Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces : Cultural Encounters after Dusk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910946478603321
• Autore: Brandellero Sara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 1-04-078825-4; 1-003-70894-3; 1-04-079417-3; 90-485-5875-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 pages)
• Collana: Cities and Cultures Series ; ; v.13
• Altri autori (Persone): Krakowska RodriguesKamilia; PardueDerek
• Disciplina: 306.4812
• Soggetti: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; LGBTQ+ night life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I Urban Policy, (Self-)Governance and Infrastructures of the Night -- 1. Dark Practices: Sensing the City After Dusk -- 2. Spaces to Cope, to Connect and to Relax for Refugee Youth -- 3. Queer Spheres : Making and Un-making Worlds and Nations through London’s LGBTQ+ Night Spaces -- 4. Planning for Nocturnal Cultural Encounters -- 5. A Nightnography of Food Couriers : Precarity and Inequality in After Dark Platform Work -- 6. Transformers of the Urban Night: Platform Work, Migration and Smart City -- 7. Digital Day Labourers—Sleepless in the Gig Economy -- II Cultural Narratives and Experiences of the Diverse Urban Nightlife -- 8. Pandemic Dusks -- 9. Spaces of Night-Time Encounter : Nocturnal Politics in Global Cinema, 2018–2022 -- 10. Music within Nocturnal Constellations : A Photo Essay from Two Irish Cities -- 11. (De)migrant(izing) Music Nights : Intergenerational Cultural Flows and Transnational Belonging in the Rotterdam Cabo Verdean Diaspora -- 12. Tejo Bar: A Portal for the Cosmopolitics of Musicking -- 13. Night Spaces as Terreiros: The Case of Amsterdam’s Theatre Munganga as Ground for Intercultural Citizenship -- 14. Let’s ; Night Draw! Darkness and Light in the Urban Night -- III Contested Cities -- Afterword -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension necessary to understand the complexities of today’s urban spaces, including the often-polarizing question of migration. After dusk, urban social challenges are often magnified, as questions of who can be where and when – along ethnic, racial or gender lines, for example – gain an additional dimension. The volume underscores, indeed, the multi-dimensionality of night spaces, where bottom-up, grassroot initiatives provide opportunities for self-expression by traditionally marginalized and silenced groups. Chapters span disciplines of urbanism and urban history, literary, film and cultural studies, music, sociology of labour, anthropology of migration, alongside autoethnographic contributions and practice-based photo essays by artists for whom the night is their habitual setting and canvas.

Women in science and engineering : increasing their numbers in the 1990s : a statement on policy and strategy / / from the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962425703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1991
• ISBN: 9786610211838; 9781280211836; 1280211830; 9780309583725; 0309583721; 9780585144184; 0585144184
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.43/5
• Soggetti: Women in science - Government policy - United States; Women in engineering - Government policy - United States; Women scientists - United States; Women engineers - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-126).
• Nota di contenuto: WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: -- Copyright -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- S&amp -- E EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE: -- INTERVENTION STRATEGIES: -- CAREER PATTERNS: -- MEASUREMENT: -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- THE GLOBAL POLICY ENVIRONMENT -- Demographic Issues -- Education Issues -- Employment Issues -- CONCLUSION -- 2 THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE -- FORMAL MECHANISMS -- Institutions -- Availability of Financial Support -- INFORMAL MECHANISMS -- The Role of The Media -- Parental Guidance -- Role Models and Mentors -- Institutional Factors -- PRIORITY ISSUES -- 3 EFFECTIVENESS OF ; INTERVENTION MODELS -- PRECOLLEGE PROGRAMS -- UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS -- GRADUATE PROGRAMS -- CAREER INTERVENTIONS -- Academe -- Industry -- Government -- PRIORITY ISSUES -- 4 CAREER PATTERNS -- POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENTS -- EMPLOYMENT IN A SCIENTIFIC OR ENGINEERING FIELD -- Academe -- Industry -- Government -- PRIORITY ISSUES -- 5 MEASUREMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING HUMAN RESOURCES -- EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE -- INTERVENTION MODELS -- CAREER PATTERNS -- PRIORITY ISSUES -- 6 STRATEGIC PLAN FOR INCREASING THE NUMBERS OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -- FIRST-YEAR PLAN -- S&amp -- E Education Infrastructure: -- Intervention Strategies/Measurement: -- Career Patterns: -- LONG-RANGE PLAN -- Stimulating Research -- Monitoring Progress -- Briefings -- Dissemination of Information -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TECHNICAL APPENDIX.
• Sommario/riassunto: From time to time, it is necessary to alert the research and policy communities to opportunities for action in areas of mutual concern. One such area is the participation and utilization of women in science and engineering in the United States. This book explores the underparticipation of women in these fields and presents a strategic plan to bring qualified women into such careers as researchers, teachers, and practitioners of science and engineering.