Tag: imaginaries

Life Imaginaries, Environmental Rationality, and Dialogue of Savoirs The Sustainability of Life


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English | ISBN: 1032705698 | 2024 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 873 KB + 25 MB
Shifting from the idea that our current ‘environmental question’ arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on ‘Being’ over ‘Life’―and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus―this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life.

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Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 1789206340 | EPUB | pages: 350 | 3.0 mb
Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginaries and how they operate socially. In tracing the changing fortunes of nationalization movements and the ways in which their efforts were received by mass constituencies, he provides an innovative and compelling account of the historical utilization, manipulation, and contestation of names.

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Drone imaginaries The power of remote vision


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English | ISBN: 1526145936 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 12 MB
There should no longer be any doubt: drones are here to stay. In civil society, they are used for rescue, surveillance, transport and leisure. And on the battlefield, their promises of remote protection and surgical precision have radically changed the way wars are fought. But what impact are drones having on our identity, and how are they affecting the communities around us?

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American Imaginaries Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas


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English | ISBN: 1786609673 | 2022 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean.

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Svalbard Imaginaries The Making of an Arctic Archipelago


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English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 303 Pages | ISBN : 303143840X | 5.3 MB
By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept. It portrays the multiple, situated perspectives that characterize understandings and imaginings of Svalbard, and brings together contributions from academic fields that rarely interact with each other.

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Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India Essays in Critical Perspectives


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English | ISBN: 1666936413 | 2023 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 547 KB + 2 MB
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among other contemporary literary genres that open our eyes to today’s burning issues of global warming, climate change, pollution of air and water bodies, deforestation, and species extinction. The volume addresses the staunch ecological consciousness reflected in Rabindranath Tagore’s writings from the early twentieth century, indigenous responses to ecodisaster, and the portrayal of ecodisaster in selected Indian movies which raise questions of human rights violations in the face of manmade disaster and environmental crisis.

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