Author: Julie GrafPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Reconfiguring conversion
Author: Julie GrafEveryday Conversions
Author: Attiya AhmadPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082237322X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.
The Great Reconfiguration
Author: Frank W. GeelsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009198246
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Demonstrates a socio-technical reconfiguration approach to low-carbon system transitions for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Author: James LeachPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262525836
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
Upper Truckee River Restoration and Golf Course Reconfiguration Project
Author: FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Author: Edwin ShaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540366792
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2006, held in Seoul, Korea, August 2006. The book presents 113 revised full papers together with 3 keynote articles, organized in topical sections on power aware computing, security and fault tolerance, agent and distributed computing, wireless communications, real-time systems, embedded systems, multimedia and data management, mobile computing, network protocols, middleware and P2P, and more.
Digital Intermediates for Film and Video
Author: Jack JamesPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1136068309
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
The Digital Intermediate process (DI), or conversion of film to digital bits and then back to film again, has great potential to revolutionize the postproduction process. The skill set to photochemically process a movie and pop it into a canister for the postal service to send around to all of the movie houses and the skill set to digitally master and create a file that is distributed globally via the Internet and satellites are completely different. One of these entirely new processes is that of the digital intermediate. The DI has tremendous advantages, ranging from improved quality (first "print" is as good as the last) to cost savings (no re-mastering) to digital distribution (bits and bytes: no film in canisters). The DI influences everything from on set production to the delivery of content to consumers and everything in between. Digital Intermediates for Film and Video teaches the fundamental concepts and workflow of the digital intermediate process. Covers basics of film first, and then introduces the digital world--including a tutorial on digital images, asset management, online editing, color correction, restoration, film and video output, mastering and quality control. Jack's clear and easy-to-follow explainiation of Hollywood buzz words and components facilitates the spill over to anyone who has a vested interest in the quality and cost of the movie.
The Populist Radical Right
Author: Cas MuddePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315514567
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles. This is the first reader to bring together the most seminal articles and book chapters on the contemporary populist radical right in western democracies. It has a broad regional and topical focus and includes work that has made an original theoretical contribution to the field, which make them less time-specific. The reader is organized in six thematic sections: (1) ideology and issues; (2) parties, organizations, and subcultures; (3) leaders, members, and voters; (4) causes; (5) consequences; and (6) responses. Each section features a short introduction by the editor, which introduces and ties together the selected pieces and provides discussion questions and suggestions for further readings. The reader is ended with a conclusion in which the editor reflects on the future of the populist radical right in light of (more) recent political developments – most notably the Greek economic crisis and the refugee crisis – and suggest avenues for future research.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.