Plotting the reading experience : theory, practice, politics / / Paulette M. Rothbauer, [and four others editors]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155156603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2016; 2016
• ISBN: 1-77112-175-0; 1-77112-174-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 pages)
• Disciplina: 418.4019
• Soggetti: Reading, Psychology of; Reading - Psychological aspects; Reading - Social aspects; Reading - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Plotting the Reading Experience -- PART 1 THEORY -- 2 The Hidden Foundations of Critical Reading -- 3 What Is a Reading Experience? The Development of a Theoretical and Empirical Understanding -- 4 Reimagining Reading -- 5 Evidence of Reading? The Swedish Public's Letters to Selma Lagerlöf: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to the History of Reading -- 6 Byatt versus Bloom: or, Reading by Patricide versus Reading by Love -- 7 A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Researching the Reading Experience -- 8 Tempering Ambiguity - The Quality of the Reading Experience -- PART 2 PRACTICE -- 9 Fun ... and Other Reasons for Sharing Reading with Strangers: Mass Reading Events and the Possibilities of Pleasure -- 10 The Once and Future Self: (Re)reading Personal Lists, Notes, and Calendars -- 11 More Benefit from a Well-Stocked Library Than a Well-Stocked Pharmacy: How Do Readers Use Books as Therapy? -- 12 Literary Reading as a Social Technology: An Exploratory Study on Shared Reading Groups -- 13 The Indescribable Described: Readers' Experiences When Reading about Tragic Loss -- 14 When Comics Set ; the Pace: The Experience of Time and the Reading of Comics -- 15 Reading Groups in Swedish Public Libraries -- PART 3 POLITICS -- 16 "I readed it!" (Marissa, 4 years): The Experience of Reading from the Perspective of Children Themselves: A Cautionary Tale -- 17 Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences -- 18 Literature in Common: Reading for Pleasure in School Reading Groups -- 19 Desire and Becoming - Multilingual Pupils' Reading Experiences -- 20 Experiencing the Social Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Approaches of Amateur and Professional Criticism.; 21 The Republic of Readers: Book Clubs in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830 -- 22 "Crazy Thirst for Knowledge": Chinese Readers and the 1980s "Book Series Fever" -- 23 Enabling Testimonies and Producing Witnesses: Exploring Readers' Responses to Two Norwegian Post-Terror Blogs -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about the experience of reading-what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms. This edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice, and Politics. The first provides insights into ways of seeing, thinking, and conceptualizing the experience of reading. The second features a variety of individual and social practices of reading. The third explores the political and ethical aspects of the reading experience, raising questions about the role that reading plays in democracy and civic participation. With contributions from multidisciplinary scholars from around the world, this book provides provocative insights into what it means to be a reader reading in and across various social, cultural, and political contexts. Its unifying theme of the reader's experience of reading is put into dialogue with theories, practices, and politics, making this a rewarding read for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and librarians working across a range of academic fields.

The Legal, Administrative and Managing Framework for Spatial Policy, Planning and Land-Use. Interdependence, Barriers and Directions of Change

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557466003321
• Autore: Nowak Maciej J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Soggetti: Peace studies & conflict resolution
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The book aims to explore the legal and administrative aspects of spatial governance and the challenges that their interaction entails. It does this through a number of chapters focusing on case studies located in different geographical areas of Europe and beyond. By doing this, the editors shed light on a set of challenges that emerge around the world at the intersection between the legal and administrative spheres during the governance and planning of territorial phenomena. The issues addressed in the various chapters highlight how spatial planning activities continue to face serious challenges that have not yet been satisfactorily addressed. In more detail, a correlation emerges between the legal regulations that allow and shape spatial-planning activities and the socio-economic and territorial challenges that those activities should tackle. This is often a consequence of the path-dependent influence of the traditional administrative and spatial planning configuration, which presents an inertial resistance to change that is hard to overcome. A similar situation arises concerning the mismatch between the boundaries of the existing administrative units and the extent of territorial phenomena, with a system of judicial-territorial administration that does not always coincide with the boundaries of the fundamental administrative division of a country, leading to an overall deterioration of the conditions in which all actors ; involved in spatial development operate.