the politics of pratising human geography

... about the politics of landscape The question I would like to pose next is: What kind of aesthetic philosophy might best further the cause of an invigorated politics of landscape? Reasserting the ... Anthropology and Geography “SCENOPHOBIA”, GEOGRAPHY AND THE AESTHETIC POLITICS OF LANDSCAPE Fig The hermit by the river’ Source: Published with the permission of photographer Ragnar Axelsson The mean-looking ... rather pusillanimous “scenophobia” The socialization of nature has had the unfortunate side-effect of stifling serious discussion among geographers about the aesthetic politics of landscape There...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination of the sub -human races of the world or the Wnal ... to political agents on the basis of the perceived merits of the values and ends they serve and of their practical Wdelity in pursuing them It is only thus that the breed of ‘‘scurvy politicians’’ ... counts in the formation of moral capital in politics? The answer to this is closely bound up with the nature of the political Weld itself, and how it is possible, despite the diYculties of the terrain,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... in the dominant paradigm of fertility and reproduction, a shift generated by the development of the ‘seductive egg’ theory 119 120 C.R Daniels The ‘seductive egg’ theory The ‘seductive egg’ theory ... gender diVerence generated by the politics of fetal risks, and the problematic nature of the idea of individual causality in discussions of fetal harm Social constructions of maternity and paternity ... from virtually all of the news stories on fetal health and addiction The absence of fathers in news reports of crack babies was made easier to believe by the racial subtext of the story: African–American...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... study, scope of the study, and method of the study are presented The Reason of the study mentions the reason why I choosing this thesis The Aims of the study lists all the aims that the paper has ... achieve The Methods describe the ways with which the study was carried out The Scope of the study clarifies the areas and subjects which was studied The Design gives the outline of the main parts of ... overall look on Human Resource Management, then the overview of Human Resource Management terms The last one is the main part of the study which presents the study on translating Human Resource...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:55

... the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute of the Court, in particular the role of the Security Council, the powers of the prosecutor, the questions of jurisdiction ... terrorism’, the intervention in East Timor, the treatment of refugees, the expansion of the European Union, and the creation of the International Criminal Court In each of these cases the political ... view of ‘law as process’,15 Wheeler shows the limits of the ‘law as rules’ approach and the value of the proposition that communicative dynamics shape the possibilities of politics Although the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... When the lines intersect above the x-axis then Ki < Ki¢, and when the lines intersect below the x-axis then Ki > K 0i (in both instances the lines have to intersect to the left of the y-axis) The ... possibility of the existence of two isoforms of the enzyme as discussed by Toma et al [8] The pH optimum of 8.25 is consistent with previously reported experimentally determined [6] values, and the optimum ... concentration (d) The depicted kynureninase inhibition is expressed as the percentage of the inhibition with reference to the activity observed in the absence of inhibitor Ó FEBS 2002 Recombinant human...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... suggest the critical significance of the politics of healing to the general politics of democracy.15 The Politics of Healing contains five parts The first, “Precursors: The Years in the Wilderness,” ... States was the establishment of the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) within the National Institutes of Health The two legislators with the greatest responsibility for the growth of this office, ... matter of politics These essays therefore represent a purposeful step beyond the traditional boundaries within the historical profession that have separated the study of medicine and the study of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... account of the varieties of institutional form and the nature of the policy area, but the unique features of the American system compound the problem and beg the question of the significance of the ... struggles and the roles of lawyers may adapt to the setting; at another level, the meaning of the law” in practice reflects the meanings brought into regulatory spheres through the practices of interested ... lawyers, with everything that implies for the role of law, construct the politics of the administrative process? These questions lie at the intersection of two key themes featured in debates about contemporary...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank, the Netherlands and the United States since the end of the 1990s The main assumptions underlying the policies, as well as the key ... In economic theory, the increasing prominence of the new institutional economics and the emphasis of information for the functioning of markets has led to a rethinking of the role of the market ... implementation of the CPIA During the negotiations on IDA12 (1999–2002), a major overhaul of the CPR system was undertaken This resulted in the replacement of the CPR by the CPIA and the removal of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:21

... crises of the future – always different from past events – only if they learn from the variety of experiences they themselves and other leaders have had in other types of crisis 1.3 The ubiquity of ... within the organizations that are responsible for preventing the disasters they encounter.14 But the policy makers at the top of these organizations just cannot put together the pieces of the crisis ... surprisingly long period of time On the eve of the German invasion of Holland, in the spring of 1940, Dutch politicians reassured their anxious people that the Netherlands would escape the war threat Dutch...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 11:44

... a new risk politics; on the other it may exacerbate the risk management of everything The example of the UK General Medical Council (GMC) is instructive The official inquiry into the serial murders ... regulation; the invention of the category of ‘operational’ risk to name a diverse basket of threats to organisations; the emergence of the category of reputational (and ethical) risk and the manner ... as amenable to human decision and intervention, rather than being in the hands of the gods.13 As part of a politics of uncertainty, publics of varying kinds demand decisions and the right to hold...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... problem.” In the past, the economic problem, the struggle for subsistence, always has been 50 the primary, most pressing problem of the human race – not only of the human race but of the whole ... cause the economic boom of the 1960s, and together with Lyndon Johnson’s large deficits, they helped cause the inflation of the late 1960s During the 1970s, the inflation already built into the ... economically, so they can take the benefit of increased economic efficiency in the form of more free time for their families and their own interests, rather than in the form of more consumer goods of dubious...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... is on the politics of language and the way these operate in the Spanish-speaking world Grillo (1989:7–21) gives an excellent summary of current definitions of the field of the politics of language ... of intellectuals, usually linked together under the name of the ‘98 Generation, were prominent in their questioning of the fate of Spain, critical of her inability to throw off the failings of ... the case of Quechua in the Incan empire of the Andean region, or Nahuatl of the Aztec empire through parts of Mexico Other major indigenous languages being used at the time of the conquest, often...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 12:55

... of the innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding of the mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they ... practices of the street, these culture workers seek to articulate their experience of themselves as racial(ized) subjects of the state In the representation of crime the discursive alliance between the ... television is on the occupational hazards (or glories) of the legal profession, the character defects of individual criminals, or the fetishization of the technical machinations of the criminal justice...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 00:33

... Taken together, the results of these studies paint a rich picture of the general and the specific, the common and the uncommon, for better understanding the dynamics of decentralization in the forestry ... findings on: the implementation of decentralization; 18 The Politics of Decentralization the role of forestry within the broader political context and the importance of cross-sectoral linkages; the importance ... reluctantly The Politics of Decentralization conclude that they need the help of the government; and the authors of the Guatemalan case present conflict-ridden scenarios with the potential for...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 11:14

... “mistrustful of the whole idea of a ‘general theory’ of employment, of money, of economic enterprise, or of any one of the significant segments of the economic process and still more of the idea that there ... for the underdevelopment of the relationship between policy and theory was the striking lack of interest in theory per se on the part of key CEA figures and, less surprising, on the part of the ... economic theory and by the experiences of the 1930s The second NRPB report, on the other hand, entitled National Resources Development, reflected the experience of wartime mobilization Its view of the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:47

... sight of the human face of the NGO sphere, the individuals who populate it, or their stories The problem with existing models of civil society, and with many critiques of these models, is that they ... and learning about the lives of women in different parts of the world Their commitment to social change and their insights into the effects of socialist collapse on the lives of everyday people ... in the sense that they are used in the Ukrainian lexicon (in of cialese, at least), but they also reflect the influence of processes of globalization on Ukrainian social reforms, especially the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 17:40

... another For, when they gathered together libels and anti-courtly love poems, they likewise forced these two kinds of politics together One could say that the authors of libels did as much on their ... Shakespeare’s sonnets, they turned The Anagram’ into a central example of a genre that they were fashioning themselves 11 The Donne Variorum editors record 62 copies of The Anagram,’ 63 of The Bracelet,’ ... regarding their access to texts; their tastes; their working deWnitions of literary genres, or lack thereof; and their perspectives on recent politics Without necessarily realizing the ramiWcations of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:43

... yet, there have been numerous struggles over it: Can the claims of adult survivors, the testimony of children, or the denials of those accused of offenses be believed? What is the nature of memory? ... contradictions of politics on the ground, and to take seriously the aims and understandings of the activists involved in these social changes (Apostolidis 2008: 546) Therapeutic Politics and the Therapeutic ... We see the use of the term “rape” to describe assaults, regardless of the age of the victim A lengthy article in the Seattle feminist newspaper Pandora in 1974 provides another example of the equation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:50

... symbols politicians employ is the surface rather than the essence of politics (Szeftel 2000b) The corollary of these analyses which see Africans trapped in poverty by their politics and culture is ... in the name of development or in the name of the poor, they face the same criticisms as past colonial rulers: they cannot claim to be representatives of recipient country populations and they ... they have the right to dictate, in practice, the terms of use of that aid, which is done according to their own interests, irrespective of the views of the recipient Thus, in some cases, the priorities...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:23