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In the Shadows of the Tropics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

In the Shadows of the Tropics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.

Place/Culture/Representation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Place/Culture/Representation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about.

The Secret Lives of Customers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

The Secret Lives of Customers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-04
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

A "detective story" that delivers key insights for any businessperson asking the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how do we regain them? Customers can be a mystery. Despite the availability of more data than ever before, everyone, from the CEO to salespeople in the field, struggles to understand who their customers really are, what they want, why they lose them, and how to regain them. To crack the case, start thinking like a market detective. David Scott Duncan shows how in his entertaining story of Tazza, a fictional chain of cafes with declining sales and leaders urgently seeking to understand why. The vivid characters of Tazza’s market detective force come ...

Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 902

Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1847
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 910
Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1012

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Scottish-American Gravestones, 1700-1900
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 109

Scottish-American Gravestones, 1700-1900

An alphabetical list of gravestone inscriptions of Scots dying overseas before 1855.

Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1610

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1899
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 862