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Landscapes of Hope

Author : Dohra Ahmad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190450320
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Hope written by Dohra Ahmad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. Dohra Ahmad adds to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this growing anti-colonial literature as part of an American utopian tradition. In the key early decades of the twentieth century, Ahmad shows, the intellectuals of the colonized world carried out the heady work of imagining independent states, often from a position of exile. Faced with that daunting task, many of them composed literary texts--novels, poems, contemplative essays--in order to conceptualize the new societies they sought. Beginning by exploring some of the conventions of American utopian fiction at the turn of the century, Landscapes of Hope goes on to show the surprising ways in which writers such as W.E B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Rabindranath Tagore, and Punjabi nationalist Lala Lajpat Rai appropriated and adapted those utopian conventions toward their own end of global colored emancipation.

Reciprocal Landscapes

Author : Jane Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317569059
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Reciprocal Landscapes written by Jane Hutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.

Landscapes of the Secular

Author : Nicolas Howe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637677X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of the Secular written by Nicolas Howe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chapter 3 has been revised and expanded from a previously published article by Nicolas Howe, "Thou Shalt Not Misinterpret: Landscape as Legal Performance," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, April 15, 2008."

Landscapes of Power

Author : Dana E. Powell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372290
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Power written by Dana E. Powell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic account shows how the coal-fired power plant project's defeat provided the basis for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of twenty-first-century colonial conditions. Ultimately, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure within broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.

Solidarity

Author : K. Bayertz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401592454
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Solidarity written by K. Bayertz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solidarity as a phenomenon lies like an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of our age. Until now, the geologists familiar with this landscape - ethicists and moral theorists - have taken it for granted, have circumnavigated it! in any case, they have been incapable of moving it. In the present volume, scientists from diverse disciplines discuss and examine the concept of solidarity, its history, its scope and its limits.

Landscapes of Voluntarism

Author : Christine Milligan
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847429068
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Voluntarism written by Christine Milligan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appeal of voluntary action as a solution to growing welfare needs in advanced capitalist countries raises important questions about the social impacts and spatial equity of such provision. This book addresses these issues and explores the complex relationship between voluntary action, society and space.

Organizing the Landscape

Author : Andrew Herod
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903361
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Organizing the Landscape written by Andrew Herod and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forests and Landscapes

Author : Stephen Richard John Sheppard
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 0851995004
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Forests and Landscapes written by Stephen Richard John Sheppard and published by CABI. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests are an important component in the visual appeal of landscapes. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of this subject among foresters and environmental scientists. Increasingly, forest resource managers must consider the aesthetic consequences of timber harvesting operations and management plans. This book is the first to address this subject area. It consists of 15 chapters and is divided into four parts. It brings together not only foresters and ecologists, but also landscape architects, psychologists and philosophers. It should therefore attract a wide readership. Contributors are leading research workers in their subjects, from Canada, the USA and UK.

Labor Geographies

Author : Andrew Herod
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572306851
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Labor Geographies written by Andrew Herod and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of the geographic transformations wrought by capitalism generally treat corporations as the primary agents of spatial change. We hear of billions of dollars flowing here, factories moving there, venture capitalists opening up new markets, and workers having to "take it or leave it." Yet labor too is increasingly thinking and acting geographically, whether by struggling to impose national contracts; building regional, national, or international links of solidarity; or engaging in debates over local economic development. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging discipline of labor geography. Combining innovative theoretical analysis with empirical case studies from around the world, Herod examines the spatial contexts and scales in which workers live, organize, and work to address particular economic and political problems. The first book-length text of its kind, this is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in working-class life, workers' organizations, and the contemporary dynamics of capitalism.

Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities

Author : Mariusz Czepczynski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317156404
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities written by Mariusz Czepczynski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision of a utopian landscape. Architecture, urban planning and the visual arts were considered to be powerful means of expressing the 'people's power'. However, since the velvet revolutions of 1989, this urban scenery has been radically transformed by new forces and trends, infused by the free market, democracy and liberalization. This has led to 'landscape cleansing' and 'recycling', as these former communist nations used new architectural, functional and social forms to transform their urbanscapes, their meanings and uses. Comparing case studies from different post-socialist cities, this book examines the culturally conditional variations between local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general processes and systems. It considers the contemporary cultural landscapes of these post-socialist cities as a dynamic fusion of the old communist forms and new free-market meanings, features and democratic practices, of global influences and local icons. The book assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social, cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides important insights.

The Future of Cities and Regions

Author : Liliana Bazzanella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400725175
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Cities and Regions written by Liliana Bazzanella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for tomorrow’s urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions. Key questions addressed are: Is simulation useful to explore the effects of different design, policy and planning strategies? Which approach will help manage the uncertainties of metropolitan areas both today and tomorrow ? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the different simulation practices for city leadership, public and private partnership, and citizen involvement? The book reviews computer models and media, socio-political initiatives, professional practices which help communicating the future effects of different design, political and planning strategies with a wide range of aims: from information, through consultation, towards active participation. These world best practices are considered according to four leading issues for urban and regional development, respectively Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Government and Governance, and Scale. The book examines the approaches adopted technically and procedurally. The selected knowledge and the innovative tools used in each case study are among the most advanced and up-to-date in the professional and research fields. This volume successfully illustrates these innovative practices and methodologies in a straightforward and accessible way.

Shaping the Corporate Landscape

Author : Nina Boeger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509914315
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Corporate Landscape written by Nina Boeger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, there exists a distrust of corporate activity in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and with increasing recognition of the threats of climate change and global, as well as national, inequalities. Despite efforts in the arena of corporate governance to address these, we are still beset with corporate scandals and witness companies facing large fines for their environmental and cost-cutting misdemeanours. Recognising that the usual responses to dealing with these corporate problems are not effective, this book asks whether the traditional form of the joint stock corporation itself lies at the heart of these problems. What are the features of the corporate form and how does its current regulation underscore these problems? Identifying such features provides a basis for the discussion to develop towards suggesting more progressive regulatory developments around the corporate form. More fundamentally, this book investigates a diverse range of corporate governance models that are emerging as alternatives to the shareholder corporation, including employee-owned, cooperative and social enterprises. The contributors are leading scholars from various backgrounds including law, management and organisation studies, finance and accounting, as well as experienced professionals and policy makers with expertise in social and cooperative business models and the role of employees in the corporation.

Charting the Landscape of European Youth Voluntary Activities

Author : Howard Williamson
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287158260
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Charting the Landscape of European Youth Voluntary Activities written by Howard Williamson and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a collection of papers drawn from a seminar under the Partnership Programme on Youth Research, held in Budapest in July 2004. The papers explore a range of issues relating to the participation of young people in voluntary work throughout Europe, including the barriers to participation, evaluation and research aspects, whether social inclusion objectives are achieved through volunteering, and policy directions for the future.

Landscape Conflicts

Author : Karsten Berr
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658433523
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Conflicts written by Karsten Berr and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349949019
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape written by Cristina Herrera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time, migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space. Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence of literary production across borders.

Geography

Author : Arild Holt-Jensen
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412946506
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Geography written by Arild Holt-Jensen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fourth edition, this standard student reference has been totally revised and updated. It remains the definitive introduction to the history, philosophy, and methodology of human geography; now including a detailed explanation of key ideas in human geography's post-modernist and post-structuralist 'turns'. The book is organized into six sections: What is Geography?: an introduction to the discipline, and a discussion of its organization and basic research approaches, informed by the question 'what difference does it make to think geographically?' Foundations of Geography: an examination of geography from Antiquity to the 1950s, with a special focus on human/environment relation. Geography 1950-1980: a critical review of the development of geography as a spatial science. Paradigms and Revolutions: an analysis of paradigm shifts in geography, introducing students to key debates in the philosophy of science. Positivism and its Critics: a detailed discussion of positivism, critical theory, humanistic geography, behavioural geography, and structuralism. New Trends and Ideas developing critical responses: structuration theory, realism, post-structuralism, post-modernism, feminism and actor-network theory. This text explores complex ideas in an intelligible and accessible style. Illustrated throughout with research examples and explanations in text boxes, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and a concept glossary, this is the essential student companion to the discipline.

A Landscape of Contemporary Theories of International Law

Author : Emmanuel Roucounas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385363
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Landscape of Contemporary Theories of International Law written by Emmanuel Roucounas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and remarkable volume offers an overview of the most important schools, movements and trends which make up the theoretical landscape of contemporary international law, as well as the works of over 500 authors. It moves beyond generalization and examines how the relevant literature deals with the basic issues of the international legal system, such as international obligations, legitimacy, compliance, unity and universality, the rule of law, human rights, use of force and economics. It offers insights into the addressees (the state, international organizations, individuals and other private persons), and the construction of international law, including law-making, the relationship between norms, and interpretation. Moreover, it widens the discourse by addressing old, yet enduring, as well as new concerns about the functioning of the international legal system, and presents views of non-international lawyers and political scientists regarding that system. It is a valuable analysis for researchers, students, and practitioners.