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  • The Practice of Collective Escape

    Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects

    by Helen Traill ...
    Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
    Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and white flight. By contrast, urban community growing projects are often considered by practitioners and commentators as communal havens in a stressful cityscape.Drawing on ethnographic research in urban ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • How to Be an Anticapitalist City

    From Crisis to Hope

    by Allan Cochrane, Amro Yaghi, Antonios Ktenidis, Catherine Malpass, Claire Rodgerson, Gabriel Silvestre, Hang Kei Ho, Helen Traill, Jess Steele, Joe Kearsey, Kamau Wairuri, Karen Laing, Kathleen Stokes, Liz Todd, Mary Lawhon, Morag Rose, Nick Clare, Owain Hanmer, Philippe Koch, Rex McKenzie, Ross Beveridge, Sharda Rozena, Shaun French, SJ Cooper-Knock, Zakiya McKenzie ...
    How do we find new ways of urban being and doing? This edited collection explores how global capitalism has shaped cities into sites of inequality, precarity and alienation—spaces designed to serve profit rather than people. Drawing on diverse examples, the book analyses how urban life is failing under current economic systems and offers real-world alternatives that promote human flourishing.From ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

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  • Hard Choices

    Challenging the Singapore Consensus

    Edited by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Donald Low ...
    Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a ... Read more

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  • Post-Growth Living

    For an Alternative Hedonism

    by Kate Soper ...
    An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Care Manifesto

    The Politics of Interdependence

    by The Care Collective, Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Litter, Catherine Rottenberg ...
    We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Reclaiming economics for future generations

    by Lucy Ambler, Joe Earle, Nicola Scott, Julie Froud ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Today’s economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable, and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening, humanity is left in a rapidly worsening situation of its own making, the destruction of the living world, which ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Participatory Practice

    Community-based Action for Transformative Change

    by Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett ...
    In this second edition of a bestselling book, the authors’ unique, holistic and radical perspective on participatory practice has been updated to reflect advances made in the past decade, the impact of neoliberalism and austerity, and the challenges of climate change and the pandemic.Bridging the divide between community development ideas and practice, over half of this innovative book comprises ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Third Way and its Critics

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world. Political leaders, in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America claim to be following its principles. Yet the notion has also attracted much criticism. Some say it is an empty concept without any real content. Critics from the more traditional left argue that it is a betrayal of left-wing ideals.Anthony ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Making Sense of Mass Education

    by Gordon Tait, Nerida Spina, Jenna Gillett-Swan, Peter O'Brien ...
    Making Sense of Mass Education provides a contemporary analysis of the ideas and issues that have traditionally dominated education research, challenging outdated preconceptions with fundamental theory and discussion. It takes a demythologising approach in assessing these issues and their relevance to schooling and education in Australia. This text examines the cultural context of education and ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

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  • Uses of Heritage

    by Laurajane Smith ...
    Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, Smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but ... Read more

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