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This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power. Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory. Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with cases and examples.
334 kr
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This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power. Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory. Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with cases and examples.
Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change
Britain In The Last 1000 Years
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
824 kr
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The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes. Provides an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years.The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes.Considers the relevance of technological and conceptual approaches to understanding landscape dynamics.Examines key process environments highlighting significant trends and the influence of human activity, and incorporating examples and modelling.Encourages geographers to look forward to the challenges that geomorphology faces in the new millennium.Find out more information about the RGS-IBG journals by following the links below:AREA:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894The Geographical Journal:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754
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Geographies of British Modernity
Space and Society in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
344 kr
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This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain. The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain. Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century. Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies. Demonstrates the vitality of work in this field and its relevance to everyday life.
334 kr
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Geopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practiceBased on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven yearsFocuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniformMoves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology
792 kr
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Geopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practiceBased on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven yearsFocuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniformMoves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology
334 kr
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Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for ‘appropriate’ acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodityBridges the fields of human geography and anthropologyApproaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel wayProvides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justiceEnhanced by vivid photos from the field
792 kr
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Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for ‘appropriate’ acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodityBridges the fields of human geography and anthropologyApproaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel wayProvides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justiceEnhanced by vivid photos from the field
792 kr
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In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact. Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politicsExplores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their performance, origins, and impactStudies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline – a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate social responsibility – and its wide-spread negative political impactCapitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the critical role of material artefacts in political life
334 kr
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In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact. Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politicsExplores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their performance, origins, and impactStudies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline – a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate social responsibility – and its wide-spread negative political impactCapitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the critical role of material artefacts in political life
792 kr
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Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association. Provides innovative conceptualization and theorization to facilitate an understanding of the geographical dimensions of brands and brandingChallenges current interpretations of brands as vehicles of homogenization in globalizationEstablishes the theoretical and conceptual foundations of a more geographically sensitive approach through rigorous empirical examination of the under-researched geographical differentiation of commodity brands and brandingPresents innovative new research and analysis of the socio-spatial biographies of the Newcastle Brown Ale, Burberry and Apple brandsForges strong new connections between political and cultural economy approaches within geographyProvides a distinctive and incisive conceptual and theoretical framework capable of engaging other branded commodities and their branding in other times and places
334 kr
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Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association. Provides innovative conceptualization and theorization to facilitate an understanding of the geographical dimensions of brands and brandingChallenges current interpretations of brands as vehicles of homogenization in globalizationEstablishes the theoretical and conceptual foundations of a more geographically sensitive approach through rigorous empirical examination of the under-researched geographical differentiation of commodity brands and brandingPresents innovative new research and analysis of the socio-spatial biographies of the Newcastle Brown Ale, Burberry and Apple brandsForges strong new connections between political and cultural economy approaches within geographyProvides a distinctive and incisive conceptual and theoretical framework capable of engaging other branded commodities and their branding in other times and places
Assembling Export Markets
The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
346 kr
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Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and marketizationOffers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making of global commodity chains ‘from below’Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their local engagement, materially entangled construction, need for maintenance, and fragile characterOffers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalismCritically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and farms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets
Assembling Export Markets
The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and marketizationOffers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making of global commodity chains ‘from below’Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their local engagement, materially entangled construction, need for maintenance, and fragile characterOffers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalismCritically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and farms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets
Articulations of Capital
Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
815 kr
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Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geographyDevelops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global productionDraws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industriesMakes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement
Articulations of Capital
Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
344 kr
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Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geographyDevelops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global productionDraws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industriesMakes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement
Rehearsing the State
The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
792 kr
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Rehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions, performances, and actors through which the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is rehearsing statecraft. McConnell offers new insights into how communities officially excluded from formal state politics enact hoped-for futures and seek legitimacy in the present. Offers timely and original insights into exile Tibetan politics based on detailed qualitative research in Tibetan communities in IndiaAdvances existing debates in political geography by bringing ideas of stateness and statecraft into dialogue with geographies of temporalityExplores the provisional and pedagogical dimensions of state practices, adding weight to assertions that states are in a continual situation of emergenceMakes a significant contribution to critical state theory
Rehearsing the State
The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
346 kr
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Rehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions, performances, and actors through which the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is rehearsing statecraft. McConnell offers new insights into how communities officially excluded from formal state politics enact hoped-for futures and seek legitimacy in the present. Offers timely and original insights into exile Tibetan politics based on detailed qualitative research in Tibetan communities in IndiaAdvances existing debates in political geography by bringing ideas of stateness and statecraft into dialogue with geographies of temporalityExplores the provisional and pedagogical dimensions of state practices, adding weight to assertions that states are in a continual situation of emergenceMakes a significant contribution to critical state theory
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In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the cityOffers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the “right to the city” and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanismsExamines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformationChallenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wakeDraws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany
334 kr
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In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the cityOffers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the “right to the city” and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanismsExamines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformationChallenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wakeDraws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany
Africa's Information Revolution
Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
792 kr
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Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!Africa’s Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kindConfronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa’s prospects for m- and e-developmentFeatures comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South AfricaRaises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continent’s recent economic growth spurtCombines perspectives from economic and development geography and science and technology studies to demonstrate the power of integrated conceptual-theoretical frameworksInclude maps, photos, diagrams and tables to highlight the concepts, field research settings, and key findings
Africa's Information Revolution
Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
346 kr
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Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!Africa’s Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kindConfronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa’s prospects for m- and e-developmentFeatures comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South AfricaRaises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continent’s recent economic growth spurtCombines perspectives from economic and development geography and science and technology studies to demonstrate the power of integrated conceptual-theoretical frameworksInclude maps, photos, diagrams and tables to highlight the concepts, field research settings, and key findings
334 kr
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Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community. Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint occurring only after violence and political maneuveringsExamines the ways in which geographical concepts such as space, place, and scale can inform and problematize understandings of peaceRedefines the politics of peace, as well as concepts of citizenship, agency, secular politics, and democracyBased on over 14 months of qualitative and archival research in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India
820 kr
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Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community. Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint occurring only after violence and political maneuveringsExamines the ways in which geographical concepts such as space, place, and scale can inform and problematize understandings of peaceRedefines the politics of peace, as well as concepts of citizenship, agency, secular politics, and democracyBased on over 14 months of qualitative and archival research in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India
735 kr
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Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. Provides an original book-length study which brings domestic violence and forced eviction into twin viewOffers relational insights between different violences to build an integrated understanding of women’s experiences of home lifeMobilises the crisis ordinary as a critical pedagogy and imaginary through which to understand everyday gendered politics of survivalPositions domestic violence and forced eviction as manifestations of intimate war against women’s homes and bodies located inside and outside of the traditional purview of warReaffirms and reprioritises the home as a political entity which is foundational to the concerns of human geography
548 kr
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Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. Provides an original book-length study which brings domestic violence and forced eviction into twin viewOffers relational insights between different violences to build an integrated understanding of women’s experiences of home lifeMobilises the crisis ordinary as a critical pedagogy and imaginary through which to understand everyday gendered politics of survivalPositions domestic violence and forced eviction as manifestations of intimate war against women’s homes and bodies located inside and outside of the traditional purview of warReaffirms and reprioritises the home as a political entity which is foundational to the concerns of human geography
334 kr
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This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affectsReworks Rancière's notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconsciousEstablishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysisUtilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud's case studiesSets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment
792 kr
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This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affectsReworks Rancière's notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconsciousEstablishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysisUtilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud's case studiesSets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment
346 kr
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Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of ‘family-friendly’ working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms’ capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth. Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and familyAddresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow ‘business case’ for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist ‘dual agenda’Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the “ideal worker” and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitmentsBased on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world
792 kr
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Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of ‘family-friendly’ working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms’ capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth. Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and familyAddresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow ‘business case’ for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist ‘dual agenda’Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the “ideal worker” and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitmentsBased on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world