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Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing.
Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ’challenge' to national (and...
Solidarity Or Barbarism
Solidarity or Barbarism traces the multiple and complex roots of European peoples, and contrasts this pluralism with the recurring tragedy of «ethnic cleansing, » a tragedy which the authors argue has been all too common in European history. By presenting a new perspective on Europe's origins, the authors open the possibility for a new vision of a complex, heterogeneous Europe based on partnership and cooperation.
The Narrative Universe
This text presents the reader with a reinterpretation of the stories we have told ourselves about our origins, in mythology, history, cosmology, evolution and genetics. Topics include the Big Bang, genetic drift, attractors and fractals, languages and civilizations, and myths and religions.
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Cities in the 21st Century
Cities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major academic specialists from different countries, it provides information on and analysis of the global network of cities, changes in urban form, environmental problems, the role of technologies and knowledge, socioeconomic developments, and finally, the challenge of urban governance. In the mid-20th century, architect and planner Josep Lluís Sert wondered if cities could survive; in the early 21st century, we see that cities have not only survived but have grown as never before. Cities today are engines of production and trade, forges of scientific and technological innovation,...
Projects and Complexity
Helpful to those tasked with managing complex environments, Projects and Complexity introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results. It brings together experts from the academic, military, and business worlds to explore project management in the context of complexity theory and organizatio
Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ‘challenge' to national (and...
Architettura e Politica. Architecture and politics
Nelle sue espressioni concrete, l'architettura costituisce il punto generativo di un ordine che è insieme formale e civile. La sua azione ideativa e le sue determinazioni materiali creano e organizzano spazi e luoghi che sono anche politici. I grandi progetti dell'architettura, del pensiero e della società appaiono sostenuti, in modo particolare in questi anni, da considerazioni che vedono delinearsi in primo piano l'esigenza di nuovi principi ordinatori delle politiche del territorio che non solo si confrontano nell'insieme delle infrastrutture e della dotazione di servizi, ma incidono anche sui grandi temi del rapporto tra tutela della natura e ambiente costruito, della realizzazione del...
