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A quest is never what you expect it to be.
Elizabeth Madeline Martin spends her days in a retirement home in
Cape Town, watching the pigeons and squirrels on the branch of a
tree outside her window. Bedridden, her memory fading, she can
recall her early childhood spent in a small wood-and-iron house in
Blackridge on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. Though she
remembers the place in detail – dogs, a mango tree, a stream – she
has no idea of where exactly it is. ‘My memory is full of blotches,’
she tells her daughter Julia, ‘like ink left about and knocked over.’
Julia resolves to find the Blackridge house: with her mother lonely
and confused, would this, perhaps, bring some measure of closure?
A journey begins that traverses family history, forgotten documents,
old photographs, and the maps that stake out a country’s troubled
past – maps whose boundaries nature remains determined to resist.
Kind strangers, willing to assist in the search, lead to unexpected
discoveries of ancestors and wars and lullabies. Folded into this
quest are the tender conversations between a daughter and a
mother who does not have long to live.
Taken as one, The Blackridge
House is a meditation on belonging, of the stories we tell of home
and family, of the precarious footprint of life.
While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily
deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the
governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using
an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in
the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern
religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those
processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in
Europe, Julia Martinez-Arino brings the reader closer to the
entrails of laicite. She provides detailed accounts of the ways
religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist
actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete
public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material,
the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce
dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static
conceptions of laicite and the nation. Illustrating how urban,
national and international contexts interact with one another, the
book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the
multilevel governance of religious diversity.
Barry Lopez had no illusions about the seriousness of our global
crisis, yet he also felt a deep conviction about the power of hope
and the sources of renewal in the living world. Syntax of the River
is an extended conversation spanning three days between Lopez and
Julia Martin in which he explores what this juxtaposition means for
him as a writer. On the first day Lopez reflects on years watching
the McKenzie River near his home in Oregon. He describes the
quality of attention he learned from intimacy with the place
itself: a very fine distinction between silence and stillness, the
rich complexities of the present moment, and the syntax of
interrelationships between living things. The second day is
concerned with craft: the work of making sentences and books. Lopez
shares his practical strategies for writing and revising a
manuscript and goes on to speak about vulnerability. He says he
often experienced a deep sense of doubt about his capacity to
achieve whatever he was trying to do in a particular project. Over
time, though, this characteristic experience of not-knowing became
a kind of fuel for his work, and even a weapon at times. On the
final day, Lopez ponders the idea of writing as a praxis, a way of
life, even a prayer for the earth, while concurrently being
terrified by the portents of its destruction. Here, the experience
of being an attentive participant emerges as his core teaching.
Over the decades he developed a practice of attention that was
endlessly curious and enthralled by the living world, what he calls
its pattern or syntax. Despite acclaim as a celebrated writer,
throughout his career Lopez humbly tasked himself with making a
combination of wonder and horror work together to effectively
communicate a life journey of contemplation, exploration, and
discovery.
How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant
religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban
social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world,
contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in
cities. This book argues that religious events â including
rituals, processions, and festivals â are not only choreographies
of sacred traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that
reveal how urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and
contested. Exposing the power dynamics behind these events, this
book shows how performative uses of urban space serve to
destabilize dominant genealogies and lineages around urban
identities just as they lay claims to cultural supremacy or
heritage. Through exploring the affective disruptions and political
controversies caused by religious events, the contributors engage
theoretical discussions in urban studies, the sociology of religion
and the ethnography of ritual. This book is a significant
contribution to understanding emerging patterns in contemporary
religion and also for theories related to heritagization,
eventization, and urbanization.
This book examines interfaith dialogue in Europe and how
interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practiced.
Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become
significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion,
diversity and belonging. By focusing on the spatialities,
materialities and practices of interfaith dialogues and encounters,
the volume sheds light on the heterogeneous domains where the
visibility and inclusion of religious and cultural differences are
currently negotiated and contested. The chapters draw on social
science perspectives and include a range of empirical case studies
from a variety of European settings. The contributions a) shed
light on the subjectivities, relations and modes of behaviour
produced, negotiated and contested in and through locally embedded
interfaith encounters and dialogue-oriented practices, b) observe
the power dynamics that shape those practices and encounters and c)
discuss their implications for the place(s) of religion in the
public sphere. Overall the book contributes to a better
understanding of how cultural, religious and political identities
are reconfigured across Europe.
While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily
deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the
governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using
an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in
the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern
religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those
processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in
Europe, Julia Martinez-Arino brings the reader closer to the
entrails of laicite. She provides detailed accounts of the ways
religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist
actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete
public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material,
the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce
dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static
conceptions of laicite and the nation. Illustrating how urban,
national and international contexts interact with one another, the
book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the
multilevel governance of religious diversity.
Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights
into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a
variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of
empirical examples in Europe and Canada. Religious diversity is
increasingly present and visible in cities across the world.
Drawing on a wide selection of cases in Europe and Canada, this
volume examines how this diversity is governed. While focusing on
the urban dimension of governance, the chapters do not examine
cities in isolation but take into account the interconnections
between urban contexts and other scales, both within and beyond the
borders of the nation-state. The contributors discuss a variety of
empirical examples, ranging from the controversies around the
celebration of the International Yoga Day in Vancouver, the mosque
not built in Munich, and the governance of Islam in cities in
France, Germany, Italy, Quebec and Spain. Adopting a critical
perspective, they shed light on the factors shaping different
governance patterns, and on their implications for various
religious groups. Ultimately, this book shows that governing
religious diversity is not a matter of black and white.
Contributing to a growing field of academic research that focuses
on the governance of religion in urban contexts, and providing
lines for future research, Governing Religious Diversity in Cities
will be of great interest to scholars in the sociology of religion,
religious studies and urban studies. The chapters were originally
published as a special issue of Religion, State & Society.
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the
Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study
shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble'
jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely
overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of
empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore,
Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina,
the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves
into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between
European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the
lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home,
considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels,
and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling
across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of
service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate
trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of
servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an
important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour
history and the Asia Pacific region.
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the
Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study
shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble'
jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely
overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of
empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore,
Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina,
the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves
into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between
European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the
lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home,
considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels,
and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling
across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of
service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate
trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of
servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an
important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour
history and the Asia Pacific region.
This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based
approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water
challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water
security in the developing world, by integrating scientific
knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological
modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international
law. Empirical assessments at the national, catchment and regional
levels are used to critically appraise this systemic approach, and
the merits and potential limitations are presented. The
practicalities of this approach with regard to water resources
management, nature conservation, and sustainable business practices
are discussed, and the role of society in underpinning the concept
of ecosystem services is explored. Presenting new insights and
perspectives on how to shape future strategies, this contributory
volume is a valuable reference for researchers, academics, students
and policy makers, in environmental studies, hydrology, water
resource management, ecology, environmental law, policy and
economics, and conservation biology.
This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based
approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water
challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water
security in the developing world, by integrating scientific
knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological
modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international
law. Empirical assessments at the national, catchment and regional
levels are used to critically appraise this systemic approach, and
the merits and potential limitations are presented. The
practicalities of this approach with regard to water resources
management, nature conservation, and sustainable business practices
are discussed, and the role of society in underpinning the concept
of ecosystem services is explored. Presenting new insights and
perspectives on how to shape future strategies, this contributory
volume is a valuable reference for researchers, academics, students
and policy makers, in environmental studies, hydrology, water
resource management, ecology, environmental law, policy and
economics, and conservation biology.
In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and
letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with
South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period
many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in their
personal lives--and these changing conditions provide the back
story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an
intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a
generous distinguished writer, and becomes a long-distance
friendship and an exploration of spiritual practice.
At the project's heart is Snyder's understanding of Buddhism. Again
and again, the conversations return to an explication of the
teachings. Snyder's characteristic approach is to articulate a
direct experience of Buddhist practice rather than any kind of
abstract philosophy. In the version he describes here, this
practice finds expression not primarily as an Asian import or a
monastic ideal, but in the specificities of a householder's life as
lived creatively in a particular location at a particular moment in
history. This means that whatever "topic" a dialogue explores,
there is a sense that all of it is about practice--the
spiritual-social practice of a contemporary poet.
How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant
religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban
social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world,
contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in
cities. This book argues that religious events - including rituals,
processions, and festivals - are not only choreographies of sacred
traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how
urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing
the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how
performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant
genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay
claims to cultural supremacy or heritage. Through exploring the
affective disruptions and political controversies caused by
religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions
in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of
ritual. This book is a significant contribution to understanding
emerging patterns in contemporary religion and also for theories
related to heritagization, eventization, and urbanization.
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Michael's Magic Bed (Paperback)
James Robert Daniels Jr; Edited by Julia Martin; James Robert Daniels Jr
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R224
Discovery Miles 2 240
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Economics -
Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: 1,0, Vienna University
of Economics and Business (Institut fur Aussenwirtschaft und
Entwicklung), language: English, comment: Mit LaTex erstelltes
PDF., abstract: The following paper relates two of the most
important economic phenomena, namely economic growth and
international trade. Before analysing the relationship between two
economic phenomena in detail, an overview of some of the most
prominent empirical empirical studies concerning the relationship
between openness to international trade and economic growth in
general is provided. As most of them seem to have reached the
conclusion that trade influences growth in a positive way, the
question for the reasons of this presumably positive relationship
arises. Factors which cause or influence economic growth in general
as well as various channels through which trade might have an
influence on growth are presented in the third and forth section.
The importance of various sources of economic and the Solow-Model
and the AK-Model are introduced in order to distinguish between
long-run and short-run effects of capital accumulation, learning by
doing and R&D on economic growth. The remaining analysis
concentrates on one channel in particular, namely on how trade
determines a country's import and export structure. The importance
of the range of products a country produces is enormous and affects
economic growth and welfare. The fifth section introduces the
static Ricardian model of comparative advantage in order to show
how productivity levels dictate the patterns of trade and determine
which products a country produces depending on static productivity
levels at the time a country opens up to trade. Since productivity
levels do, however, not remain constant but are influenced by
learning by doing and specialisation, dynamic effects of
specialisation on comparative advantage should not be neglected.
For this pur
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Decimo (Spanish, Paperback)
Angelino Carracedo Frutos, Julia Martin Carracedo, Lobouro Boro
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R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Se generaron y caracterizaron estructuras core-shell a partir de la
deposicion electrostatica de carboximetilcelulosa (CMC) sobre
agregados termicamente formados de -lactoglobulina ( -lg). Se
definieron las condiciones optimas de pH para la formacion de
agregados termicos de -lg estables a la sedimentacion, con tamanos
en la escala submicronica, estableciendo como fijas las condiciones
de temperatura y tiempo de calentamiento. Se caracterizaron
soluciones de CMC en cuanto a tamano y potencial a traves de
dispersion dinamica de luz. Las estructuras core-shell se formaron
mezclando una solucion de agregados de proteina con una solucion de
CMC, pH=7, minimizando asi las interacciones entre ellas. Luego se
ajusto la solucion resultante a un valor de pH donde, por el
contrario, se favoreciera la atraccion electrostatica. La
concentracion a la cual toda la superficie del agregado proteico
estuvo cubierta fue determinada por dispersion estatica de luz.
Finalmente, se sometieron a las estructuras core-shell a un
tratamiento de liofilizacion para estudiar los posibles cambios en
morfologia y estructura que pudieran sufrir en el proceso."
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