Download or read book Empire on the Seine written by Amit Prakash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amit Prakash draws on extensive archival materials to understand the colonial legacy of how minority populations have been policed in twentieth century Paris, showing how colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris, and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing contributed to this legacy.
Download or read book The Riviera Exposed written by Stephen L. Harp and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping social and environmental history, The Riviera, Exposed illuminates the profound changes to the physical space that we know as the quintessential European tourist destination. Stephen L. Harp uncovers the behind-the-scenes impact of tourism following World War II, both on the environment and on the people living and working on the Riviera, particularly North African laborers, who not only did much of the literal rebuilding of the Riviera but also suffered in that process. Outside of Paris, the Riviera has been the most visited region in France, depending almost exclusively on tourism as its economic lifeline. Until recently, we knew a great deal about the tourists but much less about the social and environmental impacts of their activities or about the life stories of the North African workers upon whom the Riviera's prosperity rests. The technologies embedded in roads, airports, hotels, water lines, sewers, beaches, and marinas all required human intervention—and travelers were encouraged to disregard this intervention. Harp's sharp analysis explores the impacts of massive construction and public works projects, revealing the invisible infrastructure of tourism, its environmental effects, and the immigrants who built the Riviera. The Riviera, Exposed unearths a gritty history, one of human labor and ecological degradation that forms the true foundation of the glamorous Riviera of tourist mythology.
Download or read book Environmental Health written by Takemi Otsuki and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Health discusses environmental effects on human health. It examines heavy metal pollution, biological effects of arsenic (on reproductive health, especially), effects of soil organic carbon, chemical pollution of drinking water, climate change and vector-borne diseases, marine fuels, particulate matter, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Download or read book International Co operation for Habitat and Urban Development Directory of Non governmental Organisations in OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1997-12-19 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This specialised Directory provides information on over 1 700 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in the field of habitat and urban development.
Download or read book The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole written by Amelia H. Lyons and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, which has the largest Muslim minority community in Europe, has been in the news in recent years because of perceptions that Muslims have not integrated into French society. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole explores the roots of these debates through an examination of the history of social welfare programs for Algerian migrants from the end of World War II until Algeria gained independence in 1962. After its colonization in 1830, Algeria fought a bloody war of decolonization against France, as France desperately fought to maintain control over its most prized imperial possession. In the midst of this violence, some 350,000 Algerians settled in France. This study examines the complex and often-contradictory goals of a welfare network that sought to provide services and monitor Algerian migrants' activities. Lyons particularly highlights family settlement and the central place Algerian women held in French efforts to transform the settled community. Lyons questions myths about Algerian immigration history and exposes numerous paradoxes surrounding the fraught relationship between France and Algeria—many of which echo in French debates about Muslims today.
Download or read book Slum e scape written by Francesca De Filippi and published by Alinea Editrice. This book was released on 2009 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France s Modernising Mission written by Ed Naylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how France’s ‘modernising mission’ unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France sought to reinvent its empire by transforming the traditional ‘civilising mission’ into a ‘modernising mission’. Henceforth, French claims to rule would be based on extending citizenship rights and the promise of economic development and welfare within a ‘Greater France’. In the face of rising anti-colonial mobilization and a new international order, redefining the terms that bound colonised peoples and territories to the metropole was a strategic necessity but also a dynamic which Paris struggled to control. The language of reform and equality was seized upon locally to make claims on metropolitan resources and wrest away the political initiative. Intertwined with coercion and violence, the struggle to define what ‘modernisation’ would mean for colonised societies was a key factor in the wider process of decolonisation. Contributions by leading specialists extend geographically from Africa to the Pacific and to metropolitan France itself, examining a range of topics including education policy, colonial knowledge production, rural development and slum clearance.
Download or read book Making Space written by Melissa K. Byrnes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2005 urban protests in France, public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed its relationship with its North African citizens and residents. In Making Space Melissa K. Byrnes considers how four French suburbs near Paris and Lyon reacted to rapidly growing populations of North Africans, especially Algerians before, during, and after the Algerian War. In particular, Byrnes investigates what motivated local actors such as municipal officials, regional authorities, employers, and others to become involved in debates over migrants’ rights and welfare, and the wide variety of strategies community leaders developed in response to the migrants’ presence. An examination of the ways local policies and attitudes formed and re-formed communities offers a deeper understanding of the decisions that led to the current tensions in French society and questions about France’s ability—and will—to fulfill the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity for all of its citizens. Byrnes uses local experiences to contradict a version of French migration history that reads the urban unrest of recent years as preordained.
Download or read book PROMOTION DE LA SANTE ET AUTONOMISATION DANS LE CONTEXTE AFRICAIN written by David HouŽto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le terme promotion de la santé en Afrique, près de 30 ans après l'adoption de la Charte d'Ottawa, continue d'avoir des connotations complètement hors du sens que lui confère cette charte. Cela n'est pas étonnant quand on sait que la notion de santé dans ce contexte africain équivaut à la lutte contre la maladie à travers les soins de santé dispensés par des professionnels de la santé dans des formations sanitaires et les hôpitaux. L'évolution que connait le continent depuis quelques décennies est de donner un peu plus de place à la communauté à travers les relais communautaires dans une participation communautaire vidée de son contenu, car le pouvoir n'est jamais passé entre les mains des communautés.C'est au vu de tout ceci que le présent ouvrage à sa raison d'être pour expliquer les fondements de l'autonomisation communautaire et de la promotion de la santé avec leur importance pour la région africaine en proie aux mauvais indicateurs de santé comparativement aux autres régions du monde.
Download or read book From the City to the Desert written by Raffael Beier and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, large-scale housing and resettlement projects have experienced a renaissance in many developing countries and are increasingly shaping new urban peripheries. One prominent example is Morocco's Villes Sans Bidonville (cities without shantytowns) programme that aims at eradicating all shantytowns in Morocco by resettling its population to apartment blocks at the urban peripheries. Analysing the specific resettlement project of Karyan Central, a 90-year-old shantytown in Casablanca, this book sheds light on both process and outcome of resettlement from the perspective of affected people. It draws on rich empirical data from a structure household survey (n=871), qualitative interviews with different stakeholder, document analysis, and non-participant observation gathered during four months of field research. The author emphasises that the VSB programme, although formally part of anti-poverty and urban inclusion policies, puts primary focus on the clearance of the shantytown. Largely based on ill-informed policy assumptions, stigmatisation, rent-seeking, and opaque implementation practices, the VSB programme interpreted adequate housing in a narrow sense. By showing how social interactions, employment patterns, and access to urban functions have changed because of resettlement, the book provides sound empirical evidence that housing means more than four walls and a roof.
Download or read book Pour la Couronne et le Dragon written by Stephen Hunt and published by Green Nebula. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour la Couronne et le Dragon Nous sommes dans les dernières années du XVIIIe siècle, mais dans un monde que peu de gens reconnaîtraient. Les Européens s'abritent dans de petits îlots de sécurité, refuges de la nature sauvage et enchantée - les étranges forêts sans limites que les gens appellent le Tumble. C'est à travers ce paysage hanté par les démons que l'officier de basse naissance Taliesin doit mener ses hommes, pris dans les intrigues les plus meurtrières tout en menant des guerres pour une classe noble qui le méprise. Avec des meurtriers vicieux issus des pires caniveaux du royaume marchant derrière lui, et les forces des nations les plus puissantes du continent dressées contre lui, les chances sont contre Taliesin. De toute évidence. Pourtant, il continuera à se battre, à affronter des armées, des sorciers, des assassins, des hommes-bêtes et à croiser la route de l'enfer lui-même. Pas par loyauté, ni par respect pour son monarque intrigant, ni même pour la petite montagne d'argent que la reine de l'île lui a promise s'il réussit. Mais parce que le combat est tout ce que lui et sa bande de voleurs et d'égorgeurs ont toujours connu. *** Livre 1 de la duologie Triple Realm. 1. Pour la couronne et le dragon. 2. La forteresse dans le givre. *** À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Stephen Hunt est le créateur de la série fantastique très appréciée "Far-called" (Gollancz/Hachette), ainsi que de la série "Jackelian", publiée dans le monde entier par HarperCollins aux côtés d'autres auteurs de fantasy, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist et C.S. Lewis. *** REVUE Éloges des romans de Stephen Hunt : M. Hunt s'envole à toute allure. - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL L'imagination de Hunt est probablement visible depuis l'espace. Il disperse des concepts que d'autres écrivains exploiteraient pour une trilogie comme des emballages de barres chocolatées. - TOM HOLT Toutes sortes d'extravagances bizarres et fantastiques. - DAILY MAIL 'Une lecture compulsive pour tous les âges'. - GUARDIAN 'Bourré d'inventions'. -THE INDEPENDENT 'Dire que ce livre est plein d'action est presque un euphémisme... une merveilleuse histoire d'évasion ! - INTERZONE Hunt a truffé l'histoire d'astuces intrigantes... touchantes et originales. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Une aventure palpitante à la Indiana Jones. -RT BOOK REVIEWS Un curieux mélange de futur et de futur partiel. - KIRKUS REVIEWS Un ouvrage inventif et ambitieux, plein de merveilles et d'émerveillements. - THE TIMES Hunt sait ce que son public aime et le lui donne avec un esprit sardonique et une tension soigneusement développée. - TIME OUT Un récit qui déchire... l'histoire se déroule à toute allure... l'inventivité constante maintient le lecteur accroché... le final est une succession de cliffhangers et de retournements de situation surprenants. Très amusant. - SFX MAGAZINE Mettez vos ceintures pour une rencontre frénétique entre le chat et la souris... une histoire passionnante. - SF REVU
Download or read book Europeanising Spaces in Paris C 1947 1962 written by Hugh McDonnell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europeanising Spaces in Paris, c. 1947-1962 examines the myriad urban, political and cultural forms in which ideas of Europe, and of what it meant to be European, were represented in Paris in the post-war era.
Download or read book Student Revolt in 1968 written by Ben Mercer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative analysis of student protests in France, Italy and West Germany in 1968 explores their origins, course and dissolution.
Download or read book Modern Migrations in Western Africa written by Samir Amin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with studies of migration from census and other data, variations in scale, distance and duration of various types of migration, social relations of migrant populations with their home areas and their host communities, and expectations and valuation of migrants concerning rural and urban life. It also examines interrelations between levels of migration, labour supply, wage rates and unemployment in urban centres, the impact of different types of migration on the national economy and economic planning and governemnt measures and conflicting interests of the labour supplying and receiving countries. The introduction analyses the main economic and political factors and the socio-economic consequences and problems brought about by migrations in and between territories.
Download or read book Sortil ge p ruvien written by Martine du Authier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L enfant au Coeur de Bambou written by Amporn Wathanavongs and published by Maverick House . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
