Unstable Relations
Title | Unstable Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Vincent |
Publisher | Apollo Books |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781742588780 |
The 1970s witnessed the emergence of a global environmental movement in response to rampant resource extraction. This moment gave rise to a celebrated 'green-black alliance' between environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Australia. However, in recent years, this relationship has come under increased critical scrutiny, spurred in part by the global mining boom and continuing concerns about the effects of climate change. This edited collection brings together leading anthropologists, social scientists, activists, and writers to subject the Indigenous-environmentalist relation to rigorous, empirical inquiry, and to explore noted controversies, campaigns, and key issues, such as: the Wild Rivers Act and James Price Point, mining, native title rights, 'feral' species, forestry, national parks, and payment for environmental services. The insights generated here have relevance beyond Australia as scholars investigate the politics of indigeneity in the present moment, and consider the economic future of Indigenous minorities. Significantly, the collection involves both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, subjecting environmentalists to a kind of anthropological analysis. [Subject: Environmental Studies, Politics, Indigenous Studies]
(Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency
Title | (Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Birke |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2017-12-12 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1317381017 |
This original and insightful book explores how horses can be considered as social actors within shared interspecies networks. It examines what we know about how horses understand us and how we perceive them, as well as the implications of actively recognising other animals as actors within shared social lives. This book explores how interspecies relationships work, using a variety of examples to demonstrate how horses and people build social lives. Considering horses as social actors presents new possibilities for improving the quality of animal lives, the human condition and human-horse relations.
Labor Relations
Title | Labor Relations PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Industrial relations |
ISBN |
Labor Relations: Feb. 8-10
Title | Labor Relations: Feb. 8-10 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Industrial relations |
ISBN |
Advanced Bimanual Manipulation
Title | Advanced Bimanual Manipulation PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno Siciliano |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-04-10 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3642290418 |
Dexterous and autonomous manipulation is a key technology for the personal and service robots of the future. Advances in Bimanual Manipulation edited by Bruno Siciliano provides the robotics community with the most noticeable results of the four-year European project DEXMART (DEXterous and autonomous dual-arm hand robotic manipulation with sMART sensory-motor skills: A bridge from natural to artificial cognition). The volume covers a host of highly important topics in the field, concerned with modelling and learning of human manipulation skills, algorithms for task planning, human-robot interaction, and grasping, as well as hardware design of dexterous anthropomorphic hands. The results described in this five-chapter collection are believed to pave the way towards the development of robotic systems endowed with dexterous and human-aware dual-arm/hand manipulation skills for objects, operating with a high degree of autonomy in unstructured real-world environments.
Encountering Althusser
Title | Encountering Althusser PDF eBook |
Author | Katja Diefenbach |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2013-01-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1441192360 |
French philosopher Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 -1990) helped define the politico-theoretical conjuncture of pre- and post-1968. Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought, especially in light of his later work, published in English as Philosophy of the Encounter (Verso, 2006). This has led to renewed debates on the reformulation of conflicting notions of materialism, on the event as both philosophical concept and political construction, and on the nature of politics and the political. These original essays by leading scholars aim to provide a new assessment of Althusser's thought, especially in relation to contemporary debates. Organized in four sections that represent the main currents in Althusser's scholarship, the book discusses materialism and the different formulations of the relationship between politics and philosophy, Althusser's interpretations of political thinkers (including Machiavelli, Deleuze and Gramsci), the resources he provides to critique political economy and politics in post-Marxist thought, and the theorization of ideology and politics. Encountering Althusser is a groundbreaking resource that highlights Althusser's continuing relevance to contemporary radical thought.
Risk, Power and the State
Title | Risk, Power and the State PDF eBook |
Author | Magnus Hörnqvist |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2010-02-25 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1135154392 |
Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power, the Foucauldian tradition – with its strands of discourse analysis, of governmentality studies, or of radical Deleuzian critique – suffers from a lack of clarification on key conceptual issues. Oriented around four case studies, the architecture of the book devolves upon the distinction between productive and repressive power. The first two studies focus on productive power: the management of long-term unemployment in the public employment service and cognitive-behavioural interventions in the prison service. Two further studies concern repressive interventions: the conditions of incarceration in the prison service and the activity of the customs service. These studies reveal that power, as conceptualised within the Foucauldian tradition, must be modified. A more complex notion of productive power is needed, which covers interventions that appeal to desires, and which govern both at a distance and at close range. Additionally, the simplistic paradigm of repressive power is called into question by the need to consider the organising role of norms and techniques that circumvent agency. Finally, it is argued, Foucault's concept of strategies – which accounts for the thick web of administrative directives, organisational routines, and techniques that simultaneously shape the behaviour of targeted individuals and members of the organisation – requires an organisational dimension that is often neglected in the Foucauldian tradition.