Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate
1st Edition
By Penélope Plaza Azuaje
June 30, 2020
This book unpacks the links between oil energy, state power, urban space and culture, by looking at the Petro-Socialist Venezuelan oil state. It challenges the disciplinary compartmentalisation of the analysis of the material and cultural effects of oil to demonstrate that within the Petrostate, ...
Direction and Socio-spatial Theory: A Political Economy of Oriented Practice
1st Edition
By Matthew Hannah
June 30, 2020
The embodied directedness of human practice has long been neglected in critical socio-spatial theory, in favor of analyses focused upon distance and proximity. This book illustrates the absence of a sense for direction in much theoretical discourse and lays important groundwork for redressing this ...
The Challenges of Democracy in the War on Terror: The Liberal State before the Advance of Terrorism
1st Edition
By Maximiliano E. Korstanje
June 30, 2020
This book unravels the role of democracy after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and reflects important debates surrounding the security of Muslim communities in the years to come. It looks at the problems of torture, violence and the legal resources available to contemporary democracies to confront ...
Un-making Environmental Activism: Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy
1st Edition
By Doerthe Rosenow
December 12, 2019
Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value. Radical activists, by contrast, play down the role of science in determining environmental politics, but read ...
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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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By Jessica Pykett, Rhys 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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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...
Citizenship, Activism and the City: The Invisible and the Impossible
1st Edition
By Patricia Burke Wood
December 22, 2017
Were the occupations of 2010–11 – from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street – a success or failure? Are they the model for urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and resistance. It ...