DesignBuild in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Interrogation
DesignBuild in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Interrogation

Author: Vera Simone Bader

Publisher: Sto-Stiftung

Published:

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3982476917

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In diesem Buch betrachten neun Autorinnen die Lernmethode DesignBuild im postkolonialen Kontext. Anhand konkreter Beispiele wird die handlungsorientierte Vorgehensweise kritisch hinterfragt und evaluiert. Dabei liegt ein Fokus auf den Auslandseinsätzen europäischer und US-amerikanischer Studierender, die in für sie fremden Kulturen ihr frisch erworbenes Wissen aktiv einsetzen. Es werden aber auch Projekte von Studierenden aus Lateinamerika, Asien und Afrika dokumentiert und analysiert, die diese Methode als Experimentierfeld nutzen, um normative Regeln, die häufig noch heute von der Kolonisierung geprägt sind, in Frage zu stellen.

Rethinking Sustainable Cities
Rethinking Sustainable Cities

Author: David Simon

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1447332849

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Sustainable urbanization has moved to the forefront of political debate and policy agendas for numerous reasons. Among the most important are a growing appreciation both of the implications of rapid urbanization now occurring in China, India, and many other low and middle income countries with historically low urbanization levels and of the related challenges posed to urban areas worldwide by climate and environmental change. Conceptualizing urban sustainability for this new era, this compact book makes a clear contribution to the sustainable urbanization agenda through authoritative interventions that contextualize, assess, and explain the importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere: that they should be fair, green, and accessible.

A Theory of the Drone
A Theory of the Drone

Author: GrŽgoire Chamayou

Publisher: New Press, The

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1595589759

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The Parisian research scholar and author of Manhunts offers a philosophical perspective on the role of drone technology in today's changing military environments and the implications of drone capabilities in enabling democratic choices. 12,500 first printing.

God's Property
God's Property

Author: Nada Moumtaz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0520975782

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurfaced as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit organizations. A historical anthropology in dialogue with Islamic law, God's Property demonstrates how these endowments have been drawn into secular logics—no longer the property of God but of the Muslim community—and shaped by the modern state and modern understandings of charity and property. Although these transformations have produced new kinds of loyalties and new ways of being in society, Moumtaz’s ethnography reveals the furtive persistence of endowment practices that perpetuate older ways of thinking of one’s self and one’s responsibilities toward family and state.

New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance
New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance

Author: Ayan Abdulle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9463009507

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This collection of essays generates important enquiries into the teaching and practice of anti-racism education, by way of working through conversations, contestations, and emotions as presented by a diverse group of strong women committed to social justice work in their own right. Throughout the collection, contemporary educational issues are situated within personal-political, historical and philosophical conversations, which work to broach the challenges and possibilities for students, educators, staff, administrators, policy makers, and community members who engage in critical anti-racism education. This work diverges from the existing scholarship by way of bringing new insights to the theoretical possibilities of resistance and futurity as voiced through pedagogues, practitioners and scholars in anti-racism. In this book the authors speak to the importance of anti-racism discursivity in a time when even those who desire to engage this framework struggle to be heard; in a time when there are anti-racism policies in institutions, yet to speak anti-racism philosophy remains dangerous; and in a time when, to speak race and anti-racism, is considered to be stirring up trouble in the face of post-racial discourses.

Anthropocene Back Loop
Anthropocene Back Loop

Author: Stephanie Wakefield

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-08

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781785420719

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We are entering the Anthropocene's back loop, a time of release and collapse, confusion and reorientation, in which not only populations and climates are being upended but also physical and metaphysical grounds. Needed now are forms of experimentation geared toward autonomous modes of living within the back loop's new unsafe operating spaces.

Deutsche Architekten in Grossbritannien
Deutsche Architekten in Grossbritannien

Author: Andreas Schätzke

Publisher: Axel Menges

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783936681758

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In the years after 1933 several hundred architects were forced to emigrate from Germany by the National Socialist dictatorship. Between seventy and eighty of them went to Great Britain--in part, prominent representatives of Modernism like Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Erwin Gutkind, Arthur Korn and Marcel Breuer, but also less well known architects who had adopted very divergent positions. They found the architectural scene in Great Britain to be surprisingly conservative. Only a small circle of architects, clients and specialist journalists was open to modern design and construction methods and stylistic idioms. A few emigrants very quickly and successfully managed to gain a foothold in an environment that was for the most part unfamiliar to them, while for others exile meant a serious break in their career. The book offers an overview of the topic and presents select buildings in detail. Moreover, hitherto largely unpublished documents from the estate of Walter Gropius provide a direct insight into his life and work in British exile.

AA Women in Architecture, 1917-2017
AA Women in Architecture, 1917-2017

Author: Elizabeth Darling

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9781907896910

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Introduction / Elizabeth Darling & Lynne Walker ; Chapter 1: An irresistible movement / Lynne Walker ; Chapter 2: Becoming truly alive / Elizabeth Darline ; Chapter 3: A collection of scimitar minds / Gillian Darley ; Chapter 4: Beyond the drawing board / Edward Bottoms ; Chapter 5: Why are there so few women architects? / Elain Harwood ; Chapter 6: A transnational assemblage / Rachel Lee ; Chapter 7: The antipodean diaspora, 1920-2000 / Julie Willis & Karen Burns ; Chapter 8: Tributaries, flow and an extraordinary alchemy / Rosa Ainley ; Epilogue: Diagram of relative positions / Helen Thomas ; Appendix

The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa
The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa

Author: Kirsten Rüther

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3110601184

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Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. Housing is much more than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Context dependent, it acquires diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants; or be it a means to create good, obedient and productive citizens. Contributions to this volume range from the field of history, to architecture and urban planning, African Studies, linguistics, and literature. The individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring them into dialogue with each other. By doing so, the volume aims to add to the vibrant academic debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.

Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability
Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability

Author: Peter Blaze Corcoran

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 030648515X

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This book challenges universities to rethink their missions and to re-structure courses, research programs, and campus life in terms of sustainability. The author offers valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is explored as an outcome and a process of learning, and also as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation.