IMAGES OF POWER AND THE POWER OF IMAGES

Control, Ownership, and Public Space

Edited by Judith Kapferer

By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. By deconstructing the taken for- granted definitions of social value (democracy, equality, individualism, fortune), they reveal the ideological role of imagery and imagination in a globalized political context.

EXTREME HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands

Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino

"The book is highly topical. It brings into sharp focus one of the pressing problems of our times: the growing tension between finite land/space, especially on islands, and the mounting pressure generated by increasing population growth, tourism, and global warming."  �  Jeremy Boissevain, University of Amsterdam

ERNST L. FREUD, ARCHITECT

The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home

Volker M. Welter

"...[I]nnovative and very rich in new perspectives on European domestic architecture after WWI. As well as revealing the life and work of a little known architect with a famous family name, it discusses major theoretical questions of an overlooked aspect in twentieth-century architecture: the bourgeois home (contrary to social mass-housing)."  �  Edina Meyer-Maril, Tel Aviv University  

"This excellent and timely collection of essays follows in the wake of several recent works that constitute what can be discerned as a revival in studies of the Mediterranean region. Far from a return to outmoded social anthropological models of the area, or a recapitulation of tourist-industry driven fantasies of shared cultural values, the essays gathered here cast a critical eye, and ear, on the ways in which the Mediterranean has been reconceived and performed in the context of national and transnational programs of political and economic consolidation...the book adds considerably to our understanding of the politics of place and culture in this contested region and will be essential reading for students and scholars of the region for years to come." � Anthropos 

"This is an excellent study of an important and timely topic that is of relevance not only for the people involved but for the wider areas of Israel and the Arab world. It is a comprehensive detailed description and analysis of a process of change and transformation that started in 1948 and continues until the present." � Donald AbdAllah Cole, The American University in Cairo 

CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN RUSSIAN CITIES

The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era

Edited by Cordula Gdaniec

"[This] book makes it evident that space, place, and territory are factors to be taken seriously in any further exploration of the nation-building process, nationalism, the formation of national and urban identities, and the impact of globalization on cities. This theoretical insight, combined with the empirical analyses of numerous sites, processes, phenomena, and practices make [it] important and thought-provoking reading that needs to be considered not only for those focusing on Russia, but for Eastern Europe as well."  �  Social and Cultural Geography

"...a fascinating study of the social and political processes of urban development as well as the inherent complexity surrounding the definition of place...an interesting and sharp ethnography. I can recommend the book to anyone interested in contemporary government, the market and citizen engagement." � Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropologcial Society