E-book Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

For centuries, the Mosque of Eyu?p Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Timur Hammond argues here, however, that making a geography of Islam involves considerably more. Following practices of storytelling and bui…

E-book Misreading the Bengal Delta : Climate Change, Development, and Livelih…

n , climate-related overseas development assistance totaled US. billion globally, up from US. billion in . In order for countries and NGOs to access this funding, climate change adaptation or mitigation must be a princi-pal or signicant goal of development interventions (Donor Tracker ). e Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ranks Bangladesh as one of the mo…

E-book The Lion That Didn't Roar

To better understand why the NGOs walked out of the meeting on that day, it is necessary to understand the nature of the Kimberley Process, an organisation that was established to tackle the issue of conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds. Blood diamonds constitute a segment of the rough diamond trade that is linked to egregious …

E-book Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity

Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity offers an intellectual history of humanity as a geological force, focusing on a prevalent contradiction in the Anthropocene discourse on global environmental change: on the one hand, it has been argued that there are hardly any pristine environments anymore, to the degree that the concept of nature has lost its meaning; while on the other, t…

E-Book Art, Play, Labour: the Music Profession in Germany (1850–1960)

Germany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad mass of musicians who sat in orchestra pits, played in ensembles for dances or provided the musical background in silent movie theatres. Martin Rempe traces their lives and …

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