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  • Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

    by Patsy Lewis, Kristen A. Kolenz, Cecilia Rocha-Carpiuc, Lucia Nejamkis, D. Alissa Trotz, Donette Francis, Paul Joseph López Oro, Monica DeHart0, Esteban Loustaunau1, Mimi Sheller2, Natalie Dietrich Jones3, Shelene Gomes4, Tanya Aguíñiga5, Donette Frances6 ...
    Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as both a site and a concept. Calling for renewed attention to the spaces, identities, and conflicts that remain understudied and excluded from our hemispheric knowledge of forced movement, the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Citizenship from Below

    Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Next wave : new directions in women's studies
    Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mobility Justice

    The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement.Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Island Futures

    Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Aluminum Dreams

    The Making of Light Modernity

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Consuming the Caribbean

    From Arawaks to Zombies

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    From sugar to indentured labourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers, of material and cultural commodities, including:foodstuffs and stimulants - ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Tourism Mobilities

    Places to Play, Places in Play

    by Mimi Sheller, John Urry ...
    Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption.This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider:Performing ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Building Equitable Climate Adaptation Partnerships in the US Caribbean

    Edited by Sarah Molinari, Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book assesses the opportunities and outcomes for shared-action learning, participatory approaches, and university-community partnerships to support climate adaptation and climate justice in the US Caribbean. The authors explore the ways that project-based pedagogies and collaborative research can contribute not only to building climate resilience and social infrastructures, but more broadly ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Pandemic (Im)mobilities

    Edited by Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller, David Tyfield ...
    In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements.As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or COVID-19 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Mobile Technologies of the City

    Edited by Mimi Sheller, John Urry ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Uprootings/Regroundings

    Questions of Home and Migration

    New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed ‘global' condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called ‘postmodern' life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is ‘on the move'. This original and timely book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Mobilities and Complexities

    Edited by Ole B. Jensen, Sven Kesselring, Mimi Sheller ...
    The new ‘mobilities turn’ has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry’s oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many scholars. This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how Urry’s writing influenced the course of their research and theorizing.This volume ... Read more

    $55.99 USD