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  • Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes

    Societal Transformations and Everyday Life

    by Arve Hansen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations. Zooming in on the new urban middle classes, and through in-depth case studies in the realms of mobility, food and energy, the book brings new insights to some of the most urgent global sustainability challenges. Based on a decade of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Urban Protest

    A Spatial Perspective on Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow

    by Arve Hansen, Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 234 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Urban space is an important part of the political environment—a place where people congregate to discuss, deliberate, and interact with each other. In times of great public discontent, people often turn to urban spaces to make their opinions heard and to demand change, with varying degrees of success. How are mass protests affected by the urban public space in which they occur? This book provides ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • War of Songs

    Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations

    by Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar B. Steinholt, Arve Hansen, David-Emil Wickström, Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 203 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: “Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution”, “The Euromaidan’s Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song: A Musical Dialogue Between the Antagonists?”, “Exposing the Fault Lines beneath the Kremlin’s Restorative Geopolitics: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the Russian National Anthem”, “‘Lasha ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Changing Meat Cultures

    Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals

    Edited by Arve Hansen, Karen Lykke Syse ...
    This collection explains changing meat cultures through studies of both everyday food practices and the political economy of industrialized animal husbandry. We do this through case studies from 'affluent' and 'developing' countries. These contributions will shed light on global food connections and show how global, industrialized food and fodder systems have changed the way we relate to animals, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Socialist Market Economy in Asia

    Development in China, Vietnam and Laos

    Edited by Arve Hansen, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Kristen Nordhaug ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science. Three of the best global performers in terms of economic growth are authoritarian states led by communist parties. The ‘socialist market economy’ model employed in China, Vietnam and Laos performs better than the economic systems in countries at ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability

    Theories, strategies, local realities

    Edited by Arve Hansen, Ulrikke Wethal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth. Understanding this global shift and its impact on the environment is the paramount contemporary challenge for development-oriented researchers and policy makers alike. This book breaks new ground by combining ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia

    Wheels of change

    Edited by Arve Hansen, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development
    Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically rich and grounded analyses of both comparative and single-country case studies, the authors chart ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

    Edited by Arve Hansen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns ... Read more

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    Policy, Planning, and Practice

    by Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability.Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture; community, space, place(making) and spatial justice; the democratization of our streets and public spaces; how to create culturally inclusive spaces; ... Read more

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  • Urban Sustainability

    Reconnecting Space and Place

    by Ann Dale, William Dushenko, Pamela J. Robinson ...
    Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Food Practices in Transition

    Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity

    Edited by Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer, Anne Loeber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of ‘sustainability’-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and become visible in practices of consumption, retail and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Vietnam

    Rethinking the State

    by Martin Gainsborough ...
    Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society.The book argues for a move away from the commonly associated idea of 'reform', arguing for a deeper understanding of the concept and questioning the idea of state-retreat. The result is a ... Read more

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