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Author : Bhaskar Majumder
Release : 2011
Genre : Rural development
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Book Rating : 647/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Villages by : Bhaskar Majumder
Download or read book Rethinking Villages written by Bhaskar Majumder. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a national seminar held at Allahabad in 2004.
Author : Ramesh Srinivasan
Release : 2018-12-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Whose Global Village? by : Ramesh Srinivasan
Download or read book Whose Global Village? written by Ramesh Srinivasan. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected in an online community worldwide. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspectives of diverse cultures. Such collaboration can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins
Author : Adriana Boscaro
Release : 2018-12-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 816/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Japan Vol 2 by : Adriana Boscaro
Download or read book Rethinking Japan Vol 2 written by Adriana Boscaro. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.
Author : Min Hee Go
Release : 2021-08-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 894/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Community Resilience by : Min Hee Go
Download or read book Rethinking Community Resilience written by Min Hee Go. This book was released on 2021-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the unintended consequences of civic activism in a disaster-prone city After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people swiftly mobilized to rebuild their neighborhoods, often assisted by government organizations, nonprofits, and other major institutions. In Rethinking Community Resilience, Min Hee Go shows that these recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and can actually escalate the city’s susceptibility to future environmental hazards. Drawing upon interviews, public records, and more, Go explores the hidden costs of community resilience. She shows that—despite good intentions—recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina exacerbated existing race and class inequalities, putting disadvantaged communities at risk. Ultimately, Go shows that when governments, nonprofits, and communities invest in rebuilding rather than relocating, they inadvertently lay the groundwork for a cycle of vulnerabilities. As cities come to terms with climate change adaptation—rather than prevention—Rethinking Community Resilienceprovides insight into the challenges communities increasingly face in the twenty-first century.
Author : Anna Visvizi
Release : 2018
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Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research by : Anna Visvizi
Download or read book Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research written by Anna Visvizi. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is ever more research on smart cities and new interdisciplinary approaches proposed on the study of smart cities. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas are being addressed, as part of discussions in contigious fields of research, be it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Even if rural areas and countryside communities have previously been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union's Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy Arguably, the concept of 'the village' has been largely absent in the debate. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village has remained underdiscussed in the literature. Against this backdrop, this volume delivers on four objectives. It delineates the conceptual boundaries of the concept of 'smart village'. It highlights in which ways 'smart village' is distinct from 'smart city'. It examines in which ways smart cities research can enrich smart villages research. It sheds light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds in European and global contexts.].
