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sj-docx-1-usj-10.1177_00420980231187884 – Supplemental material for ‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-usj-10.1177_00420980231187884 for ‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development by Richard Crisp, David Waite, Anne Green, Ceri Hughes, Ruth Lupton, Danny MacKinnon and Andy Pike in Urban Studies</p
Rewilding Victoria: remembering and restoring nature in the city
No full textTo know what is, you must know what was. This is the simple truth that J.B. MacKinnon explores in his new book The once and future world: nature as it is, as it was, as it could be. The natural world, he argues, has been lost not only to human rapaciousness, but also through a great forgetting. MacKinnon calls on us to examine the nature of the past in order to "rewild" the earth in the future, "The history of nature is not only a lament," he writes."It is also an invitation to envision another world." MacKinnon is the author or co-author of four books of nonfiction, including The 100-mile diet (with Alisa Smith), a bestseller widely recognized as a catalyst of the local foods movement, His writing in print and online has won more than a dozen national and international awards, including Canada's highest prize for literary nonfiction. MacKinnon lives in Vancouver, Canada.Lansdowne Lecture SeriesFacultyUnreviewe
False Idyll
No full textA provocative essay awaits those who peruse prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon\u27s article, False Idyll. MacKinnon posits that many of us romanticize nature as a sacred place ( one of succor and comfort) overlooking that most places visited have been tamed by humans. The absence of real wildness (predators that can kill us) creates an imaginary connection with nature instead of a tangible one. We settle for occasional visits to such sanctuaries and see little purpose in returning to a deeper and more risky engagement:\u27 Thus seeing only nurture in nature reinforces the concept that we are apart and above it
Catharine MacKinnon e o sexo como dominação
No full textThe article discusses the work of feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon and, in particular, her radical rejection of the liberal notion of “consent”. For the author, sexuality is an expression of male dominance; indeed, it reveals itself as “eroticization of domination”. In such society, there is no possibility of autonomous agency for women. We must undo the work of the internalization of dominant values, so that a genuine feminine consciousness can emerge. This is the backdrop of her controversial views on rape, pornography, prostitution or abortion. The article concludes that, while illuminating important aspects of domination, she simplifies in excess the discussion of autonomy in social agency.O artigo discute a obra da jurista feminista Catharine MacKinnon e, em particular, sua recusa radical à noção liberal de “consentimento”. Para a autora, a sexualidade é a expressão da dominação masculina; de fato, ela se revela como “erotização da dominação”. Numa sociedade assim organizada, não há possibilidade de agência autônoma para mulheres. É necessário desfazer o trabalho de introjeção dos valores dominantes, para que uma consciência feminina genuína possa emergir. Este é o pano de fundo das polêmicas posições de MacKinnon sobre estupro, pornografia e prostituição. O artigo conclui que, embora ilumine aspectos importantes da dominação, ela simplifica em excesso a discussão sobre a autonomia na agência social
Urban growth and poverty in mining africa
No full textAfter several decades of economic decline, mining's growing importance in many African economies has been welcomed, but the rate of sectoral transformation from rural agrarian to more urbanised mining economies, has not afforded sufficient time for policymakers to fully appreciate the nature of the developmental processes underway.
This study focuses on the economic, social and cultural change associated with rapid and/or erratic rates of urban growth propelled by mining expansion in three contrasting countries:
Angola (diamonds)
Ghana (gold)
Tanzania (gold/diamonds)
As a prelude to field studies, an international conference will be held to overview the impact of mining on urbanisation in Africa's major emergent mining economies.
Phase 2 encompasses key informant interviews, focus group discussions and surveys in small and large-scale mining settlements to probe miners' migration, earnings, work and living conditions.
Phase 3 involves interviews with national policymakers about their perceptions of mining's influence on urbanization and poverty.
Phase 4 concentrates on dissemination of research findings. A 'Digging Deeper' participatory programme involving youth groups expressing their perceptions of life in mining settlements in various art forms explores the local population's consciousness of their cultural and social identity transformation.
The overall aim is to disseminate knowledge of actual as opposed to rumoured outcomes of mining livelihoods to facilitate the formulation of policies tailored to current realities
The resurrection of the author
No full text81 leaves ; 29 cmIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-81).In The Resurrection of the Author, Daniel Trainor-McKinnon supports a form of intentionalism by arguing that intentions and meaning are metaphysically separate from artworks. This form of intentionalism is what he calls externalist intentionalism, which is the theory of art interpretation that holds that intentions are often relevant (though not always necessary) to understanding artworks. Because it holds this, externalist intentionalism is an adequate response to both the anti-intentionalist objection that artists' intentions are inadmissible in critical examinations of artworks because they are external to those artworks, and the neo-Wittgensteinian intentionalist claim that intentions are internal properties of artworks. A consequent study of allusion shows that some features of art are dependent on intentions for their existence and correct interpretation, while a concluding section examines externalist intentionalism's compatibility with evaluative criticism
A radical guide to feminist thought and feminist law: Catharine A. Mackinnon
No full textTarihsel olarak tüm düşünce akımlarında olduğu gibi feminizm de birçok farklı kola ayrılmıştır. Liberal feminizm, Marksist feminizm, radikal feminizm, farklılık feminizmi gibi birçok farklı bakış açıları bu çatının altında yer almaktadır. Catharine A. MacKinnon, bu kuramlar arasından radikal feminist akımın ilk kuramcısı ve en önemli temsilcisidir. Yazara göre toplumsal cinsiyet, ataerkil bir toplumdaki tahakküm ilişkilerindeki temel ayrım unsurudur. Bu nedenle liberal feminizm, Marksist feminizm veya fark feminizmi kadınların maruz kaldığı tahakküm ilişkisini tam olarak açıklayamazlar ve bu sorunlara uygun çözümlere ulaşamazlar. MacKinnon analizleri doğrultusunda pornografinin yasaklanmasını, tecavüz suçunda manevi unsurun belirlenmesinde kadın bakış açısının kullanılmasını, fuhşun yasaklanmasını ancak kadınların cezalandırılmamasını, cinsel tacizin ayrımcılık yasağına dâhil edilmesini ve kadınların gerçek anlamda kürtaj yapma imkânına sahip olmasını savunmuştur.Historically, as of many intellectual currents, feminism is also divided into many different branches. Many different points of view like liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, difference feminism are situated under this roof. Catharine A. MacKinnon is the first theorist and leading representative of radical feminist current. According to the author, gender is the main distinction factor of the dominance relations in a patriarchal society. For this reason, liberal feminism, Marxist feminism and difference feminism cannot adequately explain the dominance that women are exposed to and cannot come up with adequate means to resolve those issues. MacKinnon, in line with her analyses, proposes to ban pornography, to adopt woman’s point of view in determining culpability in rape cases, to ban prostitution but to not criminalize women, to treat sexual harassment as gender discrimination and to provide meaningful access to abortion to women
Where is the Value-Added in the Cluster Approach? Hermeneutic theorising, economic geography and clusters as a multi-perspective approach
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Phoebus 8: Art at the Close of China's Empire
No full texttableOfContents: Preface p, 9
The Significance of the Nineteenth Century for Modern Chinese History by Stephen R. Mackinnon p.11
Looking at Late Qing Painting with New Eyes by Chu-tsing Li p. 18
Qian Duto ZhangJing The Artist and the Patron by Ju-hsi Chou p. 38
Zhou Xian 's Fabulous Construct The Thatched Cottage of Fan Lake by Britta Erickson p. 67
A Forgotten Celebrity Wang Zhen(1867-1938), Businessman, Philanthropist, and Artist by Hsing-yuan Tsao p. 94
Satire and Situation Images of the Artist in Late Nineteenth-century China by Richard Vinograd p. 110
Painters and Publishing in Late Nineteenth-century Shanghai by Jonathan Hay p. 134
Calligraphy at the Close of the Chinese Empire by Lothar Ledderose p. 189
Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms p. 20
Reconstructing scale: towards a new scalar politics
No full textIn recent years, the dominant political-economic approach to scale has been subject to critique from poststructuralist perspectives. In this paper, I argue that the charge of ‘reification’ has been accepted too readily, masking areas of conceptual overlap between political-economic and poststructural approaches, particularly in terms of their shared concern with the construction of scale. On this basis, I propose to replace the established concept of ‘the politics of scale’ with ‘scalar politics’, arguing that it is often not scale per se that is the prime object of contention, but rather specific processes and institutionalized practices that are themselves differentially scaled
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