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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This volume provides a novel and relational sociological approach
to the study of EU civil society. It focuses on the interactions
and interrelations between civil society actors and the forms of
capital that structure the fields and sub-fields of EU civil
society, through new and important empirical studies on organized
EU civil society.
This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global
governance institutions in the field of development in terms of
opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and
explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the
EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration
and Development.
Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to
understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment.
Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce,
construct, represent and materialise gendered spatial practices, it
brings together practice and theory to critique, question and
enable solutions that challenge the root causes of gender
inequalities in cities. Through a rich array of case-studies,
practice-led interventions, and historical and theoretical
perspectives, it examines important issues that affect the ways in
which women, and people of diverse gender and sexual identities
experience and participate in cities. Thematically organised, it
considers problems of street-harassment, heterosexualisation and
equity in access and mobility, together with modes of segregation,
isolation and discrimination, as well as processes of resistance,
intervention and agency. Grounded in feminist and queer methods of
analysis, the book offers new insights regarding the representation
of cities, the lived experience of cities, and how design-tactics
and approaches might affect the ways cities shape and regulate how
women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit,
occupy and move through the city. An examination of the ways in
which design might shift toward safer and more inclusive cities,
Contentious Cities will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender
studies and urban studies, as well as those working in the fields
of urban planning and design.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to
understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment.
Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce,
construct, represent and materialise gendered spatial practices, it
brings together practice and theory to critique, question and
enable solutions that challenge the root causes of gender
inequalities in cities. Through a rich array of case-studies,
practice-led interventions, and historical and theoretical
perspectives, it examines important issues that affect the ways in
which women, and people of diverse gender and sexual identities
experience and participate in cities. Thematically organised, it
considers problems of street-harassment, heterosexualisation and
equity in access and mobility, together with modes of segregation,
isolation and discrimination, as well as processes of resistance,
intervention and agency. Grounded in feminist and queer methods of
analysis, the book offers new insights regarding the representation
of cities, the lived experience of cities, and how design-tactics
and approaches might affect the ways cities shape and regulate how
women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit,
occupy and move through the city. An examination of the ways in
which design might shift toward safer and more inclusive cities,
Contentious Cities will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender
studies and urban studies, as well as those working in the fields
of urban planning and design.
What happens when partisanship is pushed to its extreme? In With
Ballots and Bullets, Nathan P. Kalmoe combines historical and
political science approaches to provide new insight into the
American Civil War and deepen contemporary understandings of mass
partisanship. The book reveals the fundamental role of partisanship
in shaping the dynamics and legacies of the Civil War, drawing on
an original analysis of newspapers and geo-coded data on voting
returns and soldier enlistments, as well as retrospective surveys.
Kalmoe shows that partisan identities motivated mass violence by
ordinary citizens, not extremists, when activated by leaders and
legitimated by the state. Similar processes also enabled partisans
to rationalize staggering war casualties into predetermined vote
choices, shaping durable political habits and memory after the
war's end. Findings explain much about nineteenth century American
politics, but the book also yields lessons for today, revealing the
latent capacity of political leaders to mobilize violence.
First published in 1996. There has been no more important
relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between
Zsuzsanna Palko and Linda Degh. Degh's painstaking collection of
Mrs. Palko's tales attracted the admiration of the
Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palko was named Master of
Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to
receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman
from Kakasd had become "Aunt Zsuzsi" to Linda Degh-and was about to
become one of the world's best known storytellers, through Degh's
work.
Radical partisanship among ordinary Americans is rising, and it
poses grave risks for the prospects of American democracy.
Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans
and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred
massive bloodshed and democratic collapse earlier in the nation's
history. The January 6, 2021 insurrection and the partisan
responses that ensued are a vivid illustration of how deep these
currents run. How did American politics become so divided that we
cannot agree on how to categorize an attack on our own Capitol? For
over four years, through a series of surveys and experiments,
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason have been studying radicalism
among ordinary American partisans. In this groundbreaking book,
they draw on new evidence-as well as insights from history,
psychology, and political science-to put our present partisan
fractiousness in context and to explain broad patterns of political
and social change. Early chapters reveal the scope of the problem,
who radical partisans are, and trends over time, while later
chapters identify the conditions that partisans say justify
violence and test how elections, political violence, and messages
from leaders enflame or pacify radical views. Kalmoe and Mason find
that ordinary partisanship is far more dangerous than pundits and
scholars have recognized. However, these findings are not a
forecast of inevitable doom; the current climate also brings
opportunities to confront democratic threats head-on and to create
a more inclusive politics. Timely and thought-provoking, Radical
American Partisanship is vital reading for understanding our
current political landscape.
First published in 1996. There has been no more important
relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between
Zsuzsanna Palko and Linda Degh. Degh's painstaking collection of
Mrs. Palko's tales attracted the admiration of the
Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palko was named Master of
Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to
receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman
from Kakasd had become "Aunt Zsuzsi" to Linda Degh-and was about to
become one of the world's best known storytellers, through Degh's
work.
Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous
task of instating women's experience of space into spatial praxis.
Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism suggests
this attention to women's invisibility in sociocultural space has
overlooked the complex ways in which women already occupy space,
albeit mostly as an image or object to be consumed, even purchased.
It examines the occupation of urban space through the mediated
representation of women's hypersexualized bodies. A complex
transaction proliferates in the commercial urban space of cities;
this book seeks to address the cause and consequence of the
increasing dominance of gendered representation. It uses
architectural case studies and analysis to make visible the sexual
politics of architecture and urbanism and, in doing so, reveal the
ways that heterosexist culture shapes the spaces, behaviour and
relationships formed in neoliberal cities. Hypersexual City
announces how examining urbanism that operates through, and is
framed by, sexual culture can demonstrate that architecture does
not merely find itself adrift in the hypersexualized landscape of
contemporary cities, but is actively producing and contributing to
the sexual regulation of urban life.
Radical partisanship among ordinary Americans is rising, and it
poses grave risks for the prospects of American democracy.
Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans
and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred
massive bloodshed and democratic collapse earlier in the nation's
history. The January 6, 2021 insurrection and the partisan
responses that ensued are a vivid illustration of how deep these
currents run. How did American politics become so divided that we
cannot agree on how to categorize an attack on our own Capitol? For
over four years, through a series of surveys and experiments,
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason have been studying radicalism
among ordinary American partisans. In this groundbreaking book,
they draw on new evidence-as well as insights from history,
psychology, and political science-to put our present partisan
fractiousness in context and to explain broad patterns of political
and social change. Early chapters reveal the scope of the problem,
who radical partisans are, and trends over time, while later
chapters identify the conditions that partisans say justify
violence and test how elections, political violence, and messages
from leaders enflame or pacify radical views. Kalmoe and Mason find
that ordinary partisanship is far more dangerous than pundits and
scholars have recognized. However, these findings are not a
forecast of inevitable doom; the current climate also brings
opportunities to confront democratic threats head-on and to create
a more inclusive politics. Timely and thought-provoking, Radical
American Partisanship is vital reading for understanding our
current political landscape.
Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous
task of instating women's experience of space into spatial praxis.
Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism suggests
this attention to women's invisibility in sociocultural space has
overlooked the complex ways in which women already occupy space,
albeit mostly as an image or object to be consumed, even purchased.
It examines the occupation of urban space through the mediated
representation of women's hypersexualized bodies. A complex
transaction proliferates in the commercial urban space of cities;
this book seeks to address the cause and consequence of the
increasing dominance of gendered representation. It uses
architectural case studies and analysis to make visible the sexual
politics of architecture and urbanism and, in doing so, reveal the
ways that heterosexist culture shapes the spaces, behaviour and
relationships formed in neoliberal cities. Hypersexual City
announces how examining urbanism that operates through, and is
framed by, sexual culture can demonstrate that architecture does
not merely find itself adrift in the hypersexualized landscape of
contemporary cities, but is actively producing and contributing to
the sexual regulation of urban life.
This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global
governance institutions in the field of development in terms of
opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and
explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the
EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration
and Development.
Combining practical design strategies with urban theory, She City
explores how gender inequity is materialized in cities worldwide,
providing an activist toolkit for architects and urban designers to
challenge gender bias, sexual harassment, and violence against
women through their designs. Part I provides a contemporary survey
of the current state of gender inequity in cities, revealing how
one’s gender impacts mobility, safety, and the ability to occupy
public space. Focussing on the intersectional experiences of women
and girls in the urban domain, this eye-opening theoretical
groundwork exposes the impact of gender stereotypes and systemic
power dynamics as they intersect with the architectural and urban
fabric. Part II moves from theory to practice, examining a range of
contemporary case studies – from positioning benches in public
spaces to large-scale projects ensuring safety for sex workers –
to show how better urban design can positively challenge gender
inequity. Case studies are global – including New York, New
Orleans, London, Zurich, Delhi, Cairo, Tokyo, and Bangkok – and
range from collaborative co-designs with local women and girls,
through to cutting-edge urban designs which actively contribute to
women’s access, security, and empowerment in the city. Case
studies are critiqued and evaluated, to show what works and why,
and to provide innovative and thought-provoking ideas for the
designer wishing to make a positive impact.
The present book represents to a large extent the translation of
the German "Vorlesungen uber Himmelsmechanik" by C. L. Siegel. The
demand for a new edition and for an English translation gave rise
to the present volume which, however, goes beyond a mere
translation. To take account of recent work in this field a number
of sections have been added, especially in the third chapter which
deals with the stability theory. Still, it has not been attempted
to give a complete presentation of the subject, and the basic
prganization of Siegel's original book has not been altered. The
emphasis lies in the development of results and analytic methods
which are based on the ideas of H. Poincare, G. D. Birkhoff, A.
Liapunov and, as far as Chapter I is concerned, on the work of K.
F. Sundman and C. L. Siegel. In recent years the
measure-theoretical aspects of mechanics have been revitalized and
have led to new results which will not be discussed here. In this
connection we refer, in particular, to the interesting book by V.
I. Arnold and A. Avez on "Problemes Ergodiques de la Mecanique
Classique," which stresses the interaction of ergodic theory and
mechanics. We list the points in which the present book differs
from the German text. In the first chapter two sections on the tri
pie collision in the three body problem have been added by C. L.
Siegel."
Combining practical design strategies with urban theory, She City
explores how gender inequity is materialized in cities worldwide,
providing an activist toolkit for architects and urban designers to
challenge gender bias, sexual harassment, and violence against
women through their designs. Part I provides a contemporary survey
of the current state of gender inequity in cities, revealing how
one’s gender impacts mobility, safety, and the ability to occupy
public space. Focussing on the intersectional experiences of women
and girls in the urban domain, this eye-opening theoretical
groundwork exposes the impact of gender stereotypes and systemic
power dynamics as they intersect with the architectural and urban
fabric. Part II moves from theory to practice, examining a range of
contemporary case studies – from positioning benches in public
spaces to large-scale projects ensuring safety for sex workers –
to show how better urban design can positively challenge gender
inequity. Case studies are global – including New York, New
Orleans, London, Zurich, Delhi, Cairo, Tokyo, and Bangkok – and
range from collaborative co-designs with local women and girls,
through to cutting-edge urban designs which actively contribute to
women’s access, security, and empowerment in the city. Case
studies are critiqued and evaluated, to show what works and why,
and to provide innovative and thought-provoking ideas for the
designer wishing to make a positive impact.
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