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  • The Crate Escape

    by Brian Robson ...
    In 1962, when air-travel was in its infancy, a nineteen-year-old boy who felt trapped in Melbourne, Australia, made up his mind that he was going to return to his homeland in the United Kingdom. He was prevented from doing so by both lack of documentation and the funds required.Putting an idea to work without the thought of losing his life, he became the first person in history to fly for nearly ... Read more

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  • Volume 2: Housing and Home

    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban ... Read more

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  • Managing the City

    The Aims and Impacts of Urban Policy

    Edited by Brian Robson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    This book, first published in 1987, addresses questions which have gained new importance in the light of the continuing erosion of the economic base and social stability of cities. The recurring riots in inner cities are but the outward manifestation of the profound collapse of the civic societies of our cities. This book addresses three main issues: What has gone wrong? What successes and ... Read more

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  • What We Owe Each Other

    A New Social Contract for a Better Society

    From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

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  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Read more

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  • Power and Resistance

    Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, Sixth Edition

    by Wayne Antony ...
    How do we make sense of the social problems that continue to plague Canadian society? Our understanding of issues such as poverty, racism, violence, homophobia, crime and pollution stems from our view of how society is structured. From the dominant neoliberal perspective, social problems arise from individuals making poor choices. From a critical perspective, however, these social troubles are ... Read more

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  • Injustice

    Why Social Inequality Still Persists

    by Danny Dorling ...
    In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. Economic inequalities will persist and continue to ... Read more

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  • Unprecedented?

    How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy

    Series series Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
    A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of ... Read more

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  • Ending the War on Drugs

    For the last 50 years, drug prohibition laws have put the market for illegal drugs into the hands of organised criminals. Now, it’s time to take control.Ending the failed war on drugs will reduce drug-related violence, tackle organised crime, end the needless criminalisation of millions, and will halt the drain on government funds and resources.In this book, global opinion-leaders on the frontline ... Read more

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  • The Health of Nations

    Towards a New Political Economy

    by Gavin Mooney ...
    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Read more

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  • Urban Geography

    A Global Perspective

    Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. ... Read more

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