This article focuses on the socio-cultural status of barracks women in Nigeria. The study is important, contrary to the thinking that army wives have no history worth studying because of culture, ...environment, and sex stereotypes. The paper argues that since the incorporation of women into the barracks, their roles have been complementary in both empire-building and nation-building. Remarkably, their influence contributed to the construction of social relations and interdependence between the colonisers and the colonised. With the departure of European wives from the colony, indigenous officers’ wives transformed their roles from the private to the public spheres to meet the challenges of nation-building and social change. In this piece, we draw on oral sources, military magazines and literature, qualitative data and Internet sources to highlight the socio-cultural status of women and their involvement in colonial and post-colonial societies. This paper reveals that rank is a factor in women’s involvement in gender and service politics. It concludes that barracks women can improve their status in the social and economic spheres through government empowerment and social investment programmes. This study is limited to barracks women in Nigeria. It will help society to know that barracks women have a history worth studying.
The article discusses architectural and urban diversity of historic barrack complexes from the late 19th and early 20th century located within the borders of contemporary Poland. Origins of the ...building complexes are linked to the operation of three occupying powers and their armies in Poland in the period from the late 18th century until World War I (when Poland regained its independence). Nowadays, different in styles, historic building complexes represent a clear element in the structure of many Polish cities. Since the ancient times, barrack complexes have influenced the shape of spatial development in many cities. “Castrum Romanum” was the spatial matrix of many centres, including in Europe: Cologne, Florence, Budapest and Paris. In the area of contemporary Poland, the barrack complexes from the late 19th and early 20th century influenced to the greatest extent the spatial shape of many cities. Today the post-military complexes absorbed by expanding centres during the last century form in the cities clear enclaves distinctive with ordered urban system and consistent architecture, characteristic for all the complexes. Pejorative connotation of the former invaders’ barracks gave way to a new, post-military identity of the places.
•Deep object-based semantic change detection framework (ChangeOS) is proposed.•ChangeOS seamlessly integrates object-based image analysis and deep learning.•City-scale building damage assessment can ...be achieved within one minute.•A global-scale dataset is used to evaluate the effectiveness of ChangeOS.•Two local-scale datasets are used to show its great generalization ability.
Sudden-onset natural and man-made disasters represent a threat to the safety of human life and property. Rapid and accurate building damage assessment using bitemporal high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing images can quickly and safely provide us with spatial distribution information and statistics of the damage degree to assist with humanitarian assistance and disaster response. For building damage assessment, strong feature representation and semantic consistency are the keys to obtaining a high accuracy. However, the conventional object-based image analysis (OBIA) framework using a patch-based convolutional neural network (CNN) can guarantee semantic consistency, but with weak feature representation, while the Siamese fully convolutional network approach has strong feature representation capabilities but is semantically inconsistent. In this paper, we propose a deep object-based semantic change detection framework, called ChangeOS, for building damage assessment. To seamlessly integrate OBIA and deep learning, we adopt a deep object localization network to generate accurate building objects, in place of the superpixel segmentation commonly used in the conventional OBIA framework. Furthermore, the deep object localization network and deep damage classification network are integrated into a unified semantic change detection network for end-to-end building damage assessment. This also provides deep object features that can supply an object prior to the deep damage classification network for more consistent semantic feature representation. Object-based post-processing is adopted to further guarantee the semantic consistency of each object. The experimental results obtained on a global scale dataset including 19 natural disaster events and two local scale datasets including the Beirut port explosion event and the Bata military barracks explosion event show that ChangeOS is superior to the currently published methods in speed and accuracy, and has a superior generalization ability for man-made disasters.
The physical and cultural patinas of military places are so fixed in the collective memories of New Englanders that well after closure, they remain part of our culture. At times, it may be that some ...military reserve functions remain, some military research is ongoing, or simply that the land, long ago contaminated by fuel or the debris of weapons firing, is permanently off-limits. Other times, it may be the rigid precise layout of the barracks square, solidly built structures, or the placement of historic objects. The fact remains that military bases remain military in the region’s collective memory well after active forces have left. The paper begins with our examination of how New England military installations have been transformed since World War II. There are tens of installations that have been closed or dramati- cally changed since that time. We then determine, analyse and explain the characteristics that resulted in their having a continued military presence. Finally, we summarize our results to date.
Romania’s military infrastructure has undergone significant transformations over time. Periods of expansion and modernization have alternated with phases of reduction and, sometimes, the transfer of ...barracks into civilian administration. These changes reflect not just technological advancements but also the adaptation to the dynamic requirements of national defense.The 2008 infrastructure regulations link the employment duration of military facilities directly to military activity, highlighting the need for a flexible and adaptable infrastructure. In this context, the article examines the legislative framework regarding the amortization of investments, the wear and tear of constructions, and the authorization of works, emphasizing the importance of aligning military regulations with civil ones.In conclusion, the article analyzes the discrepancies between national legislation and military regulations, suggesting revisions and additions to the existing regulations, particularly regarding temporary and semipermanent facilities, to meet the current and future needs of national defense more effectively.
The article, written within the framework of the Russian-Hungarian project “The Architectural Image of the Motherland: Budapest-Petersburg-Harbin”, is devoted to the architecture of fortifications ...and garrisons. In the first, Hungarian, part, the role of fortress architecture in the formation of national identity and (using two examples) the architecture of barracks are reviewed. The main goal of the second, Far Eastern Turkestan, part is to identify the role of garrison towns as a “civilization matrix” that transmits the culture of the metropolis to the outskirts of the empire. In the third part, the topic of fortresses and military settlements is addressed using the example of Port Arthur and the project of “soldiers’ settlements” along the Chinese Eastern Railway.
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A five-story transient instructor and student barracks facility was completed in December by NAVFAC Pacific Resident Officer in Charge of Construction Thailand for the Global Peace Operations ...Initiative, a State Department program that addresses major gaps in international peace operations. The work is a key aspect of Vietnam's efforts to build its capabilities to contribute to international peacekeeping.
Due to social and economic changes at the end of the 20th century the structure of the Hungarian Defence Forces and the number of its functioning barracks have changed significantly. Barracks in ...provincial towns were dismantled after rapid decisions, leaving behind established infrastructure and buildings, many of which still remain unused and dilapidated today. We must therefore find ways to utilise the disused facilities and decrease the environmental damage still detectable around these areas today. I visited the areas with disused barracks all over the country during my several year long research and analysed my experiences. One aspect of my analysis is establishing where the facilities are located and the way the former barracks have been utilised. I then describe past and present difficulties in utilising the facilities. Most towns and villages had no agenda for the utilisation of the barracks and were not in a position to make decisions. In addition, the local governments had insufficient funds to guard, maintain and control the environmental damage of these facilities.
When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." InQuarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political ...history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution.
Quartersunearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing,Quartersreveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation.
Quartersemphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces.
Above all,Quartersargues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.
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