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  • Urban Environmentalism

    Global Change and the Mediation of Local Conflict

    A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable. With an international perspective, the book describes urban environmental agendas and how they arose in the context of globalization, urban economic restructuring, and the need to make cities competitive. It argues that the environment became an integral part of city development policy, turning ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Inventing the Future

    Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

    This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism)Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spaces of Capital

    Towards a Critical Geography

    by David Harvey ...
    David Harvey is the most influential geographer of our era, possessing a reputation that extends across the social sciences and humanities. Spaces of Capital, a collection of seminal articles and new essays spanning three decades, demonstrates why his work has had-and continues to have-such a major impact. The book gathers together some of Harvey's best work on two of his central concerns: the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

    The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Theories of Development

    Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives

    This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics (classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, neoliberal) before considering critical alternatives (Marxist, socialist, poststructuralist, and feminist). The ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Radical Imagination

    Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

    The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

    Series Book 21 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Human Rights from Below

    Achieving Rights through Community Development

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Eco-Socialism

    From Deep Ecology to Social Justice

    by David Pepper ...
    First Published in 2004. Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind Western capitalism have no intention of radically changing their goals and methods to help create an environmentally sound or socially just global society. In order to confront this, the green movement must now develop ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Environment and International Relations

    Edited by Mark Imber, John Vogler ...
    Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations.This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses ... Read more

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  • Challenging governance theory

    From networks to hegemony

    Theories heralding the rise of network governance have dominated for a generation. Yet, empirical research suggests that claims for the transformative potential of networks are exaggerated. This topical and timely book takes a critical look at contemporary governance theory, elaborating a Gramscian alternative. It argues that, although the ideology of networks has been a vital element in the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Turbulence of Migration

    Globalization, Deterritorialization and Hybridity

    This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe. ... Read more

    $24.00 USD