{"title":"Ash Amin","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsh Amin’s works explore the complexities of urban life, offering insightful perspectives on cities and their social, cultural, and economic dynamics. Readers can engage with thoughtful analyses that challenge conventional views on urban development and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on contemporary issues such as nativism and urban networks, Amin’s books provide a compelling blend of academic rigour and accessible writing, making them essential for those interested in education, social sciences, and the evolving nature of city life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"after-nativism-by-ash-amin-9781509557318","title":"After Nativism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncreasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty, and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to Brazil, India, and Turkey, support has grown for a nativist politics attacking migrants, minorities, liberals, and elites as enemies of the nation. Is there a politics of belonging that progressive forces could mobilise to counteract these trends?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Nativism\u003c\/i\u003e takes up this question, arguing that disarming nativism will require more than improving the security and well-being of the 'left-behind'. The lines drawn by nativism are of an affective nature about imagined community, with meanings of belonging and voice lying at the heart of popular perceptions of just dues. This, argues Ash Amin, is the territory that progressive forces – liberal, social democratic, socialist – need to reclaim in order to shift public sentiment away from xenophobic intolerance towards one of commonality amid difference as a basis for facing existential risk and uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book proposes a relational politics of belonging premised on the encounter, fugitive aesthetics, public interest politics, collaboration over common existential threats, and daily collectives and infrastructures of wellbeing. There is ground for progressives to mount a counter-aesthetics of belonging that will convince the discontents of neoliberal globalisation that there is a better alternative to nativism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423710920940,"sku":"9781509557318","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/91pq1LogJ9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774428781"},{"product_id":"cities-by-ash-amin-9780745624143","title":"Cities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanisation as a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and circulations, reinstating previously suppressed areas of contemporary urban life: from the presence of non-human activity to the centrality of distant connections. The implications of this viewpoint are traced through a series of chapters on power, economy and democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis concise and accessible book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies, cultural studies and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCities\u003c\/em\u003e by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift offers insightful perspectives that challenge traditional urban theories and highlight the complexities of modern urban life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460533633260,"sku":"9780745624143","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745624143-cities.jpg?v=1774948769"},{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-city-by-ash-amin-9780745664255","title":"Seeing Like a City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeeing Like a City\u003c\/em\u003e means recognising that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organisation alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuch a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life. More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such networks represent the essence of the city. They also form an important political project, a politics of small interventions with large effects. The increasing evidence for an Anthropocene bears out the way in which humanity has stamped its footprint on the planet by constructing urban forms that act as systems for directing life in ways that create both immense power and immense constraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464198111468,"sku":"9780745664255","price":119.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745664255-seeing-like-a-city.jpg?v=1775041978"},{"product_id":"urban-lifelines-by-ash-amin-9781509575688","title":"Urban Lifelines","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrban Lifelines\u003c\/i\u003e explores the vulnerabilities that cities face in the wake of the climate crisis, health emergencies, uncontrolled artificial intelligence, escalating warfare, growing authoritarianism, and capitalist profligacy. These threats are particularly acute for unprotected urban populations who encounter a precarious future, as powerful elites attempt to leverage urban assets for their advantage amidst uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the majority of city dwellers, the future seems bleak—a foreclosure on hope, characterised by dispossession and impoverishment. Yet, amidst these challenges, what pathways remain for cities to prevent such a dire outcome for those living in modest neighbourhoods?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book delves into the popular practices and knowledges within urban communities, uncovering elements with potential for reparative and curative impacts. In these communities, the engagement with time and adversity involves horizontal relations, place affinities, and restive knowledge—essentially making something out of nothing. These intricate ecologies of urban inhabitation, with their wiles and improvisations, offer a fertile ground for future-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrban Lifelines\u003c\/i\u003e provides a conceptual framework to capture this threatened yet resilient urbanism, showcasing its manifestation on the streets of Kinshasa, Lagos, Mexico City, and Naples. It outlines an infrastructural and aesthetic politics that highlight its potential, enabling an alternative future to emerge despite urban foreclosure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48038626132204,"sku":"9781509575688","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509575688-urban-lifelines.jpg?v=1785394208"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/ash-amin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}