Boaters Of London
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Boaters Of London
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Author : Ben Bowles
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2024-05-03
Boaters Of London written by Ben Bowles and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-03 with Social Science categories.
London and the Southeast of England is home to an alternative community of people called 'boaters'; individuals and families who live on narrowboats, cruisers and barges, along a network of canals and rivers. Many of these people move from place to place every two weeks due to mooring rules and form itinerant communities in the heart of some of the UK’s most built-up and expensive urban spaces. Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling population has on the state.
Circle Line
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Author : Steffan Meyric Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Circle Line written by Steffan Meyric Hughes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with History categories.
In 2009, sailor and Londoner Steffan Meyric Hughes set out to become the first person to sail and row around London in a small boat. Circle Line is the story of a unique journey on the forgotten waterways of one of the world’s greatest capitals; an investigation into the way we live today; and a humorous, moving trip down memory lane.
London S Urban Landscape
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Author : Christopher Tilley
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2019-05-07
London S Urban Landscape written by Christopher Tilley and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Architecture categories.
London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspective on the city that integrates ethnographies of daily life with an analysis of material culture. The first part of the volume considers the residential sphere of urban life, discussing in detailed case studies ordinary residential streets, housing estates, suburbia and London’s mobile ‘linear village’ of houseboats. The second part analyses the public sphere, including ethnographies of markets, a park, the social rhythms of a taxi rank, and graffiti and street art. London’s Urban Landscape returns us to the everyday lives of people and the manner in which they understand their lives. The deeply sensuous character of the embodied experience of the city is invoked in the thick descriptions of entangled relationships between people and places, and the paths of movement between them. What stories do door bells and house facades tell us about contemporary life in a Victorian terrace? How do antiques acquire value and significance in a market? How does living in a concrete megastructure relate to the lives of the people who dwell there? These and a host of other questions are addressed in this fascinating book that will appeal widely to all readers interested in London or contemporary urban life.
Split Waters
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Author : Luisa Cortesi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Split Waters written by Luisa Cortesi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Nature categories.
Limited, finite, contaminated, unavailable or expensive, water divides people all around the globe. We all cannot do without water for long, but can for long enough to fight for it. This commonsensical narration of water conflicts, however, follows a pattern of scarcity and necessity that is remarkably unvaried despite different social and geographical contexts. Through in-depth case studies from around the globe, this volume investigates this similarity of narration—confronting the power of a single story by taking it seriously instead of dismissing it. In so doing, it invites the reader to rethink water conflicts and how they are commonly understood and managed. This book: Posits the existence of the idea of water conflict, and asks what it is and what it produces, thus how it is used to pursue particular interests and to legitimise specific historical, technological and environmental relations; Examines the meaning and power of ideas as compared to other categories of knowledge, advancing theoretical frameworks related to environmental knowledge, discursive power, social constructivism; Presents an alternative agenda to deepen the conversation around water conflicts among scholars and activists. Of interest to scholars and activists alike, this volume is addressed to those involved with environmental conflicts, environmental knowledge and justice, disasters and climate change from the disciplinary angles of environmental anthropology and sociology, political ecology and economy, science and technology studies, human geography and environmental sciences, development and cooperation, public policy and peace studies. Essays by Gina Bloodworth, Ben Bowles, Patrick Bresnihan, Luisa Cortesi, Mattia Grandi, K. J. Joy, Midori Kawabe, Adrianne Kroepsch, Vera Lazzaretti, Leslie Mabon, Renata Moreno Quintero, Madhu Ramnath, Jayaprakash Rao Polsani, Dik Roth, Theresa Selfa,Veronica Strang, Mieke van Hemert, Jeroen Warner, Madelinde Winnubst.
Maritime Spaces And Society
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-06-08
Maritime Spaces And Society written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-08 with Social Science categories.
Social interaction with maritime environments in a symbolic, cultural or economic manner, has led to the emergence of spatial structures – the social construction of maritime spaces.
All Boats Are Sinking
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Author : Hannah Pierce
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-06-20
All Boats Are Sinking written by Hannah Pierce and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-20 with Travel categories.
Having spontaneously bought a houseboat after a break-up, Hannah is plunged into life on the water, learning quickly how to deal with exploding toilets and disappearing hulls. When life threatens to sink her, Hannah embarks on an odyssey along Britain's canals. An uplifting and hilarious story of a woman trying to keep her boat and life afloat.
The Culture Of Ships And Maritime Narratives
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Author : Chryssanthi Papadopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-22
The Culture Of Ships And Maritime Narratives written by Chryssanthi Papadopoulou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with History categories.
The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology. This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology. Specifically, the volume first investigates the dialectic between the sea, the ship and the ship-dweller and shows how traits are exchanged between the three. It then focuses on land-dwellers, their understanding of seaborne existence and their invaluable contribution to the culture of ships. It shows that the romanticised views of life at sea that land-dwellers hold constitute an important aspect of the cosmology of ships and they too need to be considered if the polyvalence of ships is to be fully understood. In order for this cosmology to be written, some of the volume’s contributors have travelled on ships and interviewed mariners, fishermen, boat-builders and boat-dwellers; others have traced the courses of ships in poems, films, philosophical texts, and collective myths of genealogy and heritage. Overall the volume shows where ships can go, and how they are perceived and experienced by those living and travelling in them, watching and waiting for them, dreaming and writing about them, and, finally, what literal and metaphorical crews man them.
The Boat Girls
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Author : Margaret Mayhew
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-01-26
The Boat Girls written by Margaret Mayhew and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-26 with Fiction categories.
Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Donna Douglas, a saga full of the romance and drama of World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew. READERS ARE LOVING THE BOAT GIRLS! "I started reading this book last night and I absolutely devoured it, to the point I didn't go to bed until 6am. I could not put it down. It was so unbelievably good." - 5 STARS "Once I started it, [I] couldn't put it down" - 5 STARS "Ended up reading this twice as it was so amazing..."-5 STARS "Excellent story of the 3 girls and the boaters during the war, makes you feel you are there with them. Highly recommend this book." - 5 STARS "Omg this book was everything and more than I expected. My ideal book as I love family saga books. Three girls all from different backgrounds all join forces to work together. Highs and lows of everyday life. Loved, loved, loved it..." - 5 STARS ************************************************ 1943: THREE GIRLS GO THE EXTRA MILE TO DO THEIR BIT FOR THE WAR EFFORT. Frances - her life of seeming privilege has been a lonely one. Brave and strong, stifled by her traditional upbringing, she falls for a most unsuitable man. Prudence - timid and conventional, her horizons have never strayed beyond her job as a bank clerk in Croydon until the war brings her new experiences. Rosalind - a beautiful, flame-haired actress who catches the eye of Frances's stuffy elder brother, the heir to an ancestral mansion. The three become friends when they join the band of women working the canal boats, delivering goods and doing a man's job while the men are away fighting. A tough, unglamorous task - but one which brings them all unexpected rewards.
Three Men In A Boat
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Author : Jerome K. Jerome
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-19
Three Men In A Boat written by Jerome K. Jerome and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with Fiction categories.
First published in 1889, "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome is the humorous story of three Englishman who find themselves in need of a vacation and decide to take a holiday boating on the Thames. The three friends, Jerome (referred to as "J"), George, and Harris, pile into a boat with food, clothes, and a fox terrier named Montmorency, and set off from London to see the English countryside. "Three Men in a Boat" is a first-class comic masterpiece, as the well-to-do upper-class gentlemen are beset by a series of comic mishaps, including unreliable weather forecasts, culinary challenges, and troublesome tow ropes. A commercial success and instant classic when published, "Three Men in a Boat" has been translated into numerous languages and continues to inspire fans to embark on a recreation of the trio's iconic boating trip, where they discover very little has changed in over a hundred years. Jerome K. Jerome's masterful tale is a hilarious critique of the self-centered behavior of the English upper classes typical of Victorian England and still continues to entertain and delight audiences until today. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Motorboating Nd
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01
Motorboating Nd written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01 with categories.