1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463726403321

Autore

Jeffries Fiona

Titolo

Nothing to lose but our fear / / Fiona Jeffries ; in conversation with Lydia Cacho [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Zed Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-85649-545-0

1-78360-184-1

1-78360-414-X

1-78360-416-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Critique Influence Change

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Fear - Social aspects

Social control

Government, Resistance to

Scholars

Journalists

Human rights workers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part I: Historicizing ; 1. Marcus Rediker: The Theatre and Counter-Theatre of Fear ; Political Formations ; Histories of Violence ; Pirate Ways of Knowing ; Violent Pedagogies ; Exemplary Punishment, Refusal of Fear ; Accumulating Bodies ; Laughing at Fear ; Reflections on the Violence of Abstraction ; 2. Silvia Federici: Remembering Resistance from the Witch Hunts to Alter-Globalization; Fear Needn't Paralyze You ; Movement, Solidarity, and Love ; Intimate Resistance

A Political Life in Motion Terrorizing Women ; The Divisions among Us ; Confronting Fear ; Part II: Theorizing ; 3. David Harvey: Indignant Cities ; Urban Unrest as an Impetus to Social Inquiry ; Spaces of Hope and



Fear ; Stories of Fear ; Fears of the Seen and the Unseen ; Suburban Fears ; Crisis Cycles ; Alliances of the Dispossessed and the Discontented ; 4. Nandita Sharma: Terror and Mercy at the Border ; An Initiation in Violence ; Alternative Routes ; Ideal Victims and Benevolent Rescuers ; Fear Nation ; Love and Fear ; No Borders, Global Democracy

5. John Holloway: We Are the Fragility of the System Asking We Walk ; Dignity against Fear ; Screaming in the Darkness ; Thinking through Crisis ; Living in the Subjunctive ; Fear's Antagonists ; Resonances ; Against and Beyond ; Dignity ; Fear and Debt ; Part III: Practicing; 6. Lydia Cacho: Dangerous Journalism ; Journeys in Lost Cities ; Impunity ; A Functional Dictatorship ; Fears of the Powerful ; 7. Sandra Moran: Feminist Indignation ; Power Over, Power To ; Indignation ; Legacy of War ; Resistance ; 8. Gustavo Esteva: Political Courage and the Strange Persistence of Hope ; Beginnings

Global Fear Coalitions of the Discontented ; Security without the Security State ; Political Courage ; Temporalities of Hope and Fear ; 9. Wendy Mendez: Remembering the Disappeared, Revealing Hidden Histories of Resistance ; Remembering ; Closing the Cycle of Death ; Women's Public Struggle against Fear ; Uncovering Histories ; De-militarizing the Mind ; Our Love Is Bigger Than Their Fear ; Letting the Walls Speak ; Fearless Speech ; Index ; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A unique look at how the experience of fear prevents political change, with instructions and examples of how to overcome it from leading figures on the left.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910712903403321

Titolo

Emergency Workshop on Energy Conservation in Buildings / / National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards and National Bureau of Standards Joint Emergency Workshop on Energy Conservation in Buildings, held at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., June 19, 1973 ; prepared by Sandra A. Berry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards : , : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., , 1975

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 25 pages)

Collana

NBS technical note ; ; 789-1

Altri autori (Persone)

BerrySandra A

Disciplina

602/.1 s

697

Soggetti

Building laws - United States

Buildings - Environmental engineering

Energy conservation - United States

Energy policy - United States

Building laws

Energy conservation

Energy policy

Conference papers and proceedings.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779815203321

Autore

Field Michael <1940, >

Titolo

APL : developing more flexible colleges / / Michael Field

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-87727-7

1-134-87728-5

1-280-32692-1

0-203-13718-3

0-203-30603-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Collana

Further education

Disciplina

370.15/23

374.0130941

Soggetti

Experiential learning - Great Britain

Universities and colleges - Great Britain - Administration

College credits - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Series Editor's foreword; Foreword to the series; Introduction; The alternative focus of accreditation of prior learning; Introducing accreditation; The shaping of today's colleges; Developing pressures; External pressures for change; Teaching and learning frameworks; Teaching and learning: catering for changing needs; Accreditation and assessment services; Assessment on demand services; The shape of tomorrow's colleges; Developing a distinct mission for the college; Widening participation; Attracting potential students

Dealing effectively with enquiriesEnabling students to succeed; The framework of guidance and support; Organisational factors affecting flexibility; Organisational climate; Managing change: assessing the amount of change required; Managing the pressures to change; Managing change: change models; An individual model of change; A management initiated model of change; Managing the resistance to change; Index



Sommario/riassunto

The keystones for provision in the new era of Further Education will be flexibility of response, open access, equality of opportunity, and valuing and accrediting alternative ways of learning - all linked together within the concepts of providing life-long learning opportunities. The provision of APL, along with the support services needed to ensure its success, can be used as the `acid test' of whether a college is truly open and accessible to a variety of learners. Written by an experienced manager, this book offers invaluable advice for other managers and senior staff engaged in transformin