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Author |
: Gabrielle Hecht |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262515788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262515784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entangled Geographies by : Gabrielle Hecht
"The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow, but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes, but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally. [This book] explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world. The essays address such topics as the islands and atolls taken over for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, apartheid-era South Africa's efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced by Medecins sans Fronti?res"--Publisher description.
Author |
: Gabrielle Hecht |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2011-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262294751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262294753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entangled Geographies by : Gabrielle Hecht
Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War. The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Entangled Geographies explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world. The essays address such topics as the islands and atolls taken over for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, apartheid-era South Africa's efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced by Medecins sans Frontières. The contributors to Entangled Geographies offer insights from the anthropology and history of development, from diplomatic history, and from science and technology studies. The book represents a unique synthesis of these three disciplines, providing new perspectives on the global Cold War.
Author |
: Ronan Paddison |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134668953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134668953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entanglements of Power by : Ronan Paddison
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.
Author |
: Ronan Paddison |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134668960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134668961 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entanglements of Power by : Ronan Paddison
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.
Author |
: Edward Hall |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2016-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317009016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317009010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Towards Enabling Geographies by : Edward Hall
Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space. 'Towards Enabling Geographies' brings together leading scholars to showcase the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences. This area has broadened and challenged conventional boundaries of 'disability', expanding the kinds of embodied differences considered, while continuing to grapple with important challenges such as policy relevance and the use of more inclusionary research approaches. This book demonstrates the value of a spatial conceptualization of disability and disablement to a broader social science audience, whilst examining how this conceptualization can be further developed and refined.
Author |
: Barry D. Solomon |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 571 |
Release |
: 2017-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785365621 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785365622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook on the Geographies of Energy by : Barry D. Solomon
This extensive Handbook captures a range of expertise and perspectives on the changing geographies and landscapes of energy production, distribution, and use. Combining established and emerging scholarship from across disciplines, the expert contributions provide a broad overview of research frontiers for the changing geographies of energy worldwide. Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, it serves to answer a range of questions and provide the reader with conceptual and methodological foundations.
Author |
: Sasha Davis |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820357355 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820357359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islands and Oceans by : Sasha Davis
Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions. All sorts of political actors, it seems, are interested in sovereignty. It is less clear, however, just what the term means, and whether calls for sovereignty promote a politically progressive or conservative agenda. Examining how sovereignty functions allows us to better understand the dangers, promise, and limitations of relying on it as a political strategy. Islands and Oceans explores how struggles for decolonization, self- determination, and political rights permeate conceptualizations of how sovereignty operates. To support his theoretical claims, Sasha Davis works through a series of case studies, drawing on research that he conducted between 2013 and 2017 in Korea, Guam, Yap, Palau, the Northern Marianas, Hawai'i, and Honshu and Okinawa in Japan. Because of the hybridized and contested arrangements of sovereignty in these territories, these places are excellent sites to tease out some of the differences between official regimes of sovereignty and the actual control of social processes on the ground. In addition, analysis of the tensions and acute debates over sovereignty in these regions lays bare how sovereignty works as a process. Davis's study of these political cases within the Asia-Pacific region advances our understanding the nature of sovereignty more generally.
Author |
: Tim Brown |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2017-07-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118739037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118739035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Health Geographies by : Tim Brown
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry. Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers Features material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of health Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study
Author |
: Martin Jones |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2014-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136201929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136201920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Introduction to Political Geography by : Martin Jones
An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects. The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering not only traditional concerns such as the state, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism; but also increasing important areas at the cutting-edge of political geography research including globalization, the geographies of regulation and governance, geographies of policy formulation and delivery, and themes at the intersection of political and cultural geography, including the politics of place consumption, landscapes of power, citizenship, identity politics and geographies of mobilization and resistance. This second edition builds on the strengths of the first. The main changes and enhancements are: four new chapters on: political geographies of globalization, geographies of empire, political geography and the environment and geopolitics and critical geopolitics significant updating and revision of the existing chapters to discuss key developments, drawing on recent academic contributions and political events new case studies, drawing on an increasing number of international and global examples additional boxes for key concepts and an enlarged glossary. As with the first edition, extensive use is made of case study examples, illustrations, explanatory boxes, guides to further reading and a glossary of key terms to present the material in an easily accessible manner. Through employment of these techniques this book introduces students to contributions from a range of social and political theories in the context of empirical case study examples. By providing a basic introduction to such concepts and pointing to pathways into more specialist material, this book serves both as a core text for first- and second- year courses in political geography, and as a resource alongside supplementary textbooks for more specialist third year courses.
Author |
: Andrew Davies |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2019-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119381549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119381541 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Geographies of Anticolonialism by : Andrew Davies
A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes. Brings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways Offers a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism Addresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement Includes a focus on a specific anticolonial group, the “Pondicherry Gang,” and investigates their significant impact which went beyond South India Helps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity