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Henri Lefebvre and Education: Space, history, theory Sue Middleton (University of Waikato, New Zealand) 9780415792110
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The... -
Marxism and Urban Culture by Benjamin Fraser 9780739194485
Booksplease Price: £51.70Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities-Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool,... -
Landscapes of Housing: Design and Planning in the History of Environmental Thought Jeanne Haffner (Dumbarton Oaks, USA) 9781138504400
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation. From the vantage point of contemporary architecture, conservation concerns and... -
Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies by Yi Chen 9781783487783
Booksplease Price: £43.76This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences. It formulates 'rhythm' as a critical concept which is defined in dialogic... -
The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures Mara Albrecht 9781526195623
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban'... -
Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities by Benjamin Fraser 9781137524546
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of... -
Fragmented Dhaka: Analysing Everyday Life with Henri Lefebvre's Theory of Production of Space by Elisa T Bertuzzo 9783515094047
Booksplease Price: £94.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515094047Author Elisa T BertuzzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint
Progress through Spatial Conflicts. An Application of Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space to Paul Auster's Moon Palace by Hans Niehues 9783668229334
RRP: £39.50Booksplease Price: £30.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668229334Author Hans NiehuesFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint
Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975 Prof Ryan L Allen 9780226846347
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975. We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic...
Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 Ryan L Allen 9780226846361
Booksplease Price: £24.80Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975. We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic...
Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present by Dylan Riley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Microverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and social theory - in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed 'enforced...
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Qu bec by Roxanne Rimstead 9781442629905
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances,...
Everyday Life and Urban Studies: Moving With Lefebvre Towards the 21st Century Sabine Knierbein 9781032828565
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre's intellectual work...
The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain Mary E. Barnard 9781487565336
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £43.38The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain investigates novel and transformative ways in which writers and artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain conceived of space...
The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin by Carolyn S. Loeb 9781350258600
Booksplease Price: £106.77In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, post-reunification public...
Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life Conor Heaney 9781399529945
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising everyday life in our endeavours to grasp and...
Rights and the City: Problems, Progress, and Practice by Sandeep Agrawal
Booksplease Price: £30.04Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors...
Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention Nathaniel Coleman 9781032800059
Booksplease Price: £57.10Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry...
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual...
Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury: Novel Grounds by Matthew Ingleby 9781137545992
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £48.58This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical...
Key Writings by Elizabeth Lebas
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.70Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. His writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely...
Modern French Marxism by Michael Kelly 9798888907979
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Marxism was a powerful force in French political and intellectual life throughout the twentieth century. Modern French Marxism tells the story of how it dominated the battle of ideas. Michael...
Transforming Education: Design & Governance in Global Contexts by Leon Benade 9789811056772
Booksplease Price: £111.62This book is an edited collection grouped into three key thematic areas. Its authors are researchers and theoretical scholars in the fields of education curriculum, education technology, education...
Transforming Education: Design & Governance in Global Contexts by Leon Benade 9789811354601
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.79This book is an edited collection grouped into three key thematic areas. Its authors are researchers and theoretical scholars in the fields of education curriculum, education technology, education...
Resisting Theologies and the Everyday: Addressing Inequalities in Constructive, Practical, and Liberative Approaches Dr Wren Radford 9780567714053
Booksplease Price: £85.65This powerful volume provides dynamic ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation by engaging with the everyday practices of marginalised communities. In doing so, this collection of...
The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today 2 by Marc James Leger 9781789380880
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.47The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volume of The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means...
Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa's Sanctuary City by Derese G. Kassa 9781498570992
Booksplease Price: £85.65Kenya has been the third major outlet through which hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan flee from political persecution and for better livelihoods. This...
Key Thinkers on Cities by Regan Koch
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.18Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of...
The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization by Andy Merrifield 9780820345307
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £27.16The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains ""important,...
State, Space, World: Selected Essays by Neil Brenner 9780816653171
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation...
Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony by Gillian Hart
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £21.80Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life,"...
Religion, Space, and the Environment by Sigurd Bergmann
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Religions often nurture important skills that help believers locate themselves in the world. Religious perceptions, practices, emotions, and beliefs are closely interwoven with the environments from...
Open Marxism 4: Against a Closing World by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04The publication of the first three volumes of Open Marxism in the 1990s has had a transformative impact on how we think about Marxism in the twenty-first century. 'Open Marxism' aims to think of...
Theory for Religious Studies by William E. Deal
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In this handy volume, two professors of religious studies provide the student of religious studies - whether the motivated undergraduate, graduate student, or professor - with a brief review of...
Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home by Ursula Lang 9780228008569
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.65Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on...
Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks by Charles Martin-Shields 9780228020516
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital...
In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture by Victor Burgin
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an...
Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks by Charles Martin-Shields 9780228020523
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital...
Communicating in the Third Space by Karin Ikas 9780415878401
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Communicating in the Third Space aims to clarify Homi K. Bhabha's theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with...
Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home by Ursula Lang 9780228008989
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on...