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The lower !garib – orange river
This volume focuses on the stretch of Orange River between Namibia and South Africa to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy.
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The natural dividend
How might we best negotiate the world’s scarce pool of natural resources? This book advocates a management regime that is both politically, as well as environmentally, sustainable, and shows how such management might work to protect our common heritage and secure the benefits we can expect from s...
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The new generation z in asia
The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalization is the first book to compare the Asiatic Generation Z (born 1990–1995) in terms of country and culture specific drivers and characteristics based on interdisciplinary and international scientific research.
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The political ecology of malaria
Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda’s capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socio-ecological transformations.
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The postcolonial contemporary
This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it.
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The power of place in play
»There's nothing really fun about the park in winter!« – Christina Ergler is the first one to explore why ›play‹ resonates differently across urban localities and seasons. She draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice and Gibson's affordance theory to show that determinants of seasonal outdoor play ...
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The redundant city
Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge about conflict and change provided by architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. His concept of the “Redundant City” describes a specific form of co...
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The rise of the platform music industries
A critical appraisal of the latest round of platform intermediation, centred on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification, that is reshaping the contemporary music industry.
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The shaping of us
An international exploration of how our physical environments shape and define us
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The transcontinental maghreb
Through close readings of literary and cultural texts, proposes to recalibrate readings of Francophone Maghrebi literature and their critical methodologies in light of Mediterranean Studies.
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The unconstructable earth
This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desi...
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The urban field
This book is a critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centered on the economization of knowledge and technology. A rethinking of the role of contemporary urbanism in today’s knowledge-intensive capitalism.
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The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations
A corrective to the view that cities are only ever "good", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations also provides fertile ground for the development of the “bad” ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth ...
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Theorizing globalization
Theorizing Globalization offers a reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, providing essential insights into an enormously popular field of study.
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Thinking like a river
Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics.
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Tours inside the snow globe
Through a series of tours of the monuments of Ottawa, this book argues that rather than instructing people on what to know about history, monuments generate feelings about the past in the present. As ambivalent sites, monuments allow for the generation of competing feelings: nostalgia, dissent, i...
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Transforming the rural
This book analyses the key global processes transforming rural spaces in the early 21st century – financialization; standardization; consumption, and commodification. Through detailed case studies, the book examines why these processes are important, how they work in practice, and the challenges ...
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Transport and pandemic experiences
Transport and Pandemic Experiences discusses how the accumulated knowledge of the pandemic needs to be capitalised in our fight against climate change and helps to identify future research imperatives for better understanding and greater policy transferability.
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Understanding affordability
For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists – and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks t...
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Unsustainable
This book is an urgent call to reimagine our social, political and economic systems so that we might transform to a sustainable society. It considers whether an alternative economic model is possible and examines the factors needed to enable such a transition to occur. The scale and pace of chang...
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Volume 1: community and society
Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing in...
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Wandering with intent
WINNER OF THE 2023 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR NONFICTION To essay means to try, to endeavor, to attempt—and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us...
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Water – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iv
This volume of The Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
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Why face-to-face still matters
What makes a great city? Why do people and businesses still value urban life and buildings over a quiet life in the suburbs or countryside? Now might seem a difficult time to make the case for social contact in urban areas – so why is face-to-face contact still considered crucial to many 21st-ce...
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Why travel?
Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading ex...
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[un]grounding
This edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the “spatial turn” in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with postfoundational theories of space and place to devise postfoundationalism as a radical approach to urban studies.
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