Based on extensive fieldwork, Axelsson examines how Chinese imports have come to be perceived as threats to the Ghanaian economy and nation by virtue of being either smuggled, counterfeit or ‘morally unjust’. This construction as unjust is because these textiles are produced in China and therefore will not provide employment for Ghanaian workers, while simultaneously drawing symbolic value national culture.

In this book, Ngũgĩ revisits these themes to consider new prospects for the creation and expansion of a literary space freed from the “straightjackets of nationalism.” He calls forth and performs a literary space of “globalectics” where, like a globe, on the surface every point is equally a center, though each is also equidistant from the internal center (page 8)

Based on six years of ethnographic work by the author when he was living and working in Tokyo, "Roppongi Crossing" explores the shifting socialities and rhythms of streetlife in one of the city’s most vibrant and notorious nightlife and entertainment districts.

In their book Turowski and Marciniak guide us through ‘the post-socialist, hybridized terrain where the democratic colours of western consumerism clash with the monochromatic anachronisms of the old socialist reality’ (page 15). These are their ‘streets of crocodiles’, a metaphor they borrow from the title of the celebrated Polish-Jewish author Bruno Schultz’s short story that figures 1920s Eastern European pseudo-Americanism and urban decay into the ‘miserable intimations of metropolitan splendor’ (page 13, quote from Schultz).

Holland has located and studied in detail a number of important sources and incorporated them with material from other sources — newspapers and trade journals, for example — to create a fascinating, detailed appreciation of how settlers in a new land of which they had little if any prior knowledge learned by trial and error, operating often on the basis of environmental understandings based on misapprehensions that New Zealand’s climate and environments were similar to those of their Mediterranean antipodes (having failed to seek much from those—the Maori—who preceded and lived alongside them there).

This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.

Given the growing recent engagement of geographers with visual methodologies, an approach which has been far more popular within the fields of anthropology and sociology, Bignante’s aim is to provide a series of exemplifications of the use of such methodologies within geographical research practice. The book’s intent, in other words, is to show why and how geographers should use visual techniques in their research activities.

This is a book of short essays that bridges diverse political themes and histories, disciplinary backgrounds, and geographical scales through a resolute engagement with motifs of division. The essays share an empirical focus on the cities and border-zones of post Cold-War Europe, and a conceptual interest in complex processes of social and spatial identity formation.

Now, in the post- Cold War era, East and Central European cities are not so much carriers of specific developments, trends or classes, but can be considered showcases or laboratories for post-socialist transformation at large. In "Chasing Warsaw" Monika Grubbauer and Joanna Kusiak try to chase one of these cities and its transformations.

This book presents the ways in which cosmopolitanism was practiced and sustained in them and discusses its decline in nationalistic contexts as well as its transformation in our contemporary globalized world. A sense of nostalgia for something precious being lost underpins this diverse collection of case studies that include the cities of Odessa (three chapters), Tbilisi, Warsaw, Venice, Thessalonica, and Dushanbe.