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Book SynopsisThis book details a process of creating a long-term sustainability and resilience plan for local governments to use in designing and implementing sustainability and resilience-related policies, initiatives, and programs. It offers guidance and methods in applying sustainability and resilience strategies to attain the prosperity of organizations and communities. The recommendations in this book are based on the author's years of experience in directing applied resilience and sustainability planning for a local government, and years of research covering diverse aspects of sustainability and resilience from climate change, climate preparedness and readiness, quadruple bottom line strategy, greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, climate adaptation and mitigation to sustainable energy policies and initiatives. Chapter one defines terms related to sustainability and resilience and addresses how the topics reshape local governments and communities. Chapter two maps out the sustainability and resilience process for organizations and communities, determining the appropriate steps to be taken at each level of sustainability and resilience planning. Chapter three identifies community and organizational level engagement, with internal and external stakeholders, including designs necessary throughout these processes. Chapter four contains measuring, tracking, monitoring and reporting methods using the quadruple bottom line strategy, and developing a sustainability and resilience progress report to ensure accountability, transparency, and good governance. Then, chapter five details the implementation of a sustainability and resilience plan once it is established, describing potential programs and initiatives to achieve sustainable and resilient communities. Chapter six describes the intersection between sustainability and resilience, and chapter seven examines the tools and resources available to create a practical sustainability and resilience plan. Chapter eight concludes the text by addressing the future of sustainability and resilience, and complexities of the modern dynamics of the interconnected systems in cities, counties, and organizations, and recommends how local government administrators in their planning methods and strategies must consider these challenges.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Reviewing and Defining the Sustainability and Resilience Terms.- Chapter 2: Mapping Out The Sustainability Process for Organizations and Communities.- Chapter 3: Organizational Level and Community Level Engagement and Defining Outcome Champions.- Chapter 4: Measuring, tracking and reporting using sustainability progress reports.- Chapter 5: Implementation of the Sustainability Plan - Putting A Plan to the Test.- Chapter 6: Intersection of Sustainability and Resiliency.- Chapter 7: Tools and Resources Available for Sustainability Planning.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisSpace, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested citiesTrade ReviewThis book offers valuable interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of identity conflicts and governance, and their impacts upon the urban condition. This book is an insightful read for the urbanist, sociologist, political geographer, and historian alike—or anyone for that matter who is searching for a deeper understanding of the complexities of identities and their relations with networks of sovereignty. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsA Note on DatesIntroduction: Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Conflicts in the Urban Realm / Diane E. Davis and Nora Libertun de DurenPart 1. Modes of Sovereignty, Urban Governance, and the City 1. Jerusalem at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Spatial Continuity and Social Fragmentation / Nora Libertun de Duren 2. Imperial Nationhood and Its Impact on Colonial Cities: Issues of Intergroup Peace and Conflict in Pondicherry and Vietnam / Anne Raffin 3. Confessionalism and Public Space in Ottoman and Colonial Jerusalem / Salim TamariPart 2. Scales of Sovereignty and the Remaking of Urban and National Space 4. Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Globalization in Bilbao and the Basque Country / Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría 5. Contesting the Legitimacy of Urban Restructuring and Highways in Beirut's Irregular Settlements / Agnès Deboulet and Mona Fawaz 6. Urban Locational Policies and the Geographies of Post-Keynesian Statehood in Western Europe / Neil BrennerPart 3. Sovereignty, Representation, and the Urban Built Environment 7. Iconic Architecture and Urban, National, and Global Identities / Leslie Sklair 8. The Temptations of Nationalism in Modern Capital Cities / Lawrence J. Vale 9. Hurvat haMidrash—The Ruin of the Oracle: Louis Kahn's Influence on the Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem / Eric OrozcoConclusion: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Cities, Sovereignty, Identity, and Conflict / Diane E. DavisList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume put a human face on aging issues, and consider multiple dimensions of the aging experience with a focus on Japan.Trade Review"Yoshiko Matsumoto has brought together a highly diverse group of scholars to put a human face on issues of aging by attending to individual experiences that are frequently hidden behind statistics and stereotypes. Although her volume focuses on lives of the elderly in Japan, its myriad insights are relevant to all who are energized by an interdisciplinary approach to the particularities of aging." -- Heidi E. Hamilton, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics"Japan today is at a demographic crossroads unprecedented in history. It has the longest life expectancy and it is the most rapidly aging society in the world today. This timely and innovative volume is an important intellectual contribution to this critical issue facing many postindustrial nations. It creatively brings together multidisciplinary contributors from the humanities and the social sciences to medicine and caregiving, to shed light on new ways of growing old in Japan." -- Akiko Hashimoto"An outstanding addition to the literature on an increasingly visible and growing segment of the Japanese population that enriches our understanding of the aging process as it is lived by real people, rather than as it is conceptualized by policy makers." -- Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith, Professor of Anthropology, University of California * Davis *

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Book SynopsisProvides researchers and graduate students in sociolinguistics with a theory of landscape affect as a linguistic and semiotic phenomenon. It is also of value to cultural geographers, urban sociologists and planners, and other researchers and students interested in the analysis of space and how spatial meanings are constructed.Table of ContentsList of figures; 1. Introduction; 2. Theorising affect in the semiotic landscape; 3. Kawaii in the semiotic landscape; 4. Reverencing the landscape; 5. Romancing the landscape; 6. 'Friendly places'; 7. The affective regime of luxury and exclusivity; 8. Affecting the digital landscape; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisA celebration of the vital role of geography in our understanding of the big issues facing humanity and the planet today

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Book SynopsisLocated in the North Western fringes of Africa, Morocco stretches from North to South on approximately 3000 kilometres of Atlantic coasts. It is a very diverse country, encompassing several landscapes, such as high mountains (e.g., the Atlas and the Rif) and various plains and oases. Chapter One addresses key features of Moroccos plant diversity, the originality and importance of this national plant heritage for the present and the future nationally and internationally in the light of growing threats and global environmental and political changes. The purpose of Chapter Two is to palliate to this issue by developing a spectrometric approach for monitoring soils and waters; an approach which is effective, fast, easy to implement and reliable. Chapter Three reports on the emerging challenges facing the Moroccan agricultural sector. Chapter Four describes some essential aspects marking the quantitative evolution of the Moroccan education system and presents the evolution of the main educational indicators. Chapter Five reports on the many efforts that have been made in recent decades in Morocco in the priority areas of sustainable development and the environment to promote a green and inclusive economy while taking into account the threefold aim of respecting the environment, fighting against poverty and sustaining the economic activity. Chapter Six will: 1) focus on sustainable development strategy adopted in the kingdom; 2) concentrate on the economic, social and health system components as health determinants, and finally discus relationships between health- sustainable development and climate change. Chapter Seven will clarify the theoretical concepts underlying the notion of the emergency and the time pressure and will appeal the exploration through a qualitative approach and use individual interviews with Moroccan SMEs managers in the empirical study in order to answer the question.

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Book SynopsisWinner - 2013 USA Best Books AwardWinner - 2013 IP's Book Award Finalist - 2013 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine Regardless of strength, size, age, or gender, you can learn krav maga techniques to fend off an armed attacker. Israeli Krav Maga is the Israel Defense Force's official self-defense system. The system is simple, instinctive, adaptable, and if necessary, brutally effective to thwart a life threatening assault. Krav maga is particularly world renowned for its weapon defenses. This book presents the most up-to-date and effective techniques to prevail against armed threats and attacks. These techniques are incorporated into the green, blue, brown, and black belt levels of the Israeli krav maga curriculum. Many of these updated defenses have never been seen before. Grandmaster Haim Gidon has improved and evolved this material with the late krav maga founder Imi Lichtenfeld's formal approval. Contents include these important topics: *Weapon awareness training; functionality, range, and deployment*Dominant control holds over a stunned assailant*Edged weapon defenses*Impact weapon defenses*Handgun defenses*Rifle defenses*Defending against weapons while on the ground*Defending against continuous attacks*Non-conventional weapon threats*First-party hostage situations*Kravist weapon defense drills The conditioning and hand-eye coordination achieved by practicing these techniques will tone your muscles, improve your reflexes, and get you street prepared. This is the most up-to-date, authoritative, and advanced guide to the world's premier weapons defense tactics.Trade ReviewThe Krav Maga I have learned from David Kahn is highly efficient and effective. Whether in the street or in combat, these skills are a force multiplier. I highly recommend the book Krav Maga Weapon Defenses to anyone serious about street survival or hand-to-hand combat. -- Ronald Jacobs, GySgt., U.S. Marine Corps, Martial Arts Instructor Trainer, 3rd Degree David Kahn brought an already top-notch fighting system to another level. -- John Ouelett, Special Agent, FBI Your efforts and dedication reflect distinct credit upon yourself and the Israeli Krav Maga Association. -- Peter R. Mucciarone, Lt. Col. Dept. of the Army Your training ... assisted our Marines to learn a valuable combat skill set. -- M. K. Jeron, U.S. Marine Corps Krav maga is the world's most brutal martial art. We met David Kahn for a lesson we'll never forget. Men's FitnessTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgments Introduction The Language of Krav Maga Street Violence Human Emotional Responses in a Life-threatening Encounter Krav Maga's Methodology Krav Maga Tactics The Best Use of This Book Chapter 1Control Holds Reviewed Cavalier #1 Cavalier #2 Cavalier #3 Control Hold A Control Hold B Control Hold C Face and Weapon Control Hold Weapons of Opportunity Chapter 2Impact-Weapon Defenses Overhand One-Handed Strike Defense What to Do if the Assailant Drops the Weapon as You Counterattack Overhand Defense Against a Long-Distance Attack or When Late Defending a One-Handed Overhand Off-Angle" Defense Defending a Two-Handed Overhead Chair or Stool-Type Attack Defending a Two-Handed Overhead Swing Attack Defending a Sideswing Impact-Weapon Attack Defending a Low Sideswing Impact-Weapon Attack Defending an Attacker Using Two Impact Weapons Defending a Chain or Whip-like Attack Defending an Overhead Impact Attack When on the Ground Defending an Upward Rifle-Butt Stroke Defending a Horizontal Rifle-Butt Stroke Defending an Impact-Weapon Front Choke Defending a Pulling Impact-Weapon Rear Choke Chapter 3Leg Defenses Against Edged-Weapon Attacks Edged-Weapons Introduction Straight Kick Against an Overhead Attack Straight Kick Against an Underhand Attack Roundhouse Kick Against a Straight Stab Roundhouse Kick Against a Slash Sidekick Against a High Straight Stab Rear Stab Defenses Overhead Attack Defending a Surprise Short Straight Stab Using Shield-like Objects Against an Edged-Weapon Attack Defending an Attacker Using Two Edged Weapons Edged-Weapon Threats Defending Against an Assailant Posturing/Threatening with an Edged Weapon Defending When the Assailant Switches the Edged Weapon Between His Hands An Assailant Posturing with an Edged Weapon at a Distance Defenses When the Defender Is on the Ground Both the Assailant and Defender Are on the Ground Defending Against a Standing Assailant Slashing at Your Legs or Jumping on You Overhead Attack Defense When the Defender is on His Back Chapter 4Hand Defenses Against Edged Weapons Defending an Incoming Overhead Stab Overhead Defense When Not Nose to Nose" or the Defender Can Burst Early Defending an Overhead Off-Angle Stab When Facing in Opposite Direction Straight Stab L" Block Straight Stab L" Block When in an Opposite Outlet Stance Instinctive Defense Against a Close Underhand Stab Sidestep an Underhand Stab Defending an Off-Angle Underhand Stab Defending an Off-Angle Straight Stab Defending a Midsection Hook Stab or Slash Defending an Inside Slash Defending an Inside Diagonal Slash Body Defense an Inside Forward Slash and Follow-up Backslash Backslash Defense or Against a Reverse" Stab Body Defense Against a Backslash and Follow-up Inside Slash Defending a Stab or Slash to the Legs Defending an Assailant Who Strikes/Kicks and Stabs/Slashes Defending Continuous Edged-Weapon Attacks Late Defense Using Minimum Deflection-Redirection and Tsai-bake Defense Against an Assailant Who Engages You in Conversation Hiding the Weapon and Then Attacks Defense Against an Assailant Who First Engages You in an Unarmed Fight and Then Attacks With an Edged Weapon Edged-Weapon Threats Defenses When Both Combatants Are on the Ground Defenses Against a Needle Chapter 5Handgun Defenses Shooting Accuracy at Close Range Active Shooter Krav Maga's Firearm Disarm Philosophy Basic Firearms Knowledge The Four Essential Components of Gun Defenses Handgun Defenses from the Front Handgun Defenses from the Side In Front of Your Arm Variations Handgun Defense Variations #1 and #2 Against/ To the Side of the Head Handgun Defenses from the Rear Handgun Defenses to the Back of the Head When Pressed Against a Wall Sidearm Retention Chapter 6Rifle/Submachine Gun (SMG) Defenses Frontal Rifle/SMG Defenses Bayonet/Sharp-Elongated Weapon Defenses Bayonet-Type Stab with the Defender on His Back Rifle/SMG Defenses from the Rear Rifle/SMG Defenses from the Side Rifle/SMG Weapon Retention Chapter 7Kravist Weapon Defense Drills Training Drills with a Partner Impact-Weapon Threat and Attack Pattern Drills Edged-Weapon Attack Pattern Drills Firearm Threats (Handgun, Submachine Gun (SMG), Rifle Defenses When Assailant is in Motion (Including Seated and Off-angle Attacks) Partner Groundwork Defending Against Two Armed Assailants Special Training Scenarios Group Drills AppendixVehicle Safety Tips, Road Rage, and Carjacking Krav Maga Vehicle Safety Tips Road Rage Incidents Carjacking When the Carjacker is Outside of Your Vehicle Brandishing a Firearm Defenses Against Carjacking Situations Index Biographies Krav Maga Founder Imi Lichtenfeld Grandmaster Haim Gidon Senior Instructor Yigal Arbiv Senior Instructor Rick Blitstein Senior Instructor Alan Feldman Instructor Abel Kahn Instructor/Photographer Rinaldo Rossi About the Author Resources

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Book SynopsisEdmonton on Location: River City Chronicles is an innovative collection of essays, memoirs, poems, and stories by acclaimed Edmontonians. These Edmontonians represent a cross-section of society, spanning generations, occupations, and lifestyles that have helped to make Edmonton unique. Edmonton On Location describes the heartbeat of this vibrant city, from parks and back alleys to the High Level Bridge and North Saskatchewan River.

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Book SynopsisPraise for The Weekender Effect: What happens to paradise when you carve it up into lots and sell it? Bob Sandford writes about it with clarity and a deep love of the places he knows so well. Sandford''s story of one town''s mutation from a quiet mountain haven to an overcrowded, generic ''outpost of globalization'' is essential reading for those who care about community and our last few glorious spaces. --Thomas Wharton, author of Icefields, Salamander and The Logogryph Equal parts manifesto, meditation, and love song to mountain communities everywhere, this calmly passionate book belongs in every house, condo, tent and backpack in the mountain West and on university courses on nature writing, the environment, community, citizenship, sense of place, human geography and many more. This is essential reading for anyone who lives in, lusts after or loves the mountains. --Pamela Banting, President, Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful, weekend retreats in mountain or rural communities. More often than not, these retreats are found in and around resorts or places of natural beauty. As a result, what once were small towns are fast becoming mini cities, complete with expensive housing, fast food, traffic snarls and environmental damage, all with little or no thought for the importance of local history, local people and local culture. The Weekender Effect is a passionate plea for considered development in these bedroom communities and for the necessary preservation of local values, cultures and landscapes.

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Book Synopsis"Geographies of Love" is the first study to explore the cultural lifeworlds of British, Australian and Indian chick- and ladlit characters. Offering unique case studies including "Bridget Jones's Diary", "About a Boy" and "Almost Single", the book explores how women and men search for love and how they commit themselves to romances in specific spaces and places: the home and the office as well as shops, clubs and bars. This cross-disciplinary study provides scholars, students and keen readers with multiple points of access and easily-relatable situations. It applies the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies and sheds new light on a most passionate feeling.Trade Review"[The book] makes most refreshing reading and offers innovative insights into highly complex cultural as well as spatial aspects of romance and their representation in literature one might not have expected in an analysis of the grand universal topic - 'boy meets girl.'" Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz, Anglistik, 28/2 (2017) "Highly interesting study." Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz, International Journal of English Studies, 28/ 2 (2017)

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Book SynopsisThe global economic and financial crisis had severe impact on southern European economies and stimulated growing numbers of mainly young migrants heading north, nurturing the fear of brain drain back home. This volume compiles recent research results on European south-north migration, addressing migration processes and practices, the management of migratory moves by institutional frameworks and relevant public discourse. It thereby delivers an important contribution to the understanding of the durability and contextuality of recent European south-north migration and their consequences for European economies, politics and societies.

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Book SynopsisJeanne Féaux de la Croix maps three iconic places as part of Central Asians' 'moral geographies' and examines their role in navigating socialist, neo-liberal and neo-Islamic life models.Dams provide most of Kyrgyzstan's electricity, but are also at the heart of regional water disputes that threaten an already shrinking Aral Sea. Mountain pastures cover much of Central Asia's heartland and offer a livelihood and refuge, even to urban citizens. Pilgrimage sites have recovered from official Soviet oblivion and act as cherished scenes of decision-making. Examining how iconic places, work and well-being can mesh together, this book moves debates about post-Soviet memory, space and property onto fresh terrain.

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Book SynopsisThese essays confirm the continued relevance of 'north' as a site of cultural practice and artistic endeavour. If northern regions are tangible realities, the place of varied topography, light, climate, and biogeography, the location of distinct peoples and culture, typically they have been depicted through the traditions of northern landscape representation and the cultural narratives of an era. These discussions - focusing on Scotland, Northern England, Northern Europe, Siberia, the Arctic and Nordic lands - by photographic practitioners as well as theorists, explore and question this tradition, considering landscape as experience, reinterpreting notions of wilderness, emptiness and the sublime.

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Book SynopsisMalaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda's capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socio-ecological transformations. Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book provides a holistic picture of the malaria epidemic in central Uganda, revealing the highly localized character of an epidemic that once spanned across almost the entire globe. Understanding, and ultimately tackling the disease, requires an appreciation of the social, political, as well as ecological circumstances that frame this epidemic.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Malaria: A brief overview; Ethnographic research in Uganda: Language and ethics in the field; Kampala's urban fringe: Socio-economic dynamics and transformations; Providing malaria treatment: Different forms of healthcare in Uganda; Coping with malaria: Facets of health seeking; Agriculture in the urban fringe: The ambivalent role of wetlands; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisPost-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence or action. The edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the "spatial turn" in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with post-foundational theories of space and place to devise post-foundationalism as radical approach to urban studies. This approach enables us to think about space not only as socially produced, but also as crucially marked by conflict, radical negativity, and absence. The contributors undertake a (re-)reading of key spatial and/or post-foundational theorists to introduce their respective understandings of politics and space, and offer examples of post-foundational empirical analyses of urban protests, spatial occupation, and everyday life.

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Book SynopsisIn the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity and ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, "Making Transformative Geographies" speaks about the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond accumulation and growth. Covering an empirical sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart (Germany), the book drills down into the social, spatial, and strategic dimensions of transformation. It advances a conceptually and empirically grounded assessment of the possibilities and limitations of community activism and civic engagement for shifting transformative geographies towards a degrowth trajectory.

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. While most of the contributions deal with the era of post-independence, some tackle the colonial period and the resulting developments. The volume also includes insights from Southern India. As a tribute to the interdisciplinary project of Southeast Asian Studies, this book brings together authors from disciplines as diverse as area studies, sociology, history, geography, and journalism.

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Book SynopsisHow can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These relations transcend Western dichotomies such as culture-nature, human-animal, natural-supernatural. The volume brings two strands of research - cartography and "relational" anthropology - into a closer dialogue. It provides case studies in Africa as well as lessons to be learned from other continents (e.g. North America, Asia and Australia). The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies for a further decolonization of maps, and thus advance current debates in the social sciences.

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Book SynopsisAdministrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.

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Book SynopsisPeople experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a "correct" interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different truths lead to people seeing mismanagement and disinformation. The volcanic crisis of El Hierro shows how rivalling interpretations amongst affected islanders, the media, sciences, and disaster response institutions cause great social tensions and scepticism towards scientific information. Thus, to fully understand disaster risk, the focus must shift to the rifts between established convictions and the individuals' creativity to overcome them, taking into account their embeddedness in various fields of practice, each with their own rationales and ruptures.

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Book SynopsisIn Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalized residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatization is weaponized by the state and how differently stigmatized groups try to fight against the vilification of their mahalle. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades.

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Book SynopsisCities are often seen as symbols of order: the existence of city walls, fortified gates, palaces, temples, roads, pavements, highways, public institutions, city centers and residential areas is interpreted as indicating the existence of a central authority that plans and controls the city. On the other hand, the very same cities are also seen as symbols of chaos, disorder and spontaneous growth. The little winding streets and alleys, the mixture of physical structures, styles and human activities have often given the impression that cities, like forests, and other natural entities are organic structures - strange, natural artefacts. Tokyo is a good example for this dual nature of cities. When you first encounter it, you get the impression of chaos: old buildings with one or two storeys next to 30-, 40- or 50-storey skyscrapers; pedestrians, cars, trains moving in all directions, each with its own trajectory and so on. But then you realise that this seemingly chaotic structure provides a context for perfectly ordered human activities: trains leave and arrive as timetabled, their doors open at the exact points that are marked with yellow lines on the platforms, every morning after midnight fishermen bring their catch to Tokyo's big fish market, auctions are held, and by six o'clock in the morning this huge amount of sea food has already been distributed among thousands of restaurants all over the city. And if you look deeper you learn that the chaotic face of Tokyo is the pre-condition for its ordered and organised life. Complexity theory or self-organisation theory are umbrella terms for a set of theories that study the interplay between chaos and order. Originating in the sciences, these theories have been applied to the study of cities in the last three decades. They show that as in natural systems, in the artificial systems that we call cities, chaos and order do not stand in opposition to each other. Rather, they coexist in an ongoing interplay of circular causality: chaos is the precondition for new urban orders to emerge and then to reproduce themselves, whereas order and organisation set the boundaries within which chaotic structures and behaviours can take place.

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Book Synopsis​This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Reclaiming small towns Marie-Hélène Zérah & Eric Denis.- Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of cities.- Chapter 2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India Kanhu C. Pradhan.- Chapter 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities Elfie Swerts.- Chapter 4. The Income Ranking of Indian States and their Pattern of Urbanisation Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishompayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar, Safayet Karim.- Chapter 5. Urbanisation in a decade of near jobless growth S. Chandrasekhar.- Chapter 6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik.- Chapter 7. On global and Multiple Linkages in the making of an Ordinary place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmed.- Part II Land, Society, Belonging.- Chapter 8. The multilayered urbanisation of the South Canara territory Solomon Benjamin.- Chapter 9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India Bhuvaneswari Raman.- Chapter 10. Territorial legends: Politics of indigeneity, migration and urban citizenship in Pasighat Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma.- Chapter 11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu, and How they Remain Diya Mehra.- Chapter 12. Hindu temples and development of localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) Pierre-Yves Trouillet.- Part III. Small towns between rural and urban administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services.- Chapter 13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: what does it mean for small town India? Sama Khan.- Chapter 14. Shedding light on social and economic changes in small towns through the prism of local governance: A case study of Haryana Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 15. Purdah and Politics: Women’s Participation in Local Governance Aditi Surie and Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition, Transformation and Governance Gopa Samanta.- Chapter 17. Does administrative status matter for small towns in India? Partha Mukhopadhyay.- Part IV Producing and Innovating in non-metropolitan contexts.- Chapter 18. Development on the urban fringe: the prosperity of Kartarpur, a small town-cluster in Punjab Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda.- Chapter 19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode Yann Philippe Tastevin.- Chapter 20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation: The case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh N. Sridharan.- Chapter 21. Mapping small towns’ productive and employment configurations Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis.- Chapter 22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy Ajay Sharma.- Chapter 23. Non-Timber Forest Products and Small Town Economies Manoj Nadkarni.

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Book SynopsisBrings together essays on the marginal and elite social groups from early medieval times to the colonial period.

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Book SynopsisHere, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a follow the money approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development, ] and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or social equity. The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and culture. Gutfreund tells the story via case studies of three communities--Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee. Different as these places are, they all show the ways that government-sponsored highway development radically transformed America''s cities and towns. Based on original research and vividly written, TweTrade Review"Twentieth-Century Sprawl demonstrates convincingly how the financing of highways became a de facto national policy that subsidized growth on the urban periphery at the expense of older cities and inner-ring suburbs. We are living with the consequences of this policy today. A compellingly important book."--David Schuyler, Professor of American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College, and author of A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1940-1980"A good primer on the road we took to the suburbanization of America--so that we don't drive it exactly the same way in the future."--Detroit Free Press"In the first thorough history of urban sprawl, Owen Gutfreund reveals how misguided government programs, business lobbying, and civic boosterism led to America's radically decentralized urban landscape and shows the high social and financial costs of subsidizing automobility. Twentieth-Century Sprawl will appeal to historians, planners, and policy-makers--and anyone who wants to understand how we wound up in the traffic-clogged mess we're in."--Clifton Hood, Professor of History, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and author of 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York"In examining three disparate sites--in Colorado, Tennessee, and Vermont--Owen Gutfreund convincingly argues that the impact of the automobile goes beyond individual preferences and local needs. Rather, he shows that automobility has been driven by government policies at all levels with profoundly disturbing consequences. Bound to fuel further criticism and debate, Gutfreund's study deserves close consideration in any future policy debate over the course of metropolitan development."--Howard Gillette, Jr., Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden, and author of Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C."In Twentieth-Century Sprawl, Owen Gutfreund challenges prevailing myths equating highway construction with equity and choice to show how competition over finances, route ways, and political authority gave rise to cross-sectoral coalitions among advocates from rural roads, inter-metropolitan parkways, and a national system of primary motorways. Through a carefully selected set of case studies the author links policy with practice and we come to see our contemporary urban landscape anew, as the product of specialized knowledge, narrow definitions of the public good, and a surprising degree of ad hoc planning."--Greg Hise, School of Policy, Planning & Development, USC

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between law and geography, particularly in relation to globalisation - of law, commerce, environmental change and society - which renders relations between the local and the global more significant. The book is structured according to conceptual frames - boundaries, land, property, nature, identity (persons, peoples and places), culture and time, and knowledge.Trade ReviewThe two editors - one a lawyer, the other a geographer - are to be congratulated on their collaborative venture and anyone interested in novel contexts surrounding either discipline will do well to examine the contents of this fascinating volume. * International Journal of Law in Context *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. Connecting Law and Geography ; 2. From 'What' to 'So What': Law and Geography in Retrospect ; 3. The Spatial Dimension of Private Law ; BOUNDARIES ; 4. Beyond the Word: Law as a Thing of this World ; 5. The Queen's Peace: Reflections on the Spatial Politics of Sexuality in Law ; 6. Geography: The Problem of Scale, and Process or Allocation: The US National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990 ; LAND ; 7. Freewheeling Uphill: Pedalling Downhill: Growing Pains in Developing a Land Market in China ; 8. Camels, Chameleons and Coyotes: Problematising the 'Histories' of Land Law Reform ; 9. Idolatry of Land ; PROPERTY ; 10. De/Re Territorialising Possession: the Shifting Spaces of Property Rights ; 11. Property Restitution, Property Law and the Post Communist Transition in Germany's New Bundeslander ; 12. Agenda 2000, Land Use and the Environment: Towards a Theory of 'Environmental' Property Rights ; 13. Property Rights, Urban Policy and the Law: Negotiating Neighbourhood Disputes in a Brazilian Shantytown ; 14. Informal Law in Informal Settlements ; NATURE ; 15. Governance and Resource Management in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector ; 16. Spaces of Diversity in Diverse Spaces ; 17. Conceptions of Environment in Law and Geography ; 18. Environmental gains? Collaborative planning, planning obligations and issues of closure in local land-use planning in the UK ; IDENTITY: PEOPLE, PERSONS AND PLACES ; 19. Only Connect ; 20. Family Geographies: Gobal Care Chains, Transnational Parenthood and New Legal Challenges in an Era of Labour Globalisation ; 21. On the Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States: Notes Towards a Research Agenda ; CULTURE AND TIME ; 22. Green Metaphors: Language, Land and Law in Takings Debates ; 23. Space and Time: the Genius Loci of Ancient Places ; 24. From Local to Global - The Role of Geographical Isolation in Shaping Competition Law ; KNOWLEDGE ; 25. Putting Environmental Law on the Map: A Spatial Approach to Environmental Law Using GIS ; 26. Earth Observation and Principles on Data ; 27. Disciplinary Interactions: Ontological Commitments and Environmental Standard Setting

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies. Trade Review"This collection gives a widely spread voice to the widening acknowledgement of what maps mean and do; how and where they occur. Comprising a series of related but distinctive, lively, well worked and critically engaging chapters, the book will find readers across a range of disciplines and subjects." - David Crouch, University of Derby, UK "Mapping Cultures offers a collection of innovative studies and theoretical essays, each confronting the diffusion of cartographic method and rhetoric throughout humanities and social science research over the past two decades. . . . [the book] is brimming with insight into the emergent mapping practices and vocabularies by which we might better resist authoritarian, anti-democratic practices, which themselves do work through mapping. And it helps clear a path by which researchers in the humanities and social sciences alike might better understand and express that ''it is not so much what people do with maps as it is what maps do with people'' (Wood, p. 300). For this alone, the book is an important bridge between the relatively recent innovations of critical cartography, in particular, and a host of other fields just as recently innovated by the methods and metaphors of cartography in general." - Cartographica 48 (2), 2013. "The book closes with a call for a more explicit critical reorientation towards mapping, and map use a project of the anthropology of cartography (D. Wood). This call seems to be still valid and one can admit that Mapping Cultures is a significant step towards achieving the goal. Readers from different disciplines will find valuable contributions both theoretical and empirical in the collection. For a tourism researcher or student, the book is thought-provoking for several reasons, not only because of the enhancing awareness of cartography in relation to areas such as cinema, music, travel..." - Tourism, Culture and Communication 12, 2013.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Mapping Cultures – a Spatial Anthropology; L.Roberts PART I: PLACE/TEXT/TOPOGRAPHY Critical Literary Cartography: Text, Maps and a Coleridge Notebook; D.Cooper Mapping Rohmer: Cinematic Cartography in Post-war Paris; R.Misek Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film; L.Roberts Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair; D.Cooper & L.Roberts Maps, Memories and Manchester: the Cartographic Imagination of the Hidden Networks of the Hydraulic City; M.Dodge & C.Perkins PART II: PERFORMANCE/MEMORY/LOCATION Urban Musicscapes: Mapping Music-making in Liverpool; S.Cohen Mapping the Soundscapes of Popular Music Heritage; P.Long & J.Collins Walking Through Time: Use of Locative Media to Explore Historical Maps; C.Speed Salford 7/ District Six. The Use of Participatory Mapping and Material Artefacts in Cultural Memory Projects; L.Cassidy PART III: PRACTICE/APPARATUS/CARTOGRAPHICS 'Spatial Stories': Maps and the Marketing of the Urban Experience; G.Warnaby Mapping My Way: Map-making and Analysis in Participant Observation; H.Andrews Mental Maps and Spatial Perceptions: The Fragmentation of Israel-Palestine; E.Ben Ze'ev Peripatetic Box and Personal Mapping: From Studio to Classroom to City; S.Moro The Anthropology of Cartography; D.Wood Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to ignore. Planning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of sustainability issues in the land use context, focusing on principles and their application, the legal, political and policy context and the implication of sustainable development thinking for housing, urban design and property development as well as waste and transport. The book concludes by considering how sustainable and unsustainable impacts alike can be measured and modelled, providing real tools to move beyond rhetoric into practice.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Part I: The Principles and Context of Sustainable Development. Part II: Contemporary Debates. Part III: Sustainability in Practice. Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisMetropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed.Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and problems and these often create contradictory conditions. The book provides a theoretical framework for exploring these issues and links this to a detailed investigation of each city. In the context of globalisation, cities in the last twenty years have experienced new patterns of activity and these usually transcend political boundaries. The management of these changes therefore requires an effort of co-ordination and different cities have found different approaches.However the institutional setting itself has not remained static. The nation states in Europe have haTable of ContentsPart One: General Introduction1. Institutional and spatial coordination in European metropolitan regions2. Metropolitan regions in the face of the European dimensionPart Two: London, Birmingham, Cardiff/Wales, Stockholm3. London: Institutional turbulence but enduring nation-state control4. The Birmingham case5. The experience of Cardiff and Wales6. The Stockholm region: metropolitan governance and spatial policyPart Three: Berlin, Frankfurt, Hannover, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Rotterdam7. Berlin 8. The Frankfurt Rhine-Main Region9. The Hanover Metropolitan Region10. Governance in the Stuttgart metropolitan region11. Amsterdam and the North Wing of the Randstad12. Rotterdam and the South Wing of the RandstadPart Four: Prague, Vienna, Venice, Milan13. The Prague metropolitan region14. Metropolitan governance and regional planning in Vienna15. Venice16. The region of MilanPart Five: Paris, Bruxelles, Marseilles-Aix, Barcelona, Madrid17. Paris 18. Brussels: a superimposition of social, cultural and spatial layers19. Marseilles-Aix Metropolitan Region (1981-2000)20. The case of Barcelona21. Metropolitan government and development strategies in MadridPart Six: Concluding part: the problem of coordination in fragmented metropolises22. Practices of Metropolitan Governance in Europe: Experiences and Lessons

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Book SynopsisFor fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay.   Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.   When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”    But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.“Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story…The idea that all humanity would benefit from this spec

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Book SynopsisThe big book of surprising facts and 100+ amazing activities featuring our fascinating, unique, wacky 50 states! Welcome to the wild and wonderful United States of America! With 50 states, a capital in Washington, DC, and several territories, our country is home to spectacular national parks, exciting cities, and stunning vistas—as well as the only place in the world where you can dig for diamonds and keep them, the largest tree in the world, and the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles live together! In this book, you’ll discover where to find the only royal palace in the United States, a river that flows backwards, and the smallest park in the country (and the world!). This awesome travel activity book helps 6–10 year-olds:  LEARN fascinating and often weird facts about each state, Washington, DC, and five territories, including their unique history, landscape, and attractions. Kid

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Book SynopsisTranslated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups.Trade Review"This elegantly written book develops a compelling argument about the role of migrations in the history of mankind. An eminent historical demographer, Livi-Bacci is able to bring the demographic perspective to bear on the highly complex phenomenon of migration - whether in the context of Ancient times or in today’s context of globalization, where immigration has become a highly controversial and politicized issue. A compelling read for a general audience wishing to understand the 'migration problem' and its relevance for today’s public policy." Bruno Ramirez, Université de Montréal "The appearance of any book by demographic historian Massimo Livi-Bacci is cause for celebration and one on migration especially welcome. Migration, more than most issues, is best understood in the context of long-term patterns. This book, drawing on research in several languages, deftly puts the European experience of both emigration and immigration into long-term historical perspective, distilling six centuries into fewer than 100 pages." J.R. McNeill, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One - Waves of Progress and Gradual Migration Chapter Two - Selection and Reproduction: The Settler Effect Chapter Three - Organized Migrations Chapter Four - Three Centuries: 1500-1800 Chapter Five - A Quickening Pace: 1800-1913 Chapter Six - The Last Century: The Trend Reverses, 1914-2010 Chapter Seven - Three Globalizations, Migration, and the Rise of America Chapter Eight - A Tumultuous Present and an Uncertain Future: 2010-2050 Chapter Nine - On the Move, in an Orderly Fashion Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisibleand yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring Everyday Life casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a guide to the invisible world of the everyday and an instruction manual for first-time explorers.Ehn, Lofgren, and Wilk demonstrate how to use a broad array of ethnographic tools to discover, map, and document new and unexplored territories and guide readers through the process of cultural analysis. Their concrete examples shed light on how a study or paper assignment can evolve and point to how cultural analysis of everyday life can be practically applied in business, government, and other arenas outside of academia.Trade ReviewBooks that teach the art of analyzing a culture and are easy to read are rare. This book fills that gap by making it an everyday experience. For example, in the third chapter, ‘Making the Familiar Strange,’ the goal is to discover what is new and strange within homes of differing cultures. These small details help ethnographers understand what is going on in the lives of the people that they are studying. In another chapter, ‘Sharing a Meal,’ the authors point out how much can be learned by observing a mealtime with a family. The simple act of eating a meal together varies given the combination of cultural expectations and family histories; this is a real learning experience when viewed from an ethnographic perspective. The study of cultural ideals and mores is fraught with difficulties; the authors have broken this into basics that make ethnography doable and fun. Their examples help learners craft their studies step-by-step, as well as give advice on analysis that is both helpful and insightful. A well-researched and highly readable book for both social science and anthropological interests. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most academic levels/libraries. * CHOICE *This is a wonderful handbook: the chapters are content rich, with a bevy of excellent examples. The authors offer concrete and specific attention to proceeding with research on cultural meaning, cultural objects, and cultural fields. It will be a valuable addition for any number of classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels: qualitative methods, ethnography, a course on writing in the social sciences, or ones focused on culture, micro-sociology, and/or everyday life. -- Amy L. Best, George Mason UniversityAn easy-to-read and practical guide to understanding how anthropologists study the everyday and to what ends they apply their insights. It offers incredibly accessible writing, with short and straightforward chapters and clear examples. -- Georgina Drew, University of AdelaideExploring Everyday Life is a book to be used, not simply read. The authors encourage us to be more conscious about the unconscious, to see how the ordinary in life is as important as the extraordinary in making us who we are. And they succeed in making ethnographic methods a widely accessible tool of both social analysis and quotidian engagement. Such considered and self-reflective observations of the commonplace not only afford not only a better understanding of the world but allow us to live better within it. -- David W. Montgomery, University of PittsburghA rare and wonderfully elaborate hands-on approach to ethnography and cultural analysis; this text is a source of inspiration on how to convert unnoticed everyday phenomena into cultural analysis. -- Morten Kyed, Aalborg UniversityTable of Contents1—Hidden Worlds Finding the tools From idea to finished product The need for a cultural perspective Analytical strategies Structure of the book 2—The importance of small things The first step: getting going The second step: searching for literature The third step: collecting material The fourth step: the analysis The fifth step: writing 3—Making the familiar strange Making a first attempt Looking for entrances To avoid the predictable Choosing methodological entrances New questions and surprising answers Return to the past A life-history perspective The strange home The home as an art installation The importance of details and activities The advantages of limitation 4—Sharing a meal Table manners The hidden world of the dinner table Forming a family meal Power at the table Class and family history Doing mealtime ethnography Meals as models 5—Do you remember Facebook? Exploring media in everyday life Beginning at the end Analog and digital living Media taking place Virtual intimacy Are you there? Follow the Objects 6—Catching a mood Locating the setting Analytical approaches Touring the senses The station as a sensorium Changing moods Describing atmospheres Intimate moods Changing tracks Sensing the World 7—Crafting wood and words Ethnographic writing Making things with words Autoethnographic writing Describing non-verbal experience Do it by feel Writing DIY: three versions Manual Story Analysis Working knowledge The importance of failures Working and Writing 8—Demystifying fieldwork The classic style Making changes to the classic mold The jungle ideal Where is the field now? Organizing information Past, present, future 9—Taking cultural analysis out into the world The surprise effect Open fieldwork What’s this thing about culture? A double cultural analysis Learning to communicate Time discipline and teamwork Three ways of surprising a client So what? The critical edge References

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Book SynopsisRodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium and was disturbed by the inability of intellectuals to share a common cause with the masses. He sought to lift the Caribbean people from the victimization of history and the poverty of material circumstance.Trade ReviewWith profound insight and elegance, Gibbons' main strength is anchoring Walter Rodney's exemplary political and intellectual career and legacy in its Guyanese and Caribbean origins and development. -- Locksley Edmondson, professor, Africana studies, Cornell University…Thoroughly researched and clearly written…A compelling and sympathetic analysis of Rodney's writing…Gibbons combines the journalist's instinct for the telling detail with the academic rigor of the professor of communications (emeritus) that he is…This book is required reading for any serious students of colonial history and the Black Diaspora. -- Ewart Thomas, professor of psychology, Stanford University…[Rodney] cultivated a style of scholarship which was made available through its lucidity to all layers of Caribbean societies…Gibbons…[takes] us stage by stage through [Rodney's] turbulent journeys …An impressive contribution to our understanding of the legacy of Walter Rodney. -- Professor George Lamming, African studies, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction by Wazir Mohamed Chapter 3 Chapter I: Identity and Ideology Chapter 4 Chapter II: Education and Historical Consciousness Chapter 5 Chapter III: Politics in the Diaspora Race in Post-slavery Societies Chapter 6 Chapter IV: Slavery and Black Power Chapter 7 Chapter V: Intellectualism and its Demands Chapter 8 Chapter VI: The Approach to Armageddon Chapter 9 Chapter VII: Assassination of Walter Rodney Chapter 10 Chapter VIII: Garvey and Rodney Chapter 11 Chapter IX: C. L. R. James, Rodney and the Taking of Power Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index

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