By Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini

This booklet, in keeping with convention excerpts, investigates numerous points of latest Iranian urbanism. the themes lined variety from the affects of political advancements at the towns’ swift socio-economic advancements, to the towns’ afflicted courting with the country’s built-environment background and their often ill-managed publicity to Western notions of improvement and globalisation. final yet no longer least, the country’s vulnerability to ordinary failures in an age of accelerating urban-population densification can be considered.

Alongside extra theoretically and artistically orientated debates, the book’s person contributions flip their cognizance to the now a lot larger percentage of city dwellers within the country’s emerging inhabitants. It additionally discusses the rules designed in keeping with those demographic strikes, together with these to strengthen new cities, locate housing for the surplus inhabitants in current towns, renovate ancient constructions and create new public areas. The practice-policy orientated contributions additionally contain these in regards to the country’s responses to traditional disasters.

By Temitope B. Oriola

Crude oil extraction within the Niger Delta zone of Nigeria generates ninety six% of all international profits and eighty five% of kingdom sales, making it an important to the survival of the Nigerian nation. a number of generations of kingdom overlook, corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta quarter is among the so much socio-economically and politically disadvantaged within the nation. via the past due Nineties there has been a daunting proliferation of armed gangs and rebel teams. unlawful oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, disruption of oil construction actions, riots, and demonstrations intensified and in 2003, insurgents started kidnapping oil employees at a frenetic speed. In overdue 2005, an uber-insurgent flow 'organization' was once shaped in Nigeria. Christened the circulate for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), it operates as an amorphous, multifaceted amalgam of rebel teams with an unparalleled scientific precision in execution of intents. by means of focussing on kidnappings which are putatively hooked up to the fight for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing MEND as a social flow association, instead of a terrorist or legal gang by way of displaying how political strategies form kidnappings within the Delta. using violent repertoires of rivalry has now not garnered adequate realization within the social move literature, although that worldwide, many related teams are adopting violent strategies with no inevitably eschewing non-violent innovations. according to multi-actor study, together with interviews and concentration workforce discussions with group individuals, army professionals, forty two ex-insurgents without delay concerned about unlawful oil bunkering and kidnapping, and professional e mail statements from 'Jomo Gbomo', the spokesperson of MEND, this ebook may be of curiosity to sociologists, political scientists and peace and safety reports students.

By Aharon Kellerman

This booklet introduces the net via a scientific geographical interpretation, hence laying off mild on the web as a spatial entity. The book’s process is to increase uncomplicated suggestions built for terrestrial geography to our on-line world, so much particularly these with regards to area, constitution, position, distance, mobility, and presence. It additional considers the net by means of its structure of knowledge area, communications house, and display house. by utilizing recognized techniques from conventional human geography, this publication proposes a mix of terrestrial and digital geographies, which can in flip assist in dealing with net constructions and contents. The publication appeals to human and monetary geographers, particularly these drawn to info and net geographies. it may well even be of detailed curiosity and value to sociologists and media students and scholars facing verbal exchange know-how and the Internet.

By Richard Frucht

A modern research of the folk, cultures, and society in the areas that make up japanese Europe.

• Discusses the geography, background, political improvement, and economic climate of countries akin to Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Albania, and plenty of others

• comprises historic profiles of important humans reminiscent of Konstantin Päts and Lydia Koidula, cultural occasions similar to the track pageant, and key occasions reminiscent of the sinking of the ferry Estonia

• provides maps of the complete zone and every of the sixteen international locations, together with Latvia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Greece

• comprises discussions of jap ecu languages

By Denise Aigle

In The Mongol Empire among fable and Reality, Denise Aigle offers the Mongol empire as a second of touch among political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, by way of reciprocal representations, among the a long way East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West. the 1st half is dedicated to The memoria of the Mongols in historic and literary assets within which she examines how the Mongol rulers have been perceived via the peoples with whom they have been involved. In Shamanism and Islam she reports the notion of shamanism by way of Muslim authors and their makes an attempt to combine Genghis Khan and his successors into an Islamic framework. The final sections take care of geopolitical questions concerning the Ilkhans, the Mamluks, and the Latin West. Genghis Khan s successors claimed the safety of everlasting Heaven to justify their conquests even after their Islamization."

By Phil Hubbard

Already a regular scholar reference, the entire entries during this second version of Key Thinkers on house and Place were considerably revised and up-to-date. spotting how lively and full of life debates on house are, this variation comprises ten thoroughly new entries, making the textual content much more entire. it's a certain consultant to the lifestyles and paintings of these thinkers such a lot accountable for the present 'spatial flip' within the social sciences. Highlighting the paintings of greater than 60 key thinkers it presents a synoptic evaluation of alternative principles concerning the function of house and position in modern social, cultural, political and monetary life.

With concise, uniform entries all through, the portrait of every philosopher comprises:

- biographical info and theoretical context

- an explication in their contribution to spatial thinking

- an summary of key advances and controversies

- bibliographies of basic and secondary literature

As a primer at the spatial mind's eye, the textual content illustrates the varied ways in which area and position will be theorized: from humanism to Marxism, feminism to post-structuralism, queer idea to post-colonialism. The publication could be an integral buy not only for geographers, yet for all these drawn to theories of area and position - even if in geography, sociology, city reviews, cultural reports, or anthropology.