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Originally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia from a gender perspective.

In the context of increasing division and segregation in cities across the world, along with pressing concerns around austerity, environmental degradation, homelessness, violence, and refugees, this book pursues a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice in the city.

Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings and practices in everyday life, embedded in the socio-economics of local water provision. Each chapter aims to capture one element of water's fluid existence in the world, as material object, cultural representation, as movement, as actor, as practice and as ritual. The book explores the...

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Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings and practices in everyday life, embedded in the socio-economics of local water provision. Each chapter aims to capture one element of water’s fluid existence in the world, as material object, cultural representation, as movement, as actor, as practice and as ritual. The book explores the...

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Concerned with the borders and boundaries, constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating difference in public, this book interrogates how difference is negotiated and performed. It helps us re-imagine urban public space as a site of potentiality, difference, and enchanted encounters.

Through her investigation of the more ordinary and less dramatic forms of encounter and contestation in the city, author Sophie Watson is able to conceive of an urban public realm and urban public space that is heterogeneous and potentially progressive.

Winner of the Gold Medal for Western Canadian Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards Cadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two music-smitten twentysomething women as they search for love and purpose. Annie Jones is trying to put her big love, Sullivan...

Engendering Social Policy brings new and fresh perspectives to the question of how social policy constructs gendered social relations. With the restructuring of welfare firmly back on the political agenda, in the context of a reassertion that traditional families are the backbone of society, this book raises important issues for students, academics and practitioners grappling with social policy issues at the end of the millennium.Articles in t...

Open-air markets are as old as the market towns they spawned, but in the modern world of 24-hour shopping, credit cards, superstores, sprawling malls, and one-stop shopping, do they still have a place in the contemporary social landscape? Are continental and farmers' markets the answer? What do shoppers, traders, and councils have to say about the places they shop in, work in, and control? Markets as Sites for Social Interaction is the first c...