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When Violence Works
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

When Violence Works

Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated peace while others continue to be troubled by violence? And why does postconflict violence take different forms and have different intensities? By developing a new theory of postconflict violence Patrick Barron's When Violence Works makes a significant contribution to our understanding. Barron picks out three postconflict regions in Indonesia in which to analyze what happens once the "official" fighting ends: North Maluku has seen peace consolidated; Maluku still witnesses large episodes of violence; and Aceh experiences continuing occurrences of violence but on a smaller scale than in Maluku. He argues that violence after war...

Contesting Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Contesting Development

This pathbreaking book grapples with an established reality: well-intentioned international development programs often generate local conflict, some of which escalates to violence. To understand how such conflicts can be managed peacefully, the authors have undertaken a comprehensive mixed-methods analysis of one of the world's largest participatory development projects, the highly successful Kecamatan Development Program (KDP), which was launched by the World Bank and the Indonesian government in the late 1990s and now operates in every district across Indonesia. --

Circle of Teeth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

Circle of Teeth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-12
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

I have included a proposal for the backcover, filename "Circle of Teeth Backcover". In short, the background color would be green (#00CC33) and the following words filling the entire space, apart from the ISBN code, publisher logo, etc: "Poems across Europe and America, from Great Falls to Belfast: years '93 to '98" (color: red #D90000, and font: OCR A Extended).

The Wedding This Summer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Wedding This Summer

Secret Lakeshia Bell. She introduces her handsome new fiancée, Royce Storm, to the most important person in her life, her sassy and outspoken grandmother, Hattie Bell Ruffins. Hattie shares her heart-breaking news with her granddaughter then asks her to help carry out her impossible bucket list. With not much time to spare and a magnificent wedding to plan, an entire new and tumultuous journey begins for the couple. In all the chaos, Secret’s old enemy returns to demand what she feels is rightfully hers. It seems that her new faith in God is challenged at every turn. Will her fabulous wedding still take place in the summer? Only God knows if she will find the strength to once again turn her pain into power.

Terrain Vague
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Terrain Vague

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse group of planners, geographers, and urban designers. Terrain Vague is a cooperative effort to redefine these marginal spaces as a central concept for urban planning and design. Presenting innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, and focusing on its positive uses and aspects, the book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand our increasingly complex everyday surroundings, from planners, cultural theorists, and academics, to designers and architects.

By This Time Next Year
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

By This Time Next Year

Secret Lakeshia Bell is a young, beautiful, outspoken registered nurse. She knows exactly what she wants out of her life, her career, and her marriage. When her husband, of ten years, is violently murdered, Secret locates the red toolbox filled with his last wishes. Although she doesn’t know where his wishes will take her, she is determined to fulfill them at all costs. Armed with the toolbox and five different colored instructional envelopes, the young widow is suddenly set on a journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, faith, and possibly a new love. Only God knows if she will find the strength to complete his last wishes by that same time next year.

Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-03-21
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Selected Essays and Dialogues is a collection of translations of Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s theoretical and musing work from the late 1960s to the present. Topics range from environmental perception and archaeological conceptions of historical knowledge, to street theatre, writing, photography, cinema and translation. The book provides a framework of key literary, theoretical and artistic movements of the last 50 years, as well as a guide for English-language readers to place Celati’s work in historical, cultural and biographical context, serving to illuminate his books available in English, namely Towards the River’s Mouth, Adventures in Africa, Voices from the Plain...

Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati

Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside where one breathes an air of urban solitude.” Celati traveled by train, by bus, and on foot, at times with photographer Luigi Ghirri, at others exploring on his own without predetermined itineraries, taking notes on the places he encountered, watching and listening to people in stations, ...

Terrain Vague
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Terrain Vague

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse group of planners, geographers, and urban designers. Terrain Vague is a cooperative effort to redefine these marginal spaces as a central concept for urban planning and design. Presenting innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, and focusing on its positive uses and aspects, the book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand our increasingly complex everyday surroundings, from planners, cultural theorists, and academics, to designers and architects.

Social Sustainability in Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Social Sustainability in Development

All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development can promote societies where all people can thrive, but the change process can be complex, challenging, and socially contentious. Continued progress toward sustainable development is not guaranteed. The current overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, rising levels of conflict, and a global economic slowdown are inflaming long-standing challenges—exacerbating inequality and deep-rooted systemic inequities. Addressing these challenges will require social sustainability in addition to economic and environmental ...