First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.

First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.

Power and the Social looks at the different ways power has been theorised from Hobbes to Giddens and at the ways in which the theories have been applied. By bringing together theory and substantive analysis, this invaluable introductory text provides a clear and imaginative account of power and power relations. Within key areas of sociological concern, including race, gender, class, sexuality, the spatial and visual, the processes and structures of power are analysed as well as the way power functions in everyday life.

Migration is an increasingly prominent phenomenon in today's globalizing world and it has been perceived in very different ways. The poetics of exile, the pain of diasporic lives and the celebration of hybridity in popular cultures across the globe are curiously at odds with the ways in which sociologists and economists have tried to conceptualize and analyze migration. In this book, two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt to bridge the gap between experience and analysis, looking at: the ruptured experience of space and time created by migration; the effects of migration on our understanding of national affiliations and the nation state; and the impact of cross national economic relations on everyday life. The authors argue that the figure of the migrant, embodies and condenses out concerns with race, space and time and the politics of belonging. They examine the migration of both rich and poor, crossing borders and living increasingly diasporic lives and show how even as people move across borders, they still seek to be at home in the world through the creation of a "politics of belonging".

Migration is an increasingly prominent phenomenon in today's globalising world and it has been perceived in very different ways. The poetics of exile, the pain of diasporic lives and the celebration of hybridity in popular cultures across the globe are curiously at odds with the ways in which sociologists and economists have tried to conceptualise and analyse migration. In this book, two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt to bridge the gap between experience and analysis, looking at:
*the ruptured experience of space and time created by migration
*the effects of migration on our understanding of national affiliations and the nation state
*the impact of cross national economic relations on everyday life.
The authors argue that the figure of the migrant, embodies and imagined, condenses out concerns with race, space and time and the politics of belonging. They examine the migration of both rich and poor, crossing borders and living increasingly diasporic lives and show how even as people move across borders, they still seek to be at home in the world through the creation of a "politics of belonging".

"Predictable postmodernist analysis of Ecuador's national identity. Examines gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Case study of nation's development out of inchoate space"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Latin America has seen revolutionary governments, authoritarian dictatorships and reformist military administrations; the region has also seen powerful grassroots movements demanding social and political change. Through their active involvement women are seen for the first time as integral to the process of democratization. Yet these women are not a simple unity with shared aims; class and ethnicity create division. "Viva" explores the growing role of women in the formal and informal politics of the countries of Latin America. The authors focus in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of "the nation".

Contents:
Introduction 1. A Brief History of Power 2. Racialised Power 3. Class and Power 4. Engendered Power 5. Sexualised Power 6. Spatial Power 7. Visual Power 8. Re-inventing Power.

eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415144299

"Predictable postmodernist analysis of Ecuador's national identity. Examines gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Case study of nation's development out of inchoate space"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.