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  • Urban Theory

    New critical perspectives

    Edited by Mark Jayne, Kevin Ward ...
    Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities.The introduction outlines the ... Read more

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  • Building the City

    Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers

    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational theories. Drawing on these critical ... Read more

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  • Chinese Urbanism

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Jayne ...
    This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China. Multidisciplinary perspectives outline the most significant critical, theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in our appreciation of Chinese cities in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Each chapter includes reviews and appraisals of past and current ... Read more

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  • Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

    (Dis)Orderly Spaces

    While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only previously addressed these topics as a peripheral concern. Over the past few years, however, this view has begun to change, accelerated by an upsurge in interest in ... Read more

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  • Childhood, Family, Alcohol

    Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children’s understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life. Chapters address both extra-familial ’norms’ about parenting and drinking cultures which are generated in wider society (through law ... Read more

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  • City of Quarters

    Urban Villages in the Contemporary City

    by Mark Jayne ...
    In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • 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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  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

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  • Small Cities

    Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

    Series series Questioning Cities
    Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world.Drawing together research from a strong international team of ... Read more

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  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

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  • Gendered Mobilities

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    Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this ... Read more

    $72.99 USD