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  • What Is African Art?

    A Short History

    by Peter Probst ...
    A history of the evolving field of African art.This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Peter Probst identifies “African art” as a conceptual vessel that manifests wider societal transformations ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • National Museums in Africa

    Identity, History and Politics

    Edited by Raymond Silverman, George Abungu, Peter Probst ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Africa
    National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives.Covering all regions of the continent, the volume’s thirteen chapters allow for a deep and nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between past and present in contemporary Africa. Taking ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Arrival City

    The Final Migration and Our Next World

    by Doug Saunders ...
    From one of Canada's leading journalists comes a major book about how the movement of populations from rural to urban areas on the margins is reshaping our world. These transitional spaces are where the next great economic and cultural boom will be born, or where the great explosion of violence will occur. The difference depends on our ability to notice.The twenty-first century is going to be ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Future in Ruins

    UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

    by Lynn Meskell ...
    Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Evil Paradises

    Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa

    Edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara ...
    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transnational Middle East

    People, Places, Borders

    Edited by Leïla Vignal ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    The Middle East has been undergoing new crises since the powerful socio-political uprisings known as the Arab Spring took place in several countries in 2011. Some countries are experiencing a long-term collapse of their political and social structures out of internal conflicts and external interventions.The Transnational Middle East posits that, in the Middle East, the development of regional ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Urban Rage

    The Revolt of the Excluded

    by Mustafa Dikec ...
    A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically includedIn the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors’ actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikeç shows how ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • The Evolving Arab City

    Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

    Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Authentically African

    Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture

    by Sarah Van Beurden ...
    Series Book 34 - New African Histories
    Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display of art and the construction of cultural authenticity and political legitimacy from the late ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Cities

    by John Lorinc, Jane Springer ...
    Series Book 7 - Groundwork Guides
    A thought-provoking look at the demands and expectations we place on our growing cities in the twenty-first century. An excellent introduction to the subject for young adults.Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighbourhoods forces today's city-dwellers -- in both the developed world and in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus