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Graham, Gary, Rashid Mehmood y Eve Coles. "Exploring future cityscapes through urban logistics prototyping: a technical viewpoint". Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 20, n.º 3 (11 de mayo de 2015): 341–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/scm-05-2014-0169.
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Purpose – The purpose of this technical viewpoint is to provide a commentary of how we went about using logistics prototyping as a method to engage citizens, science fiction (SF) writers and small- to medium- sized enterprises (SME’s). Six urban logistic prototypes built on the themes of future cities, community resilience and urban supply chain management (SCM) are summarized, together with details of the data collection procedure and the methodological challenges encountered. Our investigation aimed to explore the potential of logistics prototyping to develop “user-driven” and “SME” approaches to future city design and urban supply chain decision-making. Design/methodology/approach – This Boston field experiment was a case study investigation conducted between May and August 2013. Qualitative data was collected using a “mixed-method” approach combining together focus groups (MIT faculty), scenarios, prototyping workshops, interviews and document analysis. These story-creators could use the prototype method as a way of testing their hypotheses, theories and constrained speculations with regard to specified future city and urban supply chain scenarios. Findings – This viewpoint suggests that the prototyping method allows for unique individual perspectives on future city planning and urban supply chain design. This work also attempts to demonstrate that prototyping can create sufficiently cogent environments for future city and urban SCM theories to be both detected and analysed therein. Although this is an experimental field of the SCM theory building, more conventional theories could also be “tested” in the same manner. Research limitations/implications – By embedding logistics prototyping within a mixed method approach, we might be criticized as constraining its capability to map out the future – that its potential to be flexible and imaginative are held back by the equal weighting given to the more conventional component. In basing our case study within one city then this might be seen as limiting the complexity of the empirical context – however, the situation within different cities is inherently complex. Case studies also attract criticism on the grounds of not being representative; in this situation, they might be criticized as imperfect indicators of what transpires in other situations. However, this technical viewpoint suggests that in spite of its limitations, prototyping facilitates an imaginative and creative approach to theory generation and concept building. Practical implications – The methodology allows everyday citizens and SME’s to develop user-driven foresight and planning scenarios with city strategists’ and urban logistic designers. It facilitates much broader stakeholder involvement in city and urban supply chain policymaking, than current “quantitative” approaches. Social implications – Logistics fiction prototyping provides a democratic approach to future city planning and urban supply chain design. It involves collectively imagining socio-technical futures and second-order sociological effects through the writing of SF narratives or building “design fictions”. Originality/value – Decision-making in future cities and urban SCM is often a notable challenge, balancing the varying needs and claims of multiple stakeholders, while negotiating an acceptable trade-off between their competing claims. Engagement with stakeholders and active encouragement of stakeholder participation in the supply chain aspects of future cities is increasingly a feature of twenty-first century social decision-making. This viewpoint suggests that the prototyping method allows for unique individual perspectives on future city planning and urban supply chain design. This work also attempts to demonstrate that prototyping can create sufficiently cogent environments for future city and the urban SCM theories to be both detected and analysed therein. Although this is an experimental field of SCM theory building, more conventional theories could also be “tested” in the same manner.
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Ershova, Irina V. "Commenting on medieval chronicles: Between fiction and truth (on the material of the “History of Spain”, 13th century)". Shagi / Steps 10, n.º 2 (2024): 296–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-296-309.
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The present article is devoted to the problem of commenting on medieval chronicles (on the example of the Old Spanish Estoria de España by Alfonso X the Wise, 13th с.) and the need not only to search for the sources of certain large and small stories, but also to explain the choice of words, naming, and the mechanism of putting together various stories from the point of view of the problem of truth/fiction (verdad /fabula) in the perception of the medieval chronicler, for whom an important goal is to present his story as truth and to make it compelling for the listener and reader. As an example, we examine the well-known chronicle story about the genealogy of the Huns (Jordan, St. Jerome, Sigebert of Gembloux), refined and edited by the editors of the Spanish chronicle, as well as two etiological legends about the origin of significant toponyms and the founding of the most important cities of Spain (the legend of the marriage of Liberia, daughter of Span; the legend of King Rocas). The studied stories have shown that the task of creating a reliable story is achieved either by deliberately creating a new, unknown narrative (the stories of Liberia and Rocas) without a clearly identifiable source, or by consciously clarifying and changing traditional information (satyrs as progenitors of the Huns).
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Vedenin, Yu A. "Cultural and geographical approach to study literary journeys". Heritage and Modern Times 5, n.º 3 (27 de enero de 2023): 232–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.52883/2619-0214-2022-5-3-232-257.
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This article regards a literary journey as a representation of the diversity of the world, perceived by a person in the process of his physical or virtual movement in geographical space, conveyed in literary form. One of the most important grounds for the typology of literary journeys is the idea of relationship between real and fictional subjects and objects included by the writer in his narrative. According to the relationship between reality and fiction, literary journey is divided into four main types: real travel in the real world; composed (invented) journey in the real world; a fictional (invented) journey in a quasi-real world; a fictionalized journey through a fantasy world. Literary journeys differ in their volume, nature and variety of information contained in them - from travel diaries, which indicate the time and place of stay on the route, the nature of the activity is fixed, a brief description of natural and cultural landscapes, cities and villages is given to literary works, which present author's interpretation of information about real and fictional objects, events, characters that the author or his characters have to deal with during the journey. Among the most important characteristics that can be taken into account when developing a typology of literary travels, a special place is occupied by temporal parameters: the duration of travel, its position in historical time and its relationship with time cycles – natural and social. Literary journeys cover a wide variety of spaces – from outer space to small local territories, which, it would seem, cannot be correlated with our idea of travel. Literary travels can become the basis for identifying new cultural heritage sites. All of these concepts can be used when considering literary travels. In fact, each literary journey is characterized by a certain route, uses various types of roads, paths, other territories and water areas that provide the possibility of movement, and becomes one of the components of the historical path.
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Wallace, Shane. "GREEK CULTURE IN AFGHANISTAN AND INDIA: OLD EVIDENCE AND NEW DISCOVERIES". Greece and Rome 63, n.º 2 (16 de septiembre de 2016): 205–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383516000073.
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In 1888 Rudyard Kipling published a collection of short-stories entitledThe Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales. Perhaps the most famous of these stories, ‘The Man Who Would Be King’, recounted the adventures of two British military veterans, Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot Esq., played by Michael Caine and Sean Connery in John Huston's 1975 film of the same name. Both men have seen India's cities and jungles, jails and palaces, and have decided that she is too small for the likes of they. So, they set out to become kings of Kafiristan, a mountainous, isolated, and unstudied country beyond the Hindu Kush in north-eastern Afghanistan. They confide their plan to their recent acquaintance Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer), then editor of theNorthern Star, who calls them mad. No man, he says, has made it to Kafiristan since Alexander the Great, to which Peachy replies ‘If a Greek can do it, we can do it.’ What they find in north-eastern Afghanistan are the last remnants of Alexander the Great's empire, a local culture and religion part-Greek and part-Kafiri. The story is fiction, but aspects of its historical context are true. Alexander spent most of the years 330–325 campaigning in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and he left behind Greek kingdoms and culture that flourished throughout the Hellenistic period and even later. Traces of these Greek kingdoms are continually coming to light and the archaeological, artistic, and epigraphic evidence coming out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India reveals a prosperous and culturally diverse kingdom.
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Wijaya, Mukhammad Handy dwi y Musta’in Mashud. "Konsumsi Media Sosial Bagi Kalangan Pelajar: Studi Pada Hyperrealitas Tik Tok". Al-Mada: Jurnal Agama, Sosial, dan Budaya 3, n.º 2 (2 de julio de 2020): 170–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31538/almada.v3i2.734.
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The phenomenon of Tik Tok which has become an acute epidemic among students does not only occur in big cities. In almost all parts of the country, this phenomenon has become a trend. No exception in small cities like Blitar, East Java. Though not realized, they have been trapped in a simulation world full of unreality (artificial). That is something that looks more than what actually happened. Tik Tok appears to facilitate the existence of a person beyond its essence. The reality that is displayed through Tik Tok is actually a hyper and pseudo reality. Literally, hypereality can be interpreted as a condition that transcends reality. Hyperreality is often found in cyberspace when the distinction between reality and fiction is blurred. Baudrillard states that current consumption has become a sign of consumption. The act of consumption of goods and services is no longer based on their use but rather prioritizes the signs and symbols attached to the goods and services themselves so that people as consumers are never satisfied and will lead to continuous consumption because everyday life every individual can be seen from their consumption activities. This makes researchers want to know the consumption of social media among students of SMP Negeri 2 Srengat, Blitar Regency. This researcher revealed the form of hyperreality and simulacra and the form of consumption of the application sign which is again a trend among young people today. The theory used in this study uses the theory of Hyperreality and Simulacra Jean Baudrillard. The method in this study uses a qualitative approach to the type of phenomenology. The data was obtained through a process of in-depth interviews and participatory observation to 4 students of SMPN 2 Srengat Blitar Regency who played Tik Tok which were selected by purposive sampling method. Researchers try to find out and explain the motive of using Tik Tok not as entertainment but as consumption of signs so that their social status is recognized as a contemporary child. The results showed that student hyperreality showed that students were chasing instant popularity like famous artists, that students wanted to be artists like those idolized in pseudo-reality. Students exaggerate the reality in Tik Tok's social media to show that they can become like the famous artists in Tik Tok
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Lenok, Maria. "ARTISTIC REPORTAGES BY O. KRYSHTOPA’S UKRAINE: THE SCOPE 1:1". Fìlologìčnì traktati 12, n.º 1 (2020): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2020.12(1)-7.
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The article is devoted to artistic reportages by O. Khrystopa a Ukrainian author of non fiction literature. The artistic reportage of the early 21st century underwent significant changes, evolving from the literary coverage of the 1920s. Contemporary authors refine their texts with different artistic techniques, genre-style techniques, which leads to the emergence of common genres. Such texts tend to be meta-genre in documentary and artistic discourse. The artistic reportages have a dual nature because they synthesize genre features of literature and journalism. There is a tendency to saturate artistic reportage with artistic techniques, expanding the possibilities of literature today. The aim of the article is to find out the place of artistic reportage in the contemporary Ukrainian literary discourse and to analyze some texts, in particular the book by O. Khrystopa’s Ukraine: the Scорe 1:1. The author represented a map of his travels and assignments to different corners of the country, covering a number of small and large cities. It is noteworthy that he reproduced urgent topics: unemployment, employment, language, politics, ecology, coal fever, Chornobyl. The artist skillfully uses linguistic and imaginative means that focus on poetic micro-images in the texts of artistic reportages in the book Ukraine: the Scорe 1:1. The sound and visual images give the texts the proof. The artist imposes the text with the metaphorical, metonymic or amplifying character, uses simple comparisons, synecdoche, often parses a narrative that helps to focus on the background of the image; expresses the artistic background with literary allusions, preserving the tradition of considering one text within another. The study of the genre specificity of the artistic reportage will be the subject of the further research.
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Falski, Maciej. "Symbolic policy in small towns of Zamojszczyzna region, Poland, in the post-socialist period". Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 17, n.º 3 (1 de diciembre de 2023): 223–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0014.
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Abstract Small cities have attracted less attention from researchers of transformation processes, although in some countries they are an important part of the social landscape, as they are in Poland. I present the results of research on the public space and symbolic politics in three small towns in Zamojszczyzna, a region in southeastern Poland. All are characterized by interrupted or disturbed historical continuity due to the extermination of their Jewish communities, which made up the majority of the population until World War II. After 1945, the Jewish past was silenced, while the symbolic space was dominated by the memory of the resistance movement. I show in my text that since the 1990s there have been significant transformations in the aforementioned towns. In some of them, firstly, interest in Jewish heritage and efforts to preserve it are becoming more apparent. Second, there is a noticeable shift from commemorating anti-fascism to promoting the so-called struggle against communism, a reflection of the current politics of remembrance at the central level. I argue that the use of cultural heritage in small towns serves largely to gain recognition. Local authorities often use not only elements of the past that fit into national narratives, but also local traditions or even fictional literary heroes, for this purpose.
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Lowenthal, David. "Why Sanctions Seldom Work: Reflections on Cultural Property Internationalism". International Journal of Cultural Property 12, n.º 3 (agosto de 2005): 393–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739105050216.
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Heritage piety departs ever farther from reality. High-minded admonitions broaden the gulf between what happens to cultural property and what virtuous stewards feel should happen. Ever more of our patrimony gets looted, destroyed, mutilated, shorn of context, hidden from scrutiny, inadequately stored, poorly conserved, eBayed. Merryman cites three causes: the animus of UNESCO and archaeology against marketing cultural property, the sanguine view that trafficking abuse can be quashed by state fiat and moral suasion, and excessive constraint against heritage export by blanket diktats from source nations (and tribes and ethnic groups). These evils endure because heritage stewards commonly subscribe to four underlying sacrosanct fictions. (1) The heritage of all humanity deserves to be preserved in toto. (2) Cultural heritage matters above all for the information it can yield. (3) Collecting is reprehensible; it must be circumscribed if not outlawed. (4) Nations and tribes are enduring entities with sacred rights to time-honored legacies. I show why these views are mistaken yet remain embedded in heritage philosophy and protocol. In particular, although heritage is piously declared the legacy of all mankind, chauvinist sentiment continues to impede internationalism, partly because it buttresses the credentials of those in charge, who are forced into moral postures that promise unachievable stewardship. National and local self-esteem are holy writ for UNESCO and other cultural property agencies. Equating heritage with identity justifies every group's claim to the bones, the belongings, the riddles, and the refuse of every forebear back into the mists of time. All that stands in the way of everyone's reunion with all their ancestors and ancestral things is its utter impossibility. Heritage professionals once seen as selfless are now targets of suspicion, often thought backward looking, deluded, self-seeking, or hypocritical. Small wonder that militant reformers who seek to suppress illicit cultural property dealings by treaties, court decisions, government fiats, and the moral artillery of shame and guilt are viewed with an increasingly cynical eye.
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Cugurullo, Federico, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline MᶜGuirk y Simon Marvin. "The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence". Urban Studies, 13 de noviembre de 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00420980231203386.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as an impactful feature of the life, planning and governance of 21st-century cities. Once confined to the realm of science fiction and small-scale technological experiments, AI is now all around us, in the shape of urban artificial intelligences including autonomous cars, robots, city brains and urban software agents. The aim of this article is to critically examine the nature of urbanism in the emergent age of AI. More specifically, we shed light on how urban AI is impacting the development of cities, and argue that an urbanism influenced by AI, which we term AI urbanism, differs in theory and practice from smart urbanism. In the future, the rise of a post-smart urbanism driven by AI has the potential to form autonomous cities that transcend, theoretically and empirically, traditional smart cities. The article compares common practices and understandings of smart urbanism with emerging forms of urban living, urban governance and urban planning influenced by AI. It critically discusses the limitations and potential pitfalls of AI urbanism and offers conceptual tools and a vocabulary to understand the urbanity of AI and its impact on present and future cities.
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BUENO, ANDRÉ LUIS MACHADO y MARTA JULIA MARQUES LOPES. "RURAL WOMEN AND VIOLENCE: READINGS OF A REALITY THAT APPROACHES FICTION". Ambiente & Sociedade 21 (10 de julio de 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc170151r1vu18l1ao.
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Abstract This is an epidemiological study on violence against rural women, based on data from public safety in small and medium-sized municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul. The objective was to trace and analyze the geoepidemiological profile of these events from perspectives Sociological The idea is maintained that social inequalities limit or even impede the full exercise of citizenship, forming a factor of vulnerability. Violence becomes a health problem because it affects individual and collective health, demanding the formulation of public policies to deal with it. The results indicated increased rates of violence in cities with the worst socioeconomic indexes. It is considered that the implementation of health, employment, education and income policies can help in the fight against discrimination and victimization based on gender asymmetries.
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Leigh, Megan Breen. "A Wind River Romance". PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/394.
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A first-person narrative adult novel explores the theme of abandonment with its residual and enduring effects, and its antithetical theme of loyalty that is continually tested and measured. The protagonist, editor of the local newspaper in a small, isolated agricultural community in the mid-1960s, provides the narrative nexus of two families. His is a community which is a mix of characters that are quirky by virtue of their natures or the remote circumstances of their existence. Both families in focus have treasure troves of secrets. Only after the appearance of a mysterious young woman and her subsequent murder do the tightly bound secrets of the families and the larger community begin to unravel. The narrator reveals his personal story as it relates to how he reacts and responds to the events at hand. Adding to his personal experience in the community, the narrator offers texture and enhancement to the story through archived newspaper articles and his interpretation of short silent movie reels chronicling the town's history from its earliest days until the end of World War II. Characters from within and without the community assume disguises to maintain their lifestyle or achieve a nefarious purpose while other characters hide behind the falsehoods of their comfortable, everyday lives. The one honest character becomes a victim of his own purity, despite attempts of the narrator to intervene. Not until forty years after the events that changed so many lives is it safe for the truth to bubble to the surface.
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Ritchey, John Michael. "Elvis Plays Texas". PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1418.
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In the novel Elvis Plays Texas, which is my Thesis project to meet the requirements for a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Fiction, a little town in far, far West Texas and its people are having a very difficult time and facing what promises to be a bleak future—a long, long drought has exhausted their water supply, oil has peaked and turned down, “fracking” threatens their way of life, friends and family and neighbors are loading up and leaving town. Then, Elvis Presley shows up. It’s the 40th anniversary of the day he died, August 16, 1977, and he, spiritually though appearing in every way to be flesh and blood, is visiting those who’ve continued believing in him and to whom he had been particularly important during their younger lives. My own long history in that part of the country has played its considerable role in informing the setting, the tone, the atmosphere. These are the kinds of characters—strange birds all—I grew up with. The country is the southwestern desert, hot, dry, empty, big sky—the kind of neighborhood that lends itself to oddities like Elvis throwing a benefit concert to help them out of the economic ditch.
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Teberg, Lisa Marie. "Show Me the Way to Go Home". PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1047.
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In the following nine linked stories, characters from disparate backgrounds and socio-economic strata converge in a rural community along the Missouri river in central Montana. A Texas-based oil exploration and production company takes up residence in the area, causing a stir in the neighborhood. Long-time local residents experience their daily lives amid a tourist driven economy and reaffirm their aspirations to leave despite significant obstacles and limitations. In "Show Me the Way to Go Home," a young waitress is stranded after a car accident and seeks help from residents living on the single row of houses in the area. In "Give Death Grace," a resident artist leaves to resolve her tumultuous past with her father. In "A Good Little Fisherwoman," a woman deals with the repercussions of her recent reproductive decisions during a fishing trip. In "Little Fires," a local man deals with the tragic burn injury of a child while also facing deeply rooted resentments with his mother. In "Dwelling," an aging local must decide whether or not she will sell her home to two strangers. In "Other Important Areas of Functioning," a woman decides to discontinue her mood stabilizing medications in favor of a more natural lifestyle. While this place means something different to each of these characters, they all coexist while facing individual challenges.
Libros sobre el tema "Small cities – Fiction"
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James, Arlene. His small-town girl. New York: Steeple Hill Books, 2008.
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Tate, Diane. The crushing of wild mint. Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2012.
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Brown, Chuck. Dunn days: A novel. Alexandria, MN: Hennepin House, 2014.
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Hoffman, Allen. Small worlds. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.
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Pearson, T. R. A short history of a small place. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986.
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Eady, Robert. The octave of all souls. Combermere, Ont: Editio Sanctus Martinus, 2009.
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Thomas, Emily. Off the shelf. New York: Guideposts, 2013.
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Chattam, Maxime. Niech bedzie wola twoja. Katowice: Sonia Draga, 2015.
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Zerndt, James. Brailling for Wile. Place of publication not identified]: [Fliterati Press], 2015.
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Aira, César. Pinceladas musicales. [Argentina]: Blatt & Ríos, 2019.
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Santucci, Jack. "From More Parties to No Parties". En More Parties or No Parties, 52–74. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197630655.003.0003.
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Abstract This chapter tells the story of the early American movement for proportional representation (PR), showing how it settled on the single transferable vote (STV). Reformers in the 1890s consider several forms of PR, but only STV is wholly compatible with nonpartisan elections. By the mid-1910s, amidst the Progressive Era dealignment, dozens of cities are fusing majority-preferential systems with nonpartisan elections to small councils. The PR League sees an opening to promote STV. Socialists protest the emerging nonpartisan bargain, warning that “nonpartisanship” is fiction in practice. New data shed light on list PR’s is defeat in Los Angeles, 1913, which convinces reformers to fuse STV with council-manager government. A national, anti-party reform lobby emerges.
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Ayers, Edward L. "Books". En The Promise of the New South, 339–72. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195326871.003.0013.
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Abstract Throughout the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s, as politics and depression convulsed the South, authors of fiction sought to make sense of the South around them. They wrote less of public events than of conflicts over sexual identity, religious faith, the meaning of race, the experience of one’s generation, the volatile changes in the class order, the meaning of industrialization. By and large, they did not use fiction as smokescreens for a Southern political agenda, but rather as a way to order and explore the events and forces that so affected their lives. Their explorations help us map the elusive emotional geography of the New South. In the United States, as in Europe, the late nineteenth century saw a fascination with a literature of specificity, of exotic locales, of quaint subordinate classes. The growing suburbs and small cities of the Northeast hardly seemed the stuff of literature, and the new journals turned to the West, New England, and the South for the vicarious experience of places where life had greater depth and resonance. Readers in the Northeast were curious about these parts of their own country, especially so now that the South had been defeated, its threat removed.
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Goulding, Gregory. "Urban Space across Genre". En The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, C25P1—C25P145. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.25.
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Abstract This chapter takes up a major writer of post-Independence Hindi through a focus on his depiction of urban space. The works of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–1964) are set in different small- and medium-sized cities across the urban landscape of central India. In his fiction, poetry, and criticism, Muktibodh combined a detailed examination of urban space with a keen sense of local, national, and international scale. The resulting works reveal the unstable grounds of the mid-century Indian city. Through readings of Muktibodh’s short story “Claude Eatherly” and his poem “Cāṁd kā muṁh ṭeḍhā hai” (“The Moon’s Face Is Crooked”), this chapter considers how Muktibodh’s idea of the city was expressed through experimentation with form. These two works consider a range of responses to urban space, from utopian revolutionaries pasting posters across a surveilled, midnight space, to a paranoid internationalism in which an American pilot is held in the center of a newly planned, wealthy city. Both of these pieces present new formal techniques for depicting the city that incorporate both the subjectivity of Hindi modernism and tropes from popular fiction. Muktibodh’s imagination of the city, the chapter argues, offers a unique set of case studies for considering the discomfiting, alienating experience of everyday life.
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Hantke, Steffen. "The Southwest". En Monsters in the Machine. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496805652.003.0004.
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This chapter switches the focus from iconic characters to iconic spaces, following the demographic changes brought about by World War II and the expansion of the domestic infrastructure during the Eisenhower administration. It focuses on the ways in which the military encouraged certain ways of perceiving and experiencing cities, suburbs, and small towns in the transition from World War II to the Cold War. More specifically, it takes on the desert landscape of the American Southwest and tracks its occupation by the military. Closely associated with the development and testing of the US nuclear arsenal, but also with the world of the American frontier and the Western, the southwestern desert appears, in turn, deeply familiar and eerily strange to 1950s American culture. Science fiction films like Jack Arnold's It Came from Outer Space (1953) and Gordon Douglas's Them! (1954) unfold as the Cold War overwrites the traditional connotations of the landscape.
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Emsley, Clive. "Patrolmen, Detectives, and Policing by the Community". En A Short History of Police and Policing, 103–32. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844600.003.0006.
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This chapter assesses the different kinds of police trades that emerged during the nineteenth century, looking at patrolmen and detectives. The new police institutions were permanent, disciplined bodies, but they continued to do the kind of things that had been done by various others, such as watches and constables, or their equivalents. They maintained order on the streets and the highways and byways; and order meant relative tidiness and no obstructions as well as breaking up fights. They arrested offenders, and, in some places, they were responsible for fighting fires. Specialist units began to take on specialist tasks. The detection of offenders, for example, had long been a role for those engaged in the wider role of policing, but detective bureaux became significant, if relatively small, branches of many police institutions, especially in the big cities. The new police, however, could not be everywhere and cover every policing problem. In some instances, the local population continued to act on its own, sometimes with the knowledge and agreement, even the participation, of the police, and sometimes without. The chapter then examines popular policing, as well as representations of the police in fiction.
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Fulbrook, Mary. "Inner Emigration and the Fiction of Ignorance". En Bystander Society, 310—C10P65. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197691717.003.0011.
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Abstract Reich citizens were collectively mobilized in service of their country at war regardless of their opinions about the Nazi regime. This chapter explores how soldiers from the Reich perceived and interpreted mass killings in the east, often through the lens of Nazi ideology. Some became more actively involved in acts of perpetration, and tried to justify the murders even of small children and babies. Many participants and witnesses sent home letters and photographs of what was going on; and from late 1941 onwards, German citizens could hardly avoid knowledge of atrocities, however fragmentary or secondary this knowledge might be. Growing knowledge that deportation meant almost certain death would lead a few victims to opt for the risky strategy of ‘going underground’ and trying to survive in hiding or under a false identity. Those ‘Aryans’ who were opposed to Nazism might try to escape into ‘inner emigration’, but the supposed neutrality of being a bystander was no longer an option.
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"The Spirit of the Information Society, Technologies, and Citizens". En Considerations on Cyber Behavior and Mass Technology in Modern Society, 97–122. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8228-5.ch005.
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Since years the hackers' movement warns about it. For a huge cultural misunderstanding, we are going on trying to learn new technologies according to the rules of the old school or using them as if we could learn directly from the market. The most cannot properly use the present devices too powerful and easy, and many ideas on the future come from science fiction. It's difficult to understand that the Web is made by each of us and depends on what we put in it, more than on our visits online. Once the Internet was attended by a small vanguard capable of managing websites and blogs, gathering in communities, innovating audiovisual and media, sharing experiences and knowledge. Since several years we are billions crowded in networks much more commercial than social, where no technical skills or references to reality are required: Really “ready” for the incoming metaverse, AI and the Web3?
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Skałka, Jakub. "Jeszcze o cieszyńskiej frazematyce toponimicznej". En Słowiańska frazeologia gwarowa III, 153–72. Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788383680873.12.
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The aim of the article is to present and discuss phrasems containing a toponymic component recorded in the Cieszyn Silesia region. Extracted units include: names of hamlets in villages and suburbs of cities (oeconyms), names of mountain peaks (oronyms), names of rivers (hydronyms), as well as noun formations (names of inhabitants) and adjectival formations derived from them. The material was obtained through the excerption of lexicographic sources, dialectal texts, studies dedicated to Silesian phraseology and paremiology, as well as during field research. Phrasems are divided into four categories: 1) fictional names (having no real reference or whose reference to existing places is doubtful), 2) names related to the “small homeland” (in the case of Cieszyn Silesia, approximately the area of the historical Duchy of Cieszyn), 3) names of cities and regions located in its immediate vicinity, 4) units containing names of countries, Polish and foreign cities, lands, and regions. The discussion of phrasems is carried out through: translating dialectal vocabulary, explaining the toponymic component, and, if possible, indicating the meaning and motivation underlying the unit. The article complements two works dedicated to Silesian toponymic phrasematics by addressing material from Cieszyn Silesia that was omitted in them (Dźwigoł 2015; 2016).
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Stacy, Jason. "Introduction". En Spoon River America, 1–9. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043833.003.0001.
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In the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans mythologized the New England village as a repository of abiding American values in reaction to anxiety over the growth of large Northeastern cities. During the same period, a rival myth located the representative American municipality in the Midwest. Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology (1915) popularized this rival myth in a collection of poems about a fictional Illinois town and helped reframe the representative American town in Midwestern terms for most of the twentieth century. By the late twentieth century, though the Midwestern small town ceased to be popularly conceived as representative of the nation as a whole, Masters’s book found a second life in American classrooms and on the stage.
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Mulrooney, Margaret M. "Slack Water, 1880–1920". En Race, Place, and Memory. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054926.003.0004.
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A biracial Republican-Populist coalition gained power over state and local governments in the 1890s, and North Carolina’s Democratic Party responded with a vicious white-supremacy campaign. Meanwhile, a small group of old-time, elite, white businessmen launched what they called the “Wilmington Revolution” to end “Negro Domination” at the local level. Mulrooney contends that the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup d’état were not aberrant events in the city’s history; rather, the instigators consciously replicated old patterns of behavior as a way to resolve mounting conflicts over race, place, and memory. Grounded in local elites’ interpretations of the 1770s and 1860s, the Wilmington revolution of 1898 occurred after lynching emerged in the 1880s as a spectacle of organized racist violence, while the mass media (newspapers, popular fiction, advertising, film) were shaping a national color line, and before southern progressives crafted their coherent vision of a modern, economically diversified, and racially segregated South.