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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Concept of a City -- 1. Cities, Space and Development in India -- 2. Political Economy vs Political Ecology of Urbanization in Asia -- 3. 'Global'-izing Indian Cities: A Spatial Epistemological Critique -- 4. Financial Decentralization and Local Governance in Urban India: An Inter-state and Metropolitan Districts Analysis -- 5. Urban Space and Environmental Urges -- Part II: City and Urban Space

The article describes life and political ideas of Aleksander Trzaska Chrząszczewski, one of the most distinctive political scientists and conservative thinkers of the interwar period in Poland. The essay contains many – earlier unknown – biographical details and Chrząszczewski's political, international and historiosophic conceptions. In his essays Chrząszczewski criticised political system based on the democratic constitution from 1921 and political practise of authoritarian regime ruled after 1926 r. He precisely pointed out inconsistency of Pilsudski's camp, which declared strengthening of the State as an aim of political activity and on the other hand very often ruled by informal instruments. In the international relations' area Chrząszczewski was a follower of pro-French orientation. He observed evolution of German political system during Nazi regime and warned against rising of political and military power of Third Reich. "Przypływy i odpływy demokracji" (The Tides of Democracy), written in 1939, is still the most recognizable Chrząszczewski's work. The Author proposed original vision of political changes stimulated by increasing or decreasing activity of masses. Chrząszczewski's theory is one of the most interesting attempts to analyze social and political events of 1930s, that could be compared with the ones made by Jose Ortega y Gasset or Florian Znaniecki.

In this research paper, author discusses artistic responses to political
turmoil from 1850 to 1917. This period in the Russian Empire was marked by a
gradual striving for a radical and total social transformation initiated by,
sometimes even violent, social reactions to the existing autocratic form of
government in the mid-19th century, and completed by the Great Russian
Revolution of 1917. The article dwells upon historical problems of social
and cultural transformations of the Russian society and highlights artistic
contribution in strive for modernization. In exploring the mode of
adaptation of Russian society to the challenges of modernity, the
possibility arose for the setting of three chronologically conditioned, but
complex, cause-effect correlations of art and socio-political change:
national-imperial, then (paradoxically named) larpurlartist-democratic and
avant-garde-socialist correlation. These political and, at the same time,
cultural platforms, are recognized as suitable for creating and
strengthening a revolutionary climate in imperial Russia. Referring to the
revolutionary nature of the artistic movements that preceded the Russian
avant-garde, we insist that pluralism of styles and aesthetics in the
socio-cultural sphere, as well as social engagement of artists, are factors
that are of utmost importance in the preparation of the October Revolution
in 1917.

International audience ; This text considers the relation between public space, securitarian control and democracy, and reflects on their articulation with spatial justice, by looking at contemporary examples of occupations of public space by contestation movements.

International audience ; This text considers the relation between public space, securitarian control and democracy, and reflects on their articulation with spatial justice, by looking at contemporary examples of occupations of public space by contestation movements.

International audience ; This text considers the relation between public space, securitarian control and democracy, and reflects on their articulation with spatial justice, by looking at contemporary examples of occupations of public space by contestation movements.

International audience ; This text considers the relation between public space, securitarian control and democracy, and reflects on their articulation with spatial justice, by looking at contemporary examples of occupations of public space by contestation movements.

International audience ; This text considers the relation between public space, securitarian control and democracy, and reflects on their articulation with spatial justice, by looking at contemporary examples of occupations of public space by contestation movements.

The approach and argument : power, ideology, and 'reality' -- Partition and civil rights -- The crisis of British policy over Northern Ireland 1968-73 -- The first peace process 1972-74 : the power-sharing experiment and its failure -- The limits of British policy 1974-81 : from withdrawal to integration -- The Anglo-Irish agreement : origins and impact -- Endgame? : the origins of the second peace process 1988-94 -- Bridging the gap? : the peace process 1994-1998 -- The end of the peace process? : the implementation of the Good Friday agreement 1998-2007

It is striking how often the first-person memories in Annie Ernaux's 2016 work of life-writing Mémoire de fille are rendered from a third-person perspective. Visual depictions of the author's younger self are shown to us as if the older Ernaux who is narrating the story were present at the scene, seeing her former self from the outside. The events recounted include sexual exploitation and public shaming for falling foul of the era's sexual double standards, and, in the aftermath of this, an identity crisis and an eating disorder. How does Ernaux's complex interplay of empathy and distance with regard to her younger self affect the social and political themes in the work, and the ethical stance of the text towards them? And how is the reader implicated by the perspective through which Ernaux has us view her teenage self of 1958?

Narratives that resonate in the cultural imagination inform the ways in which we apprehend the world. This paper considers how certain images and stories that have been valorised over time, bleed into reality and become socially and politically affective. The identity of an entire people, for example, can be rendered down so that those social groups come to seem more spectral than human, through either misrecognition or a lack of acknowledgment. This idea will be discussed through two examples: one provided by traditional anti-Semitism, in which the Jew is viewed as a vampiristic agent of decay; and another in which the Arab presence becomes 'spectralised' in contemporary Israel/Palestine. We will look at the development of narratives that create these images, and also consider the liminal zone wherein those images have their source, because it is through imagination and storytelling that we continually create and recreate the realities we must then inhabit.

Narratives that resonate in the cultural imagination inform the ways in which we apprehend the world. This paper considers how certain images and stories that have been valorised over time, bleed into reality and become socially and politically affective. The identity of an entire people, for example, can be rendered down so that those social groups come to seem more spectral than human, through either misrecognition or a lack of acknowledgment. This idea will be discussed through two examples: one provided by traditional anti-Semitism, in which the Jew is viewed as a vampiristic agent of decay; and another in which the Arab presence becomes 'spectralised' in contemporary Israel/Palestine. We will look at the development of narratives that create these images, and also consider the liminal zone wherein those images have their source, because it is through imagination and storytelling that we continually create and recreate the realities we must then inhabit.