Old Borders New Technologies

Author : Jaroslaw Janczak
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783832548759

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Old Borders - New Challenges, New Borders - Old Challenges by Jaroslaw Janczak Pdf

The aim of this publication is to reflect, conceptually and empirically, on border processes in Europe, paying special attention to the most current border-related developments, with a special focus on the processes of de-bordering and re-bordering. As the authors represent different academic centers and specializations, the volume reflects not only diverse perspectives but also has an interdisciplinary character. The book contains eight contributions and is divided into three thematic parts. The first set of chapters analyzes the borders and borderlands of the European Union, especially in the context of the ongoing changes observed in its direct neighborhood. The next group of articles deals with the regional level of border-related processes within the European Union. Finally, the last group of texts investigates border processes at the local level, analyzing border urban structures.

Author : Nicole Bates-Eamer,Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000481020

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British Columbia’s Borders in Globalization by Nicole Bates-Eamer,Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir Pdf

This book is a case-study collection examining the influences and functions of British Columbia’s (BC) borders in the 21st century. British Columbia’s Borders in Globalization examines bordering processes and the causes and effects of borders in the Cascadian region, from the perspective of BC. The chapters cover diverse topics including historical border disputes and cannabis culture and identity; the governance of transboundary water flows, migration, and preclearance policies for goods and people; and the emerging issue of online communities. The case studies provide examples that highlight the simultaneous but contradictory trends regarding borders in BC: while boundaries and bordering processes at the external borders shift away from the territorial boundary lines, self-determination, local politics, and cultural identities re-inscribe internal boundaries and borders that are both virtual and real. Moreover, economic protectionism, racial discourses, and xenophobic narratives, driven by advances in technology, reinforce the territorial dimensions of borders. These case studies contribute to the literature challenging the notion that territorial borders are sufficient for understanding how borders function in BC; and in a few instances they illustrate the nuanced ways in which borders (or bordering processes) are becoming detached from territory. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

Author : Noel Fitzpatrick,Néill O’Dwyer,Michael O’Hara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501356377

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Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler by Noel Fitzpatrick,Néill O’Dwyer,Michael O’Hara Pdf

Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler frames the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and scientific fields and their sociopolitical implications. Each chapter is either an explication of, or a critique of, some aspect of Bernard Stiegler's technological philosophy; as it is his technological-political-aesthetical-ethical theorisations which form the philosophical foundation of the volume. Emerging scholars bring critical new reflections to the subject area, while more established academics, researchers and practitioners outline the mutating nature of aesthetics within historical and theoretical frameworks. Not only is interdisciplinarity a prevailing topic at work within this collection, but so too is there a delineation of the mutating, hybrid role inhabited by the arts practitioner – at once engineer, scientist and artist – in the changing landscape of digital cultural production.

Author : Esther Peeren,Hanneke Stuit,Astrid Van Weyenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004323056

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Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present by Esther Peeren,Hanneke Stuit,Astrid Van Weyenberg Pdf

Peripheral Visions sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized. Focusing on space, mobility and aesthetics, it argues that peripheries require more visibility, and are invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present.

Author : Matteo Ciastellardi,Emanuela Patti
Publisher : Editorial UOC
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788493880255

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Understanding Media, Today by Matteo Ciastellardi,Emanuela Patti Pdf

Understanding Media, Today. McLuhan in the Era of Convergence Culture

Author : Beneventi, Paolo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781522537717

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Technology and the New Generation of Active Citizens: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Beneventi, Paolo Pdf

New media forums have created a unique opportunity for citizens to participate in a variety of social and political contexts. The public is able to interact more effectively in activities within their communities as new technologies are being created and utilized. Technology and the New Generation of Active Citizens: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the use of information and communication technologies for active citizen engagement. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as digital competence framework, multimedia, and social media, this publication is an ideal resource for professionals, consultants, university teachers, practitioners, community organizers, government administrators, citizens, and activists.

Author : C. J. Alvarez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477319031

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Border Land, Border Water by C. J. Alvarez Pdf

Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2021 From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries responded with more construction—“compensatory building” designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land, Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates about the future of the US-Mexico divide.

Author : Nenad Stefanov,Srdjan Radović
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110712766

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Boundaries and Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Space by Nenad Stefanov,Srdjan Radović Pdf

The disintegration of Yugoslavia, accompanied by the emergence of new borders, is paradigmatically highlighting the relevance of borders in processes of societal change, crisis and conflict. This is even more the case, if we consider the violent practices that evolved out of populist discourse of ethnically homogenous bounded space in this process that happened in the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990ies. Exploring the boundaries of Yugoslavia is not just relevant in the context of Balkan area studies, but the sketched phenomena acquire much wider importance, and can be helpful in order to better understand the dynamics of b/ordering societal space, that are so characteristic for our present situation.

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887554919

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Horse-and-Buggy Genius by Royden Loewen Pdf

The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a “horse-and-buggy” people. Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things—ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption—that most people today take for granted. Loewen’s subjects are drawn from two distinctive groups: 8,000 Old Order Mennonites, who continue to pursue old ways in highly urbanized southern Ontario, and 100,000 Old Colony Mennonites, whose history of migration to protect traditional ways has taken them from the Canadian prairies to Mexico and farther south to Belize, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Whether they live in the shadow of an urban, industrial region or in more isolated, rural communities, the fundamental approach of “horse-and-buggy” Mennonites is the same: life is best when it is kept simple, lived out in the local, close to nature. This equation is the genius at the heart of their world.

Author : Isabel Truesdell Kelly,Angel Palerm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018563391

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The Tajin Totonac: History, subsistence, shelter and technology by Isabel Truesdell Kelly,Angel Palerm Pdf

Author : B. Carlsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401101455

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Technological Systems and Economic Performance: The Case of Factory Automation by B. Carlsson Pdf

In 1987 the Swedish National Board for Technical Development (STU, later becoming the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development, NUTEK) initiated a study of Sweden's Technological Systems and Future Development Potential. A comprehensive, interdisciplinary study was envisioned, yielding not only useful insight but also a permanent competence base for future analyses of technological systems and technology policy in Sweden. Three leading Swedish research institutes were invited to participate: the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm, the Department ofIndustrial Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, and the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund. I was invited to direct the project. The project group decided to focus initially on a particular technological system, namely factory automation, to be followed by similar studies of other systems. Numerous publications have resulted from the project thus far. The current volume represents a summary of our work on factory automation. It consists of several original essays and of some previously published papers which have been edited, in some cases substantially, in order to form a comprehensive and coherent picture of a technological system. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth analysis of a technological system designed as a component of a systematic study of technological systems more generally. At the time of this writing, three further studies on electronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, and powder technology are under way, to be published in a later volume.

Author : Dr Joyce Kay,Professor Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135762674

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Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing by Dr Joyce Kay,Professor Wray Vamplew Pdf

The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the traditional themes of gambling and breeding, and contains biographies of human personalities and equine stars, it also devotes significant space to neglected areas. Entries include: social, economic and political forces that have influenced racing controversial historical and current issues legal and illegal gambling, and racing finance the British impact on world horseracing history and heritage of horseracing links between horse racing and the arts, media and technology human and equine biographies venues associated with racing horseracing websites The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing provides a unique source of information and will be of great interest to sports historians as well as all those whose work or leisure brings them into the world of racing.

Author : Peter Andreas,Ethan Nadelmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195341959

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Policing the Globe by Peter Andreas,Ethan Nadelmann Pdf

A thought-provoking analysis of the historical expansion and recent dramatic acceleration of international crime control, 'Policing the Globe' provides a bridge between criminal justice and international relations on a topic of crucial public importance.

Author : Marsha Kinder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520281851

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Transmedia Frictions by Marsha Kinder Pdf

Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term ÒtransmediaÓ with Òtransnational,Ó they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics. Each part includes a substantive introduction by one of the editors. Part 1 examines precursors, contemporary theorists, and artists who are protagonists in this discursive drama, focusing on how the transmedia frictions and continuities between old and new forms can be read most productively: N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich redefine medium specificity, Edward Branigan and Yuri Tsivian explore nondigital precursors, Steve Anderson and Stephen Mamber assess contemporary archival histories, and Grahame Weinbren and Caroline Bassett defend the open-ended mobility of newly emergent media. In part 2, trios of essays address various ideologies of the digital: John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmerman, Herman Gray, and David Wade Crane redraw contours of race, space, and the margins; Eric Gordon, Cristina Venegas, and John T. Caldwell unearth database cities, portable homelands, and virtual fieldwork; and Mark B.N. Hansen, Holly Willis, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo G—mez-Pe–a examine interactive bodies transformed by shock, gender, and color. An invaluable reference work in the field of visual media studies, Transmedia Frictions provides sound historical perspective on the social and political aspects of the interactive digital arts, demonstrating that they are never neutral or innocent.

Author : Jakub Kazecki,Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810890510

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Border Visions by Jakub Kazecki,Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Cynthia J. Miller Pdf

Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and exchange, as well as arenas of violent conflict and segregation. As communities around the world merge across national borders, new multi-ethnic and multicultural countries have become ever more common. Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film offers an overview of global cinema that addresses borders as spaces of hybridity and change. In this collection of essays, contributors examine how cinema portrays conceptions of borderlands informed by knowledge, politics, art, memory, and lived experience, and how these constructions contribute to a changing global community. These essays analyze a variety of international feature films and documentaries that focus on the lives, cultures, and politics of borderlands. The essays discuss the ways in which conflicts and their resolutions occur in borderlands and how they are portrayed on film. The volume pays special attention to contemporary Europe, where the topic of shifting border identities is one of the main driving forces in the processes of European unification. Among the filmmakers whose work is discussed in this volume are Fatih Akin, Montxo Armendàriz, Cary Fukunaga, Christoph Hochhäusler, Holger Jancke, Emir Kusturica, Laila Pakalnina, Alex Rivera, Larissa Shepitko, Andrea Staka, Elia Suleiman, and István Szabó. A significant contribution to the dialogue on global cinema, Border Visions will be of interest to students and scholars of film, but also to scholars in border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.