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Rogues, rebels, and runaways : eighteenth-century Cape characters
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ISBN: 9065500545 Year: 1999 Publisher: Hilversum : Verloren,

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Dependency culture: the explosion of a myth
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ISBN: 0745012264 9780745012261 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Harvester Wheatsheaf,

Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality
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ISBN: 9780745631257 9780745631240 0745631258 074563124X 074563124X Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Polity,

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"Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loic Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment. In European cities, by contrast, the spread of districts of 'exclusion' does not herald the formation of ghettos. It stems from the decomposition of working-class territories under the press of mass unemployment, the casualization of work and the ethnic mixing of populations hitherto segregated, spawning urban formations akin to 'anti-ghettos'."--BOOK JACKET.

Geographies of exclusion: society and difference in the West
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ISBN: 0415119243 0415119251 9780415119252 Year: 1995 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the dominant factor in the creation of social and spatial boundaries. Geographies of Exclusion seeks to identify the forms of social and spatial exclusion, and subsequently examine the fate of knowledge of space and society which has been produced by members of excluded groups. Evaluating writing on urban society by women and black writers the author asks why such work is neglected by the academic establishment, suggesting that both practices which result in the exclusion of minorities and those which result in the exclusion of knowledge have important implications for theory and method in human geography. Drawing on a wide range of ideas from social anthropology, feminist theory, sociology, human geography and psychoanalysis, the book presents a fresh approach to geographical theory, highlighting the tendency of powerful groups to purify' space and to view minorities as defiled and polluting, and exploring the nature of difference' and the production of knowledge.

If you lived here. The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. A Project by Martha Rosler
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ISBN: 156584498X 0941920186 9780941920186 9781565844988 Year: 1991 Publisher: Seattle Bay Press

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"This volume documents the present crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists...within the context of neighborhood organizations, have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation. Through essays, photographs, symposiums, architectural plans and the reproduction of works from the series of exhibitions organized by [Martha] Rosler, the book serves a number of functions: it's a practical manual for community organizing; a history of housing and homelessness in New York City and around the country; and an outline of what a human housing policy might encompass for the American city"--Back cover.

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