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  1. The Dynamics of Cultural Borders
    Author: Kannike, Anu; Tasa, Monika
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and reconstruction of borders, as well... more

     

    This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and reconstruction of borders, as well as the experience and representation of physical, spiritual, imagined and symbolic borders. The authors provide perspectives on emerging and dissolving borders in the past and present. Special emphasis is placed on subjective perception by asking how borders are experienced and expressed at the level of the specific community or individual. Several articles tackle dramatic and controversial issues like war, conflict between different ideologies and cultures, and remembering. The authors also explore dialectical relations between culture, social relations and landscape, and the interplay of ideological constructions and material culture. The contributions are arranged into two sections focusing on two wider issues: how borders are drawn in landscape, religion and scientific discourse (Wandering borders), and how representations of cultural borders and border crossings have changed over time (Bordering ruptures: the dynamics of self-description). The authors of this volume come from various scholarly fields and offer innovative tools for expanding the concept of the border across disciplinary frames.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789949770830
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    Subjects: Semiotics / semiology; Oral history; Archaeology; History of religion; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Human geography
    Other subjects: material culture; memory; war; religion; border; landscape; Bronze Age; Finland; Hymy; Reindeer; Soviet Union
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (260 p.)
  2. Time for mapping : Cartographic temporalities
    Author: Hind, Sam; Perkins, Chris; Gekker, Alex; Evans, Daniel; Lammes, Sybille; Wilmott, Clancy
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press

    "The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the... more

     

    "The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This collection brings time back into the map, taking up Doreen Massey's critical concern for 'ongoing stories' in the world; it asks how mapping enrols time into these narratives. Maps often seek to ‘freeze’ and ‘fix’ the world, looking to represent, document or capture dynamic phenomena. This collection examines how these processes are impacted by digital cartographic technologies that, arguably, have disrupted our understanding of time as much as they have provided coherence.

     

    The book consists of twelve chapters from experts in the field. Each addresses a different type of digital mapping practice and analyses it in relation to temporality. Cases discussed range from locative art projects, OpenStreetMap mapping parties, sensory mapping, Google Street View, to visual mapping, smart city dashboards and crisis mapping. Authors from different disciplinary positions consider how a temporal lens might focus attention on different aspects of digital mapping. This kaleidoscopic approach demonstrates a rich plethora of ways for understanding the temporal modes of digital mapping and the interdisciplinary background of the authors allows multiple positions to be developed and contrasted."

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781526122520
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    Subjects: Society & social sciences; Media studies; Human geography; Cartography, map-making & projections; Graphical & digital media applications
    Other subjects: technologies; digital mapping; temporality; time; Cartography; Global Positioning System; OpenStreetMap
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  3. Imagining the Future City : London 2062
    Contributor: Bell, Sarah (Publisher); Paskins, James (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ubiquity Press

    London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world.... more

     

    London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice.

    This book approaches the question of London’s future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Bell, Sarah (Publisher); Paskins, James (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781909188198; 9781909188204
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    Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban communities; Human geography
    Other subjects: sustainable cities; london 2062; architecture and planning; technology and civil engineering; ucl grand challenges; future cities; London
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (192 p.)
  4. Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation : Re-thinking Spatial Policies in Europe
    Contributor: Lang, Thilo (Publisher); Görmar, Franziska (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Singapore

    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of... more

     

    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying processes of polarisation and related regional and local policies. This open access volume contributes to the debates about polarisation and regional development by focussing on questions of spatial justice, power distribution and policy transfer. Theoretical and empirically grounded contributions show that European policies are indeed reproducing socio-spatial inequalities instead of challenging them. The book shows further the existing potentials and limits of individuals, economic, political and civil society actors to respond to polarisation on the regional and local level. In this book conceptual thoughts on polarisation, regional policy and regional development are combined with empirical research and resulting implications for policymaking. As such, it is a valuable source for early career students and researchers as well as professionals in the field of regional and economic development, policy consultants, and policy makers.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Lang, Thilo (Publisher); Görmar, Franziska (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-981-13-1190-1
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociology; Politics & government; Human geography
    Other subjects: Social sciences; Human geography; Sociology, Urban; Culture—Study and teaching; Europe—Politics and government
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (382 p.)
  5. Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
    Contributor: Ehlert, Judith (Publisher); Faltmann, Nora Katharina (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Singapore

    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety... more

     

    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating body centre stage by following how gendered body norms, food taboos, power structures and social differentiation shape people’s ambivalent relations with food. It uncovers Vietnam’s trajectories of agricultural modernisation against which consumers and producers manoeuvre amongst food self-sufficiency, security and abundance. Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam is explicitly about ‘dangerous’ food – regarding its materiality and meaning. It provides social science perspectives on anxieties related to food and surrounding discourses that travel between the local and the global, the individual and society and into the body. Therefore, the book’s lens of food anxiety matters for social theory and for understanding the embeddedness and discontinuities of food globalizations in Vietnam and beyond. Due to its rich empirical base, methodological approaches and thematic foci, it will appeal to scholars, practitioners and students alike.

     
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    Contributor: Ehlert, Judith (Publisher); Faltmann, Nora Katharina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-981-13-0743-0
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    Subjects: Development studies; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Public health & preventive medicine; Human geography
    Other subjects: Social sciences; Sociology, Urban; Health promotion; Ethnology; Human geography; Economic development
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (320 p.)
  6. Europes Population
    Author: Hall, Ray; White, Paul
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. more

  7. Destination London : The Expansion of the Visitor Economy
    Contributor: Smith, Andrew (Publisher); Graham , Anne (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Westminster Press, London

    London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors... more

     

    London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors than ever before. However, detailed accounts of the city’s visitor economy are conspicuously absent. This book analyses how the capital is developing as a destination through the expansion of tourism and events into new urban spaces. The book outlines how parts of London not previously regarded as tourist territory are now subject to the visitor gaze with tourism spreading beyond established central zones into peripheral, suburban and residential areas – in part propelled by a big rise in peer to peer accommodation use. Simultaneously, London’s airports and sports stadiums and their surrounds are becoming destinations in their own right. New vantage points have been created, allowing tourists to explore the city: from above, at night-time or through tours given by the homeless; via the opening up of the River Thames; or through the transformation of local parks into eventscapes. The book explores these trends and shows how urban destinations expand. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of London and highlights the growing significance of tourism and events in global cities.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Smith, Andrew (Publisher); Graham , Anne (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781912656264; 9781912656288; 9781912656295
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    Subjects: Architecture; Social issues & processes; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: tourism; London; urban, visitors; overtourism; development
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  8. Mapping Society : The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography
    Author: Vaughan, Laura
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of... more

     

    From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities.

     

    The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Society & social sciences; Urban communities; Sociology & anthropology; Human geography
    Other subjects: Cartography; Mapping; Society; Social Cartography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  9. Verortungen der Interkulturalität : Die ›Europäischen Kulturhauptstädte‹ Luxemburg und die Großregion (2007), das Ruhrgebiet (2010) und Istanbul (2010)
    Contributor: Ernst, Thomas (Publisher); Heimböckel, Dieter (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Die Initiative der ›Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt‹ soll dazu beitragen, interkulturelle Prozesse auf städtischer, nationaler und europäischer Ebene zu reflektieren und zu fördern. Mit diesem Anspruch gehen jedoch zahlreiche gesellschaftliche,... more

     

    Die Initiative der ›Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt‹ soll dazu beitragen, interkulturelle Prozesse auf städtischer, nationaler und europäischer Ebene zu reflektieren und zu fördern. Mit diesem Anspruch gehen jedoch zahlreiche gesellschaftliche, räumliche, kulturelle und ästhetische Probleme einher, die nicht immer befriedigend zu lösen sind. Der daraus entstehenden Gemengelage von Europa und Regionalität, Identität und Pluralität, Kommerz und Kunst widmet sich dieser Sammelband aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive. Er vergleicht erstmals exemplarisch die Kulturhauptstadtjahre in Luxemburg und der Großregion (2007), im Ruhrgebiet (2010) und in Istanbul (2010) und stellt dabei Interkulturalität als raum- und kulturübergreifendes Phänomen kontrastiv ins Zentrum der Analysen.

     
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  10. Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
    Contributor: Hein, Carola (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    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... more

     

    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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  11. Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
    Author: Kelly, Ashley Scott; Lu, Xiaoxuan
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of... more

     

    This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos–China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent “firsts” in Laos: Laos’s first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture’s spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.

     
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  12. Lebenswirklichkeiten und politische Konstruktionen in Grenzregionen : Das Beispiel der Großregion SaarLorLux: Wirtschaft - Politik - Alltag - Kultur
    Contributor: Wille, Christian (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Wie entstehen grenzüberschreitende Regionen und was charakterisiert sie? Am Beispiel der Großregion SaarLorLux untersuchen die aus Deutschland, Frankreich und Luxemburg stammenden Beiträger dieses Bandes die gesellschaftliche Praxis an... more

     

    Wie entstehen grenzüberschreitende Regionen und was charakterisiert sie? Am Beispiel der Großregion SaarLorLux untersuchen die aus Deutschland, Frankreich und Luxemburg stammenden Beiträger dieses Bandes die gesellschaftliche Praxis an EU-Binnengrenzen. Sie diskutieren die Praktiken von institutionellen Akteuren und von Grenzraumbewohnern in den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Arbeitsmarkt, politische Kooperation sowie Alltag, Medien und Kultur. Die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge situieren die Großregion SaarLorLux zwischen grenzüberschreitenden Lebenswirklichkeiten und politischen Konstruktionen.

     
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  13. Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
    Contributor: Bjørkdahl, Kristian (Publisher); Franco Duharte, Adrian Santiago (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication... more

     

    This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the consequences of academic flying, it investigates the issue of why academics fly, and it begins an effort to think through what can replace flying, and how. Finally, it confronts scholars and scientists, students, activists, research funders, university administrators, and others, with a call to translate this research into action.

     
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  14. Chapter 3 Time Depth : Jean Epstein, Michel Serres and Operational Model Time
    Author: Rosol, Christoph
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human... more

     

    This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003136989; 9780367683382; 9781032065397
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    Parent title: Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene
    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Media studies; Human geography; Applied ecology
    Other subjects: Scale, Scaling, Mediation, Measurement, Imagination, Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (37 p.)
  15. Delta Life : Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea (Volume 28)
    Contributor: Krause, Franz (Publisher); Harris, Mark (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Berghahn Books

    Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of... more

     

    Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops ‘delta life’ as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people’s lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide.

     
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    Contributor: Krause, Franz (Publisher); Harris, Mark (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Environmental management; Human geography; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Nature; Natural Resources; Social Science; Human Geography; Social Science; Anthropology; Cultural & Social
  16. Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene : Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity
    Contributor: Dürbeck, Gabriele (Publisher); Hüpkes, Philip (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human... more

     

    This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.

     
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  17. Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
    Author: Hansmann, Sabine
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures,... more

     

    In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual entanglement of people, objects and building. She traces the work that is necessary in »doing« space and thus suggests a re-conceptualisation of space in architectural theory.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Architecture; Sociology; Human geography
    Other subjects: Architecture; Space; ANT; Actor-Network-Theory; Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts; Museum; Typology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (244 p.)
  18. Hoffnung auf eine bessere Vergangenheit : Kollektivierungsdiskurse und ihre Codes der Verräumlichung
    Author: Kibel, Jochen
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Unter dem ungewissen Erwartungshorizont spätmoderner Gesellschaften treten verschiedene Vorstellungen kollektiver Identität in Konflikt. Jochen Kibel zeigt: Im Streit um das Neue Museum in Berlin und das Militärhistorische Museum in Dresden... more

     

    Unter dem ungewissen Erwartungshorizont spätmoderner Gesellschaften treten verschiedene Vorstellungen kollektiver Identität in Konflikt. Jochen Kibel zeigt: Im Streit um das Neue Museum in Berlin und das Militärhistorische Museum in Dresden artikulierten sich unterschiedliche Kollektivierungsdiskurse, in denen die Vergangenheit nach den Anforderungen der Gegenwart umgeformt wurde. Der retrospektive Blick gewährt damit immer auch die prospektive Hoffnung auf eine bessere Vergangenheit. Die dynamischen Verhältnisse der Gegenwart bringen schließlich eine Form reflexiver Identitätsbildung hervor, in der auch die Fähigkeit anhaltender Selbstkritik in der Vergangenheit ›wiedergefunden‹ wird. Die Vorstellung einer wandlungsfähigen Identität gewährleistet dann ein Gleichbleiben im Strom der Zeit, durch beständige Kurskorrekturen.

     
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  19. Migration in den Alpen : Handlungsspielräume und Perspektiven
    Author: Graf, Flurina
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Wie lebt es sich als Migrantin oder Migrant in Graubünden? Am Beispiel der touristischen Region Oberengadin und dem ländlich-peripheren Avers und Schams zeigt diese kulturwissenschaftliche Studie Handlungsspielräume und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten aus... more

     

    Wie lebt es sich als Migrantin oder Migrant in Graubünden? Am Beispiel der touristischen Region Oberengadin und dem ländlich-peripheren Avers und Schams zeigt diese kulturwissenschaftliche Studie Handlungsspielräume und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten aus der Sicht von Zugewanderten auf. Wie richten sie sich am Ort und zwischen den Orten ein? Wie entstehen und gestalten sich Zugehörigkeiten? Welche Potenziale bietet die Region Zugewanderten und welche Ressourcen bringen diese mit? Mono- und multilokale Lebensweisen, transnationale Familien, innovatives Unternehmertum - ein breites Spektrum an Lebensentwürfen entfaltet sich.

     
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  20. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory
    Contributor: Blok, Anders (Publisher); Farias, Ignacio (Publisher); Roberts, Celia (Publisher)
    Published: 2020

    This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world,... more

     

    This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight ANT’s dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open critical, provocative discussions of its limitations. Later sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT’s involvement in ‘real world’ endeavours such as disability and environmental activism, and even running a Chilean hospital. Each chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces original examples and ideas from the authors’ recent research. The chapters orient readers in rich, complex fields and can be read in any order or combination. Throughout the volume, authors mobilise ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies: from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an overview of the volume. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many disciplines across the social sciences, including Sociology, Geography, Politics and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and STS, and anyone wishing to engage with ANT, to understand what it has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the future.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Blok, Anders (Publisher); Farias, Ignacio (Publisher); Roberts, Celia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315111667
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    Subjects: Geography; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Human geography; Sociology; Social theory
    Other subjects: Geography; Social and cultural anthropology; Human geography; Sociology; Social theory
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (458 p.)
  21. Urban Resettlements in the Global South : Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation
    Contributor: Beier, Raffael (Publisher); Spire, Amandine (Publisher); Bridonneau, Marie (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    displacement; global south; housing; infrastructure; relocation; urban resettlements; pandemic; COVID-19 more

     

    displacement; global south; housing; infrastructure; relocation; urban resettlements; pandemic; COVID-19

     
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  22. Thinking like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
    Author: Knox, Hannah
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Duke University Press

    In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in... more

     

    In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.

     
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  23. Arjen turvallisuus ja muuttoliikkeet
    Contributor: Assmuth, Laura (Publisher); Haverinen, Ville-Samuli (Publisher); Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa (Publisher); Pöllänen, Pirjo (Publisher); Rannikko, Anni (Publisher); Sotkasiira, Tiina (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    This book approaches contemporary migration to Finland from the perspective of everyday security, presenting an alternative view to theories that examine the links between migration and security from the perspective of securitisation. By treating... more

     

    This book approaches contemporary migration to Finland from the perspective of everyday security, presenting an alternative view to theories that examine the links between migration and security from the perspective of securitisation. By treating everyday security as a theoretical concept and as empirical lived reality, the book foregrounds migrants’ experiences of (in)security, as well as the perceptions of individuals and groups whose lives are touched by migration. Empirical studies investigate the ways in which security is produced at various levels, transnationally, and in multiple locations where encounters between long-term residents and newcomers occur, highlighting the roles of the welfare state, civic society, and the media. The book explores how everyday security is constructed between interdependent actors on personal, community and societal levels, concluding that the production of everyday security is a mutually beneficial, yet at times painstaking, process for all participants.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Assmuth, Laura (Publisher); Haverinen, Ville-Samuli (Publisher); Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa (Publisher); Pöllänen, Pirjo (Publisher); Rannikko, Anni (Publisher); Sotkasiira, Tiina (Publisher)
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789518584127; 9789518584110; 9789518584103
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Human geography; Migration, immigration & emigration; Political science & theory; Society & social sciences; Sociology
    Other subjects: welfare state; migration; everyday security; asylum seekers and refugees; anti-racism; Finland
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)
  24. Gender, Food and COVID-19 : Global Stories of Harm and Hope
    Contributor: Castellanos, Paige (Publisher); Sachs, Carolyn E. (Publisher); Tickamyer, Ann R. (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people... more

     

    This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural production and access to food remain essential. Women provide much of the formal and informal work in agriculture and food production, distribution, and preparation often under precarious conditions. A cadre of scholars and practitioners from across the globe provide their timely observations on these issues as well as more personal reflections on its impact on their lives and work. Four major themes emerge from these accounts and are interwoven throughout: the pervasiveness of food insecurity, the ubiquity of women’s care work, food justice, and policies and research that can that can result in a resilience that reimagines the future for greater gender and intersectional equality. We identify what lessons we can learn from this global pandemic about research and practices related to gender, food, and agricultural systems to strive for more equitable arrangements. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working on gender and food and agriculture during this global pandemic and beyond.

     
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  25. Thinking of Space Relationally : Critical Realism Beyond Relativism - A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing
    Author: Gao, Xiaoxue
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the gaps between the traveling and local epistemic assumptions unattended,... more

     

    Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the gaps between the traveling and local epistemic assumptions unattended, engaging relational spatial theories in empirical research may still reproduce established theoretical claims. Following the sociology of knowledge tradition and taking Critical Realism as a meta-theoretical framework, Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as traveling conceptual knowledge and develops meaningful and context-sensitive ways of engaging them in studying the complex urban phenomenon in China. She offers conceptual elucidations and methodological roadmaps, which leap productively from employing plural causal hypotheses to generating effect-based explanations for locally observable events. They are exemplified by manifold interrogations of Beijing's Artworld as a conjuncture of particular events.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839455876; 9783837655872
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    Subjects: Sociology; Human geography; Theory of art
    Other subjects: Relational Space; Critical Realism; Artworld; China; Space; Art; Science; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Art; Sociology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (282 p.)