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The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different
historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight
into the complex relationship between societies and their
environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil
spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by both natural
and technological hazards have become increasingly frequent and
destructive across the planet. Through case studies drawn from
around the globe the contributors to this volume examine issues
ranging from the social and political factors that set the stage
for disaster, to the cultural processes experienced by survivors,
to the long-term impact of disasters on culture and society. In the
second edition, each chapter has been updated with a postscript to
reflect on recent developments in the field. There is also new
material on key present-day topics including epidemics, drought,
non-governmental organizations, and displacement and resettlement.
This book demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an
anthropological perspective and is a valuable resource not only for
anthropologists but for other fields concerned with education,
policy and practice.
This book brings together a collection of critical essays that
challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social
good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of
leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture
have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society,
ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display
individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book
problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms
that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense
individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of
commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this
collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology's traditional
interest in 'deviant' forms of leisure, to consider the normalized
social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the
intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the
current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which
is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection
uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical
enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol
consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training;
and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK,
US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological
Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic
attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of
the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of
serious criminological importance.
Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel
writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past
to decaying reminders of more troubled times The globe is littered
with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets
of their past. A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen
dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a
mountain. Two never-launched space shuttles slowly crumble, left to
rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the
world's lost wonders in this atlas like no other. With remarkable
stories, bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken
sites, Atlas of Abandoned Places travels the world beneath the
surface; the sites with stories to tell, the ones you won't find in
any guidebook. Award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your
guide on a long-lost path, shining a light on the places that the
world forgot.
The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different
historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight
into the complex relationship between societies and their
environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil
spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by both natural
and technological hazards have become increasingly frequent and
destructive across the planet. Through case studies drawn from
around the globe the contributors to this volume examine issues
ranging from the social and political factors that set the stage
for disaster, to the cultural processes experienced by survivors,
to the long-term impact of disasters on culture and society. In the
second edition, each chapter has been updated with a postscript to
reflect on recent developments in the field. There is also new
material on key present-day topics including epidemics, drought,
non-governmental organizations, and displacement and resettlement.
This book demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an
anthropological perspective and is a valuable resource not only for
anthropologists but for other fields concerned with education,
policy and practice.
This book brings together a collection of critical essays that
challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social
good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of
leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture
have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society,
ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display
individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book
problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms
that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense
individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of
commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this
collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology's traditional
interest in 'deviant' forms of leisure, to consider the normalized
social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the
intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the
current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which
is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection
uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical
enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol
consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training;
and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK,
US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological
Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic
attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of
the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of
serious criminological importance.
While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian
thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the
landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain.
Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book
foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between
humanity and the material world. By investigating the development
of a single theme in his work-his idea of the "spiritualization of
matter", the "task" of humanity-Smith constructs a rounded picture
of Soloviev's overall importance to an understanding. If
nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and
philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose
contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with
many of the religious debates of modernity.
Widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the
nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of
world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him
through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique
envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material
world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his
work - his idea of the 'spiritualisation of matter', the 'task' of
humanity - Smith constructs a rounded picture of Soloviev's overall
importance to an understanding of nineteenth-century thought, as
well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges
is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of
matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity.
The World to Come is organized around overlapping trajectories,
constituting a network of ecologies and stories within stories. The
narrative traces states of being and becoming, from rupture,
disaster and loss to the emergence of nonhierarchical alliances in
human-non-human relations. It also explores the realms of justice,
aesthetics, ethics, and the role of technology while considering
the possibilities for a vibrant future. The stories in this essay
are structured by seven intersecting themes of the exhibition: Raw
Material, Consumption, Deluge, Extinction, Synthesis, Justice, and
Imaginary Futures.
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The Pauline Letters (Hardcover)
David Oliver Smith; Foreword by Robert M Price
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David Oliver Smith; Foreword by Robert M Price
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