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  • Articulations of Capital

    Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations

    by John Pickles, Adrian Smith ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    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 ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China

    by Shengjun Zhu, John Pickles, Canfei He ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China’s export-oriented industries. The topics covered are relevant to post-socialist geography, development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies. It offers academics, international researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Anomie of the Earth

    Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas

    Edited by Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, Wilson Kaiser ...
    The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist Marxism and decolonial thinking. In discussing and rejecting Carl Schmitt's formulation of the nomos—a conceptualization of world order based on the Western tenets of law and property—the authors question the assumption of universal political subjects and look towards politics of the commons ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Environmental Transitions

    Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

    by Petr Pavlínek, John Pickles ...
    Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Theorizing Transition

    The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

    Edited by John Pickles, Adrian Smith ...
    Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development.The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A History of Spaces

    Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World

    by John Pickles ...
    This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live. Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

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  • Playing Our Game : Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten The West

    by Edward S. Steinfeld ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • On Decoloniality

    Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Catherine E. Walsh ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • China and Globalization

    The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society

    by Doug Guthrie ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the economic genesis in this compact and highly readable introduction to contemporary China. He highlights the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Displacing Whiteness

    Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

    by Rebecca Aanerud, T. Muraleedharan, Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, bell hooks ...
    Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions ... Read more

    $28.79 USD