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Rauscher, Raymond. Renewing Cities with Value Capture Planning. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62958-8.

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McDuie-Ra, Duncan. Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723138.

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As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these spots to make skate video, skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. Once captured, skate video circulates rapidly through digital platforms to millions of viewers, enrolling spots from Shenzhen to Ramallah into a

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Kilpatrick, Sue, Jane Farmer, and Sherridan Emery. Social Enterprises and Regional Cities: Inclusive Data Gathering Techniques to Capture Multiple Perspectives. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529669381.

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Ethan, Allen. Ethan Allen's narrative of the capture of Ticonderoga, his captivity and treatment by the British. 5th ed. C. Goodrich & S.B. Nichols, 1985.

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Sapienza"), IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas (2001 University of Rome "La. IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas: Rome, 8-9 November 2001, University of Rome "La Sapienza.". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2001.

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Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu. Ancient and modern Malta: Containing a description of the ports and cities of the islands of Malta and Goza, together with the monuments of antiquity still remaining, the different governments to which they have been subjected, their trade and finances ; as also, the history of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, from their first establishment in Malta, till the beginning of the 19th century : with a particular account of the events which preceded and attended its capture by the French and conquest by the English. Midsea Books Ltd., 1988.

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Shatkin, Gavin. Cities for Profit. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501709906.001.0001.

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In the past three decades, urban real estate megaprojects—massive, master planned, for profit urban developments—have captured the imagination of politicians and policy-makers across Asia. This book argues that state actors have been major drivers of these transformative projects, and have realized them through increasingly aggressive efforts to reclaim or acquire land, and to transfer land rights to corporate developers. State actors have specifically sought to monetize land as a strategy of state empowerment, a means to generate budget revenue, distribute patronage, and drive economic growth

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Bekker, Simon, and Anne Leilde, eds. Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities. African Minds, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781920051402.

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Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collective identities are deeply coloured by recent urban as well as international experience and are squarely located within identity politics where reconcili

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Krishna, C. Yamini, Amy Phua Mei Yen, and Nisha Mathew, eds. Claims on the City. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666987362.

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Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the editors and contributors detail on-the-ground events and transformations of different cities embattled in social movements, and capture solidarities of people against the mechanisms of state and global capitalism through situated narratives and microhistories of resistance. Claims on the City approaches the underst

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Almansoori, Ali. Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies: Towards More Sustainable Cities. Springer International Publishing AG, 2024.

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Kamal, Daanika. Domestic Violence in Pakistan. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198953470.001.0001.

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Abstract Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through character allegations that label them as ‘bad’ women in need of control, or ‘mad’ women not to be trusted. Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores why the subjectivities of women victims are constructed in particular ways, and how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated in the Pakistani legal system. Drawing on feminist post-structuralist accounts relating to the use of gendering strategies in institutional and disciplinary settings, and

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Kaboudan, Mak. Computational Spatiotemporal Modeling of Southern California Home Prices. Edited by Shu-Heng Chen, Mak Kaboudan, and Ye-Rong Du. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844371.013.13.

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Average quarterly price changes in six contiguous southern California cities are obtained and used, first, to determine if price changes in contiguous cities are spatiotemporally contagious, then to forecast each city’s average prices for four quarters (or one year, 2014). In order to capture the contagious effects, a spatiotemporal contagion response measure is proposed and computed. The measure quantifies the responsiveness of residential home-price changes in one location (or city) to lagged price changes in another location. Average home characteristics (such as square footage and number o

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Giles, David Boarder. A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021711.

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In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and scarcity. Illustrating how communities of marginalized people and discarded things gather and cultivate political possibilities, Giles documents the work of Food Not Bombs (FNB), a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in need. He explores FNB's urban contexts: the global cities in which late-capitalist economies and unsustainable consumption precipitate excess, inequality, food waste, and

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Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021.

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Phillimore, Jenny, Nando Sigona, and Katherine Tonkiss, eds. Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in Europe. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352051.001.0001.

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Immigration has transformed the social, economic, political and cultural landscapes of global cities such as London, Melbourne, Milan and Amsterdam. The term 'superdiversity' captures a new era of migration-driven demographic diversifications and associated complexities. Superdiversity is the future or, in many cases, the current reality of neighbourhoods, cities, countries and regions, yet the implications of superdiversification for governance and policy have, until now, received very little attention. This book explores the ways in which superdiversity has shaped the development of policy a

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Gerber, Jane S. Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113300.001.0001.

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Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact on the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or

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Dimendberg, Edward, ed. The Moving Eye. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190218430.001.0001.

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Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image concerns historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations that no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through “fly-throughs,” and technologies such as GPS add data to the experience of travel, images in motion have captured the attention of geographers and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mobility studies is remaking how we understand a contemporary world in

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Rauscher, Raymond. Renewing Cities with Value Capture Planning: Model for Achieving Equitable Housing, Public and Open Spaces, and Sustainable Transport. Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.

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Rauscher, Raymond. Renewing Cities with Value Capture Planning: Model for Achieving Equitable Housing, Public and Open Spaces, and Sustainable Transport. Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

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Saxonhouse, Arlene W. Kinēsis, Navies, and the Power Trap in Thucydides. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.33.

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In the Archaeology of his History, Thucydides traces those factors that led to the rise of the cities that face one another in the war that he records. Foremost among them is the navy. I contend that this focus on the navy as the basis of political power captures for Thucydides the connection between movement and power: possession of power is not a static condition but always entails the unending search for more power, allowing the cities who possess navies/power no respite from constant motion. In contrast to what I call the “power trap” that ultimately leads to the destruction of the city en

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Kenny, Michael, Iain McLean, and Akash Paun, eds. Governing England. British Academy, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266465.001.0001.

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England is ruled directly from Westminster by institutions and parties that are both English and British. The non-recognition of England reflects a long-standing assumption of ‘unionist statecraft’ that to draw a distinction between what is English and what is British risks destabilising the union state. The book examines evidence that this conflation of England and Britain is growing harder to sustain in view of increasing political divergence between the nations of the UK and the awakening of English national identity. These trends were reflected in the 2016 vote to leave the European Union,

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Reis, João José, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, and Marcus J. M. de Carvalho. The Story of Rufino. Translated by Sabrina Gledhill. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190224363.001.0001.

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The book tells the story of Rufino, or Abuncare, a Yoruba Muslim from the kingdom of Oyo, who came to Brazil as a slave in c. 1823 and lived in the Atlantic cities of Salvador, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Recife (all in Brazil), and Freetown in Sierra Leone. In Salvador, he lived his first eight years as a slave; then he was taken to Porto Alegre by his young master and sold there. He bought his freedom in 1835 with money he made as a hire-out slave and then moved to Rio de Janeiro. Here Rufino started to work as a cook on a slave ship bound to Luanda. In late 1841, after a few slave trading

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Galea, Sandro, Catherine K. Ettman, and David Vlahov, eds. Urban Health. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190915858.001.0001.

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Urban health is the study of the health of urban populations. More than half the world’s population is now living in urban areas, and two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030. This means that characteristics of cities—including, for example, features of the built environment—are shared by a large proportion of the global population. These characteristics ultimately shape how most of us think, feel, and behave; they shape what we eat and drink; and, inevitably, they shape our health. The ubiquity of urban exposures suggests that a full understanding of the features of ur

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McDougal, Topher L. The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792598.001.0001.

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In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for these differences in the interface urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To explore this question, this book examines two regions representing two dramatically different outcomes. In West Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone), capital cities became economic targets for rebels, who posed dire thr

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McLeod, Jacqueline A. On Her Own. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036576.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on Jane Bolin's experiences at Wellesley College and Yale Law School—experiences that were captured in novelist Ralph Ellison's reference to being an outsider. On her own and removed from every reference to her standing and belonging, Bolin struggled against the prevailing stereotypes about African Americans and against the invisibility imposed by classmates and instructors alike. Citing Judith Butler's reading of “subjection as both the subordination and becoming of the subject,” the chapter argues that it was out of these experiences of “subordination” at Wellesley and Y

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Wilkinson, Graeme, and Bo Li. Colours of Malaysia. Sunway University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55846/9789675492679.

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Colours of Malaysia: The Art of Amirudin Ariffin features the works of Malaysian artist Amirudin Ariffin whose oil paintings and watercolours capture the true spirit of Malaysia and the lives and emotions of ordinary citizens. For the first time, some of Ariffin's most distinctive and remarkable works, including city scenes, landscapes, portraits, and abstracts, are brought together in a single volume that demonstrates the quality and breadth of his art and the narratives underlying the works.

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Worster, Donald. Wealth of Nature. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195092646.001.0001.

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Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl, Worster has helped bring humanity's interaction with nature to the forefront of historical thinking. Now, in The Wealth of Nature, he offers a series of thoughtful, eloquent essays which lay out his views on environmental history, tying the study of the past to today's agenda for change. The Wealth of Nature captures the fruit of w

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Birkbak, Andreas, and Irina Papazu, eds. Democratic Situations. Mattering Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.28938/9781912729302.

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Democratic Situations places the making and doing of democratic politics at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American democracy – elections, bureaucracies, public debates and citizen participation – into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals are contested and warped in practice. The empirical cases demonstrate that democracy cannot be reduced to theoretical schemes of conflict, institutions or deliberation. Instead, they offer an urgently needed renewal of our understanding of democratic polit

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Volo, Dorothy, and James M. Volo. Daily Life in Civil War America. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400636875.

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Based on extensive research into newly discovered documents, this new edition of the popular volume offers an updated look at the daily lives of ordinary citizens caught up in the Civil War. When first published, Daily Life in Civil War America shifted the spotlight from the conflict’s military operations and famous leaders to its affect on day-to-day living. Now this popular, groundbreaking work returns in a thoroughly updated new edition, drawing on an expanded range of journals, journalism, diaries, and correspondence to capture the realities of wartime life for soldiers and citizens, slave

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Bernal, Angélica Maria. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190494223.003.0001.

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Foundings have long captured the political imagination and continue to be a pervasive element of contemporary politics as statesmen, citizens, and new social movements wage many a political battle through appeals to shared origins, Founding Fathers, and foundational principles. Despite their ubiquity in democratic politics, rarely do we stop to examine this notion. Reviewing the uses of this term in contemporary political and constitutional discourse, I introduce the problem addressed by this book: the dominant vision of founding as an authoritative binding origin. The introduction explicates

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Siegel, David A. Democratic Institutions and Political Networks. Edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.35.

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Democratic institutions directly alter the way citizens interact with government; electoral institutions are a straightforward example of this. But they also act indirectly. Knowing that one’s vote will be counted can alter one’s perception of other forms of political contestation, such as dissent. Political networks can also have both direct and indirect effects. For example, they not only characterize who has direct influence over one’s thinking, but also delimit available information by specifying the pathways across which information travels. The conditional effects of institutions and net

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Morris, Robyn. Multicultural and Transnational Novels. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0022.

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In Australia, the issue of multiculturalism has been the subject of considerable debate. This tension has been captured by and reflected in the reception of the strong but constantly evolving tradition of Australian multicultural writing. The controversy centres on who can speak for whom, claims of the appropriation and commodification of multicultural writing by publishers and academia, and the multicultural novel's relationship to — and place within — Australian literature. The chapter considers the rise of Australian multicultural and contemporary transnational literature since the 1950s an

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Hess, Mickey, ed. Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide. Greenwood, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400663543.

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An insightful new resource that looks at the rise of American hip hop as a series of distinct regional events, with essays covering the growth of hip hop culture in specific cities across the nation. Thoroughly researched, thoroughly in tune with the culture,Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guideprofiles two dozen specific hip hop scenes across the United States, showing how each place shaped a singular identity. Through its unique geographic perspective, it captures the astonishing diversity of a genre that has captivated the nation and the world. In two volumes organized by broad regions (East

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Dryzek, John S. 4. Leave it to the Experts: Administrative Rationalism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780199696000.003.0004.

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This chapter examines administrative rationalism, a discourse of environmental problem solving which captures the dominant governmental response to the onset of environmental crisis. Administrative rationalism emphasizes the role of the expert rather than the citizen or producer/consumer in social problem solving, and which stresses social relationships of hierarchy rather than equality or competition. The chapter first considers the manifestations of administrative rationalism in various institutions and practices, including environmental impact assessment, planning, and rationalistic policy

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Holton, John. Philanthropia, Athens, and Democracy in Diodorus Siculus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748472.003.0009.

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At 13.19–33 of his Bibliotheke historike Diodorus Siculus provides a unique presentation of the fate of Nicias and Demosthenes, Athenian generals captured along with their troops while leading the Sicilian Expedition of 415–413 BCE. Speeches by the Syracusan citizen Nicolaus and the Spartan general Gylippus outline opposing options: humane (philanthropos) or brutal treatment. This discussion is highly stylized by Diodorus, becoming a rhetorical tour de force which showcases his estimation of Classical Athenian democracy. The strong redolence of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue and Mytilenian Debate

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Fawcett, Paul, Matthew Flinders, Colin Hay, and Matthew Wood. Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the volume, sets out its key themes, and explains how the chapters interrogate the nexus between governance and anti-politics via the concept of depoliticization. It argues that the literature on governance has drawn attention to a ‘capacity gap’ between elected politicians and those who actually take decisions about essential public services, while the literature on anti-politics has highlighted a growing ‘democratic gap’ between politicians and citizens. These issues arise in a dynamic context that is captured by concepts such as meta-governance and multilevel governa

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Rivers, Larry Eugene. Catch the Runaway. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036910.003.0009.

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This chapter demonstrates how Florida attempted to address the problem of runaways but achieved mixed success at best. The legislative council and legislature passed numerous laws. Many reflected those of other southern states, although Florida offered lower rewards for the capture of runaways. The same laws anticipated that most white male Floridians would play a role in catching runaways. Private citizens, professional slave catchers, and others pursued and apprehended fugitives. Few owners and overseers pursued runaways personally because of the time involved away from plantations and farms

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Heller, Patrick R. P. Doubling Down. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817369.003.0015.

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Many governments have successfully employed state-owned enterprises to exert state control over their oil and gas sectors and capture a larger share of rewards from the industry. However, relying heavily on a national oil company requires adapting to certain challenges for the management of the oil sector and governance of the broader economy. This chapter argues that governments should base decisions concerning the role of a national oil company on a careful assessment of the size of the potential rewards and the state’s tolerance for associated risks. It then examines the most important risk

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Fiske, David. Solomon Northup’s Kindred. Praeger, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216016434.

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Kidnapping was a lucrative crime in antebellum America, and many American citizens—especially free blacks—were abducted for profit. This book reveals the untold stories of the captured. The story of Solomon Northup, subject of the Academy Award-winning best picture 12 Years a Slave, is representative of the deplorable treatment many African Americans experienced in the period leading up to the Civil War. This book examines antebellum kidnapping, delving into why and how it occurred, and illustrating the active role the U.S. government played in allowing it to continue. It presents case studies

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Holder, Christen M., and Nicole Shay. Imaging the Networks of Executive Functions. Edited by Andrew C. Papanicolaou. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764228.013.17.

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This chapter examines the different theoretical conceptualizations of executive functions and how neuroimaging can reveal their neuroanatomical mechanisms. After briefly considering various definitions and descriptions of executive function, it discusses the results of lesion studies that look into specific executive functions; namely, attention, working memory, inhibition, decision-making, planning and organization, processing speed, and cognitive flexibility or shifting. It also evaluates measures that are used to capture the executive functions just cited, along with the advances that have

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Hintz, Lisel. National Identities in Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190655976.003.0003.

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This chapter presents the empirical data collected and analyzed through intertextual analysis to extract competing proposals for Turkish national identity among the country’s population. The analysis includes examination of social and news media sources, interviews, surveys, and archives. The empirical data are also collected from popular culture sources such as novels, television shows, and films to capture vernacular discourse otherwise inaccessible to the researcher. The chapter employs a framework of identity content to parse out the constitutive norms, social purposes, relational meanings

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Sørensen, Eva. Interactive Political Leadership. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777953.001.0001.

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In what this book boldly defines as the age of governance, citizens and other relevant and affected stakeholders are active partakers in governing Western liberal societies. This reality is out of tune with traditional sovereign perceptions of political leadership. Drawing on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Eva Sørensen develops a concept of interactive political leadership that aims to capture what political leadership looks like in a society of active, anti-authoritarian, and politically competent citizens. The key message is that although interactive poli

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van Donk, Mirjam, Mark Swilling, Edgar Pieterse, and Susan Parnell. Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South African Experience. UCT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/1-775-82052-9.

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Consolidating Developmental Local Government documents the dynamics of local government transformation and captures the key themes of the debates about policy options, lessons and key strategic decisions. These debates are aimed at ensuring that municipalities play a key role in creating more democratic, non-racial, equitable and sustainable communities, towns and cities. Compiled and written by people who participated in one way or another in the experience of democratic consolidation, this text will be an indispensable resource for government officials, students, researchers, specialists, co

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Swyngedouw, Erik. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233916.001.0001.

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Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social, and economic conduits through which water flows, and to identify how power relations infuse the metabolic transformation of water as it becomes urban. These flows of water which are simultaneously physical and social carry in their currents the embodiment of myriad social struggles and conflicts. The excavation of these flows narrates stories about the city's structure and development. Yet t

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Soble, Alan, ed. Sex from Plato to Paglia. Greenwood, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216013341.

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Sexuality has captured our imagination since antiquity. Its passion and mysteries have inspired numerous creative works and posed many ethical, legal, and social challenges. Because sex is so central to our personal lives and society, various thinkers have pondered its philosophical dimensions.This reference book, the first of its kind, offers comprehensive coverage of sexual philosophy. Unlike other works, which explore the biology of sex, this encyclopedia locates sexuality in its broader intellectual and social contexts. Alan Soble, one of the world's foremost authorities on the philosophy

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Jones, Arnita. Good Enough for Government Work. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.14.

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Government-supported history is as broad and many faceted as the field of public history itself, including not only research and public programming in museums and historic sites but also client-oriented research in the executive, legislative, and military branches of government. This chapter focuses on the work of historians who help to solve problems and provide context for the ongoing work of government agencies and institutions. Serving policy and decision makers, they capture and preserve records, artifacts, and other historical materials; they write institutional histories and policy anal

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Lindvall, Daniel. Democracy and the Challenge of Climate Change. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.88.

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Climate change actions in democracies face perceived challenges such as short-term bias in decision-making, policy capture or inconsistency, weak accountability mechanisms and the permeability of the policy-making process to interests adverse to fighting climate change through the role of money in politics. Apart from its intrinsic value to citizens, democracy also brings critical advantages in formulating effective climate policy, such as representative parliaments which can hold governments to account, widespread civic participation, independent media and a free flow of information, the acti

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Ali, Kamran Asdar. Afterword II. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656546.003.0013.

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The second afterword to the book by Kamran Asdar Ali returns us to the city, and to the lives of Karachi’s working women and working classes. He draws on women’s poems, diaries, and memoirs to capture some more ephemeral qualities of everyday living and dying. These contrast with the violent suppression of an underclass of trade unionists and labor activists by a coalition of the state, military courts and industrialists, since the fifties. Given the long, progressive erosion of peace in Karachi how, he asks, might we imagine a therapeutic process of social, economic and cultural healing? Thro

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Vidal, Cécile. Caribbean New Orleans. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645186.001.0001.

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Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cécile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles, especially Saint-Domingue, which shaped the city’s development through the eighteenth century. In so doing, she urges us to rethink our usual divisions of racial

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Peiss, Kathy. Information Hunters. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944612.001.0001.

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Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies’ cause. They traveled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gathered countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditi

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