Rethinking Villages
Author: Bhaskar Majumder
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9788180697647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at a national seminar held at Allahabad in 2004.
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Whose Global Village?
Author: Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2018-12-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1479856088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Technology myths and histories -- 2. Digital stories from the developing world -- 3. Native Americans, networks, and technology -- 4. Multiple voices : performing technology and knowledge -- 5. Taking back our media.
The Local Museum in the Global Village
Author: Insa Müller
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783837651911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInsa Müller asks how local history museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands, and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking this institution.
Rethinking Japan Vol 2
Author: Adriana Boscaro
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1135880816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.
Japan's Living Politics
Author: Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-07
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1108804993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.
Rethinking Community Resilience
Author: Min Hee Go
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1479804894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone city After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people swiftly mobilized to rebuild their neighborhoods, often assisted by government organizations, nonprofits, and other major institutions. In Rethinking Community Resilience, Min Hee Go shows that these recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and can actually escalate the city’s susceptibility to future environmental hazards. Drawing upon interviews, public records, and more, Go explores the hidden costs of community resilience. She shows that—despite good intentions—recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated existing race and class inequalities, putting disadvantaged communities at risk. Ultimately, Go shows that when governments, nonprofits, and communities invest in rebuilding rather than relocating, they inadvertently lay the groundwork for a cycle of vulnerabilities. As cities come to terms with climate change adaptation—rather than prevention—Rethinking Community Resilienceprovides insight into the challenges communities increasingly face in the twenty-first century.
Rethinking Development in South Asia
Author: Farid Uddin Ahamed
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1527579336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges the way development has been conceptualized and practiced in South Asian context, and argues for its deconstruction in a way that would allow freedom, choice and greater well-being for the local people. Far from taking development for granted as growth and advancement, this book unveils how development could also be a destructive force to local socio-cultural and environmental contexts. With a critical examination of such conventional development practices as hegemonic, patriarchal, devastating and failure, it highlights how the rethinking of development could be seen as a matter of practice by incorporating people’s interest, priorities and participation. The book theoretically challenges the conventional notion of hegemonic development and proposes alternative means, and, practically, provides nuances of ethnographic knowledge which will be of great interest to policy planners, development practitioners, educationists and anyone interested in knowing more about how people think about their own development.
Rethinking Neighborhoods
Author: William A.V. Clark
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-05-02
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1035307944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough neighborhoods are sometimes perceived as just a backdrop to our lives, there is considerable evidence that they are central to our sense of wellbeing, and in the functioning of the city. Rethinking Neighborhoods is about these areas of geography: what we know about how neighborhoods function, why they matter and how we chose where to live.
RETHINK Design Guide
Author: Nicola Gillen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1000318591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world has changed. How will society emerge post-pandemic? Will we take the opportunity to reset the status quo? And, if so, what possibilities are there for architects to take the initiative in designing this new world? This innovative design guide draws together expert guidance on designing in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic for key architectural sectors: housing, workplace, civic and cultural, hospitality, education, infrastructure and civic placemaking. It provides design inspiration to architects on how they can respond to the challenges and opportunities of a post-pandemic environment and how architects ensure they are at the forefront of the best design in this new world. Looking at each sector in turn, it covers the challenges specific to each, and how delivering these designs might differ from the pre-pandemic world. As well as post-pandemic design, the vital issue of climate change will be threaded through each sector, with many cross-overs between designing for the climate emergency and designing for a world after a pandemic. Both seek to make the world a safer, happier and more resilient place. Written by set of contributing design experts, this book is for all architects, whether sole practitioners or working in a larger practice. As well as inspirational design guidance, it also provides client perspectives – crucial for understanding how clients are planning for the future too.
Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons
Author: Valentina Rotondi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-02-20
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 3031233247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes a new approach to economics, starting from the commons and based on the Economy of Francesco (EoF), a worldwide movement of young people who aim to change the current economic models and working towards a fair, sustainable, and inclusive economic system. EoF was convened by Pope Francis and is inspired by the example of St. Francis of Assisi, featuring Franciscan economic roots and institutions, as well as theories of the social sciences. The authors raise and answer several important questions throughout the volume, such as: What if the economic courses taught in the universities across the globe focused their attention on the topics of the commons rather than on private goods? What if social businesses, rather than being considered as a hybrid form of businesses, became the normal approach, and ethical and green finance ruled over the standard financial sector? Is it possible to move away from the primacy of the consumers to the preeminence of ethical consumers who express their preferences for an inclusive, sustainable, and workers-friendly economic system with their daily choices? Using a unique approach, the book includes the contributions of prominent scholars which are integrated and discussed by young international scholars, providing a fresh analysis with a glance of hope for the future. The book is a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of economics and related disciplines interested in alternatives to the current economic mainstream in general, and the Economy of Francesco in particular.
