Movement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo F. Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Vast Network

Caribbean spaces were nourished physically and culturally by their sea links and a vast network of terrestrial connections uniting small rural settlements and larger urban spaces like Cartagena and Habana. Free blacks and slaves frequently traveled between different caribben locales, and between urban settlements and rural areas in the region, where they had contact with maroon blacks. These elastic, unbounded migrations proved to be journeys of historical consequence. The chapter explores how black ritual practitioners and their cosmopolitan practices of knowledge production about the natural world moved within this vibrant world. It argues that black ritual practitioners’ claims about the world emerged from local particulars that fostered an adaptive praxis predicated on the experiential. Early modern Caribbean epistemologies about the body were shaped not only by ritual specialists, but also by their patients. The chapter shows how this was a population that was highly mobile and exposed to ideas and treatments coming from all over the world. In the Caribbean, this amalgamating culture was driven by the imperatives of creating new healing techniques that could be deployed under myriad biological, political, cultural, and economical circumstances.

scholarly journals Book Review: Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Stacey Marien
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Body ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean

Kenny is an assistant professor of anthropology at Missouri State University with research experience in East and West Africa. Nichols is a professor of Spanish at Drury University with her research specializing in cultures of Latin America. Nichols has also co-written Pop Culture in Latin American and the Caribbean (ABC-CLIO, 2015) and authored a chapter on beauty in Venezuela for the book The Body Beautiful? Identity, Performance, Fashion and the Contemporary Female Body (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015). Both authors have taught extensively on the topic of beauty and bodies (xi). 

scholarly journals Projects on Tyumen region "cultural framework": main results

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-141
Author(s):  
O. Shtele
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Framework ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

Cultural heritage is an essential component of a socio-economic complex. Cultural  heritage  topic  should  be  addressed  within  the  context  of  the  development  of  regional social and economic processes, and be based  on  principles, that allow integration  of all  available  resources  of  the  territory.  This  concept,  based  on  the  use  of  cultural  heritage as  a  structural  element  of  a  socio-economic  complex,  was  developed  on  the  example  of  the Tyumen  region.  It  was  assumed,  that  the  organizational  and  economic  basis  for  the  use  of heritage  was  a  cultural  framework,  that  could  form  the  basis  of  a  new  strategic  direction for the development of both historical cities and small rural settlements.Within  the  framework  of  the  project,  practical  research  works  were  carried  out  to identify  cultural  heritage  objects  in  all  districts  and  urban  territories  of  the  south  of  the Tyumen  region.  About  150  settlements  were  examined  in  detail,  with  the  fixation  of  architectural  buildings  and  structures,  that  have  signs  of  cultural  heritage  objects.  Design  proposals have been developed for the use of existing and newly identified heritage sites, in order  to  form  the  cultural  and  landscape  environment  of  historical  settlements,  the  development  of  museum,  cultural,  educational  and  tourist  activities.  Proposals  have  been  formulated  for  the  socio-economic  development  of  urban  settlements  and  municipal  rural  areas, based  on  the  identified  potential  of  cultural  heritage.  As  an  example  of  how  the  use  of  cultural heritage and cultural practices can affect the life  of a  particular historical  settlement, design  developments  for  the  village  of  Usalka  in  the  Yarkovsky  district  are  given.  This branch work within the Tyumen Industrial University may become the basis for creation of its own scientific school for the preservation and use of cultural heritage objects, for the development of a methodology for integrating heritage into modern economic reality.

James Hillman's approach to architecture and the built environment: some conceptual complications and an attempt to resolve them

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Lucy Huskinson
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Anima Mundi ◽  
A Site

This paper examines ambiguities and tensions within James Hillman's ideas about the psychological value of the architecture of the built environment in contrast to that of the natural world. In his published works Hillman often describes the built environment and the natural world as equivalent in value, but on other occasions he celebrates the latter to the detriment of former. These contrasting approaches have significant implications for his celebrated conception of anima mundi, where psyche is found in the ‘outside’ word as much as ‘within’ our individual minds. The decisive question therefore is whether the psyche for Hillman is found as readily within the built environment as it is the natural world. This paper argues that Hillman's overall position does not allow a split between city spaces and the natural world: that the built environment is no less a site for psyche than the natural world. After describing instances of Hillman's apparent denigration of the built environment within his published and unpublished archival material, I outline a resolution to the perceived split by utilising his notions of ‘pathologizing’ and aesthetics. The paper concludes that not all, but most, buildings and urban spaces fail to house psyche in the world. For Hillman, only a built environment that is able to engage our aesthetic sensibilities can succeed in doing so, but the vast majority of urban spaces remain anaesthetised by the ego's preoccupation with all things superficial, pleasurable, pretty, and functional.

scholarly journals Socio-cultural models as an important element of the site selection process in rural waste management

Spatium ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Nenkovic-Riznic
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Population Number ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Waste Elimination

The problem of waste management in rural areas has not been the subject of detailed specific researches since most of the research has been directed towards the study of means, mechanisms and procedures of waste elimination in urban settlements. The reason for the reduced scope of research in this field lies in the fact that rural settlements cannot be considered as "grateful" subjects due to usual deficiency of specific data (population number, fluctuations, amount of waste, waste composition, methods of waste elimination, etc.). In addition, for several decades the villages have primarily eliminated waste spontaneously. This has proven difficult to research because of the variations of methods applied to each specific locale, as well as different environmental variables. These criteria are based on patterns of behavior, customs and habits of the local population, but they also insist on absolute participation of local stakeholders in waste management. On the other hand, although Serbia has a legislative frame which is fully harmonized with European laws, there is a problem within unclearly defined waste management system which is oriented mainly on rural areas. The reason for this is the fact that waste management in rural areas is the part of regional waste management, and does not operate independently from the system in "urban" areas. However, since rural areas require the construction of recycling yards, this paper will present a new methodology, which equally valuates techno-economic criteria and social criteria in determining waste elimination locations. This paper will also point out varieties of actors in the process of waste elimination in rural areas, as well as the possibility of their participation.

scholarly journals Creation of a comfortable environment in urban and rural settlements based on bionic principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (4) ◽  
pp. 042026
Author(s):  
Irina Mayatskaya ◽  
Batyr Yazyev ◽  
Denis Demchenko ◽  
Svetlana Yazyeva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Harmonious Development ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Natural Objects ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Settlements

Abstract The article is devoted to the problems of creating comfortable living conditions for the inhabitants of rural and urban settlements. Architectural bionics is a branch of architecture in which great attention is paid to the study of the form and organization of natural objects and the design of building structures in a bionic style for residents of both rural and urban settlements. Currently, it is necessary to change the urban environment, taking into account all aspects of harmonious development and taking into account the natural features of the region. Many architects around the world are working in this direction. The use of modern materials makes it possible to create structures that are unique in shape and structure. Optimality in creating a comfortable human environment, taking into account the minimum impact on nature, is the task of designing structures.

scholarly journals Coastal Countryside Innovation Dynamics in North-Western Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey S. Mikhaylov ◽  
Anna A. Mikhaylova ◽  
Stanislav S. Lachininskii ◽  
Dmitry V. Hvaley
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Innovation Infrastructure ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
International Contact ◽  
Innovation Dynamics ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Data Coverage

Abstract Coastal regions are generally conceived as highly advanced in terms of socioeconomic and innovative development. Acting as international contact zones, coastal agglomerations are described as gateways for absorbing new knowledge, technologies, business cultures, etc. Yet, this perception is based on studies of large coastal cities and agglomerations. In our study, we focus on coastalization effects manifested in rural settlements and evaluate the innovation capability of the economies of coastal rural areas. The research scope covers 13 municipalities of the Leningrad region, including 134 rural settlements. The research methodology is structured into three main blocks: the evaluation of the human capital, assessment of the favorability of the entrepreneurial environment, and analysis of susceptibility of local economies to innovations. The list of analyzed innovation dynamics parameters includes the geospatial data for the distribution of population, companies and individual entrepreneurs, localization of specialized support and innovation infrastructure, sectoral analysis of the economic structure, digitalization aspects, et cetera. The data coverage period is 2010–2019 with variations depending on the availability of individual indicators. The research findings reveal particular features of the countryside as compared to urban settlements. Strong asymmetries are observed between the development of rural settlements cross-influenced by coastalization, near-metropolitan location, and national border proximity.

Narrative and Clinical Neuroscience: Can Phenomenologically Informed Approaches and Empirical Work Cross-Fertilise?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cole ◽  
Shaun Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Physical Mechanism ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scientific Medicine ◽  
Clinical Neuroscience ◽  
Physical Mechanisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Reductionist Approach

Science (from the Latin, scientia) originally meant knowledge, so that ‘natural science’ meant knowledge of the natural world and of its laws. The term has since come to mean empirical, experimentally acquired knowledge and, as such, refers to some of the most powerful tools we have for understanding the world and indeed our own physiology. Scientific medicine has led to huge improvements in outcomes from a variety of conditions, from infectious diseases to cancer and heart disease. These advances have come, largely, from a mechanistic or reductionist approach to illness, which focuses on putting the body, understood as a physical mechanism or collection of physical mechanisms, right.

Experiential Caribbean

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo F. Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Body ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Authoritative Knowledge ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
The World ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

This book examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative knowledge about the natural world, and particularly the body, during the long seventeenth century. It reveals a hitherto untold history about the transformation of early modern natural and human landscapes, one that unfolds outside existent analytical frameworks for the study of the Atlantic world. The book introduces some of the earliest and richest known records carrying the voices of people of African descent, including African themselves, to change our understanding of the dynamics and intellectual spaces in which early modern people produced transformative ideas about the natural world. Caribbean cultures of bodies and healing appeared through a localized epistemological upheaval based on the experiential and articulated by ritual specialists of African origin. These changes resulted from multiple encounters between actors coming from all over the globe that occurred in a social, spiritual, and intellectual realm that, even though ubiquitous, does not appear in existent histories of science, medicine, and the African diaspora. The intellectual leaders of the mostly black and free communities of the seventeenth century Caribbean defined not only how to interpret nature, but also the very sensorial landscapes on which reality could be experienced. They invented a powerful and lasting way of imagining, defining and dealing with the world.

scholarly journals Motor Imagery in Perception and Performance of Sound and Music

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Jan Schacher
Keyword(s):  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Sound Perception ◽  
Conventional Instruments ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance

Jan Schacher asks what it is to imagine and initiate an action on a musical instrument. For Schacher, the body is the central element of listening and sound perception, and thus the body, in an embodied and enactive sense, becomes the focus for musicking with both conventional instruments and digital instruments, where, in the latter case, bodily schemata are replaced by metaphors and instrumental representations. This last theme provides a significant topic of enquiry in the chapter, and it is explored from a number of angles, chief among which is a focus (through the lenses of motor imagery and imagination in music) on relations between inner and outer aspects of our ways and means of listening to and performing both music and sound. Ultimately, Schacher identifies a tension underlying digital musical performance brought about by the fracturing of the “action-sound” bond, a bond that is the basis for our sonic perception not only of the natural world but also of the world of culturally defined musical performance.

scholarly journals OVERCOMING THE BOUNDARIES OF EVERYDAYNESS IN NIALL GRIFFITHS`S NOVEL «STUMP»

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Ganna Stovba
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The paper presents the research of poetics of the fourth novel «Stump» (2004) written by contemporary Welsh Anglophone author Niall Griffiths. The early works of Niall Griffiths have long been associated with the off-center tendency in contemporary British fiction, with novels written by Scottish authors such as Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, John King. This study attempts to demonstrate that Welsh writer doesn’t merely articulate the problems of the fringe groups of the society as well as shocking and taboo topics. Also to overcome the common postcolonial approach to Griffiths`s works which focuses on the concepts of «colonial othering», «forms of disability» etc. in the novels, the author of the article proposes the existential philosophy as methodological basis for this research. The study concentrates over the central problem of the human Being-in-the-world, the human life in the world of everydayness in Griffiths`s novel «Stump». Understanding «the everyday life», «everydayness» as common, routine life, full of daily automatic human actions (according to B. Waldenfels) the author aims to consider the boundaries of everyday life and the experience of overcoming the borders of everydayness in the novel discussed.The analysis demonstrates that narrative structure of the novel combines several modes and forms of narration. Interior monologue with steam of consciousness fragments is the form of representing the first plot line focusing on the one day of nameless recovering alcoholic who has lost his left arm to gangrene. «Style indirect libre» in first person plural form is used to finish each of the chapter devoted to one-armed hero and expresses his contradictory point of view on the «12 steps addiction recovery» program. The non-diegetic impersonal narrator (according to V. Shmid classification) introduces the second plot line devoted to the two gangsters who have set out from Liverpool on a mission to find and punish the one-armed man for a past misdeed. Their continual dialog sometimes is interrupted by the omnipresent narrator voice who conveys in form of indirect speech one of the gangster`s thoughts and his perceptive and ideological «point of view». A Griffiths`s fictional space can be divided on close/open, secular/sacral, everyday/non-everyday types. In the novel Wales natural world is opposed to any closed and narrow spaces. One-armed protagonist fills himself free and happy in the open space, where he communicates with birds, animals and meets a pantheistic God. Oppositely, two gangsters are afraid of open space in the middle of dangerous nature of Wales, when they leave native Liverpool. Having the works of K. Jaspers and M. Merleau-Ponty as the basis for our research, we conclude that the body for one-armed hero is an existential and temporal border, which transforms each moment of his life into an endless «boundary situation» (germ. Grenzsituation, according to K. Jaspers). A journey to unknown Wales gives a start to personal transformations for one of the gangsters – Alastair. Crossing the geographical border becomes a time of «boundarysituation» in Alastair`s existence. Consequently, the motives of the real Being, existential self-identity, meeting with the transcendent are concerned with the experience of overcoming the everydayness, crossing its boundaries.

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