Fire In The Placa

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Fire In The Placa

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Author : Dorothy Noyes
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-03-07

Fire In The Placa written by Dorothy Noyes and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-07 with Social Science categories.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Fire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the seventeenth century. Participants in the festival are transformed through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbolism with intense bodily expression, the Patum has long served as a grassroots equivalent of grand social theory; it moves from a representation of social divisions to a forcible communion among them. The Patum's dancing effigies—giants, dwarves, Turks and Christian knights, devils and angels, a crowned eagle, and two flaming mule-dragons—have provided local allegories for a long series of political conflicts, but the festival obscures its own messages in smoke and motion to enable a temporary merging of opposites. Activists in the 1970s transition to democracy in Spain took the Patum as a model of how old adversaries might collaborate: it helped to shape the mix of assertiveness in performance and compromise in practice that is typical of contemporary Catalan nationalism. The Patum became a focus of resistance to the Franco regime and drew visitors from all over Catalonia, serving as a rehearsal for the mass protests in Barcelona. Later, it provided the newly autonomous region with a vehicle for integrating immigrants and a vocabulary of belonging, culminating in the Patum-derived devils of the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympic games. Today, as mines and factories have closed in Berga, the Patum serves as an arena in which provincial Catalans model their relationship to Barcelona, Europe, and the world, and reflects their ambivalence about the choices open to them. Seeking a third way between tourism and terrorism, provincial towns like Berga show us the future of all local communities under globalization. In collective performances such as the Patum, tensions between cultural and political representation are made visible, and the gap between aspiration and possibility is both bridged and acknowledged. In this exceptionally rich ethnographic study, Dorothy Noyes explores the predicament of provincial communities striving to overcome internal conflict and participate in a wider world.

Fire In The Pla A

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Author : Dorothy Noyes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Fire In The Pla A written by Dorothy Noyes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Fire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the seventeenth century. Participants in the festival are transformed through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbolism with intense bodily expression, the Patum has long served as a grassroots equivalent of grand social theory; it moves from a representation of social divisions to a forcible communion among them. The Patum's dancing effigies--giants, dwarves, Turks and Christian knights, devils and angels, a crowned eagle, and two flaming mule-dragons--have provided local allegories for a long series of political conflicts, but the festival obscures its own messages in smoke and motion to enable a temporary merging of opposites. Activists in the 1970s transition to democracy in Spain took the Patum as a model of how old adversaries might collaborate: it helped to shape the mix of assertiveness in performance and compromise in practice that is typical of contemporary Catalan nationalism. The Patum became a focus of resistance to the Franco regime and drew visitors from all over Catalonia, serving as a rehearsal for the mass protests in Barcelona. Later, it provided the newly autonomous region with a vehicle for integrating immigrants and a vocabulary of belonging, culminating in the Patum-derived devils of the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympic games. Today, as mines and factories have closed in Berga, the Patum serves as an arena in which provincial Catalans model their relationship to Barcelona, Europe, and the world, and reflects their ambivalence about the choices open to them. Seeking a third way between tourism and terrorism, provincial towns like Berga show us the future of all local communities under globalization. In collective performances such as the Patum, tensions between cultural and political representation are made visible, and the gap between aspiration and possibility is both bridged and acknowledged. In this exceptionally rich ethnographic study, Dorothy Noyes explores the predicament of provincial communities striving to overcome internal conflict and participate in a wider world.

Schomburg Plaza Fire New York City Harlem

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: FEMA
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Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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Author : U. S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-15

Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania written by U. S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-15 with categories.

This report on the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, One Meridian Plaza fire documents one of the most significant highrise fires in U.S. history. This body of work provides detailed information on the nature of the fire problem for policymakers who must decide on allocations of resources between fire and other pressing problems, and within the fire service to improve codes and code enforcement, training, public fire education, building technology, and other related areas.

Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania U S Fire Administration Technical Report Series Usfa Tr 049

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Author : Federal Emergency Management Age (Fema)
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-03-19

Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania U S Fire Administration Technical Report Series Usfa Tr 049 written by Federal Emergency Management Age (Fema) and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Reference categories.

This report on the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, One Meridian Plaza fire documents one of the most significant highrise fires in United StatesÕ history. The fire claimed the lives of three Philadelphia firefighters and gutted eight floors of a 38-story fire-resistive building causing an estimated $100 million in direct property loss and an equal or greater loss through business interruption. Litigation resulting from the fire amounts to an estimated $4 billion in civil damage claims. Twenty months after the fire this building, one of PhiladelphiaÕs tallest, situated on Penn Square directly across from City Hall, still stood unoccupied and fire-scarred, its structural integrity in question. This fire is a large scale realization of fire risks that have been identified on many previous occasions. The most significant new information from this fire relates to the vulnerability of the systems that were installed to provide electrical power and to support fire suppression efforts.

Fire At The Dupont Plaza Hotel And Casino 96 Fatalities December 31 1986 Interim Report

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Author : National Fire Protection Association
language : en
Publisher:
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Fire At The Dupont Plaza Hotel And Casino 96 Fatalities December 31 1986 Interim Report written by National Fire Protection Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

Board Of Inquiry Into The March 22 1987 Schomburg Plaza Fire

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Author : New York (N.Y.). Fire Department. Board of Inquiry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Board Of Inquiry Into The March 22 1987 Schomburg Plaza Fire written by New York (N.Y.). Fire Department. Board of Inquiry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.

Schomburg Plaza Fire

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Author : Department of Homeland Security
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-04-26

Schomburg Plaza Fire written by Department of Homeland Security and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-26 with categories.

A fire originating in the compactor chute of a 35-story high-rise apartment building in the Harlem area of New York City caused the deaths of seven building residents. Several code enforcement and fire department operational problems may have contributed to the loss. The U.S. Fire Administration had planned to investigate this fire because of its many important lessons but would only do so with the express permission of appropriate authority. The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) requested that the investigation be delayed until a preliminary internal investigation was completed. When the preliminary FDNY report was issued, the Fire Administration found it to be of such high quality and candor that an additional investigation did not seem likely to add much to the lessons of interest nationally. This report summarizes some of the lessons learned on the FDNY report and discussions with members of the investigation team.

Reports

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Author : Missouri. Geological Survey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Reports written by Missouri. Geological Survey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Geology categories.

High Rise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania February 23 1991

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Author : J. Gordon Routley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

High Rise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania February 23 1991 written by J. Gordon Routley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fire fighters categories.