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Violent Neoliberalism

Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia

by S. Springer
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious implications of free market ideology and practice.
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Migrant Women of Johannesburg

Everyday Life in an In-Between City

by C. Kihato
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple worlds, suspended between their original home and an imagined future elsewhere.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and communities' relations to natural resource sectors, and show how resource dependencies continue to shape their political spaces.
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Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis

Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future

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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

This timely and interdisciplinary volume analyzes the many impacts of and contrasting responses to the Argentine political, economic, and social crises of 2001-02. Chapters offer original theoretical models and examine the relationship between political, cultural, economic, and societal spheres.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016

This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation and breakdowns of democracy. Based...
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Rethinking Rural Literacies

Transnational Perspectives

by Michael Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013

The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis.
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by P. Jay
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education.
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An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK

Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage

by Roxana Moroşanu
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016

This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of “doing”. Stemming from ethnographic research with families in the United Kingdom as part of a wider interdisciplinary...
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by Tracey Skillington
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster....
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The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities

Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged.
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by B. Badie
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

The status quo of the modern world order, a diplomatic entente best characterized as "connivance diplomacy," is limited in its performances, defensive of its privileges, midway between competition and cooperation. It is examined here through its history, its functions, and its failures.
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The Paradox of Urban Space

Inequality and Transformation in Marginalized Communities

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011

As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable development.
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by P. Carnegie
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010

This book establishes that a tension exists between how we frame democratisation and the conclusions we arrive at. It demonstrates how and why interpreting ambiguity matters in the study of Indonesia's post-authoritarian settlement and highlights the need for dialogue with proponents of social conflict theory.
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Learning from the Ground Up

Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production

by Dip Kapoor, Aziz Choudry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010

The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces.
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