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  • Museums, Refugees and Communities

    by Domenico Sergi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museums, Refugees and Communities explores the ways in which museums in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK have responded to the complexities and ethical dilemmas involved in discussing the reasons for, and issues surrounding, contemporary refugee displacements.Building upon an ethnographic study carried out in the UK with refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the book explores how ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

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  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Heterotopia and the City

    Public Space in a Postcivil Society

    Edited by Michiel Dehaene, Lieven De Cauter ...
    Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. ... Read more

    Was $68.99 USD Now $61.99 USD

  • Cultural Policy

    by David Bell, Kate Oakley ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
    David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research, adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both ‘culture’ and ‘policy’ mean when they are joined together as cultural policy.Drawing on topical examples and contemporary ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    by Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • What is Urban History?

    by Shane Ewen ...
    Series series What is History?
    Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Desire Lines

    Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City

    Edited by Noëleen Murray, Nick Shepherd, Martin Hall ...
    Series series Architext
    This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • 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

    $46.00 USD

  • Global Mobilities

    Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

    Edited by Amy K. Levin ...
    Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration

    Edited by Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, Shahram Khosravi ...
    This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular ... Read more

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