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Borders
No full textAn editorial for UoU Scientific Journal #05 on the theme of borders commentating on the breadth of the term (and associated terms) in architecture and urbanism, along with a reflective commentory on the articles in this edition of the journal, for which the author was guest editor
Claiming land, claiming water: Borders and the people who crossed them in the Early Modern Atlantic
No full textClaiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States. The essays collected in this volume model how people can learn to interpret maps as arguments, rather than as historical facts, and to read maps for evidence of people and places that were elided, renamed, or destroyed.
Contributors travel through the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries in the place known by many names: the Atlantic World; the North American continent; borderlands; and homelands. Onto this place where people exercised power over space by forging relationships, colonizers came and imagined borders onto maps. Featuring reproductions of twenty historical maps, the book takes readers through this era of immense disruption to teach them strategies for reading and interpreting these maps critically. Essays attend carefully to water alongside land and land alongside water in search of new interpretive avenues that reframe what we know about space, control, and sovereignty.
By using historical examples of people--farmers, fishers, hunters, religious leaders, colonial projectors, traders, sailors, soldiers, diplomats, and cartographers, it becomes possible to resist the temptation to impose modern geographical constructs backwards onto the histories we read, teach, and write. Claiming Land, Claiming Water investigates why some of these people imagined and made claims to bounded space, and how and why other people confounded and challenged those claims.
Contributors: Sarah Chute, Edward G. Gray, Kim M. Gruenwald, Rachel B. Herrmann, Christian J. Koot, Chad McCutchen, Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, John Morton, Paul Musselwhite, Charles Prior, Karen Rann, Jessica Choppin Roney, Samuel Truett, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Alex Zukas
Multinationals and subsidiaries: A bibliometric study on Ghoshal?s managing across borders
No full textSome scholars? imprint an academic discipline by their contribution to the manner in which we think and research, namely by putting forward novel concepts and insights. In this paper we examine the impact of Sumantra Ghoshal?s work on the study of subsidiaries and multinational enterprises and organizational formats for foreign operations. Specifically we perform a bibliometric study focused on Bartlett and Ghoshal?s well-known book ?Managing across borders: The transnational solution? to assess its impact in international business (IB) research. We examine the entire record of publications in the top leading IB journal: Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). Theoretically supported, Ghoshal?s work was keenly influenced by his corporate experiences and his constant questioning of the dominant theories and assumptions. Our analyses show the impact of the work on the ?transnational solution? namely on the understanding of multinationals and subsidiaries, thus being one of the most notable contributions for IB research over the past twenty years.Sumantra Ghoshal, international business research, bibliometric study, transnational solution, multinational corporations, subsidiaries
Splatter Horror Crime: Crossing Medial Borders in Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman
No full textSalmose offers an informed heteromedial analysis of how cinema has affected the narrative style and form of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø’s acclaimed novel The Snowman (2007), accounting for its commercial and aesthetic achievement. He claims that the crossing between media borders has until now been under-researched in scholarship. Basing his analytical method on intermedial theory and recent work on cinema writing, Salmose performs a close reading of The Snowman that illustrates how Nesbø represents a modern author writing for contemporary readers, incorporating the multimedial landscape that is the reality and the preference of the twenty-first century. The Snowman, argues Salmose, displays extensive mobility, crossing borders of genre, media and focalisation as well as the natural and supernatural in an almost frantic manner.</p
Proceedings Transborder Library Forum 2007 : bridging the digital divide : crossing all borders = Memorias Foro Transfronterizo de Bibliotecas 2007 : cerrando la brecha digital : cruzando todas las fronteras
No full textIt is with great pleasure that we present this edition of the Proceedings of the Transborder Library Forum (Foro). The 2007 Transborder Library Forum was held at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona in February, 2007. We are pleased that there will be both a print edition and an online edition. Editing has been kept to a minimum to preserve the intent of the author in the language the paper was presented. The theme for the 2007 Foro was Bridging the Digital Divide. Topics ranged from international copyright issues to getting information to students in widely dispersed communities with little or no infrastructure except the Internet. While most attendees and speakers were from the USA and Mexico, we also had some from Uganda, Kenya, Hungary, and the West Indies
Habitus and second birth : the development of a model for architect-client relationships in house designs based upon culture shock theory
No full textThe architect-client relationship in the house design process has long been recognised as problematic and complex. The diverse backgrounds and worldviews of architects and their clients can often lead to gaps between expectations and realization. Problems arising from gaps between expectations and realisation can include potential loss of fees, time delay and dissatisfied parties. Within the disciplines of environmental psychology, sociology and architecture it has been identified that architects and clients attribute different interpretations of the built environment. Numerous models have been developed to indicate ways to achieve better architect-client relationships. These models take on a highly optimistic, if not unrealistic view of the situation. It is argued that there is a significant lack of positive models to describe and explain the architect-client relationship through empirical evidence to assist in the understanding of how architects and clients actually behave in real world environments. This research will consider theory from sociology and in particular borrow the concept of habitus to explore the architect-client relationship in the house design process. This theoretical paper aims to develop a model for architect-client relationships, which seeks to explain and describe how and why architects and clients develop different interpretations of architecture and more specifically identify the extent to which such interpretations can change. The conceptual model developed in this paper relies upon culture shock theory to inform potential patterns of change to the habitus. This paper also seeks to develop a research question for future empirical testing. This research has relevance to other more complex architect-client relationships; however, the model is firstly developed for the simplified residential architect-client relationships and will be tested through future empirical fieldwork
Conflict and persuasion in sustainable urban development decision making
No full textThis paper discusses the findings of a research project which was aimed at investigating the policy, process and practice conflicts in achieving sustainable urban developments. A case study method using three regional local government areas (LGAs) located in a state jurisdiction which had recently undergone a change to the approval system provided evidence to document the ‘persuasion movement’ and indicate that the new system is shifting the ground but may not address many of the underlying issues towards achieving sustainable urban development
Towards a Common European Border Service? CEPS Working Document No. 331, June 2010
No full textWhat should be the future institutional configurations of the second generation of the EU’s Integrated Border Management strategy for the common external borders? The Stockholm Programme endorsed by the European Council on December 2009 and the European Commission’s action plan implementing it published in April 2010 have brought back to the EU policy agenda the feasibility of setting up a European system of border guards as a long-term policy vision. This Working Document examines the origins of this proposal and aims at thinking ahead by asserting that any future discussion and study in this context should be refocused by initially addressing two central questions: First, what kind of 'border guard' and what kinds of 'border controls' does the EU need in light of the current EU acquis on external border crossings and the Schengen Borders Code? Second, what would be the 'added value' of any new institutional arrangement at the current stage of European integration? Author Sergio Carrera, CEPS Research Fellow, argues that these questions could presage the establishment of a common European border service aimed at i) guaranteeing a uniform implementation and high-standard application of EU border law and the materialisation of a European approach to external border controls; ii) ensuring the respect of fundamental rights and guarantees in all external border control-related activities; iii) facilitating the (de)politicisation and accountability of external border controls; and iv) addressing issues of solidarity and mutual trust building across the external borders in an enlarged EU
Cyborg work: borders as simulation
No full textMuch recent research has focused on examining various binary contradictions and employing metaphors pertaining to border security. Ultimately, this article argues that existing debates and metaphors are inadequate in describing what is understood and agreed upon in the literature in terms of borders. This article proposes a refinement of existing theory for contemporary borders, employing Baudrillard’s concept of ‘simulation’. The metaphor of the ‘simulated border’ functions to avoid debates surrounding geospatiality while also incorporating aspects of risk society and control in concluding that borders are anything but organic security environments, with the ‘stretched screens’ of border agents serving to produce dividuals that are tested within games of security to govern mobility anywhere in time or space.Peer reviewedFinal article publishedborder securityborderstheorysimulationriskcontro
A Coronavirus Diary across China, India, and the United States
No full textJournal #64 from Media Rise's Quarantined Across Borders Collection by Shaunak Sastry. From India. Quarantined in China.The author documents his life from December through May through a series of diary entries from China, India, and the United States.Media Rise Publications. Quarantined Across Borders Collection. Edited by Dr. Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian
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