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UNINA9910779051003321 |
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Autore |
Varma Rashmi |
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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-136-80402-1 |
1-283-44292-2 |
9786613442925 |
0-203-82781-3 |
1-136-80403-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 34 |
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Cities and towns in literature |
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism |
Postcolonialism in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities. |
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This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks-the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the cons |
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UNINA9910483908303321 |
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Intelligent Robotics and Applications : 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part III / / edited by Honghai Liu, Naoyuki Kubota, Xiangyang Zhu, Rüdiger Dillmann, Dalin Zhou |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XV, 586 p. 380 illus.) |
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 9246 |
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Disciplina |
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Artificial intelligence |
Image processing - Digital techniques |
Computer vision |
Control engineering |
Robotics |
Automation |
Computers and civilization |
Application software |
Computers, Special purpose |
Artificial Intelligence |
Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics |
Control, Robotics, Automation |
Computers and Society |
Computer and Information Systems Applications |
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Mobile robots and intelligent autonomous systems -- Intelligent system and cybernetics -- Robot mechanism and design -- Robotic vision -- Recognition and reconstruction.- Active control in tunneling boring machine. |
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This three volume set LNAI 9244, 9245, and 9246 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2015, held in Portsmouth, UK, in August 2015. The 46 papers included in the third volume are organized in topical sections on mobile robots and intelligent autonomous systems; intelligent system and cybernetics; robot mechanism and design; robotic vision; recognition and reconstruction; and active control in tunneling boring machine. |
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