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Cover Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration
Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration
Editors: Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Timothy J. Dunn
Drawing on the concept of the ‘politics of compassion’, this Handbook interrogates the political, geopolitical, social and anthropological processes which produce and govern borders and give rise to contemporary border violence.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
16 Feb 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108907
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course
Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Editors: Joachim Scheiner and Henrike Rau
This thought-provoking book analyses recent innovations for researching travel behaviour over the life course. Original in its approach, it synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907810
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Social and Political Science 2020
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Ageing in Place
Design, Planning and Policy Response in the Western Asia-Pacific
Editors: Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, and Edgar Liu
This insightful book showcases a range of design, planning and policy responses to ageing populations and the built environment from across the rapidly changing and dynamic Western Asia-Pacific region. Its chapters demonstrate a clear and increasingly convergent preference for and promotion of ageing in place and the need for collaborative efforts to facilitate this at various scales through policy and practice.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976091
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities
Editors: Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring, and Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
Reflecting the variety and diversity of mobile methods and their applications, this comprehensive Handbook illuminates the multiple dimensions and transdisciplinary nature of mobilities research, from transport to tourism, cargo to information as well as physical, virtual and imaginative mobilities. It brings together key contributions on the state of the art of qualitative and quantitative research, multimethod combinations and co-creation methods within the mobilities paradigm.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115469
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Being a Planner in Society
Being a Planner in Society
For People, Planet, Place
Nicholas Low
This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973793
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse
Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse
Editors: Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou, and Athina Vlachantoni
This innovative Handbook offers a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic change across the lifecourse. Chapters highlight major theoretical and methodological advances and present research that sheds light on family dynamics, health and mobility over the lifecourse, illustrating the implications of lifecourse research for policy and reform.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
10 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974875
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Social and Political Science 2020
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Communities, Land and Social Innovation
Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World
Editors: Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure, and Frank Moulaert
This timely and thought-provoking book examines the contemporary struggle of communities over land ownership and use rights in rapidly urbanising areas, analysing 12 key case studies from across four continents. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
21 May 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973779
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Research Handbook on Community Development
Research Handbook on Community Development
Editors: Rhonda Phillips, Eric Trevan, and Patsy Kraeger
This timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
20 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118477
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook of Urban Segregation
Handbook of Urban Segregation
Editor: Sako Musterd
The Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition it tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. This timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Mar 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115605
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Globalization and Spatial Mobilities
Globalization and Spatial Mobilities
Commodities and People, Capital, Information and Technology
Aharon Kellerman
Presenting a comparative examination of five major voluntary global movements: commodities, people, capital, information and technology, this book traces and develops discussions of globalization and spatial mobility. The book further covers the means and media used for these mobilities: ports and ships, airports and airplanes, international banking electronic media, and the Internet, telephony and TV. Two concluding chapters focus on the mobile globe, highlighting present and future global mobility in general, and the relationships among the five global mobilities, in particular.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901221
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Social and Political Science 2020