1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910447051903321

Autore

Ling L. H. M.

Titolo

India China : rethinking borders and security / / L.H.M. Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P. Lama, and Li Bo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2016]

ISBN

0-472-90252-0

0-472-12220-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Configurations: critical studies of world politics

Classificazione

POL011000

Disciplina

327.54051

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General

India Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations India

India Boundaries China

China Boundaries India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-170) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India. Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785822703321

Autore

Pulaczewska Hanna

Titolo

Aspects of metaphor in physics [[electronic resource] ] : examples and case studies / / Hanna Pulaczewska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen, : Niemeyer, 1999

ISBN

3-11-091593-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 407

Disciplina

530/.1/4

Soggetti

Metaphor

Physics - Language

Science - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: The notion of metaphor and its relation to the discourse of physics -- 2. Approaches to metaphor: past and present -- 3. Identifying metaphor in physical science: sorts, functions, and related concepts -- Part Two: Metaphors in physics -- 4. Underlying metaphors of everyday thought in meta-theory and the concept formation of physics -- 5. World theories in meta-theory and the concept formation -- 6. Stipulative reference extension -- 7. Assimilative metaphor -- 8. Theory-constitutive and educational metaphors -- 9. Metaphor and style: "figures of speech" in the language of physics -- 10. Transfer of denotations in the terminology of physics -- 11. Thoughts and conclusions -- References

Sommario/riassunto

With reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce



the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633996203321

Autore

Urata Shujiro

Titolo

Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity : Breaking down the 5Ps--People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2022

Singapore : , : Springer, , 2023

©2023

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (187 p.)

Collana

Sustainable Development Goals Series

Classificazione

EDU034000HIS003000POL000000SOC042000

Altri autori (Persone)

KurodaKazuo

TonegawaYoshiko

Soggetti

Development studies

Political science & theory

Asian history

Central government policies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals



(SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or “the 5Ps”. Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social thought, human development, law, education, sociology, and peace studies. Further, each lecture delineates the essence of each discipline when it is practically applied to development studies. This book, Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity, along with its sister volume related to the planet and prosperity, Society, will be useful in studying development. Interdisciplinary research is necessary to achieve the SDGs advocated by the United Nations. Hence, it is essential to learn the basics of individual disciplines, as they each offer ample knowledge fostering problem solving through the accumulation of existing research. This and its sister volume are the first comprehensive textbooks summarizing the essence of each necessary discipline to approach development studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. In developing countries, this book will provide access to development research for readers aiming to further develop their own nations. Moreover, in developed countries, the book will provide access to problem-solving research for readers seeking holistic solutions to complex social problems.