Tag: Land

Free Download The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology By Alice Beck Kehoe
1998 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0415920558 | PDF | 13 MB
The Land of Prehistory offers a succinct history of the discipline of archaeology in America. The book reveals the nineteenth century bourgeois value system behind the field, its goals and its current condition. Alice Beck Kehoe argues that American archaeology, from the days of Thomas Jefferson to the present, has been shaped by an ethic of Manifest Destiny.

Free Download Danny Keenan, "The Fate of the Land Ko nga Akinga a nga Rangatira: Maori political struggle in the Liberal era 1891-1912"
English | ISBN: 199101628X | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
In the second half of the nineteenth century, settlers poured into Aotearoa demanding land. Millions of acres were acquired by the government or directly by settlers; or confiscated after the Land Wars. By 1891, when the Liberal government came to power, Maori retained only a fraction of their lands. And still the losses continued. For rangatira such as James Carroll, Wiremu Pere, Paora Tuhaere, Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, and many others, the challenges were innumerable. To stop further land loss, some rangatira saw parliamentary process as the mechanism; others pursued political independence. For over two decades, Maori men and women of outstanding ability fought hard to protect their people and their land. How those rangatira fared, and how they should be remembered, is the story of Maori political struggle during the Liberal era.

Free Download Victor Squires, Lu Qi, "Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia: An Integrated and Regional Perspective"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367872668, 1138932167 | EPUB | pages: 310 | 4.2 mb
Greater Central Asia encompasses a vast area that includes deserts, natural grasslands, steppes, shrublands and alpine regions. Many of these land types are degraded and productivity is falling at a time when human populations and livestock inventories are on the rise. Ecosystem stability and biodiversity are under threat and there is an urgent need to develop more sustainable land management regimes. This book uses an integrated regional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of sustainable land development in Central Asia. An interdisciplinary team of experts analyses the economic, ecological, sociological, technological and political factors surrounding sustainable land and water management in the region, sharing potential problems and solutions. As international concern about desertification grows, the book concludes by asking how the region is likely to develop in the future. This book will be of value to scholars, students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in sustainable development in Central Asia.

Free Download Sharing The Earth, Dividing The Land: Land And Territory In The Austronesian World By Reuter, Thomas Anton
2006 | 385 Pages | ISBN: 1920942696 | PDF | 9 MB
This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.

Free Download Qatar the Land of Sports and Events: Human Capital Strategy for Socio-Economic Impacts by Dino Ruta
English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 8831322591 | 240 pages | PDF | 3.69 Mb
Over the last two decades, Qatar has decided to invest in three key assets for its sustainable socio-economic development: sports, events and education. Through Josoor Institute, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ has activated a number of initiatives for people development. As well as organizing a number of major international events, Qatar was entrusted with the organization of the first FIFA World Cup to take place in the Middle East and the first final to be played in December. After an overview from a socio-economic perspective, the book examines the major events hosted in the country and the process that led Qatar to win the FIFA bid. Furthermore, the book highlights the country’ s strong focus on capacity-building and creating a solid legacy through human capital and infrastructure development, which are able to profoundly shape its future. The narrative has been enriched by interviews with and contributions from some of the main players involved in this transformation. The goal is to describe facts and initiatives in an authentic way, highlighting good practice in the field of education, while following a multicultural perspective.

Free Download Derek Hall, "Land"
English | 2013 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 0745652778, 074565276X | PDF | 1,0 mb
Land is one of the world’s most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by combining insights from multiple disciplines to develop a framework for understanding the geopolitics of land today.

Free Download Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation By Eyal Weizman
2007 | 318 Pages | ISBN: 1786634481 | PDF | 21 MB
Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation. Explores Israel’s methods to transform the landscape and the built environment themselves into tools of domination and control.From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian homes into a war zone under constant surveillance. This is essential reading for those seeking to understand how architecture and infrastructure are used as lethal weapons in the formation of Israel."A startling exercise in what it means to think through the axiomatics of occupation, capture and subjection … Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the tools of war." – Achille Mbembe"A wrenching account of the multiple ways in which the land of Palestine has been hollowed out by Israeli occupation. Weizman’s stunning combination of words and images is at once a brilliant critique of the politics of space and a searing indictment of colonial rule and dispossession." – Derek Gregory

Free Download Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It by Erica Thompson
English | December 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1541600983 | 207 pages | PDF | 2.31 Mb
Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits

Free Download Patrick Bresnihan, "All We Want is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism"
English | ISBN: 1529218330 | 2023 | 194 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while enabling new forms of green economic growth. However, the focus on spaces and species to be protected saw questions of human work and histories of colonialism pushed out of view. This book traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers’ and agrarian movements. Many of these movements did not consider themselves ‘environmental,’ and yet they offer vital ways forward in the face of escalating ecological damage and social injustice.

Free Download Chun Sheng Goh, "Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development"
English | ISBN: 9815011642 | 2023 | 380 pages | PDF | 11 MB
"There is an energizing boldness in this synthesis: the right big-picture questions aligning all the way down to the right complexities on the ground, and across the diverse territories that comprise contemporary Borneo. A manifesto for the kinds of cross-sectoral and applied research that can make the difference to the future of Borneo."