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The emergence of periodicals in Hindi for women and girls in early-twentieth-century India helped shape the nationalist-feminist thought in the country. Analysing the format and structure of periodical literature, Shobna Nijhawan shows how it became a medium for elite...
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OUP India
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2011-12-28
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Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-27
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New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This book examines the processes of post-suburbanization in international perspective, exploring how developments across the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-13
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Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union. It will be of equal value to urban specialists and to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-10
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among observers of gender. Capital Culture explores these changes focusing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-10
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book is very much about what the name urbanTick literally says, about the ticking of the urban, the urban as we experience it everyday on the bus, in the park or between buildings. It is about the big orchestrated mass migration of commuters, the seasonal blossoms...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-04
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Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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28,30€
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Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism. Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-18
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-15
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. A unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-15
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
ePub
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The persistent failure of public schooling in low-income communities constitutes one of our nation's most pressing civil rights and social justice issues. Many school reformers recognize that poverty, racism, and a lack of power held by these communities undermine...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-07-15
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