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Handbook of qualitative and visual methods in spatial research
This book presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces.
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How to save the city
Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.
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Hybrid identities
This book presents studies of types of hybrid identities: transnational, double consciousness, gender, diaspora, and beyond.
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Inequality and mobility
This book investigates the erosion of capabilities and aspirations in post-revolutionary Tunisia
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Insurgent planning practice
This book investigates the communicative turn in planning practice, and its potential for insurgent forms of civic engagement and democracy-building, drawing on interviews with urban planners who challenge technocratic spatial planning by incorporating notions of participation, spatial justice an...
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Intimacies
No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with its synthesis of romantic love, companionship, and sexual desire. Whether the setting is a busy metropolis or a quiet farming village, a tension always exists between a community's sexual habits and customs and what it believes to be the ...
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It's a london thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.
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Learning and sustainability in dangerous times
Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...
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Lhù’ààn mân keyí dań kwánje nààtsat
WINNER OF THE CANADIAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION INDIGENOUS HISTORY BOOK PRIZEIn this poignant display of the resilience of language, culture, and community in the face of the profound changes brought by settlers, Kluane First Nation Elders share stories from their lives, knowledge of their traditional...
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Local voices, local choices
Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation chronicles the stories behind Jane Goodall’s holistic approach to conservation in Africa.
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Making transformative geographies
Benedikt Schmid considers the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond growth-based economies. Covering a sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart, Germany, the study drills down into the social, spatia...
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Mapping the unmappable?
How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa’s indigenous peoples with other human and nonhuman actors. The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies...
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Market/place
This collection of essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explores how political, social, and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space. The essays present new research from the fields of geography, economics, political economy, and planning and sho...
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Metropolitan research
This book provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines.
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Mining and energy – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america v
Highlighting the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America: uncovering the struggles of Latin American societies with mining and extractive processes pertaining to energy production over the long term, from colonial contact to the Great Acceleration.
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Modern colonization by medical intervention
Good intentioned or not, Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention documents the often pernicious effect of physicians on the colonial project.
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Narrative in urban planning
This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field.
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Nature, wellness and sustainability in health tourism
Through a blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and evidence-based research, authors demonstrate how natural environments such as forests, mountains, and coastal areas are being rediscovered as spaces for physical and mental rejuvenation.
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Neoliberalism's fractured showcase
Neoliberalism has dominated Chile for 35 consecutive years. In this collection prominent Chilean experts assess its impact and offer alternatives.
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New developments in urban governance
This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experi...
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New york
A comprehensive analysis of the political, economic and social dynamics that have made New York a megacity today.
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Nudging
Whitehead and Jones examine the history and use of nudging as a policy tool and consider when and where they are best deployed, if at all.
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On the horizon of world literature
On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that co...
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Performing technocapitalism
Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal, and inherently political work.
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Platformization of urban life
This book addresses the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Post-growth geographies
Post-Growth Geographies examines spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions that offer different perspectives on the possibilities, demands, and c...
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Poverty and the world order
A critical examination of the promise and reality of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (#1) that seeks to eradicate poverty.
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Proximity politics
Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of the world.
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Public space in transition
Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS).Based on the results this study offers a nmber of policy recommendations for...
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Pyromania
Fire is a key physical process on earth, one that humans alone have worked out how to partly control. The combustion of fossil fuels is causing the climate to change rapidly. In this accessible book, Dalby argues our challenge is to create a new economy for life after fossil fuels.
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Re-cording lives
Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rende...
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Reading better states
Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms and climate catastrophe.
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Rebel city: a guide to new york’s wild side
New York’s five boroughs tell a million human stories of revolution, rebellion, and resistance in this singular and timely guide to the city that never sleeps. Cities are multifaceted creatures and nowhere is that truer than in New York. Opulent, venal, frenetic, frivolous, full of hubris, it is ...
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Reflecting on practices
This collection of original essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. It reinforces a specifically geographic and spatial account that is needed for the development of practice theory while also shining new light on current debates in practice theory on pow...
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Remembering future disasters
An ethnographic exploration of the multiple ways in which disasters and time are co-constituted in the Peruvian Andes.
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Rivalling disaster experiences
This book examines the volcanic crisis of El Hierro to show how rival interpretations among affected islanders, the media, sciences, and disaster response institutions cause social tensions and skepticism toward scientific information. Focus must shift to the rifts between established convictions...
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Shifts in mapping
Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies drive this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic...
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Southeast asian transformations
This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. An interdisciplinary project, it brings together authors from disciplines as diverse as area studies, sociology, history, geography, and ...
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Spatial justice and informal settlements
Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes oriented around public open space and designed to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America.
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Sport tourism development
This book explores sport-related tourism and presents multidisciplinary perspectives of sport tourism, as structured by the geographical concepts of space, place and environment. It offers a comprehensive update of the discussions presented in the two previous editions and aims to advance theoret...
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Stories from a migrant city
Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided.
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Sustainable development and water security
This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.
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Sustainable human settlements within the global urban agenda
The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda. David Simon explains the anatomy and dynamics of SDG 11, and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local, regional and national contexts.
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The berlin reader
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overvi...
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The cultural infrastructure of cities
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments.
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The disposition of nature
This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relatio...
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The gates of the sea
The Gates of the Sea explores how the Spanish government is reclaiming search and rescue assets to keep migrants out of its territory — and how rescue workers resist becoming border enforcers.
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The global south atlantic
Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies,...
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