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  • Making Histories And Constructing Human Geographies

    The Local Transformation Of Practice, Power Relations, And Consciousness

    par Allan Pred ...
    This book is intended to acquaint American historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with a discourse that questions the prioritizing of the temporal over the spatial-the historical over the geographical. Allan Pred argues that neither the study of history nor the execution of social or cultural analysis can be divorced from human-geographical ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • City-systems in Advanced Economies

    Past Growth, Present Processes and Future Development Options

    par Allan Pred ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics
    Originally published in 1977. This book provides answers to two fundamental and interrelated questions about the modern city. First, what are the processes underlying the past and present growth of ‘post-industrial’ metropolitan complexes and the economically advanced city-systems to which they belong? Second, what are the implications of on-going growth for efforts to reduce interregional ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Recognising European Modernities

    A Montage of the Present

    par Allan Pred ...
    For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through interrelationships with other countries. Each European commodity society has experienced successive, but different overlapping, periods of industrial modernity (large scale factories and urban growth), ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • Violent Geographies

    Fear, Terror, and Political Violence

    Modifié par Derek Gregory, Allan Pred ...
    "Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual invocation has long required."—John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLA"Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is uncomfortable but ... En savoir plus

    $118.99 CAD

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    In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a ... En savoir plus

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  • The Truth About Markets

    Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor

    par John Kay ...
    Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model – unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax – faced a storm of protest. But what are the alternatives to the mantras of market fundamentalism?Leading economist John Kay unravels the truth about markets, from Wall Street to Switzerland, from ... En savoir plus

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  • Unspeak

    How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

    par Steven Poole ...
    "A sharply articulated, well-documented expos of the political and economic manipulation of language . . . Fans of Orwell, take heart."— Kirkus ReviewsWhat do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many ... En savoir plus

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  • Globalization

    The Human Consequences

    par Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Collections series Themes for the 21st Century
    'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term.Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a ... En savoir plus

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  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

    par Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... En savoir plus

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  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

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    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... En savoir plus

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  • Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

    par Klaus Dodds ...
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    Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these 'danger zones' - in Europe or the US ... En savoir plus

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  • The Just City

    par Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... En savoir plus

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