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Chapter 2 Adapting a Critical Realist Research ProcessIntroduction; Philosophical position; Geography and archaeology; Materiality; The material; The material inhabited built environment; Embedding the research process; Spatial (in)dependence; The social; Iterative abstraction; Chapter 3 Constituting Built Environments, Establishing Boundaries; Introduction; Reasoning towards a theoretical framework; The condition of being human; Human being in the spatial world; Empty space; Primordial space; Equalitarian space; Marked space; Filled space; Human being in the social world

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth- to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored.

The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.

"The story of six children who were stolen from their homes in Africa and sold into slavery across the Atlantic in 1839. They were transported by ship from West Africa to Cuba to the United States, and after protracted legal struggles they returned to Africa to restart their lives"--

Main description: Benjamin Lotz beschäftigt sich mit dem Gesetzgebungsauftrag in Art. 23 des Hongkonger Basic Law, der die chinesische Sonderverwaltungszone konstituierenden »Quasi-Verfassung«. Darin vorgesehen ist die Einführung dem Staatsschutz dienender Straftatbestände, wie beispielsweise Aufwiegelung oder Landesverrat. Bisherige Bemühungen, den Vorgaben des Art. 23 BL durch entsprechende Gesetzesänderungen nachzukommen, sind bislang im Legislative Council, Hongkongs parlamentarischen Legislativorgan, gescheitert. -- Für Hongkong als einen der wichtigsten Medienstandorte Asiens ist die Ausgestaltung einer solchen Gesetzgebung von großer Bedeutung. So begrenzen Staatsschutzregelungen das Themenfeld journalistischer Berichterstattung; investigative Recherchen werden teils unter staatliche Strafandrohung gestellt. Der lokale Gesetzgeber steht somit vor der Aufgabe, die in Art. 27 des Basic Law garantierte Medienfreiheit mit legitimen Sicherheitsinteressen der Nationalregierung in Ausgleich zu bringen. An Tragweite gewinnt die Debatte, da sie vor dem Hintergrund des Organisationsmodells »Ein Land, zwei Systeme«, einem staatstheoretischen Unikum, erfolgt und gleichsam Schlussfolgerungen auf dessen Entwicklung erlaubt. -- Ausgangspunkt der Erörterung bildet der 2003 nach erheblicher Kritik zurückgezogene »National Security Bill«. Unter Berücksichtigung rechtskultureller Besonderheiten und unter Heranziehung von Vorschriften anderer Common Law-Jurisdiktionen werden dieser und andere Regelungsentwürfe bezüglich ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Medienfreiheit untersucht.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death; it is charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims; and it seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years. Other, temporary, single-purpose criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and special courts have come and gone, but the ICC is the only permanent inheritor of the Nuremberg legacy. In Building the International Criminal Court, Oberlin College Professor of Politics Ben Schiff analyzes the International Criminal Court, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges

Introduction : conceptualizing periurban colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa -- Mobility, locality, and Ewe identity in periurban Eweland -- Intervention and dissent : manufacturing the model periurban chief -- Crisis in an Ewe "capital" : the periurban zone descends on the city -- Vodou and resistance : politico-religious crises in the periurban landscape -- The German Togo-bund and the periurban manifestations of "nation" -- From Eweland to la République Togolaise : the Guide du Togo and the periurban circulation of knowledge