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  • Contemporary Economic Geographies

    Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives

    by Faith MacNeil Taylor, Caitlin Henry, Jennifer Clark, Zara Babakordi, Karen Lai, Karenjit Clare, Heidi Østbø Haugen, Lama Tawakkol, Rhiannon Pugh, Kavita Ramakrishnan, Emma Mawdley, Vida Vanchan, Wenying Fu, Luiza Sarayed-Din, Alex Hughes, Janelle Knox-Hayes, Suntje Schmidt, Chantel Carr, Natasha Larkin, Nancy Worth, Sharleen Mollett, Amy Greer Murphy, Mara Ferreri, Elena Trubina, Charlotte Wrigley-Asante, Mariama Zaami, Kendra Strauss, Taylor Brydges, Sabine Dörry, Gemma Sou, Sara González, Myfanwy Taylor, Julie de los Reyes, Lizzie Richardson ...
    Winner of the Academics Stand Against Poverty Book of the Year Anthology Award 2025The subdiscipline of economic geography has a long and varied history, and recent work has pushed the field to diversify even further. This collection takes this agenda forward by showcasing inspiring, critical and plural perspectives for contemporary economic geographies.Highlighting the contributions of global ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Geographies of Displacement/s

    Edited by Kendra Strauss ...
    This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another.The COVID ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Working in the Context of Austerity

    Challenges and Struggles

    by Jill Rubery, Steve Davies, Helen Blakely, Patrick Gunnigle, Tom Turner, Mike O'Brien, Caroline Murphy, Jonathan Lavelle, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lorraine Ryan, Juliette Macmahon, Alina Baluch, Pauric O’Rourke, Jennifer Zelnick, Mimi Abramovitz, Doug Young, Dora Scholarios, Eva Jendro, Feng Xu, Kendra Strauss, Geraldina Polanco, Pat Armstrong, Philip James, Niels Van Doorn, Wayne Lewchuk ...
    Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour

    Insecurity in the New World of Work

    Edited by Judy Fudge, Kendra Strauss ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. In this sense the debates among and between Marxist and orthodox economic historians about the incompatibility of capitalism and unfree labor are moot: the International Labour Organisation has identified forced, coerced, and unfree labor as a contemporary issue of global concern. Previously hidden forms of unfree labor have ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Precarious Worlds

    Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction

    by Kate Bezanson, Jessie Clark, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Oona Morrow, Kelly Dombroski, Susan Braedley, Meg Luxton, Jamie Winders, Brenda Parker, Katharyne Mitchell, Cindi Katz, Rosalind Fredericks, Brian Marks, Sallie Marston, Barbara Smith ...
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    This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Gender, Work, and Economy

    Unpacking the Global Economy

    by Heidi Gottfried ...
    This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global economy, the book explores how economic transformations not only change the way we work, but how we live our lives.The full extent of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey, Diana C. Mitlin ...
    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Disasters Without Borders

    The International Politics of Natural Disasters

    by John Hannigan ...
    Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition the collective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book, respected Canadian ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, Julie MacLeavy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Globalization

    Edited by George Ritzer ...
    This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations.Introduces the major players, theories, and methodologiesExplores the major areas of impact, including the environment, ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • City Futures

    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
    Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... Read more

    $28.99 USD