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How I Live Now (DVD)
Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George Mackay, Corey Johnson, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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British action drama starring Saoirse Ronan. Understandably cold
and aggressive after being shipped off to Britain from America to
stay with her distant relatives, Daisy (Ronan) is initially weary
of her new home in the English countryside, but as a relationship
develops between Daisy and her cousin Edmond (George MacKay), she
starts warming to her new surroundings. Left to their own devices
while her Aunt Penn (Anna Chancellor) is abroad involved in peace
negotiations, the group enjoy their idyllic surroundings and
isolation from parental influence. However, when World War Three
breaks out over Europe and Britain is taken over by military
forces, the group is split up and detained in prisoner-of-war
camps. With nothing left to lose, Daisy begins planning her escape
in the hope of reuniting with her lover, but with war taking its
toll on everyone throughout the country, she grows fearful of what
she may find...
Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two
sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and
decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the
state's territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest
that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge
that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is
done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by
particular people than others. This book investigates the diffusion
of bordering narratives and practices by asking 'who borders and
how?' Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the
connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the
individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range
of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions
from major international scholars in the field of border studies
and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is
done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the
state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a
ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state
in the era of globalization.
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Want, Waste or War? - The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals (Paperback)
Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, …
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R1,525
Discovery Miles 15 250
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of
global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries
join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their
resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as
attention to resource connections and their governance
ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of
contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains.
This book sets out an analytical framework for understanding these
nexus issues and the related governance challenges and
opportunities.
It sheds light on the resource nexus in three realms: markets,
inter-state relations, and local human security. These three realms
are the organizing principle of three chapters, before the analysis
turns to cross-cutting case studies including shale gas, migration,
lifestyle changes and resource efficiency, nitrogen fertilizer and
food systems, water and the Nile Basin, climate change and security
and defense spending. The key issues revolve around competition and
conflict over finite natural resources. The authors highlight
opportunities to improve both the understanding of nexus challenges
and their governance. They critically discuss a global governance
approach versus polycentric and multi-level approaches, and the
lack of those dimensions in many theories of international
relations.
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Want, Waste or War? - The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals (Hardcover)
Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, …
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R4,145
Discovery Miles 41 450
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of
global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries
join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their
resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as
attention to resource connections and their governance
ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of
contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains.
This book sets out an analytical framework for understanding these
nexus issues and the related governance challenges and
opportunities.
It sheds light on the resource nexus in three realms: markets,
inter-state relations, and local human security. These three realms
are the organizing principle of three chapters, before the analysis
turns to cross-cutting case studies including shale gas, migration,
lifestyle changes and resource efficiency, nitrogen fertilizer and
food systems, water and the Nile Basin, climate change and security
and defense spending. The key issues revolve around competition and
conflict over finite natural resources. The authors highlight
opportunities to improve both the understanding of nexus challenges
and their governance. They critically discuss a global governance
approach versus polycentric and multi-level approaches, and the
lack of those dimensions in many theories of international
relations.
Connectivity, as well as conflict, characterizes Eurasia. This
edited volume explores dynamic geopolitical and geo-economic links
reconfiguring spaces from the eastern edge of Europe through the
western edge of Asia, seeking explanation beyond description. The
ancient Silk Road tied together space, much as pipelines,
railroads, telecommunications infrastructure, and similar cultural
and constructed links ease the mobility of people and products in
modern Eurasia. This book considers Eurasia along an interlinked
corridor, with chapters illustrating the connections as a
discussion foundation focusing on the shared interactions of a set
of nation states through time and across space, generating more
positive considerations of the resurgently important region of
Eurasia. China's interests fall into three chapters: the
southeastern border with Vietnam, the southwestern Himalayan edge,
and the western Muslim regions. Russia's recovery relates events to
a larger landmass context and focuses on the importance of historic
mobility. A geo-history of the Caspian considers this
petroleum-rich area as a zone of cultural and economic
interconnection. The final focus on Central Asia treats the
traditional heart of "Eurasia". The concluding chapter pulls
together strands linking subregions for a new concept of "Eurasia"
as an area linked by vital interests and overlapping histories.
Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two
sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and
decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the
state's territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest
that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge
that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is
done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by
particular people than others. This book investigates the diffusion
of bordering narratives and practices by asking 'who borders and
how?' Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the
connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the
individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range
of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions
from major international scholars in the field of border studies
and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is
done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the
state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a
ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state
in the era of globalization.
Informed by feminist theory and critiques of masculinity, this
narrative ethnography focuses on how gay men come to understand and
negotiate the meaning of masculinity in a country- western gay bar.
Gay bars, specifically designed to wall out straights, remain a
central social institution and leisure context for a number of gay
men. To understand the space as a leisure context, this project
thoroughly documents the bar's relationship to the community, its
physical location, design, dcor and ambiance, its inhabitants, its
historical existence, and how it varies according to different
nights of the week. Moving beyond this description I also focus on
the social practices of dance, dress, patterns of migration, and
competing discourses about Lesbian Night. These factors elucidate
how organized social space can allow non-heterosexuals to both
resist and reinforce compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic
gender ideologies in and through leisure.
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