Jennifer Robinson

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA's ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award WITH A BRAND-NEW AFTERWORD FOR 2024 COVERING RUSSELL BRAND, LUIS RUBIALES AND OTHER CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD 'A stunning book; as vital as it is compelling... a must-read for women and allies alike' -Harriet Johnson, author of Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It'Crucial reading for any person wanting to fight gendered abuse' -Jess Phillips'If you read anything this year, make sure it's this' -Daisy May CooperIn 2017, allegations against Harvey Weinstein prompted a worldwide sharing of sexual harassment and abuse stories on social media. Just as #MeToo began to empower survivors to speak out about their abuse, perpetrators and their lawyers got to work trying to silence them. In Silenced Women, leading human rights barristers Jennifer Robinson and Dr Keina Yoshida expose the ways that the establishment has mobilised against change and sought to reinforce a system that keeps women voiceless. From the difference between the Amber Heard cases in the UK and the US, to the story of how Zelda Perkins became the first person to break her NDA against Weinstein, they draw on their own and others' cases to explain how the law is being used to curtail women's free speech - and what we can do to fight back.

COMPARATIVE URBANISM ‘Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson’s approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.’ Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore ‘How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.’ AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe. The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.

COMPARATIVE URBANISM ‘Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson’s approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.’ Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore ‘How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.’ AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe. The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.

It was bad enough to have come out of a chronic illness like Lyme's Disease with her positive energy intact. When Jennifer surveyed the new year, she was full of hope and so many plans. This go-getter lived for family and friend get-togethers, adventurous trips, and dinner parties at her comfortable home in Middle America. Her house was Party Central when the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl. But by the time March Madness rolled around, the basketball court lights went off. Just like they went off in other sporting arenas and in businesses and schools all over the world. The Covid-19 pandemic threatened to destroy Jennifer's carefully re-constructed life and her persona. She had dubbed herself a Joy Warrior in a little book she wrote to describe her journey to physical and spiritual wellness from the close brush with death she experienced prior to 2018. All too soon in 2020, she had to really strengthen her invisible suit of armor when isolation and a killer virus threatened the world. But the virus was just one curveball that the year lobbed at Jennifer's family. First, there was the murder of George Floyd, which this bastion of a mixed-race family took quite personally. And then there was the small tumor growing in her usually invincible husband's brain. Using instructive metaphors, a lot of dry wit, and a huge love for mankind, this dynamo of a woman teaches us all ways to persevere in the face of insurmountable obstacles. Not only does Jennifer persist and deflect all the Covid curveballs; she takes a public and vocal stand and fights some age-old prejudices and injustice. This woman of white privilege suddenly discovers what her children and husband have always feared as she fights the status quo in her middle-class neighborhood.

Blaze Bar is the hottest thing in the Atlanta bar and lounge scene, and Monica "Mo" Mack has pushed aside her family drama and used her marketing genius to build it up. She's on the brink of success, and she just needs a little financial backing to make it all come together. When Mo finds a potential investor in Andre "Dre" Restin, a handsome businessman on the come up, she thinks all her prayers have been answered. But Dre sees the agreement as more than just an investment opportunity, and Mo quickly finds herself struggling to maintain her relationship with her boyfriend, Nicholas, while fighting her attraction to her new business partner. Soon Dre's attraction, money, and shady past bring more problems than Mo is prepared for. Compromising positions cause her world to begin to crumble. She's worked hard and sacrificed a lot to get to where she is, but will her family, friends, and relationship still be standing when it all falls down?

It took years for Jennifer Robinson's healing team to reach a diagnosis for the symptoms that had been plaguing this go-getter. While coordinating multiple special events professionally and for family, Robinson masked the symptoms of fatigue, pain, thirst, dimming vision, muscle weakness, constant headache and loss of body mass with Benadryl, M & Ms and caffeine. It took a trip to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to uncover Jennifer's thyroid cancer, but that wasn't the whole story. The real problem started years earlier when she went on a lengthy walk for a breast cancer benefit. She did not realize she had been bitten by an infected tick. There was no bullseye rash. When doctors told Jennifer she had Chronic Lyme Disease all she could think of was that she didn't have a dog. How could she have been exposed to a tick? She quickly discovered she was in for the fight of her life with a disease that is growing in epidemic proportions. A disease that doesn't have a cure and is nearly impossible to diagnose. A disease with treatment protocols that few insurance companies will even cover. But Jennifer Robinson had #TeamJennifer, a tribe of family, friends and healers who helped her find a way through the hell of ill health and near death. In joy warrior Robinson traces the saga of her disease and her comeback, a saga made possible only when a woman who aimed for perfection and the masking of her emotional baggage became quiet enough to hear the whispers of the universe. She learned to meditate. She found the Hansa Center for Optimal Health and a number of medical professionals. She found strength from her beloved husband, family and wonderful friends. And now she has a new purpose as a para-educator who teaches mindfulness and meditation at a local middle school. This new joy warrior wants to spread the word about the need for education and advocacy on the Lyme Disease epidemic. Her first book is another step on her journey to wholeness and healing from the years she was living at only half of her potential.

Conversations of the Heart is the second book of poetry from the heart and passion of Jennifer Robinson. Writing is a way of life, the way she speaks, the way she shares her emotions. These new poems are the follow up to her first collection of poetry But...there's love. Let the words of her heart take you on a journey through love, passion, heartbreak and happiness.

This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization through historical time, (b) the role of cities as centers of production and work in a globalizing world, and (c) the diverse housing and shelter needs of urban populations. The book also explores a number of critical urban problems and the political challenges that they pose. Empirical evidence from urban situations on all five continents is brought into play throughout the discussion.

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as ‘ordinary’, and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labelled ‘Third World’). It considers the two framing axes of urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves. Tracking paths across previously separate literatures and debates, this innovative book - a postcolonial critique of urban studies - traces the outlines of a cosmopolitan approach to cities, drawing on evidence from Rio, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Kuala Lumpur. Key urban scholars and debates, from Simmel, Benjamin and the Chicago School to Global and World Cities theories are explored, together with anthropological and developmentalist accounts of poorer cities. Offering an alternative approach, Ordinary Cities skilfully brings together theories of urban development for students and researchers of urban studies, geography and development.

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as ‘ordinary’, and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labelled ‘Third World’). It considers the two framing axes of urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves. Tracking paths across previously separate literatures and debates, this innovative book - a postcolonial critique of urban studies - traces the outlines of a cosmopolitan approach to cities, drawing on evidence from Rio, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Kuala Lumpur. Key urban scholars and debates, from Simmel, Benjamin and the Chicago School to Global and World Cities theories are explored, together with anthropological and developmentalist accounts of poorer cities. Offering an alternative approach, Ordinary Cities skilfully brings together theories of urban development for students and researchers of urban studies, geography and development.