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  • 2000-2004  (16)
  • 2004  (16)
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest  (16)
  • Geography  (11)
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  • 2000-2004  (16)
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  • 1
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252090431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Wallfahrt ; Tourismus ; Religionsethnologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Starting from the premise that religion--broadly defined--involves a quest for meaning, Intersecting Journeys seeks to bridge the conceptual dichotomy between pilgrimage as religious travel and tourism as secular journeying. _x000B__x000B_The appeal of sacred sites remains undiminished at the start of the twenty-first century, as unprecedented numbers of visitors travel to Lourdes, Rome, Jerusalem, and Santiago de Compostela. Likewise, locations not conventionally considered shrines, such as Ground Zero or Star Trek conventions, attract visitors in search of links to a collectivity larger than the self. This book's ethnographic analysis of the conflicts over resources and meanings associated with such sites, as well as the sense of community they inspire, provides compelling evidence emphasizing the links between pilgrimage and tourism. _x000B__x000B_.
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  • 2
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203597569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment v.6
    DDC: 304.2095496
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    Abstract: In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.
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  • 3
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203646359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.6/097281
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Guatemala ; Kolumbien
    Abstract: Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures. Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities in Columbia and Guatemala to create a framework of how and why daily violence takes place at the community level. It uses pioneering new methods of participatory urban appraisal to ask local people about their own perceptions of violence as mediated by family, gender, ethnicity and age. It develops a typology which distinguishes between the political, social, and economic violence that afflicts communities, and which assesses the costs of consequences of violence in terms of community cohesion and social capital. This gives voice to those whose daily lives and dominated by widespread aggression, and provides important new insights for researchers and policy-makers.
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  • 4
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203004883
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Keywords: Mensch ; Tiere ; Geografie ; Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
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  • 5
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (330 pages)
    DDC: 305.23/09624/091734
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    Keywords: Ländlicher Raum ; Kind ; Sozialisation ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Globalisierung ; Soziale Situation ; Ökologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sudan
    Abstract: Growing Up Global examines global change through children's lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and Sudan.The book's core is a study of children in a Sudanese village that was included in a state-sponsored agricultural program. Shifting her focus to working-class families in New York City, Cindy Katz exposes connections with the Sudanese in the effects of a capitalist environment on children.
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  • 6
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    Oxford : OUP Oxford | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780191513466
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Standort ; Industrieökonomie ; Innovation ; Industriegeografie
    Abstract: Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process? Moreover, to what extent can such successful practices be replicated or 'manufactured' in other less fortunate locations? These questions constitute the central issues of concern for this book.
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  • 7
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781444118995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Series Statement: Hodder Arnold Publication
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Anthropogeografie ; Sozialgeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Bringing together many of the leading human geographers from around the English-speaking world, Envisioning Human Geographies offers a series of personal visions for the future of human geography. The result is a vigorous and far-sighted debate about what human geography could and should be concerned with in the twenty-first century. The individual contributors develop their arguments to address the shape and direction of human geographies, with each chapter looking forward and envisioning an intellectual future for the subject. The result is a set of powerful statements written around the themes of: ·space ·nature ·enclosure ·political-economy ·non-representation ·post-colonialism ·feminism ·post-structuralism ·computation ·morality ·spirituality ·activism. The statements are tied via an introduction that discusses the ideological, academic and aesthetic prompts that fire the human geographical imagination. Envisioning Human Geographies maps out important new territories of enquiry for human geography, and is essential reading for all students studying the nature and philosophy of the subject.
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  • 8
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781315700441
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/25/0959
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    Abstract: This timely work examines the scale and root causes of terrorism across Southeast Asia, including the role of al-Qaeda's ascendancy in the region. It begins with an overview of the analytical and theoretical framework for discussing the subject. Individual chapters then examine terrorist activities from both functional and country-specific perspectives. The book traces fundamental linkages between terrorism and security issues, such as illegal immigration, narcotics trafficking, and other criminal activity. In addition, it considers the issue of convergence - the growing connection between criminal groups and terrorism, and how this may facilitate future violence. Written by a range of experts in the field, the individual chapters reflect a variety of perspectives. The contributions fall into two broad categories - chapters that directly address terrorism (the groups, their ideologies, their modus operandi, their origins, and state responses to them); and chapters that address the "enabling environment" that exists in Southeast Asia (the role of transnational crime, porous borders, convergence between terrorism and crime).
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  • 9
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203580240
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    DDC: 307.1409421
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    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; London
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  • 10
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203491256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 307.0973
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    Keywords: Privatleben ; Nachbarschaft ; Isolation ; USA
    Abstract: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  • 11
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203458389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    DDC: 306.48
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    Abstract: Diasporas result from the scattering of populations and cultures across geographical space and time. Transnational in nature and unbounded by space, they cut across the static, territorial boundaries more usually deployed to govern tourism. In a vibrant inter-disciplinary collection of essays from leading scholars in the field, this book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism. Three sets of mutually reinforcing relationships are explored: experiences of diaspora tourists the settings and spaces of diaspora tourism the production of diaspora tourism. Addressing the relationship between diasporic groups and tourism from both a consumer and producer perspective, examples are drawn from a wide spectrum of diasporic groups including the Chinese, Jewish, Southeast Asian, Croatian, Dutch and Welsh. Until now, there has been no systematic and detailed treatment of the relationships between diasporas, their consumptions and the tourist experience. However, here, Coles and Timothy provide a unique navigation of the nature of these inter-connections which is ideal for students of tourism, sociology, cultural studies.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203647219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Migration ; Globalisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Anthropogeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
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  • 13
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203448694
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (293 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography v.10
    DDC: 306.34
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    Abstract: Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.
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  • 14
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    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781433706400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (709 pages)
    DDC: 393.1089924033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 520 v. Chr.-70 ; Frühjudentum ; Juden ; Bestattung ; Palästina
    Abstract: This publication outlines the material preserved in the ancient Jewish cemeteries in the Land of Israel and provides a comprehensive and instructive study of Jewish funerary customs, practices, and rituals relating to death, burial and mourning, as well as addressing the meaning of Jewish funerary art and tradition.
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226726144
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306/.0964
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    Keywords: Islam ; Kultur ; Marokko
    Abstract: Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes characterizing the present-day Muslim world. In The Culture of Islam, he brings his erudition and his experiences to illuminating key aspects of Muslim life and how central tenets of that life are being challenged and culturally refashioned.Through a series of poignant tales-from the struggle by a group of friends against daily corruption to the contest over a saint's identity, from nostalgia for the departed Jews to Salman Rushdie's vision of doubt in a world of religious certainty-Rosen shows how a dazzling array of potential changes are occurring alongside deeply embedded continuity, a process he compares to a game of chess in which infinite variations of moves can be achieved while fundamental aspects of "the game" have had a remarkably enduring quality. Whether it is the potential fabrication of new forms of Islam by migrants to Europe (creating a new "Euro-Islam," as Rosen calls it), the emphasis put on individuals rather than institutions, or the heartrending problems Muslims may face when their marriages cross national boundaries, each story and each interpretation offers a window into a world of contending concepts and challenged coherence.The Culture of Islam is both an antidote to simplified versions of Islam circulating today and a consistent story of the continuities that account for much of ordinary Muslim life. It offers, in its human stories and its insights, its own contribution, as the author says, "to the mutual understanding and forgiveness that alone will make true peace possible.".
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    Nordhausen : Traugott Bautz | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783869452722
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Luhmann, Niklas ; Religion ; Theorie ; Systemtheorie
    Abstract: In seinem monumentalen Lebenswerk versucht Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), die gesamte kulturelle Wirklichkeit zu erklären: Nicht Menschen, sondern Kommunikationssysteme, die der Bielefelder Soziologe in Analogie zu biologischen Organismen beschreibt, bildet demnach ein komplexes Ganzes, die Gesellschaft. Im Zentrum seines Denkmodells steht dann die Frage, wie die Teilsysteme - bspw. Politik, Wirtschaft oder Kunst - durch spezifische Beiträge das Überleben der Gesellschaft sichern können.Leif H. Seibert skizziert die grundlegenden Begriffe der Systemtheorie, um vor diesem Hintergrund Luhmanns Theorie der Religion zu präsentieren, in der das älteste der Teilsysteme hinsichtlich seiner Bedeutung für die gesellschaftliche Umwelt untersucht wird. Im Zuge dessen werden Stärken und Schwächen des systemtheoretischen Ansatzes deutlich, denn: "Einen Unterschied kann man nicht anbeten." Inhaltsverzeichnis1. Einleitung1.1. Zielsetzung1.2. Aufbau1.3. Niklas Luhmann2. Ideengeschichtliches zur Systemtheorie2.1. Was ist ein System?2.2. Was ist Selbstorganisation?2.3. Was ist Systemtheorie?2.3.1. Allgemeine Systemtheorie2.3.2. Strukturell-funktionale Systemtheorie2.3.3. Das Autopoiesis-Konzept3. Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie3.1. Anspruch3.2. Grundbegriffe3.2.1. Komplexität3.2.2. System und Umwelt3.2.3. Autopoiesis3.2.4. Sinn3.3. Soziale Systeme3.3.1. Interaktion3.3.2. Organisation3.3.3. Gesellschaft3.3.3.1. Kommunikation3.3.3.1.1. Selektionen3.3.3.1.2. Medien3.3.3.2. Differenzierung3.3.3.2.1. Formen3.3.3.2.2. Funktionssysteme3.3.3.3. Evolution3.3.3.3.1. Mechanismen3.3.3.3.2. Epochen3.4. Der blinde Fleck4. Niklas Luhmanns Religionstheorie4.1. Anspruch4.2. Das Bezugsproblem4.3. Das religiöse System4.3.1. Religiöse Kommunikation4.3.1.1. Code (Immanenz und Transzendenz)4.3.1.2. Programm (Offenbarung, heilige Schrift, Dogmatik)4.3.1.3. Medium (Glaube)4.3.1.4. Die...
    Abstract: Kontingenzformel (Gott)4.3.2. Religiöse Differenzierung4.3.2.1. Ausdifferenzierung4.3.2.2. Systembeziehungen4.3.3. Religiöse Evolution4.3.3.1. Primitive Religion4.3.3.2. Hochreligion4.3.3.3. Säkularisierung4.4. Religiöse Organisationen4.5. Selbstbeschreibung5. Probleme und Kontroversen5.1. Vorbemerkung5.2. Theorie und Praxis5.3. Kritik5.3.1. Verstehen und Erklären 5.3.2. Luhmann und die Biologie5.3.3. Luhmann und die Logik5.3.4. Luhmanns Paradoxien5.3.5. Luhmanns Religion5.3.5.1. Kommunikation5.3.5.2. Differenzierung5.3.5.3. Evolution6. Schluß7. Literaturangaben7.1. Ausgewählte Werke Luhmanns7.2. Ausgewählte Sekundarliteratur8. Abbildungsverzeichnis.
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