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  • City Branding

    The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities

    by Alberto Vanolo ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions of places, both in the eyes of the inhabitants and in those of potential tourists, investors, users and consumers.City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities explores different sides of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Political Geographies

    A Global Perspective

    by Ugo Rossi, Alberto Vanolo ...
    "Ugo Rossi and Alberto Vanolo take us on a journey around the ascent and crisis of urban liberalism, providing a clear and highly readable analysis of key issues and debates in the field of urban political geography."- Ola Söderström, Université de Neuchâtel"It is in the city trenches that the crises, contradictions, and counterpolitics of neoliberalization are finding some of their most vivid and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Seeking Spatial Justice

    by Edward W. Soja ...
    Series Book 16 - Globalization and Community
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  • Home and Native Land

    Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

    Edited by May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, Sonali Thakkar ...
    Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another ... Read more

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  • Gender and Migration

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Anastasia Christou, Eleonore Kofman ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an ... Read more

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  • Cities for People, Not for Profit

    Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

    Edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer ...
    The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender

    A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars

    by Pierre Wilbert Orelus ...
    Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances people, across various race, class, language, and gender lines, have. Utilizing dialogue as a form ... Read more

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  • A World to Win

    Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony

    Edited by William K. Carroll, Kanchan Sarker ...
    In this time of economic, ecological and social crises, a diverse array of collective movements carry the possibilities of deep democratization and alternative futures. A World to Win brings these movements alive as agents of history-in-the-making. It situates Quebec student strikers, Indigenous resistance and resurgence, Occupy, workers, migrant, feminist and queer movements and many others in ... Read more

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  • Transnational Migration

    by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Eveline Reisenauer ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong contributions to immigration studies and holds great promise for deepening insights into international migration.This is the first book to provide an accessible yet rigorous overview of transnational migration, as experienced by ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Learning Activism

    The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements

    by Aziz Choudry ...
    What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Migration

    by David Bartram, Maritsa Poros, Pierre Monforte ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "Demonstrates that the study of international migration has really come of age. From acculturation to undocumented immigration, the authors consider more than three dozen concepts at the heart of migration studies. Clearly written in a highly readable style, the book is a valuable resource for students and scholars alike."- Nancy Foner, City University of New York"This very useful and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD