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  • The Anthropology of Postindustrialism

    Ethnographies of Disconnection

    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of communities away from the market, presenting a range of ethnographic case studies that scrutinize the ... Leer más

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    Where the American Dream Is Moving

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  • Estates

    An Intimate History

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    Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - ... Leer más

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  • Girls of Seattle

    in black and white

    The wonderful and mysterious girls of Seattle, they model for the love of art, they do fetish performances, erotic art festivals, burlesque shows, bellydancing haflas, street photography, pleinair nudes, naked yoga on the rooftops, pole dancing, burning man parties, and many, many other wonderful things.They’re the emeralds of the Emerald City. ... Leer más

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  • On Guerrilla Gardening

    A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries

    On Guerrilla Gardening is an activist's call to arms to all citizens - green-fingered, green-thinking or curious - to join the revolution of guerrilla gardening: transforming public space into oases of colour and life. The enemy: neglect, apathy and the disintegration of community spirit. The arsenal: daring, a packet of seeds and a passionate commitment to social change.When Richard Reynolds ... Leer más

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  • Urban Theory

    A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century

    What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas of the Chicago School, spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical′ ... Leer más

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  • Smack

    Heroin and the American City

    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and ... Leer más

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  • We Are Many

    Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation

    de David Graeber ...
    A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going. It is all too rare that in the process of creating the movement and living the moment, participants and thinkers step back and ask the most pressing questions. This book is an important step.” Marina Sitrin, Occupy Wall Street organizer and author of ... Leer más

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  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    de Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Leer más

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  • A Muslim Diaspora in Australia

    Bosnian Migration and Questions of Identity

    de Lejla Voloder ...
    In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong? As western democracies increasingly curtail their support for multiculturalism, how can migrants establish belonging as citizens? A Muslim Diaspora in Australia explores how a particular migrant group has faced the challenges of belonging. The author illustrates how Bosnian migrants in Australia have sought to find places ... Leer más

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  • Imagining Urban Futures

    Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. Imagining Urban Futures is a remarkable treatise on what is ... Leer más

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  • The Changing Nature of Happiness

    An In-Depth Study of a Town in North West England 1938–2016

    Edición de Sandie McHugh ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time. A question that has engaged philosophers from the days of Aristotle, happiness is a subject of growing academic interest, and its recent integration into government policy is provoking increased debate into its definition and nature. Sandie McHugh and her associates build on the work of ... Leer más

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