Arrival Infrastructures Bruno Meeus, Karel Arnaut, Bas van Heur / Bruno Meeus, Karel Arnaut, Bas van Heur
2018, 20180729, 2018-06-16
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?This volume introduces a strategic interdisciplinary research agenda on arrival infrastructures. Arrival infrastructures are those parts of the urban fabric within which newcomers become entangled ...on arrival, and where their future local or translocal social mobilities are produced as much as negotiated. Challenging the dominance of national normativities, temporalities, and geographies of "arrival, " the authors scrutinize the position and potential of cities as transnationally embedded places of arrival. Critically interrogating conceptions of migrant arrival as oriented towards settlement and integration, the volume directs attention to much more diverse migration trajectories that shape our cities today. Each chapter examines how migrants, street-level bureaucrats, local residents, and civil society actors build—with the resources they have at hand—the infrastructures that accommodate, channel, and govern arrival.
The secular city Cox, Harvey
2013., 20130908, 2013, 2013-09-08
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Since its initial publication in 1965,The Secular Cityhas been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, ...institutional religion, and the place of the secular within society. Now, half a century later, this international best seller remains as relevant as when it first appeared. The book's arguments--that secularity has a positive effect on institutions, that the city can be a space where people of all faiths fulfill their potential, and that God is present in both the secular and formal religious realms--still resonate with readers of all backgrounds.
For this brand-new edition, Harvey Cox provides a substantial and updated introduction. He reflects on the book's initial stunning success in an age of political and religious upheaval and makes the case for its enduring relevance at a time when the debates thatThe Secular Cityhelped ignite have caught fire once again.
Postsecular Cities Beaumont, Justin; Baker, Christopher
2011, 2011-06-01, 2011-06-16
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This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and ...technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual values have returned to the centre of public life, especially public policy, governance, and social identity. Rapidly diversifying urban locations are the best places to witness the emergence of new spaces in which religions and spiritual traditions are creating both new alliances but also bifurcations with secular sectors. Postsecular Cities examines how the built environment reflects these trends. Recognizing that the 'turn to the postsecular' is a contested and multifaceted trend, the authors offer a vigorous, open but structured dialogue between theory and practice, but even more excitingly, between the disciplines of human geography and theology. Both disciplines reflect on this powerful but enigmatic force shaping our urban humanity. This unique volume offers the first insight into these interdisciplinary and challenging debates.
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by
the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to
encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of
...nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of
Germany's many growing cities. Germany's Urban Frontiers
is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of
progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of
German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had so
long defined central European cities disappeared. Through a series
of local case studies including Leipzig, Oldenburg, and Berlin,
Kristin Poling reveals how Germans on the edge of the city
confronted not only questions of planning and control, but also
their own histories and futures as a community.
The Last Indio 1 Crump, Michael
Revista de lenguas modernas,
01/2015
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In the year after her quinceanera, the traditional 15th birthday celebration for girls, Don Juan Carlos Aguero asked her father for permission to court her. Isabel brought the needle and thread and ...many other things as the school year progressed, a loaf of bread from the previous day, pieces of fruit, and at times a plate of left over salsa de carne or pinto covered by a cloth. ...his sister panicked and fled to the school to find Doña Isabel. In 1970, for her sixtieth birthday, Doña Isabel and Don Juan Carlos were invited to the dedication ceremony of a new school.
Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? InThe Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacular" projects to shape state-society relations, but ...rather than focus on the standard approach-on the project itself-she considers the unspectacular "others." The contrasting views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national capitals help her develop a geographic approach to spectacle.
Koch uses Astana in Kazakhstan to exemplify her argument, comparing that spectacular city with others from resource-rich, nondemocratic nations in central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia.The Geopolitics of Spectacledraws new political-geographic lessons and shows that these spectacles can be understood only from multiple viewpoints, sites, and temporalities. Koch explicitly theorizes spectacle geographically and in so doing extends the analysis of governmentality into new empirical and theoretical terrain.
With cases ranging from Azerbaijan to Qatar and Myanmar, and an intriguing account of reactions to the new capital of Astana from the poverty-stricken Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan, Koch's book provides food for thought for readers in human geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, political science, international affairs, and post-Soviet and central Asian studies.
Under Empire Laffan, Michael Francis
09/2022
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An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in
1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles,
enslaved people, and even the men tasked with supervising his
...detention. Nineteenth-century colonial chroniclers invent the
legend of the "loyal Malay" warrior, whose anger can be tamed
through the "mildness" of British rule. A Tunisian-born teacher who
arrived in Java from Istanbul in the early twentieth century
becomes an enterprising Arabic-language journalist caught between
competing nationalisms. Telling these stories and many more,
Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two
centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and
future nation-states around the Indian Ocean world. Under
Empire traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining
engagements with Western, Islamic, and pan-Asian imperial
formations to consider the possibilities for Muslims in an imperial
age. It ranges from the dying era of the trading companies in the
late eighteenth century through the period of Dutch and British
colonial rule up to the rise of nationalist and cosmopolitan
movements for social reform in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Laffan emphasizes how Indian Ocean Muslims by turns
asserted loyalty to colonial states in pursuit of a measure of
religious freedom or looked to the Ottoman Empire or Egypt in
search of spiritual unity. Bringing the history of Southeast Asian
Islam to African and South Asian shores, Under Empire is
an expansive and inventive account of Muslim communal belonging on
the world stage.
This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium. Beginning in the first century CE, the universal claims of ...Hellenistic and Roman imperialism began to be challenged by the growing role of Christianity in shaping the primary allegiances and identities of citizens. An international team of scholars considers the extent of urban transformation, and with it, of cultural and civic identity, as practices and institutions associated with the city-state came to be replaced by those of the Christian community. The twelve essays gathered here develop an innovative research agenda by asking new questions: what was the effect on political ideology and civic identity of the transition from the city culture of the ancient world to the ruralized systems of the middle ages? How did perceptions of empire and oikoumene respond to changed political circumstances? How did Christianity redefine the context of citizenship?
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In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of ...globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari civilizations as case studies, Jennings examines how the growth of the world's first great cities radically transformed their respective areas. The cities required unprecedented exchange networks, creating long-distance flows of ideas, people, and goods. These flows created cascades of interregional interaction that eroded local behavioral norms and social structures. New, hybrid cultures emerged within these globalized regions. Although these networks did not span the whole globe, people in these areas developed globalized cultures as they interacted with one another. Jennings explores how understanding globalization as a recurring event can help in the understanding of both the past and the present.
