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Making Spaces through Infrastructure
Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.
Set Free Childhood
Children watch TV and use computers for five hours daily on average. But electronic media demands conflict with the needs of children. The result? Record levels of learning difficulties, obesity, eating disorders, sleep problems, language delay, aggressive behaviour, anxiety - and children on fast forward. Set Free Childhood shows how to counter screen culture and create a calmer, more enjoyable family life.
Pioneers
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Photography in and out of Africa
This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.
Landscapes of Housing
In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation. From the vantage point of contemporary architecture, conservation concerns and emergent building science technologies support one another, with new processes and materials deployed to reduce energy usage, water consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions. Landscapes of Housing examines this trend in historical perspective, arguing for a more considered environmental vision that includes the organic, social, and cultural dimensions of landscape. By shifting the focus from architecture, the book highlights and critiques the relationship between dwelling and landscape itself. Contributors from a wide range of international perspectives propose a more integrative ecology that includes history, culture, society, and materiality, in addition to technology, within contemporary ecological housing programs. This book will be a resource for upper-level students, academics, and researchers in landscape architecture interested in the social and political implications of ecological housing.
Dunkler Zorn
Chris Bertram hat sich in sein Elternhaus auf dem Land zurückgezogen, um die tragischen Ereignisse seines letzten Falls zu verarbeiten. Dort bekommt er eines Tages Besuch von seinen beiden Kollegen Roland Koch und Corinna Hartfels. Die Freude über das Wiedersehen ist nicht von Dauer, denn mit ihnen hält auch das Grauen wieder Einzug in sein Leben. Die beiden konfrontieren ihn mit drei Morden, die in jüngster Zeit in der Region um Koblenz verübt wurden und die in ihrer Ausführung exakt den Taten eines bereits verurteilten Serienmörders gleichen. Der ist jedoch seit zwei Jahren in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis inhaftiert und schweigt sich weiterhin über die genauen Hintergründe seiner Taten aus. Hat er eventuell nicht allein gehandelt? Auch nachdem ein weiteres Opfer gefunden wird, scheitern sämtliche Versuche, den Mann zum Reden zu bringen. Der Einzige, dem er sich anvertrauen will, ist Chris Bertram. 4. Fall für Chris Bertram. Alle Bücher der Reihe können unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden.
Insolvency Bulletin
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