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UNINA9910462568203321 |
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Autore |
Ingram B. Lynn <1961-> |
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The West without water [[electronic resource] ] : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow / / B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Malamud-RoamFrances <1961-> |
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Climatic changes - West (U.S.) - Forecasting |
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) |
Hydrology - West (U.S.) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Floods and Droughts in Living Memory -- Part Two. A Climate History of the American West -- Part Three. A Growing Water Crisis -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region's current water crisis from the perspective of its climate history, the authors ask the central question of what is "normal" climate for the West, and whether the relatively benign climate of the past century will continue into the future. The West without Water merges climate and paleoclimate research from a wide variety of sources as it introduces readers to key discoveries in cracking the secrets of the region's climatic past. It demonstrates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods have plagued the West with regularity over the past two millennia and recounts the most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 1861-62. The authors show that, while the West may have temporarily buffered itself from such harsh climatic swings by creating artificial |
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environments and human landscapes, our modern civilization may be ill-prepared for the future climate changes that are predicted to beset the region. They warn that it is time to face the realities of the past and prepare for a future in which fresh water may be less reliable. |
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UNINA9910795060503321 |
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Autore |
Szeman Ioana |
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Staging citizenship : Roma, performance, and belonging in EU Romania / / Ioana Szeman |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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1 online resource (viii, 195 pages) |
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Dance and performance studies ; ; Volume 11 |
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Romanies in mass media |
Culture conflict - Political aspects - Romania |
Performing arts - Political aspects - Romania |
Romanies - Romania - Social conditions |
Romania Ethnic relations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 ‘We Will Build a Beautiful Future Together’: NGO Historiography, Roma Culture and Monoethnic Nationalism -- Chapter 2 Living in the Citizenship Gap: Roma and the Permanent State of Emergency in Pod -- Chapter 3 Too Poor to Have Culture? The Politics of Authenticity in Roma NGO Training -- Chapter 4 Performing Bollywood: Young Roma Dance Cultural Citizenship -- Chapter 5 Consuming Exoticism/Reimagining Citizenship: Romanian Nationalism and Roma Counterpublics on Romanian Television -- Chapter 6 The Ambivalence of Success: Roma Musicians and the Citizenship Gap in Romania -- Conclusion Unlearning the Forgetting -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with government agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences. |
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