Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government …
In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place …
GP Radford, ML Radford, J Lingel - Journal of Documentation, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–Using Michel Foucault's notion of heterotopia as a guide, the purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of considering the library as place, and specifically as a place …
The World Health Organisation estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city. But what does it mean to inhabit the city in the twenty-first century …
Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world, eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature …
K Veel, NB Thylstrup - Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Geolocation as an increasingly common technique in dating apps is often portrayed as a way of configuring uncertainty that facilitates playful interaction with unknown strangers …
Interdict: noun 1 an authoritative prohibition. 2 Catholicism: a sentence debarring a person, or esp. a place from ecclesiastical functions and privileges. verb 1 prohibit (an action). 2 …
F Broeker - Tourism Geographies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Berlin in 2019 and 2020, partly during the COVID-19 lockdown, this article seeks to address the spatial dynamics …
DB Shaw - Space and Culture, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This article separates the city and the street in order to examine them as concepts which order our experience of both cyberspatial worlds and the “posturban” city. The extraordinary …