Power and Inequality in Urban Africa, Paperback - ***

A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanziba...

This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China, using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the soci...

Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative...

Women and Inequality in the 21st Century examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a "nex...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

In Divergent Paths to College, Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead students to very different college...

A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bas...

Reducere. Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth c...

DescriptionBuilding from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greate...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they deva...

Reducere. Heartbreaking stories from survivors along the Texas Gulf Coast Hurricane Harvey was one of the worst American natural disasters in recorded histor...

This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and c...

An examination of howpatterns of income, class and racial inequality in Johannesburg highlight howand why earnings and spatial inequality in cities...

A thought provoking and engaging exploration of contemporary youth studuies, with a focus on change and inequality in young lives in the emerging A...

Reducere. DescriptionSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how...

This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outco...

This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outco...

This poignant book examines poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, and provides insight into its history, its present-day forms and possible rou...

Reducere. In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible fro...

50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this 'state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand ...

Reducere. A "deeply empathetic" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "must-read" (Marion Nestle) that "weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research in...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional debates. It challenges...

Reducere. The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish d...

Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilensCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democ...

Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and...

Reducere. The book explains an unexpected consequence of the decrease in conflict in Africa after the 1990s. Analysis of cross-national data and in-depth com...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 314Collection: Urban StudiesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 18Cover type: Paperback / so...

First published in 1999 and reprinted more than nine times, this book aims to demystify the practice of herbal medicine in Africa. It documents the...

This book reveals how the illegal ivory trade is tied to corruption, conflicts, colonialism and local livelihoods.

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tom SlaterIllustration(s): 8 photosNumber of pages: 258Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x ...

Reducere. Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the inte...

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section2008 Finalist,...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

Reducere. Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social...

Poverty and Power asserts that American poverty is a structural problem resulting from failings in our social system, rather than individual failin...

Poverty and Power argues that American poverty is not due to individual failings but rather to broader structural forces. The third edition feature...

This book reveals how the illegal ivory trade is tied to corruption, conflicts, colonialism and local livelihoods.

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Esther da Costa MeyerIllustration(s): 60 color + 115 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date...

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable ...

Reducere. On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gu...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Robin BartramIllustration(s): 8 halftones, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022D...