The Trajectory of Central-Area Redevelopment

Boom Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
Otto Saumarez Smith
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Planning Profession ◽  
Area Redevelopment ◽  
The Way

The final chapter looks at the way that the very planning and political elites who had been at the heart of the changes came to disavow the ideas that they had espoused only a few years before. The chapter argues that architecture ceased to be the dominant profession in the planning profession. It traces the widespread disillusionment with modernist planning, showing the disavowal of modernist approaches from the perspective of planning and political elites, including a section on the Labour politician Richard Crossman. A new set of priorities for cities was indicated by the emergence of the term ‘inner city’, which saw urban decision makers tackling problems centred around the persistence of poverty rather than affluence.

Authority by Allusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Way

The final chapter brings the discussion of al-Suyūṭī’s legal persona squarely into the modern era. The discussion explores how contemporary jurists in Egypt use the legacy of the great fifteenth-century scholar in their efforts to frame their identity and to assert authority as interpreters and spokesmen for the Sharīʿa in a political arena that is fraught with tension. In the midst of Mursī’s embattled presidency, leading scholars at Egypt’s state religious institutions rushed to news and social media outlets to affirm their status as representatives of “orthodoxy” and to distance themselves from more extreme salafī trends that threaten to change the way Islamic law is practiced in the modern Egyptian state. It is striking how closely the image of the moderate Sunni, Sufi-minded, theologically sound scholar grounded in the juristic tradition (according to the accepted legal schools) fits with the persona that al-Suyūṭī strove so tenaciously to construct.

A New Hope

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoran Oklopcic
Keyword(s):  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
The People ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

As the final chapter of the book, Chapter 10 confronts the limits of an imagination that is constitutional and constituent, as well as (e)utopian—oriented towards concrete visions of a better life. In doing so, the chapter confronts the role of Square, Triangle, and Circle—which subtly affect the way we think about legal hierarchy, popular sovereignty, and collective self-government. Building on that discussion, the chapter confronts the relationship between circularity, transparency, and iconography of ‘paradoxical’ origins of democratic constitutions. These representations are part of a broader morphology of imaginative obstacles that stand in the way of a more expansive constituent imagination. The second part of the chapter focuses on the most important five—Anathema, Nebula, Utopia, Aporia, and Tabula—and closes with the discussion of Ernst Bloch’s ‘wishful images’ and the ways in which manifold ‘diagrams of hope and purpose’ beyond the people may help make them attractive again.

Exploring Insights through Visualization of Association Rules from Text Mining Statistics

2013 ◽  
Vol 310 ◽  
pp. 567-571
Author(s):  
Arun Thotapalli Sundararaman
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge ◽  
Strength Of Association ◽  
The Way

Visualization is an important technique for analysis of knowledge derived from text mining. While different approaches exist for visualization, this paper presents a novel way of visualizing the strength of association between multiple terms that summarizes association in the form of a matrix. This approach is expected to improve the way decision makers analyze insights from text mining.

The Postracial, Postcapitalist Zombie

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Tim Lanzendörfer
Keyword(s):  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The final chapter of the book discusses the question of race in contemporary zombie fiction. Departing from the observation that many zombie fiction texts insist that the zombie apocalypse will do away with race as a marker of difference, it reads two recent texts against this oft-used trope. Arguing against much recent criticism, it posits that Zone One is best read not as concerned with the history of racial oppression, but as concerned with the way capitalism constructs race as a category useful to it. It concludes by reading Díaz’s “Monstro” as a tale most instructive at the metalevel, for what it tells us about the zombie’s contemporary relation to Haiti on the pervasiveness of racial categories even outside a White-Black dichotomy. It also serves as a point for departure to the Coda, an investigation of the larger valences of zombie fiction.

The Tender Lives of Vitti/Vittoria

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy C. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Way

In this final chapter, the Italian actress Monica Vitti is read as the generous form of life par excellance in three of Antonioni’s most important films: L’avventura, La notte, and L’eclisse. The generosity she evinces is registered in the way that Antonioni shows her repeatedly grasping and releasing objects such that a distinction between possession as grasping and non-possession as release emerges. That same distinction appears later as a strategy that Vitti adopts in playfully evading her capture by Antonioni’s apparatus.

The Ford Sewing machinists’ strike, Dagenham, 1984–85

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Jonathan Moss
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
New Era ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Way

This final chapter returns to Ford, Dagenham to analyse the second strike that was organised by female sewing-machinists for skill recognition in the winter of 1984-1985. Whilst the 1968 strike analysed in chapter 2 was optimistically hailed as a turning point symbolising a new era of gender equality, the sewing-machinists were dissatisfied because the skilled nature of their work was not recognised. For the women at Ford, the underlying grading grievance and the sense of injustice that led to the 1968 dispute continued to shape their experiences of work and trade unionism for the next 17 years. This dispute marks an appropriate place to begin to draw some broader conclusions about women’s experiences of workplace activism between 1968 and 1985. The Ford sewing-machinists’ eventual success in winning their grading intimates a transition had occurred in the way women’s work was valued in the intervening 17 years between the strikes – at least within the Ford factory. Drawing upon contemporary representations of the dispute and interviews with women involved, this final chapter considers whether the women themselves believed the strike represented a change in attitudes towards female workers.

The Erosion, Breaking, and Betrayal of the Moral Economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-368
Author(s):  
Keith Grint
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fait Accompli ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

The final chapter looks back at the cases of mutiny through several different lenses. First we use Wright Mills’s notion of Vocabularies of Motive that takes what actors say they are doing as opposed to how we might interpret that. In effect these act as mobilizations, not descriptions, of action and explore the way leaders channel a general discontent into a particular form of action. Second, the cases are distributed according to whether the mutineers appear to assume the situation is one where the economic or social or political contract has been undermined. This is mirrored on the establishment side by considering whether the actions of the mutineers are perceived to be a fait accompli or the result of misled subordinates or something that actually poses an existential threat to the status quo. Finally, the nature of the individual leaders of mutinies is explored through the frame of the puer robustus, a term used by many philosophers and political commentators to describe those individuals—rule breakers—who invariably end up taking control over mutinies and often paying the price for that leadership.

Rupture and Hospitality

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-235
Author(s):  
Erin M. Kamler
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theater ◽  
The Way

The final chapter examines the way artist participants in “Land of Smiles” began to undergo the passage from rupture to “hospitality”—an ethical contract formed not around “sameness,” but rather, around “encounters with the unknown.” By articulating their experiences of rupture and its complementary process of hospitality, the artist narratives reveal the power of musical theater as a means of breaking down preconceptions and opening new pathways to empathy and trust. It is here that we see the tenets of liberation unfold most dramatically, illuminating DAR’s transformative essence.

Blue, White, and Red Heat

Boom Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Otto Saumarez Smith
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Area Redevelopment ◽  
Planning Group ◽  
City Centres

This chapter looks at central government’s role in directing the way in which local authorities enacted central-area redevelopment schemes. It shows how modernist ideas were sustained by a broadly consensual cross-party political culture in central government. It shows how the Joint Urban Planning Group, set up within the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, provided guidance to local authorities in how to form public–private partnerships to redevelop their city centres. The last section discusses the fate of these ideas during Labour’s first term after the 1964 election, and argues for an economic explanation of the initial reaction against modernist approaches to the built environment.

Final Remarks

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Majid Daneshgar
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Way

The final chapter of the book is divided into two sections: conclusions, and “Islamic Apologetics” everywhere. It informs readers about the future of Islamic studies in the West and the way it gets gradually changed to Islamic Apologetics. In so doing, some of the true stories that have happened in both Muslim and Western academic contexts are discussed. The final remarks aim to show that, in fact, the stronger the connection with politics and traditionalism, the more diminished is the academic approach toward religion and the greater the conservative presentation of religious studies, in both Western and Muslim academic contexts.

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