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  • Urban Ethics

    Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

    Edited by Moritz Ege, Johannes Moser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life?Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities, the book considers what ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism

    Edited by Moritz Ege, Johannes Springer ...
    This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements.Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ... Read more

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  • Urban Ethics as Research Agenda

    Outlooks and Tensions on Multidisciplinary Debates

    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities.Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk about ... Read more

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  • Understanding European Movements

    New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

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    European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial ... Read more

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  • Unsettled Urban Space

    Routines, Temporalities and Contestations

    While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and ... Read more

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  • Media, Democracy and European Culture

    Edited by Ib Bondebjerg, Peter Madsen ...
    Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media, communication policy and the question of how the media report on Europe runs as a thread through all contributions. The book is interdisciplinary and international ... Read more

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  • National and Regional Symbolic Boundaries in the European Commission

    Towards an Ever-Closer Union?

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
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    Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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  • Cities for People, Not for Profit

    Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

    The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be ... Read more

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  • Why Nationalism

    by Yael Tamir ...
    The surprising case for liberal nationalismAround the world today, nationalism is back—and it’s often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes, reinforcing the view that it is fundamentally reactionary and antidemocratic. But Yael (Yuli) Tamir makes a passionate argument for a very different kind of nationalism—one ... Read more

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