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Studying environmental changes to the seas and oceans through a
variety of perspectives and disciplines, this pioneering book
outlines the challenges of researching marine environmental issues.
With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine
environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which
produce them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex and
uncertain, arising from multiple and interconnected issues.
Bringing together academic expertise from fields of study, this
innovative book engages with stakeholders and branches of local
ecological knowledge to address marine changes, outlining how they
must be studied from multiple perspectives rather than a single
academic discipline to reach effective solutions. Discussing marine
interdisciplinarity in action, the book features international case
studies from diverse fields across the ocean sciences, humanities
and social sciences that explore art and science collaborations in
practice. Showcasing the practical challenges and opportunities of
such research, this will prove an invigorating read for students
and scholars across such subject areas as environmental governance
and regulation, marine and ocean sciences, sustainability studies
and climate change. Its findings will also be of use to
policymakers and practitioners concerned with marine changes across
the world.
The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a
variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what
literary texts, grasped as material objects and reflections on
urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The
contributing writers' approach to literary narratives and
materialities in urban history is summarised within the
conceptualisation 'materiality in/of literature': the way in which
literary narratives at once refer to the material world and
actively partake in the material construction of the world. This
book takes a geographically multipolar and multidisciplinary
approach to discuss cities in the UK, the US, India, South Africa,
Finland, and France whilst examining a wide range of textual genres
from the novel to cartoons, advertising copy, architecture and
urban planning, and archaeological writing. In the process,
attention is drawn to narrative complexities embedded within
literary fiction and to the dialogue between narratives and
historical change. The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban
History has three areas of focus: literary fiction as form of urban
materiality, literary narratives as social investigations of the
material city, and the narrating of silenced material lives as
witnessed in various narrative sources.
The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a
variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what
literary texts, grasped as material objects and reflections on
urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The
contributing writers' approach to literary narratives and
materialities in urban history is summarised within the
conceptualisation 'materiality in/of literature': the way in which
literary narratives at once refer to the material world and
actively partake in the material construction of the world. This
book takes a geographically multipolar and multidisciplinary
approach to discuss cities in the UK, the US, India, South Africa,
Finland, and France whilst examining a wide range of textual genres
from the novel to cartoons, advertising copy, architecture and
urban planning, and archaeological writing. In the process,
attention is drawn to narrative complexities embedded within
literary fiction and to the dialogue between narratives and
historical change. The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban
History has three areas of focus: literary fiction as form of urban
materiality, literary narratives as social investigations of the
material city, and the narrating of silenced material lives as
witnessed in various narrative sources.
Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, "World Film
Locations: Helsinki "explores the relationship between the city,
cinema, and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of
Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space
of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute
for Moscow and St. Petersburg during the Cold War. The city also
looks different depending on one's perspective, and "World Film
Locations: Helsinki" illustrates this complexity by providing a
visual collection of cinematic views of Helsinki.
This cinematic city is a collective work where individual pieces
construct a whole, and one which we, as viewers, then shape
according to our perspectives. The contributors emphasize the role
of the city in identity and cultural politics throughout Finnish
film history and its central role as the locus for negotiating
Finland's globalization.
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