Thinking Like An Island
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Thinking Like An Island
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Author : Jennifer Chirico
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Thinking Like An Island written by Jennifer Chirico and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Science categories.
Hawaii is a rare and special place, in which beauty and isolation combine to form a vision of paradise. That isolation, though, comes at a price: resources in modern-day Hawaii are strained and expensive, and current economic models dictate that the Hawaiian Islands are reliant upon imported food, fuels, and other materials. Yet the islands supported a historic Hawaiian population of a million people or more. This was possible because Hawaiians, prior to European contact, had learned the ecological limits of their islands and how to live sustainably within them. Today, Hawaii is experiencing a surge of new strategies that make living in the islands more ecologically, economically, and socially resilient. A vibrant native agriculture movement helps feed Hawaiians with traditional foods, and employs local farmers using traditional methods; efforts at green homebuilding help provide healthy, comfortable housing that exists in better harmony with the environment; efforts to recycle wastewater help reduce stress on fragile freshwater resources; school gardens help feed families and reconnect them with local food and farming. At the same time, many of the people who have developed these strategies find that their processes reflect, and in some cases draw from, the lessons learned by Hawaiians over thousands of years. This collection of case studies is a road map to help other isolated communities, island and mainland, navigate their own paths to sustainability, and establishes Hawaii as a model from which other communities can draw inspiration, practical advice, and hope for the future.
Think Like An Archipelago
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Author : Michael Wiedorn
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-01-25
Think Like An Archipelago written by Michael Wiedorn and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Philosophy categories.
With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissant's work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissant's philosophy. The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a "new category of literature," and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself.
An Island
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Author : Karen Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date : 2022-05-17
An Island written by Karen Jennings and has been published by Hogarth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores—An Island is the American debut of a major voice in world literature. “An Island by Karen Jennings is quite simply a revelation—a ferocious, swift chess game of a novel.”—Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vulture Samuel has lived alone on an island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel—who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths—always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he nurses the stranger back to life, Samuel—feeling strangely threatened—is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland. This was a life that saw his country exploited under colonial rule, followed by a period of revolution and a brief, hard-won independence—only for the cycle of suffering to continue under a cruel dictator. And he can’t help but recall his own shameful role in that history. In this stranger’s presence, he begins to consider, as he did in his youth: What does it mean to own land, or to belong to it? And what does it cost to have, and lose, a home? A timeless and gripping portrait of regret, terror, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound.
Place Based Science Teaching And Learning
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Author : Cory A. Buxton
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2011-05-05
Place Based Science Teaching And Learning written by Cory A. Buxton and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-05 with Education categories.
Place-Based Science Teaching and Learning: 40 Activities for K-8 Classrooms address the challenges facing primary and secondary school teachers as they attempt to make science learning relevant to their students. The text provides teachers with a rationale and a set of example activities for teaching science in a local context. Teaching and learning science using this approach will help students to engage with science learning and come to understand the importance of science in their everyday lives.
An Introduction To Island Studies
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Author : James Randall
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2020-10-19
An Introduction To Island Studies written by James Randall and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-19 with Science categories.
An Introduction to Island Studies is an approachable look at this interdisciplinary field - from the geological formation of islands, their settlement, human migration, occupation and to the place of islands in the popular imagination. Featuring geopolitical and economic frameworks, Randall gives a bottom-up guide to this modern areas of study.
Theorising Literary Islands
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Author : Ian Kinane
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2016-11-16
Theorising Literary Islands written by Ian Kinane and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-16 with Social Science categories.
Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island topographies in contemporary literature, film, television, and other media. Theorising Literary Islands argues that the ubiquity of island landscapes within the popular imagination belies certain ideological and cultural anxieties, and posits that the emergence of a Western popular culture tradition can largely be traced through the development of the Robinsonade genre, and through early European and American fascination with the Pacific region.
The Boy S Own Paper
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The Boy S Own Paper written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Children's literature categories.
The Practical Teacher
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Practical Teacher written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.
Thinking Like An Island
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Author : Camilla Marrese Gabriele Chiapparini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-10-04
Thinking Like An Island written by Camilla Marrese Gabriele Chiapparini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-04 with Art categories.
Hyperboreans
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Author : Timothy P. Bridgman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-02-29
Hyperboreans written by Timothy P. Bridgman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-29 with History categories.
In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.