Lines in the Mud: Tank Eco-restoration and Boundary Contestations in Chennai

Urbanisation ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 245574712096550
Author(s):  
Karen Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Boundary Property ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
Natural Transformations ◽  
Turned Parts ◽  
Land Water ◽  
Over Time

This article analyses the politics of environmentalism revealed in struggles over the land–water boundary of an urbanising tank in Chennai. In contesting this boundary, property-less settlers on its banks called into question the tank’s ‘nature’ and functions in its urban milieu, and demanded a redrawing of boundaries to reflect the socio-natural transformations that had turned parts of it into land. Simultaneously, propertied residents, in concert with state eco-restoration schemes and court rulings, fought to restore the tank to its ‘original’ dimensions. In foregrounding the liminalities of the urbanising tank, this article suggests the limits of the contemporary property-determined eco-restoration discourse, premised on a return to pristine pasts and original boundaries. It proposes that the stand-off between water body restoration and the defence of working-class housing rights necessitates recognising the tank as an artefact assembled over time by socio-technical and natural processes.

‘A man’s work was a man’s life’

Bread Winner ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 62-85
Author(s):  
Emma Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Over Time

This chapter reveals the significance for work to male identity. Here, it shows how the centrality of work dominates men's autobiographies. Work was the key feature of a man's life and it was very often the motif by which male writers structured the story of their life. For most working-class men, work was equated with manhood — ‘I was a man and I knew it’. The chapter goes on to discuss how many Victorian children commenced their working lives at a considerably young age, particularly early in the reign when the place of children in the labour market was much more loosely regulated. Furthermore, to a far greater extent than girls, boys' experiences of work were shaped by the legislative framework as child labour laws became increasingly restrictive over time. This changing legal framework for child labour is clearly visible in the male autobiographies.

scholarly journals Antarctic Fish as a Global Pollution Sensor: Metals Biomonitoring in a Twelve-Year Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Marrone ◽  
Daniele La Russa ◽  
Elvira Brunelli ◽  
Gianfranco Santovito ◽  
Mauro Francesco La Russa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ross Sea ◽  
Antarctic Fish ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Early Step ◽  
Low Latitudes ◽  
Contamination Levels ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Land Water ◽  
Natural Laboratory ◽  
Over Time

Antarctica represents a unique natural laboratory for ecotoxicological studies as it is characterized by low internal pollutants emissions but high external contamination levels. Indeed, warm temperatures promote pollutant evaporation (low latitudes), while cool temperatures (high latitudes) promote its deposition from the atmosphere on land/water. Metals are the most important pollutants in ecosystems and represent a serious and global threat to aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Since 2000, the risks posed by metals have led many States to ratify protocols aimed at reducing their emissions. Endemic Antarctic organisms represent excellent bioindicators in order to evaluate the efficacy of global measures adopted to mitigate pollutants release into the environment. In this study (supported by PNRA18-00133), we estimated the metals contamination levels and the metallothionein-1 expression in liver samples of two Antarctic fish species, the icefish Chionodraco hamatus and the red-blooded Trematomus bernacchii, collected in the same area during 2002 and 2014. The chosen area is located in the Ross Sea, a unique area as it is also isolated from the rest of the Southern Ocean. The analysis of contamination trends throughout this period showed, in both species, a significant increase over time of metals bioaccumulation and metallothionein-1 expression. In addition, our result clearly indicated that the detoxifying ability of the two organisms analyzed greatly differs, probably due to haemoglobin presence/absence. Our work represents an important early step to obtain valuable information in conservation strategies for both Antarctic and non-Antarctic ecosystems.

scholarly journals INTEGRATED SHORELINE EXTRACTION APPROACH WITH USE OF RASAT MS AND SENTINEL-1A SAR IMAGES

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-2/W4 ◽  
pp. 445-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Demir ◽  
S. Oy ◽  
F. Erdem ◽  
D. Z. Şeker ◽  
B. Bayram
Keyword(s):  
Water Body ◽  
Accuracy Assessment ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Random Forest Classification ◽  
Forest Classification ◽  
Body Segmentation ◽  
Land Water

Shorelines are complex ecosystems and highly important socio-economic environments. They may change rapidly due to both natural and human-induced effects. Determination of movements along the shoreline and monitoring of the changes are essential for coastline management, modeling of sediment transportation and decision support systems. Remote sensing provides an opportunity to obtain rapid, up-to-date and reliable information for monitoring of shoreline. In this study, approximately 120 km of Antalya-Kemer shoreline which is under the threat of erosion, deposition, increasing of inhabitants and urbanization and touristic hotels, has been selected as the study area. In the study, RASAT pansharpened and SENTINEL-1A SAR images have been used to implement proposed shoreline extraction methods. The main motivation of this study is to combine the land/water body segmentation results of both RASAT MS and SENTINEL-1A SAR images to improve the quality of the results. The initial land/water body segmentation has been obtained using RASAT image by means of Random Forest classification method. This result has been used as training data set to define fuzzy parameters for shoreline extraction from SENTINEL-1A SAR image. Obtained results have been compared with the manually digitized shoreline. The accuracy assessment has been performed by calculating perpendicular distances between reference data and extracted shoreline by proposed method. As a result, the mean difference has been calculated around 1 pixel.

White Working-Class People and Voting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Gest
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Clinton Presidency ◽  
Class Voting ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Blair Government ◽  
Over Time

What are white working-class voting trends over time? The Clinton presidency and Blair government marked parallel pivots in the trajectory of the Democratic and Labour parties—a pursuit of what has been termed a “Third Way.” Since the 1930s, the parties had been associated with unionism,...

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Vincent DiGirolamo
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Dual Careers ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
Child Street ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Major Industry ◽  
Over Time

Selling and delivering newspapers was one of the first and most formative experiences of America’s youth throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, yet its history has been obscured by myth and mired in cliché. Crying the News takes the job of newspaper peddling seriously as work and not just as an object of romance or reform. It shows how child street labor changed over time in practice and in perception, while remaining integral to the survival of working-class families, the socialization of their children, and the fortunes of a major industry. Boys and girls found both opportunity and exploitation in the news trade, and they came to personify the spirit of capitalism and its discontents. This book aims not simply to distinguish history from myth but to explore the relationship between the two—to dissect how newsboys’ dual careers as workers and symbols shaped each other, creating wealth for some and meaning for many.

Natural Analogues: Alamosa River Monzonite Intrusive into Tuffaceous and Andesitic Rocks

1982 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Brookins ◽  
M. S. Abashian ◽  
L. H. Cohen ◽  
A. E. Williams ◽  
H. A. Wollenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fission Product ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Hydrothermal Systems ◽  
Rock Matrix ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Natural Analogues ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Over Time

This project encompasses investigations of selected natural analogues of minerals and rocks containing radioelements and fission-product elements, to ascertain how radionuclides and their daughter elements may migrate from sites of origin in response to long-term natural processes such as heating due to an igneous intrusion, circulating hydrothermal systems, diffusion through the rock matrix, weathering and erosion. Comparison of natural occurrences with conceptual models based on laboratory data will furnish a test of such models over time periods comparable to or longer than those expected for a repository.

Polish Immigration and the American Working Class

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Pacyga
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Rust Belt ◽  
Radical History ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Over Time

In the years after the Civil War, Polish immigrants became an important part of the American working class. They actively participated in the labor movement and played key roles in various industrial strikes ranging from the 1877 Railroad Strike through the rise of the CIO and the post-1945 era of prosperity. Over time, the Polish American working class became acculturated and left its largely immigrant past behind while maintaining itself as an ethnic community. It also witnessed a good deal of upward mobility, especially over several generations. This ethnic community, however, continued to be refreshed with immigrants throughout the 20th century. As with the larger American working class, Polish American workers were hard hit by changes in the industrial structure of the United States. Deindustrialization turned the centers of much of the Polish American community into the Rust Belt. This, despite a radical history, caused many to react by turning toward conservative causes in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sterne
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Americans ◽  
Lay Societies ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time

This chapter maintains that Catholic parishes were the most accessible and important institutions in Providence's ethnic, working-class neighborhoods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that as such, they played critical roles in politicizing new Americans. It was at church that the largest proportion of immigrants congregated on a regular basis. Parishes functioned not only as sources of spiritual solace but also as dispensers of charity, promoters of upward mobility, and centers of neighborhood life. Priests initially promoted lay societies to foster congregational loyalties, but over time the groups also served as political organizing spaces for Catholic women and men. For many, the Church served as a place where new Americans organized for change.

“Black Writers and White!”: Jack Conroy, Arna Bontemps, and Interracial Collaboration in the 1930s

Prospects ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 401-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Wixson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
Black American ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
American Cultural History ◽  
Over Time

The task of cultural recovery, George Hutchinson writes, begins with “those moments when places where the intertwined discourses of race, culture, and nation were exposed to questioning, to skepticism, to transformation, however small and localized, and when possibilities for coalitions of cultural reformers were envisioned and exploited” (Harlem, 26). The historical record has been muddied by shifting political currents and fragmented by instances of deliberate neglect over time, yet scholars have recently begun to reconstruct the complicated story of interracial cooperation between the two world wars. More effort, however, should be devoted to discovering connections and parallels between the worlds of work and art — of labor and literature — as part of this story. One reward of such effort, I suggest, will be to reveal the hitherto hidden “lines of continuity and disruption” that James A. Miller sees connecting “the African-American literary production of the 1920s and its production in the 1930s” (87–88). That those lines often intersected lines traced by nonblack literary production and working-class history reinforces Hutchinson's point that it is necessary to rethink “American cultural history from a position of interracial marginality, a position that sees ‘white’ and ‘black’ American cultures as intimately, mutually constitutive” (Harlem, 3).

scholarly journals Analysis Of Reed Resource Dynamics In Water Bodies Of Eastern Latvia

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
E. Čubars ◽  
G. Noviks
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Lakes ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Resource Dynamics ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Made In

The paper shows the results obtained during the research of reed dynamics revealing that in Eastern Latvia 20 lakes and pisciculture farms are potentially important for the reed extraction. In 2008, the reed resources there covered a territory of approximately 2300 ha. The ortophoto images of potentially important water bodies made in 1997, 2005 and 2008 were analyzed using the computer program ArcMap. The reed growth develops differently in every water body, but in general the eutrophication of water bodies and the enlargement of reed-covered areas can be observed. The most rapidly the reed occupies new territories in pisciculture farms and shallow lakes. The analysis of reed resource dynamics show that reed-covered areas in this region are expanding every year. The main factors that influence the distribution of reed growths refer to human activities, climatic conditions, hydrological regime in water bodies and natural processes of eutrophication.

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