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Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics in a globalised world. This book brings together research on the political regulation of movement - its material enablers and constraints. It explores aspects of critical...

Revisiting divisions of labour is a reflection on the making of a modern sociological classic text and its enduring influence on the discipline and beyond. Ray Pahl's 1984 book is distinctive in the sustained impact it has had on how sociologists think...

Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The...

Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades-a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and...

A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest...

Many immigrant communities along the U.S. border with Mexico are colonias, border settlements lacking infrastructure or safe housing. A Jumble of NeedsSurprisingly, Dolhinow reveals, many NGOs promote neoliberal ideals, resulting in continued...

The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels'...

In Place/Out of Place was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.What is the...

The EU's single currency crisis and the ensuing human costs have led to Europe's biggest disaster since 1945. This book examines each of its stages and the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins of the crisis, particularly the...

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path. The crash in the world economy had especially grave...

This book provides answers to the above questions and gives a comprehensive account of how the international economic order operates, examines its strengths and weaknesses and what needs to be done to fix it. It should be valuable to students of...

This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Mar, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it...

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how these are lived. This...

By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming...

How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie considers the origins and evolutions of kraevedenie, looking specifically at the role that movements and institutions that emerged in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg...

The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative changes that open up new opportunities for personal development and satisfaction of wants and, simultaneously,...

Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. They also give rise to ongoing societal debate.This book...

In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as "Los Manzanos" ("The Apple Trees") but whose name changes to "Maimonides" (the Jewish sage) depending on which sign you look at. As she takes us on a stroll through...

Leaving the field gathers various accounts of ethnographers leaving their field sites. In doing do, the book offers original insights into an often-overlooked aspect of the research process; the ethnographic exit. The chapters variously consider...

Jean Lescure's two-volume General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updatedperiodically through...

Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine "What to Read" selection "A really great book." -IRA FLATOW, Science Friday "One of the finest science writers I've ever read." -Los Angeles Times "Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure...

The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual...

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injustices in an accessible and understandable fashion, with infographics, figures, graphs, photographs and...

KEY SELLING POINTS:Jon Turk is an established author, with numerous books and dozens of magazine articles under his belt.Timely and compelling, Jon Turk's new book takes the North American reader out of their current habitat and places them in a more...

Lead Your Business Through the Covid-19 RecessionThe second global downturn in a dozen years is upon us-but do lessons learned during the Great Recession still apply? What must you and your business do, now, to ensure you come out the other side intact?...

Lead through the crisis and prepare for recovery. As the Covid-19 pandemic is exacting its toll on the global economy, forward-looking organisations are moving past crisis management and positioning themselves to leap ahead when the worst is...

Choice Award Outstanding Academic Title 2022Despite being repeatedly declared out of touch and outdated, Karl Marx's ideas have never mattered more. Marx Matters is an examination of how Marx remains more relevant than ever in dealing with contemporary...

Asian Canadians-whether immigrant, international students, naturalized, native-born, or other-are hampered in their exploration and articulation of self by the dearth of critical writing both for them, and by them. Despite the influx of Asian students...

This volume places the Flint, Michigan, water contamination disaster in the context of a broader crisis created by neoliberal governance in the United States. Authors from a range of disciplines (including sociology, criminal justice, anthropology,...

During the 1980s and 1990s, European economies went through a period of slowing economic growth and high unemployment, what some economists described as "secular decline." On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States enjoyed a robust recovery...

Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames reveal what is behind the inflationary storm that is wreaking havoc on American pocketbooks.Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It explains what's behind the worst inflationary storm in more...

Get to better, more effective strategy.In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School...

It's time to understand what so many people don't get about the Working Class...Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite-journalists, managers, and establishment...

The must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whomGenerations of teachers, union organizers, and activists have relied...

Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service...

The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedomHealth insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership-these are the issues driving America's current...

Fourteen chapters from international geographers and cultural analysts, academic and otherwise, on veganism as a conceptual and physical space.Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to antiquity. Yet, it is only recently...

Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change. World leaders are queuing up to proclaim their commitment to tackling the climate crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the...

Since the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) emerged in the 1990s, it has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as an ontological entity separate from 'nature' or 'the environment'. This volume seeks to turn UPE's...

Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing,...

Recent research suggests that rural residents in the global North are happier than urban populations in the same countries. This goes against received wisdom in the field, where the opposite is usually assumed. Is quality of life better in the rural...

Affective intimacies offers novel insight into how the study of affect can advance new perspectives on power relations by addressing existing inequalities and asymmetries.This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended...

European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies that sets out to rethink urban Europe from a race-conscious perspective, reflexively and critically aware of colonial entanglements and what came to...

his groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century.Drawing on case studies from Ethiopia,...

Following the expatriate offers an in-depth exploration of the history and politics of the category expatriate. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, the book tells situated stories about the category's making, re-making, contestation and lived...

Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on motorways and the crumbling white cliffs of Dover all spoke to national...