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  • The Consequences of Global Disasters

    Edited by Anthony Elliott, Eric Hsu ...
    Series series Antinomies
    Disasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with because of the twin forces of globalization and the communications revolution. But what makes today’s disasters—industrial, technological, environmental, and socio-cultural—so different in scope and impact? What are the possible disasters of the future? And how can we, as ... Read more

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  • Japan's China Policy

    A Relational Power Analysis

    by Linus Hagström ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China policy: the negotiations for a bilateral investment protection treaty and the disputed Pinnacle ... Read more

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  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in ... Read more

    $4,864.99 USD

  • Adventures in Aidland

    The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

    Edited by David Mosse ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
    Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • New Urban Worlds

    Inhabiting Dissonant Times

    by AbdouMaliq Simone, Edgar Pieterse ...
    It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Energy Justice Across Borders

    Edited by Gunter Bombaerts, Kirsten Jenkins, Yekeen A. Sanusi, Wang Guoyu ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap; the need for comparative approaches to energy justice, and for those that consider ethical traditions that go beyond the ... Read more

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  • Development Theory

    by Jan Nederveen Pieterse ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses.- Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • China and India

    Asia's Emergent Great Powers

    by Chris Ogden ...
    China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or like something altogether different, hence changing the very nature of international affairs? And as the Asian twenty– first century takes shape, how will these dynamics affect the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Economization of Life

    by M. Murphy ...
    What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, M. Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cultures and Disasters

    Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? Making sense of such questions and observations is only possible by understanding how the decision ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Climate Change

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Geography
    Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Global Citizenship Education

    Everyday Transcendence

    by William Gaudelli ...
    Global Citizenship Education addresses the intersection of globalization, education and programmatic efforts to prepare young people to live in a more interdependent, complex and fragile world. The book explores topics such as sustainability education, cultural diversity, and human rights education, offering critical insights into how these facets of GCE are interpreted around the world. The book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD