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When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degr...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

This book examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the mann...

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also ...

Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and politica...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...

Migrating Genders presents a sustained description of male-to-female transgendered identities, explaining how the fa'afafine fit within the wider g...

Maternity Discrimination is an ever increasingly important area of the law around the world, affecting both women and men as they juggle parenthood...

In the context of the end of the Cold War and the spread of globalism, sub-regions are attracting attention as new social units of international so...

This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study o...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN ...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

The book marks the circulation of the term promiscuous feminist methodology and registers its salience for educational researchers who risk blunder...

Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity is an exploration of Latinas on the periphery of both Latina culture and mainstream culture in the United...

Offering both practical advice for teachers, counsellors, and administrators, and provocative essays on the politics of gender in schools, this col...

The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same legal principle...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...

In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues, the revolutionary pot...

This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohe...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally bea...

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban...

Security studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly thro...

Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial, alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (i...

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discu...

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments ...

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this...

This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the E...

Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing ...

De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusin...

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist a...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and...

This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It expl...

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offer...

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offe...

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employ...

With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and how it can be employ...

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate...

Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the...

Defending the nuclear family and extolling family values have long been central features of politics in capitalist societies, in spite of radical l...

Popular war on drugs rhetoric postulates drug use in the West as the product of the drug production and trafficking roles of non-western societies ...