Описание: In the last century, the south-central Pacific coast of Costa Rica evolved from a wild, remote strip of land to one sparsely populated by homesteaders who cleared the forests to live off the land. Now it is a popular tourist destination filled with diverse wildlife in the abundant rainforests. Join author Jack Ewing as he reveals the ever-changing and fascinating history of the area and recounts his 45-year journey from managing a cattle ranch to developing Hacienda Barъ into a National Wildlife Refuge. And discover how his efforts with the Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor may one day bring jaguars and tapirs back to the area. REVIEWS "For Jack's many fans, the stories recalling episodes of his 45-year, personal evolution from cattle rancher, to emerging naturalist and conservationist, to renowned environmentalist will be equally enlightening and entertaining. This book will appeal to all ages and a wide range of readers -- tourists, naturalists, environmentalists, natural history students, local history buffs and anyone who has had the pleasure of experiencing the natural Costa Rica that Jack has worked so hard to foster and protect. - Dorothy MacKinnon, travel writer; Fodor's Guide to Costa Rica, Insight Guide to Costa Rica, Tico Times "Because of Jack Ewing and people like him we are sure to see the return of the tapir and jaguar to this extraordinary biological corridor, keeping this part of Costa Rica truly the 'rich coast' as it was meant to be. Where the Tapirs and Jaguars once Roamed is a must read for those who love Costa Rica and those yet to discover this beautiful country." - Pat Cheek, Quepolandia "The Costa Rican conservation story is a fascinating one and Jack Ewing has been an incredibly effective participant in its success. The book gives a very real and personal context to it. And he's a great story teller as well. I loved it!" - Richard Andrus, Professor - Binghamton University, New York "Where Tapirs and Jaguars Once Roamed transports the reader into Costa Rica with an intimacy born from the author's life there and with a vividness that would be difficult to match even seeing it for yourself. It is fascinating and personal, never dry or academic, yet by the end there's no denying it's a thoroughly educational read." - Ray & Sue Krueger-Koplin, Toucan Maps Inc.
Автор: Dana Hercbergs Название: Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem ISBN: 081434108X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814341087 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10031.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem’s social history.Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. The book’s starting point is the border that separated the city between Jordan and Israel in 1948-1967, a lesser-known but significant period for cultural representations of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada. What emerges is a portrayal of Jerusalem both as a local place with unique rhythms and topography and as a setting for national imaginaries and agendas with their attendant political and social tensions.As sites of memory, Jerusalem’s homes, streets, and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged narratives about belonging and rights to place. Recollections of local customs and lifeways in the mid-twentieth century coalesce around residents’ desire for stability amid periods of war, dispossession, and relocation?? intertwining the mythical with the mundane. Hercbergs begins by taking the reader to the historically Arab neighborhoods of West Jerusalem, whose streets are a battleground for competing historical narratives about the Israeli-Arab War of 1948. She goes on to explore the connections and tensions between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians living across the border from one another in Musrara, a neighborhood straddling West and East Jerusalem. The author rounds out the monograph with a semiotic analysis of contemporary tourism and architectural ventures that are entrenching ethno-national separation in the post-Oslo period. These rhetorical expressions illuminate what it means to be a ??erusalemite in the context of the city’s fraught history.Overlooking the Border examines the social and geographic significance of borders for residents’ sense of self, place, and community, and for representations of the city both locally and abroad. It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies, history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
Автор: Louise Bracken; Hanna A. Ruszczyk; Tom Robinson Название: Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk ISBN: 3319652109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319652108 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Part I: Earthquake Preparedness and Response 1. Introduction to the Gorkha earthquake; Hanna Ruszczyk and Tom Robinson2. Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET's Experience; Amod M. Dixit et al3. The First 100 Hours: Emergency Response to the Gorkha Earthquake; Gopi Basyal 4. Health and the Nepal Earthquake: Ways Forward; Ramjee Bhandari, Chandika Shrestha and Shiva Raj Mishra5. The Science of Earthquake Forecasting: What's Next for Nepal and the Himalayan Region?; Sanchita Neupane6. Disaster Games and the Role of Science for Informing High-Level Emergency Response Planning for Nepal; Tom Robinson Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives7. Communities in the Aftermath of Nepal's Earthquake; Ben Campbell 8. The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around; Hanna Ruszczyk 9. Green Social Work and the Uptake by the Nepal School of Social Work: Building Resilience in Disaster Stricken Communities; Lena Dominelli 10. Looking Down Not Up: Protecting the Post-Disaster Subsurface Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley's UNESCO World Heritage Site; Robin Coningham et al11.Looking and Moving Forward; Tom Robinson, Hanna Ruszczyk, and Louise Bracken
Автор: Rakic Tijana Название: Narratives of Travel and Tourism ISBN: 1409439747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409439745 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Travel and tourism stories have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the fact/fiction continuum. This title discusses historical and contemporary, as well as real-life and fictional, narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism stories and different types of media.
An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their position as a European-descended minority in a postcolonial African state, Gressier argues that white Batswana have developed cultural values and practices that have allowed them to attain high levels of belonging. Adventure is common for this frontier community, and the book follows their safari lifestyles as they construct and perform localized identities in their interactions with dangerous wildlife, the broader African community, and the global elite via their work in the nature-tourism industry.
Название: The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives ISBN: 1138055840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138055841 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology. This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology. Specifically, the volume first investigates the dialectic between the sea, the ship and the ship-dweller and shows how traits are exchanged between the three. It then focuses on land-dwellers, their understanding of seaborne existence and their invaluable contribution to the culture of ships. It shows that the romanticised views of life at sea that land-dwellers hold constitute an important aspect of the cosmology of ships and they too need to be considered if the polyvalence of ships is to be fully understood.
In order for this cosmology to be written, some of the volume's contributors have travelled on ships and interviewed mariners, fishermen, boat-builders and boat-dwellers; others have traced the courses of ships in poems, films, philosophical texts, and collective myths of genealogy and heritage. Overall the volume shows where ships can go, and how they are perceived and experienced by those living and travelling in them, watching and waiting for them, dreaming and writing about them, and, finally, what literal and metaphorical crews man them.
Автор: Rakic Название: Narratives of Travel and Tourism ISBN: 1138250201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138250208 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their narratives, and place narratives in travel and tourism - the book has a deliberately wide scope, with different chapters addressing the subject through various relevant 'lenses' and in relation to a number of different contexts. The narratives discussed include both historical and contemporary, as well as 'real-life' and fictional, narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism stories and different types of media. In relation to the principal themes of the book, some chapters also explore the importance of collecting memorabilia and image making in the recording, remembering, writing, telling or disseminating of stories about travel and tourism experiences and some examine the ways in which travel and tourism narratives may construct and reinforce personal, collective and place identities. The whole book is marked by an over-arching concern for narrative interpretation as a means of understanding, and providing a new perspective on, travel and tourism.
Автор: Benezer Gadi Название: The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Journey ISBN: 1138870153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138870154 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents new research into the exodus of 16 thousand Jewish immigrants from Ethopia to Israel between 1977 and 1985. Issues from trauma and memory to race and migration are raised.
Автор: Vasu Norman, Chin Yolanda, Law Kam-Yee Название: Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific ISBN: 1138653551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138653559 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5664.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant narratives which arise. It considers the problems in a wide range of countries in the region including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Автор: C H Lee Julian Название: Narratives of Globalization ISBN: 1783484438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783484430 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 6534.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life.
Автор: Robinson Название: Narratives of the European Border ISBN: 1403987203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403987204 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative. A work of literary geography, this book draws together a grouping of texts from different national canons, comparing how fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative. It focuses on border transformations in interwar narratives.
Автор: Stephanie Taylor Название: Narratives of Identity and Place ISBN: 0415655692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415655699 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the changing meanings of place for our identities and life stories in the 21st century, using an empirical approach developed in narrative and discursive psychology.
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