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This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary essays, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is the fictional, yet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-11
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Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, this book argues that recent cultural production in Spain grapples with the conditions and possibilities for social transformation in dialogue with the ongoing crisis,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
Collection :
Hispanic Urban Studies
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In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador. Through a combination of ethnographic research and cultural analysis, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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In entlegenen, ländlichen Räumen ergeben sich komplexe Problemlagen, die eine interdisziplinäre Erforschung notwendig machen. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet mit Hilfe unterschiedlichster Fachdisziplinen neue Ansätze für die Daseinsvorsorge und das Gemeinwesen....
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Springer VS
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2016-04-06
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This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-03-21
Collection :
Urban Futures
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This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-03-07
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Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-26
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This book
reviews contemporary research on urban infrastructure in 76 Ethiopian cities.
It examines urban infrastructure issues in these cities and covers a wide range
of topics from sustainability and smart cities to research methods employed by
urban infrastructure...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-24
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities?What do the middle classes do to these cities and what do these cities do to the middle classes? Do the middle classes engage in social mix or are they focused on 'people like us'? Based on comparative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-27
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This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics covered range from the impacts of political developments on the cities’ rapid socio-economic developments, to the cities’ troubled relationship with the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-18
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The field of community psychology has focused on individuals' and groups' behavior in interaction with their social contexts, with an emphasis on prevention, early intervention, wellness promotion, and competency development. Over the past few decades, however,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-08
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"Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-12-07
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This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-07
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In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory. Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern city Examines the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-06
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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67,80€
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Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-30
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?This book examines the formation trajectory and development path of China’s newly formed urban areas, which was the result of an unprecedented massive urbanization process. The analysis is based on the case of Dezhou, Shandong Province. This book systematically...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-19
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On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations....
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2015-08-18
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In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-08-13
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This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of digital projects, the nature of the urban phenomenon pushes us toward an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-07-30
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This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-29
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