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  • The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

    How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

    by Tom Borrup ...
    Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democracy as Creative Practice

    Weaving a Culture of Civic Life

    Edited by Tom Borrup, Andrew Zitcer ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking

    Edited by Cara Courage, Tom Borrup, Maria Rosario Jackson, Kylie Legge, Anita Mckeown, Louise Platt, Jason Schupbach ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of ‘placemaking’ in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector.Placemaking has seen a paradigmatic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Power of Culture in City Planning

    by Tom Borrup ...
    The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners’ "base maps ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Succeeding From The Margins Of Canadian Society: A Strategic Resource For New Immigrants, Refugees And International Students

    by Francis Adu-Febiri,Everett Ofori ...
    It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees and international students do not have to settle for underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages they face in Canada. The fact is, the unequal social structure of Canada has some cracks, and many minorities have used strategic resources to open up these ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

    How Design Activism Confronts Growth

    by Ann Thorpe ...
    The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Black, Brown, Bruised

    How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

    by Ebony Omotola McGee ...
    2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Classroom Action

    Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education

    by Ajay Heble ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community beyond campus. Utilizing a case study approach, the chapters in this volume are conceptually and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Marketing

    Theory, practice and relevance

    by Dawn Burton ...
    Cross-cultural marketing is an important element of the contemporary business environment. Many conventional accounts of the topic have conflated cross-cultural and cross-national marketing, but in this groundbreaking, new book, Burton argues that these generalizations have little meaning given the extent of multi-culturalism in many societies.Given the importance of new emerging markets in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Work

    A Critique

    by Steven Vallas ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    This book provides a critical overview of the myriad literatures on “work,” viewed not only as a product of the marketplace but also as a social and political construct. Drawing on theoretical and empirical contributions from sociology, history, economics, and organizational studies, the book brings together perspectives that too often remain balkanized, using each to explore the nature of work ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Reimagining the Creative Industries

    Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care

    by Miranda Campbell ...
    This book documents the rise in youth creativity, entrepreneurship, and collective strategies to address systemic barriers and discrimination in the creative industries and create an expanded, more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and caring field.Although the difficulties of entering and making a living in the creative industries—a field which can often perpetuate dominant patterns of social ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Going Public

    The Art of Participatory Practice

    by Edward Little, Steven High, Elizabeth Miller ...
    Series series Shared: Oral and Public History
    Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create, to actively involve the public in research, and to reconceptualize research for public consumption. As researchers are increasingly taking their research from the campus to the public arena, what are the ethics of, and expectations for, social impact? New technologies, platforms, and methods are ... Read more

    $25.19 USD