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Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework

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Rose G.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

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2013

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issue 3(17)

193–204

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This article offers a framework for understanding and refl ecting upon the various ways that urban scholars have worked with visual representations of city spaces. It suggests that there are three main approaches: representing the urban, evoking the urban and performing the urban. The paper discusses the methodological implications of each of these.

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Zanurzenie w mieście jako remedium na pustkę w twórczości Giovanniego Agnoloniego

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Kopańska K.

Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media

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2020

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vol. 6

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issue 2

85-102

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In the article Plunging into the city as a remedy for emptiness in the work of Giovanni Agnoloni, Karolina Kopańska analyzes the experience of emptiness resulting from traumatic personal experiences (death of a loved one, separation, disappearance) in an urban space. The purpose of the chapter is to try to zoom in on the relationship that connects man and city. Numerous studies in this area suggest a close relationship and mutual penetration, in which the city and man become a common space of experience. The author proposes that plunging into the city can help with feelings of loss. As a case study, the author analyzes the work of the Italian writer Giovanni Agnoloni (Sentieri di notte, Il sepolcro del nuovo incontro, Viale dei silenzi), who deals with the subject of experiencing emptiness in the city in almost all of his novels. Agnoloni's city is a post-modern city, a dystopian landscape of abandoned places, covered in fog or in the chaos of daily traffic. This image of the city is in harmony with the broken psyche of heroes in despair. Nevertheless, going to the city creates a chance for a new beginning for the heroes. In the article, the author first focuses on the micro space of the city, which is home – here understood as a synonym of isolation and closure. Next, she considers the role of the city as a storage for memories. Finally, she determines where the characters from Agnoloni's novel draw their energy from. The author describes the process of passing the experience of emptiness in an urban space and indicates the role of the city in this process.

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Odporność gospodarki regionalnej i miejskiejna wstrząsy w świetle ewolucyjnej geografi i ekonomicznej

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Zakrzewska-Półtorak A.

Studia komitetu przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju PAN

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2015

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issue 164

108-119

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The paper focuses on the problem of the defi nition of regional and urban resilience, how to measure them, and how to evaluate the signifi cance of these categories in the regional studies. The analysis was carried out taking into account the structural and functional conditions of the regions and cities. In this article the author discusses the conditions and factors facilitating the strengthening of the adaptability of the regional economy and urban, with regard to the principles of evolutionary economic geography. The aim of the paper is to present the possibilities of application of the concept of regional and urban resilience to recent analyzes of regional development, with particular emphasis on evolutionary approach. The author applied the descriptive method and the comparative method. The analyzes are based on literature studies. Individualized study of social, economic and spatial structures of various spatial units, taking into account their resilience, can provide valuable information on the processes of adaptation of regions and cities and thus favorable conditions for their resistance, recovery, re-orientation and renewal.

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The Metamorphosis of Tea. Teahouses and Tea shops in Bucharest

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Luca G.

International Review of Social Research

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 2

99-108

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This paper examines the increase of public, non-domestic tea consumption in Bucharest. In order to offer a full picture, I approached the consumer engines in terms of both teahouses’ owners and consumers. I found that most entrepreneurs have established their business in an effort to have a place of their own, quiet, where to practice their passions with people who share the same values and interests. Consumers, in turn, are attracted primarily by the interior space of the teahouses. Their reasons are the most diverse: for relaxation and dreaming, to escape from the city’s violent stimuli, for introspection, for new bodily experiences, to strengthen or build friendship, romantic or business relationships, as well as for the ‘dream’ characteristics of the teahouses’ environment. Both the teahouses’ owners and their consumers may be regarded as varieties of prosumers.

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The Pact of Free Cities – Addressing Rule of Law Problems from a Local Perspective

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Matthes C.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2023

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issue Specjalny

27-40

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Since December 2020, the Pact of Free Cities, founded by the mayors of the Visegrád capitals, has expressed the dire wish not to be held hostage for their national governments’ disrespect for the rule of law. Being cut off from financial support out of political intentions, they lobby for direct EU support. The article explores the dynamics of this initiative, its strategies to reach out to European institutions and their resonance, as well as the meaning of the Pact’s city diplomacy from a democratic perspective. The analysis of various documents published by the Pact of Free Cities shows how it combines its efforts to promote democracy, the rule of law and sustainable policies by engaging on the EU level. The Pact developed a distinct type of urban experimentalism that established a new link between the European and the city level.

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Interrogating Urban Spaces: Kali and the Intellectual in two Contemporary Novels

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Raducanu A.

Gender Studies

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2015

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vol. 14

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issue 1

95-118

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This article focuses on the complexity of the encounter between two Western male writers and the East as represented by the metropolis of Calcutta and Kali, its patron goddess. The novels under discussion are Dan Simmons’ Song of Kali and Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta. The theoretical framework of the comparative analysis argues for the conceptual blurring of boundaries between ‘flâneur’ and ‘badaud’, elusive hypostases of the male writer protagonists in the Eastern urban context.

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Badanie miasta − stare i nowe pytania

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Jałowiecki B., Uniwersytet Warszawski E.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica

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2015

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vol. 54

PL

Artykuł przedstawia, z perspektywy socjologa, niektóre metodologiczne problemy badania miasta. Autorzy zajmujący się tą problematyką poruszają się między próbami tworzenia teorii funkcjonowania miast i modelowania ich rozwoju a opisem zmieniającej się miejskiej rzeczywistości, a więc śledzenia jej historii. W pierwszym nurcie spotykamy prace mniej lub bardziej sformalizowane, jak np. Louisa Wirtha, Richarda Floridy, czy zmatematyzowaną koncepcję fizyków Geoffreya Westa i Louisa Bettencourta. Drugi nurt reprezentują np. Max Weber i Fernand Braudel i wielu innych. Autor tego tekstu, nie negując pewnych pożytków pierwszego nurtu, jest jednak zdania, że podejście historyczno-opisowe znacznie lepiej, przynajmniej na razie, wyjaśnia procesy rozwoju miast.

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This article presents, from sociological perspective, some selected methodological issues related to urban studies. The authors of such studies remain between creating theory of the city functioning, and depicting a changing urban reality, thus investigating the history of a city. In the first strand we will encounter the more or less formalized works, such as these of Louis Wirth or Richard Florida, or the quantitative concept of Geoffrey West and Louis Bettencourt. The second type of studies is represented by Max Weber, Fernand Braudel and others. The author, although not denying the merits of the first strand, claims that so far the descriptive-historical approach is more useful in explaining the process of urban development.

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The association between rurality and return to work for workers’ compensation claimants with work-related musculoskeletal injuries: An analysis of workers who failed to return to work within typical healing time frames

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Lavoie C. A., Voaklander D., Beach J. R., Gross D. P.

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

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2017

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vol. 30

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issue 5

715-729

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Objectives The objectives of this study have been to: 1) describe and compare urban and rural injured worker populations in Alberta, Canada; 2) identify return-to-work outcomes in urban and rural populations; 3) examine the relationship between geographic location of residence and recovery from work-related musculoskeletal injury; and 4) investigate if this relationship is attenuated after controlling for other known risk factors. Material and Methods This study was a secondary analysis utilizing data of a population of musculoskeletal injury claimants who underwent clinical/RTW (return to work) assessment between December 2009 and January 2011 collected by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta. Descriptive statistics were computed for 32 variables and used for comparing urban and rural workers. The logistic regression analysis was performed to test the association between geographic location of residence and likelihood of return-to-work. Results Data on 7843 claimants was included, 70.1% of them being urban and 29.9% – rural. Rural claimants tended to have spent less time in formal education, have a blue-collar job, have no modified work available, have a diagnosed comorbidity, and not been enrolled in a specialized rehabilitation program. They were 1.43 (1.12–1.84) times the odds more likely than urban claimants to be continuing to receive full disability benefits 90 days after their RTW assessment, and 1.68 (1.06–2.67) times the odds as likely to report a recurrence of receiving disability benefits. Conclusions Rural residence was associated with prolonged work disability, even after controlling for age, job type, education level, health utilization and other potential confounders. Further research is required to explore why injured workers in rural settings experience prolonged reception of disability benefits and have greater rates of recurrence of receiving disability benefits. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(5):715–729

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Ethnography and psychoanalysis

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Skoll G. R.

Human and Social Studies

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2012

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vol. 1

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issue 1

29-50

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This methodological essay describes and advocates using certain psychoanalytic techniques for ethnography. It focuses on the self analysis of the ethnographer using evenly hovering attention, dream analysis, and free association. It presents an argument that using those techniques enhances the goal of ethnography as a human science and of social research. Fear of crime serves as a point of departure for the methodological argument. Finally, it links psychoanalytic ethnography to a fractal model of society and the self with reference to C. S. Peirce’s theory of semiotics as a link between the individual and society.

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An empirical approach about some important features of child labor in Turkey

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Acaroglu H.

Business and Economic Horizons

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2010

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vol. 3

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issue 3

135-146

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The study examines effects of some factors on the child labor force in Turkey such as the level of education of household heads determining the child labor, the features of geographical region where the household live and sex of working children. It is a motivation tool of opting for this subject in a developing country having a young population that there are few empirical studies concerning the fact of child labor. The empirical results obtained from non-conditional probability and probit analyses show that the employment rates of boys are higher than that of girls in both urban and rural regions. The education level of decision-makers of household in rural areas is lower than that of in urban regions and accordingly child labor employment rates in rural regions is higher than the same rates in urban regions. These facts mean that the lower the level of education of household heads is, the higher the child labor becomes. That is, when the education level of decision-makers decreases in rural areas, the child labor becomes more common.

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Koncepcja Regionalnej Polityki Miejskiej. Metodyka i studium przypadku

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Kuźnik F., Klasik A., Baron M., Szczupak B.

Studia komitetu przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju PAN

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2015

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issue 164

154-182

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Urban issues got into the mainstream of policy discussions lately. It is due to cities being both growth engines and spots of emerging challenges. International organisations and state authorities are in search for their urban policies. The same refers to regional authorities who need to position themselves towards metropolitan and urban areas. The paper aims at disseminating the methodological approach to identifi cation and set up of the regional urban policy. The proposed method was applied to the Polish Region Silesia (Śląskie). Findings for this area are presented in the paper.

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Heat Alert and Response Systems in Urban and Rural Communities in Canada

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Berry P., Yusa A., Morris-Oswald T., Rogaeva A.

Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems

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2014

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vol. 1

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issue 1

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Health Canada reviewed national and international literature to develop a framework that identifies best practices for developing and implementing Heat Alert and Response Systems (HARS) to protect citizens from extreme heat events. A comparative case study was conducted based upon the framework and the experiences of two Canadian jurisdictions that piloted many of the best practices in the development of new HARS. Table-top exercises, heat-health vulnerability assessments, and community consultations were used to inform the development and implementation of HARS plans. Implementation of the framework by local authorities revealed different and unique challenges facing rural and urban communities in protecting people from extreme heat events. Opportunities within each pilot for taking effective public health adaptive actions that draw upon existing strengths and resources were also identified. Key aspects of HARS development including those related to education and engagement, development of an alert protocol, creation of a heat response plan, and identification of communication activities should be tailored to the needs of individual communities or regions and be informed by specific characteristics related to existing and future vulnerability.

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Zaangażowanie partnerów samorządów aglomeracji poznańskiej w budowanie metropolii Poznań

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Nowak J. F., Perska A.

Studia Miejskie

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2014

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vol. 13

47-57

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The involvement of local partners from poznan agglomeration in the process of building Poznań metropolitan area

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Oferta kulturalna przestrzeni rewitalizowanych

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Maga-Jagielnicka R.

Problemy Rozwoju Miast

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2013

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issue 1

51-62

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Zaniedbane i zagrożone degradacją przestrzenie miejskie w wyniku realizacji projektów rewitalizacji zmieniają się w wymiarze kulturowym. W artykule przedstawiono problemy tworzenia oferty kulturowej przestrzeni rewitalizowanych opierając się na interpretacji pojęcia kultury jako uprawy – według najstarszego łacińskiego znaczenia tego pojęcia. Charakteryzując ofertę określono warunki wstępne, zidentyfikowano problemy skali zamierzeń i dylematów wyboru wartości. Odnawianie przestrzeni to specyficzna misja kulturowa, w której wymagana jest odpowiedzialna postawa wobec historii, a także nowych form aktywności społecznej i indywidualnej promowanych dzięki projektom rewitalizacji. Atrakcyjność oferty z punktu widzenia nowych wartości kulturowych udokumentowano opisami wybranych miejskich przestrzeni rewitalizowanych.

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Processes and phenomena occurring in urban development are an effect of attempts to adapt spatial forms to social (local communities) and individual (investors, owners and politicians) expectations. Revitalisation programmes involve a wide variety of space transformations. The range of values offered emerges as a result of proposed changes to the standards of use and to the appearance of technically, aesthetically and socially neglected locations. Cultural assets are especially threatened, which is why the new offer in this area is particularly noteworthy. The assessment of the assets of degraded spaces reveals problems of a functional, as well as a physiognomic and social nature, which poses a multi-task challenge for revitalisation programmes. A particular feature of the space revitalisation process is its cultural dimension. The cultural offer in urban revitalisation programmes is concerned not only with a new way of utilising space, but also with a change of its standards in many aspects, which manifests itself in, among other ways, attractive juxtapositions of old and contemporary forms, the aesthetics of material solutions and the rediscovery of historical assets. “Revived” structures and areas are locations that exert a particular influence on their surroundings, being noticeable due to their programme innovations and generating, as a result of modernised arrangement, an interest in the histories of their owners, patrons and users. Selected examples of designs and projects implemented are evidence of a special cultural mission being fulfilled. The balance of values that ma be obtained in revitalised spaces advocates cultural assets. The mutual relationship between the old and the new and proper placement of emphasis in using the potential of the existing in rastructure and environmental assets inculcate respect, humility and responsibility. They also teach culture in a particular way. Becoming familiar with urban revitalisation programmes provides ample material for reflection on the intended recipients, scope and extent of the influence of the cultural offer of spaces transformed.

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Travelling preferences of the elderly and their perception of transport services in Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria

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ADETUNJI M.

Economic and Environmental Studies

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2018

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vol. 18

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issue 1

9-29

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This study assessed the travel characteristics of the elderly population in Lokoja metropolis in North Central Nigeria. This was with a view to developing a database for proper formulation and implementation of a sustainable transport policy for elderly people in Lokoja metropolis in particular and in Nigeria in general. The introductory part of the paper considers the population of the elderly in different parts of the world, but with an emphasis on Lokoja metropolis of North Central Nigeria. A review of related literature, which forms another section of the work, reveals the age population and travelling preferences and pattern of elderly people in different parts of the world. Both primary and secondary data were elicited for this research. The primary data on the travelling preferences of the elderly were obtained from the three residential areas identified in the city. Materials for the study are of three types: socioeconomics characteristics of the elderly, the purposes for which they embarked on trips, and the mode of transportation and the distance they cover per day. A systematic random sampling procedure was used to select the elderly population in Lokoja. This was based on the principle of one in every tenth building along the major roads in each of the residential areas. A total of 200 elderly people were selected for the questionnaire survey, of whom 197 completed their questionnaires, which were subsequently analysed. The analysis was based on tables and other empirical statistical evidence.This study assessed the travel characteristics of the elderly population in Lokoja metropolis in North Central Nigeria. This was with a view to developing a database for proper formulation and implementation of a sustainable transport policy for elderly people in Lokoja metropolis in particular and in Nigeria in general. The introductory part of the paper considers the population of the elderly in different parts of the world, but with an emphasis on Lokoja metropolis of North Central Nigeria. A review of related literature, which forms another section of the work, reveals the age population and travelling preferences and pattern of elderly people in different parts of the world. Both primary and secondary data were elicited for this research. The primary data on the travelling preferences of the elderly were obtained from the three residential areas identified in the city. Materials for the study are of three types: socioeconomics characteristics of the elderly, the purposes for which they embarked on trips, and the mode of transportation and the distance they cover per day. A systematic random sampling procedure was used to select the elderly population in Lokoja. This was based on the principle of one in every tenth building along the major roads in each of the residential areas. A total of 200 elderly people were selected for the questionnaire survey, of whom 197 completed their questionnaires, which were subsequently analysed. The analysis was based on tables and other empirical statistical evidence.

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W badaniu przedstawiono charakterystykę podróży osób starszych w metropolii Lokoja w północno-środkowej Nigerii. Miało to na celu stworzenie bazy danych umożliwiającej właściwe sformułowanie i wdrożenie zrównoważonej polityki transportowej dla osób starszych w szczególności w metropolii Lokoja i ogólnie w Nigerii. Wstępna część artykułu przedstawia populację osób starszych w różnych częściach świata, ale z naciskiem na metropolię Lokoja w północno-środkowej Nigerii. Przegląd pokrewnej literatury, która stanowi kolejną część pracy, ujawnia populację wiekową i preferencje podróżnicze oraz strukturę osób starszych w różnych częściach świata. Zarówno dane pierwotne, jak i wtórne zostały pozyskane dla tego badania. Podstawowe dane dotyczące preferencji podróżniczych osób starszych uzyskano z trzech obszarów mieszkalnych zidentyfikowanych w mieście. Materiały do badań dotyczą trzech elementów: cech socjoekonomicznych osób starszych, celów, dla których wyruszają w podróże, oraz rodzaju transportu i odległości, którą pokonują dziennie. Do selekcji osób starszych w Lokoja zastosowano systematyczną losową procedurę pobierania próbek. Było to oparte na zasadzie: co dziesiąty budynek wzdłuż głównych dróg w każdym z obszarów mieszkalnych. W badaniu ankietowym wytypowano 200 osób starszych, z których 197 wypełniło ankiety, które następnie poddano analizie. Analiza została oparta na tabelach i innych empirycznych dowodach statystycznych.

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Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spices

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Alexandru M.-S. D.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

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2012

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vol. 19

77-86

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In today’s global world, the urban/ rural opposition is increasingly becoming a more relevant marker of the acculturation of foreigners whose adoption of national values is reflected by the spaces they inhabit. As they bring with them traditions related to the healing and balancing forces of the earth, immigrants prompt a reconsideration of the urban/ rural dichotomy in the metropolitan spaces they come to inhabit. Rural landscape in American culture has a long tradition of acting as a source of an alternative symbolic imaginary, responsible for boosting people’s feelings of patriotic commitment that are crucial to national integration. Diasporic American fiction has increasingly combined this tradition with symbolic magic and natural elements brought over from the “other” cultural backgrounds their authors come from. This paper aims to study the socio-political negotiations in a few instances of cultural translation within the urban/ rural dialectic in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novels The Mistress of Spices and Queen of Dreams. I will suggest that Divakaruni’s female protagonists work their initial experience of dislocation into a discourse of nature and the earth free from boundaries, based on a rejection of urban alienation and the discovery of the reconciliatory potential of America’s nature.

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Phenomenology of divorce in Kosovo for the period between 2004–2014

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Kamberi F., Shala A.

Path of Science

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 12(17)

8.1-8.11

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Family is considered as a nucleus, cell of the society, which is created by the sexual union of two partners (heterosexual) – marriage with the purpose of biological reproduction, approved by the society. Divorce is the opposite of marriage, it represents a social and legal problem, and is part of the society itself. This phenomenon is being considered as one of the oldest, old as humanity itself. In Kosovo, as in other parts of the world, divorce exists from very old times, and it was passed from a generation to another and still remains one of the social problems of Kosovo society. In the past this phenomenon was less present in our society because of political, economical social and cultural circumstances. After year 1999 we see that number of cases of divorce grow in comparison with previous years. The data taken from different researches and studies show that in year 2004, in Kosovo there were 16.989 marriages and 1.293 cases of divorce, so with 7.6% at national level, whereas the average age of divorced people is 29.5% women ans 31.8% men. Some of the factors that have influenced the growth/development of divorce are: transition period, crisis of the system of values, socio-economical factors, migration and immigration, emancipation of women, and other factors. The consequences of divorce are: individual, familial, economical, cultural and in general – social consequences. Therefore, this study does analyze the phenomenology of divorce in Kosovo in the period between 2004-2014 years, causes and consequences.

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Семья рассматривается как ядро, ячейка общества, которая создается половым союзом двух партнеров (гетеросексуальных) – браком, с целью биологического воспроизводства, одобренным обществом. Развод является противоположностью брака, он представляет собой социальную и правовую проблему и является частью самого общества. Это явление рассматривается как одно из самых старых, оно старо, как само человечество. В Косово, как и в других странах мира, развод существует с очень давних времен, он переходил из поколения в поколение и до сих пор остается одной из социальных проблем общества Косово. В прошлом, это явление меньше присутствовало в нашем обществе из-за политических, экономических социальных и культурных обстоятельств. После 1999 года, мы видим, что число случаев развода растет в сравнении с предыдущими годами. Данные, взятые из различных исследований, показывают, что в 2004 году, в Косово было 16 989 браков и 1 293 случаев развода, что составляло 7,6 % на национальном уровне, в то время как средний возраст разведенных людей составлял 29,5 % у женщин и 31,8 % у мужчин. Некоторыми факторами, оказывающими влияние на рост числа разводов, являются: переходный период, кризис системы ценностей, социально-экономические факторы, миграция и иммиграция, эмансипация женщин и другие факторы. Последствиями развода являются: индивидуальные, семейные, экономические, культурные и обще-социальные последствия. Таким образом, это в статье анализируется феноменология развода в Косово в период 2004-2014 гг., их причины и последствия.

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Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework

Zanurzenie w mieście jako remedium na pustkę w twórczości Giovanniego Agnoloniego

Odporność gospodarki regionalnej i miejskiejna wstrząsy w świetle ewolucyjnej geografi i ekonomicznej

The Metamorphosis of Tea. Teahouses and Tea shops in Bucharest

The Pact of Free Cities – Addressing Rule of Law Problems from a Local Perspective

Interrogating Urban Spaces: Kali and the Intellectual in two Contemporary Novels

Badanie miasta − stare i nowe pytania

The association between rurality and return to work for workers’ compensation claimants with work-related musculoskeletal injuries: An analysis of workers who failed to return to work within typical healing time frames

Ethnography and psychoanalysis

An empirical approach about some important features of child labor in Turkey

Koncepcja Regionalnej Polityki Miejskiej. Metodyka i studium przypadku

Heat Alert and Response Systems in Urban and Rural Communities in Canada

Zaangażowanie partnerów samorządów aglomeracji poznańskiej w budowanie metropolii Poznań

Oferta kulturalna przestrzeni rewitalizowanych

Travelling preferences of the elderly and their perception of transport services in Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria

Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spices

Phenomenology of divorce in Kosovo for the period between 2004–2014