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Stadens sopor
Under hela 1900-talet har Stockholms avfall sluthanterats med flera parallella metoder. Soporna har dumpats, använts som utfyllnad, eldats upp och tillvaratagits för försäljning. De olika arbetssätten har använts i olika hög grad under olika tider. Avfall har omväxlande betraktats som problem eller resurs för samhället. I Stadens sopor beskriver Ylva S. Sjöstrand hur metoderna för avfallshantering i Stockholm påverkats av avfallets sammansättning, den rådande praktiken samt de idéer kring teknik och miljö som dominerat under olika perioder. Författaren visar hur idé och praktik tillsammans skapat nya avfallsregimer för sophantering och hur metoder etableras och vidmakthålls – tills de slutligen blir inaktuella och ersätts av andra. Boken är en historisk genomlysning av sopbehandlingens ekonomi och utgör tänkvärd läsning då avfallsregimerna speglar samhällets värdenormer och hur synen på miljö, teknik och brukbarhet pendlat över tid.
Kampen om det allmänna bästa
Vilka samhällstjänster bör vi gemensamt ta ansvar för? Vem ska sköta exempelvis skatte indrivning, kollektivtrafik och äldreomsorg för det allmännas räkning? Motsättningen mellan egennyttan och det allmänna bästa har diskuterats under långa tider. I Kampen om det allmänna bästa utgår historikern Mats Hallenberg från Stockholmspolitiken och visar hur konflikterna om detta evigt aktuella ämne har tett sig under fyrahundra år. I det förmoderna samhället var det självklart att kung och överhet skulle avgöra vad som var av allmänt intresse men de praktiska göromålen kunde skötas av olika utförare: anställda tjänstemän, privata entreprenörer eller medborgarna själ...
Recycling
An overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream. Is there a point to recycling? Is recycling even good for the environment? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Finn Arne Jørgensen answers (drumroll, please): it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processes—collecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something useful—plastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into T-shirts. Jørgensen offers an accessible and engaging overview of recycli...
Interdisciplinary Nutritional Management and Care for Older Adults
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Nutritional Care in Geriatrics -- 1: Overview of Nutrition Care in Geriatrics and Orthogeriatrics -- 1.1 Defining Malnutrition -- 1.2 Nutrition Care in Older Adults: A Complex and Necessary Challenge -- 1.3 Malnutrition: A Truly Wicked Problem -- 1.4 Building the Rationale for Integrated Nutrition Care -- 1.5 Managing the Wicked Nutrition Problems with a SIMPLE Approach (or Other Tailored Models) -- 1.5.1 Keep It SIMPLE When Appropriate -- 1.5.2 A SIMPLE Case Example -- 1.5.2.1 S-Screen for Malnutrition -- 1.5.2.2 I-Interdisciplinary Assessment -- 1.5.2.3 M-Make the Diagnosis (es) -- 1.5.2.4 P-Plan with the Older Adult -- 1.5.2.5 L...
Encountering Imagery
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Regulation of Coronary Blood Flow
Research centering on blood flow in the heart continues to hold an important position, especially since a better understanding of the subject may help reduce the incidence of coronary arterial disease and heart attacks. This book summarizes recent advances in the field; it is the product of fruitful cooperation among international scientists who met in Japan in May, 1990 to discuss the regulation of coronary blood flow.
On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them
In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, James Elkins argues against the assumption that images can be adequately described in words. In his view, words must always fail because pictures possess a residue of 'meaningless' marks that cannot be apprehended as signs. On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them is a 1998 text which provides detailed, incisive critiques of fundamental notions about pictures: their allegedly semiotic structures; the 'rational' nature of realism; and the ubiquity of the figure-ground relation. Elkins then opens the concept of images to non-Western and prehistoric ideas, exploring Chinese concepts of magic, Mesopotamian practices of counting and sculpture, religious ideas about hypostasis, philosophical discussions concerning invisibility and blindness, and questions on the limits of the destruction of meaning.
Unbound from Rome
An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome's ever-changing political boundaries Roman art and architecture is typically understood as being bound in some ways to a political event or as a series of aesthetic choices and experiences stemming from a center in Rome itself. Moving beyond the misleading catchall label "Roman," John North Hopkins aims to untangle the many peoples whose diverse cultures and traditions contributed to Rome's visual culture over a four-hundred-year time span across the first millennium BCE. Hopkins carefully reconsiders some of the period's most iconic works by way of th...
An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was seen as the divider between East and West in Cold War Europe. The term refers to a material reality but it is also a metaphor; a metaphor that has become so powerful that it tends to mark our historical understanding of the period. Through the archaeological study of two areas that can be considered part of the former Iron Curtain, the Czech-Austrian border and the Italian-Slovenian border, this research investigates the relationship between the material and the metaphor of the Iron Curtain. As a study of the archaeology of the contemporary past this thesis brings forward methodological issues when dealing with many different sources as well as general reflections on our historical understanding.
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research. Encounters and Practices embarks on hidden histories of survival, vulnerability, and conflict, but also discloses reciprocal relations, even friendships.
