Regional Alliances, Institutions, Projects, and Conflicts
It seems that every single issue in Eurasia and the world becomes a battleground among the great powers. This book's initiative is to categorize the battlegrounds as three aspects: national/regional/international conflicts, institutions/alliances, and projects.
In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.
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.
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 ......
