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Urban theory: new critical perspectives
No full textUrban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities.
The introduction outlines the development of urban theory over the past two hundred years and discusses significant theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges facing the field of urban studies in the context of an increasing globally inter-connected world. The chapters explore twenty-four topics, which are new additions to the urban theoretical debate, highlighting their relationship to long established concerns that continue to have intellectual purchase, and which also engage with rich new and emerging avenues for debate. Each chapter considers the genealogy of the topic at hand and also includes case studies which explain key terms or provide empirical examples to guide the reader to a better understanding of how theory adds to our understanding of the complexities of urban life.
This book offers a critical and assessable introduction to original and groundbreaking urban theory and will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, planning, political science and urban studies
The Gardener and the Walled Garden
Get PDFThis chapter explores the close connections between health care and research in a London hospital through Jayne’s - one of the authors – experiences. We are an anthropologist (Sophie Day), a patient with breast cancer (Jayne Smith) and a clinical epidemiologist (Helen Ward) with different positions in this research hospital and different perspectives on experimental cancer care (Day et al. 2021). The first-person plural that we adopt therefore shifts in its referents. The letter from Jayne (below) shows that she wanted to know whether the samples she contributed to several medical research studies were useful and what had come of, and from, them. Strict governance of health data precluded Jayne from finding out herself, but Sophie and Helen had university positions that allowed them to cross garden walls into what are called Trusted Research Environments
Author Profile: Thomas Ward
No full text"I can never resist fresh sushi with a cup of green tea. My greatest achievement has been our three wonderful kids. …" This and more about Thomas Ward can be found on page 4722
2010-2011 Jesmyn Ward
No full textJesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Lines Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. (Photo credit: Tony Cook)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1009/thumbnail.jp
Henry Ward Beecher portrait
No full textRev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and gained a reputation for his oratorical skills. In his sermons, he vehemently attacked drinking and slavery and called for more women's rights. He even convinced his congregations to equip a regiment of soldiers for the American Civil War, along with sending guns to anti-slavery factions during "Bleeding Kansas." His sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tintásüveg: Egy biblioterápiai gyűjtemény margójára
No full textThis article reports on a two-year project, Reading for Recovery(R4R), made possible by the Carnegie-Whitney grant from the American Library Association. The goal was to build a tool with the purpose of facilitating library resources for creative and informal bibliotherapy geared toward people with substance use/abuse problems. In addition to first introducing the results of their work in an article to Hungarian audiences vested tremendously in bibliotherapy, the author wishes to share the difficulties project staff members had to face. Besides issues caused by a major change at the host institution (and out of project staff's control), staff members also had to develop individual strategies to handle the hardship caused by the topic itself. The author, principal investigator of R4R, for example, ended up writing short stories from the material they handled. One example is also included, along with questions to help working with the text individually or in a group setting, such as a book club, a model R4R promotes.Peer reviewedIn Hungarian
Tintásüveg: Egy biblioterápiai gyűjtemény margójára
No full textThis article reports on a two-year project, Reading for Recovery(R4R), made possible by the Carnegie-Whitney grant from the American Library Association. The goal was to build a tool with the purpose of facilitating library resources for creative and informal bibliotherapy geared toward people with substance use/abuse problems. In addition to first introducing the results of their work in an article to Hungarian audiences vested tremendously in bibliotherapy, the author wishes to share the difficulties project staff members had to face. Besides issues caused by a major change at the host institution (and out of project staff's control), staff members also had to develop individual strategies to handle the hardship caused by the topic itself. The author, principal investigator of R4R, for example, ended up writing short stories from the material they handled. One example is also included, along with questions to help working with the text individually or in a group setting, such as a book club, a model R4R promotes.Peer reviewedIn Hungarian
Broad thinking: An interview with Harold Kalant
No full textIn this interview, Dr. Harald Kalant, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, talks about his career in addiction science, his professional associations with E.M. Jellinek, Griffith Edwards and other luminaries, the growth of the addiction field, and the issue of cannabis legalization in Canada, among other things. The interview was made by Judit H. Ward and William Bejarano on May 16, 2016 in Toronto.Peer reviewe
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