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  • (Un)Settling Place

    Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

    Edited by Heike Drotbohm, Yaatsil Guevara González, Nanneke Winters ...
    Series Book 14 - Worlds in Motion
    People who are “on the move,” particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote. (Un)Settling Place recentralizes these “out-of-the-way” places as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. Ranging from the surveillance and care that migrants experience to the re-creation of social ties and the re-claiming of ... Read more

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    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

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    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

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  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Edited by Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... Read more

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  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    by Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Infrastructure

    Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, Hannah Appel ...
    From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and ... Read more

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  • Queer and Trans Migrations

    Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

    by Eithne Luibheid, Karma R. Chavez, Anna Carastathis, Jack Caraves, Ryan Conrad, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee0, Leece Lee-Oliver1, Hana Masri2, Yasmin Nair3, Bamby Salcedo4, Fadi Saleh5, Rafael Ramirez Solorzano6, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto7, Myrto Tsilimpounidi8, Suyapa Portillo Villeda9, Sasha Wijeyeratne0, Ruben Zecena1, AB Brown2, Elif Sari3, Julio Capo Jr.4 ...
    Series series Dissident Feminisms
    More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume ... Read more

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  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

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  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

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  • Facing An Unequal World

    Challenges for Global Sociology

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    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
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    Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

    by Valerie Preston, Robert Latham, Leah Vosko ...
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  • Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

    Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'

    Edited by Wendy Harcourt, Ingrid L. Nelson ...
    Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the 'green economy', it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of ... Read more

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  • Challenging Global Development

    Towards Decoloniality and Justice

    Edited by Henning Melber, Uma Kothari, Laura Camfield, Kees Biekart ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of ... Read more

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