Tag: Place

Free Download J. Scott Bryson, "The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry"
English | ISBN: 087745955X | 2005 | 148 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In contrast to nature poets of the past who tended more toward the bucolic and pastoral, many contemporary nature poets are taking up radical environmental and ecological themes. In the last few years, interesting and evocative work that examines this poetry has begun to lay the foundation for studies in ecopoetics.

Free Download Keith Marley, "The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking"
English | ISBN: 1527518728 | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of documentary filmmaking that becomes the primary focus of discussion within this collection. The majority of the chapters are written by documentary filmmakers who give insight into how poetics have influenced their own approach to documentary filmmaking, while other chapters are written by film scholars who analyse the work of others, in order to uncover how poetics are manifested in existing documentary films. This book will be of interest to those who produce documentary films, as well as those who have an interest in the work of other documentary filmmakers.

Free Download Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism By Mana Kia
2020 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 1503610683 | PDF | 3 MB
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.

Free Download Habitus: A Sense of Place (Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series) By Emma Rooksby, jean Hillier (editor)
2005 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 0754645649 | PDF | 5 MB
Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a ‘sense of one’s place…a sense of the other’s place’. It relates to our perceptions of the positions (or ‘place’) of ourselves and other people in the world in which we live and how these perceptions affect our actions and interactions with places and people. Habitus implies that a web of complex processes links the physical, the social and the mental. Inspired by this concept, this compelling book brings together leading scholars from interdisciplinary fields to examine ways in which spaces and places are constructed, interpreted and used by different people. This second edition contains updated chapter material, together with an entirely new introduction and revised conclusions which recognise the importance of Bourdieu’s work. This publication is a tribute to Pierre Bourdieu’s remarkable contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, geography, political philosophy and urban planning.

Free Download From a Rock to a Hard Place: The 1984/85 Miners’ Strike by Beverley Trounce
English | August 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1803994657 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 22.38 MB
A powerful book collating memories of the Miners’ Strike, encompassing pickets, collieries and communities, forty years on

Free Download Tine Buffel, "Ageing in Place in Urban Environments "
English | ISBN: 1032134666 | 2023 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1358 KB + 8 MB
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other.

Free Download Tine Buffel, "Ageing in Place in Urban Environments "
English | ISBN: 1032134666 | 2023 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1358 KB + 8 MB
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other.

Free Download Christine Gerhardt, "A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World "
English | ISBN: 1609382714 | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson’s and Whitman’s poems about the natural world neither preclude nor erase nature’s relevance as an actual living environment. In their respective poetic projects, the earth matters both figuratively, as a realm of the imagination, and also as the physical ground that is profoundly affected by human action. This double perspective, and the ways in which it intersects with their formal innovations, points beyond their traditional status as curiously disparate icons of American nature poetry. That both of them not only approach nature as an important subject in its own right, but also address human-nature relationships in ethical terms, invests their work with important environmental overtones.

Free Download Claire Baker, "A Sociology of Place in Australia: Farming, Change and Lived Experience"
English | ISBN: 9813362391 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book weaves a social, economic and cultural history of Australia with rare first-hand accounts of the lived experience of change related to farming and agriculture. It provides a rich sociology of how living on the land has changed throughout Australia’s history. The book investigates the complex effects of the state on everyday life, using an historical agricultural case study of place to explore long-running sociohistorical processes of change examined through both a macro and micro sociological lens. This provides a multi-faceted perspective from which to examine economic, social and cultural transformations in each of these contexts and change is examined through multiple sites of expression: public policy and the role of the state; colonial processes of dispossession; social and cultural systems of value; economic change and its consequences; farming practices and lived experience; neoliberalism and globalisation and their social impacts; community decline and trends toward corporate and foreign land ownership. Each of these transformations impact upon lived experience and everyday life and this book provides grounded insight into exactly this relationship and process.

Free Download Carsten Wergin, "Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place: Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier "
English | ISBN: 1793648255 | 2023 | 266 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict. Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, and tourists collaboratively joined forces to successfully oppose the construction of a $45 billion (AUD) liquefied natural gas facility on sacred Indigenous land. Tourism, Indigeneity and the Importance of Place is a close reading of Aboriginal ‘country’ and its living heritage. It follows the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous Tourism experience that would have been destroyed by the LNG project, to offer a timely discussion of the sociocultural and political relevance of heritage and tourism for ecological preservation and the wider decolonial project in Australia and beyond.