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Convivial Futures

Author : Frank Adloff
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839456649
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Convivial Futures written by Frank Adloff and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.

Convivial Toolbox

Author : Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders
Publisher : Bis Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789063692841
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Convivial Toolbox written by Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders and published by Bis Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generative design research approach brings people served by design directly into the design process. First book on groundbreaking topic.

Amongst Aliens and Ghosts

Author : Edda Starck
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863956109
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Amongst Aliens and Ghosts written by Edda Starck and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2023 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new conservation paradigm, rewilding is quickly gaining popularity across Scotland. Against the urgencies of the Anthropocene, rewilding projects offer hope by imagining radical visions of biodiverse futures that promise liveability not just to humans but a large host of species. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Scotland, this study explores the diverse multispecies temporalities that come to matter within rewilding. Scottish rewilding landscapes are populated by various beings and absences that blur rigid categorisations of linear temporality into past, present, and future. The ghosts of extirpated species continue to shape the becoming of landscapes, and the unruly presence of invasive alien species complicate the convivial ethics of rewilding initiatives. Following the temporal entanglements of various Scottish beasts, this book describes the interconnections between time, death, and belonging in storied landscapes.

Convivial Futures

Author : Frank Adloff
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 373285664X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Convivial Futures written by Frank Adloff and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.

Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies

Author : Tanja Thomas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786607263
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies written by Tanja Thomas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and Participation in Post‐Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming in the research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrant conditions to the discussion – both as conceptual refinements and as empirical studies.

Food and Urbanism

Author : Susan Parham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857854747
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Food and Urbanism written by Susan Parham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it is impossible to create truly resilient and convivial urbanism. Moving from the table and home garden to the town, city, and suburbs, Food and Urbanism explores the connections between food and place in past and present design practices. The book also looks to future methods for extending the 'gastronomic' possibilities of urban space. Supported by examples from places across the world, including the UK, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Australia and the USA, the book offers insights into how the interplay of physical design and socio-spatial practices centred around food can help to maintain socially rich, productive and sustainable urban space. Susan Parham brings together the latest research from a number of disciplines – urban planning, food studies, sociology, geography, and design – with her own fieldwork on a range of foodscapes to highlight the fundamental role food has to play in shaping the urban future.

Radical Environmental Resistance

Author : Heather Alberro
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837973806
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Radical Environmental Resistance written by Heather Alberro and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the role of direct action within times of severe social and ecological upheaval, this book evokes the rich, diverse world that radical environmental activists and indigenous environmental protectors are fighting for.

Politics of the Gift

Author : Frank Adloff
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529226236
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Gift written by Frank Adloff and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the only glue that holds societies together, and people are giving beings and they who can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing utility personal gain in capitalism is broken.

Needful Structures

Author : Marcel Siegler
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839462827
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Needful Structures written by Marcel Siegler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do humans, their needs, and technology interact in society? Marcel Siegler explores the dialectical relationship between human needs and desires, the demands and requirements of the built world, and the forms of organization that hold both humans and the built world together. He argues that complex societal constellations emerge from the actions individuals perform with the technological means at hand to satisfy their needs and desires in the short and long run. Based on a novel, complementary reading of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the study develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the intricate machinations of sociotechnical systems from a perspective on situated human-technology interaction.

The Future is Degrowth

Author : Matthias Schmelzer
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839765844
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Future is Degrowth written by Matthias Schmelzer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals for emancipatory Green New Deals or postcapitalism base their utopian hopes on the development of productive forces, on redistributing the fruits of economic growth and technological progress. Yet growing evidence shows that continued economic growth cannot be made compatible with sustaining life and is not necessary for a good life for all. This book provides a vision for postcapitalism beyond growth. Building on a vibrant field of research, it discusses the political economy and the politics of a non-growing economy. It charts a path forward through policies that democratise the economy, “now-topias” that create free spaces for experimentation, and counter-hegemonic movements that make it possible to break with the logic of growth. Degrowth perspectives offer a way to step off the treadmill of an alienating, expansionist, and hierarchical system. A handbook and a manifesto, The Future Is Degrowth is a must-read for all interested in charting a way beyond the current crises.

Rosewood

Author : Annah Lake Zhu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674260279
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Rosewood written by Annah Lake Zhu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s nouveau riche are purchasing billions of dollars of furniture built from endangered African rosewood. Responding to Western powers’ attempts to stop the trade, Annah Zhu uncovers Chinese initiatives to plant rosewood responsibly and shows how these efforts offer a new path forward for environmentalism in a world no longer ruled by the West.

Convivial Urban Spaces

Author : Henry Shaftoe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136568964
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Convivial Urban Spaces written by Henry Shaftoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite developments in urban design during the last few decades, architects, urban planners and designers often continue to produce areas of bland, commercially led urban fabric that deliver the basic functional requirements of shelter, work and leisure but are socially unsustainable and likely generators of future problems. Convivial Urban Spaces demonstrates that successful urban public spaces are an essential part of a sustainable built environment. Without them we are likely to drift into an increasingly private and polarized society, with all the problems that would imply. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book draws on research, and the literature and theory of environmental psychology and urban design, to advance our understanding of what makes effective public spaces. Practical guidance is illustrated with case studies from the UK, Spain, Germany and Italy. The result is a practical and clearly presented guide to urban public space for planners, architects and students of the urban environment.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography

Author : John A. Agnew
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119250439
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography written by John A. Agnew and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an indispensable overview to the field, representing both historical and contemporary perspectives. Edited and written by the world's leading authorities in the discipline Divided into three major sections: Foundations (the history of human geography from Ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century); The Classics (the roots of modern human geography); Contemporary Approaches (current issues and themes in human geography) Each contemporary issue is examined by two contributors offering distinctive perspectives on the same theme

Communication and Human Rights

Author : Cees J. Hamelink
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509557512
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Communication and Human Rights written by Cees J. Hamelink and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights and communication are deeply connected: human rights need communication to expose violations and to offer platforms for dialogue, while communication needs human rights to provide standards for free speech and confidentiality. Together, they confront the reality of today’s social and international order in which justice and understanding often seem unattainable. In this book, Cees J. Hamelink guides the reader through the historical evolution of communication and human rights. In this original framework, he discusses topics such as the right to communicate and freedom of expression, as well as major challenges posed by the environmental crisis and digital technologies. With authority, he passionately argues that ‘communicative justice’ is the ultimate goal of applying the international human rights regime to different forms of communication. This goal can only be achieved if we manage to move from the prevailing ‘thin’ liberal conception of human rights to a ‘thick’ cosmopolitan conception of them. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars in this area, this wide-ranging book will be of interest to students of media and communication, human rights scholars, as well as practitioners, activists and anyone interested in applying the notion of justice to the basis of human existence: communication.

Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities

Author : Alina Rzepnikowska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135123353X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities written by Alina Rzepnikowska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large-scale migration brought about by the expansion of the EU over a decade ago led to migration from less ethnically diverse countries to multicultural and super-diverse societies. This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona, with attention to the ways in which difference is negotiated and managed through everyday practices of conviviality, which help to overcome hierarchies and create elements of sameness. Illustrating how cultural differences may become important resources for interaction that facilitates positive relationships, Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities draws on the narratives of Polish migrant women to shed new light on everyday social relations between migrant women and local populations, including settled ethnic minorities and other migrants. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding of the positional nature of racial identification and complicates our ideas of whiteness and privilege.

In the Vineyard of the Text

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226372367
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book In the Vineyard of the Text written by Ivan Illich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In the Vineyard, as in all of Illich's writings, the search runs through accepted certainties, whatever their times and places, questioning them for truths still valid in the formation of personal wisdom.'-Mother Jerome von Nagel, O.S.B., Abbey of Regina LaudisThis book commemorates the dawn of scholastic reading. It tells about the emergence of an approach to letters that George Steiner calls bookish, and which for eight hundred years legitimated the establishment of western secular religion, and schooling its church.

Urban Geography

Author : Tim Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317313534
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Urban Geography written by Tim Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. The text critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas: the urban world changing approaches to urban geography urban form and structure economy and the city urban politics planning, regeneration and urban policy cities and culture architecture and urban landscapes images of the city experiencing the city housing and residential segregation transport and mobility in cities sustainability and the city. This edition builds on the success of the comprehensively revised fourth edition and provides revised chapters on transport/mobility and urban futures, with additional updating of readings and some case studies. The book synthesises a wide range of literature on each subject and presents the material in a lively engaging way, supported by an expanded range of student friendly features, including exercises and suggestions for further study.