An alternative image of the city: maps by migrants to explore contemporary urban landscape

Ciudades ◽

10.24197/ciudades.23.2020.159-184 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 159-184

Author(s):

Nausicaa Pezzoni

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Research Method ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Living Conditions ◽

Point Of View ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This paper presents the result of an empirical study on mapping three Italian cities from the point of view of migrants during the first period of their stay. It aims at exploring an emerging issue in the contemporary government of a city that is increasingly inhabited by transitory populations: the relationship of its new inhabitants to the urban landscape. Drawing upon a method introduced by Kevin Lynch, 150 maps of the ‘landfall city’ came to life; in the first part the research method and its first application in Milan are presented; in the second part other two surveys, in Rovereto and Bologna, are introduced within the project “Migrants Mapping Europe”, aimed at incrementally building an European map of the present that brings to surface the meaning and forms of the transitory living conditions in the territories of contemporaneity.

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On the issue of chronic anemia in schoolchildren

Kazan medical journal ◽

10.17816/kazmj80210 ◽

1929 ◽

Vol 25 (10) ◽

pp. 1051-1058

Author(s):

S. M. Marcuse

Keyword(s):

Living Conditions ◽

Healthy Children ◽

School Life ◽

Chronic Anemia ◽

The Social ◽

Mucous Membranes ◽

School Period ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

In this work, the goal is to get better acquainted with the clinical picture of anemia in chronically anemic schoolchildren and to investigate the relationship of the disease with some social and living conditions of children. For this, we took 2 Russian schools of the first stage, located in the same district of the city, but different in the social composition and living conditions of students, with a total of about 300 children who were under our supervision during the entire school period (1-4 years). Of these, children with a pronounced pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, observed for at least a year, were selected, who were allocated to the group of chronically anemic children, and an equal group of other children was taken to compare with them, from which a group of healthy children who showed a good complexion during throughout school life.

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Demystifying the Sublime City in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things

American Studies in Scandinavia ◽

10.22439/asca.v50i2.5776 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 21-41

Author(s):

Hasine Sen Karadeniz

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Capitalist Economy ◽

The Sublime ◽

Technological Structure ◽

Technological Sublime ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

The present study discusses the demystification of the urban sublime in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things. It sets the term in a US context and discusses its specificity through the examination of the relationship of the urban sublime with a pair of interrelated concepts: the technological sublime and the consumer’s sublime. This theoretical preview verifies that the architectural and technological structure of the city has been subordinated to the logics of capitalist economy. The paper evaluates Auster’s novel as a critique of the deferential elevation of the urban landscape through its reduction to the dystopian images of garbage and waste; through the reversal of the object of the sublime from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, from the urban to the natural; and through the subversion of the power dynamics attributed to the skyscraper, the central emblem of the urban sublime. It asserts that the foregrounding of the act of falling, set against the pronounced upward orientation of the urban landscape, defines the city as an inherently lethal area capable of arousing a single passion linked to the notion of the sublime—terror.

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Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft ◽

10.32387/prokla.v48i191.84 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 48 (191) ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan Diesselhorst

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

City Government ◽

Housing Policies ◽

Hierarchical Decision Making ◽

Urban Social Movements ◽

State Apparatus ◽

Hierarchical Decision ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

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An empirical study on the relationship of managers' attitude to the social responsibility and social responsibility information disclosure

Information Science and Management Engineering II (Set) ◽

10.2495/isme20141732 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Min Liu

Keyword(s):

Social Responsibility ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Information Disclosure ◽

The Social ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

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THE GENDER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “POWER” FRAME IN SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY “MACBETH”

Tyumen State University Herald Humanities Research Humanitates ◽

10.21684/2411-197x-2020-6-2-19-36 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 19-36

Author(s):

Ekaterina A. LOBANOVA

Keyword(s):

Main Idea ◽

Point Of View ◽

Integrative Approach ◽

Discursive Analysis ◽

Historical Text ◽

Gender Characteristics ◽

And Gender ◽

Linguistic Methods ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This article studies the cognitive features of the “power” frame and its gender implementation in the historical tragedy by W. Shakespeare “Macbeth”. Here, the author examines the concepts of “frame” and “gender” in linguistics, studying different approaches to their definition. The relevance of this work is determined by the close attention of the contemporary linguistics to these concepts, as well as their place in the contemporary academic paradigm. The academic affirmation of the “frame” and “gender” concepts designates a new step in understanding the ways and peculiarities of the language interaction, consciousness, and culture, and, consequently, it shows new aspects of the relationship of linguistics with other sciences. Nevertheless, the problems of both frame and gender are not yet fully understood. This study allows describing in detail the essence of the frame “power” and showing its meaning, use, and ways of its gender implementation in fiction, which explains the novelty of this article. The study’s methodology is based on the cognitive-discursive analysis of the text, as well as on an integrative approach to the discourse study, which combines methods of both cognitive and gender linguistics, as well as the discourse analysis. Common research methods were used along with private linguistic methods. The application of cognitive-discursive analysis has significantly increased the depth of understanding of the “power” frame that dominates Shakespeare’s historical tragedy. This historical text presents the central theme of political tragedy: the overthrow of the rightful ruler and the usurpation of power. The motive for the seizure of power forms a thematic core and is presented from the usurpers’ point of view. In this article, the author observes the gender shift and duality of the female and male beginnings: Shakespeare puts the female protagonist, hungry for power, among men, thus the images of Lady Macbeth and her husband come into conflict with the gender characteristics attributed to them. The play clearly traces the main idea of Machiavellianism: the goal justifies the means. The results conclude that the “power” frame is the leading one in Lady Macbeth’s monologue, thus setting one of the main themes of this tragedy.

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Reconceptualizing the Public Spaces of New Urban Areas in Hanoi: The End or the New of Public-Making?

International Journal of Sustainable Construction Engineering Technology ◽

10.30880/ijscet.2021.12.01.026 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Minh-Tung Tran ◽

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Tien-Hau Phan ◽

Ngoc-Huyen Chu ◽

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...

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Public Spaces ◽

The Public ◽

Doi Moi ◽

The World ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City ◽

Neighborhood Level

Public spaces are designed and managed in many different ways. In Hanoi, after the Doi moi policy in 1986, the transfer of the public spaces creation at the neighborhood-level to the private sector has prospered na-ture of public and added a large amount of public space for the city, directly impacting on citizen's daily life, creating a new trend, new concept of public spaces. This article looks forward to understanding the public spaces-making and operating in KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) in Hanoi to answer the question of whether ‘socialization’/privatization of these public spaces will put an end to the urban public or the new means of public-making trend. Based on the comparison and literature review of studies in the world on public spaces privatization with domestic studies to see the differences in the Vietnamese context leading to differences in definitions and roles and the concept of public spaces in KDTMs of Hanoi. Through adducing and analyzing practical cases, the article also mentions the trends, the issues, the ways and the technologies of public-making and public-spaces-making in KDTMs of Hanoi. Win/loss and the relationship of the three most important influential actors in this process (municipality, KDTM owners, inhabitants/citizens) is also considered to reconceptualize the public spaces of KDTMs in Hanoi.

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The Relationship of Music-Sound, Technology and Internet

International Conference of Innovation in Media and Visual Design ◽

10.31937/imdes.v1i1.1130 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 160-169

Author(s):

Clemens Felix Setiyawan ◽

Dyah Murwaningrum

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Research Method ◽

Music Technology ◽

The Internet ◽

Young Generation ◽

Participant Observer ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Sound Technology

Nowadays, music creation, collaboration, and publication are easier because of technology. Most young generations have sent music data, made, sold, bought music files on the internet. This changed music processes certainly resulted in different outcomes. Listening and creating music by new means, can change music itself. Technology has simplified tools, and the internet has simplified the distance. But new problems and questions have been found. How were the internet and technology influenced the quality of music, music creator, music appreciator and the form of music. The aims of this research to determine the relationship between music, technology, and the internet, through behavior of the young generation. This study was qualitative research that used observations and unstructured interviews. In subsequent observations, participant-observer was chosen as an advanced research method to better understand existing phenomena. The result of observations and interviews were interpreted, then presented descriptively. This research used theory by Don Ihde that technology has three characteristics (1) material (2) used (3)relationship of human and tools. The result of this research is internet influenced music quality and human appreciation. Technology changed the way humans create music.

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BREXIT AS A LINGUOPRAGMATIC PHENOMENON

Актуальные вопросы современной филологии и журналистики ◽

10.36622/aqmpj.2021.67.40.007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 51-56

Author(s):

Б.Г. Вульфович

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Point Of View ◽

Pragmatic Analysis ◽

Partial Sampling ◽

The Uk ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

The Eu

Задачей данной статьи является рассмотрение лингвопрагматических особенностей комментариев пользователей социальной сети «Твиттер» на выход Великобритании из ЕС. Анализ данных комментариев с лингвопрагматической точки зрения представляет интерес, так как показывает наиболее актуальную картину отношения пользователей социальных сетей к произошедшему событию. Приоритетными методами анализа лингвопрагматического потенциала Интернет-комментариев для нас являются: описательный метод, метод прагматического анализа, т.е. рассмотрение языкового материала в его непосредственном контексте в функциональном аспекте, метод частичной выборки, метод контекстологического описания. Контекстуальный метод был использован с целью установления особенностей комментариев в среде социальной сети «Твиттер»; описательный метод - для выявления непосредственного отношения пользователей социальных сетей к выходу Великобритании из ЕС; частичной выборки - для отбора наиболее эффективных и целостных комментариев с позиции прагматики и их реализации в данном контексте. Проведённое исследование позволило установить, что большинство людей удовлетворено результатами выхода Великобритании из ЕС и положительно отзывается об этом событии. Об этом свидетельствует как большое количество экспрессивов, использованных в интернет-комментариях в отношении данного события, так и активное употребление в них оценочной лексики. Результаты проведённого исследования могут быть применены в теоретических работах по описанию характеристик речевых актов, в курсе теоретической грамматики, стилистики, прагмалингвистики. The purpose of this article is to review the linguo-pragmatic features of Brexit represented in the comments in Twitter. Their analysis from a linguistic-pragmatic point of view may be of interest, since it shows the most relevant picture of the relationship of social network users for the event. The priority methods for analyzing the linguo-pragmatic potential of Internet comments for us are: a descriptive method, a pragmatic analysis method, i.e. consideration of linguistic material in its immediate context in the functional aspect, partial sampling method, contextual description method. The contextual method was used to establish the characteristics of comments on the Twitter social network; descriptive method was used to identify the direct relationship of social network users to the UK exit from the EU; partial sampling was used to select the most effective and holistic comments from the position of pragmatics and their implementation in this context. The study found that most people are satisfied with the results of the UK exit from the EU and respond positively to this event. The results of the study can be applied in theoretical works on the description of the characteristics of speech acts, in the course of theoretical grammar, stylistics, pragmalinguistics.

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Old factory no. 72

Maska ◽

10.1386/maska_00061_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 36 (201-202) ◽

pp. 102-121

Author(s):

Urška Savič

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Active Member ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Organic Growth ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This article focuses on the Rog factory in Ljubljana from the perspective of an active member of the Preserve the Rog Factory Group in 2016. It is therefore based on an understanding that has been formed on the basis of collective action, endless group discussions and first-hand experiences of cornucopia. More than the internal dynamics of the community, it is mainly focused on the relationship of the exterior to the building and the Rog community, as well as the context of the unwillingness of the municipal authorities to deal with the organic growth of the city. It explicitly refers to and recalls texts that have already been written, which toot the same horn.

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