Living with landmines: Inhabiting a war-altered landscape

2021 ◽  
pp. 135918352199750
Author(s):  
Lisa Arensen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
The State ◽  
Inorganic Elements ◽  
Tectonic Processes ◽  
Wild Vegetation

Mined land in Cambodia possesses hazardous potential for those willing to risk its inhabitation, but this potentiality is commingled with threat and uncertainty. Mined terrain creates sites where the affordances of place clash with its dangerous materialities. Village residents in this study were engaged in ongoing efforts to physically alter the place they inhabited, but these tectonic processes were not always successful. The presence of military waste transformed the landscape into an unfamiliar ecological terrain of intermingled organic and potentially explosive inorganic elements. By 2009, large swathes of village land had been cleared of both mines and wild vegetation, giving villagers a hard-earned sense of safety. However, ongoing uncertainty remained about the state of the ground and the things buried within it. Amidst the struggle to reclaim the landscape for agriculture, mines sometimes interposed themselves, their detonations damaging bodies and lives and unsettling residents’ sense of place.

scholarly journals Spatial regression methods to evaluate beekeeping production in the state of Rio de Janeiro

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-558
Author(s):  
W.S. Tassinari ◽  
M.C. Lorenzon ◽  
E.L. Peixoto
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
The State ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
Regression Methods ◽  
Honey Production ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Wild Vegetation

Brazilian beekeeping has been developed from the africanization of the honeybees and its high performance launches Brazil as one of the world´s largest honey producer. The Southeastern region has an expressive position in this market (45%), but the state of Rio de Janeiro is the smallest producer, despite presenting large areas of wild vegetation for honey production. In order to analyze the honey productivity in the state of Rio de Janeiro, this research used classic and spatial regression approaches. The data used in this study comprised the responses regarding beekeeping from 1418 beekeepers distributed throughout 72 counties of this state. The best statistical fit was a semiparametric spatial model. The proposed model could be used to estimate the annual honey yield per hive in regions and to detect production factors more related to beekeeping. Honey productivity was associated with the number of hives, wild swarm collection and losses in the apiaries. This paper highlights that the beekeeping sector needs support and help to elucidate the problems plaguing beekeepers, and the inclusion of spatial effects in the regression models is a useful tool in geographical data.

scholarly journals Reweaving the Urban Fabric of the Historic Riverfront Townscape of Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.9) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Zafarullah b Mohamad Rozaly ◽  
Sharyzee Mohmad Shukri ◽  
Nurul Syala Abd. Latip ◽  
Alias Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban River ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Visual Survey

This study aims to examine the state of decline in the art of relationship between the urban river and all other elements in the historic townscape using principles of the Integrative Theory with the purpose to identify what binds townscape together and gives its sense of place and what causes the rupture. A qualitative-method case study was conducted in the Masjid India Riverfront District involving a visual survey, townscape appraisal, and content analysis on the morphology of the historic riverfront. The results show that the rupture between townscape and river as context is a product of poor walkability in a riverfront devoid of any setting for meaningful human activities, and the key to reweave the historic townscape is to rediscover what gives its meaning and sense of place.  

Home

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-170
Author(s):  
Robert Colls
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
The State ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
History Of

Chapter 5 sees the parish as a platform for belonging, and sport and custom as celebrations of that belonging. It opens with Edwin Butterworth, a well-connected journalist working for Edward Baines, the radical newspaper owner, who was writing a history of Lancashire. Charged in 1835 with surveying a county deep in the throes of industrialization, and keen to establish the state of ‘Customs, Habits, &c’, Butterworth’s findings do not show the sudden death of parochial custom any more than they show the rising up of a great new factory system. Instead, they show parochial culture dying in some places but flourishing (and changing) in others. The chapter goes on to look more widely at how this old parochial culture had bound people to their sense of place—what the old Poor Law called ‘settlement’. At the same time the chapter notes how from the 1830s to the 1880s, the welfare functions that had underpinned settlement were being removed and given to quasi-national bodies. Apart from Church of England clergy who were not quite insiders or outsiders, the parish had insiders who were enemies as well. Primitive Methodists were anti-sport and counter-parochial for all of the nineteenth century. They brought disruption with a new kind of belonging.

A comparative analysis of perceptual and demographic predictors of sense of place dimensions in the State Mosques of Malaysia

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Maziar Mazloomi ◽  
Syed Iskandar Ariffin ◽  
Raja Nafida Raja Shahminan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
The State ◽  
Demographic Predictors

scholarly journals From a Dry Statement of Facts to a Thing of Beauty: Understanding Aesthetics in the Mapping and Counter-Mapping of Place

2012 ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
The State ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Topographic Mapping ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
National Styles

Aesthetics plays a key role in cartographic design and is especially significant to the representation of place, whether by the state, the community, the crowd, or the artist. While state topographic mapping today demonstrates a rich diversity of national styles, its evolution (particularly since the Enlightenment) has led to the establishment of a particular aesthetic tradition, which has recently been challenged by counter-mapping initiatives and through map art. This paper explores the function of aesthetics in the cartographic representation of place. It offers an analysis of the aesthetic value of topographic maps and suggests how an appropriate wielding of the aesthetic language of cartography can communicate a sense of place more effectively.

A Test of Character: Regulating Place-identity in Inner-city Melbourne

Urban Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 2595-2615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Dovey ◽  
Ian Woodcock ◽  
Stephen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
Performance Framework ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
Urban Character ◽  
The City

During the 1990s, urban planning in Melbourne changed from prescriptive regulation to a place-based performance framework with a focus on existing or desired ‘urban character’. This paper is a case study of a contentious urban project in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy: a highly valued place characterised as an irregular and transgressive mix of differences: between building types, functions, forms, heights and people. Contrasting conceptions, experiences and constructions of ‘character’ are explored from the viewpoints of residents, architect/developer and the state. To what degree does the regulation of ‘character’ open or close the city to creative innovation? Can it become camouflage for creative destruction? How to regulate for irregularity? The paper concludes with a discussion of theories of place (Massey vs Heidegger) and the prospects of concepts such as habitus (Bourdieu) and assemblage (Deleuze) for the interpretation of a progressive sense of place.

Practical Picture Processing

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 338-339
Author(s):  
T. A. Welton
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Damage ◽  
Coherence Length ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Coherent Radiation ◽  
The State ◽  
Energy Spread ◽  
Electron Micrograph ◽  
Picture Processing ◽  
Molecular Skeleton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.

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