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An uncommon humanity -- Part I: Cities -- The urban world -- Part II: Life -- Thinking animals -- Animals thinking -- Part III: Death -- The animal city -- The city of surplus death -- Not meat but still dead -- But some animals do adapt to the city -- Part IV: A new settlement -- Dreaming more human cities 1 -- Dreaming more human cities 2 -- There is another world but it is this one.

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one

This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy. Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy. Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach. Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy. Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a valuable

Prologue -- Looking through the city -- Shifting the beginning: the anthropocene -- How cities think -- The matter of economy -- Frames of poverty -- Epilogue

Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. This text presents an examination of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility