Mobility in/for Europe -- The optimistic 90s -- The turn of the century -- Doing mobile ethnography -- On the road in Europe -- A country on wheels -- Belonging to the road -- Speed and smoothness -- Questioning Euro-mobility -- When did mobility turn into europeanness? -- Requiem for a mobile...

This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive...

In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably the Region's cultural hub in terms of...

Variations of order in a new market context -- Changing meaning of bazaar trade in Central Asia -- Organizing collectively : founding a trade union at Dordoi Bazaar -- Adapting to bazaar ownership : business as diplomacy -- Centralizing to modernize : municipal law and order at Osh Bazaar --...

Neue Ausgabe des 'Atlas der Globalisierung' zum Thema Postwachstumsgesellschaft mit über 300 Karten und Grafiken. Wirtschaftswachstum gilt als Allheilmittel im modernen Kapitalismus. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Aber...

The political geography of campaign contributions -- The timing of presidential campaign contributions -- Participation in the early financing of presidential candidates -- A tale of two parties? : do republicans and democratic contenders have different geographical fundraising bases? -- Median...

We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government's type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...