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“heiko schmid”

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  • Cities and Fascination

    Beyond the Surplus of Meaning

    Edición de Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr, John Urry ...
    Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private urbanity that has led to a 'spectactularization' of the city, the most extreme component of attention being the fascination which is aroused by attractions and state-managed events. The complex ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • City of Scoundrels

    The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

    de Gary Krist ...
    The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Money and the Power

    de Sally Denton, Roger Morris ...
    Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Becoming Places

    Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

    de Kim Dovey ...
    About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Colonial Jerusalem

    The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

    de Colonial Jerusalem Thomas Philip Abowd ...
    In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is oftensuggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fires in the Mirror

    Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

    de Anna Deavere Smith ...
    Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

    New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    de Vincanne Adams ...
    Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Becoming Arab in London

    Performativity and the Undoing of Identity

    de Ramy M. K. Aly ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    This is the first ethnographic exploration of gender, race and class amongst British born or raised Arabs in London. It takes a critical look at the idea of 'Arab-ness' and the ways in which their ethnicities are created and expressed in the city.Looking at everyday spaces, encounters and discourses, the book explores the lives of young people and the ways in which they achieve 'Arab-ness'. It ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Immigration Dialectic

    Imagining Community, Economy, and Nation

    de Harald Bauder ...
    Immigration is an integral part of national identity in settler societies such as Canada. But in countries where identity is defined more in ethnic terms, such as Germany, the presence of immigrants has only recently begun to be acknowledged. Taking these two countries as case studies, Immigration Dialectic explores the impact of immigration on national identity as imagined through media-based ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Who Can Stop the Drums?

    Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela

    de Sujatha Fernandes ...
    In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Sustainable Future for Human Security

    Society, Cities and Governance

    Edición de Benjamin McLellan ...
    This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development. Three major perspectives are considered: governance and its influence on sustainable development; urban environments and their broader human and environmental impacts; and disaster management. Each of these elements is critical in considering the current and prospective development of societies towards a sustainable ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Cities, Regions and Flows

    Edición de Markus Hesse, Peter Hall ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to ensure the exchange of goods, services and information in a much more complex, interrelated, highly ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD