This book, here displayed in an online format, explains what Quakers believe and how they practice their faith. The book is written by a committee of British Quakers, and therefore represents a more comprehensive view…
This academic paper begins by arguing that mainstream peace education focuses solely on the state level and is thus complicit in nation-building by perpetuating state-based values and norms. The paper goes on to detail…
This report adds to the literature on peace education by highlighting the importance of formal schools in providing knowledge and skills but also in shaping social and cultural values, norms, attitudes, dispositions,…
This book argues that spatial and temporal experiences of urban life have been fundamentally changed by the advent of digital media, and thus it is architecture and media flows that constitute the contemporary built…
This book theorizes that a post-industrial transformation is underway in which the citizen’s relationship to the contemporary city is being redefined by consumerism, instead of production. Miles emphasizes that the…
Written at the beginning of the pandemic, this article presents a framework of questions to guide future research on how Covid-19 has impacted the perception, use and design of public space. The authors hypothesize…
This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of the seminal scholarship on the concept of sense of place. Sense of place, i.e., the human relationship to a geographical site, not only plays a vital role…
This article discusses the character Beth March in Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women as well as Alcott’s sister, on whom Beth is based. It highlights the contrast between the events of the novel–Beth’s quiet…
This article is a personal essay on the power of storytelling in the face of violence, conflict, and grief. Author John Crowley, who is both an academic and a fiction author, specifically examines fantasy and escapism,…
This article interprets the “beach party films” of the late 1950s and early 1960s as rebellions against societal expectations and unrest. R. L. Rutsky argues that surfing films were inherently about nonconformity and a…