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  • Luxury and Corruption

    Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus

    by Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Jardar Østbø, Thomas Raymen ...
    The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats, amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay, and inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects, and people.But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • 50 Dark Destinations

    Crime and Contemporary Tourism

    by Alice Storey, Angus Nurse, Anna Sergi, Anthony Lloyd, Ben Colliver, Craig Ancrum, Dan Rusu, David Wilson, Donna Yates, Duncan John Frankis, Eamonn Carrabine, Emiline Smith, Emma Winlow, Eveleigh Buck-Matthews, Gary Potter, Grace Gallacher, Hannah London, Ian R. Cook, Jane Richards, Jack Denham, Jardar Nuland Østbø, Jenna Page, Joe Garrihy, John Bahadur Lamb, Katie Lowe, Keith Hayward, Kevin Hoffin, Kyla Bavin, Laura Hammond, Lucas Danos, Luke Telford, Max Hart, Melindy Brown, Michael Rowe, Natasha Pope, Neil Chakraborti, Nicholas Gibbs, Oliver Smith, Orlando Woods, Patrick Berry, Peter Joyce, Robin West, Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Sarah Jones, Selina Patel Nascimento, Simon Winlow, Sophie Gregory, Steve Wadley, Tammy Ayres, Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Thomas Raymen, Travis Linnemann, Wendy Laverick ...
    From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Enigma of Social Harm

    The Problem of Liberalism

    by Thomas Raymen ...
    Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science, psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this book offers up a diagnosis of contemporary liberal capitalist society and the increasingly febrile culture we occupy when it comes to matters of harm. On what basis can we say that something is harmful? How are we supposed to judge between competing opinions on the harmfulness of a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Deviant Leisure

    Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm

    Edited by Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society, ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City

    An Ethnography

    by Thomas Raymen ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Deviant Leisure
    Taking us on an ethnographic journey into the spatially transgressive practice of parkour and freerunning, Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City: An Ethnography attempts to explain and untangle some of the contradictions that surround this popular lifestyle sport and its exclusion from our hyper-regulated cities. While the existing criminological wisdom suggests that these ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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    A Critical Introduction

    by Kevin Hannam, Dan Knox ...
    This text introduces tourism students to concepts drawn from critical theory, cultural studies and the social sciences. It does so with a light and readable touch, highlighting the ideas that underlie contemporary critical tourism studies in a practical and engaging way.Specifically, the authors examine how post-structuralist thought has led to a re-imagining of power relationships and the ways in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD

  • White Riot

    The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

    by Henry Tsang ...
    Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver exploresthe conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities and Social Change

    Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism

    Edited by Ronan Paddison, Eugene McCann ...
    This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice. A stimulant to ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Social Class in the 21st Century

    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty

    Unraveling the Global Agenda

    by Michael Rectenwald ...
    The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda is the definitive treatment of the Great Reset. In a scholarly examination, Rectenwald treats the various components of the Great Reset, including the economic system it establishes, the deep history of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the population control "ethics" of the WEF and related globalist organizations, climate ... Read more

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  • Landscapes

    Ways of Imagining the World

    by Hilary P.M. Winchester ...
    Series series Insights Into Human Geography
    Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD