Internet and Socio-spatial Practices in the Connected Rurban
This book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial practices and the late introduction of internet in three marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an open theory of the connected rurban.
The 2020 presidential election was one of the most historic, contested, and contentious in American history. Joe Biden was the oldest person elected President. Kamala Harris was the first female elected Vice President, and the first Vice President of Black and Asian descent. The primaries, campaigns, and elections were held for the first time amid ......
In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible.
This monograph interrogates one of the key paradigms used in contemporary discussions of the Anthropocene-the idea that in the present geological epoch the human species inscribes itself onto the planet, and that those marks might be all we leave behind.
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds examines how we can repair human and biotic relationships damaged by environmental injustice, climate change, animal exploitation, and ecological destruction by arguing for the merits of a reparative approach to environmental justice and critically assessing challenges that come with it.
Spaces, Relationships, and Communities in the Philippines
In Designing Social Architecture, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form micro-relationships, social networks, and social structures among inhabitants of Manila, Philippines, and considers whether the architects' aim to promote certain social behaviors was successful or not.
While Convivencia is a specific historical term that has come to represent an idea of peaceful co-existence, Convivencia: Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town complicates this simplistic vision. Instead, it shows how convivencia has been and is indeed always conflict-ridden by scrutinising the relations between cultural diversity and ......
In Geography and the Wealth of Nations, Sherif Khalifa argues that geography influences the factors that determine economic performance, such as the quality of institutions, the adopted cultural values, the systems of governance, the likelihood of conflict, the historical experiences, and the integration into the global economy.
