The Rock Climbers

The Rock Climbers
Author: Jack Kantorczyk
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1499033354

The book entitled, "The Rock Climbers," is about a dangerous expedition as seen through the author's eyes. That expedition was started in July, 1974 to Pirin Mountains located in southern Bulgaria, to prepare young people for the difficult tasks in their later years, into climbing the highest mountains in the world. As those people might operate later in the stressful climbing conditions they, need to be check their mental usefulness to stay for a long time in the mountain environment during dangerous climbing. The author, in a very interesting way, described the vagaries of natures and difficult crisis situations they had to defeat as well, he described in details about his personal experience during expedition and accompanying him, were his partners. Even the climbing of vertical walls is extremely serious business, and at the moment of climbing, the border between life and death is often very thin, still wins passion, willingness to compete, check themselves and their own possibilities. Undoubtedly, the book "The Rock Climbers," is worthy of the attention not only people who are interested of mountains and the climbing thrill, but everyone else who likes story associate with mystery and adrenalin feeling.

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration
Author: Friedemann Yi-Neumann
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2022-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 180008160X

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on research into a broad range of movements – from the study of forced migration and displacement to the analysis of retirement migration. What ties the chapters together is the perspective of material culture and an understanding of materiality that does not reduce objects to mere symbols. Centring on four interconnected themes – temporality and materiality, methods of object-based migration research, the affective capacities of objects, and the engagement of things in place-making practices – the volume provides a material culture perspective for migration scholars around the globe, representing disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, contemporary archaeology, curatorial studies, history and human geography. The ethnographic nature of the chapters and the focus on everyday objects and practices will appeal to all those interested in the broader conditions and tangible experiences of migration.

Dzhangal

Dzhangal
Author:
Publisher: Gost Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781910401156

Photographs of discarded items present an alternative portrait of residents of The Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France

Documenting Displacement

Documenting Displacement
Author: Katarzyna Grabska
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0228009499

Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. This project critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective, and interdisciplinary approach. Documenting Displacement explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers. Innovative in its use of arts-based methods, Documenting Displacement invites researchers to explore new avenues guided not only by the procedural ethics imposed by academic institutions, but also by a relational ethics that more fully considers the position of the researcher and the interests of those who have been displaced.

U.S.S.R.

U.S.S.R.
Author: United States. Geographic Names Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1970
Genre: Names, Geographical
ISBN:

Gazetteer

Gazetteer
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1955
Genre: Names, Geographical
ISBN:

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness
Author: Agnieszka Piotrowska
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1474463584

Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholarship and knowledge.