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  • In Defense of Housing

    The Politics of Crisis

    by Peter Marcuse, David Madden ...
    In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gentrifier

    by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Crisis and Commonwealth

    Marcuse, Marx, McLaren

    by John Marciano, Patricia Pollock Brodsky, Lloyd C. Daniel, David Brodsky, Stephen Spartan, Fred Whitehead, Douglas Dowd, Kevin B. Anderson, Zvi Tauber, Alfred T. Kisubi, Jodi Dean, Arnold L. Farr, Henry A. Giroux, Peter Marcuse, Peter McLaren ...
    Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection, notably Peter Marcuse, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Zvi Tauber, Arnold L. Farr and editor, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Cities for People, Not for Profit

    Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

    Edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer ...
    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

    $79.99 USD

  • Globalizing Cities

    A New Spatial Order?

    Edited by Peter Marcuse, Ronald Van Kempen ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization. ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Spontaneous Combustion

    The Eros Effect and Global Revolution

    Edited by Jason Del Gandio, AK Thompson ...
    Series series SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action
    Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.From the events of May 1968 to the Arab Spring and Occupy, we have seen social movements develop spontaneously around the globe propelling thousands and, at times, millions of people into the streets to demand an end to oppression."In order to make sense of such events, the authors draw on George Katsiaficas's conception of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Searching for the Just City

    Debates in Urban Theory and Practice

    Edited by Peter Marcuse, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, Justin Steil ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and principles of justice are rarely the explicit basis for the resolution of disputes. If today’s cities are ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Andreas Malm ...
    Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pacification

    Social War and the Power of Police

    by Mark Neocleous ...
    This provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacificationIn his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fascism

    The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

    by Ian Dunt, Dorian Lynskey ...
    Series series An Origin Story Book
    AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraWhy is 'fascist' used to describe everyone from dictators to parking wardens? Does the word 'fascism' describe a historical movement or an enduring ideology? And could we see it rise again today, in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

    The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

    by Andrea Freeman ...
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and AdvocacyThe first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter eraIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Good Reasonable People

    The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

    by Keith Payne ...
    **A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2024“An eye-opening analysis of why our politics have become so polarized….Keith Payne illuminates one of the biggest problems of our time and lights the way toward some promising solutions.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again"Good Reasonable People challenges each of us to drop the weapon of demonization and replace it with ... Read more

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