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Spatial histories of occupation : colonialism, conquest and foreign control i…
This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspecti…
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- 4
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- 9781350252622
- Collation
- xii, 264p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 950.4 SPA b
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-…
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- -
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- 9783030842482
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- xxxi, 559 p.
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- 338.927072 COC A
Mapping society : the spatial dimensions of social cartography
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…
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- 25
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- 9781787353053
- Collation
- xix, 268p.; ill.
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- 526 MAP v
The Pitfalls of Protection : Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan
Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations. Torunn Wimpelmann finds that aid flows and geopolitic…
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- 9780520966390
- Collation
- xi, 231 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.4095810905 PIT T
Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
Text Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory Hansmann, Sabine - Personal Name; In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839455029
- Collation
- 245 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 720 MON S
Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
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- 9783030191863
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- xiv, 366 p.
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- 636.208945420941 VER A
Imagining the Future City : London 2062
London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909188198
- Collation
- vi, 194 p.
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- Call Number
- 303.49421 IMA S
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030233921
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- xviii, 383 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.76809479 HOU D
Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048544905
- Collation
- 555 p.
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 951.5 FRO S
LAND TENURE SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security an…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030818807
- Collation
- xxxvii, 329p.; ill.
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- -
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- 333.3 LAN h
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