In search of lost space: The process of space planning through remembering and history

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio James Petani ◽  
Jeanne Mengis
Keyword(s):  
Production Of Space ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Contested Narratives

This article explores the role of remembering and history in the process of planning new spaces. We trace how the organizational remembering of past spaces enters the conception (i.e. planning) of a large culture center. By drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s reflections on history, time and memory, we analyze the processual interconnections of his spatial triad, namely between the planned, practiced, and lived moments of the production of space. We find that over time space planning involves recurrent, changing, and contested narratives on ‘lost spaces’, remembering happy spaces of the past that articulate a desire to regain them. The notion of lost space adds to our understanding of how space planning involves, through organizational remembering, a sociomaterial and spatiotemporal work of relating together different spaces and times in non-linear narratives of repetition.

Fear of Islam in Greece: migration, terrorism, and “ghosts” from the past

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Sakellariou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Over Time

The article explores the “fear of Islam” through a specific series of political debates about Islam and the future of the Greek-Orthodox national identity. The analysis is based on the method of qualitative content analysis, which makes use of thematic categories and draws on the proceedings of the Greek parliament. The main questions the article will try to address are: How have Greek political parties reacted to public demand for the construction of a mosque? What have been the rhetorical tropes they use? How have they capitalized on current and old fears about Islam? What have been the implications of this discourse on state policies toward Islam? Have there been any differences in this discourse over time? The analysis highlights the role of historical interpretations of Greek national identity and contemporary problems related to new waves of migration due to Greece's place on the border with Turkey and with the broader Islamic world.

scholarly journals Closing the divide: Subject librarians and scholarly communication librarians can work together to reach common goals

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (10) ◽  
pp. 552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Policies And Practices

As ACRL President, I am very interested in the changes that our members and the profession are experiencing and in making connections to our goals in the ACRL Plan for Excellence.1 Our plan enables ACRL to invest member resources in shaping policies and practices that enable us to meet the needs of our users and our institutions as they change over time. Over the past year, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about scholarly communication and the role of academic librarians, particularly subject or liaison librarians.

scholarly journals Female Roles in La Cinta Dorada by María Manuela Reina and Models of the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Aguilar López ◽  
Marta Miguel Borge
Keyword(s):  
Internal Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Psychological Balance ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Female Drama

Our model of the world that we perceive within ourselves, our conscience, in short, our psychological balance is influenced by our surroundings. Part of the input to which we are exposed in this immediate environment is related to texts, self-managed discourse, which can also influence our internal model of the world; hence they are deserving of our attention. In the same way as the models of the world that we construct throughout our lives, reality is not static and also changes as time goes by. From a social point of view, we can see that the roles of women in modern-day society and the ways that those roles can be perceived today are a consequence of changes initiated in the past within different areas and in a prolonged process over time up until our day. With the aim of evaluating whether female drama has contributed to that change, we present an analysis in this paper of the play La Cinta Dorada [The Golden Ribbon] by María Manuela Reina, written and set in the 1980s, a decade that for Spain implied a more obvious abandonment of the most traditional conceptions of the role of women. In the analysis of the play, we see how the models of the world of the older people are counterposed with those of the younger people, a generational divide that is enriched with the gender difference, as we also analyze how the psychological structures of the female and male characters confront the clichés pertaining to another era in reference to such topics as success, infidelity, matrimony, and gender. The results of our analysis demonstrate how Reina responds to archaic conceptions, thereby inciting the audiences of the day to question their respective models of the world, especially, with regard to the role of the woman in society. 

scholarly journals Tüketimin Değişen Yüzü: Elektronik Ticaret Uygulamaları ve Sosyal Paylaşım Ağlarının Rolü / The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Büşra Halis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human History ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Over Time

İnsanlık tarihi kadar eski olan tüketim, zaman içerisinde yaşanan değişim ve dönüşümlerle birlikte yeni bir boyut kazanmıştır. Eskinin, ihtiyacı kadar almak ve çalışmak gibi fenemonlerinin yerini, günümüzde daha çok satın almak için çalışmak, tükettiğinin ölçüsünde var olabilmek ya da olamamak almıştır. Tüketimin soyut anlamda kavramsal içeriğinin farklılaşmasının yanı sıra, tüketim araçları da farklılaşmıştır. Artık, yüz yüze görüşmeler yoluyla yapılan alışverişlerin yerini; fiziki mekândan bağımsız, internet üzerinden e-ticaret yoluyla ve birtakım paylaşım ağları aracılığıyla yapılan alışverişler almıştır. Bu çalışmada da, tüketimin ve tüketimde kullanılan araçların geçmişten bugüne değişen anlamı ve bu değişimi körükleyen sosyal ağ paradigması tartışılmaktadır. The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks Consumption, which is as old as human history has gained a new dimension with changes and transformations in the course of time. In the past, people bought and worked as they needed, but now, they work to buy more things except necessity and they be or not to be until they consumed. Over time, the conceptual content and tools of the consumption has changed. Shopping, which is done independent of the physical space, via the internet through e-commerce replaced shopping made by face to face. In this work, the changing meaning and tools of consumption from past to present and the paradigm of social networks which encouraging this change is to be held.

scholarly journals Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zieleniec
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics Of Space ◽  
The City

Henri Lefebvre’s project, developed over decades of research produced a corpus of work that sought to reprioritise the fundamental role of space in the experience and practice of social life. His assertion that there is ‘politics of space’ provides a challenge to the planning and design of the built environment by emphasising the need to understand the complex of elements involved in ‘the production of space’. Lefebvre’s approach and his ‘cry and demand’ for a ‘right to the city’ reflects the fundamental focus and importance he imparts to the practices, meanings and values associated with the inhabitation and use of the social spaces of everyday life. It will be argued that planning and design theory and practice should seek to address more fully and incorporate Lefebvre’s spatial theory as a means to reinvigorate and regenerate the urban as a lived environment, as an oeuvre, as opportunity for inhabitation, festival and play and not merely as a functional habitat impelled by the needs of power and capital.

scholarly journals O URBANISMO COMO ECONOMIA POLÍTICA DO/NO ESPAÇO: REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DO PROCESSO DE METROPOLIZAÇÃO DE BELO HORIZONTE

GEOgraphia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Andrade Santos
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern Portion ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
State Interventions

Este estudo discute o processo de produção do espaço de Belo Horizonte, tendo como fio condutor a análise da ação conjunta entre Estado e capital. Mostra-se, a partir do caso prático de Belo Horizonte, que, no processo de modernização e metropolização contemporâneos, a espoliação dos mais pobres continua a ocorrer. Nesse processo, o urbanismo, travestido de planejamento urbano e regional, planejamento estratégico etc., assume seu papel de saber político vinculado às necessidades do capital, organizando o espaço em função dos interesses deste último. A valorização do solo urbano acontece com o auxílio das intervenções do Estado via instrumentos de planejamento urbano previstos na própria legislação urbanística brasileira. Há a elevação do preço da terra e dos serviços, o que tende a dificultar o acesso dos trabalhadores de baixa renda, sendo a renda fundiária oriunda desses processos apropriada pelo capital rentista. Considerando as características da urbanização na porção norte da Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte no passado em comparação com o momento atual, verifica-se que, embora o capitalismo venha se trasformando ao longo do último século, se adaptando às suas crises, a sua essência permanece a mesma, bem como a essência da urbanização que produz. Observa-se como desdobramento direto uma nova rodada de gentrificação do espaço e do consequente processo de periferização por conta da ampliação da capitalização do solo urbano da metrópole.Palavras-chave: Urbanização; Produção do Espaço; Capital; Estado; Urbanismo. URBANISM LIKE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE/IN THE SPACE: REFLECTIONS BASED ON THE BELO HORIZONTE METROPOLIZATION PROCESS CASE Abstract: This study discusses the Belo Horizonte’s production of space process, having as a guideline the analysis of the association between government and capital. It is shown from the empirical case of Belo Horizonte that in the contemporary modernization and metropolization process the dispossession of the poorest continues. In this process, urbanism, disguised of urban and regional planning, strategic planning, etc., assumes its role of political knowledge linked to organize the space in function of the capital needs. The valorization of urban soil occurs with the aid of State interventions using urban planning instruments provided for in the Brazilian urban legislation itself. There is an increase in the price of land and services, which tends to hinder the access of low-income workers, and the land income from these processes is appropriated by rentier capital. Considering the characteristics of urbanization in the northern portion of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte in the past compared to the current moment, it appears that, although capitalism has been changing over the last century, adapting to its crises, its essence remains the same, as well as the essence of the urbanization it produces. A new round of gentrification of the space and the consequent process of periphery growth can be observed as a direct development due to the expansion of the capitalization of metropolis urban land.Keywords: Urbanization; Production of Space; Capital; State; Urbanism. EL URBANISMO COMO ECONOMÍA POLÍTICA DEL / EN EL ESPACIO: REFLEXIONES A PARTIR DEL PROCESO DE METROPOLIZACIÓN DE BELO HORIZONTE Resumen: Este estudio discute el proceso de producción del espacio de Belo Horizonte, teniendo como pauta el análisis de la acción conjunta entre Estado y capital. Se muestra, a partir del caso práctico de Belo Horizonte, que, en el proceso de modernización y metropolización contemporánea, se sigue produciendo el saqueo de los más pobres. En este proceso, el urbanismo, disfrazado de planificación urbana y regional, planificación estratégica, etc., asume su papel de conocimiento político vinculado a las necesidades del capital, organizando el espacio según los intereses de este último. La valorización del suelo urbano se da con la ayuda de intervenciones estatales mediante los instrumentos de planificación urbana previstos en la propia legislación urbana brasileña. Existe un aumento en el precio de la tierra y los servicios, lo que tiende a dificultar el acceso de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos, y los ingresos de la tierra de estos procesos son apropiados por el capital rentista. Considerando las características de la urbanización en la parte norte de la Región Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte en el pasado en comparación con el momento actual, parece que, aunque el capitalismo ha ido cambiando durante el último siglo, adaptándose a sus crisis, su esencia sigue siendo la misma, así como la esencia de la urbanización que produce. Una nueva ronda de gentrificación del espacio y el consecuente proceso de periferización puede verse como un desarrollo directo debido a la expansión de la capitalización del suelo urbano de la metrópoli.Palabras-clave: Urbanización; Producción espacial; Capital; Estado; Urbanismo.  

scholarly journals How to consider history in landscape ecology: patterns, processes, and pathways

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Tappeiner ◽  
Georg Leitinger ◽  
Anita Zariņa ◽  
Matthias Bürgi
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Patterns And Processes ◽  
Event Chains ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Context Landscape ecology early on developed the awareness that central objects of investigation are not stable over time and therefore the historical dimension must be included, or at least considered. Objectives This paper considers the importance of history in landscape ecology in terms of its impact on patterns and processes and proposes to complement these with the notion of pathways in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of landscape change. Methods We develop a conceptual framework distinguishing between legacy effects, which include pattern and processes, and path dependence, with a focus of development pathways and we illustrate these perspectives by empirical examples. Results Combined short- to long-lasting imprints and legacies of historical patterns and processes reveal how present patterns and processes are in various ways influenced by legacies of the past. The focus on inherent dynamics of development pathways sheds light on the process of change itself, and its trajectories, and reveals the role of event chains and institutional reproduction. Conclusions Understanding patterns, processes, and pathways over time, allows a more complete analysis of landscape change, and forms the base to preserve vital ecosystem services of both human-made and natural landscapes for the future.

La responsabilità morale dello storico

2009 ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
Bronislaw Baczko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Principle Of Relativity ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Over Time

- Historical knowledge is tied in a thousand ways to the anxieties, conflicts, to antinomies and to the demands of our era. It is in the name of our present that interrogates the past. It possesses a degree of expressive character: voicing the present where one is born and lives. So, therefore the historian is not an impartial and static observer of the past and the ever-dominate present. He must remain in the perspective of the present-day and the historical moment in which he lives. But no «present» is ever really finished. One might think that no moral code is consistent with the principle of relativity of knowledge, that the researcher is inevitably partial and runs the risk of deformation and ideological sublimation. It may also be that history has taken a far too long function of magistra vitae in social awareness. It does not seem to arouse any distrust towards our time. In fact, the disproportion between the anonymous «fate» on one side - the decisions bearing on the existence of humanity and its future destiny - and, on the other hand, the possibility of individual action is today such that history seems pointless for the rationalization of the present. The attitude towards historical knowledge is also influenced by the fact that it is a subject far too easy to exploit and manipulate by power and propaganda, penalizing values often variable and contradictory. The historical-humanist has often been reduced to the role of technical - propagandist. In his research, he cannot make «partial» choices between true and false. The awareness of the relativity of values and of their variability over time, does not change anything in the absolute moral character of historical research. The total moral responsibility of the historian cannot be relieved by anyone. An historian, precisely, must explore the past to get to the truth; he is morally obligated and has no right to falsify.Key words: present, pass, historical knowledge, "to be a historian", responsibility, relativism, moral code.Parole chiave: presente, passato, conoscenza storica, "essere uno storico", responsabilità, relativismo, codice morale.

scholarly journals Driver Countries in Global Banking Network

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 810
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Atyabi ◽  
Olha Buchel ◽  
Leila Hedayatifar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Global Banking ◽  
Over Time

We analyze the network of cross-border bank lending connections among countries from 1977 to 2018. The network includes core countries that lend money and peripheral countries that borrow money from core countries. In nowadays highly connected banking network, financial crisis that start from a country can spread to other countries very fast and cause global affects. We use principal component analysis (PCA) to find the influential lending (core) countries in this network over the years and clusters of borrowing (peripheral) countries related to these impactful core countries. We find three clusters of peripheral countries, with some constant and some changing members over time. This can be a sign of changes in the financial or political interactions among countries. The changes in the role of core countries and how these roles get affected by the important financial crisis in the past decades is investigated. Among 31 of core countries, 7 countries have a partially or constantly important role in the network including France, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Germany, Chinese Taipei and Switzerland.

scholarly journals Historical and Ethnographic Features and Modern Tendencies of Mordovian Wedding Rituals (Based on Field Materials From the Village of Adashevo)

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Т.И. Янгайкина ◽  
П.Н. Назин
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time

Цель статьи – изучить современные формы мордовской свадебной обрядности, выявить степень их соответствия традиционным обрядовым практикам прошлого и показать основные тенденции их эволюции (на полевом материале села Адашево Кадошкинского района Республики Мордовия). В качестве источников использованы этнографические факты, отраженные в собранных авторами полевых материалах, архивные документы, результаты исследований российских этнографов. Особенностью исследования является личное участие авторов в связанных со свадьбой событиях (праздничной процессии и православно-обрядовой части). Большинство выявленных и использованных материалов вводится в научный оборот впервые. Проведенные изыскания позволяют сделать вывод о том, что в прошлом мордовская свадьба заключала в себе сакральный смысл, однако в современном обществе обряды и традиции сохраняются лишь частично и являются скорее «театрализованной» постановкой. The aimof the study is to assess the degree of compliance of the modern forms of Mordovian wedding rituals spread in the village of Adashevo with traditional ritual practices of the past and to identify the main trends in their evolution. The sources used were ethnographic facts reflected in the field materials the authors collected, archival documents, the results of research by Russian and Mordovian ethnographers. Within the framework of the historical and ethnographic approach, the study used various methods: historiographic, comparative, logical, systemic analysis; empirical (conversation, interview, questioning, visiting rituals), which made it possible to collect the necessary information in archival and field conditions. An example for studying was the wedding of a young Mordovian couple, which took place in the village of Adashevo. The details of the matchmaking, reproduced according to a local informant’s testimony, are considered; the details of the process and the related planning of the upcoming wedding are characterized. Archpriest Pavel (Nazin), one of the authors of the article, conducted the wedding ceremony in the local Trinity Church. The authors give a detailed description of the traditional wedding rituals that follow the church wedding (dressing the bride, naming, gift-giving rituals). The role of some objects (towels, bells, etc.) in wedding rituals is characterized. Special attention is paid to the street procession of guests and to the specific rite of avozen' praftoma [rolling the mother-in-law]. Among the rituals on the second day of the wedding, the custom of making pancakes by the daughter-in-law and the toron kandy [groomsman], and ceremonies with the posazhyonnaya mat’ [woman giving the bride to the groom], are described. The role and place of newlyweds at the wedding table in the past and present are characterized. The general and special elements of the Mordovian wedding ritual complex, common in the village of Adashevo, have been identified. It has been established that most of the traditional rituals are still preserved: matchmaking, weddings, bride complaints, weddings in national costumes. Over time, many rituals lost their original meaning and were performed only according to tradition, some received a new understanding, and others acquired a comic playful character. Most of the rituals are currently perceived not as a truly sacred act, but rather are a simple reproduction of forms that took place in the past, a kind of tribute to tradition, the adherence to which is not accompanied by a deep comprehension.

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