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    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2016

      Roadworks

      Medieval Britain, medieval roads

      by Anke Bernau, Valerie Allen, Ruth Evans

      Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. It challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication, passively inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own. Previous studies of medieval infrastructure tend to be discipline-specific and technical. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval Britain (early and late) in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and economic history. ;

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      Geography & the Environment
      March 2016

      French colonial Dakar

      The morphogenesis of an African regional capital

      by Liora Bigon, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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      Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions
      June 2010

      Tropical Deltas and Coastal Zones

      Food Production, Communities and Environment at the Land–Water Interface

      by Edited by Chu T Hoanh, Brian Szuster, Suan-Pheng Kam, Abdelbagi Ismail, Andrew Noble.

      Tropical coastal deltas represent one of the most diverse and rapidly changing biophysical regions in the developing world. These deltas are home to large populated areas, are significant centres of agricultural production and industrial development, and contain fragile ecosystems that are now facing new threats as a result of expected sea-level rises associated with global warming. Focusing on the developing countries of Asia, Africa and South America, chapters explore the diverse livelihoods of people in these areas and the impact of land-water management on the environment. New techniques and methodologies are explored in land and water management to try and solve the conflicts between rice-based agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries and the environment in tropical delta regions. Illustrating how to protect tropical deltaic systems in the face of serious future challenges, this will be essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers and natural resource managers in agriculture and aquaculture.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2016

      French colonial Dakar

      The morphogenesis of an African regional capital

      by Liora Bigon, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

      This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urban politics, policies and practices, and complex negotiations on both the physical and conceptual levels. Chronicling the design of Dakar as a regional capital, the book suggests a connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association, and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa. Of interest to scholars in history, geography, architecture, urban planning, African studies and Global South studies, the book incorporates both primary and secondary sources collected from multilateral channels in Europe and Senegal. ;

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      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2016

      Licensed larceny

      Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

      by Nicholas Hildyard, Mick Moran

      Licensed larceny is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies that benefit the already wealthy. It is less about financing development than developing finance. Understanding and exposing these processes is essential if inequality is to be challenged. But equally important is the need for critical reflection on how the wealthy are getting away with it. What does the wealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organizing by those who would resist elite power? ;

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      July 2015

      Rocks of nation

      The imagination of Celtic Cornwall

      by Shelley Trower

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      May 2016

      Licensed larceny

      Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

      by Nicholas Hildyard, Mick Moran

      Licensed larceny is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies that benefit the already wealthy. It is less about financing development than developing finance. Understanding and exposing these processes is essential if inequality is to be challenged. But equally important is the need for critical reflection on how the wealthy are getting away with it. What does the wealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organizing by those who would resist elite power? ;

    • Trusted Partner
      Literature & Literary Studies
      July 2015

      Rocks of nation

      The imagination of Celtic Cornwall

      by Shelley Trower

    • Trusted Partner
      Geography & the Environment
      March 2016

      French colonial Dakar

      The morphogenesis of an African regional capital

      by Liora Bigon, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2017

      Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

      'Working the ground' in Scotland

      by Penny McCall Howard, Alexander Smith

      This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how deeply fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. It will be read in universities by social scientists and anthropologists and also by those with an interest in maritime Scotland.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2017

      Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

      'Working the ground' in Scotland

      by Penny McCall Howard, Alexander Smith

      This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how deeply fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. It will be read in universities by social scientists and anthropologists and also by those with an interest in maritime Scotland.

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      Business, Economics & Law
      March 2017

      Security/Mobility

      Politics of movement

      by Matthias Leese, Stef Wittendorp, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

      Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics in a globalised world. This book brings together research on the political regulation of movement - its material enablers and constraints. It explores aspects of critical security studies and political geography in order to bridge the gap between disciplines that study global modernity, its politics and practices. The contributions to this book cover a broad range of topics that are bound together by their focus on both the politics and the material underpinnings of movement. The authors engage diverse themes such as internet infrastructure, the circulation of data, discourses of borders and bordering, bureaucracy, and citizenship, thereby identifying common themes of security and mobility today.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2018

      The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood

      Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions

      by Mike Mannin, Paul Flenley, Nora Siklodi, Paul Flenley, Tatiana Romanova, Nadia Burenko, Teodor Lucian Moga, Marcin Kosienkowski, Monika Eriksen, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Martin Dangerfield, Edward Stoddard, Igor Merheim-Eyre, Maria Stoicheva, Kiryl Kascian, Adam Mickiewicz, Derek Averre, Kevork Oskanian

      This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in crisis and pulled between Russia and the EU, security and democracy in the South Caucasus. It looks at the contested nature of European identity in areas such as the Balkans. In addition it looks at ways in which the EU's interests and values can be tested in sectors such as trade and migration. The interplay between values, identity and interests and their effect on the interpretation of europeanisation between the EU and its neighbours is a core theme of the volume.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2018

      The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood

      Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions

      by Mike Mannin, Paul Flenley, Nora Siklodi, Paul Flenley, Tatiana Romanova, Nadia Burenko, Teodor Lucian Moga, Marcin Kosienkowski, Monika Eriksen, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Martin Dangerfield, Edward Stoddard, Igor Merheim-Eyre, Maria Stoicheva, Kiryl Kascian, Adam Mickiewicz, Derek Averre, Kevork Oskanian

      Introduction Paul Flenley and Michael Mannin Part I: Concepts and Frameworks 1 Europeanisation as a past and present narrative Mike Mannin 2 Defining contemporary European identity/ies Nora Siklodi 3 The Limitations of the EU's strategies for Europeanisation of the neighbours Paul Flenley Part II: Country/Area Studies 4 Europeanisation and Russia Tatiana Romanova 5 'Bounded Europeanisation': the case of Ukraine Nadiia Bureiko and Teodor Lucian Moga 6 Belarus: Does Europeanisation require a geopolitical choice? Kiryl Kascian 7 Relations between Moldova and the European Union Kamil Calus and Marcin Kosienkowski 8 Value-oriented aspects of EU-isation: The case of the Balkans Monika Eriksen 9 Turkey: Identity politics and reticent Europeanisation Dimitris Tsarouhas Part III: Issues and Sectors 10 New Member States' economic relations with Russia: 'Europeanisation'or Bilateral Preferences? Martin Dangerfield 11 EU Energy Security Policy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: Towards Europeanisation? Edward Stoddard 12 The EU and the European Other: The Janus face of EU migration and visa policies in the neighbourhood Igor Merheim-Eyre 13 'Neighbour languages': Europeanisation and language borders Maria Stoicheva 14 Security and Democratisation: the case of the South Caucasus Kevork Oskanian and Derek Averre Conclusion Paul Flenley and Michael Mannin Bibliography Index

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      June 2016

      Licensed larceny

      Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

      by Nicholas Hildyard, Mick Moran

      The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies that benefit the already wealthy. It is less about financing development than developing finance. Understanding and exposing these processes is essential if inequality is to be challenged. But equally important is the need for critical reflection on how the wealthy are getting away with it. What does the wealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organizing by those who would resist elite power?

    • Trusted Partner
      Sociology & anthropology
      February 2017

      Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

      'Working the ground' in Scotland

      by Penny McCall Howard. Series edited by Alexander Smith

      This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how deeply fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. It will be read in universities by social scientists and anthropologists and also by those with an interest in maritime Scotland.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      January 2017

      Licensed larceny

      Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

      by Nicholas Hildyard, Mick Moran

      The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies that benefit the already wealthy. It is less about financing development than developing finance. Understanding and exposing these processes is essential if inequality is to be challenged. But equally important is the need for critical reflection on how the wealthy are getting away with it. What does the wealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organizing by those who would resist elite power?

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