Building without borders [[electronic resource] ] : sustainable construction for the global village / / edited by Joseph F. Kennedy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783348903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gabriola, B.C., : New Society Publishers, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-46398-5; 1-55092-310-2
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 253 p. : ill
• Collana: Natural building
• Altri autori (Persone): KennedyJoseph F
• Disciplina: 690/.8
• Soggetti: Sustainable buildings; Dwellings - Design and construction - Environmental aspects; House construction - Environmental aspects; Building materials - Environmental aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Builders Without Borders (BWB) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the underhoused. We are an international network of ecological builders with the mission to form partnerships with communities and organizations around the world to create affordable housing from local materials, and to work together for a sustainable future. ... Our members and network include professional engineers, architects, builders, and educators on the cutting edge of alternative technologies, many of whom have contributed to this book."--p.xiii-[xiv].
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.

Peripheral visions [[electronic resource] ] : publics, power, and performance in Yemen / / Lisa Wedeen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778066003321
• Autore: Wedeen Lisa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9786612240102; 1-282-24010-2; 0-226-87792-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Collana: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
• Disciplina: 320.9533
• Soggetti: Political participation - Yemen (Republic); Nationalism - Yemen (Republic); Yemen (Republic) Politics and government
• 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 (p. 263-290) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Imagining unity -- Seeing like a citizen, acting like a state -- The politics of deliberation: q?t chews as public spheres -- Practicing piety, summoning groups: disorder as control -- Piety in time: contemporary islamic movements in national and transnational contexts -- Conclusion -- Politics as performative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the ; most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen's contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry's shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics.