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  • Culture and Planning

    Culture and Planning

    by Simone Abram

    In planning debates, culture is often treated as a fixed element, either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is, towards understanding what we are doing when we talk ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • Elusive Promises

    Elusive Promises

    by Simone Abram • Gisa Weszkalnys

    Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently-as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise plannin... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • Rationalities of Planning: Development Versus Environment in Planning for Housing

    Rationalities of Planning: Development Versus Environment in Planning for Housing

    by Jonathan Murdoch • Simone Abram

    What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection? Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK a... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development: Knowledge and sentiments in conflict (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

    Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development: Knowledge and sentiments in conflict (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

    by Jacqueline Waldren • Simone Abram

    This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Afr... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1989
  • Green Ice

    Green Ice

    by Simone Abram • Katrín Anna Lund

    This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy (EASA Series #42)

    Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy (EASA Series #42)

    by Tristan Loloum, Simone Abram • Nathalie Ortar

    Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnogra... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
  • Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places

    Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places

    by Simone Abram; Jacqueline Waldren; Donald V.L. Macleod

    The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the connection between individual locations and the world's global markets is an obvious product of tourism, the... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1997
  • Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Criminal Practice Ser.)

    Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Criminal Practice Ser.)

    by Brit Ross Winthereik • Thomas Yarrow • Simone Abram • Anjan Sarkar

    What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • Organic Food Systems: Meeting the Needs of Southern Africa

    Organic Food Systems: Meeting the Needs of Southern Africa

    by Bernd Siebenhüner • Jane Battersby • Stephen Devereux • Albert Ackhurst • Anastasia Caude • Catherine Eckert • Johan Habig • Konrad Hauptfleisch • Gareth Haysom • Jostein Hertwig • Johannes Kahl • Christina Kifunda • Nico Labuschagne • Sandra C Lamprecht • Andre Leu • Simon Lorentz • Josua Louw • Jama Mashele • Mebelo Mataa • Robert Munthali • Jane Nalunga • Nic Olivier • Hannelise Piek • Matt Purkis • Mandla Sibiya • Charles Ssekyewa • Sheila Storey • Carola Strassner • Marike Swanepoel • Wim Troosters • Abraham Van Niekerk • Maren Wesselow

    Organic agriculture world-wide allows farmers to produce healthy food with low levels of external inputs, and often shortens the value chains, giving farmers a higher share of the consumer dollar. This book reports on long-term comparative organic farming systems research trials carried out over the... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2020
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