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This book presents a clear and comprehensive overview of citizenship, exploring its historical and conceptual origins, its contemporary dilemmas and its emancipatory potential for the future.
By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, the book opens up new ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities from now on.
In this new, revised edition author Doug Guthrie updates his story on modern China and provides the latest... Læs mere
Dominant theorists of globalization take on the assumptions of a 'Washington Consensus' which presumes the centrality of neo-liberal American... Læs mere
This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in... Læs mere
Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing... Læs mere
Writing the Global City explores the imperial and colonial origin of contemporary world and global cities and addresses new ways of framing urban and architectural debates.
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.
For over 35 years, Third World Quarterly has been the pre-eminent journal in the field of development studies.... Læs mere
Taking a globalization perspective and tracking back the ancient silk roads, this book tries to examine the general context in... Læs mere
This title was first published in 2003. This book focuses on the role of tangible and intangible networks that affect spatial interdependencies in economic and social life. It addresses the question - is the effect of distance disappearing?