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Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati's 1989 philosophical
travelogue Towards the River's Mouth explores perception, memory,
place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po
River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the "new
Italian landscape" where divisions between the urban and rural were
being blurred into what Celati terms "a new variety of countryside
where one breathes an air of urban solitude." Celati traveled by
train, by bus, and on foot, at times with photographer Luigi
Ghirri, at others exploring on his own without predetermined
itineraries, taking notes on the places he encountered, watching
and listening to people in stations, fields, bars, houses, squares,
and hotels. In this way the book took shape as Celati traveled and
wrote, gathering and rewriting his notes into "stories of
observation" (9). Celati attempts to find meaning by seeking the
uncertain limits of our ability to discern everyday surroundings.
"Every observation," as he puts it, "needs liberate itself from the
familiar codes it carries, to go adrift in the middle of all things
not understood, in order to arrive at an outlet, where it must feel
lost." At the forefront of the then-nascent spatial turn in the
humanities, Towards the River's Mouth is a key text of what in
recent years has been variously termed literary cartography,
literary geography, and spatial poetics. Its call to carefully and
affectionately examine our surroundings while attempting to step
back from habitual ways of perceiving and moving through space, has
resonated as much with literary scholars and other writers as with
geographers and architects. By now a classic of twentieth-century
Italian literature, it has in recent years garnered increasing
attention, especially with the growth of ecocriticism and new
materialism within the environmental humanities. This edition,
translated into English for the first time, features an
introduction that places Towards the River's Mouth in the context
of Celati's other work, and a selection of ten scholarly essays by
prominent figures in comparative literature and Italian studies.
This pathbreaking book analyzes a highly successful participatory
development program in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins
and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics
and social institutions.
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the
blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague,"
has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore
the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside
the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From
vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial
spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents
innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies
from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse
group of planners, geographers, and urban designers. Terrain Vague
is a cooperative effort to redefine these marginal spaces as a
central concept for urban planning and design. Presenting
innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, and focusing on
its positive uses and aspects, the book will be of interest to all
those wishing to understand our increasingly complex everyday
surroundings, from planners, cultural theorists, and academics, to
designers and architects.
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the
blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague,"
has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore
the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside
the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From
vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial
spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents
innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies
from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse
group of planners, geographers, and urban designers. Terrain Vague
is a cooperative effort to redefine these marginal spaces as a
central concept for urban planning and design. Presenting
innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, and focusing on
its positive uses and aspects, the book will be of interest to all
those wishing to understand our increasingly complex everyday
surroundings, from planners, cultural theorists, and academics, to
designers and architects.
The overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, and rising
levels of conflict are exacerbating global inequalities. This book
offers a definition and framework for social sustainability, as
well as examples and concrete guidance on how development can
foster progress towards it.
This volume brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for
an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from
the deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
Poetry and prose, the essay, the political and economic tract, and
the new visual arts are all represented in this collection.
Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated
peace while others continue to be troubled by violence? And why
does postconflict violence take different forms and have different
intensities? By developing a new theory of postconflict violence
Patrick Barron's When Violence Works makes a significant
contribution to our understanding. Barron picks out three
postconflict regions in Indonesia in which to analyze what happens
once the "official" fighting ends: North Maluku has seen peace
consolidated; Maluku still witnesses large episodes of violence;
and Aceh experiences continuing occurrences of violence but on a
smaller scale than in Maluku. He argues that violence after war has
ended (revenge killings, sexual violence, gang battles, and violent
crime, in addition to overtly political conflict) is not the result
of failed elite bargains or weak states, but occurs because the
actors involved see it as beneficial and lowcost. His findings
pertain directly to Indonesia, but the theory will have relevance
far beyond as those studying countries such as Colombia, the
Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria seek a framework in which
to assess what happens after war ends. Barron's theory also
provides practical guidance for policymakers and development
practitioners. Ultimately, When Violence Works pushes forward our
understanding of why postconflict violence occurs and takes the
forms it does.
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