Teaching democracy. The program and practice of Aung San Suu Kyi’s concept of people’s education
The work, divided in five chapters, analyses the Program, Practice and Concepts of People’s Education as seen by Aung San Suu Kyi from its speeches between 1995 and 2003. In addendum, speeches given on the subject are translated by the poet
A conceptual outline of contemporary magic practice
This article proposes a conceptual outline of contemporary magic practice. Jacques Rancière’s ideas are used to conceive magic as (1) art: where magic is based around dissemblance; and (2) work: where magic is embodied in the figure of the magician
Understanding place as ‘Home’ and ‘Away’ through practices of bird-watching
and application of different types of ‘bird-lists’ helps to explain the ways in which practices of bird-watching facilitate making sense of place as simultaneously ‘home’, ‘away’ and habitat, as well as the identity work of home-maker, citizen-scientist
This paper illustrates how the practices of bird-watching are integral to the making and remaking of sense of place as ‘home’ and ‘away’, to sustain identities beyond accepted categories of ‘dude’, ‘birder’ and ‘twitcher’. The creation
and tourist. These insights into these leisure practices of bird-watching are drawn from analysis of data gathered from 21 people who actively bird-watch and reside on the South Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
City;Town ; Cultural geography ; Feminism ; Perception ; Social sciences ; Social theory ; Urban practice
The various developments which have led to a revitalisation and diversification of qualitative approaches to the city and to a transcending of traditional confines of qualitative work are considered. Studies drawing on semiotic and discursive
methods are reviewed. A range of qualitative work emerging from feminist analyses of the city is examined.
The A. examines home-based work in an economic network to highlight the intersection of gender and economic practices in rural Appalachia. The case study for this project is an economic network comprised of sixty home-based workers who produce
knitwear for regional and national markets. The complexity of shifting economic livelihoods in the rural Appalachian context is examined. The analysis focuses on the (re)negotiation of gender identities by home-based workers in the context of economic
California ; Dam ; Discharge ; Fluvial hydrology ; Hydraulic works ; United States of America ; Watershed
Reservoirs alter monthly and annual discharge quantities in the Sacramento River Basin of northern California and this practice obscures the natural variability of river discharge. - (DWG)
The article seeks to make a contribution to ongoing work which focuses explicitly on the interrelationships between governmental practice, bodies of knowledge, and territory.
A group of geographers have attempted to develop alternatives to accepted practices and have claimed to be postmodern. An analysis of the works of postmodernists in terms of the critiques suggests that postmodernism is in important respects