This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia. Australian tertiary education has little engaged with Indigenous peoples and their Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and the respectful translation of their Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary education learning. In contrast, wh…
This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsciâ€â€¦
This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and practices across genres and fields to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable theatre production. The book forefronts leading designers that are driving this emerging field into the mai…
Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of th…
This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain. It deals critically with a variety of sociological questions related to cultural production in the city, including geographical segregation as culturally defined in the city; misogyny …
This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China. In recent decades, few studies have explored the significance of geographical factors and the role they have played either in affecting the prevalence of smoking or in tobacco control responses to the smoking epidemic in China. In light of this, the book investigates the importance of national, regional and local…
This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the valu…
This book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace. 'Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace' is the first book that attempts to put these three critical areas together. This novelty approaches the subject matter by delving into evaluating what works, what does not work, and what should be done to achieve healthy cities. We believe this book will be beneficial to a wi…
This book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students, practitioners, and researchers working in related areas. It weaves together sound, visual design, and code across a range of media, p…
This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The …
This book examines men, masculinities and sexualities in Western theatrical dance, offering insights into the processes, actions and interactions that occur in dance institutions around gender-transgressive acts, and the factors that set limits to transgression. This text uses interview and observation data to analyze the conditions that encourage some boys and young men to become involved in t…
This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, providing “thick descriptions” of preservationists that are not available anywhere else in English. It also provides clear answers to a series of pressing questions about preservationists: are they building-huggers, are the…
This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be “people-centered” and concerned about “place-making” in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Successful urban design and placemaking should adopt interdisciplinary approaches to planning and de…
Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women. The author argues that women’s economic empowerment organizatio…
This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow’s canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars—including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens—in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection,…
This edited volume discusses how deeply entrenched gender norms in work environments, even in welfare economies, can affect women’s health in an adverse way. The volume provides a broad overview of contributing factors. It derives specific answers from case studies in Sweden, a welfare state where women’s labour market participation is very high, but where horizontal and vertical gender seg…
This edited volume draws upon work from a wide range of established and emerging international scholars to provide an interdisciplinary analysis of sport’s complex relationship with masculinity. With a particular focus on Latin America, it examines the changing relationship between a range of contemporary sport and sexuality and gender expression, as related to lesbian, gay and/or trans athle…
This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here â€below’ has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and consu…
This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.
In making a policy, the state considers its national interests in relation to the economy, defense, world order and also ideology in order to protect and maintain the physical, cultural and political identities of other countries. Including South Korea in the formation of the New Southern Policy (NSP), which is an effort to increase diplomatic relations between South Korea and Southeast Asia an…
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan Peran World Food Programme (WFP) dalam Membantu Menangani Krisis Pangan di Ukraina akibat invasi militer Rusia di Ukraina. Invasi militer di Ukraina menyebabkan kehancuran, kehilangan nyawa, dan juga krisis pangan di negara Ukraina. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan menyuguhkan data berupa fakta-fakta dengan sumber dari data sekunde…
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa Kepentingan Nasional Tiongkok Dalam The Adddis Ababa-Djibouti Railway Di Ethiopia Dalam Rangka Belt And Road Initiative. Modernisasi The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway dari yang sebelumnya kereta api diesel berubah menjadi kereta api listrik. Penelitian ini menggunaka konsep K.J. Holsti adalah kepentingan nasional. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah…
South Korea and Japan are two countries that have a bad relationship due to the comfort women system. In 2015, bilateral meetings between South Korea and Japan resulted in the 'comfort women agreement 2015' which is believed to be a valid resolution for the settlement of this case. Since the election of Moon Jae-in as President of South Korea, a firm stance towards Japan is a step of South Kore…
Human rights itself is divided into several rights, one of which is the right to women where this right is regulated to protect women from discrimination that occurs and also so that women get the same rights and treatment as human beings. The rights of women themselves are regulated in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which was signed in 1979 …
Comprehensive economic cooperation carried out by Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates, which examines Indonesia's national interests in the Indonesia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IUAE-CEPA) cooperation. The purpose of this research is to analyze Indonesia's interests in Indonesia-United cooperation Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreeme…
BESTUURSKUNDE: Journal of Governmental Studies Volume 1 Issue 1 May 2021, This edition features 6 articles: Kinship Politics in the 2020 Pilkada in Central Java: The Actors Involved and Their Influences, Diniyanto, Ayon; Muhtada,Dani; Sofanudin, Aji Failed Kinship Politics: Three Cases of the 2020 Regional-Head Election in Jambi, Arfan, Arfan; Fadhilah, Sinta Rahmatil; Aminah, Siti …
Predicting the divorce rate is important to be done because the data has a trend in numbers that change every month. So that court officials or social scientists in developing effective strategies to overcome marriage problems, allocate resources, or support families who need counseling, can be prepared in advance, especially at the Religious Courts of South Sumatra in order to reduce the divor…