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Social groups
Hardcover. By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world. Editor(s): Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi. Series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSG; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230371545
- ISBN
- 9780230371545
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Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent developments in Europe and China, it reveals insights on convergent social and political practices of boundary making under divergent conditions. Editor(s): Pries, Ludger. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; JFFM; JFFN; JFSL1; JPH; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369719
- ISBN
- 9780230369719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings together key themes that dominate our current attention including emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities and the effects of extreme and/or enduring conflicts upon ordinary civilian life. Editor(s): Pullan, Wendy; Baillie, Britt. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 maps, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSG; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368903
- ISBN
- 9780230368903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.82
€ 140.82
Hardcover. As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic choices of women battling against the odds to secure recognition in a male-dominated society. Editor(s): Gray, F. Elizabeth. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361713
- ISBN
- 9780230361713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white tables, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361676
- ISBN
- 9780230361676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in societies with social democratic welfare states committed to redistributive politics. Editor(s): Kivisto, Peter; Wahlbeck, Osten. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFFN; JFSL1; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360198
- ISBN
- 9780230360198
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€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardcover. The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project. Editor(s): Siim, Birte; Mokre, Ms. Monika. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230359680
- ISBN
- 9780230359680
Hardback
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€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life looks like. Editor(s): Sanger, Tam; Taylor, Yvette. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230356023
- ISBN
- 9780230356023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyond the opposition between ethnicity and citizenship and demonstrate ways to achieve equality in multicultural and globalised societies. Editor(s): Rigoni, Isabelle; Saitta, Eugenie. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 figures, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348776
- ISBN
- 9780230348776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. Editor(s): Tisdall, E. Kay M. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP1; JFSP2; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348677
- ISBN
- 9780230348677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.71
€ 118.71
Hardcover. Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work and staying healthy are organized through the family. The book includes an essay by Foucault, Les desordres des familles, translated here in English for the first time. Editor(s): Duschinsky, Robbie; Rocha, Leon Antonio. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348479
- ISBN
- 9780230348479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines. Editor(s): Sawyer, Suzana; Gomez, Edmund Terence. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSL9; KCP; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230347724
- ISBN
- 9780230347724
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Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. This book examines the imposition of the western notion of childhood, deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local communities react to these impositions in various ways. Editor(s): Twum-Danso Imoh, Afua; Ame, Robert Kwame. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JFSP1; JKSB1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230342323
- ISBN
- 9780230342323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections. Editor(s): Fay, Elizabeth; Von Morze, Leonard. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341401
- ISBN
- 9780230341401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention-from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan-to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies. Editor(s): Chiang, Howard. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340626
- ISBN
- 9780230340626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Paperback. This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art, and video essays, the contributors chart innovative strategies for exploring contemporary visual cultures. Editor(s): Marciniak, Katarzyna; Imre, Aniko; O'Healy, Aine. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFCD; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338142
- ISBN
- 9780230338142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardcover. Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging pushes debates about citizenship and feminist politics in new directions, challenging us to think 'beyond citizenship', and to engage in feminist re-theorizations of the experience and politics of belonging. Editor(s): Roseneil, Sasha. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFS; JFSJ; JHB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320543
- ISBN
- 9780230320543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society and culture with those that they have chosen for themselves whilst retaining a sense of their self. Editor(s): Afshar, Haleh. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314092
- ISBN
- 9780230314092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts. Editor(s): Stevens, Peter A. J.; Dworkin, A. Gary. Num Pages: 676 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JNF; JNK; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304284
- ISBN
- 9780230304284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.07
€ 124.07
Hardcover. This book examines constructions of 'national' citizenship in the context of perceived internal division, including devolution, multiculturalism, ethno-religious conflict, post-conflict and refugees, drawing on a wide range of countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, Ukraine, Canada and Palestinians in Lebanon. Editor(s): Kiwan, Dina Jane. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JFSR; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303416
- ISBN
- 9780230303416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization. Editor(s): Nair-Venugopal, Shanta. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302921
- ISBN
- 9780230302921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Warming, Hanne. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302648
- ISBN
- 9780230302648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Paperback. This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyzes their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion. Editor(s): Berger, Stefan; Lorenz, Chris. Series: Writing the Nation. Num Pages: 656 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 990.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300514
- ISBN
- 9780230300514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.41
€ 132.41
Hardcover. Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts. Editor(s): Madhok, Sumi; Phillips, Anne; Wilson, Kalpana. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300323
- ISBN
- 9780230300323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95