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Published: 15 June 2017
...’ history at Dáil elections back to 1922. The final section is a cursory enquiry into the geography of their electoral history. This chapter finds that independents are an established norm in the Irish political system and that support for them is related to developments in the party system. Australia...
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Introduction: building histories
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Erin Silver
Published: 07 February 2023
... Becky Feminist art history queer art history alternative art spaces historiography social geography Canadian art histories queer theory Histories of North American feminist, queer, and queer feminist art, from their roots in the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, to their influence on queer...
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Published: 17 January 2023
... literature Young Adult fiction literary geography Adrian Mole might have satirised Leicester with his unpublishable novel Lo! The Flat Hills of my Homeland , and J.B. Priestley dismissed it as ‘lacking in character’, but the city has transformed dramatically and repeatedly during the past...
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Published: 01 June 2018
... of science (computus , prognostication), the history of art, literature, theology (homilies, prayers, hagiography, contemplative texts), music, historiography and geography. As suggested by its title, the collection does not pretend to aim at inclusiveness or comprehensiveness but is intended...
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Published: 28 November 2016
.... This chapter outlines two aspects of these relational geographies. Firstly, it maps the physical networks to show the ways in which a nodal structure of relational spaces of treatment, often ephemeral and temporary, was developed and constructed from the Front to across the British Isles. Typically, such sites...
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Published: 01 January 2016
... Rebecca Biggs Iain Tim Robinson geography cartography placenames Ireland language environment It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibres of a map, that pure zone between land and chart between distances and legend between nature and storyteller...
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Expanded border imaginaries and aligned border narratives: ethnic minorities and localities in China’s border encounters with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam
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Victor Konrad and Zhiding Hu
Published: 13 January 2021
... governing of mobility and trade on the China–Laos frontier: The Tai Lue case ’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography , 34 (1): 25–39. Donnan, H ., M. Hurd and C. Leutloff-Grandits (eds) ( 2017 ) Migrating Borders and Moving Times: Temporality and the Crossing ...
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A sense of place
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Hester Barron
Published: 02 August 2022
... the world around them, whether local, national or global. In London, local civic pride was important and, indeed, could provide the basis on which a deeper sense of imperial and global positioning could be built. The chapter examines the different ways in which geography was taught, including through...
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Introduction: archaeologists in Egypt
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Kathleen L. Sheppard
Published: 09 August 2022
... and down the Nile.’ I frame this argument in the theories and methods of the social studies of science, geographies of knowledge, the history of archaeology and Egyptology, and the history of tourism and travel. Petrie William Matthew Flinders cognitive topography hotels Carter Howard truth spot Egypt...
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Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists' Social Networks, 1885-1925
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Kathleen L. Sheppard
Published online: 18 May 2023
Published in print: 09 August 2022
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Aspects of knowledge: Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages
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Marilina Cesario (ed.) and Hugh Magennis (ed.)
Published online: 24 January 2019
Published in print: 01 June 2018
...), the history of art, literature, theology (homilies, prayers, hagiography, contemplative texts), music, historiography and geography. As suggested by its title, the collection does not pretend to aim at inclusiveness or comprehensiveness but is intended to highlight suggestive strands of what is a very wide...
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The contemporary topographies of Anna Bella Geiger
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Dária Jaremtchuk
Published: 10 October 2023
... University of São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art MAC USP political topography geography Brazil national identity Latin America video art mail art Maps occupy a place of privilege in the poetics of Anna Bella Geiger. Despite the presumed objectivity with which they are traditionally presented...
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The hero and the ‘whore’: Croatia’s sexualised and gendered (self-)ascriptions and its desire for European belonging
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Michaela Schäuble
Published: 20 June 2023
... heteronormativity post socialism Macedonia RN work femininity homosexuality dance Gotovina Ante clothes fantasy marriage visit beauty homophobia post-war Croatia Homeland War Ante Gotovina symbolic geography masculinity gendered nationalism male warrior-heroism ex-generals biography...
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Published: 01 November 2007
...This chapter explores Coupland's representation of three distinctive but interconnected forms of space. The first section addresses the built landscape, including those most obviously postmodern spaces described by James Howard Kunstler in The Geography of Nowhere (1993...
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‘Through the piazzas and on the Rialto Bridge’: the landscape of the ephemeral city
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Rosa Salzberg
Published: 01 December 2014
... fluidly through different spaces and media. It explores the established topography of book distribution before the press, prior to considering where printers and booksellers began to set themselves up. It then surveys the street trade in print, which overlapped with the geography of the shops as well...
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Byron’s ethnographic eye: the poet among the Italians
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Gioia Angeletti
Published: 01 February 2018
...In this chapter, Gioia Angeletti examines Byron’s letters to his British correspondents and his journals from the Italian years in order to throw into relief their ‘ethnographic observation of the human and cultural geography of Italy’. Insisting on the contingent reality of the country, rather...
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Published: 01 February 2018
...This chapter concentrates on Byron’s relation to Italy as geography and landscape. It demonstrates that, while reading his poetry confronts us repeatedly with the poet’s digressive, fluid mobilité , studying his relationship to Italy repeatedly confronts us with his capacity...
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Limits to growth? Why gardening has limited success growing inclusive communities
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Hannah Pitt
Published: 01 April 2019
... to activities forming garden communities and their spatiality. Informed by relational geography, the chapter challenges simplistic treatments of links between garden, community and place. Case studies from the UK demonstrate how facets enabling gardens to form communities result in exclusivity, unintentionally...
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R. K. Narayan
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John Thieme
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 November 2007
... contexts, cultural geography and non-Indian intertexts. It draws on recent thinking about the ways places are constructed to demonstrate that Malgudi is always a fractured and transitional site – an interface between older conceptions and contemporary views which stress the inescapability of change...
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Mutating disaster space: itinerant death at the Ground Zero Mosque and Bali bombsite
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Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Published: 23 December 2016
... bombsites to mutate, expand and contract in their spatial constitution. The chapter interprets the civil society activism around bombsites through cultural geography to argue that mortality remains an itinerant force of anxiety until post-terrorist landscapes are rebuilt. 9 11 Memorial Museum and Plaza...