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Brands and the City
Entanglements and Implications for Urban Life
Häftad, 2019
690 kr
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From commercial retail environments to branded urban villages, brands are now a salient feature of contemporary cityscapes and are deeply entwined in people’s everyday lives. Drawing on extensive empirical material and recent theoretical developments in the sociology of brands, this book explores …
Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities
The Rhythm of Chaos
Häftad, 2020
688 kr
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This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised …
Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice
Turkish-Germans in Berlin
Häftad, 2020
688 kr
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What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European urban sociology, research has mostly focused either on lower class ethnic minorities, or on white ethnic majority middle classes. By contrast, studies on upwardly mobile ethnic …
Creating the Unequal City
The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin
Av Talja Blokland, Carlotta Giustozzi m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
688 kr
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Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a particular way. We may therefore speak of cityness rather than 'the city': the city is always in the making. It cannot be grasped as a fixed structure in …
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
Häftad, 2020
688 kr
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What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil …
Contentious Politics and the Welfare State
Squatting in Sweden
Häftad, 2020
717 kr
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This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyzes the conditions under which squatting has intensified and declined in the country between 1968 and 2017. With close attention to the relationship between civil society and the state in the Swedish context, and the manner in which …
Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes
Feelings of Class
Av Lars Meier
Häftad, 2023
645 kr
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Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories, hauntings from …
Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities
The Rhythm of Chaos
Inbunden, 2018
2501 kr
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This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised …
Contentious Politics and the Welfare State
Squatting in Sweden
Inbunden, 2019
2501 kr
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This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyzes the conditions under which squatting has intensified and declined in the country between 1968 and 2017. With close attention to the relationship between civil society and the state in the Swedish context, and the manner in which …
Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South
Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in São Paulo
Häftad, 2017
746 kr
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Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on detailed research conducted in São Paulo in an examination of the social networks of individuals who identify as poor. The …
Beyond the Resources of Poverty
Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital
Häftad, 2016
311 kr
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This groundbreaking volume researches the lives of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey in order to understand how households cope with poverty and why some households are more successful than others in reducing their deprivation. It takes a critical stance towards existing conceptions …
Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization
Subnational Comparison of Local Development in Mexico
Av Aylin Topal
Häftad, 2016
558 kr
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Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of democratization. This rather optimistic perspective is inherent in the literature which is dominated by two theories. The …
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective
Making Sense of Contextual Diversity
Av Kuniko Fujita, Thomas Maloutas
Häftad, 2016
906 kr
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We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world. Spatial organization (places and neighbourhoods) matters significantly in some cities in reproducing class relations and …
Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes
Feelings of Class
Av Lars Meier
Inbunden, 2021
2501 kr
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Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories, hauntings from …
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City
On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put
Av Tone Huse
Häftad, 2018
769 kr
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local …
Beyond the Resources of Poverty
Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital
Inbunden, 2011
1225 kr
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This groundbreaking volume researches the lives of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey in order to understand how households cope with poverty and why some households are more successful than others in reducing their deprivation. It takes a critical stance towards existing conceptions …
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective
Making Sense of Contextual Diversity
Av Kuniko Fujita, Thomas Maloutas
Inbunden, 2012
2501 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world. Spatial organization (places and neighbourhoods) matters significantly in some cities in reproducing class relations and …
Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization
Subnational Comparison of Local Development in Mexico
Av Aylin Topal
Inbunden, 2012
1515 kr
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Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of democratization. This rather optimistic perspective is inherent in the literature which is dominated by two theories. The …
Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South
Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in São Paulo
Inbunden, 2012
2501 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on detailed research conducted in São Paulo in an examination of the social networks of individuals who identify as poor. The …
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City
On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put
Av Tone Huse
Inbunden, 2014
2501 kr
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local …
Brands and the City
Entanglements and Implications for Urban Life
Inbunden, 2017
2501 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From commercial retail environments to branded urban villages, brands are now a salient feature of contemporary cityscapes and are deeply entwined in people’s everyday lives. Drawing on extensive empirical material and recent theoretical developments in the sociology of brands, this book explores …
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2015
2501 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil …
Creating the Unequal City
The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin
Av Talja Blokland, Carlotta Giustozzi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2501 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a particular way. We may therefore speak of cityness rather than 'the city': the city is always in the making. It cannot be grasped as a fixed structure in …
Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice
Turkish-Germans in Berlin
Inbunden, 2016
2501 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European urban sociology, research has mostly focused either on lower class ethnic minorities, or on white ethnic majority middle classes. By contrast, studies on upwardly mobile ethnic …
