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Living Politics in the City
No full textPublic space and performativity from the perspective of architecture In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the explosion of virtual communities through social media and the limitations imposed by pandemics, architecture today still holds an active role in (literally) building our societies. Bearing in mind its acute politicisation in past years, Living Politics in the City looks at public space from the perspective of architecture and its effective contribution, not as a prop but as an actual catalyst for embodying politics. The essays gathered here span five continents, activating various disciplinary approaches to architecture and examining it in different contexts: from a Palestinian refugee camp to the most vibrant urban axis in Sao Paolo, from the numerous city squares around the world crowded with rebellious populations, to the proximal politics of housing in Australia. Contributors: Endriana Audisho (University of Technology Sydney), Maja Babic (Charles University ), Alexandra Biehler (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille), Tracey Bowen (University of Toronto Mississauga), Etienne Delprat (Rennes 2 University), Angelique Edmonds (University of South Australia), Claudia Faraone (IUAV Venice School of Architecture, ETICity), Caterina Frisone (Oxford Brookes University), Catherine Grout (ENSAPL Lille), Pavel Kunysz (University of Liège), Flavia Marcello (Swinburne University of Technology), Eric Le Coguiec (University of Liège), Tova Lubinsky (University of Technology Sydney), Giovanna Muzzi (IUAV Venice School of Architecture, ETICity), Can Onaner (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne), Shadi Saleh (KU Leuven), Frédéric Sotinel (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne), Daniel Talesnik (University of Cambridge), (Karolina Wilczynska (Adam Mickiewicz University), Ian Woodcock (Swinburne University of Technology) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). This book has been made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open
Microfinance in Cambodia
No full textThis book summarizes the history, system, and current situation of microfinance in Cambodia, examining how microfinance institutions have evolved from the 1990s to the present day. It then looks at the remaining challenges for financial inclusion, and the future directions for microfinance institutions in the country. The book begins with an overview of the microfinance sector in Cambodia, covering key events, the regulatory framework, and key stakeholders. It evaluates the role of microfinance institutions in poverty reduction, as well as the current state of financial literacy amongst microfinance borrowers. Reviewing key policies such as the 2017 interest rate ceiling imposed by the National Bank of Cambodia, as well as government measures and programmes aimed at improving household financial literacy and protecting borrowers, the book provides readers with evidence-based insights into current developments and prospects in Cambodia’s microfinance sector. The role and impact of FinTech on Cambodia’s microfinance sector is also explored. Providing a comprehensive picture of the reality of microfinance in Cambodia, this book will interest students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with economic development in Southeast Asia
Ensemble History Matching
No full textThis open-access book aims to formulate the history-matching problem consistently and present state-of-the-art ensemble solution methods. The content aims to help practitioners in the field understand the properties of ensemble methods better when used to history-match reservoir models. The book provides educational information for graduate students and researchers in petroleum, geothermal, and hydrological engineering and sciences. It introduces and explains various algorithms used in data assimilation and parameter estimation, focusing on ensemble methods, particularly the most popular ones in the petroleum community. It discusses challenges associated with these techniques, such as dealing with high-dimensional models, finite number of realizations, parameterization, and handling uncertainties in the observations and model parameters
Advanced and Emerging Marine Engineering Technologies
No full textThis open access book presents cutting-edge research from the 2024 3rd International Joint Conference on Civil and Marine Engineering (JCCME 2024), held in Jeju Island, South Korea. It offers focused insights into advanced technologies in the design, construction, and maintenance of marine structures, the development of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly transportation systems, and the enhancement of safety measures and disaster prevention strategies, including topics such as maritime sensor technologies, coastal mechanics, mechatronics under subsea environments, and strategic maritime planning. This volume aims to address the growing need for innovative solutions in civil and marine engineering, meeting the challenges of sustainability, safety, and efficiency amidst environmental and technological changes. By presenting novel techniques, advanced computational methods, and innovative applications, it sets out to solve complex problems in the field and shape a greener future. Targeted towards researchers, academics, industry professionals, and policymakers in the fields of civil and marine engineering, this book serves as a valuable resource for those seeking to stay abreast of the latest trends, technologies, and solutions in this ever-evolving field
Worlding and Storying Forced Displacement
No full textThe question of how refugees are to be hosted and represented in Europe is not only an urgent one but a persistent one. Drawing on art history, migration studies and postmigration studies, Anne Ring Petersen examines contemporary artistic representations of forced displacement. She argues that artistic and curatorial practices can help foster cultural citizenship among refugees and asylum seekers as well as deepening the understanding of refugeedom in host countries through art’s worldmaking and storytelling capacities. Focusing on Denmark, and including a chapter on Palestine, this study adds new perspectives to postmigration studies and a pioneering exploration of understudied material to art history
Geometry, Gauge, Gravity
No full textGeneral Relativity and Yang-Mills theories are the two pillars of our understanding of the physical world. The fact that the former is a classical field theory whereas the latter are usually presented as quantum field theories, tends to obscure the similarities between them and is often given as a motivation to develop a quantum theory of gravity. In this book we instead treat both as classical theories, putting them on a more even basis. Insisting that the dynamical variables must have a global geometrical meaning exposes their deep common foundations and allows to give precise answers to otherwise vague questions such as whether gravity is a gauge theory. The book contains standard presentations of Yang-Mills theories and General Relativity but covers also several topics that are not very well known, such as the geometry of the Higgs phenomenon, the transformation of spinors under diffeomorphisms, the derivation of General Relativity from the principles of special relativistic field theory
Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
No full textThis book offers an account of the way three threads – music, medievalism and nostalgia – have been woven together in the fantasies of writers and readers, musicians, musicologists, directors and listeners, film-makers and film-goers