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Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
No full textPractices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity.
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.
Contributors: Christina Horvath (University of Bath), Maria Roca Lizarazu (NUI Galway), Emilio Maceda Rodriguez (Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala), Naomi Wells (IMLR, University of London), Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin), Gad Schaffer (Tel-Hai Academic College), Daniela Bohórquez Sheinin (University of Michigan), Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá), Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR, University of London), Britta C. Jung (Maynooth University), Emma Crowley (University of Bristol), Mary Mazzilli (University of Essex)
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Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
No full textPractices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity.
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.
Contributors: Christina Horvath (University of Bath), Maria Roca Lizarazu (NUI Galway), Emilio Maceda Rodriguez (Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala), Naomi Wells (IMLR, University of London), Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin), Gad Schaffer (Tel-Hai Academic College), Daniela Bohórquez Sheinin (University of Michigan), Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá), Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR, University of London), Britta C. Jung (Maynooth University), Emma Crowley (University of Bristol), Mary Mazzilli (University of Essex)
Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
No full textPractices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity.
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.
Contributors: Christina Horvath (University of Bath), Maria Roca Lizarazu (NUI Galway), Emilio Maceda Rodriguez (Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala), Naomi Wells (IMLR, University of London), Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin), Gad Schaffer (Tel-Hai Academic College), Daniela Bohórquez Sheinin (University of Michigan), Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá), Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR, University of London), Britta C. Jung (Maynooth University), Emma Crowley (University of Bristol), Mary Mazzilli (University of Essex)
Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)
Land cover of the Galilee region, digitized from the PEF Survey of Western Palestine (1880)
No full textThe Galilee is a region with significant natural and topographical value, including several large protected areas, one of which is Mount Meron (1,208 meters high). The Palestine Exploration Fund Survey of Western Palestine (PEF) was made in 1871-1877 by surveyors from the British Royal Engineer Corps appointed by the Palestine Exploration Fund, a British research society (Conder and Kitchener 1871-1877, Conder et al. 1881). Although we do not know how long it took the PEF surveyors to investigate the study area - Galilee (Israel), we do know that most of the study area was surveyed in 1877, with certain areas in the southern part of the study area surveyed in 1875 (Conder and Kitchener 1871-1877). The scale of the PEF map is 1:63,360 and it shows various landscape features, and uses shading to depict the topography. This map was scanned by the National Library of Israel (Map JB 900A [4] I 1918) at a resolution of 300 dpi. The entire PEF map was already digitized in a previous work (Schaffer & Levin, In press). Nonetheless, for this research proposes we had to generalize some of the classes (reducing the total classes from 18 to 9) so that the land classes on both maps, the PEF and Levés en Galilée will match. For example, three separate classes found on the complete PEF digitized map: 'scrub' 'scattered wood' and 'dense wood' were merged into one class 'Mediterranean natural vegetation' in this layer. Land cover features were digitized as polygons from the PEF map at a screen scale of 1:15,000. Where available, the names of drawn built-up areas were added to its attribute table. We also estimated the 'level of certainty' in which we identified the land cover class of each of the digitized polygons (Grossinger et al. 2007): a definite identification of the class of a feature was marked as 1, a partial identification was marked as 2 and an uncertain identification was marked as 3
AVICENNA AMONG MEDIEVAL JEWS THE RECEPTION OF AVICENNA'S PHILOSOPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL WRITINGS IN JEWISH CULTURES, EAST AND WEST
No full textThe reception of Avicenna by medieval Jewish readers presents an underappreciated enigma. Despite the philosophical and scientific stature of Avicenna, his philosophical writings were relatively little studied in Jewish milieus, be it in Arabic or in Hebrew. In particular, Avicenna's philosophical writings are not among the "Hebraische Ubersetzungen desMittelalters" - only very few of them were translated into Hebrew. As an author associated with a definite corpus of writings, Avicenna hardly existed in Jewish philosophy in Hebrew (contrary to Averroes). Paradoxically, however, some of Avicenna's most distinctive ideas were widely known and embraced by Jewish philosophers. This is the phenomenon that we dub Avicennian knowledge without Avicenna. In contrast with the philosophical treatises, Avicenna's medical writings were widely and intensively studied by Jews, especially in Hebrew, and remained influential until at least the seventeenth century. The present article presents a comprehensive picture of Avicenna's reception within medieval Jewish cultures in both Arabic and Hebrew and tries to explain the Jews' complex attitude to Avicenna.It is a comprehensive historical overview and detailed, with precise reference to all these cases so far examined and the entire bibliography still available, direct and indirect influence exerted by the thought and especially the philosophical and scientific works of Avicenna on Jewish philosophy Judeo-Arabic and Jewish medieval, from 1050 to 1500 or so, in the Mediterranean area
Land cover of the Galilee region, digitized from the Leves en Galilée (LG) map (1870)
No full textThe Galilee is a region with significant natural and topographical value, including several large protected areas, one of which is Mount Meron (1,208 meters high). The Levés en Galilée (LG) map (trans. Surveys in Galilee), was made between May and August of 1870 by two French military captains, Jean-Joseph Mieulet and Isidore Antoine Michel Derrien (Mieulet and Derrien 1870, Gavish 1991, 1994). The aim of these two officers was to construct a new map of Palestine; however, they were recalled to France at the outbreak of the war with Germany (Maunoir et al., 1871). The scale of the LG map was 1:100,000 and it shows various landscape features in great details, including contour lines at vertical intervals of 20 meters. The map was scanned by the National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département Cartes et Plans, GE C-2112) at a resolution of 300 dpi. As the LG map was not accompanied by a legend, after examining it and other historical maps including the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) Survey of Western Palestine, we defined nine broad land cover classes that appeared to represent the drawn features on both the PEF map and LG map. Land cover features were digitized as polygons from the LG map at a screen scale of 1:15,000 using ArcMAP. Where available, the names of drawn built-up areas were added to its attribute table. We estimated the 'level of certainty' in which we identified the land cover class of each of the digitized polygons (Grossinger et al. 2007): a definite identification of the class of a feature was marked as 1, a partial identification was marked as 2 and an uncertain identification was marked as 3
Psychometric properties of the GAD-Q-IV and DERS in older community-dwelling GAD patients and nonanxious controls
No full textRecent research suggests that generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in late life is common (Flint, 2005) and is associated with severe consequences, such as decreased life satisfaction and increased risk of physical disability (De Beurs et al., 1999). Yet, our understanding of this disorder in late life, including knowledge of efficient assessment tools, lags behind our growing knowledge of GAD in younger adults. The current study investigated the psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire for DSM-IV (GAD-Q-IV; Newman et al., 2002) and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004) in a community-dwelling, older adult population. Thirty-seven adults diagnosed with GAD and 37 controls (all age 60 or older) completed the GAD-Q-IV, DERS, and other measures of anxiety and depression. Both measures were assessed for internal consistency reliability, construct validity (convergent and discriminant), and test-retest reliability, all of which indicated good psychometric performance. Receiver operating characteristic analyses suggested that the optimal cutoff for diagnosing GAD in this sample was 3.71, with .97 sensitivity and .92 specificity. However, including only those participants diagnosed with GAD in addition to another Axis I disorder (e.g., social phobia, dysthymia, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia; n = 18), revealed a higher optimal cutoff score (4.42; 100% sensitivity and 92% specificity). ROC analyses also revealed an optimal DERS cutoff score of 62.5, which achieved .76 sensitivity and .86 specificity. Findings from the current study support the utility of an emotion regulation deficit model of late-life GAD, and are discussed in relation to age specific characteristics of worry and GAD.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Alison Mary Staple
GAD and Gender Mainstreaming: A Pathway to Sustainable Development?
No full textIn recent years there has been increased attention to the importance of gender in securing long-term development goals. Consensus has now been reached that increasing the social status and economic capacity of women is an effective way of improving outcomes. The subject of this paper is the viability of the ‘Gender and Development’ (GAD) paradigm as a means of establishing socially and politically sustainable gains for women in developing countries. The author examines the GAD paradigm using the case study of ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ in the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan since 2001. Through an analysis of some of the problems encountered so far, the author questions whether such an approach is likely to actually result in long-term, sustainable improvement in that country. Three key issues include: marginalization of ‘Gender Mainstreaming’; lack of state capacity; and failures to fully integrate programs into social and cultural contexts. Though reconstruction efforts have clearly resulted in some improvement, it is argued that it is unclear whether such an approach will lead to long-term progress. Rather, there is strong evidence that GAD can actually contribute to the further politicization of gender and result in a backlash against reforms. Ultimately, the goals that the GAD paradigm attempts to achieve are extremely difficult to translate into effective practice, especially in highly volatile and politicized situations. In conclusion, the author finds that sustainable and transformative change may be elusive if one simply applies new aims to old models of aid provision
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GAD and Gender Mainstreaming: A Pathway to Sustainable Development?
No full textIn recent years there has been increased attention to the importance of gender in securing long-term development goals. Consensus has now been reached that increasing the social status and economic capacity of women is an effective way of improving outcomes. The subject of this paper is the viability of the ‘Gender and Development’ (GAD) paradigm as a means of establishing socially and politically sustainable gains for women in developing countries. The author examines the GAD paradigm using the case study of ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ in the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan since 2001. Through an analysis of some of the problems encountered so far, the author questions whether such an approach is likely to actually result in long-term, sustainable improvement in that country. Three key issues include: marginalization of ‘Gender Mainstreaming’; lack of state capacity; and failures to fully integrate programs into social and cultural contexts. Though reconstruction efforts have clearly resulted in some improvement, it is argued that it is unclear whether such an approach will lead to long-term progress. Rather, there is strong evidence that GAD can actually contribute to the further politicization of gender and result in a backlash against reforms. Ultimately, the goals that the GAD paradigm attempts to achieve are extremely difficult to translate into effective practice, especially in highly volatile and politicized situations. In conclusion, the author finds that sustainable and transformative change may be elusive if one simply applies new aims to old models of aid provision
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