Political geography Books
Channel View Publications Ltd Brexit and Tourism: Process, Impacts and
Book SynopsisThis book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and related mobilities. It attempts to look beyond the short- to medium-term consequences of these processes for both the UK and the EU. It is divided into four major sections: Context, Tourism Impacts, Implications, and Global Britain? The volume employs case studies to highlight Brexit’s ripple effects on tourism, mobilities and immobilities. It will be of interest to researchers, students and policymakers in tourism, European studies, political geography, regional development, international relations and politics.Trade ReviewTourism is associated with breaking down barriers. Brexit has the effect of raising barriers. Bring the two together and there is an inevitable clash. This book does a great job in exploring the background and nature of this clash for tourism in the UK and beyond. Its systematic and multidisciplinary exploration of the context, impacts and implications of Brexit will make it required reading for a generation of tourism scholars. * David Airey, Emeritus Professor, University of Surrey, UK *The safe option would have been to write this book once political events had settled. Hall’s decision to offer an assessment now is very welcome. His analysis of this highly topical issue is thoughtful, at times controversial, and very engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. * Rhodri Thomas, Leeds Beckett University, UK *This book will make a valuable contribution to the current discussion on the impact of Brexit on the British tourism industry. Its theoretical and factual background provides an appropriate rationale for the timely publication of this book as it gives the reader a thorough understanding of this contentious issue. * Noëlle O'Connor, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland *This volume cuts through the thicket of confusion, political hyperbole, and conflicting statements to present a range of possible outcomes [of Brexit]. Hall's directional analysis is data based and supported by the inclusion of other voices in the form of case studies. Presented in non-fussy prose, the main argument centers around the paradox that tourism typically promotes mobility while Brexit effectively pushes for greater immobility. -- S. A. Schulman, CUNY Baruch College, USA * CHOICE, Vol. 58 No. 4, Dec 2020 *Brexit and Tourism is packed with statistics and graphics and charts [...] This book is a goldmine of argument stoppers framed by an emphatic ‘I Told You So’ [...] Simply put, anyone involved with Europe- whether through business, property or leisure- should have this book close to hand as we plunge through unknown waters. -- Richard Lutz * The Birmingham Press, September 2020 *This book provides a critical, revealing and thought-provoking overview of Brexit’s potential future consequences for in-bound, out-bound and domestic tourism. Insights are provided into how political events may markedly affect a nation’s tourism industry, and into how these consequences may be overlooked, ignored and not planned for. The book will be valuable for students on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in tourism, and on courses in other disciplinary fields concerned with European policy issues. -- Bill Bramwell, Sheffield Hallam University, UK * Current Issues in Tourism, 2020 *One of the best features of Brexit and Tourism lays on the fact that Brexit is presented from different perspectives (historic, political, sociological, economic, legal). This book is also a “one-stop-shop”, as not much has been written on the topic of tourism and Brexit. -- Hugues Seraphin, University of Winchester, UK * Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2020 *Table of ContentsA. CONTEXT Chapter 1. The UK and ‘Europe’ Chapter 2. Imbroglio Chapter 3. Tourism and the EU: Retrospect and Prospect (Constantia Anastasiadou) Chapter 4. Theorising Brexit and Tourism B. TOURISM IMPACTS Chapter 5. Impact Assessments and Perceptions Chapter 6. Supply-side Issues Chapter 7. Demand-side Issues C. IMPLICATIONS Chapter 8. Environmental Implications (with C. Michael Hall) Chapter 9. Inconvenient Cross-border Mobilities I: Ireland Chapter 10. Inconvenient Cross-border Mobilities II: Expatriate Citizens' Free Movement Rights (with Lesley Roberts) Chapter 11. Inconvenient Cross-border Mobilities III: Gibraltar D. GLOBAL BRITAIN? Chapter 12. Commonwealth Chapter 13. Pursuing the Chinese Market: Symbol of a ‘Global Britain’? (with Rong Huang) Chapter 14. Conclusion: The UK as a 'GREAT' Destination?
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Channel View Publications Ltd Brexit and Tourism: Process, Impacts and
Book SynopsisThis book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and related mobilities. It attempts to look beyond the short- to medium-term consequences of these processes for both the UK and the EU. It is divided into four major sections: Context, Tourism Impacts, Implications, and Global Britain? The volume employs case studies to highlight Brexit’s ripple effects on tourism, mobilities and immobilities. It will be of interest to researchers, students and policymakers in tourism, European studies, political geography, regional development, international relations and politics.Trade ReviewTourism is associated with breaking down barriers. Brexit has the effect of raising barriers. Bring the two together and there is an inevitable clash. This book does a great job in exploring the background and nature of this clash for tourism in the UK and beyond. Its systematic and multidisciplinary exploration of the context, impacts and implications of Brexit will make it required reading for a generation of tourism scholars. * David Airey, Emeritus Professor, University of Surrey, UK *The safe option would have been to write this book once political events had settled. Hall’s decision to offer an assessment now is very welcome. His analysis of this highly topical issue is thoughtful, at times controversial, and very engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. * Rhodri Thomas, Leeds Beckett University, UK *This book will make a valuable contribution to the current discussion on the impact of Brexit on the British tourism industry. Its theoretical and factual background provides an appropriate rationale for the timely publication of this book as it gives the reader a thorough understanding of this contentious issue. * Noëlle O'Connor, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland *This volume cuts through the thicket of confusion, political hyperbole, and conflicting statements to present a range of possible outcomes [of Brexit]. Hall's directional analysis is data based and supported by the inclusion of other voices in the form of case studies. Presented in non-fussy prose, the main argument centers around the paradox that tourism typically promotes mobility while Brexit effectively pushes for greater immobility. -- S. A. Schulman, CUNY Baruch College, USA * CHOICE, Vol. 58 No. 4, Dec 2020 *Brexit and Tourism is packed with statistics and graphics and charts [...] This book is a goldmine of argument stoppers framed by an emphatic ‘I Told You So’ [...] Simply put, anyone involved with Europe- whether through business, property or leisure- should have this book close to hand as we plunge through unknown waters. -- Richard Lutz * The Birmingham Press, September 2020 *This book provides a critical, revealing and thought-provoking overview of Brexit’s potential future consequences for in-bound, out-bound and domestic tourism. Insights are provided into how political events may markedly affect a nation’s tourism industry, and into how these consequences may be overlooked, ignored and not planned for. The book will be valuable for students on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in tourism, and on courses in other disciplinary fields concerned with European policy issues. -- Bill Bramwell, Sheffield Hallam University, UK * Current Issues in Tourism, 2020 *One of the best features of Brexit and Tourism lays on the fact that Brexit is presented from different perspectives (historic, political, sociological, economic, legal). This book is also a “one-stop-shop”, as not much has been written on the topic of tourism and Brexit. -- Hugues Seraphin, University of Winchester, UK * Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2020 *Table of ContentsA. CONTEXT Chapter 1. The UK and ‘Europe’ Chapter 2. Imbroglio Chapter 3. Tourism and the EU: Retrospect and Prospect (Constantia Anastasiadou) Chapter 4. Theorising Brexit and Tourism B. TOURISM IMPACTS Chapter 5. Impact Assessments and Perceptions Chapter 6. Supply-side Issues Chapter 7. Demand-side Issues C. IMPLICATIONS Chapter 8. Environmental Implications (with C. Michael Hall) Chapter 9. Inconvenient Cross-border Mobilities I: Ireland Chapter 10. Inconvenient Cross-border Mobilities II: Expatriate Citizens' Free Movement Rights (with Lesley Roberts) Chapter 11. Inconvenient Cross-border Mobilities III: Gibraltar D. GLOBAL BRITAIN? Chapter 12. Commonwealth Chapter 13. Pursuing the Chinese Market: Symbol of a ‘Global Britain’? (with Rong Huang) Chapter 14. Conclusion: The UK as a 'GREAT' Destination?
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern
Book SynopsisDivided We Govern investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coalition governments. Since the 1970s, socialist, communist and regional parties in India have sought to forge a progressive 'third force'. Most scholars typically dismiss its principal manifestations -- the Janata Party, National Front and United Front -- as inherently opportunistic coalitions of power-seeking politicians. Sanjay Ruparelia provides a fine-grained analytic narrative to challenge this prevailing wisdom. Employing a variety of methods and resources, including the rare confidential testimonies of key political actors, Ruparelia demonstrates how the politics of each governing coalition, despite their self-evident flaws and short-lived tenures, revealed the outlines of a distinctive national vision. His fresh analysis of the politics of coalition in India also yields wider theoretical insights. Most studies fail to question or explain how these multiparty governments actually functioned. Hence they overstate the stability of and polarity between multiple political motivations, Ruparelia contends, discounting internal party debates over whether to share power, with whom and to what extent, and how. In such circumstances, the strategies, tactics and choices of actors become especially significant. The pursuit of power in a highly regionalized federal parliamentary democracy such as India creates incentives to forge national coalition governments, yet paradoxically decreases their chances of surviving. Ultimately, the failure of socialists and communists to judge their real historical possibilities at key junctures led to the decline of the broader Indian left.Trade Review'Ruparelia's work is admirable since it goes against the grain of popular understanding that the third-front politics is only about the loaves and fishes of office. He shows that the third-front can be better understood when we contextualize these formations and their performance in the politics of the larger social transformation taking place.' -- The Book Review'[Ruparelia's] ability to avoid and correct misinterpretations, which are legion in the Indian media and some academic analyses, is impressive. [...] His assessments are consistently judicious, so that this book will surely stand as the locus classicus, the essential source, for studies of coalition politics between 1977 and 2014.' -- Pacific Affairs'In a comprehensive work, Sanjay Ruparelia examines the rise, functioning and fall of all the three coalitions within a common framework. What sets the book apart is the positing of these coalitions consisting of the communist, socialist and regional parties as constituting a 'broader parliamentary left' seeking, since the 1970s, to evolve into a progressive 'third force'. [...] Ruparelia's narrative is replete with fascinating details of the formation, programmes and working of the three coalitions, together with interviews and rare personal confidential accounts from leaders.' -- Seminar'The book brings much-needed attention to the study of coalition politics, a topic that has not been adequately studied. It [...] convincingly challenges uncharitable allegations about the entirely detrimental effects of coalition politics on Indian democracy.' -- Studies in Indian Politics'An indispensable reference for future work on coalition politics in India, even for those working within the rational choice tradition and not just on the third front.' -- Economic & Political Weekly'The study is extremely rich in sources and data and would be of help to students, researchers, political analysts and the media professionals. It is a major contribution to the literature on the federal structure and coalition politics in parliamentary democracy.' -- History and Sociology of South Asia'This book is an outstanding study of coalition politics in India, a major development in the post-Congress phase that the recent rise of the BJP has not made redundant. Ruparelia not only offers a very detailed narrative, he also shows how coalition governments have paradoxically played a key role in the recent history of the "world's largest democracy" by restoring the rule of law after the Emergency, changing the social content of the regime under V.P. Singh or making overtures to estranged neighbours (including Pakistan and Bangladesh) during the Third Front of the 1990s. While we tend to put the emphasis on national parties at the expense of state parties which are the main actors of coalition politics, these smaller entities - which have won as many seats in 2014 as in 2009 - cannot be ignored any more, as evident from their representation in the Modi government.' -- Christophe Jaffrelot, Research Director at CNRS and author of Religion, Caste and Politics in India'Divided We Govern finally lays to rest the notion that India was comprehensively mis-ruled in the last quarter of the twentieth century by weak and hopelessly divided Third Front coalitions. Sanjay Ruparelia's rich, rigorous and nuanced study reveals the achievements as well as the failures of the Janata, National Front and United Front governments. In so doing, Ruparelia contributes more generally to our understanding of the possibilities of coalition politics in a parliamentary democracy. This is a first-rate and important book.' -- Stuart Corbridge, Professor of International Development and Provost, London School of Economics and Political Science
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd From Above: War, Violence and Verticality
Book SynopsisThe arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat - and the fortified tower positioned within it. Since then there has been no perspective more culpable in war, violence and security than the aerial one. From Above explores the aerial view in new depth and clarity. It draws in vivid detail on studies of the aerial perspective today and on rich empirical investigations of the aerial view from the past. Chapters examine a range of case studies and examples, from Vietnam and the balloon prospect, camouflage, colonial policing, to today's drone wars. The contributors draw on perspectives from history, international relations, political geography and cultural studies in order to provide a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the view from above. They also consider the view from above in relation to its technologies, legalities, practices, doctrines, and visual culture. Among the contributors are renowned international experts such as Derek Gregory, Trevor Paglen, Caren Kaplan, Klaus Dodds and Priya Satia. The aerial view is a perspective that can no longer be ignored, one that is of growing significance for those interested in geopolitics, militarism and conflict.Trade Review'Being above - using aircraft to loiter within the atmosphere or on the edge of space - has long been recognised as a definitive means of gaining military and strategic advantage over those bound by the earth's surface. The last century has witnessed countless episodes of annihilation and killing by states and militaries from up in the sky. But how can we approach the deep connections between verticality, violence and war? From Above - a dazzling and definitive collection - provides the answers. Bringing together the very best thinkers from Geography, Cultural Studies, Art Theory and Political Science, the result is an extraordinary and searing book. Here, for the first time, is a volume which fully excavates how targeting and killing from above was invented, generalised and rendered completely normal in the past century and a half. A must-read for anyone concerned with the nature of contemporary political violence.' -- Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, School of Architecture, Planning and landscape, Newcastle University'Packed with historical knowledge and theoretical insights, this collection opens our eyes to the metaphors and technologies embedded in the most ordinary expressions such as above, below, depth, flight, earth, and sky. In chapter after chapter, the aerial view presents itself not only as a militaristic space and a geopolitical theatre but also - and above all - as a conceptual event in modernity.' -- Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture'From Above Is a remarkable collection of essays on an important and neglected topic. The chapters range across time and space, covering a great deal of terrain and building up a multi-layered account of empirical and historical detail. The collection as a whole develops a new theoretical vocabulary to thinking about the politics and geographies of the vertical.' -- Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of Warwick'Bombings and assassinations meet with surveys and cartography in this collection of critically engaged essays on the combined force of aerial knowledge and aerial power. Offering a much-needed counter to the official line on air power, the volume spells out the extent to which reconnaissance and violence operate in tandem - from above.' -- Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Politics and History
£58.50
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd From Above: War, Violence and Verticality
Book SynopsisThe arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat - and the fortified tower positioned within it. Since then there has been no perspective more culpable in war, violence and security than the aerial one. From Above explores the aerial view in new depth and clarity. It draws in vivid detail on studies of the aerial perspective today and on rich empirical investigations of the aerial view from the past. Chapters examine a range of case studies and examples, from Vietnam and the balloon prospect, camouflage, colonial policing, to today's drone wars. The contributors draw on perspectives from history, international relations, political geography and cultural studies in order to provide a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the view from above. They also consider the view from above in relation to its technologies, legalities, practices, doctrines, and visual culture. Among the contributors are renowned international experts such as Derek Gregory, Trevor Paglen, Caren Kaplan, Klaus Dodds and Priya Satia. The aerial view is a perspective that can no longer be ignored, one that is of growing significance for those interested in geopolitics, militarism and conflict.Trade Review'Being above - using aircraft to loiter within the atmosphere or on the edge of space - has long been recognised as a definitive means of gaining military and strategic advantage over those bound by the earth's surface. The last century has witnessed countless episodes of annihilation and killing by states and militaries from up in the sky. But how can we approach the deep connections between verticality, violence and war? From Above - a dazzling and definitive collection - provides the answers. Bringing together the very best thinkers from Geography, Cultural Studies, Art Theory and Political Science, the result is an extraordinary and searing book. Here, for the first time, is a volume which fully excavates how targeting and killing from above was invented, generalised and rendered completely normal in the past century and a half. A must-read for anyone concerned with the nature of contemporary political violence.' -- Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, School of Architecture, Planning and landscape, Newcastle University'Packed with historical knowledge and theoretical insights, this collection opens our eyes to the metaphors and technologies embedded in the most ordinary expressions such as above, below, depth, flight, earth, and sky. In chapter after chapter, the aerial view presents itself not only as a militaristic space and a geopolitical theatre but also - and above all - as a conceptual event in modernity.' -- Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture'From Above Is a remarkable collection of essays on an important and neglected topic. The chapters range across time and space, covering a great deal of terrain and building up a multi-layered account of empirical and historical detail. The collection as a whole develops a new theoretical vocabulary to thinking about the politics and geographies of the vertical.' -- Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of Warwick'Bombings and assassinations meet with surveys and cartography in this collection of critically engaged essays on the combined force of aerial knowledge and aerial power. Offering a much-needed counter to the official line on air power, the volume spells out the extent to which reconnaissance and violence operate in tandem - from above.' -- Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Politics and History
£31.50
Nomad Publishing Egypt: A Nation in Crisis
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£11.25
ACA Publishing Limited China's Bright Future: The views of a Chinese
Book SynopsisMany Western economists have predicted the coming collapse of China, but the world’s second-largest economy continues to demonstrate its resilience and confound the pessimists. It will soon overtake the US in terms of overall GDP, having already become the world’s top trading and investor nation. But its importance is not limited to the world of business and finance; China has become a more significant and more confident country in terms of global politics, technology, the environment and culture.
£21.21
UEA Publishing Project Megacity
Book SynopsisMEGACITY brings together new writing from some of the most impenetrable corners of the world today with creativity, resilience and beautifully black humour. COVID-19 has thrived in megacities and poses unique challenges to the world’s densest urban hubs. Beat lockdown by travelling virtually, into the homes and lives of global megacity writers from Karachi, Paris, Manila, Lagos, Tokyo and others.Absurd, extreme, pleasure-filled, crime-ridden. Sky-high meccas of opportunity, vast swathes of squalor.This is the megacity and this, in many ways, is our future. Not long ago these massive urban hubs with over 10 million people were an anomaly - in 1950 only New York and Tokyo could claim the title. Now, eight of the world's population live in thirty-three megacities with many more predicted to arrive and make these places their home in the coming years.MEGACITY brings together twenty-two individual, creative responses to the megacity, infiltrating some of the densest, most difficult corners of the world today. From the tightly packed slums of Delhi and the violent favelas of São Paulo, to eye-watering London property prices and Chinese megacities constructed seemingly overnight - if you boggle at how anyone negotiates today’s rampant, unchecked city growth, this book is for you.Witchcraft, terrorism, chemical swamps, modern slavery, and corpses for rent are all day to day events within these pages. Translated from native languages such as DRC’s Lingala to Portuguese written in deepest Brazilian slang, this collection goes to places which are, for most of us, completely impenetrable.Some of today’s most renowned scientists, economists, architects and urban planners have turned their attention to the megacity in order to understand pressing contemporary dilemmas. It can be difficult, however, when we read their criticism of demographics, economics, infrastructure and environment, to imagine the individual amongst the teeming masses. MEGACITY redresses this problem: giving the reader a many-faceted sense of the megacity character, their stories and their settings.“Megacities are the super-novas of human social evolution, non-encompassable in their totality but fertile with conflicting futures. In this stunning anthology, local writers describe life within these gigantic urban landscapes as paradoxes of paradise and the inferno” - Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Planet of the SlumsContributing authorsDele Adeyemo, Kunlé Adayemi, Jessica Zafra, Richard Ali A Mutu, Uday Prakesh, Diego Gerard, Emily Ruth Ford, Liza Alexandrova-Zorina, Deepti Kapoor, Ayodele Olofintuade, Wu Jun, Anna Pook, Daniel Saldaña París, Hideo Furukawa, Ahmed Naji, Ferréz, Bilal Tanweer, Sheyla Smanioto, Montasser Al-Qaffash, and Jeffrey Pascual Yap
£14.39
Myriad Editions The Women's Atlas
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£13.49
Myriad Editions The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island
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£15.29
LID Publishing Geofusion: The power of geography and the mapping
Book SynopsisWe are living in a unique "geo" age, where geography is appreciated again. The 21st century encompasses political and economic games where the multi-polar world, a new world order, and a new value system combine to develop new actors and new Industries. Business leaders are focusing more and more on global social issues, putting pressure on international political decisions such as the Space Race, global warming and migration. The 21st century is the era of knowledge & creativity (technology + knowledge + geography = "techknowledgeography" or Geofusion) where education and innovation are the most important investment. Knowledge is the currency of the future. When drawn with knowledge, the map of 21st century can be utilized to discover and conform to this new world! This book helps to explain how `Geofusion' provides the opportunities, which can give lasting value to the world.
£17.99
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings
Book SynopsisA collection of political writings by the radical socialist and feminist geographer, Doreen Massey, edited by David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher.
£15.20
Unicorn Publishing Group The Chinese Path and Philosophy
Book SynopsisSince the reform and opening-up, China's development has been evident to all. Its people have gained a sense of high achievement. These are all due to the advanced political system and the government's leadership. From a global perspective, the miracle of China's growth is not just about the scale and speed; more importantly, China has made a breakthrough in two paradoxes in the history of human development. Firstly, China did not follow the western imperialist example, focusing on its internal issues and keeping world peace. Secondly, China managed to avoid the predestined bottleneck of developing countries. Most developing countries are dependent on the Western-centric model of globalisation and could not achieve economic and political autonomy. In comparison, China maintained its independence, alleviated poverty and avoided the middle-income trap. The book analyses the advantage in economics and governance and traces the root of the Chinese way and philosophy through its culture and history.
£45.00
West Virginia University Press Critical Geographies of Youth: Law, Policy, and
Book SynopsisScholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age. Young people will bear the brunt of the impacts of present and emerging crises occurring at all scales, from the national to the global. This volume brings together scholars and activists from various backgrounds to analyze youth interactions with law and politics, focusing specifically on the US legal landscape. It uses the lens of youth geographies to consider how legal and political systems shape our spaces, and provides leading-edge perspectives through case studies of child labor, compulsory education, asylum claims, criminalization of youth, youth activism, and more. Of special interest in this volume is the tension between young people as both objects of law and policy and creative agents of change. Despite being directly affected by law and policy, young people are denied access to many legally sanctioned paths to shape them. Yet youth find ways to work within and mold the social, political, and legal spheres and set the stage for alternative futures.Trade ReviewThis volume is one of the only of its kind, and its engagement with geography, the law, and policy—while reframing children and childhood—stands to make many contributions and interventions in the field."—Nicole Nguyen, author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public SchoolsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Gloria Howerton and Leanne Purdum Part 1: Attempts to Categorize and Manage Youth 1. Working and Schooling: A Critical Geography of Child Labor and Compulsory Education Laws in the Early Twentieth-Century United StatesMeghan Cope 2. Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a “Particular Social Group” in Contemporary Asylum LawKristina M. Campbell 3. “Met with the Full Prosecutorial Powers”: Zero-Tolerance Family Separations, Advocacy, and the Exceptionalism of the Child Asylum SeekerLeanne Purdum 4. Understanding New York’s Opt-Out Movement: How School Segregation Shaped the Nation’s Largest Resistance to Standardized TestingOlivia Ildefonso Part 2: Youth Resistance and Resilience 5. The Coming of the Superpredators: Race, Policing, and Resistance to the Criminalization of YouthMarsha Weissman, Glenn Rodriguez, and Evan Weissman 6. BreakOUT!: Queer and Trans of Color Activism in New OrleansKrista L. Benson 7. Black Youth Resistance to Policies, Practices, and Dominant Narratives of the St. Louis Voluntary Desegregation PlanJerome E. Morris and Wanda F. McGowan 8. The Tribunal of the Future: Youth, Responsibility, and Temporal Justice in US Climate Change LitigationMark Ortiz Contributors Index
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PIE - Peter Lang Political Geography
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Stabilization and Progress in the Western
Book SynopsisFor more than a decade, the Balkans have been a centre of crisis – armed conflicts have brought death, expulsion, destruction and untold suffering to the people. The postwar efforts of the West have failed to bring lasting stability and real progress so far. The Symposium at Basel University was an interdisciplinary event where complex issues were elucidated by historians, geographers, sociologists and political scientists. The event enabled East and West European scholars and their American counterparts to exchange their somewhat divergent views. The speakers covered a broad range of subjects: historical causes, aspects of postwar economic and social development as well as sociocultural consequences of the democratization process. Special attention was devoted to the situation of minorities, the refugee problem and the security situation in the fragile states of the West Balkans and also to the responsibility of the EU and USA for the general stagnation in the area. The Symposium was intended to illustrate differing interpretations of the events of the past ten years and to encourage discussion between speakers and participants at the event.Trade Review«Der Band schliesst eine Lücke in der international verfügbaren Literatur. Er ist nicht nur eine Informationsquelle für jene, die sich mit der Region akademisch beschäftigen, die Beiträge eignen sich auch für Lehrzwecke und zur Vorbereitung auf Exkursionen oder Studienreisen in die Region.» (Martin Geiger, Geographica Helvetica)Table of ContentsContents: Dušan Šimko/Ueli Mäder: Introduction – Jason Dittmer/David A. Parr: Mediating Sovereignty: A Comparative Latent Semantic Analysis of US Newspapers and Conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia – Jan Rychlík: The Breakup of Yugoslavia - The Reasons and Consequences – Rozita Dimova: ‘Duldung’ Trauma: Displacement, Protection and ‘Tolerance’ of the Srebrenica Survivors in Berlin – Marie-Janine Calic: International Peace Building in Semi-Independent Kosovo: Lessons Not Learned – Miroslav Svirčević: History of Civil War in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-5: The Carrington-Cutileiro Peace Plan – Ivo Samson: International Law and Conflicts – Dušan T. Bataković: The Kosovo Aftermath: Challenges and Perspectives – Charles Ingrao: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: The Scholars’ Initiative – Alex Jeffrey: Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Aleksa Djilas: De Gaulle’s Vision of Europe and the Problems of the Contemporary Balkans.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Linking up the Alps: How networks of local
Book SynopsisThe signing of the Convention on the protection of the Alps (Alpine Convention) by the Alpine States in 1991 heralded new practices and perspectives. This transnational project is intended to solve important challenges faced by the Alpine population. Convinced that the Alpine Convention should fulfil its potential, some non-governmental organizations and some active persons created networks of local political actors to connect local representatives, researchers, managers of protected areas and ecological associations. These were designed to realize a sustainable pan-Alpine region. This book endeavours to understand how and why local political actors, organized in pan-Alpine networks, chose to take mountain regions in general, and the Alps in particular, as the shared frame of reference for their involvement. It explores if and how a pan-Alpine identity detached from and/or combined with the more «traditional» national identities is developing among and enacted by local political actors engaged for the Alpine Convention. It also analyzes the socio-political significance of local political actors’ involvement in the newly constituted pan-Alpine networks.Trade Review«This is an interesting Swiss contribution to the debate on the making of regional identity.» (Clive H. Church, Mountain Research and Development Vol 37 No 2/2017)Table of ContentsContents: Introduction – Theoretical framework – Methodology – The actors of the Alpine region – Regional objectivation and identification – Pan-Alpine networking: performing the regional assemblage – Socio-political significance of the pan-Alpine region – Conclusion.
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Peter Lang AG What Kind of Regionalism?: Regionalism and Region
Book SynopsisWhat Kind of Regionalism? seeks to explore the value basis of regionalism in two northern European regions. By investigating two less favoured, politically defined regions, the author tries to complement previous accounts of regionalism in western Europe, many of which have revolved either around ethnic' regions, known for hosting sub-nationalist demands, or around affluent regions in the economic and political centre of Europe. A fundamental assumption in the study is that regionalism can be studied as an instance of a political ideology. The author has compared the political debate in Norrbotten (Sweden) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany) from the mid-1990s up to the present, bringing out the norms, values and demands on which regionalism in these two regions rests. Drawing on extensive empirical material from the two regions, the author seeks to challenge any notion that modern-day forms of regionalism differ from previous ones in an absence of ethno-culturalist elements. The author adopts a critical approach towards treating regional identities, cultures and images primarily as desirable factors for regional economic growth.
£53.28
Transcript Verlag Waste(d) Collectors – Politics of Urban Exclusion
Book SynopsisScientific practices of removing waste in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems which reproduce existing social hierarchies. Thus going beyond a techno-managerial approach in waste management, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai, India. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted space, a dumping site, to reveal how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary formal and informal practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality, informality, urban planning this book will attract scholars from sociology, urban studies, and human geography.
£70.39
Pentagon Press Sea of Collective Destiny: Bay of Bengal and
Book SynopsisBIMSTEC has evolved as an important multilateral institution around the geography of Bay of Bengal. Its significance has been spurred by regional governments who are proactively engaging to make BIMSTEC a vibrant institution. This book argues for promoting we-ness in the region and foster cooperation for regional integration.
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European Interuniversity Press Deceiving (Dis)Appearances: Analyzing Current
Book SynopsisThe impact of recent shifts in global geopolitics and economic markets has led to the re-conceptualization of national borders. Scholars have shifted their analysis away from the narrow idea of borders, and moved their attention towards the wider view of borderlands, border regions, and border zones, thus, leading to the conceptual re-definition of border politics. These recent approaches have identified border areas as socially constructed territories that demonstrate many of the characteristics of independent polities. Border communities seem to have come to life, creating a degree of autonomy and separation from central state actors. While the rich literature in border studies identifies important changes in local political and economic systems, it does not necessarily identify the mechanisms that create these changes: Why has integration occurred in some border regions while others are being reinforced? Why has integration failed in some cases where opportunity structures are positive, while it has succeeded in others saddled with more limited constraints? The essays in this volume address such fundamental questions.
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