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Author : Andrew Herscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517912222
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Global Shelter Imaginary written by Andrew Herscher and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Herscher
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966028
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Global Shelter Imaginary written by Andrew Herscher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation’s Better Shelter to Airbnb’s Open Homes program, the consumer economy has engaged the global refugee crisis with seemingly new tactics that normalize an institutionally sanctioned politics of evasion. Exploring “the global shelter imaginary,” this book charts the ways shelter functions as a form of rightless relief that expels recognition of the rights of the displaced and advances political paradoxes of displacement itself.
Author : Irit Katz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960801
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Common Camp written by Irit Katz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond The Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and struggling over specific territories and populations. Focusing on the geopolitical complexity of Israel–Palestine and the dramatic changes it has experienced during the past century, this book explores the region’s extensive networks of camps and their existence as both a tool of colonial power and a makeshift space of resistance. Examining various forms of camps devised by and for Zionist settlers, Palestinian refugees, asylum seekers, and other groups, Irit Katz demonstrates how the camp serves as a common thread in shaping lands and lives of subjects from across the political spectrum. Analyzing the architectural and political evolution of the camp as a modern instrument engaged by colonial and national powers (as well as those opposing them), Katz offers a unique perspective on the dynamics of Israel–Palestine, highlighting how spatial transience has become permanent in the ongoing story of this contested territory. The Common Camp presents a novel approach to the concept of the camp, detailing its varied history as an apparatus used for population containment and territorial expansion as well as a space of everyday life and subversive political action. Bringing together a broad range of historical and ethnographic materials within the context of this singular yet versatile entity, the book locates the camp at the core of modern societies and how they change and transform.
Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739136992
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Global Industrial Complex written by Steven Best and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power—what the editors refer to as “the power complex”—that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional relationships of the power complex combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production, While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex—a grand power complex of complexes—thus poses one of the most formidable challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this emerging educational and political project.
Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192846167
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s written by David L. Pike and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the spectre of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms from comics, movies, and pulp paperbacks to policy documents, protest movements, and survivalist tracts. Illustrated with photographs, artwork, and movie and television stills of real and imagined fallout shelters and other bunker fantasies, award-winning author David L. Pike's continues his decades-long exploration of the meanings of modern undergrounds. Ranging widely across disciplines, this volume finds unexpected connections between cultural icons and forgotten texts, plumbs the bunker's stratifications of class, region, race, and gender, and traces the often unrecognized through-lines leading from the 1960s and the less-studied 1980s into the present. Although the Cold War ended over 30 years ago, its legacy looms large in anxieties around security, borders, and all manners of imminent apocalypse. Treating the bunker in its concrete presence and in its flightiest fantasies while attending equally to its uniquely American desires and pathologies and to its global impact, Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s proposes a new way to understand the outsized afterlife of the bunkered decades.
Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526174030
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book After the end written by David L. Pike and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world’s peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.
Author : After Oil Collective
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296811X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Solarities written by After Oil Collective and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Far from presenting solarity as a utopian solution to the climate crisis, it critically examines the ambiguous potentials of solarities: plural, situated, and often contradictory. Here, a diverse collective of activists, scholars, and practitioners critically engage a wide range of relationships and orientations to the sun. They consider the material and infrastructural dimensions of solar power, the decolonial and feminist promises of decentralized energy, solarian relations with more-than-human kin, and the problem of oppressive and weaponized solarities. Solarities imagines—and demands— possibilities for energy justice in this transition.
Author : Mark Foster Gage
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452971145
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book On the Appearance of the World written by Mark Foster Gage and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World, Mark Foster Gage asks why. He imagines a future scenario where architectural design and ideas from aesthetic philosophy align toward the production of a built world that is more humane, habitable, beautiful, and just.
Author : Baldur Thorhallsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367354152
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Small States and Shelter Theory written by Baldur Thorhallsson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper. Iceland provides an ideal case study for shelter theory, due both to its smallness as compared with its larger neighbouring states, as well as its status as both an entity and then as a state. That Iceland has historically been so isolated, relative to other small European states, also makes it easier to trace the country's interactions with other actors, since the impact of each interaction can be measured more definitively thus broadening the theory's validity and offering new insights into its operations. The contributors to this volume focus on the extent of Iceland's external engagement with other states and the domestic consequences of this interaction. Societal shelter, in terms of transfer of norms and values, is as of much importance as economic and political shelter. By unpacking the structure of Iceland's external relations, this book demonstrates both the size-related disadvantages and the unique needs of small states to evaluate, explain, and predict small state behaviour. This book will be of interest to all scholars in international relations, especially those interested in small state behaviour.
Author : Gabriel Arboleda
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813948002
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Sustainability and Privilege written by Gabriel Arboleda and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social design—the practice of designing for poverty relief—is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture. Its advocates, focusing on the architect’s creativity and good intentions, are overwhelmingly laudatory, while its detractors, concerned with the experience of its beneficiaries, have dismissed it as an expression of cultural imperialism. Placed midway between innocuous celebration and radical critique, Sustainability and Privilege highlights the lessons that can be learned from social design’s current limitations and proposes a feasible way to improve this practice. In this broad-ranging account, enlivened by fieldwork and case studies, Gabriel Arboleda contends that social design’s invocation of sustainability often serves to marginalize and displace vulnerable populations through projects that involve experimentation of faulty alternative technologies, or that result in so-called green gentrification, or that impose untoward economic and other burdens. Arboleda is fiercely critical of the way social design has been carried out in impoverished regions of the world, most notably in Africa and Latin America. In addressing the challenges posed by issues of privilege in social design’s use of sustainability, the book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach called ethnoarchitecture, arguing for a simpler, open-ended, and stakeholder-driven process that eliminates the casual imposition of the architect’s ideas on vulnerable populations, foregrounding the people’s voices, experience, and input in social design practice.
Author : Mark J.P. Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317268288
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More’s classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.
Author : Anna Lukasiewicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811924287
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Complex Disasters written by Anna Lukasiewicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Edited book introduces the concept of complex disasters and considers both disaster risks and impacts across the disaster management spectrum – Prevention – Preparation – Response and Recovery. Three types of complex disasters are analysed – ‘Compound’, ‘Cascading’ and ‘Protracted’. Case studies include hazards from fires, through to floods, sea level rise and typhoons are explored through case studies from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Each is written by scholars and/or practitioners with acknowledged expertise in the field and most chapters are based on detailed case studies of ongoing or recent research projects. The book will be useful to researchers in climate, disaster, or environmental and economic policy, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies, and practitioners and policy makers applying disaster theory and knowledge into policy and decision-making.
Author : Prasanna S
Publisher : Institute of Legal Education
ISBN 13 : 8196439172
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (964 download)
Download or read book EMPOWERMENT AND EQUALITY NAVIGATING HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN A COMPLEX WORLD written by Prasanna S and published by Institute of Legal Education. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Reader, It is with great pleasure that we present to you our latest publication, "Empowerment and Equality: Navigating Human Rights Law in a Complex World." This edited book is a culmination of extensive research, thoughtful contributions, and the collective expertise of esteemed scholars and practitioners in the field of human rights. In a world marked by dynamic socio-political landscapes, this book serves as a compass, guiding readers through the intricate web of human rights law. "Empowerment and Equality" delves into the complexities and challenges that arise in the pursuit of justice, empowerment, and equality for all individuals, irrespective of their background or circumstances. This book brings together voices from academia, legal practice, and activism, creating a comprehensive resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human rights in our complex world. It is our sincere hope that the insights and perspectives shared within these pages will inspire meaningful dialogue, academic inquiry, and, most importantly, positive action. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the contributors who have dedicated their time and expertise to this project. Their commitment to advancing human rights and promoting equality is evident in the richness and diversity of the content presented. As publishers, we take pride in being part of the dissemination of knowledge that can contribute to positive change. "Empowerment and Equality" aligns with our commitment to publishing works that have the potential to shape conversations, influence policies, and ultimately contribute to a more just and equitable world. We hope you find this book both informative and inspiring. May it serve as a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, activists, and all those passionate about the advancement of human rights. Thank you for choosing Institute of Legal Education as your source for thought-provoking and impactful literature.
Author : Fernando Luiz Lara
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527576531
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas written by Fernando Luiz Lara and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents an innovative and provocative set of concepts to understand the spaces of the Americas through local lenses. The disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter; however, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge in these fields originates in another continent and is external to the lived experience in such regions. The book introduces seven new concepts that have not been sufficiently addressed, and would make a significant contribution to the field: namely, gridded spaces; spaces of agriculture; space as image; watered spaces; spaces as labor; racialized spaces; and gendered spaces. This book, thus, introduces a broader conceptual framework to foster the analysis of the spatial histories of the Americas.
Author : Lisa Diedrich
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452971226
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism written by Lisa Diedrich and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How illness on social media reveals the struggle for care and access against ableism and stigma Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. Lisa Diedrich shows how illness- and disability-oriented hashtags serve as portals into how and why illness and disability are sites of political struggle and how illness politics is informed by, intersects with, and sometimes stands in for sexual, racial, and class politics. She argues that illness politics is central—and profoundly important—to both mainstream and radical politics, and she investigates the dynamic intersection of media and health and health-activist practices to show the ways their confluence affects our perception and understanding of illness.
Author : Sabina E. Vaught
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452968047
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The School-Prison Trust written by Sabina E. Vaught and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples The School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison models, and deployed in the long war against Native peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest. Following the stories of an incarcerated young man named Jakes, the authors consider features of school–prison relations for young Native people to ask urgent questions about Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance, and refusal.
Author : Tia Trafford
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452970793
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Everything is Police written by Tia Trafford and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to worldmaking Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result, Tia Trafford argues here, is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, this book examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious—way of managing our world.
