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Emerald Points eBook Series

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  • Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements

    Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellín

    by Dr Eva Schwab ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellín links the discourses of informal urbanism and spatial justice in the context of public space-based governmental programmes to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America.It argues for the importance of combining measures for equity and empowerment with positive recognition, i.e. recognition which is ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

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  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Feminist Methodologies

    Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections

    Edited by Wendy Harcourt, Karijn van den Berg, Constance Dupuis, Jacqueline Gaybor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research as a continuous praxis. Emerging from a rich collective learning process, the collection offers in-depth reflections on how feminists shape research questions, understand ... Read more

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  • Cultural Tourism

    Global and Local Perspectives

    Edited by Greg Richards ...
    A unique chance to explore different aspects of place, heritage, and tourismFor many nations around the world, cultural tourism is not only a major industry but also a support for national identity and a means for preserving heritage. Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives brings together in one volume interdisciplinary explora ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Fair Shared Cities

    The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe

    by Marion Roberts ...
    Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Marketing Rural Tourism

    Experience and Enterprise

    by Gunjan Saxena ...
    Rural tourism marketing is a subject that remains significantly under-researched. Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural identities.Marketing Rural Tourism presents actor narratives to reveal nuances ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship

    Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

    Edited by Alex Franklin ...
    This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches. Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the edited collection critically reviews the potential of co-creative research praxis to nurture just and transformative ... Read more

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  • Care and the City

    Encounters with Urban Studies

    Edited by Angelika Gabauer, Sabine Knierbein, Nir Cohen, Henrik Lebuhn, Kim Trogal, Tihomir Viderman, Tigran Haas ...
    Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and ... Read more

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  • Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza, Olivia U. Rutazibwa ...
    Series series Teaching with Gender
    Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning is a resource for teachers and learners seeking to participate in the creation of radical and liberating spaces in the academy and beyond. This edited volume is inspired by, and applies, decolonial and feminist thought – two fields with powerful traditions of critical pedagogy, which have shared productive exchange.The structure of this ... Read more

    $57.99 USD