The environment in Japanese economic history
In: Asian studies review, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 80-87
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Asian studies review, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 80-87
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Political studies, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 873-874
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Studies in environment and history
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s - Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice
In: Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Icebergs, at present, are living a second life on screens. While they are one of the natural world's most photogenic objects, icebergs are also subject to modes of representation through parametric modeling applications. The purpose of this digital life on screens is largely confined to determining how, and under what conditions, icebergs can be made a source of potable water for the planet. Yet icebergs have a story to tell about the epistemological and economic production of northern natural resources. Distinct institutional actors, from oceanographers and military engineers to Saudi royalty and software design companies, have sought to control and come to know icebergs through specific practices of modeling. I argue that the representation of icebergs is a contingent practice that has often been bound up with processes of commodification. To come to know icebergs we have to come to know how these quintessentially polar phenomena have been represented and commodified, across the twentieth century and at a significant remove from the highest latitudes of the planet. The increasing pace of northern development, with natural resources at the vanguard of corporate and governmental incursions, signals the emergence of "media environments" that are extending the representation of (and control over) natural phenomena through a series of media technologies, from 3D modeling applications and collections of satellite data to virtual reality environments and predictive algorithms.
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In: Sources and Studies in World History
In: Aspects of Tourism
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Mallorca's Tourism and its Origins -- Chapter 2. Environmental Resources, Perceptions and Constraints for Tourism -- Chapter 3. The Historical Development of the Tourism Industry from the late 19th Century to the mid-1950s -- Chapter 4. When Majorca Was Spelled with a 'J': The First 'Boom' of the 1960s -- Chapter 5. From Crisis to Crisis (1973–2010) with a Continuing Boom in Between! -- Chapter 6. Environmental Impact and Sustainability -- Chapter 7. Policy and Planning for Tourism -- Chapter 8. Economy, Business and Politics -- Chapter 9. New Markets and Diversification -- Chapter 10. Future Trends -- Sources and References -- Index
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 817-818
ISSN: 1461-7250
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 421-425
ISSN: 0309-1317
"The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a Louisiana bayou to be "natural," though each is to an extent the product of technology. Pollution, widely thought to be a purely man-made phenomenon, results partly from natural processes. All around us, things from the natural world are brought into the human world. At what point do we consider them part of culture rather than nature? And does such a distinction illuminate our world or obscure its workings?
In: Studies in environment and history
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In: Studies in environment and history
In: Doctoral thesis, University of London.
My research is concerned with how the Postclassic Mexica people developed their unique perspective of history and environment in a dynamic cultural context. By focusing on the process of conceptualization of the Nahuatl word 'xihuitl', I analyze the way the Mexica expressed their cognition. Xihuitl covers a range of meanings: 'turquoise', 'grass', 'solar year', 'comet', 'preciousness', 'blue-green' and 'fire'. To group these meanings may seem odd because there is nothing to connect them that is intuitively obvious in the modern sense. I propose that xihuitl represents an aspect of cognition peculiar to the Mexica, and is linked especially to the economic, political and religious concerns of the Mexica elites. The meanings covered by xihuitl were not established at one time but were a product of history the history of the Mexica's experiences in and of their ever- changing environment. The correlations of the meanings of xihuitl can be explained from a structural point of view. However, structural analysis does not reveal the dynamic experiential processes that produced such correlations in the minds of the Mexica. In order to account for this dynamic aspect of the concept, I employ a theory drawn from cognitive science. This theory argues that the meanings and representations of a concept are metaphoric extensions that derive from the central sense of the concept. Applying this theory, I examine the metaphoric extension of each xihuitl representation from the central sense. I also analyze the four media of expression linguistic, iconographic, material and ritual in which representations of xihuitl occur. The representations of xihuitl in each medium embody a particular aspect of the concept. At the same time, the concept as a whole was affected by the Mexica conceptual system the way the Mexica saw their world rooted in the connections they believed existed between themselves and those who established earlier Central Mexican civilizations.
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