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  • For a New Geography

    by Milton Santos ...
    Translated by Archie Davies ...
    For the first time in English, a key work of critical geographyOriginally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Space

    by Milton Santos ...
    Translated by Brenda Baletti ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragmented realities and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Shared Space

    The Two Circuits of the Urban Economy in Underdeveloped Countries

    by Milton Santos ...
    Translated by Chris Gerry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics
    Originally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book, Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization and spatial organization in underdeveloped countries are inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which is so badly needed ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience

    Translated by Tim Clarke, Lucas Melgaço ...
    by Milton Santos ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization. It offers a critical and uniquely first-hand perspective that is lacking not only from the apologists of Western hegemony, but from most ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Justice Against Epistemicide

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    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Key Concepts

    Edited by Michael Grenfell ...
    Series series Key Concepts
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    Challenging Urban Theory

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    $23.99 CAD

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