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Global Suburbs
Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro
Inbunden, 2014
3082 kr
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Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere. American suburban sprawl has created a giant human habitat stretching from Las Vegas to San Diego, and from Mexico to …
Global Suburbs
Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro
Häftad, 2014
695 kr
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Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere. American suburban sprawl has created a giant human habitat stretching from Las Vegas to San Diego, and from Mexico to …
Capitalism's Eye
Cultural Spaces of the Commodity
Inbunden, 2007
2759 kr
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Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the …
Capitalism's Eye
Cultural Spaces of the Commodity
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the …
Buyways
Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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The highway has become the buyway. Along the millions of miles the public travels, advertisers spend billions on images of cola, cars, vodka, fast food, and swimming pools that blur past us, catching our fleeting attention and turning the landscape into a corridor of commerce. A smart, succinct, …
Buyways
Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Häftad, 2004
798 kr
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The highway has become the buyway. Along the millions of miles the public travels, advertisers spend billions on images of cola, cars, vodka, fast food, and swimming pools that blur past us, catching our fleeting attention and turning the landscape into a corridor of commerce. A smart, succinct, …
After the World Trade Center
Rethinking New York City
Av Michael Sorkin, Sharon Zukin
Inbunden, 2002
1002 kr
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The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey …
Silicon Alley
The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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The 1990s dawned with a belief that the digital revolution would radically transform our traditional notion of cities as places of commerce and industry. Many predicted that digital technology would render cities--or at least their economies--obsolete. Instead, precisely the opposite happened. The …
Silicon Alley
The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
Häftad, 2004
856 kr
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The 1990s dawned with a belief that the digital revolution would radically transform our traditional notion of cities as places of commerce and industry. Many predicted that digital technology would render cities--or at least their economies--obsolete. Instead, precisely the opposite happened. The …
Diaspora Strikes Back
Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
Av Juan Flores
Inbunden, 2008
2759 kr
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In TheDiaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the …
Diaspora Strikes Back
Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
Av Juan Flores
Häftad, 2008
695 kr
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In TheDiaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the …
Branding New York
How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World
Inbunden, 2008
3173 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book!Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces …
Branding New York
How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World
Häftad, 2008
776 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book!Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces …
Global Architect
Firms, Fame and Urban Form
Inbunden, 2008
2600 kr
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The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological overview of the current global architectural industry, Donald McNeill covers the "star system" of …
Global Architect
Firms, Fame and Urban Form
Häftad, 2008
671 kr
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The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological overview of the current global architectural industry, Donald McNeill covers the "star system" of …
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
Av Serra Tinic
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Files and Canadian series like Da Vinci's Inquest have boosted the city's profile as a centre for international and domestic productions. Serra Tinic's On …
Witnessing AIDS
Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning
Av Sarah Brophy
Häftad, 2004
510 kr
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Witnessing AIDS addresses testimonial literature produced in response to the AIDS pandemic, focusing on texts by four individuals: filmmaker, painter, activist, and writer Derek Jarman; writer Jamaica Kincaid; anthropologist and media theorist Eric Michaels; and journalist Amy Hoffman. Sarah Brophy …
Utopian Pedagogy
Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization
Av Mark Cote, Richard J.F. Day m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
485 kr
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Utopian Pedagogy is a critical exploration of educational struggles within and against neoliberalism. Editors Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter, along with a number of innovative voices from a variety of different academic fields and political movements, examine three key themes: the …
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
Av Serra Tinic
Inbunden, 2005
823 kr
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Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Files and Canadian series like Da Vinci's Inquest have boosted the city's profile as a centre for international and domestic productions. Serra Tinic's On …
Gramsci's Politics of Language
Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School
Av Peter Ives
Häftad, 2006
443 kr
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Antonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony have permeated social and political theory, cultural studies, education studies, literary criticism, international relations, and post-colonial theory. The centrality of language and linguistics to Gramsci's thought, however, has been wholly neglected. In …
World Writing
Poetics, Ethics, Globalization
Häftad, 2008
401 kr
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Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of literature. World Writing is therefore …
World Writing
Poetics, Ethics, Globalization
Inbunden, 2008
753 kr
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Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of literature. World Writing is therefore …
Precarious Empowerment
Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago
Av Pilar Ortiz
Inbunden, 2025
2454 kr
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Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile’s Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.Set in and around ‘tinted …
Precarious Empowerment
Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago
Av Pilar Ortiz
Häftad, 2025
633 kr
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Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile’s Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.Set in and around ‘tinted …
Foodies
Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape
Av Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann
Inbunden, 2014
2759 kr
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This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The …
Foodies
Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape
Av Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann
Häftad, 2014
754 kr
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This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The …
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism
Av Misao Dean
Häftad, 2013
387 kr
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If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with an …
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography
Av Sarah Brophy, Janice Hladki
Häftad, 2014
456 kr
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From reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today’s image-obsessed age. With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural …
Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
E-bok, 2017
1047 kr
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In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon …
Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
E-bok, 2017
1047 kr
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In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon …
