Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
Reassembling Digital Placemaking: Participation and Politics
1st Edition
By Isabel Fangyi Lu
June 20, 2025
This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy. It explores the participatory practices of digital placemaking and their implications on blurring formal and informal boundaries of decision-making and urban politics. Drawing on examples from Australia, China and ...
Uncommoning, Difference and Politics: Worldless Production of Paraguay
1st Edition
By Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
December 30, 2024
The book presents a reinterpretation of the meaning and practices of uncommoning. It provides a critical reflection on the frontiers of the modern world where uncommoning is often the key driving- force underpinning a deceitful democracy and an exclusionary socio-economy. Uncommoning is a ...
Geographies of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
1st Edition
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By Barney Warf, John Heppen
August 26, 2024
This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election from a geographical standpoint, with a focus on its spatial dimensions. With contributions from leading thinkers, this book highlights the unique circumstances of the election, including the Covid pandemic ...
Power and Space: Essays on a Shifting Relationship
1st Edition
By John Allen
August 05, 2024
Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. The essays brought together in this book are a response to the fact that conventional descriptions of power and its ordered ...
From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Rethinking Human Migration
1st Edition
By Harald Bauder
February 14, 2022
From Sovereignty to Solidarity seeks to re-imagine human mobility in ways that are de-linked from national sovereignty. Using examples from around the world, the author examines contemporary practices of solidarity to illustrate what such a conceptualization of human mobility looks like. He ...
Migration in Performance: Crossing the Colonial Present
1st Edition
By Caleb Johnston, Geraldine Pratt
October 22, 2019
This book follows the travels of Nanay, a testimonial theatre play developed from research with migrant domestic workers in Canada, as it was recreated and restaged in different places around the globe. This work examines how Canadian migration policy is embedded across and within histories of ...
Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces: The Politics of Intertwined Relations
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By Nicole Gombay, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha
September 08, 2018
In the aftermath of colonial occupation, Indigenous peoples have long fought to assert their sovereignty. This requires that settler colonial societies comprehend the inadequacy of their responses to Indigenous peoples’ contestations of existing power relations. Taking an international and ...
Political Street Art: Communication, culture and resistance in Latin America
1st Edition
By Holly Eva Ryan
August 28, 2018
Recent global events, including the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings, Occupy movements and anti-austerity protests across Europe have renewed scholarly and public interest in collective action, protest strategies and activist subcultures. We know that social movements do not just contest and politicise ...
Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy
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By Pierpaolo Mudu, Sutapa Chattopadhyay
August 14, 2018
This book offers a unique contribution, exploring how the intersections among migrants and radical squatters' movements have evolved over past decades. The complexity and importance of squatting practices are analyzed from a bottom-up perspective, to demonstrate how the spaces of squatting can be ...
Psychological Governance and Public Policy: Governing the mind, brain and behaviour
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By Jessica Pykett, Rhys Dafydd Jones, Mark Whitehead
June 14, 2018
There have been significant developments in the state of psychological, neuroscientific and behavioural scientific knowledge relating to the human mind, brain, action and decision-making over the past two decades. These developments have influenced public policy making and popular culture in the UK...
Externalizing Migration Management: Europe, North America and the spread of 'remote control' practices
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By Ruben Zaiotti
February 12, 2018
The extension of border controls beyond a country’s territory to regulate the flows of migrants before they arrive has become a popular and highly controversial policy practice. Today, remote control policies are more visible, complex and widespread than ever before, raising various ethical, ...
Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy
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By Koichi Koizumi, Gerhard Hoffstaedter
February 06, 2018
Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon of refugee flows into urban settings...