The New Global Frontier

Author : George Martine
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849773157

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The worlds developing countries will be experiencing massive increases in their urban populations over the 21st century. If managed intelligently and humanely, this growth can pave the way to sustainable development; otherwise, it will favour higher levels of poverty and environmental stress. The outcome depends on decisions being made now.The principal theme that runs through this volume is the need to transform urbanization into a positive force for development. Part I of this book reviews the demography of the urban transition, stressing the importance of benefi cial rural-urban connections and challenging commonly held misconceptions. Part II asks how urban housing, land and service provision can be improved in the face of rapid urban expansion, drawing lessons from experiences around the world. Part III analyses the challenges and opportunities that urbanization presents for improving living environments and reducing pressures on local and global ecosystems. These social and environmental challenges must be met in the context of fast-changing demographic circumstances; Part IV explores the range of opportunities that these transformations represent. These challenges and opportunities vary greatly across Africa, Asia and Latin America, as detailed in Part V.Published with IIED and UNFPA

Author : Eric Strand
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609389017

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The Global Frontier by Eric Strand Pdf

After World War II, the Western frontier of self-reinvention and spatial expansion opened up through the explosion of the global travel industry. The Global Frontier shows that a variety of postwar literary travelers sought personal freedom and cultural enrichment outside their nation's borders, including Black, female, and queer writers. But the price of incorporation into a transnational leisure class was complicity in postwar American imperialism and the rejection of 1930s social commitments. Eric Strand argues that capitalist globalization has enabled creative expression for marginalized identities, and that present-day humanists are the descendants of writers such as William S. Burroughs, Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Author : L. Weber,S. Pickering
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230361638

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Globalization and Borders by L. Weber,S. Pickering Pdf

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities.

Author : Giampiero Giacomello,Francesco N. Moro,Marco Valigi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788976077

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Technology and International Relations by Giampiero Giacomello,Francesco N. Moro,Marco Valigi Pdf

Exploring how changes in advanced technology deeply affect international politics, this book theoretically engages with the overriding relevance of investments in technological research, and the ways in which they directly foster a country’s economic and military standing. Scholars and practitioners present important insights on the technical and social issues at the core of technology competition.

Author : Leanne Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Border security
ISBN : 0230361595

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Globalization and Borders by Leanne Weber Pdf

Author : Allan Christelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Algeria
ISBN : 0813037557

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Algerians Without Borders by Allan Christelow Pdf

This account of Algeria through its migratory history begins in the last quarter of the eighteenth century by looking at forced migration through the slave trade. It moves through the colonial era and continues into Algeria's turbulent postcolonial experience.

Author : Nina Krebs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028669856

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Edgewalkers by Nina Krebs Pdf

Edgewalkers comprise a unique group of people who belong to two or more ethnic, cultural, or spiritual worlds.

Author : Neil Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134787463

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The New Urban Frontier by Neil Smith Pdf

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

Author : E. Brian Titley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0774807318

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The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney by E. Brian Titley Pdf

In the late-19th century, western Canada was transformed by waves of immigrants who brought their own technology and institutions. This text explores this period and one such immigrant - Edgar Dewdney - who became a key participant in the decisions that shaped the country.

Author : John F. Richards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520230752

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The Unending Frontier by John F. Richards Pdf

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Author : Charles Green
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585386263

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Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora by Charles Green Pdf

Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States to investigate the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization.

Author : Rainer F. Buschmann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824861476

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Anthropology's Global Histories by Rainer F. Buschmann Pdf

Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians—this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to recover some of anthropology’s global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier—the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884–1914) presents an ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology. Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by preparing large-scale expeditions to German New Guinea. Buschmann explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. He shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous culture. He also shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns. Finally, he places the German experience in the broader context of Euro-American anthropology. Anthropology's Global Histories will interest students and scholars of anthropology, history, world history, and Pacific studies.

Author : L. Weber,S. Pickering
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113745315X

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Globalization and Borders by L. Weber,S. Pickering Pdf

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities.

Author : Neil Stevens Forkey
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056920435

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Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier by Neil Stevens Forkey Pdf

Neil Forkey makes a significant contribution to the growing body of work on Canadian environmental history. Themes of ethnicity and environment in the Trent Valley are brought into wider perspective with comparisons to other areas of contemporary settlement throughout the British Empire and North America. Forkey begins by placing his study within the literature of settler societies of Upper Canada and North America. The Trent Valley's geography, prehistory, and Native peoples, the Huron and the Mississauga, are discussed alongside the Anglo-Celtic migrations and resettlement of the area. Careful attention is devoted to the life and nature writings of Catherine Parr Traill. Her descriptions of life and environmental changes in the Valley point the way to a keener understanding of Canadian attitudes about the natural world during the nineteenth century. Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley is the story of the Trent Valley during the nineteenth century, one of a settler society and a microcosm for wider human and environmental changes throughout North America.

Author : Kyle J. Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840590

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The Frontier Complex by Kyle J. Gardner Pdf

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.