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Rivalling Disaster Experiences
The Case of the Seismo-Volcanic Crisis of El Hierro, Canary Islands
How are rivalling interpretations of risk linked to scepticism towards media and scientific information? A must-read on the hot topics of disaster research.
Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change
This book deals with the challenge of housing in connection with the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalization.
Sandra Kurfürst
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Stefanie Wehner
(eds.)
Southeast Asian Transformations
Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century
Southeast Asia from multiple perspectives: covering the most important trajectories of development in the new millennium.
Contested Solidarity
Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism
This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« sheds light on the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity.
Making Transformative Geographies
Lessons from Stuttgart's Community Economy
A dissection of social, spatial, and strategic dimensions of transformation, advancing a substantiated account of activism to counteract social and environmental unsustainability and injustice.
The Political Ecology of Malaria
Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
The study focuses on the malaria epidemic in central Uganda, linking the epidemic to ecological transformations in the region's urban fringe.
Susi K. Frank
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Kjetil A. Jakobsen
(eds.)
Arctic Archives
Ice, Memory and Entropy
In the context of anthropocene the volume aims at investigating the Arctic as an endangered archive of natural as well as human history in its various semantics.
The Power of Place in Play
A Bourdieusian Analysis of Auckland Children's Seasonal Play Practices
Christina Ergler questions the environmental determinism of many obesity-related studies and explores why "play" resonates differently across urban localities and seasons through a social theory perspective.
Andrea Fischer-Tahir
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Sophie Wagenhofer
(eds.)
Disciplinary Spaces
Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century
This volume looks at forced resettlement and assimilation in the context of nation building since the 19th century, considering the ruling actors as well as the agency of the subaltern.
Birgit Glorius
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Josefina Domínguez-Mujica
(eds.)
European Mobility in Times of Crisis
The New Context of European South-North Migration
The global financial crisis stimulated growing numbers of young migrants from southern Europe heading north, nurturing the fear of brain drain back home.