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Convenience Stores as Social Spaces

Author : Cosima Werner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666930784
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Convenience Stores as Social Spaces written by Cosima Werner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquor, tobacco, processed food, and sugary snacks: this is the range of products that are far from healthy available in convenience stores. Yetthese stores have become people’s resource for meeting daily needs in deprived neighborhoods in the United States. In her book, Convenience Stores as Social Spaces: Trust and Relations in Deprived Neighborhoods in the U.S., Cosima Werner explores the contested meanings of these stores and their function as social hubs in a social fabric where poverty, violence, and social neglect are part of peoples’ daily life. Despite the strict security measures around the stores, language barriers, and cultural differences that make convenience stores appear as the antithesis of social spaces, trustful relationships are crucial for residents to access resources such as loans, food, drinks, or information to make ends meet. The concepts of trust and mistrust shed light on the fragility of trust within these communities. Through ethnographic research conducted in Chicago and Detroit, she reveals the unique ways in which these stores are viewed and utilized by residents.

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Author : William Hollingsworth Whyte
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9780970632418
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces written by William Hollingsworth Whyte and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2001 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.

Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges

Author : Emilio Costales
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031074505
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges written by Emilio Costales and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how social entrepreneurship can be used as a tool for addressing grand challenges. Combining leading theoretical insights with rigorous empirical methodologies, the book is the result of field work with 17 social entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom at various points during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a highly innovative theoretical synthesis to discuss the role of social entrepreneurs as potential agents for positive social change, the book introduces the sociomateriality of space, Luhmann’s systems theory, and the social imaginary as missing building blocks in which disruption is created and navigated for creating positive social change. Concluding with a chapter that focuses on the practicalities of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, the authors extend scholarship in social entrepreneurship and provide a comprehensive account of insights gained from the pandemic, demonstrating how these insights can enable the navigation of further grand challenges.

Social Spaces

Author : Joe Boschetti
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781876907624
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Social Spaces written by Joe Boschetti and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without the often formal restrictions of corporate or institutional boundaries, architects and designers of social spaces are free to indulge their creativity. Featuring hospitality, conference, entertainment, education, sporting, cinemas and theatres, ar

Technology and Measurement around the Globe

Author : Louis Tay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515281
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Measurement around the Globe written by Louis Tay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated exploration of the latest insights and advances on the intersection of technology and assessments around the world.

Migrant Sites

Author : Dalia Kandiyoti
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658053
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Sites written by Dalia Kandiyoti and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique comparative study of immigrant and diaspora literatures in America

The Sounds of Social Space

Author : Paul Kendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824877802
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Social Space written by Paul Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A giant statue of a six-pipe musical instrument stands in the heart of Kaili city. Yet despite its prominent placement, intended to convey the essence of the city, residents hold extremely low opinions of music-making in Kaili, particularly when compared to the “authentic” music found in surrounding ethnic minority villages. In this engaging, accessible work, author Paul Kendall investigates this conundrum and comes to terms with conflicting representations of a small southwestern Chinese city branded “the homeland of one hundred festivals.” Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s triad of social space, the book explores the relationship between Kaili’s branding, built environment, and everyday life: how China’s post-Mao built environment hinders and hides everyday music-making, even in a tourist destination for ethnic music; how residents themselves deny or downplay the existence of ethnic music in the city, despite the government’s efforts to promote it; how amateur musicians have constructed generational hierarchies of musical practice within a shifting cityscape. Kendall argues that increased focus on the small city helps counter a tendency to conceive China as either timeless village or futuristic metropolis and enables a more comprehensive understanding of the urban experience, both in China and beyond. He shows that many Kaili inhabitants recognize not only a rural-urban divide—long a dominant geographical notion of China—but also a more complex conceptualization of village, small city, and big city. By interweaving theories of authenticity with an innovative interpretation of space, Kendall shows how the category of “fake” minority emerged from this small city as a surprisingly positive form of self-identification, suggesting that there are ways of not being ethnic, even in often-exoticized southwest China. The Sounds of Social Space makes a distinctive contribution across a range of disciplinary interests, including Chinese studies, urban studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.

Public Space Design and Social Cohesion

Author : Patricia Aelbrecht
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429951043
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Public Space Design and Social Cohesion written by Patricia Aelbrecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities and the increasing intensity of urban life. Public space, in its role as the main stage for social interactions between strangers, clearly plays a role in facilitating or limiting opportunities for social cohesion. But what exactly is social cohesion, how is it experienced in the public realm, and what role can the design of city spaces have in supporting or promoting it? There are significant knowledge gaps between the social sciences and design disciplines and between academia and practice, and thus a dispersed knowledge base that currently lacks nuanced insight into how urban design contributes to social integration or segregation. This book brings together scholarly knowledge at the intersection of public space design and social cohesion. It is based on original scholarly research and a depth of urban design practice, and analyses case studies from a variety of cities and cultures across the Global North and Global South. Its interdisciplinary, cross-cultural analysis will be of interest to academics, students, policymakers and practitioners engaged with a range of subject areas, including urban design, urban planning, architecture, landscape, cultural studies, human geography, social policy, sociology and anthropology. It will also have significant appeal to a wider non-academic readership, given its topical subject matter.

Refugee Imaginaries

Author : Cox Emma Cox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474443214
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Refugee Imaginaries written by Cox Emma Cox and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politicsThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.

The US Housing Crisis

Author : Judith Keller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031577582
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The US Housing Crisis written by Judith Keller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society

Author : Günter Leypoldt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839451892
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society written by Günter Leypoldt and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production. Exploring the nexus between authority and trust is crucial to understand the loss of legitimacy experienced by political, social, and cultural institutions not only in the United States but in Western democracies at large.

Tourism Spaces

Author : Alan A. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000425223
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Tourism Spaces written by Alan A. Lew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic space is a fundamental and essential construct of the physical reality within which we live, move, and construct our world. Through space we create ‘others’ (anything that is any distance from ‘us’) and we experience time (by moving from one place point to another). Because it is so fundamental to our experience, we often take geographic space for granted. Tourism Spaces: Environments, Locations, and Movements shows some of the ways that geographers and other social scientists bring spatial considerations to the forefront of our research and understanding of tourism. This is seen through the spatial arrangements and distributions of tourism phenomena, such as attractions, destinations, and in the spatial behaviour of tourists themselves. Today, these spatial arrangements and patterns are increasingly being captured, analysed, and understood through various forms of formal and informal digital data. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.

New Transnational Social Spaces

Author : Ludger Pries
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113455933X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book New Transnational Social Spaces written by Ludger Pries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent terms such as globalisation, virtual reality, and cyberspace indicate that the traditional notion of the geographic and the social space is changing. New Transnational Social Spaces illustrates the contemporary relationship between the social and the spatial which has emerged with new communication and transportation technologies, alongside the massive transnational movement of people.

Hardship Duty

Author : Stephanie Bonnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197636268
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Hardship Duty written by Stephanie Bonnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past thirty years, it has become evident that the U.S. military faces widespread and ongoing challenges related to harassment and sexual assault. Despite prevention efforts, estimated sexual assaults are increasing, reporting is decreasing, and the problem persists across all branches of the military. Servicewomen who have experienced and survived these abuses drive the analysis in this book, and their voices are central to these pages. In Hardship Duty: Women's Experiences with Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, and Discrimination in the U.S. Military, Stephanie Bonnes focuses on the puzzle of how sexual abuse remains highly prevalent in an organization that has dynamic policies, prevention strategies, and evolving education programs designed to combat sexual violence. Drawing primarily on in-depth interviews with fifty servicewomen, Hardship Duty uncovers how masculinity and misogyny are entangled in the organization's structure, policies, values, physical spaces, and culture in ways that create sexual abuse vulnerability. Bonnes demonstrates how privileging masculinity and denigrating femininity at the organizational level encourages harassment at the interpersonal level, how servicewomen are often forced to cope with harassment and sexual abuse on their own--despite policies designed to assist victims--and how women who do report are often treated like institutional enemies, harassed more, and face resistance from the institution. With multiple stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault from U.S. servicewomen, this book not only opens the doors to a normally closed institution, but it also gives voice to those who are marginalized and often silenced within it.

Site Planning, Volume 3

Author : Gary Hack
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262350955
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Site Planning, Volume 3 written by Gary Hack and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebook Volume 3 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Ebook Volume 3 of 3. Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers. This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to site planning that is global in scope. It covers planning processes and standards, new technologies, sustainability, and cultural context, addressing the roles of all participants and stakeholders and offering extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack wrote the classic text on the subject, and this book takes up where the earlier book left off. It can be used as a textbook and will be an essential reference for practitioners. Site Planning consists of forty self-contained modules, organized into five parts: The Art of Site Planning, which presents site planning as a shared enterprise; Understanding Sites, covering the components of site analysis; Planning Sites, covering the processes involved; Site Infrastructure, from transit to waste systems; and Site Prototypes, including housing, recreation, and mixed use. Each module offers a brief introduction, covers standards or approaches, provides examples, and presents innovative practices in sidebars. The book is lavishly illustrated with 1350 photographs, diagrams, and examples of practice.

Bridging Social and Geographical Space Through Networks

Author : Francesco Iacono
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789464270020
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Bridging Social and Geographical Space Through Networks written by Francesco Iacono and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a bold attempt by the editors to bring scholars from distinct research orientations together, to discuss the interplay between the geographic and social dimensions of different kinds of interaction networks. Within the humanities, networks afford an umbrella of approaches to the study of social relations and their patterning, both through qualitative and quantitative applications, with two main perspectives standing out: those centered.

Housing Market Renewal and Social Class

Author : Chris Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134119380
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Housing Market Renewal and Social Class written by Chris Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing market renewal is one of the most controversial urban policy programmes of recent years. Housing Market Renewal and Social Class critically examines the rationale for housing market renewal: to develop 'high value' housing markets in place of the so-called 'failing markets' of low-cost housing. Whose interests are served by such a programme and who loses out? Drawing on empirical evidence from Liverpool, the author argues that housing market renewal plays to the interests of the middle classes in viewing the market for houses as a field of social and economic 'opportunities', a stark contrast to a working class who are more concerned with the practicalities of 'dwelling'. Against this background of these differing attitudes to the housing market, Housing Market Renewal and Social Class explores the difficult question of whether institutions are now using the housing market renewal programme to make profits at the expense of ordinary working-class people. Reflecting on how this situation has come about, the book critically examines the purpose of current housing market renewal policies, and suggests directions for interested social scientists wishing to understand the implications of the programme. Housing Market Renewal and Social Class provides a unique phenomenological understanding of the relationship between social class and the market for houses, and will be compelling reading for anybody concerned with the situation of working class people living in UK cities.