Imagining Afghanistan

Imagining Afghanistan
Author: Nivi Manchanda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491235

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.

Society Action and Space

Society Action and Space
Author: Benno Werlen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1993
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780415069656

The first English translation of a book which questions the relevance of space for the social world and in so doing offers exciting new directions for both geography and sociology.

Time, Space, and Society

Time, Space, and Society
Author: A. Kellerman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400922876

Time and space are two of the most basic dimensions of human life. They envelop all human beings from birth to death. As such, they provide the context for human existence. At the same time, however, time and space also serve as major influencing factors in mankind's actions. Hence, a vast literature has developed on time and space as separate dimensions, and recently on time-space as joint dimensions. Interestingly enough, the social connotations of time and space have mostly been studied with the individual human being in mind. The more societal significance of time and space, whether separately or jointly, have been relatively neglected. It is the purpose of this volume to help fill this lacuna through discussions on some of the many junctions of time, space, and society at large. The discussion will naturally involve concepts and findings from more than just one discipline -- notably, geography, sociology, social history and political science. It is, thus, obvious that the topic may be highlighted from several perspectives. Given my own education and work, the approach will lean more to the geographical perspective. Geography has a special merit as an integrating framework for the study of time, space, and society. It is a discipline that has space at the center of its raison d'etre and, as such, has always striven for integration, holism and comprehensiveness.

Class and Space (RLE Social Theory)

Class and Space (RLE Social Theory)
Author: Nigel Thrift
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317652088

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the study of modern societies, integrating the work of human geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which emphasises the essential unity of social science.

Space Technologies for the Benefit of Human Society and Earth

Space Technologies for the Benefit of Human Society and Earth
Author: Phillip Olla
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2009-03-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402095732

Overview of Space Technology It has been over 50 years since the rst satellite was sent into orbit, and the impact of space technology can be felt in many aspects in our day to day life. In addition to the convenience of knowing exactly where we are on the planet via GPS satellites; or deciding what to pack for a trip based on forecasts from weather satellites; watching CNNinaremotevillageviabroadcasting satellites;therearenowsomecrucialen- ronmental uses of Space technologies in the areas of natural resources management and environmental monitoring. Remotely sensed data reveals an unparallel view of the Earth for systems that require synoptic or periodic observations such as inv- tory control, surveying, agriculture, business, mineralogy, hydrography, geology, land mass cover, land utilization and environment monitoring. The advancement of remote sensing has made remote sensed data more affordable and available to merge with a variety of data sources to create mash-ups. The amalgamation of these data sources into disciplines such as agriculture, urban planning, web applications, cartography, geodetic reference systems, and global navigation satellite systems, are an important advancement of space applications and space science. Space Technology and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) The MDGs are a set of time-bound, measurable goals and targets that are global as well as country-speci c for combating poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, envir- mental degradation and discrimination against women.

Sound, Space and Society

Sound, Space and Society
Author: Kimberley Peters
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137576766

In 1964, rebel radio stations took to the seas in converted ships to offer listening choice to a young, resistant audience, against a backdrop of restrictive broadcasting policies. This book draws on this exceptional moment in social history, and the decades that followed, teasing out the relations between sound, society and space that were central to ‘pirate’ broadcasting activities. With a turn towards mediated life in geography, studies of radio have been largely absent. However, radio remains the most pervasive mass communications medium. This book breaks new ground, discussing in depth the relationship between radio, space and society; considering how space matters in the production, consumption and regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human geographies.

Space and Society in Central Brazil

Space and Society in Central Brazil
Author: Elizabeth Ewart
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857857150

Hailed once as giants of the Amazon , Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107009154

An interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relationship between space and society through case studies across the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Time Resources, Society and Ecology

Time Resources, Society and Ecology
Author: Tommy Carlstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2019-09-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1000698912

Originally published in 1982, Time Resources, Society and Ecology examines and seeks to examine the time dimension in terms of the ecology, technology, social organization and spatial structure of the human habitat. Approaches to time resources – sociological time-budget studies, anthropological activity analysis, and economic analysis of money allocation – have been limited by their sectoral scope or their failure to relate effectively to the processes of social interaction, technological change and environmental structure. In this book, the book’s articulation of time resources is developed in a general theoretical framework of action and interaction in time and space. The book examines constraints and possibilities facing preindustrial societies and throws light on the impact of technology on modern societies. Basic models of time allocation are presented, and, finally, a cross-cultural comparison is made of the mobilization of time resources in preindustrial societies. Geographers, social anthropologists and human ecologists should find this work directly relevant to their interest in understanding the interactions between man and environment.

Mobility, Space, and Culture

Mobility, Space, and Culture
Author: Peter Merriman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415593565

Over the past 10 to 15 years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. Here, Peter Merriman provides a contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to rethink the relationship between movement, embodied practices, space and place.