Author: Lisa Benton-Short File Type: pdf Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of theory and critical themes. Greater discussion is given to urbanization trends and megacities the post-industrial city and global economic changes developing cities and slums urban political ecology the role of the city in climate change and sustainability. The book explores the historical relationship between cities and nature, contemporary challenges to this relationship, and attempts taken to create more sustainable cities. The historical context situates urban development and its impact on the environment, and in turn the environmental impact on people in cities. This provides a foundation from which to understand contemporary issues, such as urban political ecology, hazards and disasters, water quality and supply, air pollution and climate change. The book then considers sustainability and how it has been informed by different theoretical approaches. Issues of environmental justice and the role of gender and race are explored. The final chapter examines the ways in which cities are practicing sustainability, from light greening efforts such as planting trees, to more comprehensive sustainability plans that integrate the multiple dimensions of sustainability.The text contains case studies from around the globe, with many drawn from cities in the developing world, as well as reviews of recent research, updated and expanded further reading to highlight relevant films, websites and journal articles. This book is an asset to students and researchers in geography, environmental studies, urban studies and planning and sustainability.About the AuthorhrLisa Benton-Short is an Associate Professor of Geography at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC. An urban geographer, she has research interests in environmental issues in cities, parks and public spaces, and monuments and memorials. She is also Director of Academic Programs in Sustainability at GWU. John Rennie Short is Professor of Geography and Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has published 35 books and numerous articles and is recognized as an international authority on the study of cities.
Author: Susana Nuccetelli
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This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Grice, Davidson, Strawson, Austin, and Putnam, as well as more recent contributions by scholars including John McDowell, Stephen Neale, Ruth Millikan, Stephen Schiffer, Paul Horwich, and Anthony Brueckner, among others, who are on the leading edge of innovation in this increasingly influential area of philosophy. The result is a lively mix of readings, together with the editors discussions of the material, which provides a rigorous introduction to the subject.ReviewThis collection would make an excellent text for an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate course in the philosophy of language. Its particular choice of readings is very good and not available in any other collection its conceptualization of the subject and focus is extremely well suited for its intended audience, and the editors introductions are substantive and helpful. (Stephen Schiffer, New York University) About the AuthorSusana Nuccetelli is associate professor of philosophy at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Gary Seay is associate professor of philosophy at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.
Author: The Playful Mapping Collective
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MS Shell Dlg 2, serif 12pxspan orphans 2 widows 2From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital age, when the relations between these apparently separate tropes are increasingly woven together. Fluid networks of interaction have encouraged a proliferation of hybrid forms of mapping and playing and a rich plethora of contemporary case-studies, ranging from fieldwork, golf, activism and automotive navigation, to pervasive and desktop-based games evidences this trend. Examining these cases shows how mapping and playing can form productive synergies, but also encourages new ways of being, knowing and shaping our everyday lives. The chapters in this book explore how play can be more than just an object or practice, and instead focus on its potential as a method for understanding maps and spatiality. They show how playing and mapping can be liberating, dangerous, subversive and performative.span MS Shell Dlg 2, serif 12pxspan orphans 2 widows 2Contributors Clancy Wilmott, Chris Perkins, Sybille Lammes, Samspanspan orphans 2 widows 2Hind, Alex Gekker, Emma Fraser and Daniel Evansspan
Author: Federico Bonaddio
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This volume is one of few surveys in English of the whole of Lorcas poetry and the first to concentrate entirely on self-consciousness, a subject which it sees as central to our understanding of the work of a poet writing in the most self-conscious of literary periods the Modernist era. Focusing on poems which have the poet, art and creativity as their subject, or which draw attention at a formal level to issues of practice or style, it shows how these poems speak for or against contemporary aesthetic doctrine, thereby revealing the extent of the poets allegiance to it and the positions he takes up in the process of making his own mark in the literary field. In so doing it charts the development of a poet whose self-conscious engagement with his art offers an explanation as to why his work, in the space of little more than a decade and a half, should have been so singular and diverse. FEDERICO BONADDIO lectures in Modern Spanish Studies at Kings College London. **
Author: Mihretu P. Guta
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This book aims toshow the centrality of a proper ontology of properties in thinking about consciousness. Philosophers have long grappled with what is now known as the hard problem of consciousness, i.e., how can subjective or qualitative features of our experiencesuch as how a strawberry tastesarise from brain states? More recently, philosophers have incorporated what seems like promising empirical research from neuroscience and cognitive psychology in an attempt to bridge the gap between measurable mental states on the one hand, and phenomenal qualities on the other. In Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties, many of the leading philosophers working on this issue, as well as a few emerging scholars, have written 14 new essays on this problem.The essays address topics as diverse as substance dualism, mental causation, the metaphysics of artificial intelligence, the logic of conceivability, constitution, extended minds, the emergence of consciousness, and neuroscience and the unity and neural correlates of consciousness, but are nonetheless unified in a collective objective the need for a proper ontology of properties to understand the hard problem of consciousness, both on non-empirical and empirical grounds. **Review Anyone looking for a single volume of the latest, most promising work in philosophy of mind could not do better than Gutas brilliant collection of 14 fresh essays in Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties. This is a work that is ideal for experts as well as newcomers who are engaged with philosophically exploring the nature of consciousness. -Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College About the Author Mihretu P. Guta teaches philosophy at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Biola University and at Azusa Pacific University, California. He co-edited with Sophie Gibb the Special Issue for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, entitled Insights into the first-person perspective and the self an interdisciplinary approach, 11-12 (2015), and is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Metaphysics of Substance and Personhood A Non-Theory-Laden Approach.
Author: Stephen Cheeke
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Transfiguration explores the work of John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Walter Pater, treating in particular the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Paters case, how the art of Christianity was contrasted with classical sculpture. Stephen Cheeke examines two related phenomena idolatry (a false substitution, a sexual betrayal), and the poetics of transfiguration (to elevate or glorify subject matter not thought of as conventionally poetic, to praise). Central to the book is the question of the translation of religion into art and aesthetics, a process which supposedly undergirds the advent of the museum age and makes possible the idea of a religion of art as a phenomenon of late century Aestheticism. Such a phenomenon is prepared for, however, through the engagement with Christian painting and classical sculpture in the work of these four writers. All four thought carefully about the ways in which a particular mimetic impulse of making-live in artworks could be connected to religious experience. This meant exploring the nature of the link between seeing and believingvisualising in order to conceive, to verify, but also in the sense of being acted upon by the visible. All four wrote about the great power of artworks to transfigure the objects of their attention. In each case, there emerges the possibility of a secret sexual knowledge hiding within, or lying on the other side of the sensuous knowledge of aesthesis. All four wondered whether this was inherently hostile to Christianity, or whether it may, finally, be an accommodation within it.
Author: Joanna Higgins
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This book presents inservice teacher educators accounts of systematic inquiry into their practice in a variety of contexts throughout New Zealand. The importance of purposeful networks of practice at all levels of a system in supporting education change and improvement is a theme across the chapters. The contributors describe the challenges and successes associated with working in professional learning and development in ways that aim to improve outcomes for teacher educators, teachers and students. Their accounts illuminate the importance of a research and development approach that enables the generation and application of new knowledge and, more importantly, enables all contributors to be learners. Each of the authors describes their role in investigating the effectiveness of inservice teacher educator practice, as part of the overall project that endeavoured to improve practice for the future. Included are processes created for Maori (indigenous) settings where cultural metaphors were used to frame investigations of practice. The book makes an important contribution to our knowledge base about effective inservice teacher educator practice and its influence on classroom practice. The book will appeal to teacher educators interested in examining the fit between their practices and their goals in helping teachers to build knowledge and practice, including those working in indigenous settings. It will also be of interest to policy makers and evaluators involved in system-level change. ...a well organised and carefully argued text that offers compelling evidence for an integrated approach to project management, practice, research and evaluation (J. John Loughran, Series Editor).
Author: Fabien Arribert-Narce
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Ou va lautobiographie ? Alors quelle evolue entre les genres, entre les cultures et les langues, ainsi quentre les nouveaux moyens de capter et darchiver la vie, on remarque quelle constitue plus que jamais un lieu dexperimentation et dinnovation pour les auteurs dexpression francaise. Cet ouvrage se propose des lors dexaminer plusieurs des formes decriture de soi qui ont marque ces dernieres decennies. Parcourir des uvres dauteurs et de cineastes reconnus avec des specialistes de lautobiographie, cest se donner une chance de saisir certaines evolutions et de mesurer la vitalite dun genre pour lequel linteret critique et populaire na fait que croitre depuis les premiers travaux de Philippe Lejeune (qui signe larriere-propos de ce volume) dans les annees 1970. On trouvera ici des contributions de chercheurs qui repondent au commun desir de developper de nouveaux cadres theoriques permettant dapprecier a sa juste valeur la remarquable diversite de la production autobiographique contemporaine. **
Author: Poulomi Saha
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In todays world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industryand the labor organizing pushing backdraws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of womens labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive.Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of womens political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulatedin writing, in political action, in stitchingtheir own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond womens empowerment and independence as global and national projects they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. Saha follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their own labor, contending that their political commitments are captured in the material objects of their manufacture. Her analysis of the production of historical memory through and by the bodies of women spans British colonialism and American empire, anticolonial nationalism to neoliberal globalization, depicting East Bengal between development economics and postcolonial studies. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.**ReviewA brilliant provocation in the debate about female political subjectivity in the Global South, An Empire of Touch is an important and timely book. Going beyond the typical focus on womens empowerment and independence, it demonstrates how women in East Bengal through their symbolic and material labor produce the terms of their own political self-conception. Sahas deft and sophisticated readings of the material particulars of womens labor reveal a relational politics of the self that expands what and who count as political. (Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India The Global Restructuring of an Empire) Saha has given us a thought-provoking, incisive, elegant, and necessary work wherein she recasts and regenerates postcolonial criticism. This book is well written, beautifully researched, creative, and politically vital. (Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch Sense, Movement, Sovereignty) Saha proposes that the diaphanous nature first of muslin and then of other fabrics constitutes neither a simple product with exchange value nor an ephemeral or affective form of labor we have come to associate with certain kinds of womens work. Forms of touch are woven into the fabric of colonial and postcolonial exchange. And they carry a spectral quality. Rather like the visor effect in Derridas reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx, fabric casts a shadow on abstracted beings moving through history teleologically, and weaves a different affect. (Ranjana Khanna, author of Algeria Cuts Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present) About the Author Poulomi Saha is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.