Sensitive Space
Sensitive Space

Author: Jason Cons

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0295806540

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Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic and historical analysis, Jason Cons argues that these spaces are key locations for rethinking the production of territory in South Asia today. Sensitive Space examines the ways that these areas mark a range of anxieties over territory, land, and national survival and lead us to consider why certain places emerge as contentious, and often violent, spaces at the margins of nation and state. Offering lessons for the study of enclaves, lines of control, restricted areas, gray spaces, and other geographic anomalies, Sensitive Space develops frameworks for understanding the persistent confusions of land, community, and belonging in border zones. It further provides ways to think past the categories of sovereignty and identity to reimagine territory in South Asia and beyond.

Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space
Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space

Author: Suzanne L. Cataldi

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1993-09-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0791498611

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This book philosophically explores the topic of emotional depth. The insights of James J. Gibson and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the nature of perceived depth are compared and then extended to the dynamics of emotional experience and alterations in self-understanding.

Contemporary Majority Nationalism
Contemporary Majority Nationalism

Author: Alain-G. Gagnon

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0773585710

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In light of a renewed interest in the study of nationalism, Contemporary Majority Nationalism brings together a group of major scholars committed to making sense of this widespread phenomenon. To better illustrate the reality of majority nationalism and the way it has been expressed, authors combine analytical and comparative perspectives. In the first section, contributors highlight the paradox of majority nationalism and the ways in which collective identities become national identities. The second section offers in-depth case study analyses of France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, and the United States. This book is an international project led by three members of the Research Group on Plurinational Societies based at Université du Québec à Montréal. Contributors include James Bickerton (St-Francis Xavier University), Ángel Castiñeira (ESADE - Escuela superior de administración y dirección de empresas), John Coakley (University College Dublin), Alain Dieckhoff (Institut d'études politiques, Paris), Louis Dupont (Sorbonne University), Enric Fossas (Unversitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Alain-G. Gagnon (Université du Québec à Montréal), Liah Greenfeld (Boston University), André Lecours (Ottawa University), John Loughlin (St Edmund's College, Cambridge, and Cambridge University), and Geneviève Nootens (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi).

When China Goes to the Moon...
When China Goes to the Moon...

Author: Marco Aliberti

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 3319194739

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This book is about China’s ambitions in its most complex and internationally visible space endeavor, namely its human space exploration programme. It provides a comprehensive reflection on China ́s strategic direction and objectives in space, including in particular those set forth in its human spaceflight programme and analyses the key domestic and external factors affecting the country’s presumed manned lunar ambitions. The objective of the book is to disentangle the opportunities and challenges China ́s space ambitions are creating for other spacefaring nations and for Europe in particular. It therefore includes an in-depth analysis of possible European postures towards China in space exploration and seeks to stimulate a debate on future space strategies in the broader context of world politics.

Niche Tourism
Niche Tourism

Author: Marina Novelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 075066133X

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Examining a fast-growing area of tourism, this book provides an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole, looking both at the 'macro' and 'micro' niche sectors. It has a comprehensive theoretical framework, and discusses initiatives, policies and strategies that have been adopted internationally.

Information Processing in Medical Imaging
Information Processing in Medical Imaging

Author: Alejandro Frangi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-07

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 3031340485

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2023, which took place in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, in June 2023. The 63 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: biomarkers; brain connectomics; computer-aided diagnosis/surgery; domain adaptation; geometric deep learning; groupwise atlasing; harmonization; federated learning; image synthesis; image enhancement; multimodal learning; registration; segmentation; self supervised learning; surface analysis and segmentation.

Recent Research on Environmental Earth Sciences, Geomorphology, Soil Science, Paleoclimate, and Karst
Recent Research on Environmental Earth Sciences, Geomorphology, Soil Science, Paleoclimate, and Karst

Author: Attila Çiner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3031429176

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This edited book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 1st MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul, 2021. With two parts spanning a large spectrum of environmental, geomorphological and geoarcheological topics and a third part on caves and karst, which includes research studies gathered on the occasion of the International Year of Caves and Karst (2021), this book presents a series of newest research studies that are nowadays relevant to Middle East, Mediterranean region, and Africa. The book gives a general overview on current research, focusing on geoenvironmental issues and challenges in environmental management in the Middle East and Mediterranean region and surrounding areas. It offers a broad range of recent studies that discuss the latest advances in geomorphology, landslides, soil science, paleoclimate, and geoarcheology. It also shares insights on cave and karst studies including speleology, cave and karst explorations, geomorphology, hydrogeology, geoethics, prehistoric eras in karst, geotectonics, and the nexus between human activities and karst sustainability.