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Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Place-making in Displacement

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Place-making in Displacement

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes and the critical moments that facilitate this development. Interdisciplinary and using diverse research approaches the book includes contributions by authors from a variety of disciplines across disaster research sociology urban planning architecture anthropology earth science and education. Mixed methods are adopted to carry out the research projects that ground this volume including qualitative research for social scientific research ethnographic methods and more importantly Participatory Action Research (PAR) is also included by authors who have a background in design professions and a few indigenous scholars who are themselves survivors of disasters. The chapters are structured in the following five thematic sections: Learning as place-making in displacement Gender and place-making in response to displacement Community resilience in keeping indigenous sense of place Community (Re)building in displacement Transnational Place-making: Talk to the Actor Understanding how affected communities are recovering from their own perspectives this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies political science disaster planning and human geography. | Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Place-making in Displacement

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Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

This book traces the origins of a faith-perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries-the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris Berlin London and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905 March 1917 and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors people who preached social justice transcending traditional national ethnic and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as remarkable learned and lively while The New Yorker noted that Billington pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing. It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life. | Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

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