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  • Urban Assemblages

    How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

    Rivisto da Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender ...
    Serie series Questioning Cities
    This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the city itself as a bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping enactments that constitute ... Altre info

    60,77 €

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  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

    re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City

    Rivisto da nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash ... Altre info

    14,50 €

  • Space, Place and Gender

    di Doreen Massey ...
    This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues.The book is organized around the three themes of space, place and gender. It traces the development of ideas about the social nature of space and place and the ... Altre info

    21,50 €

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    di John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Altre info

    30,99 €

  • New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South

    di Don Slater ...
    New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initiatives and public and political discourse. Yet these authoritative terms have arisen within particular cultural and ideological contexts. In using them, we risk promoting over-generalized and seemingly unchallengeable frameworks for action and ... Altre info

    17,99 €

  • Against Injustice

    The New Economics of Amartya Sen

    Rivisto da Reiko Gotoh, Paul Dumouchel ...
    Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen's work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent injustices, and come to a reasoned agreement about the need to remedy them, without reference to an explicit ... Altre info

    45,44 €

  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Rivisto da Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, Susan Saegert ...
    The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments ... Altre info

    104,87 €

  • The English Language in Canada

    Status, History and Comparative Analysis

    di Charles Boberg ...
    Serie series Studies in English Language
    The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of ... Altre info

    35,14 €

  • Geographical Thought

    An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography

    di Anoop Nayak, Alex Jeffrey ...
    Geographical Thought provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key ideas and figures in human geography. The book provides an essential introduction to the theories that have shaped the study of societies and space. Opening with an exploration of the founding concepts of human geography in the nineteenth century academy, the authors examine the range of theoretical perspectives that have ... Altre info

    57,42 €

  • Cultural Geographies

    An Introduction

    di 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 ... Altre info

    90,57 €

  • Learning the City

    Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage

    di Colin McFarlane ...
    Serie eBook 101 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism.Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learningIntegrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's ... Altre info

    25,99 €

  • Heterotopia and the City

    Public Space in a Postcivil Society

    Rivisto da Michiel Dehaene, Lieven De Cauter ...
    Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. ... Altre info

    60,77 €