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1. Imagining Organizations

   Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond

   Edited by Paolo Quattrone, Nigel Thrift, Chris Mclean, Francois-Regis Puyou

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are ‘...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
2. Non-Representational Theory

   Space, Politics, Affect

   By Nigel Thrift

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on...

   Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
3. The Price of War

   Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

   By Nigel Thrift, Dean Forbes

   Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam...

   Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
4. Cultural Geography

   Edited by Nigel Thrift, Sarah Whatmore

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Cultural Geography is one of the most vibrant areas of geographical research, encompassing a wide range of issues including the study of space, place and time in culture, as well as the analysis of cultural elements such as artefacts, tools, techniques, attitudes, customs, languages and religious...

   Published October 27th 2004 by Routledge
5. Timespace

   Geographies of Temporality

   Edited by Jon May, Nigel Thrift

   Series: Critical Geographies

   Timespace undermines the old certainties of time and space by arguing that these dimensions do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. The issue of space has perhaps been over-emphasised and it is essential that processes of everyday existence, such as globalisation and environmental...

   Published March 7th 2001 by Routledge
6. City A-Z

   Urban Fragments

   Edited by Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift

   Featuring a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Specially comissioned short entries capture moments of the city, constantly surprising the reader with entries ranging from poetry to...

   Published June 21st 2000 by Routledge
7. Thinking Space

   Edited by Mike Crang, Nigel Thrift

   Series: Critical Geographies

   As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide range of prolific social theorists. Included...

   Published April 12th 2000 by Routledge
8. Money/Space

   Geographies of Monetary Transformation

   By Andrew Leyshon, Nigel Thrift

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money. Money, it...

   Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge
9. Mapping the Subject

   Geographies of Cultural Transformation

   Edited by Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift

   Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. Mapping the Subject is an inter-disciplinary exploration of subjectivity, which focuses on the importance of space in the constitution of acting, thinking, feeling individuals....

   Published August 2nd 1995 by Routledge
10. New Models in Geography

    The Political-Economy Perspective

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift

    Published October 11th 1989 by Routledge