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This book seeks to critically examine African Americans in higher education with an emphasis on social and philosophical foundations of Africana culture. This is a critical interdisciplinary study, which examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in the field of higher education. To date, there are not any single-authored or edited collections that attempt to research the logical and conceptual ideas of the disciplinary matrix of Africana social and philosophical foundations of African Americans in higher education. Therefore, this volume provides readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and communicative essays that describe and evaluate the Black experience from an Afrocentric perspective for the first time. It is required reading in a wide range of African American Studies courses.

Abstract. Natural hazard models need accurate digital elevation models (DEMs) to simulate mass movements on real-world terrain. A variety of platforms (terrestrial, drones, aerial, satellite) and sensor technologies (photogrammetry, lidar, interferometric synthetic aperture radar) are used to generate DEMs at a range of spatial resolutions with varying accuracy. As the availability of high-resolution DEMs continues to increase and the cost to produce DEMs continues to fall, hazard modelers must often choose which DEM to use for their modeling. We use satellite photogrammetry and topographic lidar to generate high-resolution DEMs and test the sensitivity of the Rapid Mass Movement Simulation (RAMMS) software to the DEM source and spatial resolution when simulating a large and complex snow avalanche along Milford Road in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Holding the RAMMS parameters constant while adjusting the source and spatial resolution of the DEM reveals how differences in terrain representation between the satellite photogrammetry and topographic lidar DEMs (2 m spatial resolution) affect the reliability of the simulation estimates (e.g., maximum core velocity, powder pressure, runout length, final debris pattern). At the same time, coarser representations of the terrain (5 and 15 m spatial resolution) simulate avalanches that run too far and produce a powder cloud that is too large, though with lower maximum impact pressures, compared to the actual event. The complex nature of the alpine terrain in the avalanche path (steep, rough, rock faces, treeless) makes it a suitable location to specifically test the model sensitivity to digital surface models (DSMs) where both ground and above-ground features on the topography are included in the elevation model. Considering the nature of the snowpack in the path (warm, deep with a steep elevation gradient) lying on a bedrock surface and plunging over a cliff, RAMMS performed well in the challenging conditions when using the high-resolution 2 m lidar DSM, with 99 % of the simulated debris volume located in the documented debris area.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Between Deleuze and Foucault -- PART I ENCOUNTERS -- 1. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship -- 2. Theatrum Philosophicum -- 3. Michel Foucault's Main Concepts -- 4. When and How I Read Foucault -- PART II METHOD AND CRITIQUE -- 5. Critical Problematization in Foucault and Deleuze: The Force of Critique without Judgment -- 6. Foucault's Deleuzian Methodology of the Late 1970s -- 7. Deleuze's Foucault: A Metaphysical Fiction -- 8. Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy's Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger) -- 9. Deleuze and Foucault: Political Activism, History and Actuality -- 10. Becoming and History: Deleuze's Reading of Foucault -- 11. Foucault and the "Image Of Thought": Archaeology, Genealogy, and the Impetus of Transcendental Empiricism -- 12. The Regularities of the Statement: Deleuze on Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge -- PART IV DESIRE, POWER AND RESISTANCE -- 13. Desire and Pleasure -- 14. Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem -- 15. Biopower and Control -- 16. Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and Deleuze -- APPENDIX -- 17. Meeting Deleuze -- 18. Foucault and Prison -- Notes on Contributors -- Index