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  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Pursuit of Possibility

    Redesigning Research Universities

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way?Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Killer Cities

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD

  • Knowing Capitalism

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    ′This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices′- Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents′Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • The Price of War

    Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

    by Nigel Thrift, Dean Forbes ...
    Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is ... Read more

    Was $94.81 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • Thinking Space

    Edited by Mike Crang, Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide range of prolific social theorists. Included contributions from an impressive range of renowned geographical writers, each examine the work of one ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • New Models in Geography - Vol 2

    The Political-Economy Perspective

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • New Models in Geography

    The Political-Economy Perspective

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • New Models in Geography - Vol 1

    The Political-Economy Perspective

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    First Published in 2004. It seems such a long time ago, another age—yet it is a mere twenty-odd years since the original Models in Geography was published. It is an even shorter time since the first tentative steps were taken towards an alternative formulation of what might constitute a geographical perspective within the social sciences. What came to be called the political-economy perspective ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • New Models In Geography V2

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    First published in 1989. The publication of Models in geography presaged a sea change in the practice of Anglo-American geography. For a new set of models, this book provides a summary of their nature, spirit and purpose based upon a political-economy perspective. The book is split into two volumes, each consisting of four parts. This makes the title suitable for students and geographers with an ... Read more

    $261.08 CAD

  • City A-Z

    Urban Fragments

    Edited by Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift ...
    Featuring a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Specially comissioned short entries capture moments of the city, constantly surprising the reader with entries ranging from poetry to prose, from paintings to a photo-essay, and from rigorous noisy analysis to quiet stories of city ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • New Models In Geography

    Volume 1

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    First published in 1989. It seems such a long time ago, another age—yet it is a mere twenty-odd years since the original Models in Geography was published. It is an even shorter time since the first tentative steps were taken towards an alternative formulation of what might constitute a geographical perspective within the social sciences. What came to be called the political-economy perspective ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD