DAVID HARVEY is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His many books include A Brief History of Neoliberalism and Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development.
40 Ebooks de Melissa Wright
David Harvey: Social Justice and the City
Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Ha …
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Kate Swanson: Begging as a Path to Progress
In 1992, Calhuasí, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador’s large cities, Calhuasí experienced rapid social-spatial change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in Beg …
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Oliver J. Dinius & Angela Vergara: Company Towns in the Americas
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed …
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Laura R. Barraclough: Making the San Fernando Valley
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley—home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground in …
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Michael E. Crutcher: Tremé
Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Tremé neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional …
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Shelley Feldman & Charles Geisler: Accumulating Insecurity
Accumulating Insecurity examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civ …
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Roman Adrian Cybriwsky: Roppongi Crossing
For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international enter …
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William Bunge: Fitzgerald
This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit was written in collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institu …
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Jason Hackworth: Faith Based
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal ec …
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Don Mitchell: They Saved the Crops
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the …
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Rebecca Lave: Fields and Streams
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is …
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Alison Hope Alkon: Black, White, and Green
Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to “vote with your fork” for environmental protection, vibrant comm …
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Jamey Essex: Development, Security, and Aid
In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics a …
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Tina Harris: Geographical Diversions
Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that wind …
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Andy Merrifield: The Politics of the Encounter
The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains ‘important, virtually …
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Amarnath Amarasingam: Pain, Pride, and Politics
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath …
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Ananya Roy & Emma Shaw Crane: Territories of Poverty
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the Amer …
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Heather Merrill & Lisa M. Hoffman: Spaces of Danger
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of …
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Katie Meehan & Kendra Strauss: Precarious Worlds
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers …
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Eliot M. Tretter: Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban successstories—a place that has grown enormously through “creative class” strategies emphasizing tolerance and environme …
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Robert Lewis: Calculating Property Relations
Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II …
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Melissa (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Wright: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism
Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within an …
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Melissa (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Wright: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism
Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within an …
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Teresa Welsh & Melissa Wright: Information Literacy in the Digital Age
This book examines the various types of literacy that are important in the Digital Age of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources in a variety of formats. According to the …
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