Urban communities

In a post-9/11 sea of social and political discord, one state stands apart.

Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award in History/BiographyThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context.

Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one.

We are constantly being told that communities are under threat, that we are losing a 'sense of community'.

Raum ist nicht geschlechtsneutral - mittlerweile eine gängige Perspektive in den raumbezogenen Wissenschaften.

Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the world.

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This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.

Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance.

First published in 2004.

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years?

When Guy Kennaway, 63, a white, middle class, overweight, English, Tory-voting writer met Hussein Sharif, 22, an African-born, inner city, Tory-hating Muslim, they assumed they had little in common.

We live in an age where one person's judicial "e;activist"e; legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law.

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the functions of the government in contemporary China.

Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism.

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities.

The Land Is Our History tells the story of indigenous legal activism at a critical political and cultural juncture in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies.

A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike.

we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling.

Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections-Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness-will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see.

The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period.

After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight.

China's workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism.

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases.

Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947.

This book studies the role that grassroots volunteers play in the integration and naturalization process in Singapore.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.

This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity.

This book presents a new way of thinking about, teaching, learning, and practicing real estate development.

Set in one of the world's most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African clients.

Traditional valuation approaches are increasingly recognised as being insufficient to address the wicked valuation problems of the diverse peoples and groups that inhabit the globe from north, south, east to west.

In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online.

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed.

What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century?

This book provides a comprehensive overview on micromobility, which is a mode of transportation that has become particularly popular among young people in recent years, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and supports public transport for short distances.

As China has undergone rapid urbanization and population aging in the past few decades, improving the welfare of older people in rural areas has become an ever more pressing issue.

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape.

Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Mitigation and Adaptation focuses on the link between climate change threats and sustainable development goals.

The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility.