Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and perceptions of places, both in the eyes of the inhabitants and in those of potential tourists, investors, users and consumers. City Branding: the Ghostly Politics of Representation and Globalising Cities explores different sides of place branding policies. The construction and the manipulation of urban images trigger a complex politics of representation, modifying the visibility and the invisibility of spaces, subjects, problems and discourses. In this sense, urban branding is not an innocent tool; this book aims to investigate and reflect on the ideas of urban life, the political unconscious, the affective geographies and the imaginaries of power constructed and reproduced through urban branding. This book situates city branding within different geological contexts and 'ordinary' cities, demonstrated through a number of international case studies. In order to map and contextualise the variety of urban imaginaries involved, author Alberto Vanolo incorporates conceptual tools from cultural studies and the embrace of an explicitly post-colonial perspective. This critical analysis of current place branding strategy is an essential reference for the study of city marketing.
In current financial, economical and political crisis, with the progressive downgrading of the States and the world's GDPs dropping, the strong flows of financial, social and relational capital that powered urban regeneration over the last fifteen years are no longer available to be tapped in on in an indiscriminate manner as it seems was the case until just a few years ago. The most dynamic cities in the near future will no longer be those that are able to attract urban projects driven by the real estate market, or hedge funds, but the cities that have extensive cultural and identifying resources and that are able to use them as the basis for creating new culture and new urban value. Today, within the "smart cities" scenario, the paradigm of the creative city calls for a further evolutive leap forward – the third – because it is capable of producing multiplication and regeneration effects on urban development. The Creative City 3.0 is therefore no longer simply a category used for interpretation among economists and sociologists or an urban planning challenge, but rather calls on decision-makers to take action and demands a vigorous commitment on the part of town planners and architects, as the development of nations and wellbeing of the community will only be measured according to the cities that tackle the financial global change in a creative manner. The urban century in which we live is not filled by only "hyper cities", but also shows the emergence of medium metropolises and networks of micropolises. Especially in Italy, the network of the "innovative cities" is supporting by middle cities, the "small capitals" that produce alternative visions – founded in quality and powered by culture – to that of the explosion of megalopolises. One commitment that cannot be put off by governors and managers, planners and designers, promoters and communicators, entrepreneurs and investors, will be that of creating dynamic, vibrant cities that generate new urban values and multipliers of invested capital. These cities must be places people want to live, work, and train in and get to know, productive places that attract investments. In European vision, the evolution of creative cities towards a network of "smart cities" able to redefine the urban age identity, is founded on three competitive factors: Culture, Communication, and Cooperation. Inside this evolutive background, with an highly dynamic of change, it has become necessary to understand and evaluate how cities and territories are changing, convinced that it is not only necessary to recognize the role of the "creative agents" in the development of the cities, but also the commitment to this urban creativity being one of the primary factors in the evolution of communities and economic development. The city must once again become a powerful "generator of value" starting with its own spatial, social, cultural and relational resources, able to transform the global network in local resources.
In this article, as a result of Russia's vassal subjugation of the Bukhara Khanate, its economic and political control, as well as its interference in its internal affairs, intensified. In accordance with the 1873 Russian Bukhara Treaty, the issue of increasing Russian infiltration into the Bukhara border areas was discussed.
Abstract The city of the future will have to come to terms with astronomical population growth comprised of individuals and communities that differ on matters of fundamental beliefs living in increasingly close proximity. The test will be whether religious diversity increasingly leads to clashing parochialisms or unlocks possibilities for human flourishing. With 7.5 billion people urbanized by 2050, cities simply must include attention to religious diversity, and the science of social capital and interfaith cooperation can inform the discourse of resiliency as humanity prepares. Ample sociological research supports the conclusion that societies thrive where and when they are able to build trusting relationships across lines of deep difference. The inverse failure to do so is a direct danger to civil peace. This article charts a path forward to building and sustaining those relationships in an urban setting.
This textbook covers historical topics focusing on India with chapter titles including: Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives, Rebels and the Raj: 1857 Revolt and its Representations, Colonial Cities: Urbanisation, Planning and Architecture, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond, Understanding Partition: Politics, Memories, Experiences, and Framing the Constitution: the Beginning of a New Era. Made available by the National Repository of Open Educational Resources of India.
"Gender in World History integrates gender history and world history by dealing with significant global changes over time, regional patterns of gender relations, and the results of interregional contact on gender roles and concepts. Now in its 4th edition, this volume explores the rise of patriarchal gender systems and, in more modern history, the gradual and checkered decline of these systems. In addition to the roles of agriculture and then industrialization in shaping gender relations, the book deals with the impact of major religions, imperialism and decolonization, and human rights movements in more recent history. Regional coverage includes East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and the Americas. The book seeks to show how major patterns and changes in the past shed light on current gender issues in many world regions, enabling students to understand how gender roles have varied across the world and over time. This new edition also includes: More material on several societies, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. Greater attention on historical and comparative assessment of sexual identities A focus on basic features of gender configurations Discussions of more recent human rights movements Providing a global but succinct overview of the history of gender throughout the world, Gender in World History remains essential reading for students of world history and gender studies"--
History capital is a new interdisciplinary concept proposal in the field of history education, including the fields of history and sociology. In this study, a discussion was conducted on the conceptualization of science capital as a sub-heading of the concept of science capital, which was developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's sociology and the British academician Louise Archer's joint work based on Bourdieu's sociology. It is seen that students achieve more success in the field they study, engage in research and reading activities, spend more time on educational activities in this field outside of school, and benefit from more resources. The fact that the student's interest in the course is a determining factor reveals the need to investigate the factors affecting his interest. Bourdieu explained accumulation with the concept of capital and divided it into economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital. He proposed the concept of "habitus" as a concept expressing interest, tendency and predisposition. The concept of field refers to certain locations with their own rules and accumulation criteria. If his capital and habitus are compatible, the person can achieve high success in that field. However, in order to measure a person's interest, tendency and predisposition in a field, his capital and habitus must first be measurable in accordance with the field. It is clear that in order for this problem to be understandable and measurable, it must first be conceptualized. For this reason, we first propose the concept of "history capital" to the literature. The aim of this study is to explain and define the concept of history capital in accordance with the field of history education, determine its scope and discuss the content of this concept. It is thought that this discussion and evaluation process will contribute to the literature by expressing students' tendencies, interests and predispositions with a concept in line with their knowledge. At the end of the study, by using Bourdieu's concepts of capital, habitus and field with the concept of science capital, the following definition in the field of history education was reached with the dialectical method in which deduction and induction are used together: "The accumulation (capital) acquired from (social and cultural) sources that affect and form a person's interest, tendency and predisposition (habitus) in history (field) is called history capital."In addition, eight dimensions used in science capital were taken into account for the dimensions affecting the level of history capital.
Abstract The study of societal and institutional change has greatly benefited from a growing number of studies exploring sub-national variation in colonialism and its legacies. One vibrant stream in this literature focuses on the role of Christian missionaries in European empires. However, advances are often hampered by the quality and scarcity of available historical data. In this article, the authors introduce a new geospatial dataset of Catholic and Protestant mission stations in colonial Africa that offers a more complete picture than currently used data sources. The authors illustrate the greater coverage their data provides and demonstrate its utility by replicating the effect of missions on the expansion of formal education, one of the most established legacies of Christian missionaries.
An analysis of the seven books reviewed here suggests that historical approaches to the relationship among nationalism, racism, & ethnicism may be more productive since nationalism is not a recognizable institution & social scientists often distort analyses of historical process. A review of medieval nationalism reveals that late-medieval states acquired the resiliency of organized institutions, making successors to the Roman Empire possible. It is concluded that the future of the nation-state is precarious & will rely on historical contingencies. J. W. Parker
