"The Silk Road has linked East Asia to the West from time immemorial. Once a renowned trade route, it transferred religions and cultures. Long stretches of the artery are now dead or have sunk into miserable conditions. Robert Knoth (*1963) and Antoinette de Jong (*1964) documen…
"The Silk Road has linked East Asia to the West from time immemorial. Once a renowned trade route, it transferred religions and cultures. Long stretches of the artery are now dead or have sunk into miserable conditions. Robert Knoth (*1963) and Antoinette de Jong (*1964) documen…
"The Silk Road has linked East Asia to the West from time immemorial. Once a renowned trade route, it transferred religions and cultures. Long stretches of the artery are now dead or have sunk into miserable conditions. Robert Knoth (*1963) and Antoinette de Jong (*1964) documen…
Why are the poor countries poor? This work covers the issues of processes of social change and development in the 'Third World'. It offers carefully excerpted samples from both classic and recent writings in the development literature.
"This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels. What comprises a region? What a…
Most geographical studies of the?Third World?? or the Global South? focus their attention on the challenge of promoting development and explaining why the Third World is also the Poor World. This text extracts the Global South from the shadow of development and examines people?s…
The book will be an 'everyday' geography of the Global South that places 'development' in the background and brings detailed, grounded understanding of the ways in which individuals and household make a living.
Most geographical studies of the?Third World?? or the Global South? focus their attention on the challenge of promoting development and explaining why the Third World is also the Poor World. This text extracts the Global South from the shadow of development and examines people?s…
The book will be an 'everyday' geography of the Global South that places 'development' in the background and brings detailed, grounded understanding of the ways in which individuals and household make a living.
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen -- Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz Sarlo -- From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P.R. Caldeira -- Mexico City, 2010: I…
Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive o…
Collection of essays that examines the effects of globalization on non-Western cities.
