Values and ideology in place descriptions in geography schoolbooks: the Israel case

Erdkunde ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoram Bar-Gal
Keyword(s):  
Place Descriptions

Locating place names from place descriptions

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 2509-2532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vasardani ◽  
Stephan Winter ◽  
Kai-Florian Richter
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Place Descriptions

scholarly journals A Graph Database Model for Knowledge Extracted from Place Descriptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Maria Vasardani ◽  
Stephan Winter ◽  
Martin Tomko
Keyword(s):  
Graph Database ◽  
Database Model ◽  
Place Descriptions

Notes on the Sweet Potato Pyralid Moth, Megastes grandalis, Guen

1926 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-372
Author(s):  
J. W. Cowland
Keyword(s):  
Sweet Potato ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Tropical Agriculture ◽  
Egg Parasite ◽  
Eating Out ◽  
Pyralid Moth ◽  
Place Descriptions ◽  
Larval Parasites

Megastes grandalis was first reported from Brazil ; there have been no other records until 1919, when it was reported from Trinidad as a serious pest during certain seasons of the year to the roots and tubers of the sweet potato. At present this is the only known food-plant.The eggs are laid two or three together in the axils of the leaf-petioles or on the underside of the leaf. The laxva at first feeds near the place where it hatches, then travels to the base of the stem and bores its way in, eating out tunnels through the roots and tubers, leaving the cortex untouched. It pupates in a silken cocoon near the surface. The moths live only a few days during which oviposition takes place. Descriptions of the immature stages are given. The writer obtained a Trichogramma egg parasite and Tachinid larval parasites.This work was undertaken at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, West Indies.The Imperial Bureau of Entomology kindly identified the parasites.

Place descriptions by landmarks

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sha Zhou ◽  
Stephan Winter ◽  
Maria Vasardani ◽  
Shunping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Place Descriptions

Landmark Extraction from Web-Harvested Place Descriptions

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junchul Kim ◽  
Maria Vasardani ◽  
Stephan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Place Descriptions

scholarly journals Metaphors of change

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Psychiatric Units ◽  
One Year ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Place Descriptions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how a study of a practice can lay the foundation to describe this very practice whilst transformations of it were taken place. Descriptions of changes to the practice of social work which was observed empirically serve as a starting point for experimenting with how social scientists, though often exploring transformative study objects, can remain focused on describing the object, under study. Design/methodology/approach The study was done through circa one year of fieldwork conducted with participant observation in two Danish municipal units offering services to socially marginalized people and interviews with social workers and employees in drug/alcohol treatment and psychiatric units. Findings The object of study within social sciences, though changing, is able to be described. Through the theories of “Social Navigation” (Vigh) and “Strategy and Tactics” (de Certeau), the practice of social work can be described as one concrete bounded practice but one which is performed within a transformative/changeable environment that are capable of influencing it. In this case, the experience of a changeable seascape might serve as a metaphor for how study objects change within an environment of change; how they can be viewed as “motion within motion” (Vigh). Originality/value Even though fields such as anthropology and organizational studies seem to rid themselves from their objects of study (culture and organization, respectively) and dissociate themselves from descriptions thereof these objects might still be of value to us. Even though the objects of study in postmodern anthropology and organizational studies are defined as unbounded, anti-essential, ephemeral, ever-changing non-objects, this might not be the entire picture. Despite their ever-changing shape, we might still be able to study and describe them if we take their changeable form and environment into account.

scholarly journals Geospatial Semantics Analysis of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau Based on Microblog Short Texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
Jun Xu ◽  
Lei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Beauty Salon ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
Related Language ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Place Descriptions

Place descriptions record qualitative information related to places and their spatial relationships; thus, the geospatial semantics of a place can be extracted from place descriptions. In this study, geotagged microblog short texts recorded in 2017 from the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province were used to extract the place semantics of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). ERNIE, a language representation model enhanced by knowledge, was employed to extract thematic topics from the microblog short texts, which were then geolocated and used to analyze the place semantics of the QTP. Considering the large number of microblogs published by tourists in both Qinghai and Tibet, we separated the texts into four datasets according to the user, i.e., local users in Tibet, tourists in Tibet, local users in Qinghai, and tourists in Qinghai, to explore the place semantics of the QTP from different perspectives. The results revealed clear spatial variability in the thematic topics. Tibet is characterized by travel- and scenery-related language, whereas Qinghai is characterized by emotion, work, and beauty salon-related language. The human cognition of place semantics differs between local residents and tourists, and with a greater difference between the two in Tibet than in Qinghai. Weibo texts also indicate that local residents and tourists are concerned with different aspects of the same thematic topics. The cities on the QTP can be classified into three groups according to their geospatial semantic components, i.e., tourism-focused, life-focused, and religion-focused cities.

scholarly journals On territorial images: Erewhon, or, chiastic desire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Douglas
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Benedict Anderson ◽  
Place Descriptions

This paper investigates the role of territorial images in the experiencing of place. It argues that there is no territory without repetition patterns that inscribe a semiotic generating images, a ‘picturing’ that is, in fact, pivotal to the possessive and demarking dynamic implicit in territorial assemblages. Drawing a link between Hans Blumenberg’s (1985) thinking on “existential anxiety” and its reworking of horizons of unknowing in myth and the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1987) on repetition patterning and the refrains of territoriality, the paper looks to modes of imagined place-solidarity emerging with the nation-state. Drawing on Andrea Mubi Brighenti’s (2010) call for an expanded territorology—itself drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987 & 1994) notions of territoriality—the paper emphasises the extent to which territory, more typically recognised as a spatial phenomenon, in fact, arises out of temporal and psychical geneses consolidating differences in modes of repetition—in the case of the nation-state, as Benedict Anderson (1991) has proposed, spanning commonly imagined daily routines, memorialising, and refashioned futures. In particular, the paper draws on the role of utopian discourse in the transition to Europe nationalism, and in turn, to the transmittal of utopian aspirations and imaginings to colonial places.  Central to the paper is a reading of Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, Or, Over the Range (1872/2013), a utopian satire set in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Southern Alps, a novel, in fact, influential to a range of writings by Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari. Developing links between the novel’s philosophical uptake; its deployment of topography and modes of imagining specific to Aotearoa/New Zealand; and Butler’s deployment of a Neoplatonist empiricism more broadly, the paper plays out the significance of what is nominated as chiastic desire (following insights by Ralf Norrman, 1986)—a criss-cross patterning that draws surface configurations (landscape picturing, textual place descriptions, topographical delineation, perceptual routines) into deeper questions of grounding, imagination, and the drawing of place sensibility out of the imperceptible.

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