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Charting Literary Urban Studies

Texts as Models of and for the City

By: Jens Martin Gurr

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Charting Literary Urban Studies

Texts as Models of and for the City

By: Jens Martin Gurr

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities – and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory – and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly travel around the globe – such as the 'creative city', the 'green city' or the 'smart city' – really always the ones that best solve a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban models not least a matter of their narrative packaging? In answering these key questions, this book also advances a literary studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary strategies in planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary texts.

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1000336018

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Charting Literary Urban Studies

Texts as Models of and for the City

By: Jens Martin Gurr

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1000335879

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Climate Change Literacy

By: Julia Hoydis,Roman Bartosch,Jens Martin Gurr

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Climate Change Literacy

By: Julia Hoydis,Roman Bartosch,Jens Martin Gurr

This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore the unique resources of the humanities, it asks: How does literary reading contribute to climate change communication? How does this contribution relate to recent demands for environmental and related literacies? Rather than reducing the function of literature to a more pleasurable form of information transfer or its affective dimension of evoking sympathy, climate change literacy thoroughly reassesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literary writing. It does so by analysing a selection of popular climate novels and by demonstrating the role of fiction in fostering a more adequate understanding of, and response to, climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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142

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Cambridge University Press

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1009342010

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9781009342018

Narrative in Urban Planning

A Practical Field Guide

By: Lieven Ameel,Jens Martin Gurr,Barbara Buchenau

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Narrative in Urban Planning

A Practical Field Guide

By: Lieven Ameel,Jens Martin Gurr,Barbara Buchenau

What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives help to build more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive communities? The authors are literary scholars who have extensive experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.

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transcript Verlag

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3839466172

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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

By: Jens Soentgen

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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

By: Jens Soentgen

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material through a miraculous operation called vulcanization, that is attributed to the US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it is shown that rubber and many important rubber products are inventions of Indigenous peoples of South America, made durable by a process that can be called organic vulcanization. It is with that invention, that the story of rubber starts. Without it, rubber would not exist, neither in the Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, it is shown that Indigenous rubber products also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

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139

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Cambridge University Press

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1009442740

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9781009442749

Narrative in Urban Planning

A Practical Field Guide

By: Lieven Ameel,Jens Martin Gurr,Barbara Buchenau

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A Practical Field Guide

By: Lieven Ameel,Jens Martin Gurr,Barbara Buchenau

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Climate Change Literacy

By: Julia Hoydis,Roman Bartosch,Jens Martin Gurr

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By: Julia Hoydis,Roman Bartosch,Jens Martin Gurr

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Charting Literary Urban Studies

Charting Literary Urban Studies

Charting Literary Urban Studies

Charting Literary Urban Studies

Climate Change Literacy

Climate Change Literacy

Narrative in Urban Planning

Narrative in Urban Planning

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

Narrative in Urban Planning

Narrative in Urban Planning

Climate Change Literacy

Climate Change Literacy

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