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  • Commons, Citizenship and Power

    Reclaiming the Margins

    by Fabrizio Barca, Sébastien Bourdin, Lowri Cunnington Wynn, Julie Froud, Paolo Gerbaudo, Ayhan Kaya, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Anna Krasteva, Danny MacKinnon, Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, Sarah McKinley, Andrea Membretti, Andy Pike, Stella Rodrigues Lallement, John Tomaney, André Torre, Karel Williams, Sanne Velthuis ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    Since the 2010s, populism and illiberal politics have been on the rise. Demagogue leaders preach simplified rhetoric to vilify the powerless, polarising city and rural areas and sparking such shocking events as the US insurrection on 6th January 2021.This interdisciplinary book argues for a politics of representativity and accountability to help transform people’s experiences, showing that where ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Foundational Economy and Citizenship

    Comparative Perspectives on Civil Repair

    Edited by Filippo Barbera, Ian Rees Jones ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection.Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collective, rather than private, consumption.An ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Alternative Food Networks

    An Interdisciplinary Assessment

    Edited by Alessandro Corsi, Filippo Barbera, Egidio Dansero, Cristiana Peano ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited collection discusses what the main determinants of the participation of operators – both consumers and producers – in AFNs are, what the conditions for ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • The Social Commons: Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies

    by Francine Mestrum ...
    As the world's neo-liberal economic order continues to self-destruct in a climate of non growth and widening inequality, the birth of new social movements and alternatives are disrupting the old politics and business "as usual" in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The Social Commons: Rethinking Social Justice in Post-Neoliberal Societies by Francine Mestrum is a new and original entry into the debate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic Complexity and Human Development

    How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

    by Dominik Hartmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. ... Read more

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  • Social Policy

    A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

    by Fiona Williams ...
    Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

    Edited by Allen J. Scott, Michael Storper ...
    The world has seen a shift in socio-economic relations, in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The social regulation of the economic order, flexible production organization and industrial district formation have brought periods, places and pathways to the heart of economic debate.Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development provides a platform from ... Read more

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  • Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?

    by Graham Smith ...
    Series series Democratic Futures
    Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term.In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Keys to the City

    How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development

    by Michael Storper ...
    Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization

    by Giovanna Vertova ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy ... Read more

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  • Smart City

    Human Capital in the Smart City. A Tale of Two Cities in Italy

    by Davide Diamantini, Nunzia Borrelli ...
    Series Book 8 - Quaderni
    La Carta di Milano, l'eredità immateriale di Expo Milano 2015, ci impegna a pensare e a dare forma a una diversa idea di convivenza urbana. Una città del futuro che comincia dal nostro presente. Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a un vero e proprio proliferare dell’uso del termine smart city e human smart city. L’uso – e talvolta l’abuso – di questo termine ha riguardato esperti, specialisti di ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work

    by Lisa Rodgers ...
    The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships.Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law ... Read more

    $35.99 USD