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Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands
No full textThis book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region, it provides ‘both sides of the story’ of statecraft and explores how power and influence are being exercised in the Pacific Islands.
Amid escalating strategic competition, the United States, China, Australia, and a range of other partners are trying to exercise power and influence in their Pacific Islands region through their statecraft. But which partners are doing what, where are they doing it, and how are Pacific Island countries and people responding? Through case studies of key examples – such as economic assistance, defence diplomacy, scholarships, and strategic narratives – this book analyses how tools of statecraft are being deployed by a range of key partners and Pacific Island states, and how they are being received by Pacific Island countries and people.
A vital resource for scholars and practitioners in International Relations and diplomacy as well as those seeking to understand how statecraft, power, and influence are being exercised in the Pacific Islands region.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
Future Cities Making
No full textThis open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy with a view to future city missions. It provides a suite of research-informed chapters on urban pathways that are early signals and visions for how future cities can be shaped and transformed as well as chapters from policy, industry and intermediary organization actors that relate and respond to these pathways from a mainstreaming and implementation perspective. This edited collection intends to trigger and capture an ambitious transformative agenda amongst researchers and practitioners who have as their mission to shape urban futures. While there is proliferating literature on cities, urbanism and urban governance, this book offers a unique selling point – implying a research positioning point – to the field of sustainability transitions by intersecting research on urban sustainability transitions and missions-oriented research. The focus on the nexus of game-changers, pathways and innovations sets the book firmly in the leading edge of urban transitions research. The book engages with a breadth of disciplines including sustainability science, urban planning, urban design, mobility, energy, climate change science, urban ecology, urban sociology, architecture, data science, sustainability transitions studies, policy analysis and policy studies, as well as environmental governance. As an output, it aims to engage with and inspire future research and teaching/education in the fields of architecture and urban planning, urban design, environmental governance, sustainability science, innovation studies and urban sociology
Potrzeby osób doświadczających bezdomności w województwie łódzkim
No full textPrzedstawiony w raporcie opis potrzeb osób doświadczających bezdomności opiera się na solidnej i rzetelnej analizie empirycznej (…). Na uwagę zasługuje również fakt, iż autorki raportu, stosując partycypacyjne podejście do badań, traktują uczestników jako „ekspertów przez doświadczenie”. Dzięki temu podejściu badani wnieśli cenne spojrzenie na temat systemu wsparcia, co podkreśla ich rolę nie tylko jako partnerów, ale również ekspertów w kontekście własnych życiowych sytuacji. Takie podejście wzmacnia również poczucie sprawczości uczestników badania (…). Obraz, który wyłonił się z badań, zmienia nie tylko teoretyczne podejście, ale także praktykę wsparcia społecznego dla osób doświadczających bezdomności w Polsce (…). Mocną stroną raportu jest także określenie rekomendacji na podstawie bogatego materiału empirycznego. Raport jest rzetelną, dobrze skonstruowaną publikacją, która wnosi istotny wkład do literatury przedmiotu, szczególnie w zakresie pedagogii społecznej oraz pracy socjalnej. Z recenzji dr hab. Małgorzaty Ciczkowskiej-Giedziun, prof. UWM Publikacja w ramach projektu pn.: „Działanie FELD.10.01 Pomoc Techniczna EFRR na rok 2024” współfinansowanego przez Unię Europejską ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Rozwoju Regionalnego w ramach programu regionalnego Fundusze Europejskie dla Łódzkiego 2021–2027
Gaming the Metaverse
No full textNeal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash conceived of the Metaverse as an escapist medium within a dystopian future. By the early 2000s, his vision had evolved into a blueprint for pioneering virtual worlds, notably Second Life. In the 2010s, technology companies—from Meta to Epic Games—recast the Metaverse as the next frontier of digital experience and revenue generation. Now, in the 2020s, the still speculative concept encompasses a convergence of extended reality technologies alongside blockchain systems and artificial intelligence. The contributors bring together leading scholars and industry professionals to examine past “imaginations” and recent “achievements” in the pursuit of the Metaverse. They trace its development through literary, media, and cultural history while exploring current applications and their technical, social, cultural, and economic implications
Chapter Introduction
No full textDrawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium, a country in the European Union with a long history of immigration and where an important percentage of registered marriages are international. Through the optic of “situated mixedness”, the volume pays attention to the (dis-)connections between intimate diversity and its surrounding environment. Bringing together mutually reinforcing or often contradicting emic and etic perspectives, it illuminates how specific context/s (socio-legal, cultural, temporal, etc.) not only can influence, stem from, or trigger a social phenomenon but also remain standstill without a particular impact on individual’s lived experiences. It brings out in subtle ways the agency and subjectivities of individuals, nuancing thereby common-held views on socially Othered couples. Focusing on the intimate sphere of individuals’ life at the crossroads of anthropology and sociology, the volume contributes fresh insights not only to the study of migration and intermarriage but also to the literature on super- and hyper-diversity. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and social actors working on family-related migration, state policies, and social cohesion
Offentlige eller private velferdstjenester?
No full textFew issues in Norwegian politics are more controversial than the privatization of social services. While some argue that standards of quality increase with a combination of public and private services, others argue that privatization leads to profiteering at the expense of service quality and employment conditions. Debate on this topic has been somewhat irreconcilable.
Public or Private Social Services? Political Pressures and Professional Insights takes the concepts of ‘public’ and ‘private’ and utilizes them through the collection of chapters to address different aspects of social welfare policy. An important message of the book is that the choice between public and private is much more nuanced than the political debate would lead us to believe.Få spørsmål er mer kontroversielle i norsk politikk enn synet på privat produksjon av velferdstjenester. Mens noen argumenterer for at samfunnet oppnår høyere velferd dersom vi kombinerer offentlig og privat tjenesteproduksjon, argumenterer andre for at private aktører i velferdsproduksjon leder til profittjag på bekostning av kvalitet og arbeidsvilkår. Debatten rundt slike spørsmål har vært til dels uforsonlig.
Offentlige eller private velferdstjenester? Politiske spenninger og faglige nyanser tar for seg begrepene offentlig og privat, og anvender dem gjennom et sett av kapitler som omhandler ulike sider ved velferdspolitikken. Et viktig budskap i boken er at valget mellom offentlig og privat er mye mer nyansert enn det den politiske debatten gir inntrykk av
B wie Bildung. 66 bedeutsame Begriffe
No full textDieses Buch ist ungewöhnlich. Es betrachtet Bildung durch die Brille eines einzigen Buchstabens, dem das Leben bereichernden B. In der Konzentration zeigt es, wie vielfältig Bildung sein kann. Es lädt Sie ein, sich auf eine einzigartige Reise entlang von 66 ausgewählten Begriffen zu begeben: angefangen beim Baby über die Bühne bis zur Bushaltestelle. Das Buch geht nicht nur auf kanonisierte Bildung ein, sondern auch auf Begriffe, die Ihr Verständnis erweitern, Ihr kritisches Denken anregen und Ihnen neue Perspektiven eröffnen. Tauchen Sie ein und lassen Sie sich von den B-griffen inspirieren
Public Interiority
No full textPublic Interiority reconsiders the limits of the interior and its perceived spaces, exploring the notion that interior conditions can exist within an exterior environment, and therefore challenging the very foundations of the interior architecture field. Public Interiority contains eight chapters and 16 visual essays that document the historical, material, and social conditions in contemporary cities, reconsidering the limits of the interior, resiliency in design, spatial perception, and territories within curated urban exteriors. Topics include the supergraphics of Black Lives Matter protests, privacy and US Supreme Court landmark cases, Instagram as a quasi-public interior, domestic simulation in Victorian curative environments, the micro-urban commons of public transit, and the timely study uncovering Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s approach to "urban interior designing," among many others. Including scholarly and visual essays by experts from a range of disciplines, including architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, exhibition design, craft and the visual arts, and design history and theory, this volume will be a helpful resource for all those upper-level students and scholars working in these related fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
L’intelligenza artificiale per la conoscenza dell’Architettura. Il rilievo e il monitoraggio della Cattedrale di San Matteo a Salerno
No full textThe monitoring of architectural heritage supported by Artificial Intelligence represents today an innovative and futuristic field of experimentation for the scientific disciplinary sector CEAR-10/A. With this premise, the volume investigates the theoretical and methodological issues underlying the prediction of digital data obtained from three-dimensional survey techniques. In particular, the aim of the volume is to outline an experimental methodology of architectural investigation, which brings together the disciplines of computer science with digital survey, also through the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques.PublishedMarika Falcone (architetto e PhD) svolge attività di ricerca che spaziano dai temi del disegno e della rappresentazione dell’architettura al rilievo del costruito e dell’ambiente. I suoi studi sono incentrati sulle tecniche innovative di rilievo, sui sistemi di predizione dei modelli digitali coadiuvati da applicazioni generative di AI per le metodologie di rappresentazione del patrimonio culturale
Fences and Biosecurity
No full textFences and Biosecurity explores the role of fencing as a mechanism of control, exclusion, and power in the name of biosecurity. While biosecurity is broadly understood as the set of measures taken to prevent the introduction and spread of harmful organisms – thereby protecting humans, animals, and plants – this volume critically examines how fencing has become a key tool in these efforts. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the chapters reveal the ways in which fences, both physical and symbolic, shape social, political, and ecological landscapes.
This volume brings together scholars from different regions to investigate the ways in which biosecurity fencing is deployed across different contexts in Europe and North America. As fencing practices increase in scope and intensity, it becomes imperative to assess their effects – both intended and unintended – on human and non-human life. More than passive structures, fences actively participate in the governance of space, reinforcing borders, and regulating mobility. They embody biosecurity concerns, turning abstract discourses into tangible barriers that impact everyday life. Yet, fences are not merely practical tools; they also serve as powerful symbols of fear, control, and exclusion. While they may provide protection, they also create division, evoking a range of intellectual and emotional reactions and raising questions about their long-term implications.
Fences and Biosecurity highlights how fencing, as a manifestation of biosecurity anxieties, is not only about managing biological threats but also about organizing the world into hierarchies of value. By delineating spatial boundaries, fences impose distinctions between what is considered safe and what is framed as dangerous or invasive. This separation of differently valued species and biological matter is not neutral; rather, it is deeply entangled with political imaginaries, economic interests, and global trade dynamics. Fences facilitate the circulation of capital while simultaneously restricting the movement of certain species and populations, making them instruments of governance rather than mere physical barriers. While fences physically separate spaces, they also reshape cultural understandings of risk, security, and belonging. By shifting the focus from biosecurity as an abstract policy concern to fencing as a material and discursive practice, this volume reveals the ways in which security measures are enacted on the ground