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  • The Globalization of Strangeness

    by C. Rumford ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected. Under conditions of globalization, inside/outside markers have been eroded and conventional indicators of 'we-ness' are no longer reliable. We now live in a generalized state of strangeness, one consequence of globalization: we no longer know where our ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Cosmopolitan Borders

    by C. Rumford ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Europe and World Society

    Edited by Chris Rumford, Didem Buhari-Gulmez ...
    Europe and World Society offers a distinctive critical approach to understanding European transformations, exploring both the progress and limitations of integration on various key policy areas such as agricultural policy, education reform, migration, and external relations, as well as the relationship between European regionalism and globalization. Due to its innovative theoretical framework, ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Citizens and borderwork in contemporary Europe

    Edited by Chris Rumford ...
    The extent to which ordinary people can construct, shift, and dismantle borders is seriously neglected in the existing literature. The book explores the ability of citizens to participate in the making of borders, and the empowerment that can result from this bordering and debordering activity. ‘Borderwork’ is the name given to the ways in which ordinary people can make and unmake borders. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Turkey-EU Relations

    Edited by Chris Rumford ...
    This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. The contributors challenge conventional attempts to understand Turkey-EU relations, revealing that EU integration studies has been rather poor at understanding the global context ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Re-Living the Global City

    Global/Local Processes

    Edited by John Eade, Chris Rumford ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics
    Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival. In this new collection Eade and Rumford draw together scholars whose work has ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Twenty20 and the Future of Cricket

    Edited by Chris Rumford ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Cricket is a sport which is currently undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Traditionally thought of as an English summer game, limited in appeal to Britain and its Commonwealth, cricket has, in the past a few years, achieved a global profile. This is largely due to the development of a new TV-friendly format of the game: Twenty20 cricket. Indeed, through the economic and media interests ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Furious Fannies

    by Quinton Rumford ...
    Virginia 'Ginnie' Joy is twenty-seven and desperate to make some bold changes to her mundane life of disappointed relationships with sexually ineffective men, a safe but boring job and an uneventful social life. Her solution is to place an advertisement in the local newspaper for women who would like to become part of an all-female rugby team.To her surprise she gets thirty-two replies. During the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Sensory Motor Activities for Early Development

    A Practical Resource

    by Chia Swee Hong, Heidi Rumford ...
    Sensory motor activities are crucial for children to learn from their environment. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this revised edition is a complete package of tried-and-tested sensory motor activities for children, covering basic movements, interoception, sensory and body awareness and early visual perceptual skills.Providing an overview of the sensory systems, the authors offer ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Europe

    Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization

    by Gerard Delanty, Chris Rumford ...
    Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization should be theorized in terms of:globalizationmajor social transformations that are not exclusively ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Rain School

    by James Rumford ...
    It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road."Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil? Will I learn to read?"But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Leave Big Ben Standing

    by Quinton Rumford ...
    A humorous novel of attempted treason and outrageous sexual eccentricity and gutter journalism concerning a savant boy chemical genius, the current military high command and their joint attempt to blow up the British Houses of Parliament in a modern version of the Gunpowder Plot. Driven by a boy wonder explosives inventor who can only function if his newly discovered sexual deviancy involving the ... Read more

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