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  • Placing Critical Geography

    Historical Geographies of Critical Geography

    Edited by Lawrence D. Berg, Ulrich Best, Mary Gilmartin, Henrik Gutzon Larsen ...
    This book explores the multiple histories of critical geography as it developed in 14 different locations around the globe, whilst bringing together a range of approaches in critical geography.It is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive account of a wide variety of historical geographies of critical geography from around the world. Accordingly, the chapters provide accounts of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Critical Toponymies

    The Contested Politics of Place Naming

    by Jani Vuolteenaho ...
    Series series Re-materialising Cultural Geography
    While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe, ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Obama Presidency

    Promise and Performance

    by William Crotty, John C. Berg, R. Lawrence Butler, Bruce E. Caswell, Maureen F. Moakley, Shayla C. Nunnally, Arthur C. Paulson, Lawrence C. Reardon, James A. Morone ...
    In this illuminating examination of the Obama presidency, the contributors describe the policy directions followed, and the administration’s level of success in achieving its objectives. Throughout the Obama administration, efforts were intended to alleviate the worst of the economic stress facing the nation, move the president closer to the center of the American political spectrum, and prepare ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

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  • Civil Society and International Governance

    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most ... Read more

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  • Alter-Globalization

    Becoming Actors in a Global Age

    by Geoffrey Pleyers ...
    Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space.Rather ... Read more

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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

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  • In the Name of Women's Rights

    The Rise of Femonationalism

    by Sara R. Farris ...
    Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by ... Read more

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

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  • The Movements of Movements

    Edited by Jai Sen ...
    Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements. What Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in ... Read more

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  • Communities Across Borders

    New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures

    Edited by Paul Kennedy, Victor Roudometof ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together.It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Studies

    The Key Concepts

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including:AnthropoceneBiopoliticsDecolonialityEcocriticismGlobal ... Read more

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