Time poverty is a problem for many Australian households and work is the main culprit. Australians start work young, and we are working more, and longer into old age. While maximising our productivity and enhancing our professional skills, we must also raise our children well, care for our aged, be involved in our community and shrink our carbon footprint - a footprint shaped by the patterns and habits of our work, social obligations and households. What is it costing Australians to try and do it all? And what is it costing our families and communities? Incisive and thought-provoking, Time...
Time poverty is a problem for many Australian households and work is the main culprit. Australians start work young, and we are working more, and long...
We are frequently beset by images of war and hostility in the media, and politicians seem constantly to be in search of a means of peaceful resolution to conflicts around the world. But what do we mean by peace? Is peace simply an absence of war? When discussed by politicians, journalists, academics, even activists, it is frequently assumed that we all know: peace is left undefined. Geographies of Peace is the first book wholly dedicated to exploring the geography of peace. Drawing on recent theoretical developments and detailed empirical research from around the world, the contributors...
We are frequently beset by images of war and hostility in the media, and politicians seem constantly to be in search of a means of peaceful resolution...
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG
Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community.
Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint occurring only after violence and political maneuverings
Examines the ways in which geographical...
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG
Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community.
Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint occurring only after violence and political maneuverings
Examines the ways in which geographical...
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG
