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  • Local and Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine

    Edited by Jerome Krase, Zdeněk Uherek ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Local and Global Impact of the War in Ukraine, is a careful selection of essays composed by twenty experts from inside and outside of Ukraine. They encapsulate the most important issues stemming from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The contributions provide valuable insights into the past present, and future consequences of the conflict in Ukraine in local and global contexts. As the world ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • COVID-19 in Brooklyn

    Everyday Life During a Pandemic

    by Jerome Krase, Judith DeSena ...
    Series series The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
    COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown.Putting their private lives into broader scientific and public contexts, Krase and DeSena discuss a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Gentrification around the World, Volume II

    Innovative Approaches

    Edited by Jerome Krase, Judith N. DeSena ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and displacement ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn

    A View from the Street

    by Jerome Krase, Judith N. DeSena ...
    In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline and rise with a focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategies used to resist and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Gentrification around the World, Volume I

    Gentrifiers and the Displaced

    Edited by Jerome Krase, Judith N. DeSena ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this first volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors from various academic disciplines provide individual case studies on ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Seeing Cities Change

    Local Culture and Class

    by Jerome Krase ...
    Series series Urban Anthropology
    Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Diversity and Local Contexts

    Urban Space, Borders, and Migration

    Edited by Jerome Krase, Zdeněk Uherek ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local urban economic, social, and cultural lives are influenced by powerful external forces. In these ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The World in Brooklyn

    Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City

    by Noel S. Anderson, Alessandro Busà, Evrick Brown, Jennifer Candipan, Phyllis Conn, Roberta Cordeau, William DiFazio, Shanna Farrell, Jerome Krase, Steve Lang, Tammy L. Lewis, Sara Martucci, Lorna Mason, Ed Morlock, Christina Pisano, Bengisu Peker, Mark Peterson, Nicole Riorda, Danielle Shallow, Gregory Smithsimon, Mark Treskon, Kenneth A. Gould ...
    The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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