Visiting The Neighbours

Author : Agnieszka Sobocinska
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742241807

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Visiting the Neighbours by Agnieszka Sobocinska Pdf

A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century. Many travellers returned thinking they knew Asia and their personal experiences helped shape popular attitudes. This absorbing book unpacks their experiences, showing how their encounters changed the way Australians thought about themselves in the world.Visiting the Neighbours tells the story of Australian relations with Asia from the bottom up, examining the experiences of some of the millions of travellers and tourists who headed to the region over more than a hundred years. Merchants, missionaries, pilgrims, soldiers, hippies, diplomats, backpackers all had an impact on diplomacy and international relations. Agnieszka Sobocinska’s book is a bold and important step in understanding the intersection between popular opinion, prejudice and international relations as Australia stands at the precipice of the Asian Century.‘Sets out a range of fascinating and different roles played by Australians in Asia.’ – Michael Wesley, author of There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the rise of Asia.‘ … Puts travel to Asia firmly on the 'Asia-literacy' map. This is not only a richly detailed, subtly argued and historically informed study of the Australian traveller in Asia. It is also smart, sharp and a very good read.’ – David Walker, BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies, Peking University.

Author : Lynda Cheshire
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839094767

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Neighbours around the World by Lynda Cheshire Pdf

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our relationships and interactions with the people living next door, analysing the ways in which these relationships are changing in the face of large-scale macro social and urban processes.

Author : P. H. Gulliver
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520317574

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Neighbours and Networks by P. H. Gulliver Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Mendelson Joe
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781770908703

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Joe's Neighbours by Mendelson Joe Pdf

Outsider artist Mendelson Joe is a painter, activist, musician, and renowned "self-taughter." But to the people living in the sparsely populated region west of Algonquin Park, he is also a neighbour. With his latest book, Joe commemorates his neighbours in a series of portraits whose subjects range from Canadian musical icon Hawksley Workman to the man who installed Joe's woodstove. In Joe's Neighbours, we get a glimpse into the lives of people who have strayed from the urban grid, and in Joe, we meet a "pathological painter" who is engaged with his community. Viewed through Joe's idiosyncratic lens, rural Canadian life comes alive, and we meet a hub of artists, activists, and offbeat characters who truly embody Joe's vision of neighbourliness.

Author : Raj Kumar Singh
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : India
ISBN : 8121210607

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Relations of NDA and UPA with Neighbours by Raj Kumar Singh Pdf

Author : Anita H. Fábos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450241

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'Brothers' or Others? by Anita H. Fábos Pdf

Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community.

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000323313

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Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach by Daniel Miller Pdf

From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture. The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates.

Author : Shauna Labman,Geoffrey Cameron
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002758

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Strangers to Neighbours by Shauna Labman,Geoffrey Cameron Pdf

As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers to Neighbours explains the origins and development of refugee sponsorship, paying particular attention to the unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas it produces for refugee policy. The contributors to this collection draw upon law, social science, and philosophy to bring a more robust and objective perspective on Canada's historical experience with sponsorship into wider conversations about the refugee crisis and resettlement. Together, they present recent cases that exemplify how the model has been applied and how it functions, while also analyzing the challenges that emerge in host-sponsor relations. This volume further examines how sponsorship has been implemented differently in countries such as the United States and Australia. The first dedicated study of refugee sponsorship policy, Strangers to Neighbours assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to consider whether Canada's system is indeed a sustainable model for the world.

Author : Apostolos N. Papadopoulos,Yannis Manolopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387275444

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Nearest Neighbor Search: by Apostolos N. Papadopoulos,Yannis Manolopoulos Pdf

Modern applications are both data and computationally intensive and require the storage and manipulation of voluminous traditional (alphanumeric) and nontraditional data sets (images, text, geometric objects, time-series). Examples of such emerging application domains are: Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Multimedia Information Systems, CAD/CAM, Time-Series Analysis, Medical Information Sstems, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and Data Mining. These applications pose diverse requirements with respect to the information and the operations that need to be supported. From the database perspective, new techniques and tools therefore need to be developed towards increased processing efficiency. This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data, and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research, and studies numerous applications of nearest neighbor queries.

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000415216

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The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Pdf

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the neighbor in these neighboring texts and traditions. The figure of the neighbor seems like an innocent topic at the surface. It is an everyday phenomenon, that everyone have knowledge about and experiences with. Still, analytically, it has a rich and innovative potential. Recent interdisciplinary research employs this figure to address issues of cultural diversity, gender, migration, ethnic relationships, war and peace, environmental challenges and urbanization. The neighbor represents the borderline between insider and outsider, friend and enemy, us and them. This ambiguous status makes the neighbor particularly interesting as an entry point into issues of cultural complexity, self-definition and identity. This volume brings all the intersections of religion, ethnicity, gender, and socio-cultural diversity into the same neighborhood, paying attention to sacred texts, receptions and contemporary communities. The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on these traditions.

Author : Franco Cicirelli,Antonio Guerrieri,Carlo Mastroianni,Giandomenico Spezzano,Andrea Vinci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319965505

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The Internet of Things for Smart Urban Ecosystems by Franco Cicirelli,Antonio Guerrieri,Carlo Mastroianni,Giandomenico Spezzano,Andrea Vinci Pdf

The main objective of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary overview of methodological approaches, architectures, platforms, and algorithms for the realization of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE). Moreover, the book details a set of real-world applications and case studies related to specific smart infrastructures and smart cities, including structural health monitoring, smart urban drainage networks, smart grids, power efficiency, healthcare, city security, and emergency management. A Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE) is a people-centric system of systems that involves smart city environments, applications, and infrastructures. SUEs require the close integration of cyber and physical components for monitoring, understanding and controlling the urban environment. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) offers a valuable enabling technology, as it bridges the gap between physical things and software components, and empowers cooperation between distributed, pervasive, and heterogeneous entities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015058782791

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Canadian Journal of Urban Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Harriet BURNEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024023918

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Tales of Fancy. (vol. 1. The Shipwreck. vol. 2, 3. Country Neighbours; or, the Secret.). by Sarah Harriet BURNEY Pdf

Author : Jyotindra Nath Dixit
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : 8121207266

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India's Foreign Policy and Its Neighbours by Jyotindra Nath Dixit Pdf

A collection of authors articles on foreign affairs and India s foreign policy orientations, covering the period from 1994 to the summer of 2001, events analyzed to see their impact on India's interests, intact with the experiences and observations. A valuable reference source for scholars and researchers dealing with India's foreign policy.

Author : Howard Bracey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136244421

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Neighbours by Howard Bracey Pdf

This Volume XIII of twenty-one in a collection on Class, Race and Social Structure. First published in 1964, this text looks neighbour behaviour of new estates and subdivisions in England and U.S.A. The study derives from a survey begun on new housing estates near Bristol, England, in 1957 and continued on a number of new subdivisions near Columbus, Ohio, in 1958 and 1959. The enquiry was designed to study the adjustment of (mainly) urban families to life in new rural urban fringe neighbourhoods.