Urban communities

This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila.

In this book, the author seeks to understand China's urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state.

This book investigates death after police contact in England and Wales in the twenty-first century.

This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century.

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.

This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them.

This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and small towns in Europe.

This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world.

This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration.

This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco's most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin.

This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region.

Performance Anxiety in Media Culture explores the culture of performance anxiety in the media-saturated contemporary world.

This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces.

While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities and urban divisions are stark.

Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of 'developmental' or 'socialist' statism to produce urban contestations centered on housing.

Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.

As the former capital of two great empires-Eastern Roman and Ottoman-Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism.

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This book explores the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees living in London since their island was torn apart by war.

This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo.

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods.

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship in Barcelona since 1979.

In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador.

This book challengesthe prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigrationpolicy-making.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.

This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global North and South.

This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space.

This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today's highly global society.

This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade.

The edited volume explains why sport mega events can be discussed from the viewpoint of politics and power, and what this discussion can add to the existing scholarship on political regimes, international norms, national identities, and cultural narratives.

Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather than the environment.

Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces.

Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live.

Cities have always been defined by their centrality.

This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically.

This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity.

This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s.

This book explores the transformation of youth and urban culture in neoliberal Britain.

This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience.

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism.

This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime.

The book investigates the complexity of the Latin American mega cities and the multiple commitments of the apparatus of the state with a focus on the failures of the public water sector.

This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region from the end of the 19th Century to today.

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies.