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Branding Cities
Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
Series: Routledge Advances in Geography
Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new...
Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Mapping Women, Making Politics
Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of...
Published October 3rd 2004 by Routledge
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Gender and International Migration in Europe
Employment, Welfare and Politics
Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations. As the European Union seeks to extend equal opportunities, increasingly restrictionist immigration policies and the persistence of racism, deny autonomy and...
Published December 6th 2000 by Routledge