wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power
ISBN: 9780198233916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social, and economic conduits through which water flows, and to identify how power relations infuse the metabolic transformation of water as it becomes urban. These flows of water which are simultaneously physical and social carry in their currents the embodiment of myriad social struggles and conflicts. The excavation of these flows narrates stories about the city's structure and development. Yet...
Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct...
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891,95 zł |
Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment
ISBN: 9780262535656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The possibility of a new emancipatory and democratizing politics, explored through the lens of recent urban insurgencies.
The possibility of a new emancipatory and democratizing politics, explored through the lens of recent urban insurgencies.
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247,38 zł |
Water, Technology and the Nation-State
ISBN: 9780367506117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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210,62 zł |
The Urbanization of Injustice
ISBN: 9780814755754 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the advent of AIDS, the proliferation of gangs and drugs, and the uneasy sensation that Big Brother is actually watching us, the dark side of urban living seems to be overshadowing the brighter side of pleasure, liberation, and opportunity. The Urbanization of Injustice chronicles these bleak urban images, while taking to task exclusivist politics, globalization theory, and superficial environmentalism. Exploring the links between urbanism, power, and justice, The Urbanization of Injustice presents the thoughts and theories of Edward Soja, David Harvey, Marshall Bermann, Doreen... With the advent of AIDS, the proliferation of gangs and drugs, and the uneasy sensation that Big Brother is actually watching us, the dark side of ... |
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542,70 zł |
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities
ISBN: 9781138629189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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711,02 zł |
The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics
ISBN: 9781474403061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An exploration of the post-politics of global capitalism in theory and practice
Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Old ideological battles have been decisively resolved in favour of freedom and the market. We are told that we have moved 'beyond left and right'; that we are 'all in this together'. Any remaining differences are to be addressed through expert knowledge, consensual deliberation and participatory governance. Yet the 'end of history' has also been marked by widespread disillusion with mainstream politics and a rise in nationalist and religious... An exploration of the post-politics of global capitalism in theory and practice
Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Old ide... |
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126,35 zł |
Tapping the Oceans: Seawater Desalination and the Political Ecology of Water
ISBN: 9781788113809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tapping the Oceans provides a detailed analysis of the political and ecological debates facing water desalination in the twenty-first century. Water supplies for cities around the world are undergoing profound geographical, technological and political transformations. Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Yet the use of emerging desalination technologies is accompanied by intense debates on their economic cost, governance, environmental impact and poses wider questions for the sustainable and just...
Tapping the Oceans provides a detailed analysis of the political and ecological debates facing water desalination in the twenty-first century. Wate...
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498,96 zł |
In the Nature of Cities : Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
ISBN: 9780415368278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The importance of the social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an area of importance with academic realms. "In the Nature of Cities" provides an integrated and relational approach that helps to untangle the interconnected economic, political and social processes that go together to form urban landscapes. This volume draws together prominent urban scholars to critically examine how economic, political, cultural processes affect urban environments. Contributions incorporate both new theoretical discussions about the social production while also supporting ideas...
The importance of the social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an area of importance with academic realms. "In the Natur...
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869,02 zł |
Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe
ISBN: 9780333604588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book critically examines the phenomenon and the consequences of the increasing inter-dependence between industry, universities and national laboratories. It explores the contrasts and similarities between the patterns of formal and informal links in a technologically dynamic industry (electronic components) with those in a traditional industry (flow measurement) in the UK, France and Belgium. It uses evidence from interviews with firms, academics and industry organisations in the three countries to identify the major factors which regulate links.
This book critically examines the phenomenon and the consequences of the increasing inter-dependence between industry, universities and national labor...
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392,66 zł |
Political Change through Social Innovation – A Debate
ISBN: 9781035322138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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116,15 zł |