1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457741003321

Autore

Crysler C. Greig (Christopher Greig)

Titolo

Writing spaces : discourses of architecture, urbanism, and the built environment, 1960-2000 / / C. Greig Crysler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-47793-7

1-135-67958-4

1-280-22531-9

9786610225316

0-203-40268-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

The Architext series

Classificazione

71.14

74.06

Disciplina

720/.1

Soggetti

Communication in architecture

Academic writing

Architecture - Philosophy

Cities and towns - Philosophy

Critical theory

Electronic books.

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. 205-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Silent Itineraries: Making Places in Architectural History; 3. Strategies of Disturbance and the "Generation of Theory"; 4. Unsettled Traditions and Global Modernities; 5. Economies of Representation; 6. Bodies of Theory; 7. Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the graduate and advanced undergraduate level.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778015203321

Autore

Kepel Gilles

Titolo

Beyond terror and martyrdom [[electronic resource] ] : the future of the Middle East / / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Pascale Ghazaleh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-03955-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GhazalehPascale

Disciplina

363.3250956

Soggetti

Terrorism - Prevention - History - 21st century

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Jihad - History - 21st century

Islam and international relations

Terrorism - Middle East

Martyrdom

East and West

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Terreur et martyre.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

From the war on terror to the fiasco in Iraq -- Martyrdom operations among Shiites and Sunnis -- The third phase of jihad -- Missteps of multiculturalism -- The propaganda battle in Europe -- The challenge of civilization.

Sommario/riassunto

Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt-neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.