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De 19-jarige Tsotsi, straattaal voor 'gangster', woont in een sloppenwijk bij Johannesburg. Hij heeft zijn verleden, waarin hij op jonge leeftijd zijn ouders verloor en opgroeide voor galg en rad, verdrongen. Wanneer één van zijn bendeleden kritische vragen stelt over zijn verleden, slaat Tsotsi door en verwondt hem. In blinde paniek vlucht hij naar een welvarende voorstad van Johannesbrug. Hier ziet hij zijn kans schoon om op gewelddadige wijze een auto te stelen. Als hij even later wegrijdt, hoort hij het gehuil van een drie maanen oude baby van de achterbank. Tsotsi ervaart een voor hem onbekend gevoel: iets anders dan alleen zelfbehoud. Hij keert terug naar de sloppenwijk en dwingt de jonge moeder Miriam hem te helpen om in het geheim de baby te verzorgen. Langzaam ontwikkelt zich een band tussen de twee jonge mensen, waardoor Tsotsi zijn verleden onthult en onder ogen durft te zien

Zuid-Afrika --- Geweld --- Culturele antropologie --- Jongere

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The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic complexity of food and its preparation, as well as the social importance of feasting in contemporary and historical societies. This book unites these disciplinary perspectives — from the social and biological sciences to art history and epigraphy — creating a work comprehensive in scope, which reveals our increasing understanding of the various roles of foods and cuisines in Mesoamerican cultures. . The volume is organized thematically into three sections. Part 1 gives an overview of food and feasting practices as well as ancient economies in Mesoamerica. Part 2 details ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic evidence of these practices. Finally, Part 3 presents the metaphoric value of food in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. The resulting volume provides a thorough, interdisciplinary resource for understanding, food, feasting, and cultural practices in Mesoamerica.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Archeology --- History --- cultuur --- geschiedenis --- culturele antropologie --- archeologie --- Antiquity

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Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The hypothesis of this book is that the attempts of founding an autonomous planning theory are inadequate if they do not explore two interconnected fields: architecture and public policies.The book critically reviews a selected set of current practices and theoretical founding works of modern and contemporary urban planning by highlighting the continuous search for the epistemic legitimization of a large variety of experiences. The distinctive contribution of this book is a documented critique to the eclecticism and abstraction of the main international trends in current planning theory. The dialogic relationship with the traditions of architecture and public policy is proposed here in order to critically review planning theory and practice. The outcome is the proposal of a paradigmatic framework that, in the authors' opinion, can adequately guide reflections and actions. A pragmatic and interpretative heritage and the project-orientated approach are the basis of this new spatial planning paradigm. Pier Carlo Palermo is Dean of the School of Architecture and Society at the Politecnico di Milano, where he founded and directed the Department of Architecture and Planning. His main research interests concern the theory and history of urbanism, urban studies, spatial planning and policy design. He has worked as planning consultant on programmes of national and international interest (EU Programmes, Italian Ministries of Economics, Environment, and Infrastructure and other territorial institutions). He has published numerous books on these topics. His most recent publications include: Innovation in Planning. Italian Experiences, Actar, Barcelona, 2006; I Limiti del Possibile. Governo del Territorio e Qualità dello Sviluppo, Donzelli, Rome, 2009. Davide Ponzini received his PhD in Urban Planning from the Politecnico di Milano where he is currently Assistant Professor in Urban Planning. His research activity focuses on the role of cultural policies and contemporary architecture in urban transformation and local development, and more recently on issues of urban planning and policy tools. He was visiting scholar at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. He is the author of Il Territorio dei Beni Culturali, Carocci, Rome, 2008, editor (with Mattias Legnér) of Cultural Quarters and Urban Transformation, Gotlandica Forlag, Visby, 2009, as well as author of several articles published in Italian and international scientific journals.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- Economic geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- cultuur --- culturele antropologie --- geografie

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This book discusses strategic spatial planning with emphasis on the role of values and cognitions dynamics within the planning-evaluation interplay. In the book, values and cognitions dynamics are investigated as crucial aspects of planning practices devoted to the development of strategic actions strictly linked to spatial contexts. Different methodologies and approaches are examined to support collaborative decision making and to manage comprehensive and participatory knowledge throughout strategic planning processes. The discussion is carried out from both theoretical and practical points of view. The book also dissects the multiple meanings of strategic planning and its implication in terms of mobilization and creation of values and knowledge. Critical issues are examined in relation to both the dynamics of negotiation and construction of diverse values and knowledge in planning processes, and in relation to some experiences carried out in different urban contexts.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- Economic geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- cultuur --- culturele antropologie --- geografie