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Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City

Garcia-Chueca Eva, Vidal Lorenzo

ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...

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Political Science

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Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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World

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Almost Home Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

Chopra Ruma

ISBN: HB: 9780300220469, Yale University Press, May 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves revea...

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Business & Economics

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Accounting for Capitalism The World the Clerk Made

Zakim Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226977973, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of thi...

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Anthropology

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Affective Circuits African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration

Cole Jennifer, Groes Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226405155, ISBN: HB: 9780226405018, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a funda...

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Current Affairs

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Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC

Babar Zahra

ISBN: PB: 9781849045889, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the Gulf Cooperation Counc...

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Anthropology

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African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Political Science

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Anthropology of the Name

Lazarus Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780857422309, Seagull Books, August 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English, "Anthropology of the Name" is French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctri...

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Manifestos for the 21st Century

Asylum and Exile The Hidden Voices of London

Bidisha

ISBN: HB: 9780857422101, Seagull Books, December 2014
152 pp., 25x15 cm

"Asylum and Exile" is the result of several months of personal outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the headlines to reveal the humanity, tragedy, and bravery of the individuals who have left everything behind to seek sanctuary fr...

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Culture Studies

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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Gardner Howard, Davis Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...

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