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Urban Alchemy
New Village Press 2013; US$ 19.95Investigating urban segregation from a public health perspective, the author presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities. more...
Post-war Borneo, 1945-50: Nationalism, Empire and State-Building
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo ? Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo ? and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book discusses the various factions and powers, both local and... more...
The Suffragette Derby
Biteback Publishing 2013; US$ 24.78On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the... more...
The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 30.00The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture? more...
Southern League
Grand Central Publishing 2013; US$ 14.99"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation." Martin Luther King, Jr.... more...
Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to make them more transparent. Michael Goodhart argues... more...
Intersectionality and Politics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 60.95Cutting-edge research on the intersection of race, gender, and politics Traditionally, there has been a significant lack of empirical attention given to the ways in which race/ethnicity, gender, and political representation overlap. Intersectionality and Politics is the groundbreaking collection of contemporary research and essays that applies... more...
Public and Private
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 43.95The public and private distinction is essential to our moral and political vocabularies as it continues to structure our social and legal practices. Public and Private provides a multidisciplinary perspective on this distinction which has been at the centre of controversial debate in recent years. The focus of the debate has been on delineating acceptable... more...
Identifying Citizens
Wiley 2013; US$ 59.95New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this timely new contribution, David Lyon argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to... more...
Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory... more...









