, politics, and promise.Trade Review"The Promise of Infrastructure offers a provocative reflection on the current academic, social, and political moment that we find ourselves in. . . . While The Promise of Infrastructure as a whole offers a surprisingly comprehensive condemnation of the 'radically human-centered thinking' that has produced the Anthropocene challenge that we now face, it also suggests the tools we will need to map out possible futures. Appropriately, these are not prescriptions promising a better future. Rather they are openings for possibility, for action, and for wonder." -- Tim Oakes * Technology and Culture *"The volume offers a highly valuable contribution to the study of human/non-human relations. Taking up Brian Larkin’s call against a premature separation of the material from the discursive, the editors argue that infrastructural matter becomes political only in relation to human ideologies, aesthetics or histories." -- Laura Kemmer * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"The Promise of Infrastructure is a timely and compelling account of the myriad ways in which infrastructures can be theorized and the limits and potentials of the same." -- Siddharth Menon * AAG Review of Books *"The Promise of Infrastructure is a stellar collection of essays by anthropologists and social scientists who explore roads, buildings, bridges, water meters, pipelines, power stations, and other structures which we encounter on a daily basis but whose contribution to the production of difference we frequently overlook." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *"This book presents a combination of insightful theorisations and an engaging ethnography." -- Sudha Vasan * Economic & Political Weekly *"The Promise of Infrastructure is essential reading for scholars and students who wish to more fully understand the ethical and social role of the 'Ideal Infrastructure,' its history, its criticisms and its (uncertain) future destiny." -- Marco Spada * Environment and History *“The edited collection by Anand, Gupta, and Appel highlights infrastructures as a promising site for ethnographic research.... [It] reveal[s] the potential of infrastructural ethnography to make visible power inequalities and exclusionary practices and expose infrastructures as powerful sites for redefining governance and belonging.” -- Daivi Rodima-Taylor * American Anthropologist *“The Promise of Infrastructure teaches the reader how large state-run infrastructures can possibly induce and solidify regimes in pursuing their political promises. . . . Insights stemming out of The Promise of Infrastructure—especially the concept of ‘ruination’—enable researchers to acquire a ‘fuller’ account of the lifecycle of an infrastructure.” -- Alex Christian * Journal of Cultural Economy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta 1 Part I. Time 1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel 41 2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 62 3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey 80 4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel 102 Part II. Politics 5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler 133 6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand 155 Part III. 7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin 175 8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker 203 9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer 223 Contributors 245 Index 249

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Book SynopsisSandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.Trade Review"The Politics of Operations is a challenging, highly ambitious work. . . . Ultimately, the reorientation that Mezzadra and Neilson are proposing is a subtle one, indebted to a rich archive of political ideas. But they rework and recombine those ideas into a book that is shrewdly reasoned, superbly written, and thick with insight into the contemporary moment." -- Martin Danyluk * Society and Space *"Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson outline a novel perspective on the startling disjunctive synthesis of homogenization and heterogenization processes that characterize the global expansion of capitalist economy. Their second collaborative, book-length study offers a compelling account of the economic, political, and social relations to which these movements respond." -- Nicolas Schneider * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition 17 2. Operations of Capital 55 3. Capital, State, Empire 94 4. Extraction, Logistics, Finance 133 5. Vistas of Struggle 168 6. The State of Capitalist Globalization 209 References 253 Index 287

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Book SynopsisJuan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space.Trade Review“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood. . . . In these two ways—its analysis of the movement’s dynamic production of space, and in its focus on Oakland—Cartographic Memory is a signal achievement.” -- Laura Barraclough * Society and Space *"This book will helpfully inform the next generation of geographers, activists, and students on the crucial impact space has on social movements, and the ways social movements shape space and place." -- Aída R. Guhlincozzi * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Putting Fruitvale on the “Map” 1 1. Making Place 31 2. The Other Minority 61 3. Revolution Interrupted 89 4. Development for the People! 114 5. Mapping Interlinkages 144 Conclusion. Activism in Space-Time 171 Notes 197 References 219 Index 231

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Book SynopsisSecurity is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life. Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martinez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin ZeidermanTrade Review“This provocative book reframes the issue of security, considering it at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It opens new possibilities of critique and of understanding, using ethnographies to expose several dimensions of our everydayness that normalize fear, risk, violence, and the invisibilization of growing inequalities. It will become mandatory reading for all interested in criticizing contemporary formations of power and the ways in which violence and security are lived and felt in the everyday.” -- Teresa P. R. Caldeira, author of * City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo *“This volume offers a critical analysis of ‘security’ as a mode of power and form of governance by examining its aesthetic dimensions. The authors explore the institutions and discourses that sell protection from almost every aspect of everyday life. By focusing on the political and social aesthetics of how security claims and threats control human lives, they argue that it is these aesthetic manipulations that provide an affective infrastructure and set of practices that manage human life. An important addition to the anthropology of security, Futureproof provides a provocative glimpse into the future.” -- Setha Low, coeditor of * Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control *"The development of the concept of security as an aesthetic and sensory experience is an interesting line of research, and the broad sample of cases evaluated in Futureproof was well chosen. This is a reference text I would recommend for security practitioners as well as advanced students and scholars of security and strategic theories. Far from the typical security text, there are philosophical elements and advanced concepts that lend more to a scholar’s eye, but this text will prove educational for anyone with an interest in the staging and portrayal of security." -- Courteney J. O’Connor * LSE Review of Books *"This is a worthy and relevant contribution to security studies, a field which will likely become even more prominent in the post–COVID-19 world." -- R. P. Lorenzo * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Catherine Lutz vii Introduction. Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical / D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann, and Daniel M. Goldstein 1 1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three American Museum Exhibits / Victoria Bernal 33 2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Bogotá / Austin Zeiderman 63 3. "We All Have the Same Red Blood": Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border / Ieva Jusionyte 87 4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras / Jon Horne Carter 114 5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe 134 6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn's Real Estate / Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores and Alexandra Demshock 156 7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools / Rachel Hall 175 8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk / Limor Samimian-Darash 200 9. Securing "Standby" and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in Search of Forms / AbdouMaliq Simone 225 10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against "Informality" in Mexico City / Alejandra Leal Martínez 245 Afterword. The Age of Security / Didier Fassin 271 Acknowledgments 277 Contributors 279 Index 285

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Book SynopsisLouise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.Trade Review“Beautifully written and richly documented, Louise Amoore's Cloud Ethics analyzes the workings of algorithms in contemporary society, from those assessing security risks to self-learning and self-programming neural nets. She draws on her extensive interviews with experts in the field to explore the nuances of algorithmic doubt and certainty. Finally, she calls for a new ethics of doubt in which the individual components of algorithms are scrutinized to open new spaces for critique that can ‘crack open’ the seemingly certain fabulations of algorithmic calculation. Technically stunning and critically informed, this book is required reading for anyone interested in how to resist the current trends toward algorithmic governmentality.” -- N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles“Calling for an embrace of the contingency and doubt that is inherent in the structure and working of algorithms, this important book refuses mythologies of certainty and machinic omnipotence. Framing computation as a partial accounting, Cloud Ethics moves beyond the unproductive binaries of ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ to consider algorithms as generative of complex political possibilities.” -- Caren Kaplan, author of * Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above *"Similar to scholars such as N. Katherine Hayles, Amoore engages with a wide range of philosophers and novelists to make sense of the ethicopolitical implications of algorithms. As a result, the book is highly engaging and is densely packed with novel ideas and concepts (e.g., ‘space of play’ and ‘algorithmic author function’) that will undoubtedly take on a life of their own in future research. Given their proliferation in society, there has never been a more apt time to examine the ethicopolitical impact of algorithms, and Louise Amoore’s Cloud Ethics is the book to turn to." -- Ben Jacobsen * Information, Communication & Society *"Amoore . . . has written what I consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical and political analysis of our digital condition." -- Davide Panagia * Public Books *“Amoore’s text will be of great interest to critical communication scholars, political scientists, and researchers from other disciplines and fields interested in critical algorithm studies. ...Cloud Ethics is a text that will exceed its source, one that will benefit debates and contention within the academic fields it touches on as well as society at large.” -- Catherine Jeffery * International Journal of Communication *“[Cloud Ethics] substantially advances our understanding of the ethical and political considerations necessary for navigating this ever-changing world.... It also subtly offers a methodology for the social sciences to intervene in discussions on the algorithmic, through reading against the grain of technical books and fabulation as a tool of critique.” -- Andrew C. Dwyer * AAG Review of Books *“Cloud Ethics is a demanding, exciting, and timely read. . . . It will travel well across most social sciences and even humanities, and will be of interest to scholars in ethics, politics, government and technology, but also aesthetics, law, and literature.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms 1 Part 1. Condensation 1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason 29 2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition 56 Part 2. Attribution 3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution 85 4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts 108 Part 3. Ethics 5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts 133 6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics 154 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Index 212

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Book SynopsisConceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance.Trade Review“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty, Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.” -- Marilyn Strathern, author of * Relations: An Anthropological Account *“Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics, Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.” -- Stuart Elden, author of * Shakespearean Territories *“[Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.” -- Martin T. Fromm * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Voluminous: An Introduction / Franck Billé 1 Sovereignty 1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline Humphrey 39 2. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn 52 3. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss 64 4. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris 78 5. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Applying Governance / Marcel LaFlamme 91 Materiality 6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds 105 7. Downwind: Three Phases of a Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee 119 8. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary Cunningham 131 9. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong / Clancy Wilmott 146 10. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / Gastón Gordillo Territorial Imagination 11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green 175 12. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong 191 13. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons 204 14. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassu / Franck Billé 217 15. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Lisa Sang-Mi Min 230 Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia 243 Bibliography 253 Index 279

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Book SynopsisReflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.Trade Review“Conveying a powerful message about the dire state of the world, Arturo Escobar offers a monumental critique: the crisis we face is civilizational; the tools that modernity has made available are inadequate to the tasks we face; and the only viable way forward entails a radical break from conventional practices. Escobar's vigorous call to decolonize our imaginaries in order to liberate our individual and collective sense of what is possible is compelling, deeply inspiring, and sure to spark urgently needed dialogue.” -- Charles R. Hale, coeditor of * Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics *“With optimism of the will and of the intellect, Arturo Escobar does not tell us what is or what could be; rather he contributes tools to imagine possibility differently—to dare think the unthinkable. The pluriverse he proposes is unknown practice, that, however, does not authorize us to think it is impossible practice.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *"Escobar begins with a fundamental question: “are we really the autonomous individuals we imagine ourselves to be?” (5). . . . Over the course of subsequent chapters, Escobar convincingly demonstrates how modern individualism, far from being an innate condition of contemporary reality, is rather one possibility among many that has prevailed only because it forecloses other worldviews." -- Pedro Ponce * SFRA Review *“Pluriversal Politics is an inspirational book that not only makes us believe in the possibilities of civilizational transitions, but also offers some theoretical tools and intuitive clues for academics. . . . The book is a great entry point to the work of one of the most influential social scientists from Latin America.” -- Paola Solís Huertas * KULT Online *“Escobar calls for us to think about the possibility of another world by asking if we can separate ourselves from the nonhuman things we have created. . . . Escobar presents a woven tapestry of revolutionism, social movements, social struggles, and bottom-up approaches to call for transformation.” -- Tavis D. Jules & Benjamin D. Scherrer * Comparative Education Review *"Pluriversal Politics is a valuable contribution to conversations around politics in theAnthropocene and potential transitions. Its regional focus makes it of particular interest to thoseengaged in Latin America, but should be stimulating to anyone interested in environmental orpolitical anthropology, more-than-human anthropology, or the ontological turn more widely." -- Gabriel Urlich Lennon * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Escobar] offers ways of philosophizing life that not only have a strong emphasis on but also rootedness in praxis and activism. . . . In addition, despite the volume’s regional focus on Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América, Escobar’s decolonial lens and focus on the (re)localization of action invite any reader to extrapolate his ideas to other contexts.” -- Lisa Ausic * Politics, Religion & Ideology *Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition ix Prologue xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible 1 1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible 13 2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes 31 3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity 46 4. Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South 67 5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory 84 6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva) 97 7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions 120 8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia 136 Notes 159 References 175 Index 185

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Book SynopsisAs vast infrastructure projects transform the Mekong River, Andrew Alan Johnson explores of how rapid environmental change affects how people live, believe, and dream.Trade Review“Mekong Dreaming is both an exemplary work of ethnography and a timely and important intervention in contemporary debates in anthropological theory. Focusing on northeast Thailand and the effects of dam construction on the Mekong among local fishing and farming communities, this book's original contribution consists in its foregrounding of uncertainty and unknowability in the lived experience of non-western cosmologies.” -- Stuart J. McLean, coeditor of * Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing *“Andrew Alan Johnson's lucid and richly detailed ethnography of the Thai-Lao border shows how the inchoate and the unknowable can be apprehended through genuinely empirical research. In this masterful analysis, Johnson shows how a marginalized population grapples with the intensified environmental uncertainties generated by modern technology and political upheaval by deploying a cosmological vision that enfolds piety, potentiality, and materiality in a tangled experiential frame.” -- Michael Herzfeld, author of * Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"The book is clearly written, presenting a compelling narrative of daily life and also delving into complex topics without drowning in academic jargon. As such it is accessible for both students and experts. . . . The power of Johnson’s approach is that rather than simply casting uncertainty as a negative, he explores the ways in which uncertainty—the power of 'maybe'—can act as a potency rather than simply something to be worked around." -- Erin B. Taylor * Anthropology Book Forum *“Mekong Dreaming is a lovely, fluent ethnography of a river and its political ecology, focusing on the people on one bank of the Mekong where it forms a border between Thailand and Laos…. Johnson’s style is crisp and engaging and his dealings with recent theory are all concrete and pointed…. Johnson has produced political ethnography of a high order.” -- Leo Coleman * PoLAR Online *“This accessible anthropological work, Mekong Dreaming, demonstrates how infrastructural projects—in this case, hydropower dams on the Mekong—interrupt and reconfigure the social life of the river and relations of those whose fate has long been intertwined with its currents.” -- Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre * LSE Review of Books *“Johnson’s argument is complex, deftly interweaving fields as diverse as environmental anthropology, migration studies, Thai animism and mediumship, border studies, and more. The resulting ethnography is illuminating and compelling.” -- Mary Beth Mills * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Johnson’s writing is a pleasure: eclectic, erudite and sometimes eccentric.... He handles weighty concepts lightly, and doesn’t let unwieldy terminology upset the flow of the very reader-friendly text. He comes across as a committed, skilled and very human fieldworker.” -- Ashley Carruthers * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“[Mekong Dreaming] will be a useful text in anthropology courses. I highly recommend this book as it...provides new and important insights.” -- Ian G. Baird * Sojourn *“[Mekong Dreaming] provides crucial insights into the interconnectedness between daily life, environment, and religious experiences.” -- Grzegorz Fraszczak * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Through a Glass, Darkly 1 1. Naga and Garuda 29 2. River Beings 69 3. Dwelling under Distant Suns 104 4. The River Grew Tired of Us 130 5. Human and Inhuman Worlds 161 Notes 171 Bibliography 179 Index 193

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