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Dislocations eBook Series

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  • Worldwide Mobilizations

    Class Struggles and Urban Commoning

    Edited by Don Kalb, Massimiliano Mollona ...
    Series Book 24 - Dislocations
    The past decades have seen significant urban insurrections worldwide, and this volume analyzes some of them from an anthropological perspective; it argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally informed and deeply embedded in local and popular histories, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Value and Worthlessness

    The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

    by Don Kalb ...
    Series Book 38 - Dislocations
    Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using “global ethnography” and “hidden histories” as the keys to social discovery. Kalb’s anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing, populist, and nationalist ... Read more

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  • Insidious Capital

    Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

    Edited by Don Kalb ...
    Series Book 35 - Dislocations
    With a team of anthropologists and geographers, Insidious Capital explores “value and values” in what may well be the last phase of capitalist globalization. In a global perspective of fast-transforming social spaces that move from East to West, the book explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the ... Read more

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    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • The World

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Göran Therborn ...
    What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? In short, what is the state of the world today as we enter the second decade of the 21st century?This is the first book which deals with planetary human ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

    Edited by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

    Edited by Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Dr. Marie Ruiz, Dr. Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises." The volume covers a wide range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental conditions that generate migration crises around the globe. At the same time, it illuminates how the media and public officials play ... Read more

    $172.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism

    Edited by John Loughlin, John Kincaid, Wilfried Swenden ...
    Almost all states are either federal or regionalized in some sense. It is difficult to find a state that is entirely unitary and the Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism necessarily takes in almost the entire world. Both federalism and regionalism have been subjects of a vast academic literature mainly from political science but sometimes also from history, economics, and geography. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration

    Japan in Comparative Perspective

    by Chikako Usui, Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak, Keiko Yamanaka, Deborah J. Milly, Amy Gurowitz, Harlon Koff, Belen Agrela, Gunther Dietz, Timothy C. Lim ...
    Because of severe domestic labor shortages, Japan has recently joined the increasing number of advanced industrialized nations that have begun importing large numbers of immigrant workers since the 1980s. Although the citizenship status of foreign workers is the most precarious in such recent countries of immigration, the national governments of these countries have become increasingly preoccupied ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Constructing Global Order

    Agency and Change in World Politics

    by Amitav Acharya ...
    For a long time, international relations scholars have adopted a narrow view of what is global order, who are its makers and managers, and what means they employ to realize their goals. Amitav Acharya argues that the nature and scope of agency in the global order - who creates it and how - needs to be redefined and broadened. Order is built not by material power alone, but also by ideas and norms. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism

    Edited by Yildiz Atasoy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era
    More than 15 years have passed since the end of the Cold War, but uncertainty persists in the political-economic shaping of the world economy and state system. Although many countries have institutionalized neoliberal policies since the mid-1970s, thesepolicies have not taken hold to the same degree, nor have their effects been uniform across all countries. Nevertheless there has been widespread ... Read more

    $68.99 USD