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“Reauthoring Savage Inequalities” brings together scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to counter dominant narratives of urban educational environments. Using a community cultural wealth lens, contributors center the strategies, actions, and ways of knowing communities of color use to resist systemic oppression. So often, discussions of urban schooling are filled with stories of what Jonathan Kozol famously referred to as "savage inequalities"...
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Esta obra reúne una serie de ensayos sobre el contexto de la paz negociada entre las FARC-EP y el Estado de Colombia, a partir de la labor realizada por la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No repetición, entre los años 2016-2021. En la investigación desarrollamos, siguiendo a Antonio Gramsci, una propuesta de acercamiento a la "historia integral" de los subalternos. Por ello, este es un ejercicio novedoso, inter...
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How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions....
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Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social and political challenges of the current age.
This book seeks to examine the dynamics of urban life, showing that new opportunities can be maximised and social advances realised in...
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The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban development in advanced societies by bringing in theoretical and empirical analyses of how migration, inequality, residential segregation, and changes in national and local policy intersects and...
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Fifty years ago, African-American activists in Albany, Georgia extended their political fight for civil rights into the economic realm by creating New Communities Inc. They had come to believe that owning land was essential to securing greater independence for their people. But, landownership was out-of-reach for most African-Americans in the Deep South of the 1960s and too easily lost if they did acquire a small farm, a plot of land, or a house in...
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During the past two decades, as markets have pushed the price of land and housing beyond the reach of low- and middle-income families, governments in England and Europe have struggled to provide effective policy responses. Problems of affordable housing, social displacement, and degradation of the existing housing stock have grown steadily worse. This has prompted NGOs and community activists to seek innovative solutions of their own, looking beyond...
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A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.
In the past, the study of racial inequality in New York City has usually had a narrow focus, examining particular social problems affecting ethnic-racial groups. In contrast, this book provides a comprehensive overview of racial inequality in the city's economy, housing, and education sectors over the last half-century. A collection of original essays by some of New York's...
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Novel Slices is the only publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. This issue includes the following novel excerpts:
A Forever Opposition by Sean Connell
The Satin Gunmetal Sky by Shawn Goodman
Sorry, Maggie May by Kathryn Tomasko
Seconds by Louise Kantro
The Listener by Celeste White
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Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Kevin M. Kruse is associate professor of history at Princeton University.
By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. The Spaces of the Modern City historicizes the...
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Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing.
With eleven...
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Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural order. Many of them have lost their identities as industrial or commercial centers and face a complex and distinctive mix of economic, social, and civic challenges. Small cities have not only fewer...
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La Vivienda representa más que un techo bajo el cual vivir. La vivienda digna es necesaria para el ejercicio de derechos fundamentales como la salud y la educación. Atado a la vivienda está el tema de la tenencia de la tierra. Millones de personas a la altura del siglo 21 viven en asentamientos informales y carecen de vivienda digna. Este libro explora el crecimiento global de los fideicomisos comunitarios de tierra y cómo esta forma de tenencia...
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El fideicomiso comunitario de tierras es una estrategia transformadora en la que el desarrollo es dirigido por la comunidad en terrenos comunitarios. Esta estrategia está tomando auge a través de comunidades en el norte global y también se está comenzando a conocer en el sur global. Los fideicomisos comunitarios de tierras producen y mantienen viviendas, espacios comerciales, tierras para la agricultura urbana (y rural) y una variedad de instalaciones...
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Durante mucho tiempo, miles de personas de bajos ingresos en América Latina y el Caribe han ocupado terrenos urbanos y rurales, o han utilizado sus recursos naturales, incluidos cuerpos de agua, bosques, praderas y campos cultivables, sin tener el derecho oficial de hacerlo o sin que sus Gobiernos respeten los derechos registrados. Viven en hogares que posiblemente fueron construidos, rehabilitados y ocupados por sus familias durante varias generaciones,...
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Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.
Across the world's most industrialized economies, the financial crisis of 2007 caused a contraction of state budgets and stimulated attempts to reform debt-burdened governments. In the United States, a system of fiscal federalism meant this turn towards austerity took a uniquely fragmented and geographically diverse form. Drawing on case studies of recent urban restructuring,...
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Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field
This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and...
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The Singapore bond market has become one of the most developed open capital markets in Asia with over US$221 billion in total local currency bonds outstanding with an additional US$53 billion of bonds outstanding. The Singapore Bond Market Guide is an outcome of the support and contributions of ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum members and experts, particularly from Singapore, while the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide as a whole is a comprehensive explanation of...
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Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low and middle income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, there exists a recurring, cross-continental, tension between formal governance and self-regulation. Contributors examine the multi-faceted regulation dilemmas...
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Eight speculative fiction authors share their tales of Carnivals. These stories explore the real world phenomena of the 1920s with horror, supernatural, and fantasy twists. What did the Miami Hurricane '26 really blow in? What if it wasn't really an elephant that rampaged through Portland in May of '22? Find out these and many more alternative explanations to the strange goings on America between recovering from the 1918 influenza pandemic and just...
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