Urban communities

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Cold Climate HVAC conference, which was held in Kiruna, Sweden in 2018.

Ayalon explores the birth of Arab printing, publishing, dissemination methods, and mass readership during the formative phase from 1800 to 1914.

This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyzes the conditions under which squatting has intensified and declined in the country between 1968 and 2017.

This bookreviews contemporary research on urban infrastructure in 76 Ethiopian cities.

In this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration.

Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory.

Provocative and original, The Politics of Indigeneity explores the concept of indigeneity across the world - from the Americas to New Zealand, Africa to Asia - and the ways in which it intersects with local, national and international social and political realities.

This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "e;public,"e; helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

Bringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly disciplines, this collection of 32 original chapters provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationships between cities and media.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector.

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today?

Originally published in 1991.

This Element offers a new approach to the feminist historiography of printing as letterpress moves into a digital age.

This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, which saw radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos.

Das Buch greift die Diskussion um Inklusion in den letzten Jahren in den unterschiedlichsten gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen kritisch auf.

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary France by focusing on racial diversity, race, and racism as central features of French society and identity.

Ausgehend von den Grundlagen des Städtebaus beschäftigt sich dieser Titel mit dem besonderen Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit in der aktuellen Stadt- und Verkehrsentwicklung und dem Umgang mit bestehenden städtebaulichen Strukturen.

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

The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries.

The Laughing People, translated from the award-winning Le peuple rieur, conveys the richness and resilience of the Innu while reminding us of the forces - old and new - that threaten their community.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

This book covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000.

This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today's globalized world.

Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race.

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim.

Wir sprechen frei, wenn es keine Schuld gibt oder wenn sich nichts beweisen lässt.

A blueprint for missional, multi-ethnic Christian community Efrem Smith, an internationally recognized and innovative African-American leader, offers a workable plan for connecting theology, practical ministry models, and real stories of people in multi-ethnic Christian communities.

Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes.

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced.

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems.

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them.

Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.

'Free speech' has become central to discussions about racism, and is increasingly weaponised against anti-racist movements.

Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century presents a critical approach to the study of anthropological theory for the next generation of aspiring anthropologists.

This book is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the 'global city' but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million.

Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown describes the life and survival of economically marginal or poor people in Cerrada del Condor, a shantytown of about 200 houses in the southern part of Mexico City.

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale.

First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity rather than vice versa.

Greta Thunberg.

This volume discusses recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in smart, internet-connected societies, highlighting three key focus areas.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on skin colour, descent, ethnic, and national origin.

This book examines the relationship between race and class and considers how these two concepts articulate to determine class relationships in British society.

This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.

This is the first international handbook on Black community mental health, focussing on key issues including stereotypes in Mental health, misdiagnoses, and inequalities/discrimination around access, services and provisions.

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.

Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community.

In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr.