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  • South Korean civil movement organisations

    Hope, crisis, and pragmatism in democratic transition

    by Amy Levine ...
    This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists, intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial, post-Cold War, post-dictatorship, and post-IMF neoliberal democracy. In particular, it provides a detailed description of civil movement organisations in Seoul leading up to, during and after the Roh Moo Hyun era (2003–8) ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition

    by Paul Born ...
    Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building.Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Illusion of Civil Society

    Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico

    by Jon Shefner ...
    Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining clientelistic relationships that previously provided material benefits to middle- and low-income citizens, who are then motivated to organize ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Cities of North America

    Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities

    Edited by Lisa Benton-Short ...
    This timely textprovides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns—including the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, and a global growth in services. The contributors provide compelling ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Supersizing Urban America

    How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

    by Chin Jou ...
    More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona warned in 2006 that "obesity is the terror within," going so far as to call it a threat that will ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • St. Marks Is Dead

    The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

    by Ada Calhoun ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool.**St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh

    A Secular Theology for the Global City

    by Sharon V. Betcher ...
    Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.Here theology turns decidedly secular. In urban medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered persons who carried their spiritual ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Feeding Cities

    Improving local food access, security, and resilience

    Edited by Christopher Bosso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.The contributions are from researchers working on social, economic, political and ethical ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age

    The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital

    by Young A. Jung, Gyu Tag Lee, Dae Young Kim ...
    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities.In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Soviet Society Today

    by Michael Rywkin ...
    A systematic overview of life in the Soviet Union, this book includes chapters on the territorial divisions and ethnic composition of the country; the governmental and party system; Russian and minority cultures; the family; education; health care; sports; military service; classes and social privilege; poverty; prices and wages; the economic system, work, and the standard of living. It concludes ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Globalized Authoritarianism

    Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco

    by Koenraad Bogaert ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politicsOver the past thirty years, Morocco’s cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca’s medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco’s monarchy, which hopes to transform this city into a regional leader of finance and commerce. Such changes have occurred throughout ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

    by John C. Putman ...
    Series series The Urban West Series
    The dawn of the twentieth century saw enormous changes throughout the United States, reflecting technological advances, population growth, widespread industrialization, and the establishment of a national market economy. In the Far West, these changes, combined with the rapid westward expansion of advanced capitalism and the impact of national political and economic pressures, brought with them a ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD