Deserts Are Not Empty

Author : Samia Henni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941332749

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Deserts Are Not Empty by Samia Henni Pdf

Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the "regime of emptiness" has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. Deserts Are Not Empty challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid lands--which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface. The volume brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise. With contributions from Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Menna Agha, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, Yousef Awaad Hussein, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Danika Cooper, Brahim El Guabli, Timothy Hyde, Jill Jarvis, Bongani Kona, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Observatoire des armements, Francisco E. Robles, Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, and XqSu.

Author : Martin Lefebvre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136334870

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Landscape and Film by Martin Lefebvre Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619025110

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Savage Grace by Jay Griffiths Pdf

Jay Griffiths is a tour guide for anyone who has ever wished to commune with the side of our human psyche that remains in touch with the wild. Equally at home among the "sea gypsy" Bajo people who live off the coast of Thailand and forage their food from the ocean floor, drinking the psychedelic ayahuasca plant with Amazonian shamans, or joining an Inuit whale hunt at the northern tip of Canada, Griffiths takes readers on an adventure both charted and un–chartable. She divides her meditations on these travels into sections named after the ancient elemental properties of the universe—Earth, Air, Fire, Ice, and Water—because her subject matter is not merely the places traveled to but the depths of mind and the cultural narratives revealed by place. It is a universal story told of far–flung groups of humans, with vastly different ways of life, connected through the varied wilderness that sustains them. By describing the ways in which human societies and the human mind have developed in response to the wilder elements of our homelands, Savage Grace reveals itself as a benediction for the emotional, intellectual, and physical nourishment that people continue to draw from the natural world. Under the sway of Griffiths' charisma, her poetic prose, and her deeply learned and persuasive case for the wild roots of our shared human being, we learn that we are all, each and every one of us, a force of nature.

Author : Ginette Verstraete,Tim Cresswell
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042011440

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Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility by Ginette Verstraete,Tim Cresswell Pdf

What role does 'place' have in a world marked by increased mobility on a global scale? What strategies are there for representing 'place' in the age of globalization? What is the relationship between 'place' and the varied mobilities of migrancy, tourism, travel and nomadism? These are some of the questions that run through the ten essays in this collection. The combined effect of these essays is to participate in the contemporary project of subjecting the links between place, mobility, identity, representation and practice to critical interdisciplinary scrutiny. Such notions are not the property of particular disciplines. In the era of globalization, transnationalism and readily acknowledged cultural hybridity these links are more important than ever. They are important because of the taken-for-grantedness of: the universal impact of globalization; the receding importance of place and the centrality of mobile identities. This taken-for-grantedness masks the ways place continues to be important and ways in which mobility is differentiated by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality and many other social markers. This book is a concerted attempt to stop taking for granted these themes of the age. Material discussed in the essays include the creation of cultural routes in Europe, the video's of Fiona Tan, artistic and literary representations of the North African desert, the production of indigenous videos in Mexico, mobile forms of ethnography, the film Existenz, Jamaica Kincaid's writing on gardens, the video representation of sex tourism and ways of imagining the global. Authors include: Tim Cresswell, Ginette Verstraete, Ernst van Alphen, Ursula Biemann, Laurel C. Smith, Nick Couldry, Isabel Hoving, Renée van de Vall, Inge E. Boer and Kevin Hetherington.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Deserts
ISBN : 9280727265

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Tourism and Deserts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen W. Need
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725255197

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Living Faith by Stephen W. Need Pdf

Desperate for new ideas to inspire sermons, Bible studies, or private meditation? Here's the book for you. Living Faith: Through the Church's Year offers fifty-two lively reflections for group or individual use, including resources for further study. Part One leads you through the seasons of the church's year from Advent to Trinity. Starting with the Big Bang, you're taken to Bethlehem for Christmas and into the desert for Lent. Christmas cribs, Easter gardens, and a large crucifix illustrate some of the most important Christian festivals. Bible texts, literature, architecture, poetry, and music all help fill out the picture. Part Two takes you into some crucial aspects of being a Christian. Jesus's question to his disciples at Caesarea Philippi ("Who do you say that I am?") helps you think about some important Gospel stories such as the stilling of the storm and the Samaritan woman. Key saints, such as Francis, Benedict, and Dominic, appear, as do C. S. Lewis, J. S. Bach, Mother Teresa, Simon and Garfunkel, and Paddington Bear! A sumptuous feast of exploration and insight, Living Faith is an exciting and stimulating adventure in Christian life--a must for anyone taking the journey of faith seriously.

Author : Erinn Gilson,Sarah Kenehan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786609243

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Food, Environment, and Climate Change by Erinn Gilson,Sarah Kenehan Pdf

This volume takes a unique approach, dealing specifically with issues at the intersection of food and agricultural systems, environmental degradation, and climate change. It fills a gap in the literature on food and environmental justice in the context of global climate change offering a scholarly, yet accessible, analysis of the issues.

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0816510148

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Gathering the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan Pdf

Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Signal
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780771007712

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The Immeasurable World by William Atkins Pdf

In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, and for readers of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Rory Stewart, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places and their inhabitants. One-third of the earth's land surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in six of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi and Taklamakan Desert of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, and the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.

Author : Stanley A Rice
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813546532

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Green Planet by Stanley A Rice Pdf

Plants are not just a pretty part of the landscape; they keep the entire planet, with all of its human and nonhuman inhabitants, alive. Stanley Rice documents the many ways in which plants do this by making oxygen, regulating the greenhouse effect, controlling floods, and producing all the food in the world. Plants also create natural habitats for all organisms in the world. With illustrations and clear writing for non-specialists, Green Planet helps general readers realize that if we are to rescue the Earth from environmental disaster, we must protect wild plants. Beginning with an overview of how human civilization has altered the face of the Earth, particularly by the destruction of forests, the book details the startling consequences of these actions. Rice provides compelling reasons for government officials, economic leaders, and the public to support efforts to save threatened and endangered plants. Global campaigns to solve environmental problems with plants, such as the development of green roofs and the Green Belt Movement—a women's organization in Kenya that empowers communities worldwide to protect the environment—show readers that efforts to save wild plants can be successful and beneficial to the economic well-being of nations. Through current scientific evidence, readers see that plants are vital to the ecological health of our planet and understand what can be done to lead to a better—and greener—future Benefits of plants: Help modulate greenhouse gases Produce almost all oxygen in the air Create cool shade that reduces energy costs Prevent floods, droughts, and soil erosion Produce all of the food in the world Create and preserve soil Create natural habitats Heal the landscape after natural and human disasters

Author : Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474443371

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Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy by Aidan Tynan Pdf

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Author : Inge E. Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401203715

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Uncertain Territories by Inge E. Boer Pdf

Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as frame, as home (or lack of it), Boer shows that boundaries are spaces within, through, and in the name of which negotiations take place. They are not lines but spaces ; neither fixed nor empty but flexible and inhabited. With the publication of this book, Boer’s intellectual legacy stretches beyond her untimely passing. The writings that she left behind can be said to have inaugurated the future of her work, presented in the latter part by several of Boer’s intellectual companions. In their original essays, the contributors elaborate on Boer’s theme of boundaries as spaces where opposition yields to negotiation. Committed to the artefact as cultural stimulant, as the embodiment of thought, their analyses span a multitude of artefacts and media, ranging from literature to photography, to art installation and presentation, to film and song. Fanning out from Boer ‘s central focus – Orientalism – to other places of contestation, boundaries are shown to mediate the relationship between self and other ; they are, ultimately, spaces of encounter.

Author : Len Wilcox
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781556508769

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Desert Dancing by Len Wilcox Pdf

This volume is a combination guidebook/journal to the desert regions of California. Filled with historical notes and details of the culture, it provides practical travel information and insight into the area's past, the legends, and the myths that survive today. The author provides information on sacred places and their mysteries. This work includes directions, places to stay and eat, plus advice on safe passage in this harsh but beautiful terrain.

Author : Lawrence R. Walker,Frederick H. Landau
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816532629

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A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker,Frederick H. Landau Pdf

Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Randolph Spears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081822177

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Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast by John Randolph Spears Pdf