Fluid Geographies

Author : K. Maria D. Lane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226294964

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Fluid Geographies by K. Maria D. Lane Pdf

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era. To understand this major shift, Lane carefully examines the primary conflict of the time, which pitted Indigenous and Nuevomexicano communities, with their long-established systems of irrigation management, against Anglo-American settlers, who benefitted from centralized bureaucratic management of water. The newcomers’ system eventually became settled law, but water disputes have continued throughout the district courts of New Mexico’s Rio Grande watershed ever since. Using a fine-grained analysis of legislative texts and nearly two hundred district court cases, Lane analyzes evolving cultural patterns and attitudes toward water use and management in a pivotal time in New Mexico’s history. Illuminating complex themes for a general audience, Fluid Geographies helps readers understand how settler colonialism constructed a racialized understanding of scientific expertise and legitimized the dispossession of nonwhite communities in New Mexico.

Author : K Maria D Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 022629482X

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Fluid Geographies by K Maria D Lane Pdf

Author : Hsiao-yun Chu,Roberto G. Trujillo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780804752091

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New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller by Hsiao-yun Chu,Roberto G. Trujillo Pdf

In this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century.

Author : Barry D. Solomon,Kirby E. Calvert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785365621

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Handbook on the Geographies of Energy by Barry D. Solomon,Kirby E. Calvert Pdf

This extensive Handbook captures a range of expertise and perspectives on the changing geographies and landscapes of energy production, distribution, and use. Combining established and emerging scholarship from across disciplines, the expert contributions provide a broad overview of research frontiers for the changing geographies of energy worldwide. Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, it serves to answer a range of questions and provide the reader with conceptual and methodological foundations.

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137456878

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Postcolonial Literary Geographies by John Thieme Pdf

This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

Author : Kimberley Peters,Jon Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317000167

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Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean by Kimberley Peters,Jon Anderson Pdf

Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human), this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life. This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized, theorized and ’known’ through metaphors, voyages of discovery and scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are experienced; through various activities including driving on water, kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa

Author : Mona Domosh,Michael Heffernan,Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1619 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781529738667

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The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography by Mona Domosh,Michael Heffernan,Charles W. J. Withers Pdf

Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.

Author : Paul C. Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405154130

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Geographies of Media and Communication by Paul C. Adams Pdf

Geographies of Media and Communication From the invention of the telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, communications technologies have transformed the ways that people and places relate to each other. Geographies of Media and Communication is the first textbook to treat all aspects of geography’s variegated encounter with communication. Connecting geographical ideas with communication theories such as intertextuality, audience-centered theory, and semiotics, Paul C. Adams explores media representations of places, the spatial diffusion of communication technologies, and the power of communication technologies to transform places, and to dictate who does and does not belong in them.

Author : Robyn Longhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134656929

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Bodies by Robyn Longhurst Pdf

This is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women's sub-ordination to men.

Author : Dr Gavin Brown,Dr Jason Lim,Professor Kath Browne
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409487302

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Geographies of Sexualities by Dr Gavin Brown,Dr Jason Lim,Professor Kath Browne Pdf

Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place. Drawing established and 'founding' figures of the field together with emerging authors, this innovative volume offers a broad, interdisciplinary and international overview of the geographies of sexualities. Incorporating a discussion of queer geographies, Geographies of Sexualities engages with cutting edge agendas and challenges the orthodoxies within geography regarding spatialities and sexualities. It contains original and previously unpublished material that spans the often separated areas of theory, practices and politics. This innovative volume offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the spatialities of sexualities, intersecting discussions of sexualities with issues such as development, race, gender and other forms of social difference.

Author : Javed Majeed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230286818

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Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity by Javed Majeed Pdf

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.

Author : Mike Brown,Kimberley Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429685422

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Living with the Sea by Mike Brown,Kimberley Peters Pdf

The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of seafarers who keep our global economy afloat; now is a crucial time to examine how we live with the sea. This ambitious book brings together an interdisciplinary and international cohort of contributors from within and?beyond?academia. It offers a range and diversity of insights unlike previous collections. An ‘oceanic turn’ is taking place, with a burgeoning of academic work that takes seriously the place of seas and oceans in understanding socio-cultural and political life, past and present. Yet, there is a significant gap concerning the ways in which we engage with seas and oceans, with a will to enliven action and evoke change. This book explores these challenges, offering insights from spatial planning, architectural design, geography, educational studies, anthropology and cultural studies. An examination through these lenses can help us to better understand human relationships with the seas and oceans, and promote an ethic of care for the future.

Author : Margaret Robertson,Ruth Lawrence,Gregory Heath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462099449

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Experiencing the Outdoors by Margaret Robertson,Ruth Lawrence,Gregory Heath Pdf

The space is outdoors. The experience is personal and the journey can be solitary or take place in groups. Informal or formal the places visited are sites of learning. Locked in memory our experiences in the outdoors are a constant source of wonderment and food to replenish our sense of wellbeing. Our experiences in the outdoors can endure in the abstract as ideas for developing a sense of a well lived life. They can also draw us back to places and reenergise the body. Physical and emotional wellbeing collides in the unexpected events that flourish in the outdoors. Our readiness for enjoyment and personal development are subjective states which this book challenges. Traversing the landscape of the outdoors the collection of chapters contained range from the theoretical to the practical including strategies for teaching and learning that are transdisciplinary. With ideas for practitioners as well as thoughtful reading for readers of diverse ages and interests this book includes contributions from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 7278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780081022962

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Anonim Pdf

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context

Author : Martin Jones,Scott Orford,Victoria Macfarlane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317407577

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People, Places and Policy by Martin Jones,Scott Orford,Victoria Macfarlane Pdf

Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities – Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) – are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales’ regional geography. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.