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Urban Ethics as Research Agenda
This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities. Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens the lens to include other actors apart from powerful individuals or institutions, paying special attention to activists or civil society organizations that express concerns about collective life. The chapters provide fresh perspectives addressing the various scales that converge in the urban. The uni...
Origins of a Creole
This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.
A Nation of Veterans
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain and then defend their advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. They succeeded in securing their privileged status in public policy only by rallying behind powerful interest groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, and the American Legion. In the process, veterans formed one of the most powerful movements of the early and mid-twentieth century, though one tha...
Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation
This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. It contributes to ongoing debates in the social sciences about infrastructure rights and citizenship, and it throws insight on human-infrastructure interactions in the informal neighbourhoods of the global South. The book delves into the complexities of caste, gender, class, and political identities and affiliations associated with the multiple factors of inclusion and exclusion particularly in the case of access to infrastructure in informal settlements in urban areas with an added productive function. This book is about how this historic inner-city, situated, r...
Imagining Urban Complexity
Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature and art, but are also entities that are shaped, perceived, interpreted, and experienced through sense-making techniques that have long been central concerns of the humanities. These techniques, the book argues, activate a dialectic between urban imagi...
Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization
This book examines the progression of real estate development within the deindustrialization-financialization nexus. It explores the roles it has in semi-peripheral contexts such as Romania, where it overlaps with the process of the transformation of state socialism into neoliberal capitalism, viewed at the intersection of global, national, and local forces. The book focuses on real estate development in Romania as a product and a driver of capitalism. It contributes to ongoing debates in critical urban theories and Marxist perspectives in urban sociology. Focusing on the under-researched East European region, it decenters social research and fine-tunes the political economy theory about sta...
Mapping Legalities
This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which globally law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. Across various cities worldwide, the chapters in this book uncover how informal workers remain at the policy and legal margins of urban society and reveal their ongoing endeavour for social and legal protection within local jurisdictional contexts. It spans multiple themes, ranging from street vending to informal work in the gig economy. They shed light on the collective influence of the law and the pursuit of a modern city in contributin...
Europa im Spiegel von Migration und Exil / Europa no contexto de migração e exílio
Der Band richtet den Fokus auf den portugiesischen und brasilianischen Europa-Diskurs im Kontext von Migrationserfahrung. In einer einleitenden Studie werden zunächst theoretische Grundlagen entwickelt, um die Europa- und Migrationsforschung zusammenzuführen, bevor dann in Form von 'Case Studies' die verschiedenen Facetten der portugiesisch-brasilianischen Europa-Konstruktion beleuchtet werden. Je nach Tätigkeitsbereich der behandelten Personen und Auswahl des Ausdrucksmediums erscheint 'Europa' als unwillkürlicher Identitätsreflex, als intendierte Projektionsfläche, kollektiver Gedächtnisraum oder auch als politisches Statement. Schwerpunkte der Studien bilden die Kunst (Fotografie), die Literatur (zwischen Autobiografie und Essayistik) sowie die Philosophie (Ontologie).
Urban Ethics
This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life? Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities, the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups, taking up cases studies abo...
Kulturelle Nachhaltigkeit lernen und lehren
Das Anthropozän ist Denkrahmen und Reflexionsbegriff für transformative Bildungsprozesse – denn es fordert dazu auf, in Hoch-/Schulen aktiv die Notwendigkeit einer zukunftsorientierten, nachhaltigen Neugestaltung der Mensch-Natur-Beziehung zu thematisieren. Kreative kulturelle Perspektiven, Praktiken, Produkte spielen dabei eine zentrale Rolle. Im Zentrum der vorliegenden Beiträge steht die Frage nach der Bedeutung und den Möglichkeiten kultureller Nachhaltigkeit als Bildungskonzept für eine gesellschaft¬liche Transformation, deren Ziel der Schutz und die Sicherung der menschlichen und nichtmenschlichen Lebensbedingungen im Anthropozän ist. Dieser Sammelband bietet innovative Impulse für den Theorie-Praxis-Transfer, ausgehend von Fragen nach der theoretischen Fundierung und den didaktischen Konzepten, der Gestaltung von Lehr-Lernprozessen und der Rolle von Literatur und Kunst in einer Bildung für kulturelle Nachhaltigkeit. Mit einem Bildessay von Willy Puchner
