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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “helen traill”
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  • The Practice of Collective Escape

    Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects

    by Helen Traill ...
    Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
    Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and white flight. By contrast, urban community growing projects are often considered by practitioners and commentators as communal havens in a stressful cityscape.Drawing on ethnographic research in urban ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • How to Be an Anticapitalist City

    From Crisis to Hope

    by Allan Cochrane, Amro Yaghi, Antonios Ktenidis, Catherine Malpass, Claire Rodgerson, Gabriel Silvestre, Hang Kei Ho, Helen Traill, Jess Steele, Joe Kearsey, Kamau Wairuri, Karen Laing, Kathleen Stokes, Liz Todd, Mary Lawhon, Morag Rose, Nick Clare, Owain Hanmer, Philippe Koch, Rex McKenzie, Ross Beveridge, Sharda Rozena, Shaun French, SJ Cooper-Knock, Zakiya McKenzie ...
    How do we find new ways of urban being and doing? This edited collection explores how global capitalism has shaped cities into sites of inequality, precarity and alienation—spaces designed to serve profit rather than people. Drawing on diverse examples, the book analyses how urban life is failing under current economic systems and offers real-world alternatives that promote human flourishing.From ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

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  • Post-Growth Living

    For an Alternative Hedonism

    by Kate Soper ...
    An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop ... Read more

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  • Participatory Practice

    Community-based Action for Transformative Change

    by Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett ...
    In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic.Bridging the divide between community development ideas and practice, over half of this innovative book comprises ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Mass Education

    by Gordon Tait, Nerida Spina, Jenna Gillett-Swan, Peter O'Brien ...
    Making Sense of Mass Education provides a contemporary analysis of the ideas and issues that have traditionally dominated education research, challenging outdated preconceptions with fundamental theory and discussion. It takes a demythologising approach in assessing these issues and their relevance to schooling and education in Australia. This text examines the cultural context of education and ... Read more

    $64.79 CAD

  • Uses of Heritage

    by Laurajane Smith ...
    Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, Smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but ... Read more

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  • Cultural Geographies

    An Introduction

    by John Horton, Peter Kraftl ...
    Cultural geography is a major, vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important, exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century.This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse, controversial, and sometimes-infuriating work of cultural geographers. The book outlines how cultural ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD

  • Landscape and Sustainability

    Edited by John Benson, Maggie Roe ...
    This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively addresses the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability.Much in ... Read more

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  • Geography

    Teaching School Subjects 11-19

    by John Morgan, David Lambert ...
    Series series Teaching School Subjects 11-19
    When Geography specialists decide they want to teach, it can be a daunting prospect to enter a real classroom, no matter how much subject knowledge they already possess. Geography: Teaching School Subjects 11-19 puts the subject into perspective and shows new teachers and student teachers how to make Geography accessible and interesting for their pupils. Divided into three sections the book ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • People and Place

    The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life

    by Lewis Holloway, Phil Hubbard ...
    An innovative introduction to Human Geography, exploring different ways of studying the relationships between people and place, and putting people at the centre of human geography. The book covers behavioural, humanistic and cultural traditions, showing how these can lead to a nuanced understanding of how we relate to our surroundings on a day-to-day basis. The authors also explore how human ... Read more

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  • Bourdieu: The Next Generation

    The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology

    Edited by Jenny Thatcher, Nicola Ingram, Ciaran Burke, Jessie Abrahams ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and reflect upon their own research and the ways in which they put Bourdieu to work. The aim of this book is ... Read more

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