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  • Secular State and Religious Society

    Two Forces in Play in Turkey

    Edited by B. Turam ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within the Turkish state. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Geopolitics of Fear

    From Security to Solidarity at Europe's Racial Borders

    by Berna Turam ...
    The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the most vulnerable, yet understudied, area of the EU's anti-immigrant security regime: the port cities in border zones on major refugee routes. Turam shifts the predominant focus from the global scale of ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Gaining Freedoms

    Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin

    by Berna Turam ...
    Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization. Through proximity, neighborhoods, streets, and squares can create unconventional power ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Gaining Freedoms

    Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin

    by Berna Turam ...
    Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization. Through proximity, neighborhoods, streets, and squares can create unconventional power ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Estates

    An Intimate History

    by Lynsey Hanley ...
    Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - ... Read more

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  • The South Side

    A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

    by Natalie Y. Moore ...
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  • Political Islam in the Age of Democratization

    by K. Bokhari, F. Senzai ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the complex nature of contemporary political Islam and its relationship to democracy. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Sun, Sin & Suburbia

    The History of Modern Las Vegas, Revised and Expanded

    by Geoff Schumacher ...
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    The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

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  • Why the West Fears Islam

    An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies

    by J. Cesari ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Jocelyne Cesari examines the idea that Islam might threaten the core values of the West through testimonies from Muslims in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the US. Her book is an unprecedented exploration of Muslim religious and political life based on several years of field work in Europe and in the United States. ... Read more

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  • The Taxi-Dance Hall

    A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life

    by Paul Goalby Cressey ...
    Series series University of Chicago Sociological Series
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