Islands In A Global Context

Author : Conor Newman,Mags Mannion,Fiona Gavin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Irish
ISBN : 1846825687

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Islands in a Global Context by Conor Newman,Mags Mannion,Fiona Gavin Pdf

These essays from over forty leading experts on Insular art c.AD400-1500 cross all media, including stone, vellum, cloth, metal, and glass. Along with its customary focus on art of the Insular world of Britain and Ireland, the papers also consider the contemporary European and Mediterranean background and context of Insular art, under the headings of motif, theme, symbol, transmission, translation and scholarship. Offering new perspectives on familiar objects and introducing new finds, like the other volumes in the series, this lavishly illustrated book is a must for all serious students of Insular art. [Subject: Art History, Insular Art, Early Middle Ages, Irish Studies, European Studies, Mediterranean Studies]

Author : Jodie Matthews,Daniel Travers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Island people
ISBN : 1443835161

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Islands and Britishness by Jodie Matthews,Daniel Travers Pdf

'Islands and Britishness' not only brings together various contemporary strands in island studies, but uniquely focuses on the relationship - historical, cultural and economic - between particular islands and Britain, and, crucially, how this relationship frames national identity both on the island and in Britain itself.

Author : Steven Chown,Pierre William Froneman
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781920109851

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The Prince Edward Islands by Steven Chown,Pierre William Froneman Pdf

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of what is known about the structure, functioning and interactions of marine and terrestrial systems at the Prince Edward Islands. Building on more than 50 years of biological, geological, meteorological, and oceanographic research, it demonstrates not only how inextricably linked marine and terrestrial systems at the islands are, but also how global environmental challenges, such as climate change, biological invasions, and over exploitation, are playing out at the regional and local levels in the Southern Ocean.

Author : Ian W. King,Annick Schramme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319988603

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Cultural Governance in a Global Context by Ian W. King,Annick Schramme Pdf

This original book explores the character of cultural governance of arts and cultural institutions in eight countries across five continents. Examining strategy and decision-making at an organisational level, this is the first empirical contribution on cultural policy and management, revealing how it is applied across the globe in otherwise unexplored countries. Concerned with the assumption that ‘one-size fits all’, the chapter authors analyse how cultural governance is managed within arts organizations in a range of countries to assess whether some locations are trying to apply unsuitable models. The chapters aim to discover and assess new practices to benefit the understanding of cultural governance and the arts sector which have as yet been excluded from the literature. As a collection of local accounts, this book offers a broad and rich perspective on managing cultural governance around the world.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9787589808227

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Introduction to South Georgia by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

South Georgia is a remote, sub-Antarctic island located around 1400km southeast of the Falkland Islands. The island is a British Overseas Territory and is home to a diverse range of wildlife, including seals, penguins, and albatrosses. Its history is closely linked to the whaling industry, and there are still remnants of the industry visible on the island, including old whaling stations and equipment. Today, South Georgia is a popular destination for tourists interested in wildlife and adventure, offering opportunities for hiking, camping, and kayaking. Despite its remote location, South Georgia has played a significant role in global history. The island was first discovered in 1675 by the English explorer Anthony de la Roché, and it became a popular stop for whalers in the early 19th century. During World War I, South Georgia was a critical link in the British supply chain, as it was used as a base for the Royal Navy's Southern Ocean fleet. Later, in 1982, the island played a role in the Falklands War, as British forces used it as a staging point for their invasion of the Falkland Islands. Overall, South Georgia is a unique and fascinating place with a rich cultural and ecological history.

Author : Timothy Philip Fadgen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811564796

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Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context by Timothy Philip Fadgen Pdf

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary. Beginning in the 1990s, mental health became an area of global policy concern as reflected in concerted international organisation and bilateral aid and development agendas, most notably those of the World Bank, World Health Organization, and the governments of Australia and New Zealand. This book highlights how Tonga and Samoa both reformed their respective mental health systems during these years, after relatively long periods of stagnation. Using recent scholarship concerning public policy transfer, this book explains these policy outcomes and expands it to include consideration of the historical institutional dimensions evidenced by contemporary mental health systems. This book considers three distinct levels of policy implicated in mental health system transfer processes from developed to developing nations: colonial authority and influence; decolonisation processes; and the global development agenda surrounding health systems. In the process, the author argues that there are in fact three levels of policy change that must be accounted for in examining contemporary policy change. These policy levels include formal policy transfers, which tend to be prescriptive, involving professional problem construction and the designation of appropriate state apparatus for curative or custodial care provision; quasi-formal transfers, which tend to be aspirational and involve policy instruments developed through collaborative, participatory processes; and informal transfers that tend to be normative and include practices by professional actors in delivering service merged with traditional cultural beliefs as to disease aetiology as well as reflecting a deep understanding of the cultural context within which the services will be delivered. This book argues that a renewed focus on the importance of public policy and government institutional capacity is necessary to ensure human rights and justice are secured.

Author : Carl J. Guarneri,Jim Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459026

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Teaching American History in a Global Context by Carl J. Guarneri,Jim Davis Pdf

This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view.The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as gifted classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a 'Views from Abroad' section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources.

Author : Julie Sze
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520959828

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Fantasy Islands by Julie Sze Pdf

The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs involved. Fantasy Islands probes Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and eco-technological dreams, and examines the solutions they offer to environmental degradation in this age of global economic change. Uncovering the stories of sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, mega-suburbs, and the Shanghai World Expo, Julie Sze explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped them. She charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century, and she considers the motives of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development supported by elite power structures in the UK and China. Fantasy Islands shows how ineffectual these efforts are while challenging us to see what a true eco-city would be.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135306120

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Global Culture, Island Identity by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

Author : A. H. L. Huiskes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Animal ecology
ISBN : UCSD:31822032251993

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Antarctic Biology in a Global Context by A. H. L. Huiskes Pdf

Author : Victor Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521823524

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Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands by Victor Lieberman Pdf

Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks to rethink 1,000 years of Eurasian history.

Author : Jan Petzold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319522258

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Social Capital, Resilience and Adaptation on Small Islands by Jan Petzold Pdf

The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands’ adaptive capacity to climate change. The case study of the Isles of Scilly, UK, shows how social structures can play a very important role for climate change adaptation. It is argued that social features have to be understood in a non-deterministic and potentially ambivalent manner, according to their place-specific geographical, cultural and historical context. Only then, risk management and adaptation strategies can succeed and function in a sustainable way. The findings have relevance for the further refinement of social capital theory and social emergence. Combined with the perspective of resilience, this approach is also relevant from a policy standpoint, given that small islands have been identified as hotspots not only due to their vulnerability, but also because they serve as examples for media and politics to advance the agenda of environmental protection. >

Author : Hema Letchamanan,Debotri Dhar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474244305

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Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands by Hema Letchamanan,Debotri Dhar Pdf

Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands is a critical reference guide to development of education in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Comoros Islands, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zanzibar. The chapters provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing particularly on contemporary education policies and some of the problems countries in this region face during the processes of development. Key themes include the practice of implementation of educational policy and the impact of global and local educational decisions on societies. Due to the demographic scale and the cultural diversity of India, the volume contains a particularly extensive coverage of the distinctive educational issues in this country. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole, this book is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers.

Author : John R. Wagner,Jerry K. Jacka
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760462178

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Island Rivers by John R. Wagner,Jerry K. Jacka Pdf

Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?

Author : Andrew Bevan,James Conolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107355538

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Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes by Andrew Bevan,James Conolly Pdf

Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history. Small islands are particularly interesting because their human, plant and animal populations often experience abrupt demographic changes, including periods of near-complete abandonment and recolonization, and Antikythera proves to be one of the best-documented examples of these shifts over time. Small islands also play eccentric but revealing roles in wider social, economic and political networks, serving as places for refugees, hunters, modern eco-tourists, political exiles, hermits and pirates. Antikythera is a rare case of an island that has been investigated in its entirety from several systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, not least of which is an intensive archaeological survey. The authors use the resulting evidence to offer a unique vantage on settlement and land use histories.