Hopes In Friction

Author : Lotte Meinert
Publisher : Information Age Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781607520047
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hopes in Friction written by Lotte Meinert and published by Information Age Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hopes in Friction offers a vivid portrait of life and the implementation of Universal Primary Education in Eastern Uganda, based on long-term fieldwork following a group of children as they grow up. The book considers how the actions and hopes of these children and families, to attain what they perceive as 'a good life', are crosscut by political aspirations and projects of schooling and health education. When hopes are in friction inspiration as well as disappointment occur."--Jacket.

Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691263515
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friction written by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. Tsing focuses on the rainforests of Indonesia, where in the 1980s and 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, province, or nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforests includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, United Nations funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students—all drawn into unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing an invaluable portfolio of methods for the study of global interconnections, Friction shows how cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter and reveals how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.

Author : Sune Liisberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782385576
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Philosophy written by Sune Liisberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore, also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between anthropology and philosophy.

Author : Richard Hammond
Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 1292234962
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friction/Reward written by Richard Hammond and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hammond is a retailing expert, and Smart Circle is his problem-solving consultancy. Together with select subject-matter experts he tackles a wide range of retail challenges: from 'big idea' and format development to customer engagement and retail futurology. He is also the author of Smart Retail 4e.

Author : I.L. Singer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401128111
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Friction written by I.L. Singer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Friction, unlike many books on tribology, is devoted to one specific topic: friction. After introductory chapters on scientific and engineering perspectives, the next section contains the necessary background within the areas of contact mechanics, surfaces and adhesion. Then on to fracture, deformation and interface shear, from the macroscopic behavior of materials in frictional contact to microscopic models of uniform and granular interfaces. Lubrication by solids, liquids and gases is presented next, from classical flow properties to the reorganization of monolayers of molecules under normal and shear stresses. A section on new approaches at the nano- and atomic scales covers the physics and chemistry of interfaces, an array of visually exciting simulations, using molecular dynamics, of solids and liquids in sliding contact, and related AFM/STM studies. Following a section on machines and measurements, the final chapter discusses future issues in friction.

Author : University of Oxford. Hope Dept. of Zoology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hope Reports written by University of Oxford. Hope Dept. of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope written by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annika Björkdahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317365275
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peacebuilding and Friction written by Annika Björkdahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. This volume develops the concept of ‘friction’ to better analyse the interplay between global ideas, actors, and practices, and their local counterparts. The chapters examine efforts undertaken to promote sustainable peace in a variety of locations, such as Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone. These case analyses provide a nuanced understanding not simply of local processes, or of the hybrid or mixed agencies, ideas, and processes that are generated, but of the complex interactions that unfold between all of these elements in the context of peacebuilding intervention. The analyses demonstrate how the ambivalent relationship between global and local actors leads to unintended and sometimes counterproductive results of peacebuilding interventions. The approach of this book, with its focus on friction as a conceptual tool, advances the peacebuilding research agenda and adds to two ongoing debates in the peacebuilding field; the debate on hybridity, and the debate on local agency and local ownership. In analysing frictional encounters this volume prepares the ground for a better understanding of the mixed impact peace initiatives have on post-conflict societies. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies, and international relations in general.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Scientist written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ard‚shir Guran
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810229535
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics with Friction written by Ard‚shir Guran and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories worldwide with ever-increasing sophistication of modeling, analysis and experiments. This book offers a collection of contributions from these research centers that represent the state-of-the-art in the study of friction oscillators. It provides the reader with the fruits of a team effort by leaders in this fascinating field.The topics covered include friction modeling, self-excited friction oscillators, homogeneous frictional systems, unsteady lubricated friction, instantaneous contact geometry, impact damping, friction-induced instability and nonlinear dynamics of stick-slip systems, among other topics.This book gives a comprehensive picture of dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems. It also gives an up-to-date account of the present state of the field. It will be of interest to engineers, rheologists, material scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists and historians of science and technology.