Alternative Visions

Author : Gita Sen,Caren Grown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134156894

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Development Crises and Alternative Visions by Gita Sen,Caren Grown Pdf

More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

Author : John Pendlebury,Erdem Erten,Larkham J Peter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317698647

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Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction by John Pendlebury,Erdem Erten,Larkham J Peter Pdf

The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history. This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period between the start of the Second World War to the mid-sixties. The various figures and currents covered here represent a largely overlooked field within the history of 20th century urbanism. In this period while certain modernist practices assumed an institutional role for post-war reconstruction and flourished into the mainstream, such practices also faced opposition and criticism leading to the production of alternative visions and strategies. Spanning from a historically-informed modernism to the increasing presence of urban conservation the contributors examine these alternative approaches to the city and its architecture.

Author : Simon M. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387750

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Belarus - Alternative Visions by Simon M. Lewis Pdf

Belarus is often regarded as "Europe’s last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus’s development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus’s identity, revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography, films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths – the "peasant nation" of the nineteenth century, the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural, linguistic and ethnic polyphony, both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus, in Belarusian, Polish and Russian, revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated.

Author : C. L. Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107139060

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Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment by C. L. Lim Pdf

These essays pay tribute to Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah's illustrious career and explore alternative visions of international investment law and arbitration.

Author : Jenifer Winter,Ryota Ono
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319229942

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The Future Internet by Jenifer Winter,Ryota Ono Pdf

Readers seeking to gain a handle on the internet's global expansion will find this book rich in scholarly foundations combined with cutting-edge discussion of emerging ICTs and services and the complex societal contexts in which they are embedded. To explore possibilities to the fullest extent, a sociotechnical systems approach is employed, focusing on the interplay of technical, social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics to explore alternative futures (ones that are not part of the dominant discourse about the internet). These shared perspectives are not well addressed elsewhere in current discussions. Awareness of these dynamics, and the fluidity of the future, is important, as humankind moves forward into the uncertain future. Due to the sociotechnical complexity of the Internet, policymakers, businesspeople, and academics worldwide have struggled to keep abreast of developments. This volume's approach is intended to stimulate dialogue between academics and practitioners on a topic that will affect most aspects of human life in the near-term future.

Author : Gita Sen,Caren Grown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN : IND:39000000866330

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Development, Crisis and Alternative Visions by Gita Sen,Caren Grown Pdf

De schrijfsters pleiten voor een grotere deelname van vrouwen aan ontwikkelingsprojecten in Derde Wereldlanden; op die manier wordt in belangrijke mate bijgedragen aan de verbetering van de economische en sociale positie van de vrouw.

Author : Fred Reinhard Dallmayr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047100824

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Alternative Visions by Fred Reinhard Dallmayr Pdf

Globalization is often seen as a process of universal standardization under the auspices of market economics, technology, and hegemonic power. Resisting this process without endorsing parochial self-enclosure, Fred Dallmayr explores alternative visions that are rooted in distinct vernacular traditions and facilitate cross-cultural learning in an open-ended global arena. Dallmayr charts a "grassroots" approach to the global village, an approach that relies on ethical and religious traditions and popular beliefs as launching pads for cross-cultural learning, dialogue, and self-transformation. Truly interdisciplinary in nature, Alternative Visions combines general philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and political, cultural, and post-colonial theory. It is an important book for students and scholars in all of these areas of study.

Author : Carolyn Sigler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813187358

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Alternative Alices by Carolyn Sigler Pdf

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are among the most enduring works in the English language. In the decades following their publication, writers on both sides of the Atlantic produced no fewer than two hundred imitations, revisions, and parodies of Carroll's fantasies for children. Carolyn Sigler has gathered the most interesting and original of these responses to the Alice books, many of them long out of print. Produced between 1869 and 1930, these works trace the extraordinarily creative, and often critical, response of diverse writers. These writers—male and female, radical and conservative—appropriated Carroll's structures, motifs, and themes in their Alice-inspired works in order to engage in larger cultural debates. Their stories range from Christina Rossetti's angry subversion of Alice's adventures, Speaking Likenesses (1874), to G.E. Farrow's witty fantasy adventure, The Wallypug of Why (1895), to Edward Hope's hilarious parody of social and political foibles, Alice in the Delighted States (1928). Anyone who has ever followed Alice down the rabbit hole will enjoy the adventures of her literary siblings in the wide Wonderland of the human imagination.

Author : Miriam Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 907056324X

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Beyond Development by Miriam Lang Pdf

Author : Gary Hamburg,Thomas Sanders,Ernest Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134342129

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Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus by Gary Hamburg,Thomas Sanders,Ernest Tucker Pdf

This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors offer a complete commentary on the various intellectual and religious contexts that shaped the two texts and explain the historical significance of the Russian-Muslim confrontation. It is shown that the mountain war was a clash of two cultures, two religious outlooks and two different worlds. The book provides an important background for the ongoing contest between Russia and indigenous people for control of the Caucasus.

Author : Joshua Brown
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0877228485

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History from South Africa by Joshua Brown Pdf

More starkly than any other contemporary social conflict, the crisis in South Africa highlights the complexities and conflicts in race, gender, class, and nation. These original articles, most of which were written by South African authors, are from a special issue of the Radical History Review, published in Spring 1990, that mapped the development of interpretations of the South African past that depart radically from the official history. The articles range from the politics of black movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to studies of film, television, and theater as reflections of modern social conflict. History from South Africa is presented in two main sections: discussions of the historiography of South Africa from the viewpoint of those rewriting it with a radical outlook; and investigations into popular history and popular culture—the production and reception of history in the public realm. In addition, two photo essays dramatize this history visually; maps and a chronology complete the presentation. The book provides a fresh look at major issues in South African social and labor history and popular culture, and focuses on the role of historians in creating and interacting with a popular movement of resistance and social change.

Author : James Mark,Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Steffi Marung
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253046536

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Alternative Globalizations by James Mark,Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Steffi Marung Pdf

Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness across a socialist world.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633863107

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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The book closes with a long epilogue, in which Ramet defends liberal democracy, highlighting its strengths and advantages. In this chapter, the author identifies five key choke points, which would-be authoritarians typically seek to control, subvert, or instrumentalize: electoral rules, the judiciary, the media, hate speech, and surveillance, and looks at the cases of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Jarosław Kaczyński’s Poland, and Donald Trump’s United States.

Author : Maria-Luisa Ruiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118599724

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Expanding Boundaries, Alternative Visions by Maria-Luisa Ruiz Pdf

Author : C. L. Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316504301

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Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment by C. L. Lim Pdf

This book is about the forces that are reshaping the international law on foreign investment today. It begins by explaining the liberal origins of contemporary investment treaties before addressing a current backlash against these treaties and the device of investment arbitration. The book describes a long-standing legal-intellectual resistance to a neo-liberal global economic agenda, and how tribunals have interpreted various treaty standards instead. It introduces our reader to the changes now taking place in the design of a range of familiar treaty clauses, and it describes how some of these changes are now driven not only by developing and emerging economies but also by the capital-exporting nations. Finally, it explores the life, career and writings of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, a scholar whose work has been dedicated to the realisation of many of these changes, and his views about the hold global capital has over legal practice.