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In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model
of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and
Ruth A. Maher have compiled a series of separate research projects
conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute
greatly to anthropological archaeology. This book assembles a
regional model through which the reader is presented with a vivid
and detailed image of the climatic events and cultures which have
occupied these seas and lands for roughly a 5000-year period. It
provides a model of adaptability, resilience, and sustainability
that can be applied globally. First, visiting the Northern Isles of
Scotland in the Orkney Islands, the reader is taken through the
archaeology from the Neolithic Period through World War II in the
face of sea-level rise and rapidly eroding coastlines. The Shetland
Islands then reveal a deep-time study of one large-scale Iron Age
excavation. On to the northern coasts of Norway, where information
about late medieval maritime peoples is explained. Iceland explores
human-environment interaction and implications of climate change
presented from the Viking Age through the Early Modern Era.
Rounding out the North Atlantic Region is Greenland, which sheds
light on the Norse in the late Viking Age and the Middle Ages.
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A.K. Burns: Negative Space (Hardcover)
Ak Burns; Edited by Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder; Text written by Mel Y. Chen, C. A Conrad, …
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R678
Discovery Miles 6 780
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural
renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to
representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of
essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street.
Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given
rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and
urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of
digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban
practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a
smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the
production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but
also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to
navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and
image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and
have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and
future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated,
mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the
social and cultural significance of these new developments at the
intersection of visual culture and urban space. The
interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and
research methods that combine close analyses of street images and
imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and
circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible
geographies - From Hong Kong's streets to Rio's favelas, from
Sydney's suburbs to London's street markets, and from Damascus'
war-torn streets to Istanbul's sidewalks - and engages with
multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to
document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of
urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate
streetscapes.
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