This book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end.
This book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end.
Cet ouvrage vise à éclairer, à partir de l'analyse de cas concrets au Québec et dans le Sud-Ouest français, l'impact territorial de mutations économiques qui s'expriment dans un contexte concurrentiel exacerbé et (ré)activent un jeu d'acteurs locaux dont l'ambition est double.
Cet ouvrage analyse le quotidien des Congolais en ville et en campagne, à travers diverses études sur l'urbanisme, la santé, les transports, l'économie et l'environnement.
This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.
The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society provides a relevant and comprehensive reference point for research and practice in this dynamic field.
Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, growing edible and medicinal plants, and interacting with non-human collaborators.
This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing.
A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.
Now in full color, the sixth edition of this leading text features new chapters on remote sensing platforms (including the latest satellite and unmanned aerial systems), agriculture (including agricultural analysis via satellite imagery), and forestry (including fuel type mapping and fire monitoring).
Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the fashion system?
Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the fashion system?
Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the world's tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons and reefs teeming with colorful marine life have captured the public imagination.
Le colloque PATEO-UASZ de 2019 a permis de faire le point sur l’état des littoraux ouest-africains et de prendre la mesure des menaces qui pourraient altérer leurs capacités de résilience.
This volume brings together market practitioners, policymakers, development specialists, and academics from developed and emerging market countries to examine the underlying causes of the Asian financial crisis and ways of preventing future crises in emerging markets.
Cet ouvrage analyse le quotidien des Congolais en ville et en campagne, à travers diverses études sur l'urbanisme, la santé, les transports, l'économie et l'environnement.
This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives.
Scotland's economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 and continuing to influence British politics since.
Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers' struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries.
This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America.
Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics.
As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge.
This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.
Vive les crises migratoires… car rien ne vaut le détour par les pays en voie de peuplement pour prendre conscience de l'extrême pauvreté conceptuelle de la théorie économique dite orthodoxe, qui est à la fois désincarnée, u-topique, uchronique et démostatique.
Le bassin du Guir marocain, région frontalière périphérique, est de plus en plus marginalisé dans un contexte défavorable au maintien des populations, accélérant la dégradation des oasis.
La gestion des zones littorales du Cap Bon pose des défis dans différents établissements : difficultés d'établissement d'autorités, des lieux d'influences caractérisés par un engouement socio-économique, changements de pouvoir politique, etc.
This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change.
Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China's rural development.
This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change.
In Africa, the Sahel region polarizes a lot of attention from the international community because of its rich potential, which is in stark contrast to its fragile and worsening security situation - all against the backdrop of a powerful demographic dynamic marked by a considerable proportion of young people.
Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics.
