Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric : the texture of political action / / edited by Robert Hariman and Ralph Cintron

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797912303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-78238-747-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Collana: Studies in rhetoric and culture ; ; volume 7
• Disciplina: 306.2
• Soggetti: Politics and culture; Political culture; Political participation; Social action; Rhetoric - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Culture, Catastrophe,and Rhetoric; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression; Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political; Chapter 3. The In-Between States; Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship; Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic; Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing; Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines; Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony; Chapter 9. Grassroots Rhetorics in Times of ScarcityChapter 10. Too Too Much Much; Conclusion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case ; studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Diversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of Ants

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910566471503321
• Autore: Andersen Alan N
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Soggetti: Research & information: general; Research and information: general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Ants are a ubiquitous, highly diverse, and ecologically dominant faunal group. They represent a large proportion of global terrestrial faunal biomass and play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, and re-cyclers of nutrients. They have particularly important interactions with plants as defenders against herbivores, as seed dispersers, and as seed predators. One downside to the ecological importance of ants is that they feature on the list of the world's worst invasive species. Ants have also been important for science as model organisms for studies of diversity, biogeography, and community ecology. Despite such importance, ants remain remarkably understudied. A large proportion of species are undescribed, the biogeographic histories of most taxa remain poorly known, and we have a limited understanding of spatial patterns of diversity and composition, along with the processes driving them. The papers in this Special Issue collectively address many of the most pressing questions relating to ant diversity. What is the level of ant diversity? What is the origin of this diversity, and how is it distributed at different spatial scales? What are the roles of niche ; partitioning and competition as regulators of local diversity? How do ants affect the ecosystems within which they occur? The answers to these questions provide valuable insights not just for ants, but for biodiversity more generally.