Governable Spaces : Democratic Design for Online Life
Nathan Schneider;Nathan Schneider
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Governable Spaces : Democratic Design for Online Life
2024
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program . Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and'benevolent dictators for life.'In Governable Spaces , Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls'implicit feudalism': a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities'democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using media archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.
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Social media and society - Online social networks--Political aspects - Internet governance - Feudalism--Political aspects - DemocracyContent provider:
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Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
Carola Hein;Carola Hein
Oil Spaces traces petroleum's impact through a range of territories from across the wo...
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Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
2021
Oil Spaces traces petroleum's impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum's role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum's role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.
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Political scienceContent provider:
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A Meeting with the universe : science discoveries from the space program / [edited by Bevan M. French and Stephen P. Maran].
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Time and Space
Maria do Rosário Monteiro;Mário S. Ming Kong;Maria João Pereira Neto;Maria ...
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were c...
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Time and Space
2023
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space , focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences , and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Time and Space has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
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Space and timeContent provider:
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Libraries, Archives and Museums As Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age
Ragnar Audunson;Herbjørn Andresen;Cicilie Fagerlid;Erik Henningsen;Hans-Chr...
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's ...
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Libraries, Archives and Museums As Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age
2020
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being public meeting places in their communities. Digitization and globalization poses new challenges in relation to upholding a sustainable public sphere. Can libraries, archives and museums contribute in meeting these challenges?
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Libraries--Digital age - Museums--Digital age - Archives--Digital ageContent provider:
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Stability and Change in Science Education -- Meeting Basic Learning Needs : Homeostasis and Novelty in Teaching and Learning
Phyllis Katz;Lucy Avraamidou;Phyllis Katz;Lucy Avraamidou
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Stability and Change in Science Education -- Meeting Basic Learning Needs : Homeostasis and Novelty in Teaching and Learning
2018; Vol. 00033
In this book the editors consider the resistance to change among teachers and learners despite all the evidence that science participation brings benefits for both individuals and nations. Beginning with biology, Stability and Change in Science Education: Meeting Basic Learning Needs explores this balance in teaching and learning science . The authors reflect upon this equilibrium as they each present their work and its contribution. The book provides a wide range of examples using the change/stability lens. Authors from the Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Canada and the USA discuss how they observe and consider both homeostasis and novelty in theory, projects and other work. The book contains examples from science educators in schools and in other science rich settings. Contributors are: Lucy Avraamidou, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Michelle Crowl, Marilynne Eichinger, Lars Guenther, Maria Heras, Phyllis Katz, Joy Kubarek, Lucy R. McClain, Patricia Patrick, Wolff-Michael Roth, Isabel Ruiz-Mallen, Lara Smetana, Hani Swirski, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, and Bart Van de Laar.
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Science--Study and teaching - Educational changeContent provider:
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Practica et Speculativa. Studies Offered to Professor Andrzej M . Kaniowski
Marek Gensler;Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek;Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk;Krzys...
Ofiarowany Profesorowi Andrzejowi M. Kaniowskiemu z okazji siedemdziesiątych urodzin t...
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Practica et Speculativa. Studies Offered to Professor Andrzej M . Kaniowski
2022
Ofiarowany Profesorowi Andrzejowi M . Kaniowskiemu z okazji siedemdziesiątych urodzin tom nosi tytuł Practica et Speculativa. Głównym przedmiotem zainteresowania Jubilata jest wprawdzie filozofia praktyczna – etyka, filozofia państwa i prawa, filozofia polityczna i społeczna – jednakże Jego refleksja nad praxis osadzona jest zawsze w szerszym, teoretycznym kontekście. Artykuły zamieszczone w książce dotyczą różnorodnej tematyki i także o nich można powiedzieć, że obejmują dwa przenikające się pola refleksji: praktyczne i teoretyczne. Niemal oczywistymi bohaterami tak zarysowanego zderzenia ludzkich aktywności są Immanuel Kant i Jürgen Habermas, których koncepcjom poświęcono tu najwięcej uwagi.
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Social sciences--Philosophy - Political science--Philosophy - EthicsContent provider:
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Spatial Transformations : Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces
Angela Million;Christian Haid;Ignacio Castillo Ulloa;Nina Baur;Angela Milli...
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Spatial Transformations : Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces
2022
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036159, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization, and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increasing interconnectedness, this book asks how spaces are changing as a result of mediatization, increased mobility, globalization, and social dislocation. With attention to questions surrounding the negotiation and (visual) communication of space , it explores the arrangements, spatialities, and materialities that underpin the processes of spatial refiguration by which these changes come about. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across diverse range disciplines to address questions of socio-spatial transformation, this volume will appeal to sociologists and geographers, as well as scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture.
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Sociology - Space--Social aspects - Spatial behavior - Social changeContent provider:
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Amira Osman;Geci Karuri-Sebina;Amanda Gibberd;Beisi Jia;Jody Paterson;Nisa ...
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2023; Vol. 00002
In this book, there is a call on built environment professionals to reflect on the role of narrative in shaping space , influencing people and making decisions about technology. It is argued that by changing the narrative and methods of representations, new imaginaries can be generated and the scope of what is possible is significantly broadened. Contextualized narratives, vocabularies and metaphors can evoke new thinking and new practice. This book looks for examples where professionals and communities have jointly worked together from the precinct to the site level. The authors are especially inspired by the ideas of'tinkering','muddling through','engaging with the mess'and'gnarly planning', concepts that encourage experimentation and engagement with real-life contexts, learning through doing, policy change through evolutionary processes and a hands-on approach. This book aims to elevate our understanding of the concepts of people-centred participation and co-production/co-creation by shifting the debate from the esoteric to the applied and contextual. We believe that practice can only be transformed by transforming thinking. Through the development of our own philosophies, emerging from and rooted in context, we may shift thinking and practice towards people, community and care.
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Urbanization--Africa - City planning--AfricaContent provider:
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Health Care in the Information Society : Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform
David Ingram;David Ingram
In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and...
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Health Care in the Information Society : Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform
2023
In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments. The book is distinctive in its broad scope and coverage and as the eyewitness account of an author who became the first UK professor appointed with the mission to bridge information technology with everyday medicine, health, and care. In this role, he has been a co-founder and leader of two rapidly growing initiatives, openEHR and OpenEyes, which stem from international collaborations of universities, health services and industries. These open source and open platform technologies have struck a widely resonant chord worldwide through their focus on community interest endeavours and open access to their methods and outputs. Set against the history of extremely costly, burdensome, and serially unsuccessful top-down attempts of governments to tackle the domain, the book argues for a greater focus on shared endeavours of this kind, contributing towards a standardized care information utility that incorporates methods and resources evolved, shared, and sustained in the public domain. As information technologies are now at the very core of health care, shaping the relationship between medical services and communities, professions, organisations and industries this book is important reading for politicians, health care academics, administrators and providers, and to anybody interested in the future of health services in the digital age.
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Medical informatics--HistoryContent provider:
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Whose Heritage? : Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-nation Britain
Susan L.T. Ashley;Degna Stone;Susan L.T. Ashley;Degna Stone
This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage'in Britain as a gl...
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Whose Heritage? : Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-nation Britain
2023
This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage'in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan ‘post-nation'. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public intellectual Stuart Hall (1932–2014). Hall was instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of ‘The Heritage'of Britain. The book's authors challenge us to reconsider what is valued about Britain's past, its culture and its citizens. Populist discourses around the world, including Brexit and ‘culture war'declarations in the UK, demonstrate how heritage and ideas of the past are mobilised in racist politics. The multidisciplinary chapters of this book offer critical inspections of these politics and dig deeply into the problems of theory, policy and practice in today's academia, society and heritage sector. The volume challenges the lack of action since Hall rebuked ‘The Heritage'twenty years ago. The authors featured here are predominantly Black Britons, academics and practitioners engaged in culture and heritage, spurred by the killing of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement to contest racist practices and structures that support them. This fact alone makes the volume a unique addition to the Routledge Museum & Heritage Studies repertoire. The primary audience will be academics, but it will also attract culture sector practitioners and heritage institutions. However, the book is particularly aimed at scholars and community members who identify as Black and are centrally concerned with questions of identity and race in British society. Its Open Access status will facilitate access to the book by all groups in society.
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Multiculturalism--Great BritainContent provider:
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Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University, Iași, Romania
Marius Alexianu;Roxana-Gabriela Curcă;Olivier Weller;Ashley A. Dumas;Marius...
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Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University, Iași, Romania
2023
Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi (Romania). The impact of salt on the development of human communities, from the Neolithic to the present, has generated a huge number of specialized studies. However, scientific research has become so atomized that the primordial importance of the mineral has been lost, creating a need for a holistic, comprehensive vision of the dimensions generated by salt. This can only be achieved through anthropology. The anthropology of salt encompasses the entirety of human behavior, i.e. cognitive, spiritual, pragmatic, and social reactions to salt, and provides a holistic view of its role in the evolution of human communities. The anthropology of salt thus brings salt studies from an ancillary position to an autonomous discipline. The papers in this volume are organized into six sections: theory, archaeology, history, ethnography/ ethnoarchaeology/ethnohistory, linguistics, and literature. Topics include salt in Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as from Cameroon, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, the USA and Venezuela. The congress was organized within the project The Ethnoarchaeology of the Salt Springs and Salt Mountains from the Extra-Carpathian Areas of Romania, financed by the Government of Romania (CNCS – UEFISCDI) (2011-2016). Its theoretical novelty and geographical range render Mirrors of Salt a unique study of the world's most-used non-metallic mineral.
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Salt deposits--Congresses - Salt--Social aspects--Congresses - Human ecology--Congresses - Anthropology--CongressesContent provider:
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Communicating Science : A Global Perspective
Peter Broks;Toss Gascoigne;Joan Leach;Bruce V. Lewenstein;Luisa Massarani;M...
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study,...
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Communicating Science : A Global Perspective
2020
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators.This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication.How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science ?Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told.
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Science--Social aspects - Communication in science - Science in mass media - Technology and state - Science and stateContent provider:
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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean : A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar
Lia Brozgal;Lia Brozgal
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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean : A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar
2023; Vol. 00002
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program . Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer literary portraits that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith community into which its author was born. The present translation makes this unique collection available to an English-speaking public for the first time. The original version, published in French in 2012, was awarded the Prix Haïm Zafrani, a prize given by the Elie Wiesel Institute of Jewish Studies to a literary project that valorizes Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.
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Jewish children--Islamic countries--Biography - Jews--Islamic countries--Biography - Jewish children--Mediterranean Region--Biography - Jews--Mediterranean Region--Biography - Jews--20th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services
Max French;Hannah Hesselgreaves;Rob Wilson;Melissa Hawkins;Toby Lowe;Max Fr...
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services...
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Harnessing Complexity for Better Outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services
2023
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes for the populations they serve? Building on research in public health, social epidemiology and the social determinants of health, this book presents complexity theory as an alternative basis for an outcome-oriented public management praxis. It takes a critical approach towards New Public Management and provides new conceptual inroads for reappraising public management in theory and practice. It advances two practical approaches: Human Learning Systems (a model for public service reform) and Learning Partnerships (a model for research and academic engagement in complex settings). With up-to-date and extensive discussions on public service reform, this book provides practical and action-oriented guidance for a radical change of course in management and governance.
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Municipal services--Management - Chaotic behavior in systemsContent provider:
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Reclaiming Community : Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work
Bianca J. Baldridge;Bianca J. Baldridge
Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offe...
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Reclaiming Community : Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work
2019
Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs , which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program , Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces , and the precarious context in which such programs now exist. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Baldridge persuasively argues that the story of EE is representative of a much larger and understudied phenomenon. With the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism—marked by individualism, market competition, and privatization—these bastions of community support are losing the autonomy that has allowed them to embolden the minds of the youth they serve. Baldridge captures the stories of loss and resistance within this context of immense external political pressure, arguing powerfully for the damage caused when the same structural violence that Black youth experience in school, starts to occur in the places they go to escape it.
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Social work with youth--United States--Case studies - Youth workers--United States--Case studies - After-school programs--United States--Case studies - African American youth--Education--United States--Case studies - Community and school--United States--Case studies - Minority youth--Education--United States--Case studiesContent provider:
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Novel Palestine : Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah
Dr. Nora E.H. Parr;Dr. Nora E.H. Parr
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Novel Palestine : Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah
2023; Vol. 00007
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program . Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine examines these imaginative structures so that we might move beyond the idea of an incomplete or fragmented reality and speak frankly about the nation that exists and the freedom it seeks. Engaging the writings of Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nora E. H. Parr traces a vocabulary through which Palestine can be discussed as a changing and flexible national network linking people across and within space , time, and community. Through an exploration of the Palestinian literary scene subsequent to its canonical writers, Parr makes the life and work of Nasrallah available to an English-language audience for the first time, offering an intervention in geography while bringing literary theory into conversation with politics and history.
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Arabic literature--Palestine--History and criticism - Palestinian Arabs in literatureContent provider:
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Reimagining Innovation in Education and Social Sciences : Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2022), September 10-11, 2022, Surabaya, Indonesia
Wulan Patria Saroinsong;Muhamad Nurul Ashar;Irena Yolanita Maureen;Lina Pur...
Certainly, the pandemic has affected several aspects of life. Several modifications ha...
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Reimagining Innovation in Education and Social Sciences : Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2022), September 10-11, 2022, Surabaya, Indonesia
2023
Certainly, the pandemic has affected several aspects of life. Several modifications have been made and are now continuing. The number of innovations has expanded substantially, particularly in the fields of education and social sciences . Innovations are produced by educators, scientists, and professionals. These innovations must be distributed to aid the development of society in the sphere of education and beyond. After the eradication of the disease, we shall assist one another in conquering it and then develop and prosper together. This volume contains the works of educators, researchers, practitioners, and academics presenting the most recent research results, issues, and practical difficulties and solutions found in the domains of Education, Cultural Studies, Applied Linguistics, and Community Services. Reimagining is a creative method to approach or address challenges associated with innovation in the fields of education, cultural studies, applied linguistics, community services, or social sciences . Due to the topic areas covered in this proceeding, it is appropriate for instructors, researchers, practitioners, and academics who specialize in the aforementioned subjects. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia.
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Humanities--Study and teaching--Congresses - Arts--Study and teaching--Congresses - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Influence--CongressesContent provider:
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Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry
Janette Bulkan;John Palmer;Anne M. Larson;Mary Hobley;Janette Bulkan;John P...
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of communi...
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Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry
2022
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry. Containing contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Handbook begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry, conservation and ecosystem management, relationships with industrial forestry, trade and supply systems, land tenure and land grabbing, and climate change are addressed. The Handbook also focuses on governance, looking at the range of approaches employed, including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches, and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The Handbook reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly, the Handbook not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry, but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions. The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry is essential reading for academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in forestry, natural resource management, conservation, and sustainable development.
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Forest policy - Sustainable development - Community forestry--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Forest managementContent provider:
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature
William Cloonan;William Cloonan
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature
2018
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Frères Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature from approximately the mid-nineteenth-century to the present. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes'theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes'theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.
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Comparative literature--American and French - Comparative literature--French and American - American literature--French influences - American literature--France--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
Liliane Campos;Pierre-Louis Patoine;Liliane Campos;Pierre-Louis Patoine
This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fic...
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Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
2022
This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century's shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination. Comprised of thirteen chapters by an international group of academics, Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance engages with four main areas of biological study: ‘Invisible scales: cells, microbes and mycelium', ‘Neuro-medical imaging and diagnosis', ‘Pandemic imaginaries', and ‘Ecological scales'. The authors examine these concepts in emerging forms such as plant theatre, climate change art, ecofiction and pandemic fiction, including the work of Jeff Vandermeer, Jon McGregor, Jeff Lemire, and Extinction Rebellion's Red Rebel Brigade performances. This valuable resource moves beyond the biological paradigms that were central to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to outline the specificity of a contemporary imagination. Life, Re-Scaled is crucial reading for academics, scholars, and authors alike, as it proposes an unprecedented overview of the relationship between literature, performance and the life sciences in the twenty-first century.
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Literature and medicine - Performing arts - Life sciences--In art - Life sciences in literature - Ecology in art - Ecology in literatureContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Biological Collections : Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine;Division on Earth...
Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infr...
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Biological Collections : Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century
2020
Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure and a fundamental resource for understanding the natural world. Biological collections underpin basic science discoveries as well as deepen our understanding of many challenges such as global change, biodiversity loss, sustainable food production, ecosystem conservation, and improving human health and security. They are important resources for education, both in formal training for the science and technology workforce, and in informal learning through schools, citizen science programs , and adult learning. However, the sustainability of biological collections is under threat. Without enhanced strategic leadership and investments in their infrastructure and growth many biological collections could be lost. Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century recommends approaches for biological collections to develop long-term financial sustainability, advance digitization, recruit and support a diverse workforce, and upgrade and maintain a robust physical infrastructure in order to continue serving science and society. The aim of the report is to stimulate a national discussion regarding the goals and strategies needed to ensure that U.S. biological collections not only thrive but continue to grow throughout the 21st century and beyond.
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Biobanks - Biodiversity - Research - Biology--Research--United States - Biodiversity--Research--United States - Natural history museums--United States - Museums - Biological specimens--Collection and preservation--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity : Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Didier Bigo;Emma Mc Cluskey;Félix Tréguer;Didier Bigo;Emma Mc Cluskey;Félix...
This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and i...
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Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity : Who Will Watch the Watchers?
2024
This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space . Largely confined to the sub-field of intelligence studies, scholarly engagements with intelligence oversight have typically downplayed the violence carried out by secretive agencies. These studies have often served to justify weak oversight structures and promoted only marginal adaptations of policy frameworks in the wake of intelligence scandals. The essays gathered in this volume challenge the prevailing doxa in the academic field, adopting a critical lens to look at the workings of intelligence oversight in Europe and North America. Through chapters spanning across multiple disciplines – political sociology, history, and law – the book aims to recast intelligence oversight as acting in symbiosis with the legitimisation of the state's secret violence and the enactment of impunity, showing how intelligence actors practically navigate the legal and political constraints created by oversight frameworks and practices, for instance by developing transnational networks of interdependence. The book also explores inventive legal steps and human rights mechanisms aimed at bridging some of the most serious gaps in existing frameworks, drawing inspiration from recent policy developments in the international struggle against torture. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, sociology, security studies, and international relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Cultural Techniques : Assembling Spaces , Texts & Collectives
Jörg Dünne;Kathrin Fehringer;Kristina Kuhn;Wolfgang Struck;Jörg Dünne;Kathr...
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisci...
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Cultural Techniques : Assembling Spaces , Texts & Collectives
2020
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order. Ranging from manual and philological'paper work'to practices of opening up and closing off spaces and collective techniques of assembly, these case studies replace the grand narratives of cultural history focusing on micrological examinations of specific constellations between human and nonhuman actors.
