DIY Urbanism and the Lens of the Commons: Observations from Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Volont
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Key Features

A growing body of literature has been explicitly concerned with a range of microspatial practices that are currently reshaping urban spaces under the valuable denominator of “DIY urbanism.” However, there is still much work to be done if we are to take into consideration DIY urbanism's primary source and output: the commons. As such, Spanish DIY collectives have taken an explicit interest in building and reclaiming the urban commonwealth through participatory DIY interventionism. Therefore, this article assesses Spanish DIY urbanism through the lens of the commons and asks how the vocabulary of the latter might help us to further understand the DIY practice. In so doing, DIY urbanism will be put forward as “a field of possibilities” through three key features that inform commons theorizing: threshold spatiality, value, and legitimacy.

Indigenous Novels in Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Hyland-Russell
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Power Of Story ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Place And Identity

Canadian Indigenous novels emerged as a specific genre within the last thirty years, rooted in a deep, thousands-year-old ‘performance art and poetic tradition’ of oratory, oral story, poetry, and drama. In addition to these oral and performance traditions are the ‘unique and varying methods of written communication’ that flourished long before contact with Europeans. The chapter considers Canadian novels by Indigenous writers. It shows that Indigenous fiction is deeply intertwined with history, politics, and a belief in the power of story to name, resist, and heal; that novel-length Aboriginal fiction in Canada built on a growing body of other forms of Indigenous literature; and that many Indigenous novels foreground their relationship with place and identity as key features of the resistance against systemic and institutional racism. It also examines coming-of-age novels of the 1980s and 1990s that are grounded in realism.

scholarly journals HETERO-TEXTUALITY AND CO-SPATIALITY: FROM THE SEMIOTICS OF THE CITY TO THE TRANS-SEMIOTICS OF THE POST-CITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Dmitry N. Zamyatin ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
General Context ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Urban Narratives ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

Literary texts can be considered as the most attractive research material for analyzing the key features of both the semiotics of the city as a whole and the semiotics of individual cities, to which many works of art are devoted. The urban space of Modernity as a result of the processes of powerful semiotization can be considered as both textual and intertextual. The intertextuality of Modern urban spaces presupposes sets of “floating” topological signifiers corresponding to similar sets of “floating” topological signs. In the traditional semiotics of the city, the existence of two realities is assumed — the “real” reality and the “semiotic” reality, between which clear logical correspondences and/or relations can be observed and analyzed. The appearance of non-classical/post-classical urban narratives focused on the problems of dis-communication at the beginning of the 20th century became one of the important signs of the primary formation of the post-city and post-urbanism phenomena. The post-city is not a text and can not be regarded as a text; at the same time, it can generate separate texts that are not related to each other in any way. Post-urban texts, which are the communicative results of specific co-spatialities, remain local “flashes” that do not form a single text or meta-text (super-text). Hetero-textuality is a phenomenon of post-urban reality, which is characterized by the coexistence, as a rule, of texts that do not correlate with each other, relating to certain stable urban loci. Trans-semiotics in general context is understood as the study of any texts that involve the creation of sign-symbolic breaks or “gaps” with any other potentially possible correlating texts in the process of signification. Trans-semiotics of post-cities are studies of (literary) texts that involve the creation of sign-symbolic breaks or “gaps” with any other potentially possible correlating texts related to a particular urban locus in the process of signifying any urban loci. The post-city heterostructuality can be considered as the co-spatiality of mutually exclusive texts corresponding to “non-seeing” post-city loci. Post-urban trans-semiotics in the course of their development form a kind of “dark zones” that reject or neutralize any attempt at any semiotic interpretation.

Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Evidence-Based Policing Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Boulton ◽  
Rebecca Phythian ◽  
Stuart Kirby ◽  
Ian Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Evidence Based Policing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Method Approach

Abstract A growing body of international evidence reflects the increasing recognition of evidence-based policing (EBP) and the co-production of research, yet the extent of which such research is being implemented remains unclear. This study seeks to explore the efficacy of EBP in relation to practical implementation issues and assess the impact research is having on practice, both within and external to a specific Constabulary. Twenty-nine research studies, conducted in association with the Constabulary, were examined using a mixed-method approach. Of the total projects, 52% of projects were found to have generated a change to practice or policy. The key features of research that were associated with impact included: (i) mixed-method data collection, (ii) transferability, and (iii) increased dissemination that engaged practitioner and academic audiences. Practically, these findings suggest that EBP research projects can be designed and disseminated in a way that increases the likelihood of implementing the findings to change practice.

Lord Beaverbrook's Fabrications in Politicians and the War, 1914–1916

1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
First World War ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
World War ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Commons ◽  
First World

In spite of occasional protests Lord Beaverbrook's narrative of British domestic politics during the first world war seems to retain the authority of a primary source. This is particularly true of the passages in Politicians and the war, 1914–1916 which cover the events in which he, then Sir Max Aitken, claimed to have taken an influential part. Mr A. J. P. Taylor in his appraisal of Beaverbrook's second volume covering the fall of Asquith in 1916 declares: ‘ It provides essential testimony for events during a great political crisis — perhaps the most detailed account of such a crisis ever written from the inside... The narrative is carried along by rare zest and wit, yet with the detached impartiality of the true scholar. ‘ Beaverbrook's apparent advantages might well seem conclusive. He was a contemporary agent as well as observer, summed up in his jaunty ‘ I was there!’. He was supposed to have enjoyed the complete confidence of Bonar Law, to have run a newspaper and to have kept a diary. An M.P. and virtual parliamentary private secretary to Bonar Law, whose rise to the Commons party leadership he appeared to have engineered, Aitken could be presumed to be politically on the ‘inside’. A tycoon of Canadian business ‘mergers’ and a self-made millionaire at a young age, he was esteemed by Law to be one of the cleverest men he knew.

scholarly journals Psycholinguistic Aspects of Humanitarian Component of Cybersecurity

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Юлія Крилова-Грек
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Malicious Activity ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Program Software ◽  
Written Speech

Introduction. The paper focuses on language means exploited by social engineers in their activities in terms of humanitarian aspects of cybersecurity. The goal of this research is to analyze the methods and techniques employed by social engineers in their malicious activity and its features from a psycholinguistic point of view for further development of counteraction mechanisms. Methods. To obtain results we used the following methods: primary source analysis, analysis of spoken and written speech and speech products, and intent analysis. Results. The activity theory has been successfully applied to consider the key features of social engineers’ work. On the base of AT we presented a three-component model which we may consider only in the case of a social engineer’s successful attack (action). Based on the analysis of the sources, we distinguished the types of spoken and written communication actions (these types correspond to direct and indirect actions), used by social engineers to affect the cognitive processes for retrieving “sensitive data” and confidential information. Besides, we also categorized psychological and language means, which social engineers evidently apply in their activities. We stress that in most cases social engineers’ activities are aimed at a) affecting the person’s emotions and feelings; b) blocking rational and critical thinking; c) manipulating moral and ethic values, and d) using positive incentives that have an interest to a user. Taking into account the abovementioned types of communication, psychological and language means, we systematized and described the general techniques of using oral and written forms of language and technologies: 1) techniques related to the use of spoken speech; 2) techniques related to the use of written speech; 3) techniques related to the use of USB flash drives, applications, and program software. The findings are applicable for developing a mechanism to counter social engineers’ attacks and contribute to improving the level of cyber literacy.

Making and enabling the commons: shared urban spaces and civic engagement in North Manchester

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Lang
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Public Land ◽  
State Support ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The City

This chapter explores three different interventions on public land in Cheetham Hill, an area of north Manchester which is characterised by cultural diversity, high rates of unemployment and often regarded as a place of community disengagement. Amid cuts to public services and austerity measures, the author argues that the ‘commons’ are made as people adjust to new scenarios brought about by historical disruptions, collapse of work opportunities, and breakdown of state support. ‘Commoning’ provides a space for productivity and in the process, people’s sense of belonging emerges as they envisage, realize and retrieve their right to the city.

scholarly journals Effective Communication Following Pregnancy Loss: A Study in England

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
LOUISE AUSTIN ◽  
JEANNETTE LITTLEMORE ◽  
SHEELAGH MCGUINNESS ◽  
SARAH TURNER ◽  
DANIELLE FULLER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Patient Information ◽  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Fetal Abnormality ◽  
Patient Information Leaflets ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Uk

AbstractEach year in the UK there are approximately 250,000 miscarriages, 3,000 stillbirths and 3,000 terminations following a diagnosis of fetal-abnormality. This paper draws from original empirical research into the experience of pregnancy loss and the accompanying decisionmaking processes. A key finding is that there is considerable variation across England in the range of options that are offered for disposal of pregnancy remains and the ways in which information around disposal are communicated. This analysis seeks to outline the key features of what constitutes effective communication in this context, where effective communication is taken to mean that patients are provided with the key information necessary, in an appropriate manner, so that they are fully able to make a decision. A primary source of evidence includes interviews with the bereaved and pregnancy-loss support workers, in order to understand how the options available, and associated necessary procedures, are communicated. In addition, patient information leaflets are also analyzed as they offer an important tool for information delivery at a difficult and emotionally charged time. Following this, an overview is provided of the information that these leaflets should contain, along with guidance on effective presentation of this information.

scholarly journals IoT-Based Framework for Smart Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jian Yang ◽  
Amit Sharma ◽  
Rajeev Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Environmental Temperature ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Smart Sensors ◽  
Precision Control ◽  
Smart Farming ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Smart Agriculture

Agriculture plays an important role in the making and development of a country. In India, agriculture is the primary source of living for more than about 60% of its population. The agriculture-related issues always hinder the development of a country. The enhancement of traditional agriculture methods and its modernization towards smart agriculture is the only solution for agriculture problems. Hence, by considering this issue, a framework is presented for smart agriculture using sensor network and IoT. The key features of this system are the deployment of smart sensors for the collection of data, cloud-based analysis, and decision based on monitoring for spraying and weeding. The smart farming approach provides valuable collection of data, high precision control, and automated monitoring approach. The proposed system presents smart agriculture monitoring system that collects and monitors the soil moisture, environmental temperature, and humidity. The measured soil moisture, temperature, and humidity are stored in ThingSpeak cloud for analysis.

scholarly journals Parsing and Working Memory in Bilingual Sentence Processing

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN CUNNINGS
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Capacity Limitations ◽  
L2 Processing ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Shallow Parsing ◽  
Retrieval Interference

A growing body of research has investigated bilingual sentence processing. How to account for differences in native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing is controversial. Some explain L1/L2 differences in terms of different parsing mechanisms, and the hypothesis that L2 learners adopt ‘shallow’ parsing has received considerable attention. Others assume L1/L2 processing is similar, and explain L1/L2 differences in terms of capacity-based limitations being exceeded during L2 processing. More generally, the role that working memory plays in language acquisition and processing has garnered increasing interest. Based on research investigating L2 sentence processing, I claim that a primary source of L1/L2 differences lies in the ability to retrieve information constructed during sentence processing from memory. In contrast to describing L1/L2 differences in terms of shallow parsing or capacity limitations, I argue that L2 speakers are more susceptible to retrieval interference when successful comprehension requires access to information from memory.

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