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El viaje es un espacio emblemático de encuentro, diálogo y apertura de horizontes. Aquí presentamos un viaje literario, híbrido entre ficción y realidad, un recorrido con variadas e interesantes paradas que evocan mentalidades, lugares, miradas, percepciones, en definitiva, a través de los textos preparados por investigadores del Grupo Oswald de la Universitat de València.
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Place Peripheral examines community and regional development in rural, island, and remote locales from a place-based approach. This is a timely edited collection, addressing themes that are receiving considerable attention in Canada and internationally as local communities, scholars, researchers and public policy analysts strive to better understand and apply place-based strategies in rural and remote regions. The volume and its contributors examine...
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Doreen Massey was a creative scholar, inspiring teacher and restless activist. Her path-breaking thinking about space, place, politics and economy changed not only geography but the critical social sciences, initiating new ways of seeing, understanding and indeed transforming the world.
This collection of commissioned essays, including from Doreen Massey's long-time interlocutors and collaborators, explores both the generative sources and the continuing...
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Esta edición recopila las actas del Congreso Internacional Guerra y Viaje. Una constante Histórico-literaria entre España y Alemania, celebrado en el MuVIM en 2008. Se trata de catorce trabajos centrados en las relaciones culturales hispano-alemanas, desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo XX. Literatura de viajes y viajes en la literatura vistos desde la óptica alemana.
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Engagement with non-academic groups and actors – such as policy-makers, industry, charities and activist groups, communities, and the public – in the co-production of knowledge and real-world impact is increasingly important in academic research. Drawing on empirical research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and broad international perspectives, this collection offers a critical examination of the...
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Some 30 years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, its economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 20th and 21st centuries. Looking at the diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration and economic and social change,...
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Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development...
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La presente publicación recoge los aspectos más interesantes del patrimonio hidráulico relacionado con el regadío histórico de la cuenca del Río Amadorio situada en la comarca de la Marina Baixa. El estudio abarca, tanto el análisis de los sistemas de regadío, como los elementos ubicados en ellos, en el eje fluvial del Río Amadorio, el Río de Sella y el Barranc de l'Arc. El libro comprende los regadíos vinculados a la cuenca del río Amadorio...
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Este volumen reúne las aportaciones presentadas en el l Congreso de "Paisaje, Turisme e lnnovación" organizado por La Agència Valenciana del Turisme y la Universitat de València, en un esfuerzo para poner en valor las múltiples experiencias que en diversas facetas del turismo se han generado a partir de los paisajes de la Comunidad Valenciana. Los textos reflejan el debate generado en torno a tres temas claves para el futuro de la Comunidad Valenciana:...
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Este libro tiene como objetivo ofrecer una radiografía actualizada de la sociedad valenciana que ayude a comprender los aspectos básicos de su estructura y las dinámicas seguidas durante las últimas décadas. Estructurado en catorce capítulos, aborda cuestiones tan fundamentales como las tendencias demográficas, el modelo territorial, ecológico y económico, la estructura laboral, las desigualdades socioeconómicas, los modelos familiares,...
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Esta publicación se fundamenta en el análisis de los componentes y actividades del sistema territorial de la provincia de Valencia, susceptibles de consolidarla e impulsarla socioeconómicamente, garantizando la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. Así pues, el trabajo efectuado revisa los factores que son genuinos, que dan carácter y que explican en primer lugar la realidad territorial presente y el modelo territorial al que aspiramos como colectivo....
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Con motivo de la conmemoración del cincuenta aniversario de la riada de 1957, el MuVIM organizó unas jornadas que analizaron los procesos de la transformación que experimentó València en los cincuenta años posteriores. Este libro pretende abrir nuevas perspectivas de discusión y contraste que ayuden a definir, de la forma más consensuada posible, políticas urbanas sensatas y eficientes.
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Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is noteworthy as geographers have made extensive contributions to...
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This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as material and social relations. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus...
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The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.
This book is a milestone in the history of academic research on the development and role of geomancy (fengshui in Chinese and p'ungsu in Korean) in Korean culture and society. As the first interdisciplinary work of its kind, it investigates many topics in geomancy studies that have never been previously explored, and contains contributions from a number of disciplines...
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Este volumen recoge 28 contribuciones consagradas a la geografía física del País Valenciano que inciden en las transformaciones territoriales y antrópicas. La geografía integral, no se concibe sin la presencia humana y la persona es uno de sus principales actores, sobre todo comparado con la tecnología del paleolítico o de las edades media y moderna. Las transformaciones del territorio valenciano, vistas por geógrafos físicos de distintas...
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The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host of unintended consequences that reshaped landscapes around the world. While...
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The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry. In the first section, contributors explore the history and regulation of wine production as well as its contemporary economic significance. The second section focuses on the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines. The third introduces readers to the science of grape growing, wine tasting, and wine production, and the final section...
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In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health. The provocative concept of a "right to be rural" illuminates not only the challenges faced by rural communities worldwide, but also underappreciated facets of community resilience in the face of these challenges. The...
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Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. This edited volume explores this relationship by attempting to think critically about space and spatial categorizations.
Editors Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg ask, What methodological-philosophical...
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