Human geography Books
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Theorising Urban Development From the Global South
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters derive from and speak to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South. They focus on presenting the alternative realities of Southern cities as critical analytical lenses that can build up to the theorisation of the Southern urban with a potential to (re)understand the contemporary urban world. The contributions explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods. In doing so, the volume breaks apart the linear modernity that urban theory from the North relies on. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery). - Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies. - Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua). - Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee). - Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón). - Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina. - (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe). - Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck). - Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern. - Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia). - Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda). - Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha). - Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson). - Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado). - Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu). - Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Self-Governance and Sami Communities: Transitions
Book SynopsisThis open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natural resource management, mainly with regard to wild game, fish, and grazing land and illuminate how Sami users, in a changing economy, altered the long-term rules for use of land and water in a self-governance context. The early modern period was a transforming phase of property rights due to fundamental changes in Sami economy: from an economy based on fishing and hunting to an economy where reindeer pastoralism became the main occupation for many Sami. The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural assets and how capable they were in building highly functioning institutions for governance.Trade Review“The book by Jesper Larsson and Eva-Lotta Päiviö Sjaunja is really fascinating and a definite must-read for anyone interested in the history of reindeer pastoralism and, may be, pastoralism in general.” (Kirill V. Istomin, Pastoralism, June 8, 2022)Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction, Framework, Methods and Starting Points.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Linking long-term changes in socioecological systems with the development of property rights.- Chapter 3: Methods and staring points.- Chapter 4: Important variables.- Part II: Land Use, Livelihood and Ecological Settings.- Chapter 5: Fishing.- Chapter 6: Hunting.- Chapter 7: Reindeer husbandry.- Chapter 8: Other.- Part III: Synthesis.- Chapter 9: From private to common – coevolution of land-use practices and property rights.- Chapter 10: Early modern self-governance and colonial structures – the current state of affairs.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Book SynopsisOn what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black feminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors analyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility and machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and nanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in literature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently working in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and programming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt, question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practiced and promoted. Trade Review“The book offers a number of useful critiques of AI as it interacts with increasing numbers of Internet users. Readers should take the Marxist perspectives with a grain of salt.” (G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, October 19, 2022)“All of the chapters are well written and the editorial process was clearly very good. … I found four essays particularly noteworthy … . If you are limited on time, these core essays are must-reads. I found this book interesting because it disclosed to me what others outside the computational science community see.” (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, July 20, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Critical Insights: Bringing the social sciences and humanities to AI.- Section I: Posthumanism.- Chapter 2: Virtually Grown Up: Artificial Intelligence in Youth Fiction.- Chapter 3: The Feminized Robot: Labour and Harawayan Afterlives.- Section II: Human values.- Chapter 4: AI’s fast and furtive spread by infusion into technologies that are already in use – a critical assessment.- Chapter 5: Dumbwaiters & Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence.- Section III: Media and Language.- Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence: a medium that hides its nature.- Chapter 7: Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems.- Section IV: Governance.- Chapter 8: Not Anytime Soon: The clinical translation of nanorobots.- Chapter 9: Controversial Covid-19 contact-tracing app in India: digital self-defence, governance and surveillance.- Chapter 10: Intelligent Justice’: AI Implementations in China's Legal Systems.- Section V: Resistance.- Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence between Oppression and Resistance: Black Feminist Perspectives on Emerging Technologies.- Chapter 12: AI Ruined the Internet – and Everything Else: A manifesto.- Index.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity
Book SynopsisMaking Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of state-controlled electricity systems which had become established across Europe after the Second World War. By studying early liberalisation processes in Britain and the Nordic region, and analysing the role of the EEC, the book shows that the creation of electricity markets involved political decisions about the feasibility and desirability of introducing competition into electricity supply industries. Competition introduced risks, so in designing the process politicians needed to evaluate who the likely winners and losers might be and the degree to which competition would impact key national industries reliant on cross-subsidies from the electricity sector, in particular coal mining, nuclear power and energy intensive production. The book discusses how an understanding of the origins of electricity markets and their political character can inform contemporary debates about renewables and low carbon energy transitions. Trade Review“This book is therefore neither a history of technology work nor even a history of energy. However, Bolton succeeds in making understandable a particular period, that of the incomplete transformation of the electrical systems inherited from the second Industrial Revolution into the fundamental infrastructures of energy transitions.” (Yves Bouvier, Technology and Culture, Vol. 64 (2), April, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Britain: Inventing competition.- Trade-offs: Competition or Cash?.- Competition: A work in progress.- Europe: The economic logics of trade.- National electricity regimes: France and Germany.- The political market.- Power exchange: Norwegian origins.- Constructing a multinational market.- Conclusion: Remaking Markets.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe
Book SynopsisChapter 1 Introduction: Secondary Cities, Lodging Spatiality and Translocality.- Chapter 2 Urban Development, African Housing and the Spatiality of Lodging in Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe.- Chapter 3 Gweru: A Key Zimbabwean Secondary City.- Chapter 4 Rooms to Rent: Lodging, Spatiality and Environment.- Chapter 5 Lodging Household Dynamics and Livelihoods.- Chapter 6 The Owners: Landlords and Landladies.- Chapter 7 Lifetime Migrations. City Rooms, Translocal Networks and Rural Bases.- Chapter 8 Place, Space and Locale: Lodging Pathways within Gweru.- Chapter 9 Lodging and Community.
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Springer VS Deviant Landscapes
Book SynopsisEnergy Geographies an Introduction to Perspectives from France and Germany.- Peripheries Conflicts Transformations: Contested Geographies of Energy.- The Role of Crises in Shifting German Energy Geopolitics.- The North Sea and the EU's Interregional Energy Politics a Legal Geography Analysis.- Post-Nuclear Redevelopment Trajectories in France and Germany.- The Territories of Coal-Fired Power Plants as Sites for the Reconfiguration of Production Systems: Thoughts on a Meso-Scale of the Energy Transition.- Power Dynamics Below Ground: Investigating Political Geology in Geothermal Energy within the French Energy Transition.- Multidimensional Energy Discourses in the European Cross-Border Region SaarLorLux Hydrogen as a Common Element ?.- The Discursive Production of Hydrogen Imaginaries and their Spatialities in France and Germany.- The Social Profile of Biogas Farmers in their Respective Territories: Research, Design and Methodology.- Anaerobic Digestion and Sustainability of Agriculture in Brittany: Research at the Crossroads of Geography and Agro-Economics for Assessing the Impact of French Energy Policies.- Climate-Adapted Urban Development-Challenges and Opportunities in Planning Practice.- Exploring Households' Energy Vulnerability in Housing and Transportation Residential and Daily Mobility in South-Western France.
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Springer Population Aging and Housing Diversity in Poland
Book Synopsis1. Aging and Economics.- 2. Aging in Social and Economic Dimension.- 3. Housing for Seniors Focusing on the United States.- 4. Housing For Seniors Focusing on Poland.- 5. Empirical Research and Discussion.
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Springer Economic Diplomacy
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Springer Neopragmatism Inverse Landscape Cartographic Representation
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Propaedeutic course on inverse landscapes - basic considerations for dealing with contingency.- Concept: Inverse landscapes and their representations - from contingency to irony.- (Self)criticism - an assessment of the situation.- Critique of the concept of inverse landscapes and their representations.- Critique 1: Prerequisites for a neopragmatic landscape science.- Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Changing Cultural Landscapes of South Korea
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Sociological Examination of Masculinity in Korean Boys' Love Dramas.- Chapter 3: The change of representation of disability in contemporary Mass media.- Chapter 4: Instagramming Kimchi: An Exploration of the Social Media Landscape of Korean Restaurants in Ankara.- Chapter 5: Changing Meanings of Love and Marriage in South Korea.- Chapter 6: The intersection of ecumenism, feminism, and decolonisation: The case of Korean Christian women’s work for compatriot atomic-bomb victims.- Chapter 7: Korean Protestant Pastors’ Privilege Not To Pay Income Tax: Analysis of Media Representations.- Chapter 8: Cultivating Change: The Rise of Plant-Based Diets and Environmental Advocacy in South Korea.- Chapter 9: From factory girls to call center girls.- Chapter 10: Intersecting Asias: Coexistence, Connections, and Yemeni Refugees’ Arrival on Jeju Island.- Chapter 11: The embrace and policing of multilingualism and multiculturalism in the ethnoracial landscape of South Korea’s ethnic enclaves.- Chapter 12: Being San/Dara: Self-presentation and flexible citizenship among Korean diasporic celebrities in the Philippines.- Chapter 13: Skills, tradition, and modernity: bread and bakeries in narratives of identity and practice among rice cake manufacturers in South Korea.- Chapter 14: It’s now or never: preservation of present-day urbanity as treasure for the future.- Chapter 15: Negotiating the Utilization of Cultural Heritage: Insights from the “Palace-stay” Program Controversy.
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Palgrave Macmillan African Food Systems
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Food Systems: Prospects for Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainable Transformation in Africa.- Chapter 2: Current State of Africa’s Food Systems.- Chapter 3: An Overview of Food System Transformation Actions in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 4: The Shifting Role of Small-scale Farms in Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation in a Post-COVID-19 Context: Critical Lessons from Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5: Political Economy of Food Security: Interrogating the Planting for Food and Jobs Policy Intervention in Ghana.- Chapter 6: Gender Relations in the Utilisation of Digital Technologies in the Changing Food Production Systems in Northern Uganda.- Chapter 7: The Intersection of Social Policy, Gender and Food Systems in rural Zimbabwe.- Chapter 8: ‘Command’ agriculture, food security and women empowerment in rural Zimbabwe: Review of the feminist social work perspective.- Chapter 9: Food System Transformation for Safe and Nutritious Diets in Africa.- Chapter 10: African Food Systems: Prospects for Safe Food, Healthy Diets, and Nutrition in Sub- Saharan Africa.- Chapter 11: Warring Food Industry Landscapes in Zimbabwean Cities.- Chapter 12: Implications of the Russia-Ukraine War for African Food Systems.- Chapter 13: Food Systems Transformation in Southern Africa: Challenges and Dilemmas.- Chapter 14: Impact of Global Challenges on the African Food System: A Critical Assessment.- Chapter 15: The Impact of War and Conflict on African Food Systems: A Comprehensive Analysis.- Chapter 16: Conflicts, Land Resources, and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Food Security in Northern Ghana.- Chapter 17: Optimising Transformative AI Technologies: Pathway to Transformation in Digital Agriculture.- Chapter 18: Natural Resource Rent, Food Systems and Sustainability in Ghana: Does Financial Innovation Matter?.- Chapter 19: Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Food Production and Efficient Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 20: Food Systems Sustainability: Towards Food Waste Reduction in African Tourism Food Outlets.- Chapter 21: Conclusion: Towards Resilient, Innovative and Sustainable African Food Systems.
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Springer Future of Media in Asia
Book SynopsisArtificial Intelligence.- Digital Technology.- Media Practice.- Index.
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Springer Future of Work in Asia
Book SynopsisFuture Work Models in Asia.- Future Work Dynamics in Asia.- Future Workplace Technology in Asia.- Index.
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Palgrave Macmillan Dialogues with the Earth Sciences
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Martin: Bohle. Introduction: Purpose and Authorship.- Chapter 2:Martin Bohle, Dominic Hildebrandt. Earth Sciences in a World of Planetary Change.- Chapter 3:Tony Milligan, Nina Kruglikova. Three Challenges Facing Geosocietal Narratives.- Chapter 4:Christian Wolf. Being a Pragmatist about Planet Earth.- Chapter 5:Nalini Kochupillai, Earth „Observation“ and the Anthropocene: Rethinking the “Observer Effect” from an Eastern Philosophical Lens.- Chapter 6:Jochem Zwier. (In)human Encounters: The Earth as Human or Human as Earth.- Chapter 7:Carsten Herrman-Pillath. Earth as Hybrid Planet of More-than-human Landscapes.- Chapter 8:Simon Schneider. The Dual use Dilemma of Academia - an Extension to Include Sociocultural Aspects.- Chapter 9:Eduardo Marone, Luis Marone. The Heritage of the Enlightenment: Navigating the Anthropocene Through Supradisciplinary Education.- Chapter 10:Cornelia E. Nauen, Dedi S. Ahuri, Kafayat Fakoya. Voices from the Shorelines to Navigate the Anthropocene.- Chapter 11:Nathanael Wallenhorst, Renaud Hétier, Cécile Redondo, François Prouteau. The Anthropocene: Between the Systemic Complexity of Analysing Reality and Simplifying Terminology for Political Purposes.- Chapter 12:Martin Bohle & Cornelia E. Nauen. Rehearsal: Earth Sciences in a World of Planetary Change.- Chapter 13:Thomas Potthast. Epistemological and ethical reflections on the mutual relations between Anthropos, Anthropocene, and Earth Sciences.
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Springer Indias Geopolitical Gravity
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Distinguished Patterns of India’s Political Geography.- Chapter 2. India’s Neighbourhood Diplomacy.- Chapter 3. India’s Strategic Partnerships.- Chapter 4. India’s Main Geostrategic Challenges.- Chapter 5. India’s Geostrategic Outlook.- Chapter 6. Select Issues Affecting India’s Geopolitics and Geoeconomics.- Chapter 7. India and the Future of Asian Geopolitics.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Future of Cities in Asia
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Palgrave Macmillan Rethinking Water and Energy for a Sustainable Future
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Role of Water and Energy in Human Civilization.- Chapter 2: Modern theoretical approaches and methodology for water and hydro energy systems.- Chapter 3: Demand Management Instruments for Water and Energy Security in the SDG Era.- Chapter 4: Sustainable Marine and Offshore Energy Management.- Chapter 5: Circular Water Economy and the Water-Energy Nexus.- Chapter 6: Water-Energy Consumption and Sustainable Behaviour Practices.- Chapter 7: Exploring the complex interdependence nature of marine renewable energy sector: a developing country perspective.- Chapter 8: Renewable Energy Innovations in Urban Sustainability: Water and Energy Synergies.- Chapter 9: Industrial and Agricultural Water Conservation and Energy.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Performing Labor Migration in Philippine Theatre Narratives Affects Ideologies
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Springer VS Borderlands of Governance
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Cross-Border Cooperation, Regional Strategies, and Borderlands.- Cross-Border Cooperation as a Multilevel Endeavour.- Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches towards Cross-Border (and) Multilevel Governance in European Border Regions.- Methodological Approach.- “Borderlands of Governance” in the Saarland-Moselle Region: Empirical Insights into the Interplay between Cross-Border Spatialities and Multilevel Governance.- Borderlands of Governance in the Saarland-Moselle Region and Beyond: Summary and Outlook.- Bibliography.
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Springer VS Ungleichheit und Raum
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Books on Demand Auswirkungen der Fairtrade-Zertifizierung auf den
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BoD - Books on Demand The Gold of the Bandas
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Würzburg University Press Die Wertschöpfungskette kenianischer Rosen für den deutschen Markt
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Gphial O Fantasma Do Comunismo
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Clube de Autores Amazônia Legal Estudo Geográfico
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Clube de Autores As Línguas Da Humanidade
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Meta Brasil As L nguas Da Humanidade
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Brill Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts
Book SynopsisThe speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on the religious transformations within Chinese society. This unique atlas presents a bird’s-eye view of the religious landscape in China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China’s major religions - Buddhism, Christianity (Protestant and Catholic), Daoism, and Islam - at the national, provincial, and county levels. The atlas also outlines the contours of Confucianism, folk religion, and the Mao cult. Further, it describes the main organizations, beliefs, and rituals of China’s main religions, as well as the social and demographic characteristics of their respective believers. Putting multiple religions side by side in their contexts, this atlas deploys the latest qualitative, quantitative and spatial data acquired from censuses, surveys, and fieldwork to offer a definitive overview of religion in contemporary China. An essential resource for all scholars and students of religion and society in China.Trade Review“In the best tradition of the genre, this splendid Atlas of Religion in China reveals patterns—and prompts questions—about a world we have known only incompletely. Scholars will mine its insights for a long time, and anyone with an interest in modern China will find this book invaluable.” - David Bodenhamer, The Polis Center, IUPUI “This is the most sophisticated and comprehensive mapping ever of the official statistics for recognized religious institutions in China today. It provides a spatial analysis of religious activity that is many times greater than official statistics suggest.” - Peter K. Bol, Harvard University Nowhere has there been such a comprehensive mapping of religions at the national, provincial and county levels in contemporary China. An extremely valuable addition to the literature, with beautiful maps that bring to life the religious landscape in contemporary China. A treasure for the library!" - Lily Kong, Singapore Management University "Een atlas staat meestal niet op het lijstje van missiologen, maar dit boek is zeker aan te bevelen (...) Al met al geeft dit mooie boek een indrukwekkend beeld van de diversiteit van de religies en een bijzondere inkijk in de terugkeer van het religieuze leven in China". - Bas Plaisir, TussenRuimte 2019, 3.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Photos List of Maps Abbreviations Introduction The Three Markets of Religions in China The Red Market: Legal Religions Buddhism Islam Protestantism Daoism Catholicism The Gray Market: Semi-Legal Religions Confucianism Folk Religion House Churches Underground Catholic Churches Mao Cult The Black Market: Illegal Religions The Shouters (Huhan pai 呼喊派) All Scope Church (Quanfanwei jiaohui 全范围教会) Church of the Almighty God (Quannengshen jiaohui 全能神教会) Eastern Lightning (Dongfang shandian 东方闪电) Cold Water Sect (Lengshui jiao 冷水教) Dami Evangelism Association (Dami xuanjiaohui 达米宣教会) Disciples Sect (Mentu hui 门徒会) Narrow Gate in the Wilderness (Kuangye zhaimen 旷野窄门) Established King (Beili Wang 被立王) Falun Gong (法轮功) Guanyin Method (Guanyin famen 观音法门) Lingling Sect (Lingling jiao 灵灵教) Lord God Sect (Zhushen jiao 主神教) New Testament Church (Xinyue jiaohui 新约教会) Three Ranks of Servants (Sanban puren pai 三班仆人派) True Buddha Sect (Zhen fo zong 真佛宗) World Elijah Association (Shijie yiliya fuyin xuanjiaohui 世界以利亚福音宣 教会) Yiguandao (一贯道) Provinces North China 华北地区 [1] Beijing 北京 [2] Tianjin 天津 [3] Hebei 河北 [4] Shanxi 山西 [5] Inner Mongolia 內蒙古 Northeast China 东北地区 [6] Liaoning 辽宁 [7] Jilin 吉林 [8] Heilongjiang 黑龙江 East China 华东地区 [9] Shanghai 上海 [10] Jiangsu 江苏 [11] Zhejiang 浙江 [12] Anhui 安徽 [13] Fujian 福建 [14] Jiangxi 江西 [15] Shandong 山东 South-Central China 中南地区 [16] Henan 河南 [17] Hubei 湖北 [18] Hunan 湖南 [19] Guangdong 广东 [20] Guangxi 广西 [21] Hainan 海南 Southwest China 西南地区 [22] Chongqing 重庆 [23] Sichuan 四川 [24] Guizhou 贵州 [25] Yunnan 云南 [26] Xizang 西藏 (Tibet) Northwest China 西北地区 [27] Shaanxi 陕西 [28] Gansu 甘肃 [29] Qinghai 青海 [30] Ningxia 宁夏 [31] Xinjiang 新疆 Bibliography Index
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Brill Placing Poetry
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and mobility. ‘Placing’ becomes an active process that happens in different parts of the world, and there is work here from the countries of the United Kingdom, from Ireland, the USA, Australia and mainland Europe. Placing also happens in different contexts, in the production of visual images, in translation, in performance and in poetry that is both ‘there’ and ‘here’. The range of poets under consideration matches the breadth of the range of the contributors. International in scope, and drawn from a variety of practices and processes, their combination in a single volume leads to unusual connections and new readings of their work.Trade ReviewWinner of the M. Wynn Thomas Prize in the Open Category: Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper "In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie" – IJWWE. "This year's M. Wynn Thomas Prize winner in the Open Category is Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper 'In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie'." – IJWWE and the proud reaction of the winnerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ian Davidson: Introduction Peter Barry: Just Looking Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Placing the Poem in Translation Alice Entwistle: Taking Place: Deixis, Collaboration and the Gender Politics of the Aesthetic Zoë Skoulding: Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities Harriet Tarlo: Open Field: Reading Field as Place and Poetics Matthew Jarvis: In/human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie John Kinsella: The Movements of Yellow-Rumped Thornbills: Twittering Machines Nerys Williams: Lyric Encounters with Other Places: Juliana Spahr’s this connection of everyone with lungs and Robert Minhinnick’s ‘An Isotope dreaming’ Kaia Sand: Affording Entrance Jules Boykoff: Poets as Experimental Geographers: Mark Nowak, Kaia Sand and the Re-composition of Political-Historical Space John Wrighton: Ethnopoetics and the Performativity of Place: Jerome Rothenberg and ‘That Dada Strain’ Carol Watts: Zeta Landscape: Poetry, Place, Pastoral Index List of Illustrations
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Brill Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Women’s Writing
Book SynopsisThis study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women’s writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat literary works from diverse cultures and geographies, concentrating on the intersections of theory and literature. This results in a wide spectrum of identities and texts – including the work of Swedish poet Aase Berg, the Indian translation market, the Chicana novel, creative non-fiction by Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić, and multilingual hybrid texts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – in order to provide a framework for an overarching theory of transnationalism as it interacts with newer paradigms of gendered identity and the new forms of literature to which they contribute. Transnationalism and Resistance offers a multifaceted approach to transnational studies and constitutes a cogent analysis of the ways in which women’s writing informs contemporary global literary production. This volume is of interest for scholars in women’s studies, literature, the social sciences, cultural studies and all other fields that take an interest in writing that addresses contemporary global issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Adele Parker and Stephenie Young: Experience and Experiment in a Transnational Perspective Bodies of Female Experience and Experiment Flore Chevaillier: Erotics and Corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE Liamar Durán Almarza: “At Home at the Border”: Performing the Transcultural Body in Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish Johannes Göransson: “Antibody”: Aase Berg’s Grotesque Poetry and the Swedish Welfare State Trauma, Resistance, Nation Anastasia Valassopoulos: Assia Djebar’s Seductive Trails in So Vast the Prison: “A Philosopher’s Thought Experiment”? Tamara Lea Spira: Remembering Trauma, Refusing Disappearance: Corregidora, Bastard Out of Carolina, and the Transnational Labors of Memory Ruben Murillo: ¿Ser o no ser?: Where Death, Violence, and Silence Intersect in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas’ Puppet Stephenie Young: Transnational Memories and a Post-Yugoslav Writer Limits of Transnationalism Adele Parker: Writing as Mirror: Origins and Identities in the Work of Brina Svit Maria-Theresia Holub: Language Borders/Border Languages Ulrike Tancke: Beyond “Helpless Heterogeneity”: Difference and Identity in Contemporary British Women’s Fictions of Migration Epilogue: Marketing Transnationalism Pavithra Narayanan: Transcending Borders in Publishing: The Example of Mallika Sengupta, Bengali Woman Writer Notes on Contributors Index
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Brill Perspectives on Mobility
Book SynopsisLiterature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry, the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the history of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Ingo Berensmeyer and Christoph Ehland: Movement and Mobility: An Introduction Part One: Movement and the Making of Space Christian Huck: The Total Mobility of the Dime Novel Detective Renate Brosch: Mapping Movement: Reimagining Cartography in The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Chris Thurgar-Dawson: Reality Mining and Meaningful Motion Patterns: A Critical GIS for Literary Studies Klaus Benesch: Places of Beginning: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s Walden and Douglass’s Narrative Anna Beck: Subjective Spaces - Spatial Subjectivities: Movement and Mobility in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Ian McEwan’s Saturday Part Two: Conceptual Spaces Birgit Neumann: Patterns of Global Mobility in Early Modern English Literature: Fictions of the Sea Philipp Erchinger: Mobility, Movement, Method and Life in G.H. Lewes Peter Merriman: Unpicking Time-Space: Towards New Apprehensions of Movement-Space Sven Strasen, Timo Lothmann, and Peter Wenzel: On the Move: Discursive Integration of New Mobility Technologies through Poetry Timo Lothmann and Antje Schumacher: Automobility in Poetry: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach Notes on Contributors Index
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Springer Clashes of Knowledge: Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion
Book SynopsisDo traditional distinctions between "belief" and "knowledge" still make sense? How are differences between knowledge and belief understood in different cultural contexts? This book explores conflicts between various types of knowledge, especially between orthodox and heterodox knowledge systems, ranging from religious fundamentalism to heresies within the scientific community itself. Beyond addressing many fields in the academy, the book discusses learned individuals interested in the often puzzling spatial and cultural disparities of knowledge and clashes of knowledge.Table of ContentsContents,- Introduction to the book series „Knowledge and Space':Peter Meusburger,-: Introduction to this volume Clashes of Knowledge inside, outside, and at the Threshold of Science: Edgar Wunder,- Chapter 1: Forms of Knowledge: Problems, Projects, Perspectives: Günter Abel,- Chapter 2: The Nexus of Knowledge and Space: Peter Meusburger,- Chapter 3: Cultural boundaries: Settled and unsettled: Thomas F. Gieryn,- Chapter 4: Actor’s and Analysts’ Categories in the Social Analysis of Science: Harry Collins,- Chapter 5: Science and the Limits of Knowledge: Mikael Stenmark,- Chapter 6: Science and Religion in Popular Publishing: Aileen Fyfe,- Chapter 7: Reason, Faith, and Gnosis: Potentials and Problematics of a Typological Construct: Wouter J. Hanegraaff,- Chapter 8: The Demarcation Problem of Knowledge and Faith. Questions and Answers from Theology: Michael Welker ,- Chapter 9: Types of Sacred Space and European Responses to New Religious Movements: Eileen Barker,- Chapter 10: When Faiths Collide: The Case of Fundamentalism: Roger W. Stump,- Chapter 11: The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance: State of the Science and Directions for Future Research: Peter Fischer, Dieter Frey, Claudia Peus and Andreas Kastenmüller,- Chapter 12: Turning Persuasion from Art into a Science: Robert B. Cialdini,- Abstracts of the contribution,- Addresses of the contributors,- On the Klaus Tschira Foundation
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A A Balkema Publishers Shallow Groundwater Systems: IAH International Contributions to Hydrogeology 18
Book SynopsisShallow groundwater systems are important as a source of water, for sustenance of stream baseflow, and for wetland and riparian ecosystems. They are also central to waterlogging, and dryland and irrigation salinity problems. Response time to hydrologic change and pollutant loadings is fast among shallow aquifiers, and it is important that hydrogeologists and natural resource managers understand the unsaturated zone processes which links human activity at the soil surface and the underlying groundwater, and vice versa. This volume of papers explores practical aspects of soil and surface water interactions with groundwater, including modelling of flow and contaminant transport in the unsaturated and saturated zones.
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Wageningen Academic Publishers Animal production and natural resources utilisation in the Mediterranean mountain areas
Book SynopsisMediterranean inhabitants depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Livestock production and forestry are key sources of income yet are carried out under harsh conditions such as limited land resources, marginal agricultural conditions, isolation, and scant equipment and infrastructure. Livestock is of particular importance in mountain production systems as they convert plant biomass into useful products for humans such as milk, meat and draught power. These products are key to the regions' sustainability. The main topics discussed in this book are: Human geography of Mediterranean mountain territories. Livestock production and natural resources. Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountain areas. Applications of new technologies for environmentally sound management of livestock and natural resources. The role livestock plays in rural development and in safeguarding natural resources.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Session 1: Human geography of Mediterranean mountain areas Theatre presentations 5 Posters 33 Session 2: Sustainable Utilization of Forest Areas Livestock Land Use and Landscape Sub-session 2.1: Sustainable utilisation of forest areas Theatre presentations 47 Poster presentations 99 Session 2: Sustainable utilization of forest areas livestock land use and landscape Session 2.2: Livestock, land use and landscape Theatre presentations 151 Posters 199 Session 3: Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountains Session 3.1: Dairy sheep systems / Dairy goats systems / Small ruminant meat systems Theatre presentations 235 Posters 279 Session 3: Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountains Session 3.2: Cattle, pigs and poulytry systems Theatre presentations 395 Posters 427 Session 4: Application of new technologies for environmentally sound management of livestock and natural resources in mountain areas Theatre presentations 455 Posters 483 Session 5: Livestock as a fundamental factor for rural development and safeguard of natural resources in mountain areas Theatre presentations 505 Posters 597
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Wordpen Academics Nagaland
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