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UNINA9910456593703321 |
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Autore |
Trnka Susanna |
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Titolo |
State of suffering [[electronic resource] ] : political violence and community survival in Fiji / / Susanna Trnka |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Political violence - Fiji |
Ethnic conflict - Fiji |
East Indians - Fiji |
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Fiji Politics and government |
Fiji Ethnic relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Violence, pain, and the collapse of everyday life -- The coup of May 2000 : an invitation to anti-Indian violence -- Living in fantastic times -- Looting, labor, and the politics of pain -- Fear of a nation returning to jungli -- Victims and assailants, victims and friends -- Restoring "normalcy" in postcoup Fiji. |
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How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji.Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain |
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caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation.Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life. |
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UNISA996466141703316 |
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Autore |
Ooi Beng Chin |
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Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Information Systems [[electronic resource] /] / by Beng Chin Ooi |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1990 |
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[1st ed. 1990.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VIII, 210 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 471 |
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Data structures (Computer science) |
Geographical information systems |
Computers |
Database management |
Information storage and retrieval |
Data Structures and Information Theory |
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography |
Theory of Computation |
Database Management |
Information Storage and Retrieval |
Data Structures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Related work and GEOQL -- The spatial kd-tree -- Performance analysis and case studies -- Query optimization -- Implementation and experiments -- Conclusions. |
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This monograph describes methods for extending relational database systems for geographic applications. The ways in which a relational database system is supplemented with unconventional spatial indexing structures, additional spatial subsystems and query processors are described in great detail. The work presents an extensive survey of existing spatial indexing techniques and a taxonomy of the extensions to the multidimensional indexing structures. An extensive experimental analysis of spatial indexes is presented. The work covers the following areas: - the design of geographic information systems (GIS) - extended query languages for GIS - spatial indexing mechanisms - query processing strategies. The author presents his own skd-trees and extended query optimization strategies. The survey of spatial indexing structures for non-zero sized objects provides a framework for workers in the field of spatial information systems to evaluate spatial access methods. The consideration of query optimization will assist understanding of the role of that topic in GIS. |
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