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  • The Sounds of Latinidad

    Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

    par Samuel K. Byrd ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Social Transformations in American Anthropology
    The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants’ access to the American dream and ... En savoir plus

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  • Our Better Nature

    Environment and the Making of San Francisco

    par Philip J. Dreyfus ...
    Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

    New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    par Vincanne Adams ...
    Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Street Kids

    Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New Yorks Streets

    par Kristina E. Gibson ...
    Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Fatal Isolation

    The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

    par Richard C. Keller ...
    In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003, leaving 15,000 dead. They died alone in Paris and its suburbs, and were then buried at public ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Uneasy Peace

    The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence

    par Patrick Sharkey ...
    “Admirably connects two stories about the criminal legal system that are usually told separately. One is that the country that Americans live in is safer than it has been for a long time. The other story is that for some citizens, especially African-American men, the country that they live in is not free.” —Paul Butler, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities ... En savoir plus

    $17.49 CAD

  • Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    “Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or final authority.” —The New York SunHailed by the New York Times Book Review as “perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning,” Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instantly recognized as a masterpiece upon its ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Splintering Urbanism

    Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

    par Steve Graham, Simon Marvin ...
    Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:*globalization and the city*technology and society*urban space and urban networks*infrastructure and the built environment*developed ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Social Dynamics of the Urban

    Studies from India

    Modifié par N. Jayaram ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates the thematic for urban sociology today.The chapters explore the various perspectives and processes in ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Concepts and Techniques in Urban Analysis

    par 'Bola Ayeni ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    This book, first published in 1979, discusses the concepts, models and techniques used in urban analysis and planning. This study reviews many of the older concepts and models of urban spatial structure, laying the foundations of analysis carried out in the later parts of the book. Topics such as social area analysis, urban economic activity and spatial interaction are considered. This ... En savoir plus

    $79.69 CAD

  • Identity, Justice and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

    Modifié par Gülçin Erdi, Yıldırım Şentürk ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world. Through close ethnographic study the authors illuminate the strategies adopted for everyday life that have evolved in response to the neoliberal managing of cities, by which the city is shaped by market forces rather than by ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Riding with Death

    Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince

    par Jana Evans Braziel ...
    Collections series Caribbean Studies Series
    On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD