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“nikhil anand”

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  • Hydraulic City

    Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

    by Nikhil Anand ...
    In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Promise of Infrastructure

    Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, Hannah Appel ...
    From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

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  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

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    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

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  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    by Mike Savage ...
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    $41.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Human Geography

    by Alisdair Rogers, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical entries, acronyms, organisations, and major periods and schools in the history of human geography, it provides up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information. It also includes entry ... Read more

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  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in ... Read more

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  • For a Left Populism

    by Chantal Mouffe ...
    What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a “populist moment” that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing a frontier between “the people” and “the oligarchy,” a left–populist strategy could bring together the manifold ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Edited by Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes ... Read more

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  • Democracy's Infrastructure

    Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid

    by Antina von Schnitzler ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy’s ... Read more

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  • Exotic No More

    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

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  • The Migration Apparatus

    Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union

    by Gregory Feldman ...
    Every year, millions of people from around the world grapple with the European Union's emerging migration management apparatus. Through border controls, biometric information technology, and circular migration programs, this amorphous system combines a whirlwind of disparate policies. The Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize ... Read more

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