Tag: Proximity

Free Download Outi Rantala, "Researching with Proximity: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene "
English | ISBN: 3031394992 | 2024 | 234 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.

Free Download Questioning Proximity – Opportunities and Challenges for Urban Planning and Mobility Policies by Paola Pucci, Giovanni Vecchio
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 128 Pages | ISBN : 3031660706 | 36.1 MB
The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may better frame the actual contribution of proximity to urban and mobility planning in different places. The contributions address the conditions required for ensuring accessibility by proximity and the different planning dimensions that can support its promotion, addressing issues related to the inclusiveness of this model, as well as the scalability and metrics of proximity we need to deal with in several different contexts. The first part of the book introduces some experimental approaches aimed at operationalising accessibility by proximity, while the second part discusses several planning issues related to the implementation of proximity at different scales.

Free Download Proximity Marketing: Converging Community, Consciousness, and Consumption
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1637425775 | 134 Pages | PDF | 2.3 MB
Success factors of the proximity marketing in the context of customer-centric companies synchronized with crowd-based business modeling, co-creation, and coevolution initiatives have been explained through the people-oriented models. This book presents innovative concepts, best practices, and case studies on proximity marketing strategy in the emerging markets and contributes to the new concepts in business.

Free Download Proximity and Epidata: Attributes and Meaning Modification (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services) by Laurie J. Bonnici, Brian C. O’Connor
English | October 27, 2022 | ISBN: 3031170938 | 113 pages | MOBI | 18 Mb
This book provides a new model to explore discoverability and enhance the meaning of information. The authors have coined the term epidata, which includes items and circumstances that impact the expression of the data in a document, but are not part of the ordinary process of retrieval systems. Epidata affords pathways and points to details that cast light on proximities that might otherwise go unknown. In addition, epidata are clues to mis-and dis-information discernment. There are many ways to find needed information; however, finding the most useable information is not an easy task. The book explores the uses of proximity and the concept of epidata that increases the probability of finding functional information. The authors sketch a constellation of proximities, present examples of attempts to accomplish proximity, and provoke a discussion of the role of proximity in the field. In addition, the authors suggest that proximity is a thread between retrieval constructs based on known topics, predictable relations, and types of information seeking that lie outside constructs such as browsing, stumbling, encountering, detective work, art making, and translation.