1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910863169203321

Autore

Bingham Kevin P.

Titolo

An Ethnography of Urban Exploration : Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space / / by Kevin P. Bingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030562519

3030562514

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 280 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Collana

Leisure Studies in a Global Era, , 2946-3181

Disciplina

306.48

307.764

Soggetti

Sports - Sociological aspects

Sociology, Urban

Ethnology

Social sciences - Philosophy

Sport Sociology

Urban Sociology

Ethnography

Social Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE -- 1. In-between the Everyday and the Imaginary -- 2. Some Reflections on the Existing Literature  -- 3. Constructing a Critical Lens -- PART II: EXPLORING THE INTERREGNUM -- 4. Seeking Spaces of Compensation in Modernity's Dark Side -- 5. Finding a Way in the Garden of Forked Paths: The Ontological Hybrids Extraordinaire -- PART III: UNPACKING HETEROTOPIC SOCIAL SPACE -- 6. The Cognitive Spacing of WildBoyz: On Thinking Skholērly -- 7. Aesthetic Social Spacing: Altogether Now with the Khôrasters -- 8. Being with and Being for: Moral Social Spacing in Action -- PART IV: HETEROTOPIC WAYS OF BEING -- 9. Practised Life Strategies of WildBoyz. - PART V: RESTORATIVE DREAMS AND POTENTIAL FUTURES. - 10. No End in Sight. - .



Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, Bingham provides a detailed and critical investigation of urban exploration as a form of leisure that is about the coming together of drifting performers who, in their celebration of ‘rebellion’ and ‘deviance’, are determined to find a sense of meaning and belonging. The research considers the influence of consumer capitalism on urban explorers, and the wider social, economic and political context that shapes ideas of belonging and identity in the twenty-first century. By doing this, the book analyses urban exploration as an activity that has emerged in a time when human ideas about culture, individuality and community have transformed, and ‘solid’ modernity is gradually disintegrating around us. This multi and interdisciplinary work will appeal to people with an interest in ‘abnormal’ or ‘deviant’ leisure, as well as academics from sociology, anthropology, social geography, leisure studies, cultural studies, sport and recreation and tourism.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483737403321

Titolo

Network Control and Optimization : Third Euro-NF Conference, NET-COOP 2009 Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings / / edited by Rudesindo Núñez-Queija, Jacques Resing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-642-10406-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 279 p.)

Collana

Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications, , 2945-9184 ; ; 5894

Classificazione

DAT 250f

DAT 280f

SS 4800

Altri autori (Persone)

Núñez-QueijaRudesindo

ResingJacques

Disciplina

004.65

Soggetti

Computer networks

Electronic digital computers - Evaluation

Computer engineering

Application software

Algorithms

Computer Communication Networks

System Performance and Evaluation

Computer Engineering and Networks

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Performance Analysis Methods -- Stability Properties of Networks with Interacting TCP Flows -- Quantile Sensitivity Estimation -- Performance Evaluation of Multi-rate Streaming Traffic by Quasi-Stationary Modelling -- Wireless I -- On Opportunistic Cooperation for Improving the Stability Region with Multipacket Reception -- A Restless Bandit Marginal Productivity Index for Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Sensing Errors -- Queueing Analysis -- Content-Based Routing in Networks with Time-Fluctuating Request Rates -- A Queueing-Based Approach to Overload Detection -- Rare-Event Simulation for Tandem



Queues: A Simple and Efficient Importance Sampling Scheme -- Battery Control -- An Anonymous Sequential Game Approach for Battery State Dependent Power Control -- Probabilistic Analysis of Hierarchical Cluster Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks -- Performance of the Sleep-Mode Mechanism of the New IEEE 802.16m Proposal for Correlated Downlink Traffic -- Wireless II -- User Association to Optimize Flow Level Performance in Wireless Systems with Dynamic Interference -- Optimal File Splitting for Wireless Networks with Concurrent Access -- Distributed Control -- Control of Multipath TCP and Optimization of Multipath Routing in the Internet -- Alpha-Fair Resource Allocation under Incomplete Information and Presence of a Jammer -- Cooperation and Competition -- Tariffs, Mechanisms and Equilibria at a Single Internet Link -- Understanding and Preventing Tacit Collusion among Telecommunication Operators -- Competition and Cooperation between Nodes in Delay Tolerant Networks with Two Hop Routing.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Euro-NF International Conference, NET-COOP 2009 held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in November 2009. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance analysis methods, wireless, queueing analysis, battery control, distributed control, and cooperation and competition.