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  • The Illegal City

    Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

    de Ayona Datta ...
    Series series Gender, Space and Society
    The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Muslim Spaces of Hope

    Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West

    de Tahir Abbas, M. A. Kevin Brice, Raj Brown, Ayona Datta, Professor Kevin Dunn, Claire Dwyer, Fodil Fadli, Peter Hopkins, Professor Reina Lewis, Hilary Lim, Sarah Mills, Jane Pollard, Professor Ziauddin Sardar, Magda Sibley, Selcuk R. Sirin, Varun Uberoi, Selen Imamoglu ...
    Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions.The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim identities has taken place in the context of a more general recasting of racial ideas and racism: a ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Mega-Urbanization in the Global South

    Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state

    Edición de Ayona Datta, Abdul Shaban ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say. Mega ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Translocal Geographies

    Spaces, Places, Connections

    Edición de Katherine Brickell, Ayona Datta ...
    Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places during and after the experience of mobility. These issues are examined ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Data Power in Action

    Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis

    Edición de Ola Söderström, Ayona Datta ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how the intensive use of data changes politics, power relations, and everyday life in contemporary cities.Across the volume, expert contributors show how urban actors, from the state to activists, are increasingly using data as a resource to empower their ... Leer más

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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Edición de Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    de Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edición de Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Slum Tourism

    Poverty, Power and Ethics

    Edición de Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    de Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD