1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911091555103321

Autore

Larsson Gerhard

Titolo

Land management as public policy / / Gerhard Larsson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : University Press of America, Inc., 2010

ISBN

0-7618-8420-3

1-282-82026-5

9786612820267

0-7618-5249-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Disciplina

333.7313

333.7315

Soggetti

Land use - Law and legislation

Public lands - Management

Land tenure

USA

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

section 1. Public control and guidance -- section. 2. Rural areas -- section 3. Urban areas.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses goals, plans, and implementation means concerning public interference in land management and to what degree market forces and inputs of individuals predominate. The book focuses on both rural and urban areas in terms of housing, agriculture, forest, water, recreation, and conservation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911105381603321

Autore

Newmahr

Titolo

Playing on the edge : sadomasochism, risk, and intimacy / / Staci Newmahr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

9786613813053

9781282241930

1282241931

9780253005120

0253005124

Edizione

[1版.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Staci

Disciplina

306.77/5

306.775

Soggetti

Sadomasochism

Sexual dominance and submission

Sadomasochists

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

Defiance: bodies, minds, and marginality -- Geeks and freaks: marginal identity and community -- Tipping the scales: striving for imbalance -- Fringe benefits: the rewards of SM play -- Badasses, servants, and martyrs: gender performances -- Reconcilable differences: pain, eroticism, and violence -- Collaborating the edge: feminism and edgework -- "What it is that we do": intimate edgework.

Sommario/riassunto

Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of ""violence"" interse