Magic for unlucky girls : stories

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alison A. Balaskovits
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Small Town ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Crooked Nose ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Magic for Unlucky Girls: Stories is a collection of short stories that weave Western oral and literary folklore influences around women-centered narratives. The characters react in different ways to the expectations and prejudices heaped upon them in their respective worlds--some collapse under the weight of those expectations, some embrace them in perverse or tragic ways, and some rebel outright. These stories focus on feminine violence reworked through old fairy tale and folklore themes. In "Food My Father Feeds Me, Love My Husband Shows Me", a passionately carnivorous girl whose father is a butcher is married off to a vegetarian. In "Suburban Alchemy", an alchemist attempts to resurrect his dead wife while struggling with his inability to understand the needs of his preteen daughter and her obsession with a famous pop star. "Put Back Together Again” features a depressed pharmacist who struggles to reconcile the medical horrors she witnesses with the appearance of a super-man who cannot be injured, all while the city she lives in is ravaged by earthquakes. "Let Down Your Long Hair and Then Yourself" tells of what happens to Rapunzel after she is married to her murderous child-groom whose only love is physical perfection, and the lengths she must go to save her daughter who is born with a crooked nose. In "Eden", a young boy befriends the town scapegoat who is whispered to have a too familiar relationship with his horses, as well as the small town ex-beauty queen, the most current in a line of ex-queens who carry shotguns out in the night.

scholarly journals The Right to the City and to the University: Forging Solidarity Beyond the Town/Gown Divide

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Ferman ◽  
Miriam Greenberg ◽  
Thao Lee ◽  
Steven C. McKay
Keyword(s):  
Right To The City ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Over the last fifty years, institutions of higher education have served as anchor institutions in cities’ broader neoliberal efforts to generate new economic sectors, attract the creative class, and build amenities that stimulate market-oriented redevelopment. These activities, combined with universities’ own neoliberal restructuring, including diminishing housing support for students and staff, have contributed to gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods surrounding universities, creating the context for interrelated struggles for the right to the city and the right to the university. Using Temple University in Philadelphia, and University of California Santa Cruz as case studies we examine how students, faculty, and other university actors are joining with organizations and movements in surrounding communities to resist restructuring and displacement. In doing so, these emerging coalitions are transcending the more divisive town/gown narrative, forging new solidarities that are reimagining more just and equitable futures for both the city and the university.

scholarly journals Delta Project, Towards a Sustainable Campus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Hugo ◽  
Felipe Espinoza ◽  
Ivetheyamel Morales ◽  
Elías Ortiz ◽  
Saúl Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Business Community ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Area Of Influence ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The University of Guayaquil, which shares the same name as the city where it is located, faces the challenge of transforming its image for the XXI century. It was deemed necessary to identify details about the urban evolution of the historic link with the city, in relation to the changes produced by the project’s siting and its direct area of influence. The goal is to integrate the main university campus within a framework which guarantees sustainability and allows innovation in the living lab. To achieve this, the action research method was applied, focused on participation and the logic framework. For the diagnosis, proposal, and management model, integrated working groups were organized with internal users such as professors, students, and university authorities, and external actors such as residents, the local business community, Guayaquil city council, and the Governorate of Guayas. As result of the diagnosis, six different analysis dimensions were established which correspond to the new urban agenda for the future campus: compactness, inclusiveness, resilience, sustainability, safety and participation. As a proposal, the urban design integrates the analysis dimensions whose financing and execution are given by the Town Hall, at the same time the Governorate integrates the campus with its network of community police headquarters.

V.—Denudation—Rain and River

1878 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 212-214
Author(s):  
Henry O. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Wide Area ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Heavy Rains

During a recent residence in Portugal I paid a visit in Feb. 1877, to Coimbra, and while standing on the tower of the University, whence a magnificent view of the surrounding country can be obtained, I was much struck by the immense accumulation of sand deposited over a wide area on both banks of the river Mondego, by whose margin the city stands. A considerable, though, comparatively speaking, a small quantity was of recent date, and was evidently brought down by the heavy rains in the months of November and December of the previous year, which had produced destructive floods throughout the country, and had here greatly threatened the low-lying parts of the town. I was informed that every year a large quantity of new sand is spread out over the valley; but the shortness of my stay here precluded any attempt to estimate the yearly additions to the fluviatile stratum.

I'm here, I'm listening : short stories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jennifer Julian
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Creative Writers ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Creative Dissertation ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I'm Here, I'm Listening is a creative dissertation that makes the case for non-realist speculation as a fundamental tool for creative writers. The collection's twelve short stories push against the boundaries of realism, borrowing from genre conventions found in historic fiction, fabulism, and sci-fi to investigate the uncanny intersection of ecology, technology, and the human experience. The critical introduction, "New Worlds, Green Futures," argues for the political potential in science fiction and speculative writing. It close reads two novels -- Margaret Atwood's Surfacing (1972) and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being (2013) -- and argues that the cathartic instances of time travel in these novels serve to break down the societal limitations of gender, time, environment, and species. The creative component of the dissertation depicts variations on womanhood and loss. The stories' many female protagonists contend with missing parents, siblings, and partners, absences both physical and emotional. Non-realist and speculative genres highlight the estranging experience of mourning. Characters must navigate strange and perilous dystopias, and many face external conflicts typical of a Cold War era sci-fi film--mutant spiders, doorways to other dimensions, sentient plant people, and cyber-ghosts. At the same time, the collection hones in on these women's interior lives, exploring, not only what makes their world strange and surreal, but what sense of beauty can be found and what connections can be forged in the wake of their own personal apocalypses.

scholarly journals The Polish political scene as seen from a small town market

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Malewska-Szalygin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legislative Language ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Political Scene

This article presents the results of field research carried out in the spring of 2004 in the town of Nowy Targ (Podhale region, Poland), by the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. The research was based on open-ended interviews-or rather long conversations-with the vendors in the market square, enabling us to observe the political scene from a particular point of view. They interviews brought out the perception of the authorities 'from below'. This perspective uncovered many aspects of politics that are normally hidden behind the legislative language of the Constitution or even behind the informative language of the mass media.

Excavations at Ur, 1928–9

1929 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Leonard Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Work ◽  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The seventh campaign of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at Ur started on October 24 1928, and continued until the end of February 1929. The Staff consisted of my wife, Mr. M. E. L. Mallowan, general assistant, and the Rev. E. Burrows, S.J., as epigraphist. Mr. Mallowan was detained in England by illness and did not join us in the field until early in December, up to which time my wife, in addition to doing all the drawings, was my sole field assistant, and subsequently continued to share with me the whole of the cemetery work of the season. The excavation of the graveyard area kept us busy during the greater part of the winter, and we dug 454 graves in all. By the end of January the area proposed for the current year had been exhausted, and attention was devoted to the strata underlying and bordering on the graveyard. It was this work that led to the discoveries connected with the Flood. On Mr. Mallowan's arrival more men were enrolled and set to work on the courtyard of the great Nannar Temple. By the middle of February this task also was completed, and finally, for the last ten days of the season, both gangs were drafted off for experimental work on the city walls of Ur. The results of the season therefore fall under four headings:I. The Cemetery.II. The buildings and rubbish-mounds of the pre-cemetery town and the evidence for the Flood.III. The Nannar Temple.IV. The Town Walls.

The Peripheral U-Turn

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-183
Author(s):  
David Leheny
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Northeastern Coast

From 2004-2009, members of the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science undertook a five-year study entitled Kibōgaku (Hope-ology, translated formally as The Social Sciences of Hope). Looking to rebuild hope in Japan after the pop of the economic Bubble, the scholars crafted a survey of Kamaishi, a declining steel town on Japan’s northeastern coast, showing how networks in and out of the city were central to its limited but measurable successes in inspiring local hope for a better future. In the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami that devastated the town, killing a thousand residents, the scholars confronted questions of what hope means and what the connections between rural and urban Japan might mean.

What's Happening Today

2017 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Curricular Content ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This chapter provides a detailed look at four recent examples of activism on American college campuses. The first of these case studies is the University of Missouri, where racial tensions following the Ferguson shooting heightened tensions among students who believed the campus was not racially accepting. The second case explores the City University of New York and their handling of faculty and graduate student contracts, salaries, and appointments. The third case presented is Seattle University, where students and administrators clashed over curricular content. The final case detailed here is the University of California's attempt to significantly raise student tuition, and how students, faculty, and the public joined forces to protest these increases.

scholarly journals EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN THE RECOVERY OF VERNACULAR HERITAGE IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 603-610
Author(s):  
A. Tenze ◽  
F. Cardoso ◽  
M. C. Achig
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Abstract. Since 2011, within the framework of a research project shared between the University of Cuenca (UC) and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), several practical experiences were proposed and carried out in order to identify paths and actions that allow reversing a marked trend to the loss of built cultural assets, both in the rural and urban context. Most of these assets are made up of vernacular architecture built with technologies such as adobe or bahareque, which use the earth as an essential building material. From the beginning of the first intervention in Susudel (2011), it was important to carry out constant and sustained work with the respective communities and actors involved. It was necessary to inform them about the initiative, but, above all, to involve them consistently, completely and directly, throughout the process, in decision-making and in the search for solutions that were finally applied in the interventions. A comparison between all the interventions carried out from the year 2011 until 2018 show a very significant change of social involvement, both in quantity as well as in quality, with each new intervention. From an empirical and intuitive process, we have moved to a more technical, planned and structured one, based on participatory methodologies that allow a more intense and proactive involvement of communities in the search for solutions and commitments. The article analyzes the participatory process during 4 preventive conservation experiences applied in the town of Susudel and the city of Cuenca, in southern Ecuador, over the past 7 years.

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