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Disciplinary Spaces
Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress Since the 19th Century
Av Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Sophie Wagenhofer
Häftad, 2017
608 kr
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This volume looks at territories such as reservations, model villages and collective towns as the spatial materialization of forced assimilation and "progress". These disciplinary spaces were created in order to disempower and alter radically the behavior of people who were perceived as ill-suited …
Power of Place in Play – A Bourdieusian Analysis of Auckland Children`s Seasonal Play Practices
Häftad, 2021
539 kr
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»There's nothing really fun about the park in winter!« – Christina Ergler is the first one to explore why ›play‹ resonates differently across urban localities and seasons. She draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice and Gibson's affordance theory to show that determinants of seasonal outdoor play …
[Un]Grounding – Post–Foundational Geographies
Av Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1000 kr
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Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence or action. The edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the »spatial turn« in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with post-foundational …
Making Transformative Geographies – Lessons from Stuttgart′s Community Economy
Häftad, 2021
617 kr
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In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity and ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, »Making …
Mapping the Unmappable? – Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa
Av Ute Dieckmann, Ute Dieckmann
Häftad, 2021
487 kr
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How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These relations transcend Western dichotomies …
Re–Cording Lives – Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve
Häftad, 2021
539 kr
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Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of …
Rivalling Disaster Experiences – The Case of the Seismo–Volcanic Crisis of El Hierro, Canary Islands
Häftad, 2021
644 kr
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People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a »correct« interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different truths lead to people seeing mismanagement and disinformation. The volcanic crisis of El Hierro shows how rivalling interpretations amongst affected …
Shifts in Mapping
Maps as a Tool of Knowledge
Häftad, 2021
571 kr
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Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving …
Performing Technocapitalism
The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya
Av Alev Coban
Häftad, 2024
1030 kr
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In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev …
Inequality and Mobility
Eroding Capabilities and Aspirations in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Av Jorg Gertel, Katharina Gruneisl
Häftad, 2025
617 kr
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After the Arab Revolutions in 2011, Tunisia became a symbol of freedom and justice and thus the hope of an entire region. Now, the picture has been reversed: Political freedoms are being curtailed and the economy is in disarray, especially after the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In the face of …
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