Moss Side, Manchester 1950S/1960S

Moss Side, Manchester 1950S/1960S

Author: Alan Williams

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-03-16

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1543492029

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This book describes the struggles that were endured by our family, arriving in the late 1950s and not knowing Manchester but immediately falling in love with Moss Side.


The Rentier City

The Rentier City

Author: Isaac Rose

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1915672198

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How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? In cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England. Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. The Rentier City traces this story, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities, between rentier and rentee, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in.


Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

Author: Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2024-11-12

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1529223679

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Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest. The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.


The Literary North

The Literary North

Author: K. Cockin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1137026871

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According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism.


Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain

Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain

Author: Melanie Tebbutt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1137604158

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This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future. Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.


Everyday Multiculturalism

Everyday Multiculturalism

Author: A. Wise

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-07-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0230244475

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This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives.


Sir Arthur Lewis

Sir Arthur Lewis

Author: P. Mosley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1137366435

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Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics.


The Empire Strikes Back?

The Empire Strikes Back?

Author: Andrew S. Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1317873882

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`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empire Strikes Back' shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back, affecting in turn England itself.


Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors

Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors

Author: Sue Wilkes

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2013-01-19

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1848847440

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"Sue Wilkes’s accessible and informative handbook outlines Lancashire’s history and describes the origins of its major industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and others. She looks at the stories of important Lancashire families such as the Stanleys, Molyneuxs and Egertons, and famous entrepreneurs such as Richard Arkwright, in order to illustrate aspects of Lancashire life and to show how the many sources available for family and local history research can be used. Relevant documents, specialist archives and libraries, background reading and other sources are recommended throughout this practical book. Also included is a directory of Lancashire archives, libraries and academic repositories, as well as databases of family history societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring Lancashire’s past to life"--Book jacket.


Recipes and Songs

Recipes and Songs

Author: Razia Parveen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-04

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3319502468

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This book presents a systematic approach to the literary analysis of cultural practices. Based on a postcolonial framework of diaspora, the book utilizes literary theory to investigate cultural phenomena such as food preparation and song. Razia Parveen explores various diverse themes, including the female voice, genealogy, space, time, and diaspora, and applies them to the analysis of community identity. This volume also demonstrates how a literary analysis of oral texts helps to provide insight into women’s lived narratives. For example, Parveen discusses how the notion of the ‘third space’ creates a distinctly feminine spatiality.