Diasporic Africa [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Michael A. Gomez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454234803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-4356-0032-0; 0-8147-3322-0
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 317 p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): GomezMichael Angelo <1955->
• Disciplina: 909/.0496
• Soggetti: African diaspora - History; Black people - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Diasporic Africa: a view from history / Michael A. Gomez -- PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DURING SLAVERY -- In an ocean of blue: West African Indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800 / Frederick Knight -- Batuque: African drumming and dance between repression and concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 / João José Reis -- The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / James H. Sweet -- PART II. MEMORY AND INSTANTIATIONS OF THE DIVINE -- Bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of African in slave narratives of the Garrisonian Era / Jermaine O. Archer -- Embracing the religious profession: the antebellum mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- Finding the past, making the future: the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the Black Diaspora / Fran Markowitz -- Spatial responses of the African diaspora in Jamaica: focus on Rastafarian architecture / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- PART III. RECONFIGURING THE POLITICAL / CONTESTING THE CONCEPTUAL -- Blacks and slavery in Morocco: the question of the Haratin at the end of the seventeenth century / Chouki El Hamel -- Race and the making of the nation: blacks in modern France / Tyler Stovall -- "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all ; other forms of government but the Soviet": black women radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left during the 1920s / Erik S. McDuffie -- "Boundaries of law and disorder": the "grand design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "overseas revolution" in Cuba / Rose C. Thevenin -- Writing the diaspora in black international literature "with wider hope in some more benign fluid...": diaspora consciousness and literary expression / Wendy W. Walters -- Displacing diaspora: trafficking, African women, and transnational practices / Asale Angel-Ajani.

The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kirsi Latola, Hannele Savela

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910231238703321
• Autore: Kirsi Latola
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Springer Nature, 2017; Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 3-319-57532-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 311 p. 78 illus., 69 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Springer Polar Sciences, , 2510-0475
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Environmental management; Climate change; Quality of life; Environment; Economic policy; Economics; Environmental Management; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Quality of Life Research; Environment Studies; Political Economy/Economic Systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I Vulnerability of the Arctic environments. Chapter 1 Mysteries of ; the geological history of the Cenozoic Arctic Ocean sea ice cover -- Chapter 2 Response of Arctic alpine biota to climate change -evidence from Polar Urals GLORIA summits -- Chapter 3 The features of natural and artificial recovery in quarries of the forest-tundra zone of Western Siberia -- Chapter 4 The concept of hierarchical structure of large marine ecosystems in the zoning of Russian Arctic shelf seas -- Chapter 5 Changing climate and outbreaks of forest pest insects in a cold northern country, Finland -- Chapter 6 Wood-based energy as a strategy for climate change mitigation in the Arctic –Perspectives on assessment of climate impacts and resource efficiency with Life Cycle Assessment -- Chapter 7. Geospatial analysis of persistent organic pollutant deposits in the Arctic ecosystems and environment -- Chapter 8 Hydrological probabilistic model MARCS and its application to simulate the probability density functions of multi-year maximal runoff: the Russian Arctic as a case of study -- Chapter 9 Student contribution: Assessment of Atmospheric Circulation in the Atlantic-Eurasian Region and Arctic Using Climate Indices. The Possible Applications of these Indices in Long-term Weather Forecasts -- Chapter 10 Student contribution: Difficulties of Geological Engineering in Arctic Seas -- Part II Vulnerability of the Arctic societies. Chapter 11 The Health Transition: A challenge to indigenous peoples in the Arctic -- Chapter 12 Uncertainties in Arctic socio-economic scenarios -- Chapter 13 Importance of consideration of climate change at managing fish stocks: A case of northern Russian fisheries -- Chapter 14 Preservation of territories and traditional activities of the northern indigenous peoples in the period of the Arctic industrial development -- Chapter 15 The Arctic journey – design experiments in the north -- Chapter 16 The Bicycle and the Arctic. Resilient and sustainable transport in times of climate change -- Part III Building the long-term human capacity. Chapter 17 Human capital development in the Russian Arctic -- Chapter 18 Impact of wages on employment and migration in the High North of Russia -- chapter 19 Well-being in an Arctic city. Designing a longitudinal study on student relationships and perceived quality of life -- Chapter 20 Researching Links between Teacher Wellbeing and Educational Change: Case Studies from Kazakhstan and Sakha Republic -- chapter 21 Student contribution: Well-being at the Polish polar station, Svalbard: Adaptation to extreme environments -- Part IV Arcitc tourism. Chapter 22 Tourism futures in the Arctic -- chapter 23 Uniqueness as a draw for riding under the midnight sun -- Chapter 24 Arctic tourism: the design approach with reference to the Russian North -- Part V Arctic safety. Chapter 25 Maritime operations and emergency preparedness in the Arctic –competence standards for search and rescue operations contingencies in polar waters -- Chapter 26 Risk reduction as a result of implementation of the functional based IMO Polar Code in the Arctic cruise industry -- Chapter 27 Safety of industrial development and transportation routes in the Arctic (SITRA) -collaboration project for research and education of future High North experts -- Chapter 28 Safe Snow and Ice Construction to Arctic Conditions -- Chapter 29 The components of psychological safety of oil and gas shift workers in the Arctic -- Part VI Circumpolar, inclusive and reciprocal Arctic. Chapter 30 Where is gender? Cracking the Arctic box and its persistent “gender neutral” research agendas -- Chapter 31 Towards an Arctic awakening: Neocolonialism, sustainable development, emancipatory research, collective action, and Arctic regional policymaking.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, ; Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, Building Long-term Human Capacity, New Markets for the Arctic, including tourism and safety. The themes are those discussed at the first ever UArctic Congress Science Section, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2016. The book looks at the Arctic from a holistic perspective; how the environment (both marine and terrestrial) and communities can adapt and manage the changes due to climate change. The chapters provide examples of the state-of-the-art research, bringing together both scientific and local knowledge to form a comprehensive and cohesive volume.