Border Landscapes

Author : Janet C. Sturgeon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801735

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Border Landscapes by Janet C. Sturgeon Pdf

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts. She shows how, over the last century, processes of state formation, construction of ethnic identity, and regional security concerns have contributed to very different outcomes for Akha and their forests in China and Thailand, with Chinese Akha functioning as citizens and grain producers, and Akha in Thailand being viewed as "non-Thai" forest destroyers. The modern nation-state grapples with local power hierarchies on the periphery of the nation, with varied outcomes. Citizenship in China helps Akha better protect a fluid set of livelihood practices that confer benefits on them and their landscape. Denied such citizenship in Thailand, Akha are helpless when forests and other resources are ruthlessly claimed by the state. Drawing on current anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia and more generally on debates on property theory, states and minorities, and political ecology, Sturgeon shows how people live in a continuous state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological. This pioneering comparison of resource access and land use among historically related peoples in two nation-states will be welcomed by scholars of political ecology, environmental anthropology, ethnicity, and politics of state formation in East and Southeast Asia.

Author : Anna Grichting,Michele Zebich-Knos
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783086702

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The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes by Anna Grichting,Michele Zebich-Knos Pdf

The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts.

Author : Dennis Rumley,Julian V. Minghi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317598794

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The Geography of Border Landscapes by Dennis Rumley,Julian V. Minghi Pdf

This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.

Author : Dennis Rumley,Julian V. Minghi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317598800

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The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography) by Dennis Rumley,Julian V. Minghi Pdf

This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0816514410

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The Mexican Border Cities by Daniel D. Arreola Pdf

From Matamoros to Tijuana, Mexican border cities have long evoked for their neighbors to the north images of cheap tourist playgrounds and, more recently, industrial satellites of American industry. These sensationalized and simplified perceptions fail to convey the complexity and diversity of urban form and function—and of cultural personality—that characterize these places. The Mexican Border Cities draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile border, ranging from towns of less than 10,000 people to dynamic metropolises of nearly a million. The authors chronicle the cities' growth and compare their urban structure, analyzing them in terms of tourist districts, commercial landscapes, residential areas, and industrial and transportation quarters. Arreola and Curtis contend that, despite their proximity to the United States, the border cities are fundamentally Mexican places, as distinguished by their cultural landscapes, including town plan, land-use pattern, and building fabric. Their study, richly illustrated with over 75 maps and photographs, offers a provocative and insightful interpretation of the geographic anatomy and personality of these fascinating—and rapidly changing—communities.

Author : Robert E. Kohler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226450117

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Landscapes and Labscapes by Robert E. Kohler Pdf

What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls? In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Author : Nurit Kliot,David Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135305413

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Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century by Nurit Kliot,David Newman Pdf

An excellent examination of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order These essays focus on the key regional and geopolitical characteristics of this global reordering, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and South Asia. They discuss the territorial reordering which is taking place at the level of the state as boundaries are redemarcated in line with ethno-territoral demands; as borders are transversed by the movement of peoples, information and finance; and as the lines of territorial demarcation are perceived not only in terms of their fixed characteristics but as part of a process through which regional and ethnic identities continue to be formed and reformed. Each section ends with articles which focus on literature on geopolitics and boundaries. This is an invaluable addition to our understanding of contemporary world affairs.

Author : Katherine G. Morrissey,John-Michael H. Warner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816537235

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Border Spaces by Katherine G. Morrissey,John-Michael H. Warner Pdf

Grounded in the borderlands and prompted by art, this book considers the connections between art, land, and people in a fraught binational region--Provided by publisher.

Author : Dennis Rumley,Julian V. Minghi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1138815586

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The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography) by Dennis Rumley,Julian V. Minghi Pdf

This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.

Author : Jordan Stanger-Ross
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228003076

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Landscapes of Injustice by Jordan Stanger-Ross Pdf

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians by focusing on the deliberate and permanent destruction of home through the act of dispossession. All forms of property were taken. Families lost heirlooms and everyday possessions. They lost decades of investment and labour. They lost opportunities, neighbourhoods, and communities; they lost retirements, livelihoods, and educations. When Japanese Canadians were finally released from internment in 1949, they had no homes to return to. Asking why and how these events came to pass and charting Japanese Canadians' diverse responses, this book details the implications and legacies of injustice perpetrated under the cover of national security. In Landscapes of Injustice the diverse descendants of dispossession work together to understand what happened. They find that dispossession is not a chapter that closes or a period that neatly ends. It leaves enduring legacies of benefit and harm, shame and silence, and resilience and activism.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780816542550

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Postcards from the Baja California Border by Daniel D. Arreola Pdf

Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Author : Karen Eckmeier,Quilted Lizard, The
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Fabric pictures
ISBN : 0979203317

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Accidental Landscapes by Karen Eckmeier,Quilted Lizard, The Pdf

Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015346037

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Exploring Scotland's Historic Landscapes by Ian D. Whyte Pdf

Author : Samuel Truett
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300135329

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Fugitive Landscapes by Samuel Truett Pdf

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona–Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a “wild” frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.–Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.

Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424738

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Storied Ground by Paul Readman Pdf

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.