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“berna turam”

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  • 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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  • The South Side

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  • Sun, Sin & Suburbia

    The History of Modern Las Vegas, Revised and Expanded

    by Geoff Schumacher ...
    More than forty million visitors per year travel to Sin City to visit the gambling mecca of the world. But gambling is only one part of the city’s story. In this carefully documented history, Geoff Schumacher tracks the rise of Las Vegas, including its vital role during World War II; the rise of the Strip in the 1950s; the explosive growth of the 1990s; and the colossal collapse triggered by the ... Read more

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  • Colonial Jerusalem

    The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

    by Colonial Jerusalem Thomas Philip Abowd ...
    In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is oftensuggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates ... 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
    First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction notes, were social centers where men could come and pay to dance with “a bevy of pretty, vivacious, and often ... Read more

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  • Partners of the Empire

    The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions

    by Ali Yaycioglu ...
    Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codified—and annulled. The ... Read more

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  • Urban Poverty in Turkey

    Development and Modernisation in Low-Income Communities

    by Burcu Sentürk ...
    Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia. The rise of the Islamist party AKP in the 1990s and 2000s had a large impact on how these gecekondus are examined, and how they are perceived to reflect key issues at play in Turkish society: welfare, local identity, religious ... Read more

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  • More Than Shelter

    Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing

    by Amy L. Howard ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter makes clear that such limited perspectives do not capture the rich reality of tenants’ active engagement in shaping public housing into communities. By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light ... Read more

    $30.29 CAD

  • Istanbul

    Living with Difference in a Global City

    by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, Çaglar Keyder, Sami Zubaida, Feyzi Baban, Charles King, Ilay Romain Örs0, Amy Mills1, Anna Bigelow2, Kristen Sarah Biehl3, Hande Paker4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a ... Read more

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