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Resisting the Place of Belonging
People often overlook the uncanny nature of homecomings, writing off the experience of finding oneself at home in a strange place or realizing that places from our past have grown strange. This book challenges our assumptions about the value of home, arguing for the ethical value of our feeling displaced and homeless in the 21st century. Home is explored in places ranging from digital keyboards to literary texts, and investigates how we mediate our homecomings aesthetically through cultural artifacts (art, movies, television shows) and conceptual structures (philosophy, theology, ethics, narratives). In questioning the place of home in human lives and the struggles involved with defining, defending, naming and returning to homes, the volume collects and extends ideas about home and homecomings that will inform traditional problems in novel ways.
Urban Design Ecologies
Der Urban Design Ecologies Reader stellt Architekten und Stadtplanern wichtige Tools zum besseren Verständnis heutiger städtebaulicher Maßnahmen bereit. Essays führender Experten spannen den Bogen zwischen historischen Entwicklungen und innovativen Ansätzen zur Bewältigung der globalen Herausforderungen rasanter Urbanisierungsprozesse und des Klimawandels. Die neuesten Ansätze in den Bereichen Stadtentwicklung, darunter Kernkonzepte wie Stadtarchitektur, Architektur großer Metropolen (Stichwort "Großarchitektur"), Wucherung der Städte, Megastädte (oder die informelle Stadt) und Metastädte, die von digitalen Technologien und dem Ökologiegedanken getragen werden, werden im Detail erörtert.
Making Writing Matter
Challenging more limited approaches to service learning, this book examines writing instruction in the context of universities fully engaged in community partnerships.
Home Territories
Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyses the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness, mobility experienced by members of social groups, and relates the micro structures of the home, the family and the domestic realm, to contemporary debates about the nation, community and cultural identities. He explores issues such as the role of gender in the construction of domesticity, and the conflation of ideas of maternity and home, and engages with recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.
On Location
On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites merges the material and the social perspectives of preservation and historical interpretation in urban landscapes. The essays in this volume focus on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites. They examine the ways that cities are dynamically changing as they are made and then remade by the people who inhabit or simply visit them, and concentrate on change, pluralism, and fragmentation. The strength of On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites is its comparative approach to both theory and grounded research. It includes an introductory essay that explains the heritage principle under study--the challenges of scale in the environment of a city or large complex--and its development as seen in the policy instruments of ICOMOS, UNESCO, and other major heritage organizations.The combination of wide-ranging case studies (including essays on North America, South America, Central America, the Middle East, and Europe) and the theoretical background make this volume an invaluable asset for researchers in archaeology, urban studies, art and architecture, cultural heritage, public policy, and tourism.
Embodied Utopias
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private spaces. The essays in Embodied Utopias argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonialist, progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they survey the dystopian landscapes of the present; and they gesture at the potential for an embodied approach to the urban future, to the changing spaces of cities and virtual landscapes.
Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate
This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum. Balancing the science and humanities, it exposes recent pedagogical experiments from renown educators, while also interrogating a designer’s agency between science and speculation in the face of climate uncertainty. The teaching experiments are presented across four sections: Abstraction, Organization, Building, and Narrative, exposing core parts of an architect’s education and how educators can simultaneously provide fundamental skills and constructive literacy while instigating environmental sensibilitie...
Ongezien
Pia is een jonge vrouw met een bijzondere aandoening. Soms raakt ze letterlijk het noorden kwijt. De ijkpunten in haar hoofd zijn in de war. Grenzen bestaan niet, zijn onbestemd. Haar hele jeugd krijgt ze te horen dat er iets fout is. Onhandig probeert ze zich los te wrikken van dit beeld, los uit het Vlaamse dorpskorset en haar overbeschermende omgeving, om haar eigen weg te zoeken in het leven. Als vrouw, als mens. Ongezien is een psychologische roman over de zoektocht naar liefde en identiteit.
De wraak is aan mij
Mr. Susane krijgt in haar kantoor bezoek van een zekere Gilles Principaux. Ze herinnert hem zich vaag uit haar jeugd: een oudere, imposante jongen uit een rijke familie. Principaux vraagt haar de verdediging van zijn vrouw op zich te nemen, die hun drie kinderen heeft vermoord. Mr. Susane neemt de zaak aan en komt langzaamaan in een neerwaartse spiraal terecht. Wat is er aan de hand met de vrouw van Principaux? Wie is deze Gilles Principaux eigenlijk? Welke rol speelt de schoonmaakster van mr. Susane? En wie is ze uiteindelijk zelf? ‘Al jaren een van de interessantste schrijfsters van Frankrijk.’ – de Volkskrant ‘NDiaye schrijft over hedendaags Frankrijk en vangt wat de samenleving beweegt.’ – Le Point ‘Een uitzonderlijke roman over de tegenstrijdigheid waarin vrouwen gevangenzitten.’ – Masque et La Plume
