Global Environmental Change 22 (2012) 391–398 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Global Environmental Change journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha Vulnerability conditions and risk representations in Latin-America: Framing the territorializing urban risk Julien Rebotier * ˆtiment IRSAM – SET‚ 64000 Pau‚ France CNRS – UMR 5603‚ Domaine Universitaire‚ Ba A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 24 December 2010 Received in
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postmodernism a beginner’s guide other ’ from oneworld Anti-capitalism: A Beginner’s Guide‚ Simon Tormey‚ ISBN 1–85618–342–9 Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner’s Guide‚ Blay Whitby‚ ISBN 1–85168–322–4 Genetics: A Beginner’s Guide‚ B. Guttman‚ A. Griffiths‚ D.T. Suzuki and T. Cullis‚ ISBN 1–85168–304–6 The Palestine–Israeli Conflict: A Beginner’s Guide‚ Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami‚ ISBN 1–85168–261–9 Religion: A Beginner’s Guide‚ Martin Forward‚ ISBN 1–85168–258–9 postmodernism
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WOMEN AS COMMODITY Women As Commodity Since ancient times‚ There people who are being sold just like a mere things sold in a market to be slaves‚ pimp‚ and it’s quiet alarming that even naive child is a victim of this kind of discursive life. Women have been also analyzed to be part of those bundles of things paraded‚ bidded for‚ sold‚ and traded off despite the fact that women are making huge contributions for the development of their countries in different aspects today‚ still women are
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Farm: George Orwell=s Animal Farm: A metonym for a dictatorship Harry Sewlall Vista University Distance Education Campus PRETORIA E-mail: swlll-h@acaleph.vista.ac.za It seems‚ to warp George Orwell’s elegant phrase‚ that “All animals may speak freely but some may speak more freely than others” (Ronge‚ 1998:13). It is the lesson of George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ a little book I am sure much of the ANC leadership would have read‚ if not always taken to heart (Carlin‚ 2001:4). Abstract Orwell= Farm:
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To appear in Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies edited by Robert Orsi THINKING ABOUT RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND POLITICS Talal Asad Since the closing decade of the millennium social friction generated by the presence of substantial numbers of Muslim immigrants in Europe and the threat of Muslim terrorists have given a new impetus to the fear of politicized religion. Violent and intolerant “Fundamentalist movements” have emerged not only in the Muslim world (although these are the most frightening
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Allusions in M. E Forester’s “My Wood” Chapter 1.General considerations on allusion as a stylistic device. 1.1 Definition and functioning of allusion and its types. An allusion(ah-LOO-zhen) is a figure of speech that makes a reference to‚ or representation of‚ people‚ places‚ events‚ literary work‚ myths‚ or works of art‚ either directly or by implication. M. H. Abrams defined allusion as "a brief reference‚ explicit or indirect‚ to a person‚ place or event‚ or to another literary work
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Association‚ Chicago‚ IL‚ 1989. 38. Wyver‚ J.‚ “Television and postmodernism”‚ in Postmodernism‚ ICA Documents 4‚ Institute of Contemporary Arts‚ London‚ 1986‚ pp. 52-4. 39. Baudrillard‚ J.‚ Seduction‚ St. Martin’s Press‚ New York‚ NY‚ 1990. 40. Barthes‚ R.‚ The Fashion System‚ Hill and Wang‚ New York‚ NY‚ 1983. 41. Faurschou‚ G.‚ “Fashion and the cultural logic of postmodernity”‚ Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory‚ Vol. XI No. 1-2‚ 1987‚ pp. 68-82. 42. Moyers‚ B.‚ “Image and reality
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aesthetics from theEncyclopædia Britannica aesthetics‚ also spelled esthetics ‚ the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely related to the philosophy of art‚ which is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated. To provide more than a general definition of the subject matter of aesthetics is immensely difficult. Indeed‚ it could be said that self-definition has been the major task of modern aesthetics
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Language Learning 46:4‚ December 1996‚ pp. 713-749 Review Article SLA Theory Building: “Letting All the Flowers Bloom!” James P. Lantolf Cornell University This article presents a postmodernist critical analysis of the SLA theory building-literature as primarily represented in the writings of Beretta‚ Crookes‚ Eubank‚ Gregg‚ Long‚ and t o some extent Schumann. I argue that there is no foundational reason to grant privileged status to the modernist view of SLA theory these scholars espouse
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African American culture African American culture in the United States includes the various cultural traditions of African ethnic groups. It is both part of and distinct from American culture. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as "people having origins in any of the Black race groups of Africa."[1] African American culture is indigenous to the descendants in the U.S. of survivors of the Middle Passage. It is rooted in Africa and is an amalgam of chiefly sub-Saharan African and
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