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  • Walking Inside Out

    Contemporary British Psychogeography

    Edición de Tina Richardson ...
    Series series Place, Memory, Affect
    Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the ... Leer más

    $42,520 CLP

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  • The Trouble with Brunch

    Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

    de Shawn Micallef ...
    Series series Exploded Views
    One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outré food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In ... Leer más

    $8,930 CLP

  • London

    A History

    de A.N. Wilson ...
    Series Libro 18 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet ... Leer más

    $9,045 CLP

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  • Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

    de Matthew Flisfeder ...
    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century capitalism, Flisfeder provides a valuable guide for both students and scholars interested in learning ... Leer más

    $21,612 CLP

  • Practising Rhythmanalysis

    Theories and Methodologies

    de Yi Chen ...
    This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences. It formulates 'rhythm' as a critical concept which is defined in dialogic relationships to intellectual traditions, yet introducing unique philosophical positions that serve to re-think ways of conceiving and addressing cultural political issues.Engaging with the notion of ... Leer más

    $39,375 CLP

  • Global Gangs

    Street Violence across the World

    Edición de Dennis Rodgers, Jennifer M. Hazen ...
    Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently antagonistic. The first studies of gangs depicted them as alternative sources of order in urban slums where the state’s authority was lacking, and they have subsequently been shown to be important elements in some youth life cycles. Despite their proliferation there is little ... Leer más

    $20,424 CLP

  • Police and Community in Chicago

    A Tale of Three Cities

    de Wesley G. Skogan ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can neighborhood problems be solved? In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest ... Leer más

    $35,268 CLP

  • The "Katrina Effect"

    On the Nature of Catastrophe

    Edición de William M. Taylor, Michael P. Levine, Oenone Rooksby, Joely-Kym Sobott ...
    On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the ... Leer más

    $30,867 CLP

  • Little Vast Rooms of Undoing

    Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces

    de Dara Blumenthal ...
    Public toilets are places where individual identity is put to the test through experiences of fear, anxiety, shame, and embarrassment, yet also places where we shore up, confirm, and check the status of our gendered identities. In these highly gendered and sex-segregated places, people of various and varied identities come together and separately conduct their ‘business’ through socially ... Leer más

    $42,520 CLP

  • Social Dynamics of the Urban

    Studies from India

    Edición de N. Jayaram ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $98,417 CLP

  • Yankee Yinglish

    A sociolinguistic study of Yiddish English in New York

    de Ruchel Jarach-Sztern ...
    For more than one century, Yiddish has been in contact with American English. To examine the linguistic traces of this contact we first retrace the background of Jewish immigration to the United States and present a history of Yiddish as a “contact language”.We then proceed to the diachronic, synchronic and sociolinguistic analysis of Yiddish features in American English as expressed by the New ... Leer más

    $4,286 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Contexts of Social Capital

    Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families

    Edición de Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, Ronald L. Breiger ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges.This volume focuses on how social capital interacts with social institutions, based on the premise that markets, communities, and ... Leer más

    $73,227 CLP