Fundamental Spatial Concepts

Among the new topics covered are graph databases and graph query languages, ontology engineering and qualitative spatial reasoning, geosensor networks and GeoAI.

Curating Enslavement and the Colonial History of Denmark

An identical approach also dominates the exhibition Tea Time—the First Globalization at the Maritime Museum of Denmark in Elsinore, produced in 2013. This exhibition makes less use of the kinds of affective strategies that are used in the rest of the museum. In Tea Time, large exhibition boxes containing historical objects serve as geographical markers representing Denmark’s former colon…

Chapter 1 Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in…

This chapter aims to explore organisational change as a result of political and security risks faced by four major European multinationals, Roche (pharmaceuticals), Nestlé (food), Unilever (non-mineral oil, fats, food and soap), and Philips (incandescent lamps, electronics), originally domiciled partly or wholly in what were two relatively small neutral countries—Switzerland and the Netherla…

Chapter 1 Stigmatization as a Tool of Cultural Violence

Chapter 1 presents the argument that at the heart of hardline anti-sealing activism is a strategy of stigmatization to both dissuade individuals, business and countries from association with anyone or anything connected to the practice of sealing and to justify and normalize of activist behaviours, actions and attitudes against predominately working class rural and coastal peoples. To unpack th…

Chapter 1 Shopping centres as a retail format

There are almost 10,000 shopping centres in Europe, and in the United States there are over 100,000, many of which have entered the end-of-life phase due to growing e-retail. Therefore, the issue of how customers perceive the value of these facilities and customer engagement in the relationship with the shopping centre is becoming increasingly important. In this book, the authors evaluate the r…

Chapter 4 Post-Fukushima anti-nuclear movement

The chapter analyzes the cycle of the anti-nuclear movement that followed the Fukushima accident in March 2011. Employing functional typology, the chapter categorizes the movement’s organizations into seven types (direct action, research and education, policy advocacy, aid, watchdog, legal, and other) and shows that the post-Fukushima wave of protests was much broader in scope and more divers…

Chapter 4 Planetary environing The biosphere and the Earth system

Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies

Geopolitical challenges of renewable energy adoption in MENA

As Figure 28.1 indicates, the amount and type of renewable capacity developed in the region varies significantly by country.1 In addition, while almost all MENA countries have increased their investments in developing alternative energy resources, the contribution of their renewables to the total global electricity supply does not yet exceed half of one percent (BP, 2021). Nevertheless, th…

Chapter 4 Nanomaterials

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Chapter 4 ‘Menshevising Idealism’ and Stalinisation of Philosophy

The turbulent events of Stalin’s ‘Great Break’ have often been seen as a turning point and the beginning of a Stalinist politics sensu stricto. A sharp philosophical debate occurred at this turning point. This chapter discusses how this shift occurred in Soviet Marxist philosophical circles. It analyses the concept of ‘Menshevising Idealism’, an idea coined (maybe by Stalin himself) d…