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Politics of the Encounter
Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
E-bok, 2013
397 kr
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The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed …
Properties of Violence
Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico
E-bok, 2013
1998 kr
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Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle. Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property land …
Rethinking the South African Crisis
Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
Av Gillian Hart
E-bok, 2014
472 kr
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Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside “wageless life,” proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official …
Selling the Serengeti
The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
E-bok, 2016
456 kr
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Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches …
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Av Heather Merrill, Lisa M. Hoffman
E-bok, 2015
595 kr
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These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth …
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Av Katie Meehan, Kendra Strauss
E-bok, 2015
1940 kr
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This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work …
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin
E-bok, 2016
412 kr
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Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban successstories—a place that has grown enormously through “creative class” strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City , Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story by …
Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements
Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
Av Jennifer L. Fluri, Rachel Lehr
E-bok, 2017
1305 kr
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The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and “experts” representing well over two thousand organizations—each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines …
Long War
CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security
E-bok, 2017
412 kr
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Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich …
Loisaida as Urban Laboratory
Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York
E-bok, 2020
1940 kr
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Loisaida as Urban Laboratory is the first in-depth analysis of the network of Puerto Rican community activism in New York City’s Lower East Side from 1964 to 2001. Combining social history, cultural history, Latino studies, ethnic studies, studies of social movements, and urban studies, Timo …
