Nik: 181 books
The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements
Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and “experts” representing well over two thousand organizations—each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines...
In the Public's Interest
Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book studies the recent legacy of basti “evictions” in Delhi—mass clearings of some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods—as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of “public interest” and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant to empower and...
Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual
Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and...
Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance
Mexico and the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh’s discussion of state formation in Mexico...
Evolution Inclusions and Variation Inequalities for Earth Data Processing II
Differential-Operator Inclusions and Evolution Variation Inequalities for Earth Data Processing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Here, the authors present modern mathematical methods to solve problems of differential-operator inclusions and evolution variation inequalities which may occur in fields such as geophysics, aerohydrodynamics, or fluid dynamics. For the first time, they describe the detailed generalization of various...
Overindebtedness in European Consumer Law
Principles from 15 European States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book is drawn from a report prepared for the European Commission (DG Health and Consumer Protection) under the title “Consumer Overindebtedness and Consumer Law in the European Union” (Contract Reference No. B5-1000/02/000353) in September 2003. It highlights the wealth of legal instruments...
by Colman Carpenter, David Duffett, Ian Plain
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Employing a comprehensive handbook-style approach, this easy-to-follow book shows the reader various means of implementing the power of Asterisk in a commercial environment. In next to no time, the reader will gain a deeper understanding of many of the issues faced by Asterisk consultants and the...
Development, Security, and Aid
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and...
The Long War
CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places...
Fields and Streams
Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
Stream restoration science and practice...
The Empires' Edge
Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China’s rising economic and military strength, North Korea’s nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia,...
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban successstories—a place that has grown enormously through “creative class” strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar...
Geographical Diversions
Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
How might we make connections between seemingly...
Global City Futures
Desire and Development in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development and on the fact that many city and national governors...