City in Common

City in CommonAddresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures. In this book James Scorer argues that culture remains a force for imagining inclusive urban futures based around what inhabitants of the city have in common. Using Buenos Aires as his case study, Scorer takes the urban commons to be those aspects of the city that are shared and used by its various communities. Exploring a hugely diverse set of works, including literature,

banned from publication but widely distributed in pirated and heavily edited copies

and describes the role of unions in the current wave of educational reform

Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy

Rodolphe Gasché returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding it-not as an operation or method to reach an elusive outside

Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist

Addresses conceptual and theoretical foundations of simulation in nursing education

the geological age in which humans have altered the natural world to such an extent that nature and culture can no longer be separated

Centre for Gender Research

through recent debates on liberalism and communitarianism

Dissatisfied with the rule of King John

the adventure opens in medias res

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