IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series – serie
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Working Bodies
Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities
Häftad, 2009
288 kr
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Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies. Defines ‘body work’ to include the work by service sector employees on their own bodies …
Free Markets and Food Riots
The Politics of Global Adjustment
Av John K. Walton, David Seddon
Häftad, 1994
385 kr
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This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely …
Divided Cities
Av Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
406 kr
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Divided Cities is the comparative analysis of New York and London which many have been waiting for. Wider in scope and richer in detailthan any previous study, this work provides the best introduction available to these pre-eminent world cities.Seeming at times to mirror each other acrocc the …
People's Home?
Social Rented Housing in Europe and America
Häftad, 1995
443 kr
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The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.
Post-Fordism
A Reader
Häftad, 1994
413 kr
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Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and …
Contemporary Urban Japan
A Sociology of Consumption
Av John Clammer
Inbunden, 1997
808 kr
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This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.
Contemporary Urban Japan
A Sociology of Consumption
Av John Clammer
Häftad, 1997
297 kr
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This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.
Social Control of Cities?
A Comparative Perspective
Av Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sophie Body-Gendrot
Häftad, 2000
343 kr
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In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.
Capital Culture
Gender at Work in the City
Inbunden, 1997
903 kr
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The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among observers of gender. Capital Culture explores these changes focusing particularly on the gender …
Capital Culture
Gender at Work in the City
Häftad, 1997
444 kr
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The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among observers of gender. Capital Culture explores these changes focusing particularly on the gender …
Globalizing Cities
A New Spatial Order?
Av Marcuse, van Kempen m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
343 kr
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This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.
Cinema and the City
Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
Av Shiel, Mark Shiel m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
Understanding the City
Contemporary and Future Perspectives
Inbunden, 2002
924 kr
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This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.
Understanding the City
Contemporary and Future Perspectives
Häftad, 2002
343 kr
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This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.
New Chinese City
Globalization and Market Reform
Av Logan, John Logan
Inbunden, 2001
1032 kr
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Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.
New Chinese City
Globalization and Market Reform
Av Logan, John Logan
Häftad, 2001
412 kr
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Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.
Cities in Relations
Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
Häftad, 2014
295 kr
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Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoConsiders the ways in which a city’s …
Cities in Relations
Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
Inbunden, 2014
872 kr
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Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoConsiders the ways in which a city’s …
Cities and Social Movements
Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
Av Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark
Inbunden, 2016
847 kr
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Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations. …
Cities and Social Movements
Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
Av Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark
Häftad, 2016
287 kr
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Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations. …
Urban Land Rent
Singapore as a Property State
Av Anne Haila
Häftad, 2015
287 kr
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In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory. Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern cityExamines the question of land from a variety of …
From World City to the World in One City
Liverpool through Malay Lives
Av Tim Bunnell
Häftad, 2016
292 kr
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Tim Bunnell's book featured in the movie Pulang - the author has recently spoken in several interviews and programmes about how his fascination with the tales of Malay seamen in the UK led to writing this …
From World City to the World in One City
Liverpool through Malay Lives
Av Tim Bunnell
Inbunden, 2016
847 kr
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Tim Bunnell's book featured in the movie Pulang - the author has recently spoken in several interviews and programmes about how his fascination with the tales of Malay seamen in the UK led to writing this …
Housing in the Margins
Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens
Inbunden, 2021
847 kr
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Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German housing crisisA novel approach …
Housing in the Margins
Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens
Häftad, 2021
492 kr
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Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German housing crisisA novel approach …
Youth Urban Worlds
Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal
Av Julie-Anne Boudreau, Joelle Rondeau
Häftad, 2021
563 kr
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political processIncludes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of …
Youth Urban Worlds
Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal
Av Julie-Anne Boudreau, Joelle Rondeau
Inbunden, 2021
847 kr
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political processIncludes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of …
Classify, Exclude, Police
Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria
Inbunden, 2021
847 kr
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>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE ‘Laurent Fourchard’s deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and at the same time how political …
Classify, Exclude, Police
Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria
Häftad, 2021
287 kr
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>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE ‘Laurent Fourchard’s deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and at the same time how political …
Commodification Gap
Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg
Inbunden, 2022
847 kr
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THE COMMODIFICATION GAP ‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes. Matthias Bernt develops a new concept, the “commodification gap”, which is tested in three richly researched …
