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  • After Ice

    Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet

    As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice?This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to ... Read more

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  • The Virtual

    by Rob Shields ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies themselves he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is ... Read more

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  • Places on the Margin

    Alternative Geographies of Modernity

    by Rob Shields ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'. ... Read more

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  • Spatial Questions

    Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisation

    by Rob Shields ...
    "Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology"- John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster UniversityOur understanding of space is crucial to the way in which we understand major ... Read more

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  • Rereading Jean-François Lyotard

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    by Heidi Bickis ...
    What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, Andre Malraux, St Paul, nihilism, infancy, space and writing, Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works explores the impact and relevance of Lyotard's largely undiscussed late philosophical works for contemporary theoretical debates. In ... Read more

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  • Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction and Engineering

    In the past decade construction and engineering have changed dramatically, with an explosion of innovative new approaches to construction and new methodologies. By bringing together economic, social and construction/engineering management perspectives, this book offers a unique and comprehensive survey of these approaches and techniques. It presents a history of studies in innovation in ... Read more

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  • Lefebvre, Love and Struggle

    Spatial Dialectics

    by Rob Shields ...
    Lefebvre, Love and Struggle provides the only comprehensive guide to Lefebvre's work. It is an accessible introduction to one of the most significant European thinkers of the twentieth century.Rob Shields draws on the full range of Lefebvres writings, including many previously untranslated and unpublished works and correspondence. Topics covered include Lefebvre's early relationship with Marxism, ... Read more

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  • City-Regions in Prospect?

    Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice

    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice.Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which ... Read more

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  • Lifestyle Shopping

    The Subject of Consumption

    Edited by Rob Shields ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First Published in 2004. In contemporary shopping sites new modes of subjectivity, inter-personal relationships and models of social totality are being tried on, taken off and displayed in much the same way that one might shop for clothes. These are not the modernist spaces of goal-directed individuals and utopian projects. Rather it is a space of carnivalesque inversions of the present order of ... Read more

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  • Ecologies of Affect

    Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope

    Series series Environmental Humanities
    Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical intervention this collection of essays makes is an active, consistent engagement with the virtualities that produce and refract our ... Read more

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  • CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE

    Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and accessible approach to the sources, theories and methods of cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent cultural geographers, all of whom are experienced researchers, this book is a fully illustrated guide to methodological approaches in cultural geography.In order to demonstrate the practice of cultural geography each ... Read more

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