Ben Brice
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199290253
- eISBN:
- 9780191710483
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290253.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
The book concludes with a discussion of Coleridge's, Sonnet: To Nature. In this poem, Coleridge artfully blends the two possibilities that either he is writing on to nature — and perhaps defacing it ...
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The book concludes with a discussion of Coleridge's, Sonnet: To Nature. In this poem, Coleridge artfully blends the two possibilities that either he is writing on to nature — and perhaps defacing it in his attempts to provide an adequate verbal equivalent — or that he is faithfully copying the prior, incarnate language of God that he has discovered in the very fabric of nature (an ontic logos). It is argued that this blending of the separable notions of ‘writing on’ and ‘reading from’ the language of nature is consonant with the logos doctrine, which finds in human words a fallen, finite echo of the divine word of God in creation. However, Coleridge is also alert to the possibility that his claimed discovery of the language of God in nature may be only a projected ‘phantasy’ of his own earnest wish to find it there.Less
The book concludes with a discussion of Coleridge's, Sonnet: To Nature. In this poem, Coleridge artfully blends the two possibilities that either he is writing on to nature — and perhaps defacing it in his attempts to provide an adequate verbal equivalent — or that he is faithfully copying the prior, incarnate language of God that he has discovered in the very fabric of nature (an ontic logos). It is argued that this blending of the separable notions of ‘writing on’ and ‘reading from’ the language of nature is consonant with the logos doctrine, which finds in human words a fallen, finite echo of the divine word of God in creation. However, Coleridge is also alert to the possibility that his claimed discovery of the language of God in nature may be only a projected ‘phantasy’ of his own earnest wish to find it there.
Martin Francis
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199277483
- eISBN:
- 9780191699948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277483.003.0050
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It argues that the flyer continues to be held in high esteem because his courage and sacrifice coincided with the last hurrah of the ...
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This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It argues that the flyer continues to be held in high esteem because his courage and sacrifice coincided with the last hurrah of the romance of flight. However, while he had attained rarefied status through his ability to ride above the clouds, in a world still inaccessible and unfamiliar to his contemporaries, the flyer was also grounded in the sensibilities, values, and social fabric of the society from which he came, albeit one that was being violently refashioned by the requirements of wartime mobilisation.Less
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It argues that the flyer continues to be held in high esteem because his courage and sacrifice coincided with the last hurrah of the romance of flight. However, while he had attained rarefied status through his ability to ride above the clouds, in a world still inaccessible and unfamiliar to his contemporaries, the flyer was also grounded in the sensibilities, values, and social fabric of the society from which he came, albeit one that was being violently refashioned by the requirements of wartime mobilisation.
Yannis M. Ioannides
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691126852
- eISBN:
- 9781400845385
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691126852.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter considers the prospect of a deeper understanding of social interactions in urban settings as well as their significance for the functioning and future role of cities and regions. It ...
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This chapter considers the prospect of a deeper understanding of social interactions in urban settings as well as their significance for the functioning and future role of cities and regions. It introduces broader sets of tools for exploring the properties of urban networks, from the lowest microscale up to the highest levels of aggregation. Graph theory, for example, offers a promising means of elucidating the urban social fabric and the interactions that define it, and more specifically the link between urban infrastructure and aspatial social networks. The chapter also compares individuals and their social interactions to an archipelago, a metaphor that offers a picture of the magic of the city. It concludes by emphasizing the interdependence between the creation of cities over physical space, on the one hand, and the urban archipelago and its internal social and economic structures, which are man-made, on the other.Less
This chapter considers the prospect of a deeper understanding of social interactions in urban settings as well as their significance for the functioning and future role of cities and regions. It introduces broader sets of tools for exploring the properties of urban networks, from the lowest microscale up to the highest levels of aggregation. Graph theory, for example, offers a promising means of elucidating the urban social fabric and the interactions that define it, and more specifically the link between urban infrastructure and aspatial social networks. The chapter also compares individuals and their social interactions to an archipelago, a metaphor that offers a picture of the magic of the city. It concludes by emphasizing the interdependence between the creation of cities over physical space, on the one hand, and the urban archipelago and its internal social and economic structures, which are man-made, on the other.
Joseph Almog
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195337716
- eISBN:
- 9780199868704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337716.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter continues the discussion on thinking about the sun. It examines Descartes' principle (D): “No being for a thing in my mind without a causal process inculcating information from it into ...
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This chapter continues the discussion on thinking about the sun. It examines Descartes' principle (D): “No being for a thing in my mind without a causal process inculcating information from it into my mind”. It argues that the principle tends to engender two recurring worries in most students (audiences). First, there is a worry about the fabric (composition) of the sun-traces: what are the sun traces just mentioned thereof? This is the trace-fabric question. The second worry concerns that apparent dismissal of Descartes' one object, two modes principle. This is the representational-role question.Less
This chapter continues the discussion on thinking about the sun. It examines Descartes' principle (D): “No being for a thing in my mind without a causal process inculcating information from it into my mind”. It argues that the principle tends to engender two recurring worries in most students (audiences). First, there is a worry about the fabric (composition) of the sun-traces: what are the sun traces just mentioned thereof? This is the trace-fabric question. The second worry concerns that apparent dismissal of Descartes' one object, two modes principle. This is the representational-role question.
DAVID HARRISON
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199226856
- eISBN:
- 9780191709760
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226856.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter looks at the golden age of stone bridges from the late middle ages to the 19th century. In the early 16th century, the most striking characteristic of major bridges was that most were ...
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This chapter looks at the golden age of stone bridges from the late middle ages to the 19th century. In the early 16th century, the most striking characteristic of major bridges was that most were vaulted and constructed of stone. A large minority were of timber trestle construction. The remaining structures were either brick bridges, or bridges with stone piers and a timber deck. Brick bridges, like most brick buildings, were confined to the south and east of the limestone belt and, in particular, to the east-coast counties. The effects of centuries of constructing bridges with stone vaults can readily be seen by looking at the situation on the River Nene, which rises in the Northamptonshire hills where there is access to good building stone. Masons in pre-industrial England built bridges which, within their technical competence, met the needs of the site. The crucial test of all of these types of bridges is how effectively they performed their function.Less
This chapter looks at the golden age of stone bridges from the late middle ages to the 19th century. In the early 16th century, the most striking characteristic of major bridges was that most were vaulted and constructed of stone. A large minority were of timber trestle construction. The remaining structures were either brick bridges, or bridges with stone piers and a timber deck. Brick bridges, like most brick buildings, were confined to the south and east of the limestone belt and, in particular, to the east-coast counties. The effects of centuries of constructing bridges with stone vaults can readily be seen by looking at the situation on the River Nene, which rises in the Northamptonshire hills where there is access to good building stone. Masons in pre-industrial England built bridges which, within their technical competence, met the needs of the site. The crucial test of all of these types of bridges is how effectively they performed their function.
Bill Kissane
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199273553
- eISBN:
- 9780191706172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273553.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter explores the ideological arguments that justified the Free State's prosecution of the civil war. It shows how heavily they were influenced by the 19th-century liberal conception of the ...
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This chapter explores the ideological arguments that justified the Free State's prosecution of the civil war. It shows how heavily they were influenced by the 19th-century liberal conception of the state as the protector of private property and individual liberty. This enabled them to represent their opponents as enemies of society in their propaganda, and in this they were heavily influenced by the Catholic Church's attitude to the IRA. As IRA violence grew, both concurred that the survival of the moral fabric of Irish society was now at stake. The pro-Treaty government's subsequent failure to covert their military victory in 1923 into long-term electoral dominance is explained by the failure of their economic policies, as well by as their inflexible commitment to the Treaty settlement. Nonetheless, their conception of the Irish state had a long-term impact on its subsequent development.Less
This chapter explores the ideological arguments that justified the Free State's prosecution of the civil war. It shows how heavily they were influenced by the 19th-century liberal conception of the state as the protector of private property and individual liberty. This enabled them to represent their opponents as enemies of society in their propaganda, and in this they were heavily influenced by the Catholic Church's attitude to the IRA. As IRA violence grew, both concurred that the survival of the moral fabric of Irish society was now at stake. The pro-Treaty government's subsequent failure to covert their military victory in 1923 into long-term electoral dominance is explained by the failure of their economic policies, as well by as their inflexible commitment to the Treaty settlement. Nonetheless, their conception of the Irish state had a long-term impact on its subsequent development.
Wahida Shaffi (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424105
- eISBN:
- 9781447302889
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424105.003.0017
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter discusses the story of Akhtar Sheikh, who had the grandest shop on White Abbey Road. Together with her husband, Akhtar had a house in Weston Street, just off White Abbey Road. When she ...
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This chapter discusses the story of Akhtar Sheikh, who had the grandest shop on White Abbey Road. Together with her husband, Akhtar had a house in Weston Street, just off White Abbey Road. When she and her husband opened Sheikh Fabrics, in 1963, they had many customers from London. There were no fabric shops in London then, and people used to go to Bradford to buy it. By the time Akhtar's husband fell ill, they had three shops in Whetley Lane. They had the Kebabeesh Restaurant, Whetley Lane Food Store, and a shop called Chaman Cloth. But Akhtar gave up the fabric shop when her husband had cancer, and eventually, he died. Being financially independent gave Akhtar strength.Less
This chapter discusses the story of Akhtar Sheikh, who had the grandest shop on White Abbey Road. Together with her husband, Akhtar had a house in Weston Street, just off White Abbey Road. When she and her husband opened Sheikh Fabrics, in 1963, they had many customers from London. There were no fabric shops in London then, and people used to go to Bradford to buy it. By the time Akhtar's husband fell ill, they had three shops in Whetley Lane. They had the Kebabeesh Restaurant, Whetley Lane Food Store, and a shop called Chaman Cloth. But Akhtar gave up the fabric shop when her husband had cancer, and eventually, he died. Being financially independent gave Akhtar strength.
Hal Brands
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124629
- eISBN:
- 9780813134925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124629.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter provides an outline of U.S. policy and the conceptual, strategic, and political dilemmas that confronted the U.S. policy makers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It concludes that ...
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This chapter provides an outline of U.S. policy and the conceptual, strategic, and political dilemmas that confronted the U.S. policy makers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It concludes that the foreign policy dilemmas of the 1990s were entwined in the practical and political fabric of American diplomacy.Less
This chapter provides an outline of U.S. policy and the conceptual, strategic, and political dilemmas that confronted the U.S. policy makers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It concludes that the foreign policy dilemmas of the 1990s were entwined in the practical and political fabric of American diplomacy.
Roze Hentschell
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198848813
- eISBN:
- 9780191883187
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198848813.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
St Paul’s Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices is a study of London’s cathedral, its immediate surroundings, and its everyday users in early modern literary ...
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St Paul’s Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices is a study of London’s cathedral, its immediate surroundings, and its everyday users in early modern literary and historical documents and images, with a special emphasis on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Hentschell discusses representations of several of the seemingly discrete spaces of the precinct to reveal how these spaces overlap with and inform one another spatially. She argues that specific locations—including the Paul’s nave (also known as Paul’s Walk), Paul’s Cross pulpit, the bookshops of Paul’s Churchyard, the College of the Minor Canons, Paul’s School, the performance space for the Children of Paul’s, and the fabric of the cathedral itself—should be seen as mutually constitutive and in a dynamic, ever-evolving state. To support this argument, she attends closely to the varied uses of the precinct, including the embodied spatial practices of early modern Londoners and visitors, who moved through the precinct, paused to visit its sacred and secular spaces, and/or resided there. This includes the walkers in the nave, sermon-goers, those who shopped for books, the residents of the precinct, the choristers—who were also schoolboys and actors—and those who were devoted to church repairs and renovations. By attending to the interactions between place and people and to the multiple stories these interactions tell—Hentschell attempts to animate St Paul’s and deepen our understanding of the cathedral and precinct in the early modern period.Less
St Paul’s Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices is a study of London’s cathedral, its immediate surroundings, and its everyday users in early modern literary and historical documents and images, with a special emphasis on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Hentschell discusses representations of several of the seemingly discrete spaces of the precinct to reveal how these spaces overlap with and inform one another spatially. She argues that specific locations—including the Paul’s nave (also known as Paul’s Walk), Paul’s Cross pulpit, the bookshops of Paul’s Churchyard, the College of the Minor Canons, Paul’s School, the performance space for the Children of Paul’s, and the fabric of the cathedral itself—should be seen as mutually constitutive and in a dynamic, ever-evolving state. To support this argument, she attends closely to the varied uses of the precinct, including the embodied spatial practices of early modern Londoners and visitors, who moved through the precinct, paused to visit its sacred and secular spaces, and/or resided there. This includes the walkers in the nave, sermon-goers, those who shopped for books, the residents of the precinct, the choristers—who were also schoolboys and actors—and those who were devoted to church repairs and renovations. By attending to the interactions between place and people and to the multiple stories these interactions tell—Hentschell attempts to animate St Paul’s and deepen our understanding of the cathedral and precinct in the early modern period.
Michael Maizels
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694686
- eISBN:
- 9781452952314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694686.003.0003
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
The third chapter addresses Le Va’s wooden dowel works from the mid- and late 1970s. Deceptively simple in appearance, these arrangements of wooden dowels realized complex measurements of their ...
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The third chapter addresses Le Va’s wooden dowel works from the mid- and late 1970s. Deceptively simple in appearance, these arrangements of wooden dowels realized complex measurements of their installation spaces or constructed Byzantine perspective systems that penetrated the gallery walls and floors. It argues that the dowel constructions use incomprehensible algorithms, mutable measurements, and impossible perspective systems to accomplish a kind of perceptual and cognitive splintering parallel to the earlier material fragmentation of broken glass, thrown flour and ripped fabric.Less
The third chapter addresses Le Va’s wooden dowel works from the mid- and late 1970s. Deceptively simple in appearance, these arrangements of wooden dowels realized complex measurements of their installation spaces or constructed Byzantine perspective systems that penetrated the gallery walls and floors. It argues that the dowel constructions use incomprehensible algorithms, mutable measurements, and impossible perspective systems to accomplish a kind of perceptual and cognitive splintering parallel to the earlier material fragmentation of broken glass, thrown flour and ripped fabric.
Roy Kay
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037325
- eISBN:
- 9780813041582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037325.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter demonstrates the political and social character of figural reading. The figure of emancipated Ethiopia displaces that of defective Ethiopia; physical freedom displaces spiritual ...
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This chapter demonstrates the political and social character of figural reading. The figure of emancipated Ethiopia displaces that of defective Ethiopia; physical freedom displaces spiritual salvation. The figural readings of Psalm 68:31 signify the full inclusion of the Negro within American society and its laws as citizens. Walker's Appeal presents itself as revolutionary instruction for black Americans against white oppression. Harper makes Ethiopia a poetic figure to critique the brutality and inhumanity of American slavery. Her poem, “Ethiopia,” initiates Ethiopia as a literary topic instead of a sacred prophecy. Douglass's reading of Psalm 68:31 furthers the emancipation of Ethiopia. He links emancipation with the acquisition of culture (Bildung) and the eventual weaving of the Negro into America's social fabric.Less
This chapter demonstrates the political and social character of figural reading. The figure of emancipated Ethiopia displaces that of defective Ethiopia; physical freedom displaces spiritual salvation. The figural readings of Psalm 68:31 signify the full inclusion of the Negro within American society and its laws as citizens. Walker's Appeal presents itself as revolutionary instruction for black Americans against white oppression. Harper makes Ethiopia a poetic figure to critique the brutality and inhumanity of American slavery. Her poem, “Ethiopia,” initiates Ethiopia as a literary topic instead of a sacred prophecy. Douglass's reading of Psalm 68:31 furthers the emancipation of Ethiopia. He links emancipation with the acquisition of culture (Bildung) and the eventual weaving of the Negro into America's social fabric.
Boatema Boateng
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670024
- eISBN:
- 9781452946863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670024.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This introductory chapter addresses the ownership and intellectual property protection of adinkra and kente fabrics. It asks: what are the opposing principles of authorship and alienability in the ...
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This introductory chapter addresses the ownership and intellectual property protection of adinkra and kente fabrics. It asks: what are the opposing principles of authorship and alienability in the production of these fabrics? What are the legal implications when these conflicting principles meet? What appropriation practices are found around adinkra and kente, and what are their implications in Ghana’s copyright protections of folklore? Adinkra and kente are among arts that became an important part of Asante culture from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, specifically for the social and economic significance of cloth in Ghana.Less
This introductory chapter addresses the ownership and intellectual property protection of adinkra and kente fabrics. It asks: what are the opposing principles of authorship and alienability in the production of these fabrics? What are the legal implications when these conflicting principles meet? What appropriation practices are found around adinkra and kente, and what are their implications in Ghana’s copyright protections of folklore? Adinkra and kente are among arts that became an important part of Asante culture from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, specifically for the social and economic significance of cloth in Ghana.
Diane Singerman
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774162886
- eISBN:
- 9781617970351
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774162886.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines some of the paradoxes, turf battles, opaque government policies, and weak governance through the saga of one nineteenth-century building in al-Darb al-Ahmar, as one of its ...
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This chapter examines some of the paradoxes, turf battles, opaque government policies, and weak governance through the saga of one nineteenth-century building in al-Darb al-Ahmar, as one of its tenants tries to save the building from the owner's bureaucratic and legal strategy to demolish it and build a new commercial building in its place. It explains the formal history of Cairo. It also addresses the socioeconomic dimension and governance as a missing element. The tale of 5, al-Qirabiya is similar to other dramas that take place on a daily basis in thousands of other buildings in Cairo. Despite the conflict between planning and conservation practices and theories, where Historic Cairo was a battlefield for this conflict, these two concepts, despite their contradictions, agreed on one thing. Planning and conservation came to a silent agreement to ignore and neglect “ordinary” buildings along with their occupants, even though they constitute the urban fabric of the cities.Less
This chapter examines some of the paradoxes, turf battles, opaque government policies, and weak governance through the saga of one nineteenth-century building in al-Darb al-Ahmar, as one of its tenants tries to save the building from the owner's bureaucratic and legal strategy to demolish it and build a new commercial building in its place. It explains the formal history of Cairo. It also addresses the socioeconomic dimension and governance as a missing element. The tale of 5, al-Qirabiya is similar to other dramas that take place on a daily basis in thousands of other buildings in Cairo. Despite the conflict between planning and conservation practices and theories, where Historic Cairo was a battlefield for this conflict, these two concepts, despite their contradictions, agreed on one thing. Planning and conservation came to a silent agreement to ignore and neglect “ordinary” buildings along with their occupants, even though they constitute the urban fabric of the cities.
Neil Brenner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190627188
- eISBN:
- 9780190627201
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190627188.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory, Urban and Rural Studies
The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. How can these ...
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The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. How can these transformations be deciphered? In this book, critical urban theorist Neil Brenner argues that confronting this challenge requires not only intensive research on urban restructuring but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit—the city or the metropolis—and explores the multiscalar constitution, political mediation, and ongoing rescaling of the capitalist urban fabric, from the local and the regional to the national and the planetary. New Urban Spaces offers a paradigmatic account of how rescaling processes are transforming inherited formations of urban life, the role of multiscalar state spatial strategies in animating them, and their variegated consequences for emergent patterns and pathways of urbanization. The book also advances an understanding of critical urban theory as radically revisable: key urban concepts, methods, and cartographies must be continually reinvented in relation to the relentlessly mutating worlds of urbanization they aspire to illuminate.Less
The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. How can these transformations be deciphered? In this book, critical urban theorist Neil Brenner argues that confronting this challenge requires not only intensive research on urban restructuring but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit—the city or the metropolis—and explores the multiscalar constitution, political mediation, and ongoing rescaling of the capitalist urban fabric, from the local and the regional to the national and the planetary. New Urban Spaces offers a paradigmatic account of how rescaling processes are transforming inherited formations of urban life, the role of multiscalar state spatial strategies in animating them, and their variegated consequences for emergent patterns and pathways of urbanization. The book also advances an understanding of critical urban theory as radically revisable: key urban concepts, methods, and cartographies must be continually reinvented in relation to the relentlessly mutating worlds of urbanization they aspire to illuminate.
J. E. Parkinson
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198259893
- eISBN:
- 9780191682018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198259893.003.0025
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter elucidates what the concept of corporate social responsibility entails, explores the extent to which company law is currently a barrier to profit-sacrificing behaviour, and addresses ...
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This chapter elucidates what the concept of corporate social responsibility entails, explores the extent to which company law is currently a barrier to profit-sacrificing behaviour, and addresses whether profit-sacrificing responsibility is actually practised within the existing legal fabric. It begins by presenting some preliminary observations about social responsibility and the separation of ownership and control. It also sets out a formal analysis of possible modes of corporate social involvement. It then examines the current legal position. Finally, the current forms of corporate activity in the social sphere are described.Less
This chapter elucidates what the concept of corporate social responsibility entails, explores the extent to which company law is currently a barrier to profit-sacrificing behaviour, and addresses whether profit-sacrificing responsibility is actually practised within the existing legal fabric. It begins by presenting some preliminary observations about social responsibility and the separation of ownership and control. It also sets out a formal analysis of possible modes of corporate social involvement. It then examines the current legal position. Finally, the current forms of corporate activity in the social sphere are described.
Keith Doubt
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227006
- eISBN:
- 9780823235872
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227006.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter examines the social motive behind ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. The costs of ethnic cleansing were great for both the victims and the victimizers. The ...
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This chapter examines the social motive behind ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. The costs of ethnic cleansing were great for both the victims and the victimizers. The perpetrators destroyed not only the homes, the communities, and the lives of people who had been neighbors, but also the social fabric and cultural conventions upon which they, too, had depended.Less
This chapter examines the social motive behind ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. The costs of ethnic cleansing were great for both the victims and the victimizers. The perpetrators destroyed not only the homes, the communities, and the lives of people who had been neighbors, but also the social fabric and cultural conventions upon which they, too, had depended.
John J. McDermott
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823226627
- eISBN:
- 9780823235704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823226627.003.0019
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter presents an essay on the erosion of moral sensibility. It focuses on the experience of “turning” in people's lives with respect to hope and trust. These ...
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This chapter presents an essay on the erosion of moral sensibility. It focuses on the experience of “turning” in people's lives with respect to hope and trust. These events often transform people's deepest sensibility and they are constitutive of a healing of the preternatural wounds that come with consciousness. It suggests that a baleful type of turning is the personal or cultural systemic kind that results in the undoing of the moral fabric accompanied by a form of spiritual arteriosclerosis and hardening of the heart.Less
This chapter presents an essay on the erosion of moral sensibility. It focuses on the experience of “turning” in people's lives with respect to hope and trust. These events often transform people's deepest sensibility and they are constitutive of a healing of the preternatural wounds that come with consciousness. It suggests that a baleful type of turning is the personal or cultural systemic kind that results in the undoing of the moral fabric accompanied by a form of spiritual arteriosclerosis and hardening of the heart.
Sonya Salamon
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226734125
- eISBN:
- 9780226734118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226734118.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter analyzes the condition of postagrarian countryside in the U.S. It suggests that the development of the postagrarian social fabric represented by the six case studies in this volume ...
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This chapter analyzes the condition of postagrarian countryside in the U.S. It suggests that the development of the postagrarian social fabric represented by the six case studies in this volume raises challenging questions for planners and policymakers on whether to invest in people or places. This chapter argues that it is wiser to invest in people because the rural towns that have better sustained a sense of community are those where people working together have made the difference.Less
This chapter analyzes the condition of postagrarian countryside in the U.S. It suggests that the development of the postagrarian social fabric represented by the six case studies in this volume raises challenging questions for planners and policymakers on whether to invest in people or places. This chapter argues that it is wiser to invest in people because the rural towns that have better sustained a sense of community are those where people working together have made the difference.
Ruth Gay
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092714
- eISBN:
- 9780300133127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092714.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses the state of Germany a half-century after the end of World War II. When the Jews in Germany look back on that half-century, they find it hard to recognize their earlier, ...
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This chapter discusses the state of Germany a half-century after the end of World War II. When the Jews in Germany look back on that half-century, they find it hard to recognize their earlier, displaced, anxious selves in the confident, well-organized community they have built. Yet at the start of the twenty-first century, they also face unexpected problems as Germany's economy has faltered and its social fabric revealed some serious and ugly problems. The Eastern European Jews had a most tentative attitude toward their newly chosen home. That uncertainty, combined with an almost physical resistance to meeting Germans, determined a life with very strict social boundaries. In other words, Eastern European Jews were living as they always did—among themselves. A few lines from the nineteenth-century writer Max Hermann Friedlander convey this atmosphere: “They had learned by experience the great art of living and existing without land or property, without house and home, without rights and freedom, without light and air.”Less
This chapter discusses the state of Germany a half-century after the end of World War II. When the Jews in Germany look back on that half-century, they find it hard to recognize their earlier, displaced, anxious selves in the confident, well-organized community they have built. Yet at the start of the twenty-first century, they also face unexpected problems as Germany's economy has faltered and its social fabric revealed some serious and ugly problems. The Eastern European Jews had a most tentative attitude toward their newly chosen home. That uncertainty, combined with an almost physical resistance to meeting Germans, determined a life with very strict social boundaries. In other words, Eastern European Jews were living as they always did—among themselves. A few lines from the nineteenth-century writer Max Hermann Friedlander convey this atmosphere: “They had learned by experience the great art of living and existing without land or property, without house and home, without rights and freedom, without light and air.”
Stephen Murray
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226191805
- eISBN:
- 9780226191942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226191942.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
Gervase of Canterbury was monk in the Benedictine community of Christ Church, Canterbury, a chronicler and, for a while, sacristan (guardian of the cathedral fabric). He witnessed the dramatic events ...
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Gervase of Canterbury was monk in the Benedictine community of Christ Church, Canterbury, a chronicler and, for a while, sacristan (guardian of the cathedral fabric). He witnessed the dramatic events in the aftermath of the 1170 martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket: the burning of the wooden-roofed choir and the reconstruction of a new “Gothic” edifice under the initial direction of a Frenchman, Master William of Sens. His account of these dramatic events, the Tractatus, written some times afterwards, provides an astonishingly fresh, blow-by-blow account of the sequence of construction. It is here proposed that such precision was only possible through access to written records, fabric accounts. Gothic architectural production was facilitated by the development of an efficient financial infrastructure: Canterbury was a center for the early development of systematic accounting. The polished account of the construction and the authority of the newly constructed-cathedral provided a means to gloss over the dissentions that accompanied the Becket affair.Less
Gervase of Canterbury was monk in the Benedictine community of Christ Church, Canterbury, a chronicler and, for a while, sacristan (guardian of the cathedral fabric). He witnessed the dramatic events in the aftermath of the 1170 martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket: the burning of the wooden-roofed choir and the reconstruction of a new “Gothic” edifice under the initial direction of a Frenchman, Master William of Sens. His account of these dramatic events, the Tractatus, written some times afterwards, provides an astonishingly fresh, blow-by-blow account of the sequence of construction. It is here proposed that such precision was only possible through access to written records, fabric accounts. Gothic architectural production was facilitated by the development of an efficient financial infrastructure: Canterbury was a center for the early development of systematic accounting. The polished account of the construction and the authority of the newly constructed-cathedral provided a means to gloss over the dissentions that accompanied the Becket affair.
