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  • Arid Empire

    The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia

    by Natalie Koch ...
    A revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West**Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize**The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the Middle East. For example: In 1856, a caravan of thirty-three camels arrived in Indianola, Texas*,* led by a Syrian cameleer the Americans called "Hi Jolly. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Geopolitics of Spectacle

    Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia

    by Natalie Koch ...
    Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacular" projects to shape state-society relations, but rather than focus on the standard approach—on the project itself—she considers the unspectacular "others." The contrasting views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national capitals help ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Kazakhstan in the Making

    Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes

    by Ulan Bigozhin, Megan Rancier, Marlene Laruelle, Douglas Blum, Alima Bissenova, Sebastien Peyrouse, Wendell Schwab, Diana T. Kudaibergenova, Assel Tutumlu, Mateusz Laszczkowski0, Kristopher White1, Natalie Koch2, Alexander C. Diener3 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economy—at least until the 2014 crisis—a strategic location between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime with far-reaching branding strategies. But the country also faces weak institutionalization, patronage, authoritarianism, and regional ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Spatializing Authoritarianism

    Edited by Natalie Koch ...
    Series series Syracuse Studies in Geography
    Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is noteworthy ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

    Edited by Virginie Mamadouh, Natalie Koch, Chih Yuan Woon, John A. Agnew ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    A comprehensive and timely overview of the subdiscipline of political geography, equipping readers with the intellectual tools to explore complex global phenomenaThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography offers a wide-ranging overview of the dynamic field, providing critical insights into the ways political geographers investigate and interpret the rapidly changing world. Reflecting the ... Read more

    $148.00 USD

  • Critical Geographies of Sport

    Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective

    Edited by Natalie Koch ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to ‘sports geography’. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach by ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

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    Edited by Bryan Turner, Robert Holton ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ethical Oil

    The Case for Canada's Oil Sands

    by Ezra Levant ...
    Canada's "no. 1 defender of freedom of speech" and the bestselling author of Shakedown makes the timely and provocative case that when it comes to oil, ethics matter just as much as the economy and the environment.**In 2009, Ezra Levant's bestselling book Shakedownrevealed the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions and was declared the "most important public affairs book of the year." In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • The Great Experiment

    Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    **One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer“[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum**“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Gender and Migration

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Anastasia Christou, Eleonore Kofman ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an ... Read more

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  • Tropic of Chaos

    Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

    by Christian Parenti ...
    From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here ... Read more

    $11.99 USD