ANTH 355: Life, Society and Work in the Globalized City: Home
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This guide points to important sources of reliable information that will be useful in completing the Course Paper assignment for ANTH 355.
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Relevant Databases
- ProQuest Social Science DatabaseResearch covering topics in sociology, social work, anthropology, and politics.
- Academic Search PremierJournals and magazines covering many topics in social science and humanties
- Google ScholarFind scholarly books and articles.
- AnthroSourceSearch publications of the American Anthropological Association
- History Search: America, History & Life/Historical AbstractsSearch for articles about the history of the world
- Sociological AbstractsFind articles on the sociological aspects of urbanization and urban life
- PAIS IndexFind articles on public policy, social policy, and the social sciences
Specific Journals
- Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceAn international and interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources.
- International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchFocuses on urban and regional research.
- City & SocietyThe journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, promotes debate and conceptual development in urban, national, and transnational anthropology, particularly in their interrelationships.
- Environment and Planning C: Politics and SpaceAn international journal of critical and interdisciplinary research into the relations between the political and the spatial.
- Environment and Planning E: Nature and SpaceAn international and interdisciplinary journal of nature-society scholarship in fields including political ecology, environmental justice, science and technology studies, conservation and the environmental humanities.
- AntipodePublishes peer-reviewed articles with a focus on critical approaches to geography that push dialogue in the field forward.
- Environment and Planning A: Economy and SpaceA journal of economic research concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development.
Country and City Information
- Encyclopedia of Urban StudiesCovers all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. Includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, and urban social relations.
- World Urbanization Prospects, 2012 Revision HighlightsPublished by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division in April 2012
- Countries and their CulturesFocuses on the cultures of countries around the world. Published in 2001 so some information is not up-to-date.
- CIA World FactbookFor more up-to-date basic information on specific countries
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