Gender, nationalism, and war : conflict on the movie screen / / Matthew Evangelista [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461474703321
• Autore: Evangelista Matthew <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-22038-6; 1-139-06364-2; 1-283-11135-7; 9786613111357; 1-139-07599-3; 0-511-74004-2; 1-139-07826-7; 1-139-07025-8; 1-139-08055-5; 1-139-08282-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 791.42/6581
• Soggetti: Women in motion pictures; War films - History and criticism; Sex role in motion pictures; Nationalism in motion pictures; Political violence in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures; Women - Political activity; Violence in women
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Virginia Woolf's purse -- Algeria : a world constructed out of ruins -- Yugoslavia : archetype or anomaly? -- Chechnya : virgins, mothers, and terrorists -- Québec : oui, no, or femme -- 'To live to see better times' : gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality -- Sequel : gender and nationalist violence on film.
• Sommario/riassunto: Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be forces for peace. Yet women have been perpetrators as well as victims of violence in nationalist conflicts. This unique book generates insights into the role of gender in nationalist violence by examining feature films from a range of conflict zones. In The Battle of Algiers, female bombers destroy civilians while men dress in women's clothes to prevent the French army from capturing and torturing them. Prisoner of the Mountains shows a Chechen girl falling in love with her Russian captive as his mother tries to rescue him. Providing historical and political context to these and other films, Matthew Evangelista identifies the key role that economic decline plays in threatening masculine identity and provoking the misogynistic violence that often accompanies nationalist wars.

Commercialization of food consumption in rural China [[electronic resource] /] / Fred Gale ... [and others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910696879003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, , [2005]
• Descrizione fisica: iv, 37 pages : digital, PDF file
• Collana: Economic research report ; ; no. 8
• Altri autori (Persone): GaleFred
• Soggetti: Food supply - China; Food consumption - China; Consumer behavior - China; Rural population - China; Diet - China; Grocery shopping - China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed Aug. 9, 2005); "July 2005."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-31).

Systemic Design : Theory, Methods, and Practice / / edited by Peter Jones, Kyoichi Kijima

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910309660603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018
• ISBN: 4-431-55639-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2018.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Collana: Translational Systems Sciences, , 2197-8832 ; ; 8
• Disciplina: 361.61
• Soggetti: Social policy; Economics - Sociological aspects; Social structure; Equality; Social Policy; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Social Structure, Social Inequality
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I Integrative Practices -- Chapter 1 Contexts of Co-Creation: Designing with System Stakeholders.-Chapter 2 A Framework for Complex Design: Lessons from Synthetic Biology -- Chapter 3 Inclusive Systemic Design for Health System Flourishment -- Part II Theoretical Foundations -- Chapter 4 Systems Design Thinking: Theoretical, Methodological and Methodical Considerations A German Narrative -- Chapter 5 Wicked Problems in Design and Ethics -- Chapter 6 On the Resilience of Sociotechnical Systems -- Chapter 7 Towards a (Socio-Ecological) Science of Settlement -- Part III Method and Practice -- Chapter 8 Visualizing Complex Design: The Evolution of Gigamaps -- Chapter 9 Local Ruralism: Systemic Design for Economic Development -- Chapter 10 Permaculture as a Systemic Design Practice.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering. There are significant societal forces and ; organizational demands impelling the requirement for “better means of change” through integrated design practices of systems and services. Here we call on advanced design to lead programs of strategic scale and higher complexity (e.g., social policy, healthcare, education, urbanization) while adapting systems thinking methods, creatively pushing the boundaries beyond the popular modes of systems dynamics and soft systems. Systemic design is distinguished by its scale, social complexity and integration – it is concerned with higher-order systems that that entail multiple subsystems. By integrating systems thinking and its methods, systemic design brings human-centred design to complex, multi-stakeholder service systems. As designers engage with ever more complex problem areas, it is necessary to draw on a basis other than individual creativity and contemporary “design thinking” methods. Systems theories can co-evolve with a new school of design theory to resolve informed action on today’s highly resilient complex problems and can deal effectively with demanding, contested and high-stakes challenges.