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Begging as a Path to Progress
Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces
Av Kate Swanson
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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In 1992, Calhuasí, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador’s large cities, Calhuasí experienced rapid social-spatial change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in Begging as a Path to Progress . Based on nineteen months of fieldwork, Swanson’s study pays particular …
Bloomberg's New York
Class and Governance in the Luxury City
Av Julian Brash
E-bok, 2011
613 kr
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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg''s New York , Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other social science disciplines to examine what that means. He describes the mayor''s attitude toward governance as the Bloomberg Way-a …
Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
E-bok, 2012
473 kr
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Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat for …
They Saved the Crops
Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Av Don Mitchell
E-bok, 2012
631 kr
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At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming …
Fields and Streams
Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
Av Rebecca Lave
E-bok, 2012
458 kr
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Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a …
Black, White, and Green
Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
E-bok, 2012
443 kr
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Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to ''vote with your fork'' for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for …
Development, Security, and Aid
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Av Jamey Essex
E-bok, 2013
412 kr
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In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics. Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and …
Geographical Diversions
Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions
Av Tina Harris
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India. How might we make connections between seemingly …
Empires' Edge
Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
Av Sasha Davis, Jeffrey Bryan Davis
E-bok, 2015
409 kr
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In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China’s rising economic and military strength, North Korea’s nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and …
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
E-bok, 2015
519 kr
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Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil …
Territories of Poverty
Rethinking North and South
Av Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane
E-bok, 2015
583 kr
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Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays …
Beyond the Kale
Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City
Av Kristin Reynolds, Nevin Cohen
E-bok, 2016
565 kr
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Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture—fresh food, green space, educational opportunities—can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder …
Calculating Property Relations
Chicago's Wartime Industrial Mobilization, 1940–1950
Av Robert Lewis
E-bok, 2016
1998 kr
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Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II–era Chicago. Robert Lewis’s rich trove of material—drawn from research on more than six hundred …
We Want Land to Live
Making Political Space for Food Sovereignty
Av Amy Trauger
E-bok, 2017
1268 kr
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We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means “the peasant’s way”), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger uses research combining …
Masculinities and Markets
Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee
E-bok, 2017
504 kr
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Studies of urban neoliberalism have been surprisingly inattentive to gender. Brenda Parker begins to remedy this by looking at the effect of new urbanism, "e;creative class,"e; and welfare reform discourses on women in Milwaukee, a traditionally progressive city with a strong history of …
Development Drowned and Reborn
The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Av Clyde Woods, Laura Pulido m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
613 kr
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Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane …
Priority of Injustice
Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
E-bok, 2017
1512 kr
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This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political …
Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance
Mexico and the Global Political Economy
E-bok, 2017
1384 kr
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Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh’s discussion of state formation in Mexico …
Relational Poverty Politics
Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities
Av Victoria Lawson, Sarah Elwood
E-bok, 2018
1420 kr
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This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural …
Rights in Transit
Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay
E-bok, 2019
1680 kr
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Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably “yes” to both. Indeed, when city officials propose slashing service or raising fares, it is these riders who are often the first to appear at that officials’ door demanding their “right” to …
Open Borders
In Defense of Free Movement
Av Reece Jones
E-bok, 2019
1680 kr
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Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the …
Subaltern Geographies
E-bok, 2019
1730 kr
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Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. This edited volume explores this …
Detain and Deport
The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime
E-bok, 2019
1644 kr
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Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement policies around the world. The United States has built a massive immigration enforcement system that detains and deports more people than any other country. This system is grounded in the assumptions that national …
Public Los Angeles
A Private City's Activist Futures
Av Don Parson, Roger Keil m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1730 kr
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Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers, structured around single-family homes and an …
America's Johannesburg
Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham
E-bok, 2019
493 kr
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In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama. During the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained national and international attention as a center of activity and unrest during the civil rights movement. Racially motivated bombings of the …
Mean Streets
Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital
Av Don Mitchell
E-bok, 2020
1680 kr
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The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and …
Islands and Oceans
Reimagining Sovereignty and Social Change
Av Sasha Davis
E-bok, 2020
1730 kr
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Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions. All sorts of political actors, it seems, are interested in sovereignty. It is less clear, however, just what the term means, and …
Social Reproduction and the City
Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York
Av Simon Black
E-bok, 2020
1680 kr
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The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York’s unionized, center-based child care …
Freedom Is a Place
The Struggle for Sovereignty in Palestine
Av Ron J. Smith
E-bok, 2020
1730 kr
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Freedom Is a Place gives readers a snapshot of everyday life in the 1967 oPt (occupied Palestinian territories). A project of subaltern geopolitics, it helps both new and seasoned scholars of the region better understand occupation: its purpose, varied manifestations, and on-the-ground functions. …
Abolishing Poverty
Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics
Av Victoria Lawson, Sarah Elwood m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
473 kr
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Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for …
