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Book SynopsisGlobal Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate â but also sometimes counter â the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis.Table of Contents1. Global Garbage, Urban Imaginaries PART I: Waste 2. Trashtopia: Global Garbage/Art in Francisco de Pájaro and Daniel Canogar 3. Dirty Familiars: Colonial Encounters in African Cities 4. Waste Not, Want Not: Garbage and the Philosopher of the Dump (Waste Land and Estamira) 5. The Paradox of Waste: Rio de Janeiro’s Praça XV Flea Market 6. Waste Streams and Garbage Publics in Los Angeles and Detroit PART II: Excess 7. Leftover Space, Invisibility and Everyday Life: Rooftops in Iran 8. Writing Rubbish About Naples: the Global Media, Post-politics and the Garbage Crisis of an (Extra-)Ordinary City 9. Dirt Poor/Filthy Rich: Urban Garbage from Radiant City to Abstention 10. Under the Spectacle: Viewing Trash in the Streets of Central, Hong Kong PART III: Abandonment 11. Geospatial Detritus: Mapping Urban Abandonment 12. Waste and Value in Urban Transformation: Reflections on a Post-Industrial ‘Wasteland’ in Manchester 13. On Beckton Alp: Iain Sinclair, Garbage and ‘Obscenery’ 14. Disposable Architecture – Reinterpreting Ruins in the Age of Globalization: the Case of Beirut

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Book SynopsisThis book sets itself apart from much of the burgeoning literature on war commemoration within human geography and the social sciences more generally by analysing how the Second World War (194145) is remembered within Singapore, unique for its potential to shed light on the manifold politics associated with the commemoration of wars not only within an Asian, but also a multiracial and multi-religious postcolonial context. By adopting a historical materialist approach, it traces the genealogy of war commemoration in Singapore, from the initial disavowal of the war by the postcolonial government since independence in 1965 to it being embraced as part of national historiography in the early 1990s apparent in the emergence since then of various memoryscapes dedicated to the event. Also, through a critical analysis of a wide selection of these memoryscapes, the book interrogates how memories of the war have been spatially and discursively appropriated today by state (and non-state) agencTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The history of war remembrance in Singapore; ’Localizing’ war representations at the Changi Chapel and Museum; The reflections at Bukit Chandu and the politics of ’race’; ’Rescaling’ war memories at Kranji Cemetery and Memorial; Intimations of postmodernity at Fort Siloso as a site of dark tourism; Everyday war memories at the Old Ford Factory Museum (Moff); Memoryscapes of war in everyday public spaces in Singapore; Conclusions; Index.

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Book SynopsisDisasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women's experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities. The study is situated in the coastal region of Bangladesh, considered as one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Bangladesh has been working on disaster management for a long time; however, considering gender perspective, the book reveals gaps in plans and raises serious questions about the successful implementation of healthcare strategies after disasters. The book also describes the preduringafter disaster periods showing the full picture of a disaster attack in victims' own words. Case studies of seriously affected victims give the reader an opportunity to understand the situations created for women during a disaster attack in a remote area with poor transport and healthcare facilities. TheTable of Contents1. Introduction: Why is gender analysis important in understanding the health impacts of disasters? 2. Research methodology and fieldwork in Bangladesh 3. Impacts of disasters on health 4. Gendered health impacts of disasters 5. Impacts of disaster on healthcare accessibility 6. Gender and healthcare access after disasters 7. Prevailing initiatives, gaps and people’s expectations 8. Conclusion and recommendations

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Book SynopsisFor more than 35 years, planners have depended on The Planner''s Use of Information to help them address their information needs. While the ability to manage complex information skillfully remains central to the practice of planning, the variety and quantity of information have ballooned in the last two decades. The methods of accessing and handling informationalthough often ultimately easier and fasterrequire new technical savvy. At the same time, planners themselves, and the constituents they serve, have changed.This completely revised and updated third edition of this popular book will serve the new generation of planners who work in a world where social media, cell phones, community-embedded development, and a changing population have revolutionized the practice of planning. Edited again by Hemalata C. Dandekar, with chapters by leading experts in data collection, analysis, presentation, and management, The Planner''s Use of Information empowers practitionTrade Review"This edition significantly upgrades the previous edition, incorporating advances in planning like team building, the growing importance of technology in planning, and creating physical concepts. The focus on process throughout the new material ensures that readers know basic concepts as well as how to use it to achieve desired outcomes." —Jesse Saginor, AICP, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University, USA"A heavily revised and updated version of a book destined to stay within arm’s reach." —Harold Henderson, Planning MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction A Planning Case Study Part I: Information Collection Chapter 1. Field Methods for Collecting Information Chapter 2. Survey Methods for Planners Chapter 3. Information from Secondary Sources Part II: Information Organizing Chapter 4. Analytical Methods in Planning Chapter 5. Working with Teams Chapter 6. Public Participation Chapter 7. Technology and Techniques Chapter 8. Physical Planning and Visioning Part III: Information Communication Chapter 9. Speaking Skills for Presentations Chapter 10. Written Communication Chapter 11. Graphic and Visual Communications

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Book SynopsisThis book unravels the role of democracy after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and reflects important debates surrounding the security of Muslim communities in the years to come. It looks at the problems of torture, violence and the legal resources available to contemporary democracies to confront terrorism.While terrorism is often regarded as one of the major threats to the West and the nation-state, this book explores the notion that a disciplined sense of terror is what keeps society working. The strengths and limitations of liberalism are examined, as well as the ethical dilemma of torture and human right violations in the struggle against terrorism. This book carefully dissects the origin of the nation-state and how it keeps society united.The author offers a creative and unique approach to democracy and worldwide terrorism, exploring the consequences for the nation-state. This book looks at the connections between terrorism, mobility, consumption, torturTrade Review"This book clarifies the historical context of the crisis in democracy that fueled Donald Trump’s election in 2016, which was nurtured by entertaining mass media and political corporations promoting the discourse of fear and the doctrine of sovereignty and security. Professor Korstanje’s provocative introduction examines how the ideological core of the liberal state hides "the invisible hand of exploitation." Despite losing the popular vote, Trump’s election underscores how the liberal state is complicit in trampling citizens’ rights in the face of inequality while applauding the spectacle of terrorism, violating immigrants’ rights, and international treaties, even as the stock market soars and the number of homeless people increase. Surely this was not intended by the Enlightenment philosophers, who had not envisioned how the democratic state would renege on is responsibility to citizens’ rights. This fine collection casts a dim light on what could have been the hope of the world." — David Altheide, Arizona State University, USA" The Challenges of Democracy in the War on Terror: The liberal state before the advance of terrorism is a liminal passage where Maximiliano Korstanje discusses the interplay of Fear and Thanatos. These crossing epistemological borders lead to questioning the role of the liberal state, its abuses as well as the indifference of lay-citizens for hospitality. In fact, he dissects the roots of liberal state juxtaposing the rise of terror as a necessary consequence of the decline of democracy. In a nutshell, Korstanje shows once again in this book why he is one of the most-recognized writers in the field of terrorism and tourism." — Adrian Scribano, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina "The present book offers a cogent and trenchant, analysis, and critique of global capitalism. Its argument starts by examining bourgeois democracy in the twenty-first century. It correctly points out that contemporary democracy is a sham. Despite its many exclusions, slaves, women, children, etc.; ancient democracies like the Athenian, actually depended on popular rule. Today’s fake democracies barely make the effort at appearances. As capital has by now penetrated all four corners of the earth, the worst of primitive accumulation and exploitation join hands on a global scale. Raw force in the form of drones, mercenary armies, and massive arms concentrations ensure that extractive capital partners with high tech psycho-social manipulations to produce a compliant, complicit work force and consumerist public. This book puts these current conditions to the question, and finds our world wanting. The book is a must read for anyone who cares about life in today’s world." — Geoffrey R Skoll, Buffalo State College, USA"Korstanje´s book places the concept of liberal democracy under the critical lens of scrutiny. In his work, he carefully reviews not only the role of fear and terrorism in the configuration of postmodern politics but shows a great sensibility respecting the current obsession of global audiences in gazing the Other´s death." — Freddy Timmermann, University Silva Henriquez, Chile"I have come across several books on the challenges of democracy as well as the war on terror. What makes this book different is the perspective taken by the author in exploring this highly relevant and pertinent issue. The author has identified and critically examined key questions on the rise and advance of terrorism, torture, and human rights violations across various countries in the World. The authors also address several interesting issues, including why terrorists target tourism as well as the extent to which torture can be treated as acceptable. The author has explored these topics without any bias and has given a neutral perspective leaving the readers to come to their own conclusions." — Dr. Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, Chair Computer Science and Software Engineering. American University of Nigeria"Korstanje interrogates modern democracy and its apparent values, and applies these to current terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies and techniques. Limitations in contemporary liberal democracy may result in reducing the effectiveness in counter-terrorism and aid in fuelling the fire. Just as importantly, the role of technology in creating a spectacle of fear through its ability to export ideologies globally in investigated. The book is an important work in rethinking the relationship between ‘accepted’ democratic methods and terrorism." — Brett van Niekerk, Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism."Korstanje’s writing has followed a fascinating trajectory over the years. He began as an expert on tourism, and soon was publishing widely on security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and the experiences of global movement. It seems natural that his attentions would soon turn to bigger issues. Korstanje’s book takes a critical view of the nature of democracy, its relationship with discourses of security, terrorism and violence, and where our vigilance must be directed to prevent the democratic institutions of our times from evolving into something else. Intense and fearless, Korstanje’s account cannot be ignored." — Dr. Luke Howie, Deputy Director, Global Terrorism Research Centre GTReC, Monash University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Liberal State 2. Neoliberalism, Consumption and Poverty 3. The Rise of Terror in the Society of the Spectacle 4. Is Torture Enough? 5. The Dark Side of Technologies: The Industry of Fear and the Spocalypse 6. Terrorism, Tourism and Hospitality: Dying in New York City 7. The Democracy and its Faces: The Problem of Islamophobia

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Book SynopsisFew countries as culturally rich, politically pivotal, and naturally beautiful as Indonesia are as often misrepresented in global media and conversation. Stretching 3,400 miles east to west along the equator, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and home to more than four hundred ethnic groups and several major world religions. This sprawling Southeast Asian nation is also the world's most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy. Although in recent years the country has experienced serious challenges with regard to religious harmony, its trillion-dollar economy is booming and its press and public sphere are among the most vibrant in Asia. A land of cultural contrasts, contests, and contradictions, this ever-evolving country is today rising to even greater global prominence, even as it redefines the terms of its national, religious, and civic identity.The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia offers an overvieTable of ContentsPart I: Legacies and Junctures 1. Introduction. Indonesia at the Crossroads: Imbroglios of Religion, State, and Society in an Asian Muslim Nation, Robert W. Hefner 2. Gender Legacies and Modern Transitions, Barbara Watson Andaya 3. Ethnic Groups and the Indonesian Nation-State: With special reference to ethnic Chinese Ethnic Diversity and Legacies, Leo Suryadinata 4. Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Simon Butt 5. The Making of a National Educational System, Christopher Bjork and Raihani Part II: Democratic Politics and Plurality 6. Problems of Democratization: An Overview, Edward Aspinall 7. Parties and Party Politics in the Post-Reformasi Era, Dirk Tomsa 8. The Ephemeral Nature of Local Political Monopolies, Michael Buehler 9. Ethnic, Religious, and Regional Conflict, Chris Wilson 10. Historical Justice and the Case of the 1965 Killings, Katharine McGregor 11. The Indonesian Armed Forces, Coalitional Presidentialism and Democratization: From Praetorian Guard to Imagined Balance of Power, Marcus Mietzner 12. Everyday Citizenship in Democratizing Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken and Ward Berenschot Part II: Markets and Economic Cultures 13. New Muslim Cultures of Capitalist Enterprise, Gwenaël Njoto-Feillard 14. Chinese Indonesians: Businesses, Ethnicity, and Religion, Juliette Koning 15. Consumption and the New Middle Classes, Carla Jones 16. Reinventing "Wonderful Indonesia": Tourism, Economy, and Society, Kathleen M. Adams Part IV: Muslims and Religious Plurality 17. The Religious Field: Plural Legacies and Contemporary Contestations, Robert W. Hefner 18. Islamization, Law, and the Indonesian Courts: The More Things Change....., Tim Lindsey 19. The Special Status of Islamic Aceh, Arskal Salim 20. Salafism in Indonesia: Transnational Islam, Violent Activism, and Cultural Resistance, Noorhaidi Hasan 21. Christians in Indonesia, Jan S. Aritonang 22. Hinduism and Buddhism in an Islamizing Indonesia, Martin Ramstedt 23. The Politics and Law of Religious Governance, Zainal Abidin Bagir 24. Islamic Populism in Indonesia: Emergence and Limitations, Vedi R. Hadiz Part V: Gender and Sexuality 25. Gender culture and politics in post New Order Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson 26. Gender and Sexual Plurality in Indonesia: Past and Present, Sharyn Graham Davies 27. Courtship and Marriage in Indonesia’s New Muslim Middle Class, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner 28. Women’s Responses to the Implementation of Islamic Law in Aceh, Dina Afrianty Part VI: Indonesia in a Age of Multiple Globalizations 29. Popular Culture and Identity Politics, Ariel Heryanto 30. Nation, Islam, and Gender in Dangdut, Indonesia’s Most Popular Music, Andrew N. Weintraub 31. Language Diversity and Language Change, Zane Goebel 32. A "Tolerant" Indonesia? Indonesian Muslims in Comparative Perspective, Jeremy Menchik and Katrina Trost 33. Public Diplomacy and the Global Dissemination of "Moderate Islam," James Bourk Hoesterey

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity studies. The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies set new standards for reference works when first published, such was the far-reaching sweep of topics discussed including identity studies reconfigured by feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism, individualization theories, media and cultural studies, race and ethnicity, consumerism, environmentalism, post-colonialism, globalization and many more.This second edition of the handbook contains new contributions, including an updated general introduction from Anthony Elliott on the fast-changing conditions and contours of identity transformations in the global age. There are also new chapters on the emergeTable of ContentsPART 1: Theories of Identity 1. The Rise of Identity Studies: An Outline of Some Theoretical Accounts 2. A History of Identity: The Riddle at the Heart of the Mystery of Life 3. Feminism and Identity 4. Identity after Psychoanalysis 5. Foucauldian Approaches to the Self 6. The Fragmentation of Identity: Post-Structuralist and Postmodern Theories 7. Reflexive Identities 8. Individualization 9. Individualism, Identity, and Social Acceleration PART 2: The Analysis of Identity 10. Identity, Race and Ethnicity 11. Gendered Identities 12. Media and Identity 13. Virtual Identities: From Decentered to Distributed Selves 14. Consumer Identities 15. Identity, Mortality and Death 16. Digital Nomads and (Im)Mobile Identities 17. Posthuman Identities PART 3: Identity-Politics and its Consequences 18. Sexual Identity-Politics: Activism from Gay to Queer and Beyond 19. Environmentalism and Identity-Politics 20. Black Freedom Struggles and African American Identity 21. The Politics of Islamic Identities 22. Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism 23. (Anti-)Globalization and Resistance Identities 24. Identity-Politics in the Global Age

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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book is a lively, stimulating and relevant introduction to âpostcolonial geographyâ that elaborates on the critical interventions in social, cultural and political life this important subfield is poised to make.The book is structured around three intersecting parts â Spaces, 'Identity'/hybridity, Knowledge â that broadly follow the trajectory of postcolonial studies since the late 1970s. It comprises ten main chapters, each of which is situated at the intersections of postcolonialism and critical human geography. In doing so, Postcolonialism develops three key arguments. First, that postcolonialism is best conceived as an intellectually creative and practical set of methodologies or approaches for critically engaging existing manifestations of power and exclusion in everyday life anTrade Review'Postcolonialism offers a detailed and accessible examination of the relationships between geography and postcolonial literary theory from Orientalism to the Anthropocene. As well as a valuable primer on a vital body of theory and a rich array of existing work, Tariq Jazeel sets out a manifesto and a methodology for future postcolonial geographies.' - Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London, UK'Tariq Jazeel is one of the most important interlocutors of urban theory today. From him, comes this decisive contribution which meticulously and creatively demonstrates the necessary relationship between postcolonial thought and geographical inquiry. This book will reshape research, theory, and pedagogy.' - Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles, USA'A thought-provoking introduction to postcolonial perspectives in geography. Tariq Jazeel presents postcolonialism as a set of critical methods that help to expose the profoundly geographical politics of representation.' - Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of Contents1. Postcolonial Theory and Geography 2. A Brief History of Postcolonial Geography Part I Spaces 3. Orientalism, the Geographical Imagination and Postcolonial Spatialities 4. Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Cities 5. Nature, Postcolonialism, Environmentalism. Part II 'Identity'/Hybridity 6. ‘Identity’, interstitiality, hybridity 7. Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Planetarity: the challenge of living together Part III Knowledge 8. Subaltern Studies and Geography 9. Responsibility, Geography, Knowledge 10. Coda: Postcolonial futures in the shadow of the Anthropocene

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Book SynopsisThe federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation. It took the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to finally secure its passage. The Kerner Commission warned in 1968 that to continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and outlying areas. The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate: to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns that characterized most cities. The Fight for Fair Housing tells us what happened, why, and what remains to be done.Since the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the many forms of housing discrimination and segregation, and associated consequences, have been documented. At the same time, significant progress has been made in counteracting discTrade Review"The Fight for Fair Housing documents the absolute necessity of fair housing enforcement and chronicles the history of the quest for fairness in the places where Americans live." Henry Cisneros, Chairman of CityView and former Secretary of HUD"The Fight for Fair Housing provides the definitive account of the nation’s struggle to realize the goals of the Fair Housing Act, and it does so through the eyes of the scholars who have chronicled the story and the activists who continue the battle for what is right, good and fair."Sheryll Cashin, author of Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy"The Fair Housing Act has been critically important for families, communities, and all segments of the housing industry. The Fight for Fair Housing educates us about the continued need to dismantle barriers, ultimately moving us closer to being a nation where fair housing and equal opportunity are the norm in all communities."Steve Rasmussen, CEO Nationwide "Fifty years have passed since the signing of the Fair Housing Act, the most important housing reform that the civil rights era produced. The expert contributors to The Fight for Fair Housing reexamine the law’s purpose, impact and legacy. But from the old days of racially restrictive housing covenants and overt redlining to today’s new challenges of gentrification and dislocation, the message is clear: The battle to protect equal housing rights does not end. It only changes form." Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Chicago Tribune's Washington BureauTable of ContentsForeword The Legacy of a Movement Chapter 1. Fair Housing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Chapter 2. From Jim Crow to Fair Housing Chapter 3. The Legislative Battle for the Fair Housing Act (1966-1968) Chapter 4. The Costs of Segregation and the Benefits of the Fair Housing Act Chapter 5. More Than Just Race: Proliferation of Protected Groups and the Increasing Influence of the Act Chapter 6. The Fair Housing Act: A Tool for Expanding Access to Quality Credit Chapter 7. The Rocky Road Home: Latino Immigration and Fair Housing in California Chapter 8. From the ‘Perpetual Foreigner’ to the ‘Model Minority’ to the ‘New Transnational Elite’: The Residential Segregation of Asian Americans Chapter 9. At the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Fair Housing Chapter 10. The Legacy and the Promise of Disparate Impact Chapter 11. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: The Mandate to End Segregation Chapter 12. Opportunity Communities: Overcoming the Debate over Mobility v. Place-Based Strategies Chapter 13. Fair Housing and Stable Suburban Integration Chapter 14. The Intersections of Race and Class: Zoning, Affordable Housing, and Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas Chapter 15. Living Downstream: The Fair Housing Act at Fifty Afterword Ending Segregation: The Fair Housing Act’s Unfinished Business

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Book SynopsisEach year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India. Slum tours are typically framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a price on the market, and as appeals for aid that tourists encounter within an altruistic discourse of charity. This book enriches the tourism debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and raising questions on the long-term impacts of economically unbalanced encounters with representatives of the Global North, including the researcher.This book studies the feeling rules' governing a slum tour and how they shape interactions. When do guides permit tourists to exoticise the slum and feel a thrTrade Review"Through this book we come to learn more about the circumstances that together construct the particular spatial environment known as the slum, the representations of Delhi’s street children that become fixed as a part of the guides’ identities and performances, the aestheticization of the slum, and the complex interplays in the co-performances that are the tours. It provides a compelling and insightful lens into the intersections of the complex objectives and impacts of encounters between poverty and tourism."- Meghan Muldoon, Arizona State UniversityTable of Contents1. Slum Tourism, Subalternity and Gentrification 2. The Authentic Slum or Former Street Children as Prisms of Authenticity? 3. Playing with Privilege? The Ethics of Aestheticizing the Slum 4 The Affective Economy of Slum Tourism 5. The Post-Humanitarian Logic of Slum Tourism 6 The Emotional Labour of CW-Guides 7 The Economy of Resocialisation: The Slumming Researcher? Conclusion and Further Perspectives

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Book SynopsisMigration and forcible displacement are growing and impactful dynamics of the current global age. These processes generate mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour driven by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book highlight the importance of travel and tourism for enabling such memories and memory-based identity practices to unfold.This book investigates how diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees and the internally displaced recreate home in their host place of residence through material culture, performativity and social relations; and how involuntary tangible and intangible stimuli evoke memories of home. It explores an array of diverse geographical contexts, balancing ethnographic vignettes of contemporary migrant societies with archival research providing historical accounts that reach back more than a century.Memory, Migration and Travel makes an original contribution by linking the emergent field of Table of Contents1. Memory, Migration and Travel: Introduction 2. ‘Travelling Memories’: The Homemaking Practices of Skilled Mobile Settlers 3. Material Culture, Memory and Commemoration: Family and Community Celebrations and Connections to ‘Home’ among Asian Indian Immigrants 4. Remembrance, Cultural Performance and Travel: The Greek Migrants of Brasilia and the panigiri Festival 5. Gallipoli Revisited: Transnational and Transgenerational Memory among Turkish and Sikh Communities in Australia 6. ‘To Live in France’: The Confluence of Tourism, Memory, Migration and War 7. Pajouste Forest, 23 August 1941: Memory, Migration and Massacre 8. Old Homes Made New: American Jews Travelling to Eastern Europe from 1920 until the Present 9. The Macanese Encontros: Remembrance and Diaspora ‘Homecomings’ 10. Dinner in the Homeland: Memory, Food and the Armenian Diaspora 11. Memoryscapes of the Homeland by Two Generations of British-Bangladeshis 12. Translocal Narratives of Memory, Place and Belonging: Second-generation Turkish-Germans’ Home-making upon ‘Return’ to Turkey 13. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisUrban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the process of urban change and renewal.The provision of social and affordable housing and the spread of private security are explored through the lenses of neoliberal urbanism, gentrification, the privatisation of public space and revanchist policing. This book interrogates these concepts and challenges their assumptions based on new qualitative and ethnographic evidence emerging out of Johannesburg. Dated concepts in Critical Urban Studies are re-evaluated and the book calls for an alternative, adaptable approach, focusing on how we develop a vocabulary and creative understanding of urban regeneration. This book is an outstanding contribution to theoretical and comparative approaches to understanding cities and processes of urban change. It offers practical insights and experiences which will be of considerable use to practitioTable of Contents1. Thinking with and through Johannesburg 2. An overburdened process: the competing agendas, imperatives and outcomes of inner-city regeneration 3. The contradictory praxis of regeneration 4. Urban management and security: private policing, atmospheres of control and everyday practices 5. Ambiguous experiences of regeneration: spatial capital, agency and living in-between 6. The space that regeneration makes: regulation, security and everyday life 7. Conclusion: towards a vernacular theorisation of urban change

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects. Educated in the Modernist tradition of architecture in Britain and Denmark, Hackney's return to England in the 1970s changed his outlook completely. Cities like Birmingham and Sheffield had been ruined by ill-conceived planning; whole communities had been torn apart by massive destruction of Victorian terraces, and relocated to grim tower block estates. To those communities that he has rescued from the threat of redevelopment, Rod Hackney is a local hero. Determined to save Britain's inner cities, he has been a major influence on Prince Charles and a powerful spokesman for the silent majority of the urban poor, who often have no say as to where and how they live.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Foreword by the Rt Hon The Lord Scarman OBE 1. The Making of a Modernist 2. An Innocent Abroad 3. The Dream Becomes a Nightmare 4. The Battle of Black Road 5. The Wasteland 6. Cry for Help 7. Sound and Fury 8. Modernism is Dead 9. Hackney’s Empire; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisCritical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animalsâ lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, post-colonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life â human and not â violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes â violence, death, life, autonomy â of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up wiTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction PART I: POLITICS Chapter 2. Animal geographies, anarchist praxis and critical animal studies Chapter 3. Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protestChapter 4. Pleasure, pain and place: ag-gag, crush videos, and animal bodies on displayPART II: INTERSECTIONS Chapter 5. Wildspace: the cage, the supermax, & the zoo Chapter 6. Commodification, violence and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras Chapter 7. Race, space, and wildlife management Chapter 8. Pit bulls, slavery, and whiteness in the mid- to late- nineteenth century US: geographical trajectories; primary sources PART III: HIERARCHIES Chapter 9. Coyotes in the city: gastro-ethical encounters in a more-than-human world Chapter 10. Livelier livelihoods: animal and human collaboration on the farm Chapter 11. En-listing life: red is the color of threatened species lists Chapter 12. Doing critical animal geographies: future directions

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the concept of âvalueâ at the root of our actions and decision-making. Value is an ever-present, yet little interrogated aspect of everyday life. This book explores value as it is theorised, practiced and critiqued from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.It examines how value is operationalized, endorsed and contested in contemporary society. With international insights from leading scholars, chapters offer a diverse and vibrant geographical engagement with value to showcase its conceptual flexibility. The book explores valueâs eclectic epistemic foundations; itâs âroll-outâ and legitimation across a range of policy fields; and its challenges and opportunities. The book draws on global examples of value in practice: from forest conservation in Indonesia; protected area management in arctic Norway; a state park in the US; certification schemes for biodiversity in the UK; protection of the international night sky; heritage planning in East Taiwan; a re-dTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1. Locating Value: An Introduction; Part I: Knowing Value 2. Spectral geometries: value sub specie spatii and sensuous supersensibility; 3. Locating heritage value; 4. Making values visible and real, but not necessarily monetised; 5. "There’s no such thing as a unit of biodiversity": contesting value and biodiversity offsetting in England; 6. Commensuration as value making: transforming nature in English biodiversity offsetting under the DEFRA metric; Part II: Spacing Value 7. Regimes of value in a Chicago market; 8. Urban planning practice and the transformation of value in China: Evidence from the city of Yangzhou; 9. Locating value in the Anthropocene: baselines and the contested nature of invasive plants; 10. "And what do you do with five-hundred million stars?" Assessment of darkness and the starry sky, values and integration in regional planning; 11. Value and diminishment: Listing State Park closures, the 2011 attempt to meet General Fund reductions in California; Part III: Practicing Value 12. Unsettled value: re-identifying tobacco agriculture as heritage in eastern Taiwan; 13. Locating value(s) in political ecologies of knowledge: The East Svalbard management plan; 14. Locating value in food value chains; 15. Private finance evaluation amongst REDD+ projects in Indonesia; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research. Global in scope and covering a broad range of subjects, the chapters in this volume discuss ways of turning sources into a GIS database, methods of analysing these databases, methods of visualising the results of the analyses, and approaches to interpreting analyses and visualisations. Chapter authors draw from a diverse collection of case studies from around the world, covering topics from state power in imperial China to the urban property market in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, health and society in twentieth-century Britain and the demographic impact of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Critically evaluating both the strengths and limitations oTrade Review"This wide-ranging, insightful and richly-illustrated volume provides a wealth of practical case studies elucidating the potential of GIS to enrich our understanding of the past, as well as incisive critical examination of its implications for and impact on historical scholarship. It will be invaluable for everyone interested in the use of new digital technologies and methods in historical research."Nick Baron, University of Nottingham, UK"From the leading scholars in the use of historical GIS methods, these valuable essays give us a clear sense of the possibilities and challenges of spatial history. This is a groundbreaking edited volume that will inspire, guide, and teach anyone considering spatial history approaches in their own work."William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska, USA"This wide-ranging, insightful and richly-illustrated volume provides a wealth of practical case studies elucidating the potential of GIS to enrich our understanding of the past, as well as incisive critical examination of its implications for and impact on historical scholarship. It will be invaluable for everyone interested in the use of new digital technologies and methods in historical research."Nick Baron, University of Nottingham, UK"From the leading scholars in the use of historical GIS methods, these valuable essays give us a clear sense of the possibilities and challenges of spatial history. This is a groundbreaking edited volume that will inspire, guide, and teach anyone considering spatial history approaches in their own work."William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Population and demography Part II: Urban Part III: Economics Part IV: Rural and Environment Part V: Health Part VI: Social Dynamics Part VII: Political Dimensions Part VIII: The Emergence of Digital Humanities Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.In a changing and often unpredictable globalized world, planning theory is core to understanding how planning and its practices both function and evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices, values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to Table of ContentsPlanning Theory: An IntroductionMichael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa WatsonPart I: Contemporary Planning Practices Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism? Simin DavoudiStrategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological ChallengesLouis AlbrechtsGrowth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth Jill L. GrantPlanning in the AnthropoceneWilliam E. ReesPart II: How Meaning/Values are Constructed in Planning The Public InterestStefano MoroniRethinking Scholarship on Planning Ethics Tanja Winkler Communicative Planning Tore Sager Neoliberal PlanningGuy BaetenNeo Pragmatist Planning TheoryCharles HochUrban Planning and Social Justice Susan S. FainsteinThe Grassroots of Planning: Poor People's Movements, Political Society, and the Question of RightsAnanya RoyThe Dilemmas of Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Planning TheorySuzanne Speak and Ashok KumarPostcolonial Consequences and New MeaningsLibby PorterPostpolitics and PlanningJonathan Metzger‘Cultural Work’ And the Remaking of Planning’s ‘Apparatus of Truth’Andy InchCountering ‘The Dark Side’ of Planning: Power, Governmentality, Counter-ConductMargo HuxleyCo- Evolutionary Planning Theory: Evolutionary Governance Theory and Its RelativesKristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn DuineveldPart III: Networks, Flows, Relationships and Institutions Flexibly Networked, Yet Institutionally Grounded: The Governance of PlanningRaine Mäntysalo and Pia Bäcklund New Institutionalism and Planning TheoryAndré SorensenConflict and AgonismJohn PløgerInsurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s) Faranak MiraftabState Hegemonic Planning and the Marginalization and Oppression of PeopleYosef JabareenActor-Network TheoryYvonne RydinSpatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-Linear ChangeGert de RooAssemblage Thinking in Planning TheoryJoris Van WezemaelLines of BecomingJean Hillier

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Book SynopsisThe newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct global class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundationTable of ContentsList of PlatesLists of figuresList of tablesList of contributors Editor’s Introduction to Second EditionAcknowledgementsPART 1 FOUNDATIONSIntroduction to Part One1.0 PrologueThe Metropolitan Explosion Peter Hall1.1 Divisions of Space and Time in Europe Fernand Braudel1.2 World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and ActionJohn Friedmann and Goetz Wolff1.3 Locating Cities on Global Circuits Saskia Sassen1.4 Urban Specialization in the World SystemNestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin1.5 Accumulation and Comparative Urban SystemsJohn Walton1.6 The World-System Perspective and UrbanizationMichael Timberlake1.7 Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical PerspectiveJanet Abu-Lughod1.8 Global and World Cities: A View from Off the MapJennifer Robinson1.9 Space in the Globalizing CityPeter MarcusePART 2 PATHWAYSIntroduction to Part Two2.0 PrologueIstanbul was our past, Istanbul is our futureHamid Dabashi2.1 The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial CapitalsSharon Zukin2.2 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global PerspectiveRichard C. Hill and Joe Feagin2.3 The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los AngelesEdward Soja 2.4 Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban DevelopmentChristian Schmid2.5 From ‘State-Owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: The Re-territorialization of the State in ShanghaiFulong Wu 2.6 The Dream of Delhi as a Global CityVeronica Dupont 2.7 ‘Fourth World’ Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom PenhGavin Shatkin 2.8 Medellín and Bogotá: The Global Cities of the Other GlobalizationEduardo MendietaPART 3 RELATIONSIntroduction to Part Three3.0 PrologueSpecification of the World City NetworkPeter Taylor3.1 Local and Global: Cities in Network SocietyManuel Castells3.2 Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban ChangeJonathan V. Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor3.3 Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunication and Planetary Urban NetworksStephen Graham3.4 Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, CanadaS. Harris Ali and Roger Keil3.5 Flying High (in the Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing the Role of Airports in Global City-Regions through ‘Aero-Regionalism’Jean-Paul Addie3.6 One Package at a Time: The Distributive World CityCynthia Negrey, Jeffery L. Osgood, and Frank Goetzke3.7 Global Cities between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: (In)Security and Circuits of Knowledge in the Global City NetworkDavid Murakami-Wood3.8 The Virtual Palimpsest of the Global City NetworkMark Graham3.9 Relationality/territoriality: Toward conceptualization of cities in the worldEugene McCann and Kevin Ward PART 4 REGULATIONSIntroduction to Part Four4.0 PrologueThe Global City as World OrderWarren Magnusson4.1 Globalization and the Rise of City-regionsAllen J. Scott4.2 Global Cities, ‘Global States’: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary EuropeNeil Brenner 4.3 Global Cities and Developmental States: Tokyo and SeoulRichard Child Hill and June Woo Kim4.4 World City Formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: Poverty, "Everyday" Forms of Civil Society and Environmental ManagementMike Douglass4.5 New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban StrategyNeil Smith4.6 Between World History and State Formation: New Perspectives on Africa’s CitiesLaurent Fourchard 4.7 The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental StateSusan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse4.8 Global Cities’ vs. ‘global cities:’ Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public EcologyTimothy W. LukePART 5 CONTESTATIONSIntroduction to Part Five5.0 PrologueFrom Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo's private road to a private cityMohamed Elshahed5.1 Local Actors in Global PoliticsSaskia Sassen5.2 The Right to the CityDavid Harvey5.3 Urban Social Movements in an Era of GlobalizationMargit Mayer5.4 São Paulo: The City and its ProtestTeresa Caldeira5.5 Global City Building in China and its DiscontentsXuefei Ren 5.6 Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in AfricaAbdouMaliq Simone5.7 World Cities and Union RenewalSteven Tufts 5.8 Blockupy Fights Back: Global City Formation in Frankfurt am Main after the Financial CrisisSebastian Schipper, Lucas Pohl, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis, and Bernd BelinaPART 6 CULTUREIntroduction to Part Six6.0 Prologue: High Culture and Hard LaborAndrew Ross6.1 World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural CommentsAnthony King6.2 "Global Media Cities": Major Nodes of Globalising Culture and Media IndustriesStefan Kratke 6.3 Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Inter-Urban Competition after 1989Ute Lehrer6.4 The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing CitiesLeslie Sklair 6.5 Shanghai Nightscapes and Ethnosexual Contact ZonesJames Farrer and Andrew Field6.6 Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative CityCameron McAuliffe 6.7 Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the city Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager6.8 Provincializing the Global City: From Bombay to MumbaiRashimi VarmaPART 7 FRONTIERSIntroduction to Part Seven7.0 PrologueWorld CityDoreen Massey7.1 The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?Michael Peter Smith7.2 External Urban Relational Processes: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place TheoryPeter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler and Raf Verbruggen7.3 Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’Richard G. Smith7.4 World Cities under Conditions of Financialized Globalization: Towards an Augmented World City HypothesisDavid Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren7.5 Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’Michiel van Meeteren, Ben Derudder, and David Bassens7.6 Global SuburbanizationRoger Keil7.7 What is Urban about Critical Urban Theory?Ananya Roy7.8 Planetary UrbanizationNeil Brenner and Christian Schmid7.9 New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban StudiesJennifer Robinson7.10 Governing the Informal in Globalizing Cities: Comparing China, India, and BrazilXuefei Ren7.11 The Urban RevolutionHenri LefebvreIndex

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Book SynopsisThis revised and updated third edition of Gender and Development provides a concise, accessible introduction to gender and development issues in the developing world and in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The nine chapters include discussions on: changes in theoretical approaches, gender complexities and the Sustainable Development Goals; social and biological reproduction including changing attitudes to family planning; variation in education and access to housing; differences in health and violence at major life stages for women and men; natural disasters, climate change and declining natural resources; and gender roles in rural and urban areas. There is also enhanced coverage of topics such as global trade, sport as a development tool, masculinities and sustainable agriculture. Maps and statistics have been updated throughout and their coverage widened. New case studies have been added on Bangladesh, violence in Peru and India, and&nbsTable of ContentsList of plates. List of figures. List of tables. List of boxes. Acknowledgements.1 Introduction: gender is a development issue 2 Demography 3 Reproduction 4 Gender, health and violence 5 Gender and environment 6 Gender in rural areas 7 Gender in urban areas 8 Globalization and changing patterns of economic activity 9 How far have we come?References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork examples are employed throughout the text to highlight not just the theoretical development of the idea of spatializing culture, but how it can be used in undertaking ethnographies of space and place. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in the study of culture through the lens of space and place.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Importance of and Approaches to the Ethnography of Space and Place2. Genealogies: The Concepts of Space and Place3. The Social Production of Space4. The Social Construction of Space5. Embodied Space6. Language, Discourse and Space7. Emotion, Affect and Space8 Translocal Space. 9. Conclusion BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNew Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including Mimi Sheller and BÃlent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such as Jordan Crandall, Ursula Bieman, GÃlsÃn Karamustafa and Dan Perjovschi this book is a unique document of the cross-disciplinary mobility and power discourse. The specific design, integrating the text and art elements to create a singular dialogue makes for an exciting intellectual and aesthetic experience. Illustrated by a range of studies which examine the regulation and structure of mobility, such as the daily routines of teleworkers, Ukrainian cleaners in Western Europe, the mobility policies of global corporations, and the impact of bicycle policies on public space, New Mobilities Regimes emphasizes the routes and crossroads of migration flows as well as at the interaction of mobility Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Drawings by Dan Perjovschi precede each Part of the book, Introduction, 1. Mobility and the Image-Based Research of Art, 2. The New Mobilities Regimes, Prologue, 3. Agency, Mobility, and the Timespace of Tracking, Work in Motion, 4 An Enterprise in Her Own Four Walls: Teleworking, 5. Aeromobility Regimes in Commercial Aviation: The Mobile Work and Life Arrangements of Flight Crews, 6. Beyond Privilege: Conceptualizing Mobilities Inside Multinational Corporations, 7. One-Way Ticket? International Labor Mobility of Ukrainian Women, Modalities of Migration, 8. Stopover: An Excerpt from the Network of Actor-Oriented Mobility Movements, 9. Lisl Ponger’s Passages – In-between Tourism and Migration, 10. Unawarded Performances, 11. Counter-Geographies in the Sahara, 12. Transnational Migration, Clandestinity, and Globalization – Sub-Saharan Transmigrants in Morocco, Camp Politics, 13. DMZ Embassy: Border Region of Active Intermediate Space, 14. Mobility and the Camp, 15. X-Mission, 16. The Politics of Mobility: Some Insights from the Study of Protest Camps, 17. All Aboard! Exploring the Role of the Vehicle in Contemporary Spatial Inquiry, Spacing Mobilities – Mobilization of Space, 18. Physics of Images – Images of Physics + “Rundum” Photography, 19. Mobility Regimes and Air Travel: Examples from an Indonesian Airport, 20. The Power of Urban Mobility: Shaping Experiences, Emotions, and Selves on a Bike, 21. Experiencing Mobility – Mobilizing Experience, 22. Airport-Studies, Intercontinental, Territorium, 23. Mobile Mediality: Location, Dislocation, Augmentation, Epilogue, 24. Mobility Futures: Moving On and Breaking Through on an Empty Tank, Appendices: Abstracts English/German, Index

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Book SynopsisUsing the latest mapping techniques, J.A.A. Jones, Chair of the IGU Commission for Water Sustainability, examines water availability, the impact of climate change and the problems created for water management worldwide as well as possible solutions.Water Sustainability: A Global Perspective is one of the first textbook to meld the physical and human aspects affecting the world''s water resources. Part One outlines the challenges and investigates the human factors: population growth; urbanization and pollution; the commercialization of water, including globalization and privatization; and the impacts of war, terrorism and the credit crunch. Part Two examines the physical aspects: the restless water cycle, the impact of past and future climate change and the problems change and unreliability create for water management. Part Three discusses current and future solutions including improved efficiency and water treatment systems, desalinatiTrade Review"This book will represent a valuable contribution to the academic literature and will be invaluable to many an undergraduate student addressing these key concepts and themes" – Beverley Todd, Circulation "This excellent book will be an indispensable resource for students of water resources and its related disciplines. Chapters conclude with possible discussion topics, and as well as being extensively indexed and referenced throughout, the reader is directed to further academic and popular texts as well as webbased resources." – Hywel Griffiths, Aberystwyth University, AreaTable of Contents1. A looming crisis Part I Status and challenges 2. Rising demand and dwindling per capita resources 3. Water and poverty 4. Governance and finance 5. Pollution and water-related disease 6. Water, land and wildlife 7. Dams and diversions 8. Trading water - real and virtual 9. Water, war and terrorism 10. The threat of global warming Part II Nature's resources 11. The restless water cycle 12. Shrinking freshwater stores Part III Towards sustainability 13. Cutting demand 14. Increasing supplies 15. Cleaning up and protecting the aquatic environment 16. Using seawater 17. Controlling the weather 18. Improved monitoring and data management 19. Improving prediction and risk assessment 20. Improving management and justice 21. Aid for the developing world Conclusions 22. Is sustainability achievable?

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close attention to four sites across the UK, Urban Constellations engages with the work of Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, to read these spaces and in so doing, offer a critical intervention into the theory and experience of contemporary cityscapes. Developing the notion of surface ethnography as a methodological approach to examining the form of cultural experience produced by urban cultural spaces, the author sheds light on the manner in which they transform cultural spectatorship, express wider political and ecological concerns and offer differing views to the 'native' and the 'tourist' in the construction of local history. The book also examines the decline of the idea that iconic projTrade Review’Nobody concerned with the contemporary city can afford to ignore Urban Constellations. Its analyses of the dreamscapes of regeneration are timely, exacting, and critical in the best sense of that term; they are also deeply moving.’ Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK ’Fizzing with ideas, this inspired analysis investigates the spectacular cultural temples erected in British post-industrial cities at the turn of the 20th century. Such flagship projects are often depicted as hollow shrines to superficial consumption, yet here, drawing on theories from Benjamin and Baudrillard, they are read against the grain. While Zoë Thompson acknowledges the banal commodification of place and culture inherent in these grand designs, her sophisticated exploration reveals overlooked ecologies and histories, unexpected fragments of the past and unforeseen twists that disrupt dreams of seamlessness and offer alternative approaches for critical scrutiny.’ Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsUrban Constellations

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Book SynopsisIn 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind manicured front lawns. Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 of these homes were constructed in the fields surrounding the city. The most elaborate were built for Dublin's upper middle classes, distinguished by their granite staircases and decorative entrances. Today, they are some of the Irish capital's most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws.Dublin's Bourgeois Homes is the first in-depth analysis of the city's upper middle-class houses. Focusing on the work of three entrepreneurial developers, Susan Galavan follows in their footsteps as they speculated in house building: signing leases, acquiring plots and sourcing bricks and mortar. She analyses a select range of homes in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (nowTrade Review"Galavan’s presentation of histories is mediated through portraits and other illustrations… The familiar becomes extraordinary. Descriptions of materials and stone-quarrying, along with readings of brilliant masters and doctoral research give the reader access to highly specialised knowledge."Ellen Rowley, History Ireland"Aside from the architectural evolution that Galavan traces, there is an interesting analysis of how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of Dublin’s Victorian Upper-Middle classes. She demonstrates how the internal layout articulates the relationship between master and servant, male and female, adult and child."Deirdre Conroy, Irish Arts Review"[…] Susan Galavan’s book represents an immensely welcome restitution of a traditional strand in construction history. It also has a new ingredient. Since she is an architect as well as a historian she takes a particular interest in the planning of suburban houses and she illustrates her arguments with plans and drawings of the kind which only the Survey of London can match [...] .for anyone interested in the Victorian building world, whether they have been to Dublin or not, this is an admirably rounded account of processes which are all too easily overlooked."Robert Thorne, Construction History"Galavan’s presentation of histories is mediated through portraits and other illustrations… The familiar becomes extraordinary. Descriptions of materials and stone-quarrying, along with readings of brilliant masters and doctoral research give the reader access to highly specialised knowledge."Ellen Rowley, History Ireland"Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes is a comprehensive analysis of the 19th-century development of Dublin’s prosperous inner suburbs […] Galavan’s book provides fascinating insight into both the architecture of the houses and the ways in which these still much sought-after suburbs evolved […] its rigorous analysis of house typologies is presented in an engaging and meaningful way, making it accessible to the non-expert. In an era of ever-increasing awareness of the importance of conservation of architectural heritage, this book provides context for home owners who struggle to understand the merits of conservation and helps to elucidate the enduring legacy of the residential architecture beyond a single generation."Carole Pollard, Architectural Histories (EAHN)"[…] Susan Galavan’s book represents an immensely welcome restitution of a traditional strand in construction history. It also has a new ingredient. Since she is an architect as well as a historian she takes a particular interest in the planning of suburban houses and she illustrates her arguments with plans and drawings of the kind which only the Survey of London can match [...] .for anyone interested in the Victorian building world, whether they have been to Dublin or not, this is an admirably rounded account of processes which are all too easily overlooked."Robert Thorne, Construction History"Aside from the architectural evolution that Galavan traces, there is an interesting analysis of how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of Dublin’s Victorian Upper-Middle classes. She demonstrates how the internal layout articulates the relationship between master and servant, male and female, adult and child."Deirdre Conroy, Irish Arts Review"The breadth of this study is impressive and goes well beyond an architectural history of Dublin’s Victorian suburbs. […] For anyone seeking to understand the long-term impact which Georgian design had on suburban Dublin, how middle-class Victorians lived and how the modern city has been shaped by its Victorian ancestors, this book is a must."Lisa Marie Griffith, Irish Economic and Social History 46(I)"Galavan is adept at reading the nuances of the house plan, developing a reasoned exposition of its variation over time and making an equally convincing analysis of its three-dimensional expression. She brings the characters and motives of three Dublin business men firmly into focus while also uncovering the imperial and family networks that enabled them to amass substantial property fortunes."Finola O'Kane, Urban HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The architecture of Dublin’s bourgeois homes 2 The domestic realm: inside the semi-detached house 3 Control: land tenure and infrastructure 4 Builders, speculators and labourers 5 Process: building materials Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThere is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. As a result, academics, government officials and industry leaders are calling for new approaches and fresh ideas. This book provides a historical and topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its concrete regulatory applications. In the UK, Tolerability of Risk has been developed into a sophisticated framework, particularly within the health and safety sectors. It is expected to guide decision-makers when applying their legal obligation of keeping risks as low as practically reasonable. Could Tolerability of Risk become a wider source of inspiration across the full scope of risk analysis and management? Written by leading academics and risk practitioners from industry and government, The Tolerability of Risk presents a summary of theoretical perspectives on risk approaches, providing a detailed elicitation of the methods and approaches used to build the Tolerability of Risk framework and examining the prospect of universal application of that framework. From nuclear power to environmental pollution, climate change and drug testing, the Tolerability of Risk framework may offer a workable, pragmatic solution for balancing risks against the costs involved in controlling them, as well as developing the institutional capacity to make effective decisions in all jurisdictions worldwide.Trade Review'The Tolerability of Risk... offers a well-reasoned pitch on behalf of a framework for risk managers who need to move from a risk problem to a management solution and who want to do so with sensitivity to the many likely constituents who will perceive a stake in the outcome.' Science CommunicationTable of Contents* Introduction * Part I - Concepts * Components of the Risk Governance Framework * The Risk Handling Chain * Wider Governance Issues * Part II - Experiences * A Historical Perspective on Tolerability of Risk * Tolerability of Risk: The Regulator's Story * Applying the HSE's Risk Decision Model: Reducing Risks, Protecting People * What Makes Tolerability of Risk Work? Exploring the Limitations of its Applicability to Other Risk Fields * Conclusion * Index

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Book SynopsisHunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake. Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are also critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of markets' institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyzes the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, and will be essential reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger. Published with World Food ProgrammeTable of ContentsPart I: Setting the Stage 1. Hunger 2. Markets 3. High Food Prices: Trends, Causes and Impacts Part II: Analysis 4. Households, Hunger and Markets 5. Access to Markets 6 .Availability of and Access to Nutritious Food 7. Vulnerability, Risk and Markets 8. Markets in Emergencies Part III: Actions and the Way Forward 9. Making Markets Work for the Hungry Poor and Supplementing Them Where Necessary 10. The Way Forward: Ten Priority Actions to Help Markets Break the Hunger-Poverty Trap Part IV: Resource Compendium Notes Part V: Annexes

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Book SynopsisFreight transport is essential to modern urban civilization. No urban area could exist without a reliable freight transport system. Although the private sector is responsible for much of this system, the public sector has a vital role to play in the provision of infrastructure and the establishment of a social and legal framework within which transport can occur. For these reasons, goods movement deserves and is increasingly receiving, explicit consideration in urban transport policy and planning. Many cities around the world have conducted studies aimed at resolving urban goods movement problems and a considerable, if disparate, body of research results are available. This book brings together much of this knowledge and experience in a comprehensive source of information on urban freight, particularly from a public policy or planning viewpoint. It provides both a conceptual basis for urban goods movement analysis and detailed, practical guidelines which may be used directly by those responsible for urban freight policy and planning. The author has worked for over twenty years in this field and he draws upon his experience in Australia, the United States, Great Britain, Canada and The Philippines to produce a book which is international in scope and perspective. The book is written for practising professionals, such as engineers, economists and planners, working in local government, urban transport planning agencies, highway authorities, consultancies, or research institutes; it is also relevant to graduate courses in transport planning, traffic engineering or urban policy. It is of interest to all who have a concern for contemporary issues in urban development.Trade Review’...Perhaps his greatest contribution...a pioneering work...provides exhaustive information on freight related issues, planning techniques and strategies...numerous examples of actual practice...full of practical suggestions...an international book...should be available in every library in the world.’ Professor Arun Chatterjee, University of Tennessee, USA ’This book belongs in every professional and institution library...should be essential reading for students of transportation planning, practising professionals, politicians and bureaucrats...a timely and refreshing book that represents a landmark in the continuing development of the transportation and traffic engineering professions.’ Road and Transport Research ’...deserves to be widely read by government road regulators and builders, not to mention a few transport ministers and their advisors.’ Melbourne Herald-Sun ’...a timely and a welcome addition to the transportation or planning bookshelf and was long overdue...extremely informative and interesting. I commend the author and can thoroughly recommend this book.’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design ’Urban Goods Movement seems destined to become one of the information pillars of transport policy, and will educate students, technocrats and practitioners alike for several years to come.’ Policy ’In my opinion, this is the best book so far published on urban freight. It is well structured, widely referenced and very readable. The book is certain to become one of the standard urban transport texts and will be of particular interest to geographers and planners.’ Journal of Transport Geography ’This informative and scholarly book has much to recommend it. Certainly it has widespread appeal, drawing its illustrations and examples from many different countries.’ The Chartered Institute of Transport ProceedingsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Professor Arun Chatterjee; Preface. Policy: Issues and objectives: Freight in urban areas; A profile of urban freight; The urban freight system; Freight policy and planning; Objectives of urban freight. Planning: Strategies for improvement: Traffic management; Location and zoning of land use; Infrastructure; Licensing and regulations; Pricing; Terminals and model interchange facilities; Operational strategies; Urban freight modelling. Implementation: From ideas to action: Implementation of urban freight planning and policy; Case Studies; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis title provides an in depth study of Iran’s post 1979 Revolution economy under the Islamic Republic, with new material and related journal articles combined under one roof in a novel and reader friendly style. The volume starts with an original text, summarizing the development of the Iranian economy under five successive administrations, in five distinct phases. Following this are fifteen accompanying articles providing detailed information that expands on, and compliments, the discussion in the original material. Appropriate references on specific topics are made to each relevant article, ensuring the material is easily accessible to the reader.Topics discussed include public finance, employment, banking, petroleum, privatization, and the exchange rate. Full references are also made to US and universal economic sanctions and their effects, with the legacies of the Khatami and Ahmadinejad administrations also covered.This versatile title is designed to appeal to a vast readership. The hurried business executive or high government official, interested in a quick review of the subject matter may simply read the original text while think tank researchers, research fellows and students can take the time to read the supplementary articles and review what is related to the topic of their choosing.Table of ContentsForeword. The Author. Acknowledgements. A Word of Caution. Part 1: Overview The Unforeseen Upheaval. The Anti-Monarchy Manifesto. Velayat-e-Faqih in Theory and Practice. Legalized Anarchy. Report Card’s Partisan Assessment. Report Card’s Objective Evaluation. Underlying Causes. Favourable Prospects Part 2: The Articles 1. The Iranian Economy before and after the Revolution 2. Islamic Fundamentalism in Action 3. Iran’s Unemployment Crisis 4. Islamic Social Justice: Iranian Style 5. Iran’s 20-year Economic Perspective 6. Iran’s Oil Stabilization Fund: A Misnomer 7. Khatami’s Legacy 8. Sanctioning the Islamic Republic: A New Global Wave 9. Iran: The Rial Saga 10. Iran: The Subsidy Dilemma 11. Ahmadenejad’s Legacy 12. Nuclear Iran: Perils and Prospects 13. Iran’s Oil as a Blessing and a Curse 14. The Islamic Republic of Iran: Facts and Fiction 15. Iran’s Economy Facing a Challenging Year

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Book SynopsisThe Indian Ocean represents a part of the global Ocean that has been less studied by modern oceanography than the Atlantic and Pacific parts. This is remarkable, since the Indian Ocean was subject to much historic exploration through navigators from Asia, India, the Middle East and lastly from Europe.This unique, comprehensive reference set on the Indian Ocean, covers all oceanographical aspects with its physics, chemistry, biology and geology in 21 peer-reviewed expert-written chapters. Besides the well-ground basis on the Ocean’s characteristics and a wealth of data, some unique features presented are the monsoon - the biennial reversal of winds and the resultant surface circulation; the tropical and sub-tropical jet streams, namely the Somali current, the Agulhas current and the Leevwin current; the oxygen-poor intermediate waters in its northern part which significantly contribute several green house gases to the atmosphere, for example, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and dimethyl sulphide; its exhaustive coral reefs and mangrove vegetation; and the polymetallic nodules at its depths and its other mineral resources. Moreover, an analysis is provided of the anthropogenic contributions and their impacts on the health of the Indian Ocean; and that of estuary environments of important rivers of the 15 littoral countries. Intended for research scientists, professionals and students working in physical, chemical and geological oceanography.Table of ContentsVolume 1 1. Physical Oceanography 2. The Climate 3. Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing in the Southern Indian Ocean 4. Chemical Oceanography 5. Oceanography of Marginal Seas 6. Features of Some Significant Estuaries of India 7. Estuaries of Littoral Countries other than India 8. Health of the Indian Ocean 9. Bioactive Substances IndexVolume 2 10. Primary Productivity 11. Zooplankton 12. Benthos 13. Biology of Corals and Coral Reefs 14. Marine Microbiology – A Glimpese of the Strides in the Indian and the Global Arena 15. Mangroves 16. Seaweed Resources 17. Mineral Resources 18. Geochemistry of Sediments 19. Western Indian Ocean – A Glimpse of the Tectonic Scenario 20. Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Northeastern Indian Ocean 21. Geomorphology and Geology of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about the population of London during the early modern period and a detailed book about the population of a European metropolitan city at that time. Much is now known about the historical demography of rural England, but very little is understood about the larger towns and cities. Roger Finlay applies new techniques in historical demography, principally family reconstitution and aggregative analysis of parish registers, to study the growth of population in London. He shows that parish registers are as reliable for the analysis of population trends in London as in rural England. The death rate was much higher in London than in the countryside, and this difference was not offset by a markedly higher birth rate, so the population would have declined but for migration. There were striking variations in both fertility and mortality between contrasting social areas of London.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The magnet of the metropolis; 2. The accuracy of the London parish registers; 3. The general growth of population in London; 4. London social structure in 1638; 5. The measurement of mortality rates; 6. The effect of plague on mortality experience; 7. Marriage and fertility; 8. Population and metropolis.

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