712 books (36 pages) in this category
by Juliana Tzvetkova
<p>A fascinating survey of popular culture in Europe, from Celtic punk and British TV shows to Spanish fashion and Italian sports.</p> <p>• Makes connections between pop culture in Europe to that of the United States</p> <p>• Provides further ...
ISBN: 9781440844669
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eBookPopular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity
by Jason Dittmer & Daniel Bos
<p>Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this innovative and engaging text surveys the field of popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international relations from a geographical perspective. Jason Dittmer and
ISBN: 9781538116739
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eBookTools and Issues
by K. Bruce Newbold
<p>This compact and accessible text provides a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. First grounding students in the fundamentals, Bruce Newbold then explains the tools and techniques commonly used to describe and ...
ISBN: 9781442265325
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eBookReframing Political Space in Eastern Europe
by Jussi Laine, Ilkka Liikanen & James W. Scott
<p>In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for international relations and public political debate. These borders are frequently viewed in terms of military ...
ISBN: 9780429957109
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eBookThe Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
by Nicolas Argenti
<p>How does an ethnically and culturally plural empire, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims could ascend to the highest levels of political authority and influence, devolve into a disarray of nation-states defined by nationalist ideologies? With
ISBN: 9781789202410
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eBookPostcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty
Alternative food networks in subaltern spaces
by Marisa Wilson
<p>This book explores connections between activist debates about food sovereignty and academic debates about alternative food networks. The ethnographic case studies demonstrate how divergent histories and geographies of people-in-place open up ...
ISBN: 9781317416111
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eBookMapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space
by Debra Benita Shaw
<p>The World Health Organisation estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city. But what does it mean to inhabit the city in the twenty-first century?</p> <p><em>Posthuman Urbanism</em> evaluates the ...
ISBN: 9781783480814
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eBookPower and Water in Central Asia
by Filippo Menga
<p>Water is an irreplaceable and transient resource, which crosses political boundaries in the form of rivers, lakes, and groundwater aquifers. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, led to the birth of fifteen countries including the five ...
ISBN: 9781317194316
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eBookCoastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity
by Kimbra Smith
<p>The community of Agua Blanca, deep within the Machalilla National Park on the coast of Ecuador, found itself facing the twenty-first century with a choice: embrace a booming tourist industry eager to experience a preconceived notion of ...
ISBN: 9780826520586
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eBookPractising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Wine, Ethics and Development
by Agatha Herman
<p>Despite the promise and optimism surrounding the post-apartheid transition, South African society continues to be highly racialised in its discourses, identities and practices, even within the very strategies that aim to change power ...
ISBN: 9781317076445
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eBookAffect and Nationalism in Asia
by Chih-ming Wang & Daniel PS Goh
<p>In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclusion and exclusion. In Asia, inter-Asian migration, enabled and disrupted by a ...
ISBN: 9781786602268
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eBookContested Geographies of Social Reproduction
by Kate Bezanson, Jessie Clark, Andrew Gorman-Murray & others
<p>This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of ...
ISBN: 9780820348803
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eBookPreserving the Old City of Damascus
by Faedah Totah
<p>In Preserving the Old City of Damascus, Totah examines the recent<br /> gentrification of the historic urban core of the Syrian capital and the ways<br /> in which urban space becomes the site for negotiating new economic and<br /> social ...
ISBN: 9780815652625
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eBookTen Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
by Tim Marshall
<b>THE INTERNATIONAL AND <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><br/>All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and
ISBN: 9781783961429
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eBookProperty Rights and Climate Change
Land use under changing environmental conditions
by Fennie van Straalen, Thomas Hartmann & John Sheehan
<p><em>Property Rights and Climate Change</em> explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate ...
ISBN: 9781315520070
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eBookby Ilan Kapoor
<p><em>Psychoanalysis and the GlObal</em> is about the hole at the heart of the “gl<em>O</em>bal,” meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis to expose the unconscious
ISBN: 9781496208590
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eBookby Paul Kingsbury & Steve Pile
<p>Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of ...
ISBN: 9781317073925
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eBookPsychological Governance and Public Policy
Governing the mind, brain and behaviour
by Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones & Mark Whitehead
<p>There have been significant developments in the state of psychological, neuroscientific and behavioural scientific knowledge relating to the human mind, brain, action and decision-making over the past two decades. These developments have ...
ISBN: 9781317396598
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eBookPublic and Political Discourses of Migration
International Perspectives
by Amanda Haynes, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux & others
<p>Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they influence both the general public’s perception of
ISBN: 9781783483297
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eBookArt, Space and Identity
by Martin Zebracki & Joni M. Palmer
<p>Public art is produced and ‘lived’ within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres. This lively collection is a mix of academic and practice-based writings that scrutinise conventional ...
ISBN: 9781317073833
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