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Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito, November 1943
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0030.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito, May 22, 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Kazuo Ito to Lea Perry. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0005.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito, November 27, 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_9024.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Letter from Lea Perry to George Ito, October 22, 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to George Ito. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0018.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito, August 11, 1943
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito and family. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0048.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito, November 30, 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0025.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
The River Lea 1571-1767: a river navigation prior to canalisation
No full textPhDIn pre-industrial England river navigations were subject
to improvement by canalisation, the introduction of
artificial navigation cuts and pound locks. Along the Lea
this did not happen until 1767. Before that the navigation,
except for one short period, relied upon a less efficient
technology, the provision of flashes from fishing weirs,
turnpikes and mills. Yet the river was still an important
transport route, particularly for the supply of grain, meal
and malt to London. It had been this during the mediaeval
period, but not by the middle of the sixteenth century. Then
in 1571 the City of London sponsored legislation to construct
a canal from the Lea to London. Parliamentary opposition
thwarted the original ambitious scheme, so two cheaper,
shorter canals were considered, but never built. Instead
an ambitious and unique river improvement scheme was
successfully implemented. This experimental navigation
(reducing reliance on flashes to a minimum) survived 20
years, before persistent and violent opposition from land
carriers closed it. A Star Chamber case upheld the rights
of the bargemen, but the experimental navigation was not
restored. Instead the traditional flash-lock navigation
re-appeared, and was to last, with only minor improvementg
until 1767. In the intervening years the navigation
continued to expand and prosper., This despite the admitted
problems of relying on flashes and tides, and despite a
series of major disputes with the New River Companyq the
millers, fishermen and riparian land-owners. Conflict there
certainly was, but also compromise. Ultimately all parties
were prepared to accept the conflicting rights of other
users, provided they could defend their own. commissions
of Sewers provided an effective administrative forum to
effect and authorise such compromise, even after the
appointment of a body of Trustees in 1739. That the Lea
was an adequate navigation before canalisation, despite
a 'second-best' technology and an unpaid part-time administrative
structure means' that a valid comparison with the
concept of Appropiate Technology, discussed in modern-day
development theory, is possible
Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito and family, November 16, 1943
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito and family. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0052.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
An institutional perspective on sustainability transitions
No full textThis chapter introduces an institutional perspective on sustainability transitions. Sustainability transitions entail the destabilization and de-institutionalization of existing socio-technical regimes in various industries and the creation and diffusion, hence institutionalization, of new, potentially more sustainable socio-technical configurations. Institutional theory thus provides excellent insights into such processes of institutional change, explaining both the durability of current regimes as well as sources of innovation and change. The chapter reviews some of the basic assumptions in research on sustainability transitions and discusses their relationship with and consequences for processes of institutional change. It also outlines different avenues of research in institutional theory that offer fruitful explanations for transition dynamics – for example, organizational fields, institutional logics, institutional work or institutional complexity
A discursive perspective on socio-technical sustainability transitions : insights from the German packaging sector
No full textTo secure satisfying and sustainable livelihoods for current and future generations, changing modes of production and consumption are crucial, requiring multi-faceted and deep-structural socio-technical shifts in society. So far, transition research has mainly focused on the technological, institutional, and behavioral side of transitions and explored some promising attempts to include the normative dimension in its analyses as well. Nevertheless, a more structured exchange with interpretative discourse analysis to address the role of discursive elements and dynamics in transitions is missing. Consequently, this dissertation provides a discursive perspective on socio-technical sustainability transitions, using insights from the German packaging sector and its transition towards a sustainable circular economy. Overall, this conceptualization provides insights into the stabilizing and enabling discursive dynamics, shaping the directionality, potential, and disruptiveness of transition processes. In this way, the discursive perspective (1) helps to deconstruct the underlying values and assumptions of a socio-technical configuration, (2) to illuminate discourse sources of resistance that otherwise would have remained hidden, (3) provide a differentiated understanding of the necessary changes for sustainability, and (4) enhance the understanding of the role of incumbent actors in transition processes. Next to these conceptual contributions, the dissertation also offers methodological enhancements and hands-on approaches and tools to assess the normative dimension in transitions. More specifically, (5) it adapted various discursive approaches and tools for a socio-technical setting, (6) guides the analysis of discursive lock-in mechanisms next and in relation to its material, institutional, and behavioral counterparts, and (7) presents an approach to assess the potential and disruptiveness of current and future interventions for sustainability. Empirically, this dissertation provides various insights and explanations for the gap between ambition and practice of transition processes in the German packaging sector, disentangling the complex dynamics and providing an extensive knowledge base on the variety of actors, core problems, visions, and proposed interventions. Based on these findings, the dissertation holds three implications necessary for successful transition-making in the German packaging sector and beyond. To achieve a transition towards a sustainable circular economy, (1) discussions on the desired directionality of this transition need to be enabled, (2) interventions need to be targeted at overcoming resistance to change, and (3) shift their focus from shallow to deep system change
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