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Napier: Trading Places

Accessing land in African cities

de Mark Napier, Stephen Berrisford ...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at societyís margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban ... Leer más

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Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at societyís margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban
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On the Run

Fugitive Life in an American City

de Alice Goffman ...

Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
"A remarkable chronicle . . . related with honesty and compassion," this ethnography reveals "the impact of probation and parole practices on one community" ( Publisher Weekly).The War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.Alice Goffman spent six years living in ... Leer más

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"A remarkable chronicle . . . related with honesty and compassion," this ethnography reveals "the impact of probation and parole practices on one community" ( Publisher Weekly).The War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.Alice Goffman spent six years living in
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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

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An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the story of the 2010 season of the Clinton LumberKings. Along the Mississippi River, in a ... Leer más

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An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the story of the 2010 season of the Clinton LumberKings. Along the Mississippi River, in a
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Indigenous in the City

Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

Edición de Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Leer más

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Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous
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The Sky's the Limit

Passion and Property in Manhattan

de Steven Gaines ...

With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities -- from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna.Gaines uncovers the secretive, unwritten rules of co-op boards: why diplomats and pretty ... Leer más

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With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities -- from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna.Gaines uncovers the secretive, unwritten rules of co-op boards: why diplomats and pretty
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Only If they Could Hear Me Cry: A Personal Reflection of Poverty and Homelessness In America

de Raymond Sturgis ...

Americans, as we put a spoonful of food to our mouths, millions of our fellow Americans cannot feed themselves or their children. The Republican politicians alike have lethargically responded to Americans living in abject conditions. They seem to be worry about the federal deficit than about the poverty deficit that is leaving many Americans to suffer even die. Across America, politicians are ... Leer más

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Americans, as we put a spoonful of food to our mouths, millions of our fellow Americans cannot feed themselves or their children. The Republican politicians alike have lethargically responded to Americans living in abject conditions. They seem to be worry about the federal deficit than about the poverty deficit that is leaving many Americans to suffer even die. Across America, politicians are
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St. Marks Is Dead

The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

de Ada Calhoun ...

**A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool.**St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the ... Leer más

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The City Below The Hill

The Slums of Montreal, 1897

de Herbert Brown Ames ...

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The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set ... Leer más

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The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set
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Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of the North-West Frontier (1937)

A Contribution to World Peace

de C.F. Andrews ...

First published in 1937, this book grew out of the author’s belief that there needed to be a ‘drastic revision’ of British policy on the North-West Frontier of India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan) in order to achieve a lasting peace. The author examined the causes of continued hostility and non-military methods that might prevent further outbreaks of war — reducing or removing British troops ... Leer más

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First published in 1937, this book grew out of the author’s belief that there needed to be a ‘drastic revision’ of British policy on the North-West Frontier of India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan) in order to achieve a lasting peace. The author examined the causes of continued hostility and non-military methods that might prevent further outbreaks of war — reducing or removing British troops
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Unequal City

London in the Global Arena

de Chris Hamnett ...

Unequal City examines some of the dramatic economic and social changes that have taken place in London over the last forty years. It describes how London's changing industrial structure, particularly the shift from an industrial to a services-based city, and the associated changes in occupational class structure and in the structure of earnings and incomes, have worked through to the housing ... Leer más

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Unequal City examines some of the dramatic economic and social changes that have taken place in London over the last forty years. It describes how London's changing industrial structure, particularly the shift from an industrial to a services-based city, and the associated changes in occupational class structure and in the structure of earnings and incomes, have worked through to the housing
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Curated Stories

The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

de Sujatha Fernandes ...

Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. Heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle may move us deeply. But what do they move us to do? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling? In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the ... Leer más

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Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. Heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle may move us deeply. But what do they move us to do? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling? In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the
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Marginalization in Urban China

Comparative Perspectives

Edición de F. Wu, C. Webster ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs. ... Leer más

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