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| Author | : Nicholas Xenos |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2017-10-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351622919 |
Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Girard, and Sahlins, this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style, Scarcity and Modernity will appear to those with interests in social and political thought and cultural criticism.
| Author | : Sendhil Mullainathan |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2013-09-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0805092641 |
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
| Author | : Michael N. Dobkowski |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1998-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780815627449 |
Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Walliman have edited a book that, although ominous, is not a fatalistic look at the future. The Coming Age of Scarcity lays out the perils of not recognizing the reality of genocide or of acknowledging the full implications of warfare. Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, The Coming Age of Scarcity is about evil. It tells of "ethnic cleansing" and excavates the world's expanding killing fields. The writers in this volume are all too aware that the future suggests that present-day population growth, land resources, energy consumption, and per capita consumption cannot be sustained without leading to greater catastrophes. The essays in this volume ask: What is the solution in the face of mass death and genocide? As philosopher John K. Roth says in the Foreword, "The essays can sensitize us against despair and indifference because history shows that human-made mass death and genocide are not inevitable, and no events related to them will ever be."
| Author | : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2019-02-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1350040916 |
Making scarcity -- Jean-Laurent Rosenthal: scarcity, language and politics -- Lyla Metha and Amber Huff: untangling scarcity -- Rick Wilk: rethinking the relationships between scarcity, poverty and hunger: an anthropological perspective -- Neil Fromer: renewable energy: a story of abundance and scarcity: a scientific -- Perspective -- The power of projection -- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson: growth in the anthropocene -- Dave Rutledge: the great resources myth -- Jirg Friedrichs: escapology, or how to escape Malthusian traps -- Coping, managing, innovating at different scales -- Hugh Rockoff: U.S. mobilization in World War II as a model for coping -- With climate change -- Walker Hanlon: scarcity and innovation: lessons from the British economy during the U.S. Civil War -- Sigrid Schmalzer: China's great leap famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao, and material scarcity -- Heather Chappells: encounters with scarcity at a micro-scale: householders responses to drought as a continuum of "normal" practice -- Dynamics of distribution -- Elizabeth Chatterjee: a climate of scarcity: electricity in India, 1899-2016 -- David Lamoureux: Lagos "scarce-city": investigating the roots of urban modernity in a colonial capital, 1900-1928 -- Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann: energy shortages and the politics of time: resilience, redistribution and "normality" in Japan and East Germany, 1940s-70s -- Emma Stephens: food shortages: the role and limitations of markets in resolving food crises during the 2012 famine in the Sahel
| Author | : Bryan S Turner |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2001-04-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1412933684 |
Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whether the `cultural turn′ has made the study of society redundant. Sociologists have objected to the rise of cultural studies on the grounds that it produces cultural relativism and lacks a stable research agenda. This book looks at these criticisms and illustrates the relevance of a sociological perspective in the analysis of human practice. The book argues that the classical tradition must be treated as a living tradition, rather than a period piece. It analyzes the fundamental principles of belonging and conflict in society and provides a detailed critical survey of the principal social theories that offer solutions to the challenges of modernism.
| Author | : Amanda L. Logan |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2020-12-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520343751 |
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of ‘the scarcity slot,’ a kind of Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past with major implications for the future.
| Author | : Duanfang Lu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2006-09-27 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1134326378 |
In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She shows that as China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and a national imagination, the realization of planning ideals was postponed. The work unit – the socialist enterprise or institute – gradually developed from workplace to social institution which integrated work, housing and social services. The Chinese city achieved a unique geography made up in large part of self-contained work units. Remaking Chinese Urban Form provides an important reference for academics and students conducting research on China. It will be a key source for courses on Asia in architecture, urban planning, geography, sociology and anthropology, at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The insightful yet accessible introduction to urban China will also be of interest to architects, urban designers and planners – as well as general audience who wish to learn about contemporary Chinese society.
| Author | : Glenn Willmott |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 144264317X |
From T. S. Eliot's Sweeney to C. S. Lewis's Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these 'modern primitive' figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters? Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal 'problem creature' in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish.
| Author | : Julie Zollmann |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2020-07-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781788531177 |
Living on Little illuminates the many deep and overlooked ways that scarcity shapes the lives of ordinary Kenyans. Drawing on four years of systematic research with nearly 300 low-income families, this book tells a holistic story about how low-income Kenyans optimistically pursue life-long missions to build richer lives--literally and figuratively.
| Author | : Cullen Roche |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-07-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1137279311 |
An insightful and original look at why understanding macroeconomics is essential for all investors
