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  • Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai

    by Joop de Wit ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and municipal councillors, it brings out the problems in the functioning of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Politics of Social Inclusion

    Bridging Knowledge and Policies Towards Social Change

    by Gabriele Koehler, Alberto D Cimadamore, Fadia Kiwan, Pedro Manuel Monreal Gonzalez, Enrique Delamonica, Paul Spicker, Juan Telleria0, Nelson Antequera Duran1, Aldrie Henry-Lee2, Gilbert Siame3, Judith Audin4, Ashok Kumar5, Joop de Wit6, Rachel Kurian7, Deepak Singh8, Annie Namala9 ...
    Series Book 9 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    This volume looks at concepts and processes of social exclusion and social inclusion. It traces a number of discourses, all of them routed in a relational power analysis, examining them in the context of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030 with its commitment to “leave no one behind.” The book combines analysis that is fundamentally critical of the rhetoric of social inclusion in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

    by Matthew Desmond ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Tango on the Main

    by Joe Fiorito ...
    In this award-winning collection from his Montreal Gazette city columns, Joe Fiorito reveals the true heart and soul of a large city. He walks the streets, meeting and talking to the people who make the city tick, but never make the front-page news. In Tango on the Main he introduces us to Jackie of the Ritz, Montreal's chambermaid to the stars...the itinerant who reads Tennyson and drinks his ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Unsettling the Commons

    Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

    by Craig Fortier ...
    Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim “the commons” on stolen land. Travelling ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Behind the Gates

    Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America

    by Setha Low ...
    In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend?Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Good Neighbors

    Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End

    by Sylvie Tissot ...
    Translated by David Broder, Catherine Romatowski ...
    Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston’s South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Our Schools Suck

    Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education

    by Jeanne Theoharis, Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su ...
    Shares the voices of students speaking out against the failures of urban education"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures have shifted attention away from the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Making of Urban Japan

    Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century

    by André Sorensen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Artistic Lives

    A Study of Creativity in Two European Cities

    by Kirsten Forkert ...
    Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments that affect the availability of unstructured time. It engages with discourses which have historically had little to do with the arts, including urban sociology and social policy research, to explore the social conditions and identities of ordinary ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • European Cities, Municipal Organizations and Diversity

    The New Politics of Difference

    by Maria Schiller ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges the prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigration policy-making. Presenting an in-depth ethnographic study of the recent implementation of local ‘diversity policies’ in the Netherlands, Belgium and United Kingdom, it identifies a new politics of difference, characterized by a ‘paradigmatic pragmatism’. Building on extensive fieldwork in Amsterdam, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD