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The Geography of Southeast Asia: A Scholarly Bibliography and Guide

by Thomas A. Rumney

This book discusses the varied geographical aspects of Southeast Asia, an area that has long been of interest to geographers and other academics. This collection identifies, organizes, and presents various scholarly...


Politics of Parking: Rights, Identity, and Property

by Sarah Marusek

This book explores the various notions of the right to park, which jurisprudentially is enacted between individuals in everyday parking. From parking areas to the courtroom, parking engenders disputes over equality,...


Understanding Disability Discrimination Law through Geography

by Fayyaz Vellani

Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, this book focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of higher education,...


The Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity, and the Body

by Shelton Waldrep

The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity,...


Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict: Land, Custom and Law in East Timor

by Daniel Fitzpatrick & Andrew McWilliam

This book is a timely response to the increased international focus on peace-building problems arising from population displacement and post-conflict state fragility. It considers the relationship between property...


Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile, and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa

by Assefaw Bariagaber

One of the most serious threats to peace, security and the sovereignty of nations in the post-Cold War era is population migration. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of refugee experience in the Horn...


From the Ground Up: Community Gardens in New York City and the Politics of Spatial Transformation

by Efrat Eizenberg

Some 650 community gardens dot the city of New York. These gardens are attended by some of the least advantaged residents of the city. Urban residents use these spaces for horticulture, recreation, social gatherings,...


The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics

by Klaus Dodds & Merje Kuus

Bringing together leading researchers associated with the different forms of critical geopolitics, this volume produces an overview of its achievements, limitations, and areas of new and potential future development....


EU and US Competition Law: Divided in Unity?: The Rule on Restrictive Agreements and Vertical Intra-brand Restraints

by Csongor István| Nagy

This book examines the structure of the rule on restrictive agreements in the context of vertical intra-brand price and territorial restraints, analysing, comparing and evaluating their treatment in US antitrust...


Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands

by John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang & Thomas Owusu

A common thread in this book is the depiction of the African diasporas not only as a cultural epiphenomena (or interlocking communities), but also as a process characterized by identity transformations, lived...


Handbook of International Migration

by Steven J. Gold & Stephanie J. Nawyn

The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite...


Design and Anthropology

by Wendy Gunn & Donovan

Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical...


Energy Access, Poverty, and Development: The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia

by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Martina Drupady

This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy...


Ireland's 1916 Rising: Explorations of History-Making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times

by Mark McCarthy

In light of its upcoming centenary in 2016, this book explores why, how and in what ways the memory of Ireland's 1916 Rising has persisted over the decades? It breaks new ground by offering a wide-ranging exploration...


Territory, the State and Urban Politics: A Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox

by Andrew Jonas & Wood

Highlighting and reflecting on the work of Kevin R. Cox, this book assesses his influence and explores his various contributions to important debates on territory, the state, voting in a spatial context, locational...


The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies

by Murphy

The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. A comprehensive audit of the creativity claims of the post-modern age - that finds them badly wanting and looks to the future...


Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past

by Kattago

Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the...


The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism

by Rovisco & Nowicka

The study of Cosmopolitanism has been transformed in the last 20 years and the subject itself has become highly discussed across the social sciences and the humanities. The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism...


Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines

by Ingold

Drawing on expertise from various fields, this ground-breaking volume of twelve chapters explores the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think. Along the way a team of authors from the...


Guarding Against Crime: Measuring Guardianship within Routine Activity Theory

by M. Reynald

This ground-breaking book examines the critical role that citizens play in guarding against crime. By focusing on the ways in which residents are able to capably guard their residential environments from crime,...