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  • Border Witness

    Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film

    by Michael Dear ...
    What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands—and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries.Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • State Apparatus

    Structures and Language of Legitimacy

    by Gordon L. Clark, Michael Dear ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1984, State Apparatus contributes to the debate on the theory of the state through posing questions regarding the state’s form, function, and apparatus.The book begins by setting out the theoretical and methodological problems and reviewing the various Conservative, Liberal and Marxist theories in light of these. It discusses state activity, using specific case studies to ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Postborder City

    Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California

    Edited by Michael Dear, Gustavo Leclerc ...
    The postborder metropolis of Bajalta California stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants from all over the globe flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns, echoing developments in other rapid growth areas such as Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio. This incredibly diverse, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Why Walls Won't Work

    Repairing the US-Mexico Divide

    by Michael Dear ...
    Why Walls Won't Work is a sweeping account of life along the United States-Mexico border zone, tracing the border's history of cultural interaction since the earliest Mesoamerican times to the present day. As soon as Mexicans, American settlers, and indigenous peoples came into contact along the Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century, new forms of interaction and affiliation evolved. By the late ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Power of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

    How Territory Shapes Social Life

    Edited by Jennifer Wolch, Michael Dear ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography
    This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction – gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places.At the core of the book’s ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society

    Edited by Michael Dear, Allen Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning
    Originally published in 1981, Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises. Through a synthesis of current discussions around various critical approaches to the urban question, the book defines a general theory of urbanization and urban planning in capitalist society. It examines the conceptual preliminaries necessary for ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • GeoHumanities

    Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

    Edited by Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, Doug Richardson ...
    In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies.GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith

    Introduction, Persuasion, and Rehabilitation

    by Stephen P. Dunn ...
    The recent financial crisis has once again seen John Kenneth Galbraith return to the bestseller lists. Yet, despite the continued popular success of his works, Galbraith's contribution to economic theory is rarely recognized by today's economists. This book redresses the balance by providing an introductory and sympathetic discussion of Galbraith's theoretical contributions, introducing the reader ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Diversity of Modern Capitalism

    by Bruno Amable ...
    This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarity. Different economic models are not simply characterized by different institutional forms, but also by particular patterns of interaction between complementary institutions which are the core characteristics of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Who Runs the Economy?

    The Role of Power in Economics

    Edited by Robert Skidelsky, Nan Craig ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of what went wrong, very little has substantially changed. Perhaps the answer has something to do with ... Read more

    $23.79 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