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This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of
thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider
skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here 'below' has
a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a
subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle
from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and
consume the city-from the ground up. Since taking to the streets in
the early 1980s, skateboarding has been captured on film, video
tape and digital memory cards, edited into consumable forms and
circulated around the world. Videos are objects amenable to
ethnographic analysis while also archiving exercises in urban
ethnography by their creators. I advocate for taking skate video
seriously as a (fragile) archive of the urban backstage, collective
memory across time and space, creative urban practice, urban
encounters (people-to-people and people-to-object/s), and the
globalization of a subculture at once delinquent and magnificent.
This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in
the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have
long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within
the grand architecture of global climate governance. The region
provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is
constructed, governed, and shaped by (and in turn shapes), regional
and global climate politics. By focusing on climate security as it
is constructed in the Pacific and how this concept mobilises
resources and shapes the implementation of climate finance, the
book provides an up-to-date account of the way regional
organizations in the Pacific have contributed to the search for
solutions to the problem of climate insecurity. In the context of
the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in
2015, the focus of this book on regional governance offers a
concise and innovative account of climate politics in the
prevailing global context and one with implications for the study
of climate security in other regions, particularly in the
developing world.
Race debates have become more frequent at the national level, and
the response to racism in the media and by politicians has shifted
from denial to acknowledgment to action. Focusing on the
experiences of communities from India's Northeast borderland, the
author explores the dynamics of race debates in contemporary India.
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between
global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural
connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the
borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it
demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote,
peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and
state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks,
institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave
development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking
about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation,
territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.
This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of
thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider
skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here 'below' has
a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a
subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle
from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and
consume the city-from the ground up. Since taking to the streets in
the early 1980s, skateboarding has been captured on film, video
tape and digital memory cards, edited into consumable forms and
circulated around the world. Videos are objects amenable to
ethnographic analysis while also archiving exercises in urban
ethnography by their creators. I advocate for taking skate video
seriously as a (fragile) archive of the urban backstage, collective
memory across time and space, creative urban practice, urban
encounters (people-to-people and people-to-object/s), and the
globalization of a subculture at once delinquent and magnificent.
While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the
past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its
major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life
in a smaller city located in India's Northeast borderland at a time
of dramatic change, showing how this city has been profoundly
affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, interethnic
tensions, and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism.
This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in
the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have
long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within
the grand architecture of global climate governance. The region
provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is
constructed, governed, and shaped by (and in turn shapes), regional
and global climate politics. By focusing on climate security as it
is constructed in the Pacific and how this concept mobilises
resources and shapes the implementation of climate finance, the
book provides an up-to-date account of the way regional
organizations in the Pacific have contributed to the search for
solutions to the problem of climate insecurity. In the context of
the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in
2015, the focus of this book on regional governance offers a
concise and innovative account of climate politics in the
prevailing global context and one with implications for the study
of climate security in other regions, particularly in the
developing world.
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