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Present & Future: Visualising ideas of water infrastructure design
No full textIn redevelopment and redesign of small water structures local water governing institutions are increasingly required to and requesting that the planning processes are set up in a participatory manner. Participatory decision making processes are set up to bring stakeholders with different backgrounds, ideas, experiences and expertise together. Ideally they work collectively towards finding a solution to a problem situation. Because of their differences, stakeholders often have different ideas about the problem situation and about the ways to solve it. Discussions take place and ideas are expressed in words or text as each stakeholder tries to explain his view of the situation and possible solution. The mind, however, is more slowly stirred by the ear than by the eye. From literature about previous research activities in sociology, anthropology and systems thinking it was learnt that pictorial visuals can be used to stimulate participants to take part and strongly contribute to the analysis of the situation. Visuals could provide a better understanding of a subject than words alone could. During this research a methodology called yourScape was developed. It is made up of a number of steps that enable and stimulate stakeholders to make and use two-dimensional, still (non-moving) visuals of their ideas of small water infrastructures at present and in the future. In asking stakeholder to make their own visuals by drawing or making collages yourScape is rather unique compared to other participatory methodologies that use visuals. The research shows that own-made visuals can help stakeholders identify which differences and similarities there are in their ideas of the problem situation and of possible solutions. Through group discussions stakeholders collectively identify and analyse what these differences mean for continued work on redevelopment and redesign of small water infrastructures.Water Resources ManagementCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Erratum to "The perception of emotion and social cues in faces" [Neuropsychologia 45 (2007) 1] (DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.11.001)
No full text[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 45(10) of Neuropsychologia (see record 2007-06958-027). The publisher regrets that in the above referenced Guest Editorial, published in special issue 45/1: The perception of emotion and social cues in faces, one of the author names was represented incorrectly. The correct representation is M.I. Gobbini.
On necrocapitalism: A plague journal
No full textM.I. Asma is the collective designation for six authors from Canada and the United States, representing a variety of revolutionary anticapitalist theoretical persuasions: J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D. W. Fairlane. As the pandemic transitioned from science fiction to reality in early 2020, a number of writers and thinkers in the imperialist metropoles declared the impossibility of writing in the face of a future that is foreclosed. And yet, due to the nightmare that capitalism has been since its beginning, numerous writers and thinkers from the margins have always written in the face of such foreclosure. Meanwhile, other contemporary thinkers sought to conceptualize the unfolding pandemic according to conceptions of bio/necropolitics, forgetting the foundation upon which these conceptions have always existed.
The M.I. Asma writing group came together to stake out a different terrain, thinking through the pandemic as events unfolded while also always working to think beyond the capitalist imaginary. Writing between April 2020 and May 2021, the authors set out to produce a serial theoretical philosophical project focused on class struggle in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors approached the pandemic as an occasion to think capitalism according to what it always has been, what the pandemic reveals about its current ideological deployment, and how we can think about a communist alternative in the face of exterminism.
This book collects, with some revisions and with a new epilogue, the entries from the On Necrocapitalism blog, where M.I. Asma’s interventions first appeared.DC Author's celebration 202
From granulites to eclogites in the Sesia zone (Italian Western Alps): a record of the opening and closure of the Piedmont ocean
No full textThe Sesia zone (Italian Western Alps) offers one of the best preserved examples of pre-Alpine basement reactivated, under eclogite facies conditions, during the Alpine orogenesis. A detailed mineralogical study of eclogitized acid and basic granulites, and related amphibolites, is presented. In these rare weak to undeformed rocks microstructural investigations allow three main metamorphic stages to be distinguished. The inferred P-T path is consistent with an uplift of continental crust produced by crustal thinning prior to the subduction of the continental rocks. In the light of the available geochronological constraints we propose to relate the pre-Alpine granulite and post-granulite retrograde evolution to the Permo-Jurassic extensional regime. The complex granulite-eclogite transition is thus regarded as a record of the opening and of the closure of the Piedmont ocean. -from Author
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