Author: Chema Conesa
Publisher: La Fabrica
Published: 2015-06-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788415691990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Catalan photographer Samuel Aranda (born 1979) has spent the last 15 years documenting conflict, migration and social issues around the world, working frequently for The New York Times in Spain and the Middle East. This PHotoBolsillo volume celebrates Aranda's many artistic achievements and accolades.
Author: Alexandra Simon-López
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 184888270X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. A Critical Approach to the Apocalypse offers the reader an in-depth view of the portrayal of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios in literature, film and television, art, digital art, history, anthropology, religion and climate change studies.
Author: Alexandra Moschovi
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9058679756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New insights into the shifting cultures of today’s ‘hypervisual’ digital universe With the advent of digital technologies and the Internet, photography can, at last, fulfill its promise and forgotten potential as both a versatile medium and an adaptable creative practice. This multidisciplinary volume provides new insights into the shifting cultures affecting the production, collection, usage, and circulation of photographic images on interactive World Wide Web platforms.
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1351997904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography’s long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography’s role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings. Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new perspectives on photography and migration today.
Author: Elizabeth Mavroudi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-21
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1000861147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship, border control, integration and identity. Written by two geographers, the book incorporates insights from across the social sciences and is accessible to students in many disciplines. Providing a useful and timely introduction to migration, the textbook addresses migration in a holistic way and equips students with the tools they need to participate in contemporary debates about migration in sending and destination contexts. It conveys to students that the causes and effects of migration are geographically specific and contingent upon class, race, gender and other markers of social difference. Rather than identifying simple solutions to migration ‘problems’, the book encourages students to think about unauthorized migration, asylum, refugee resettlement, labour migration, and other forms of mobility (and immobility) from different vantage points. Global Migration serves as the go-to book for teaching advanced undergraduate and master’s-level students about the complexities of migration across nation-state borders.
Author: Small Arms Survey, Geneva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107435730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Small Arms Survey 2013 explores the many faces of armed violence outside the context of armed conflict. Chapters on the use of firearms in intimate partner violence, the evolution of gangs in Nicaragua, Italian organised crime groups, and trends in armed violence in South Africa describe the dynamics and effects of gun violence in the home and on the street. Many of the chapters in the 'weapons and markets' section zero in on the use of specific weapons by particular armed actors, such as drug-trafficking organisations and insurgents. These include chapters on the prices of arms and ammunition at illicit markets in Lebanon, Pakistan and Somalia; illicit weapons recovered in Mexico and the Philippines; and the impacts of improvised explosive devices on civilians. Chapters on the Second Review Conference of the UN Programme of Action and the industrial demilitarisation industry round out the 2013 volume.
Author: Raphael Minder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-09-01
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1849049378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were very serious about their demands. On the back of this show of force, Catalonia's governing politicians turned secessionist claims into a new headache for a government in Madrid that had only just survived a near-meltdown of Spain's financial system. Four years later, the separatist challenge has neither come to fruition, nor faded away. This book looks at how and why Catalan separatism reached the top of Spain's political agenda, as well as its connection to the broader European malaise generated by flawed political responses to financial and other crises. Through extensive travel and reporting, as well as over fifty interviews with leading Catalan personalities, Raphael Minder explains how Catalans feel about their economy, history and culture, and how secessionist forces have tried to reshape Catalan identity.
Author: Carol Ballard
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 1625133928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in British English, Microbes such as Salmonella, pesticides, environmental pollution, and chemical additives can all make our food unsafe to eat. This book looks at the health risks posed by food contamination. It examines the precautions taken by food producers, retailers, and food safety organizations to guard against food-borne illnesses.