Anthropologies of Unemployment : New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence / / Jong Bum Kwon, Carrie M. Lane

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798636103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5017-0466-4; 1-5017-0668-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, photographs, graphs
• Disciplina: 331.13/7
• Soggetti: Economic anthropology; Unemployed - Social conditions; Unemployment - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Kwon, Jong Bum / Lane, Carrie M. -- 1. The Limits of Liminality / Lane, Carrie M. -- 2. The Limits to Quantitative Thinking / Karjanen, David -- 3. Occupation / Kwon, Jong Bum -- 4. The Rise of the Precariat? / Murphy, John P. -- 5. Contesting Unemployment / Perelman, Mariano D. -- 6. Zones of In/Visibility / Kingsolver, Ann E. -- 7. Youth Unemployment, Progress, and Shame in Urban Ethiopia / Mains, Daniel -- 8. Labor on the Move / Rothstein, Frances Abrahamer -- 9. Positive Thinking about Being Out of Work in Southern California after the Great Recession / Strauss, Claudia -- 10. The Unemployed Cooperative / Fisher, Josh -- Epilogue: Rethinking the Value of Work and Unemployment / Lynch, Caitrin / Mains, Daniel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global phenomenon that sheds light on ; the uneven consequences of free-market ideologies and policies. Economic, social, and cultural marginalization is common in the lives of the unemployed, but their experience and interpretation are shaped by local and national cultural particularities. In exploring those differences, the contributors to this volume employ recent theoretical innovations and engage with some of the more salient topics in contemporary anthropology, such as globalization, migration, youth cultures, bureaucracy, class, gender, and race.Taken together, the chapters reveal that there is something new about unemployment today. It is not a temporary occurrence, but a chronic condition. In adjusting to persistent, longstanding unemployment, people and groups create new understandings of unemployment as well as of work and employment; they improvise new forms of sociality, morality, and personhood. Ethnographic studies such as those found in Anthropologies of Unemployment are crucial if we are to understand the broader forms, meanings, and significance of pervasive economic insecurity and discover the emergence of new social and cultural possibilities.Contributors Josh Fisher, High Point UniversityDavid Karjanen, University of MinnesotaAnn E. Kingsolver, University of KentuckyJong Bum Kwon, Webster UniversityCarrie M. Lane, California State University, FullertonCaitrin Lynch, Olin College Daniel Mains, University of OklahomaJohn P. Murphy, Gettysburg CollegeMariano D. Perelman, University of Buenos AiresFrances Abrahamer Rothstein, Montclair State UniversityClaudia Strauss, Pitzer College

Emerging trends in visual computing : LIX Fall Colloquium, ETVC 2008, Palaiseau, France, November 18-20, 2008 ; revised invited papers / / Frank Nielsen (ed.)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483441003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : Springer, c2009
• ISBN: 3-642-00826-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 386 p.)
• Collana: Lecture notes in computer science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 5416; State-of-the-art survey
• Altri autori (Persone): NielsenFrank
• Disciplina: 004
• Soggetti: Image processing; Computer vision
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: International conference proceedings.; State of the art report.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Geometric Computing -- Abstracts of the LIX Fall Colloquium 2008: Emerging Trends in Visual Computing -- From Segmented Images to Good Quality Meshes Using Delaunay Refinement -- Information Geometry and Applications -- Discrete Curvature Flows for Surfaces and 3-Manifolds -- Information Geometry and Its Applications: Convex Function and Dually Flat Manifold -- Computational Geometry from the Viewpoint of Affine Differential Geometry -- Interactions between Symmetric Cone and Information Geometries: Bruhat-Tits and Siegel Spaces Models for High Resolution Autoregressive Doppler Imagery -- Clustering Multivariate Normal Distributions -- Computer Graphics and Vision -- Intrinsic Geometries in Learning -- Shape from Depth Discontinuities -- Computational Photography: Epsilon to Coded Photography -- Unifying Subspace and Distance Metric Learning with Bhattacharyya Coefficient for Image Classification -- Information Retrieval -- Constant-Working-Space Algorithms for Image Processing -- Sparse Multiscale Patches for Image Processing -- Medical Imaging and Computational Anatomy -- Recent Advances in Large Scale Image Search -- Information Theoretic Methods for Diffusion-Weighted MRI Analysis -- Statistical Computing on Manifolds: From Riemannian Geometry to Computational Anatomy.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is an outcome of the LIX Fall Colloquium on the Emerging Trends in Visual Computing, ETVC 2008, which was held in Palaiseau, France, November 18-20, 2008. During the event, 25 renowned invited speakers gave lectures on their areas of expertise within the field of visual computing. From these talks, a total of 15 state-of-the-art articles have been assembled in this volume. All articles were thoroughly reviewed and improved, according to the suggestions of the referees. The 15 contributions presented in this state-of-the-art survey are organized in topical sections on: geometric computing, information geometry and applications, computer graphics and vision, information retrieval, and medical imaging and computational anatomy. They are preceded by the abstracts of the talks given at ETVC 2008.