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Liquid Territories
In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast Asia, knowledge of the Mekong River’s hydrological catchments has calibrated the control of land, resources and people. Liquid Territories shows how and why the areal dimensions of the Mekong’s basin, delta and floodplain have become a critical geographic reference for human activities. This book concentrates on the way knowledge of the river’s catchments has been recorded on, and extracted from, maps. Repeatedly drawn by geographers, engineers and cartographers since before the start of European colonization, the book describes how cartograp...
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Pamphlet Architecture 30
Participants in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition were asked to respond to the theme "Investigations in Infrastructure," and propose new directions for architecture, transportation, energy, cities, and agriculture at a continental scale. The winning entry, Coupling, imagined six daring projects: a high-speed rail system across the Bering Strait that also collects freshwater from the seasonal iceshelf; a decommissioned airport transformed into a geothermal data farm and agriculture site; thickening on/off ramps around "big box" stores into circular parking lots; a call to include landfills in the list of preserved open spaces; and a saline terminal lake turned into a water farm, recreational retreat, and habitat haven. Coupling argues that infrastructures behave as artificially maintained natural systems. Rather than a New Deal approach of massive engineering or iconic infrastructure, Coupling employs adaptable, responsive, small-scale interventions whose impacts are global in scale.
Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights the manner in which epistemic communities share, work on and modify not only the world-imaginaries that they endorse, but also those world-views that they reject or which partially overlap with their own. Through the concept of the social imaginary, the author explores the theoretical interrelations among various metaphysical world-imageries by which we organise our scientific understanding of the world and our expectations of experience, thus shedding light on the manner in which social ontology can inform our practices of sharing belief. A study at the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, The Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology and philosophy with interests in questions of ontology and epistemology.
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Creating Global Shipping
This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.
Der Akrite
Der chinesische Schwertmeister und Wäringerhauptmann Yong Gan-de Iraklonas wird von Kaiser Vasilios in das wilde Tauros-Gebirge geschickt, um einen kaiserlichen Feldzug an den Euphrat vorzubereiten. Zunächst muss er sich unter seinen eigenen Soldaten, den arabischen Emiren und römischen Akriten in seiner Umgebung Respekt verschaffen und sogar die Sklaverei erdulden. Aus politischem Kalkül hilft Abdullah, der Emir von Meliteni bei Iraklonas' Befreiung. Daraus entwickelt sich eine enge Freundschaft über die Grenzen hinweg. Während der Belagerung der Paulikianerfestung Thefriki rettet Iraklonas die schöne Vereniki Dalasseni. Er gewinnt Verenikis Liebe, zieht sich dafür aber den Hass ihres Vaters, des einflussreichen Akriten Stavrakios Dalassenos zu. Aus Rache bezichtigt Stavrakios Iraklonas wegen seiner Freundschaft zu Emir Abdullah des Hochverrats. Iraklonas wird aus dem Römischen Reich verbannt und muss für sich und seine kleine Familie eine neue Heimat suchen. Der dritte Teil der Iraklonas-Saga lässt dem Leser kenntnisreich den Nahen Osten zu Beginn der römischen Offensivpolitik im späten 9. Jahrhundert lebendig werden.
The Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism, Volume 1
This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes. It breaks new ground by assembling in a single volume a comparative analysis of the phenomenon that is both multidimensional and multidisciplinary. Gathering a wide range of influential scholars who have worked at length in the field of extremism studies from different perspectives, backgrounds, and geographical settings, the Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism presents an array of thought-provoking and innovative as well as informative analyses and discussions – both historical and contemporary - about the phenomenon of left-wing extremism and of how researchers conceive of and approach it in their study. The Handbook is designed to be, for the foreseeable future, the reference work for all students, researchers, and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of left-wing extremism in all its manifestations, subtleties, and dynamics, and both its current and its potential directions.
Sociology in Greece
This Palgrave Pivot provides a concise history of the development of sociology in Greece. It provides a compelling narrative of the discipline’s embryonic state, its promising beginnings that aligned with its contact with the then robust French and German accomplishments in sociology. It continues with sociology’s entanglement with modern Greece’s turbulent history during the Civil War and the junta years. It charts Greece's gradual recovery during the mid-1970s, which led to sociology’s institutionalization. Yet such institutional boom was not free of politicization processes, many of which proved residual and resilient, stemming from the dictatorship years, as well as from Greece’s dependency during its process of modernization. This book completes this historical account by reconsidering sociology’s gradual embrace of a multi-paradigmatic orientation, its opportunities in light of the burgeoning Greek EU membership and extroversion. It concludes with charting sociology’s position in the 21st century, facing challenges like the Great Recession and its impact in Greece as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
