Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times [Hardback, B&W]

The United Nations predicts that by the year 2050 almost 70% of the planet's population will be living in cities. The onus on social scientists is to explain the contemporary challenges posed by the urbanization of the world. A growing body of literature raises the alarm about the precarity of human existence in the uncertain conditions of rapidly transforming contemporary cities. This volume brings together a diverse collection of new ethnographies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622737687
• ISBN13: 9781622737680
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"