Tag: Spaces

Free Download Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control By Mark Maguire, Setha Low (editor)
2019 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1479863017 | EPUB | 2 MB
An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. Yet, they both demonstrate dynamics of the interplay between security and space. This book focuses on the infrastructures of security, considering locations as varied as public entertainment venues to border walls to blast-proof bedrooms. Around the world, experts, organizations, and governments are managing societies in the name of security, while scholars and commentators are writing about surveillance, state violence, and new technologies. Yet in spite of the growing emphasis on security, few truly consider the spatial dimensions of security, and particularly how the relationship between space and security varies across cultures. This volume explores spaces of security not only by attending to how security is produced by and in spaces, but also by emphasizing the ways in which it is constructed in the contemporary landscape. The book explores diverse contexts ranging from biometrics in India to counterterrorism in East Africa to border security in Argentina. The ethnographic studies demonstrate the power of a spatial lens to highlight aspects of security that otherwise remain hidden, while also adding clarity to an elusive and dangerous way of managing the world.

Free Download Markov Chains on Metric Spaces: A Short Course (Universitext) by Michel Benaïm, Tobias Hurth
English | November 22, 2022 | ISBN: 3031118219 | 216 pages | MOBI | 25 Mb
This book gives an introduction to discrete-time Markov chains which evolve on a separable metric space.

Free Download Benjamin JJ Carpenter, "The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces "
English | ISBN: 103253902X | 2023 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 952 KB + 2 MB
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space.

Free Download Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell, "The Case for Community in Online Spaces: Taking Back Connection"
English | ISBN: 1666934674 | 2023 | 124 pages | EPUB, PDF | 562 KB + 1266 KB
Many believe that our sense of community is dying as the result of our digitized world. In this book, Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell refutes this claim and presents a case that connection is thriving in online spaces as people share stories, practice vulnerability, and build communities. From memes to Reddit to Facebook, Dunbar-Treadwell offers perspectives that combine relevant scholarship with examples from her research, pop culture, and society. She addresses some of the factors that contribute to disconnection like political division and dehumanization, while also painting a picture of a society that desperately desires connection and may not always know how to find it. Ultimately, this book illustrates how community and connection have changed over time, how they are currently alive and well, while offering some important practical advice for how readers can consider their own choices in online spaces to help them find the community that they seek. Scholars of communication, media studies, and political science will find this book of particular interest.

Free Download Jennifer Ingrey, "Rethinking School Spaces for Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender Diverse Youth "
English | ISBN: 036743573X | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 21 MB

Free Download Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031358465 | 555 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7.4 MB
This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts enabled a more extensive exploration of maritime spaces and global coexistence at sea. The exploration of the sea and the conflicts arising from establishing control over maritime routes demanded a more nuanced distinction and negotiation between State and private efforts. Privateering, for example, became a bridge between the private enterprises and the State’s warfares or trade struggles, demonstrating that the sea required public control at the same time as it enabled private endeavours. Although this tension between private and public interests has been explored in military and economic studies, questions of how the private appeared in maritime history have been discussed only through a particularly merchantile lens. This volume adds a new dimension to this discussion by focusing on how privacy and the private were perceived and created by the historical agents at sea. We aim to move beyond the mercantile "private" as a direct opposite to the "public" or the State, thereby opening the discussion of privacy at sea as a multiplicity of lived experiences.

Free Download Marta Ordon Piotr Stanisz, Micha Zawilak, "Presence of the Cross in Public Spaces"
English | ISBN: 1443899704 | 2016 | 270 pages | PDF | 1132 KB

Free Download Lilian Chee, "Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces "
English | ISBN: 1472454634 | 2023 | 366 pages | EPUB, PDF | 48 MB + 171 MB

Free Download Allison Connolly, "Spaces of Creation: Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature "
English | ISBN: 149853936X | 2016 | 150 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their daughters, including isolation, domestic violence, and single parenthood, often serve to inspire introspection and creative action. In effect, their painful, frustrating existence provides the opportunity-the space of creation-necessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literature-rural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, and spaces of otherness-the monograph uncovers the complexities of mothering and "daughtering" in contemporary Francophone contexts. Through discussion of these spaces, the book attests to a specifically "feminine" transculturality. This vision of diversity acknowledges both the heartening and tragic aspects of life in dynamic, multicultural communities, revealing creative synergies between the literatures of different Francophone diasporas and inviting the reader to reconsider the mother-daughter relationship.

Free Download Derese G. Kassa, "Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City"
English | ISBN: 1498570992 | 2018 | 102 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Kenya has been the third major outlet through which hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan flee from political persecution and for better livelihoods. This book is a commentary of Nairobi as an urban refugee space. It provides an in-depth ethnographic account and analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi focusing mainly on the lived experience of Ethiopian refugees. In addition, the author employs Henry Lefebvre’s work on "right to the city" to explore and qualify whether the literature in urban citizenship can speak to the Kenyan experience. This book is a timely and remarkable addition into the cannon of scholarship in comparative urban studies, African studies, and refugee studies.