Quaker Faith & Practice
The Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. 2013. 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,…
Tag: Everyday Peace
Transrational Peacebuilding Education to Reduce Epistemic Violence
Cremin, Hilary, Josefina EchavarrÍa, and Kevin Kester. 2018. Peace Review 30 (3):295-302 This academic paper begins by arguing that mainstream peace education focuses solely on the state level and is thus complicit in…
Peace Education in Formal Schools: Why is it Important and How Can it be Done?
Brooks, Caroline, and Basma Hajir. 2020. International Alert 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…
The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space
McQuire, Scott. SAGE Publications, 2008. Google Books. 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…
Spaces for Consumption
Miles, Steven. SAGE Publications, 2010. VLeBooks. 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,…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: An Early Review of the Emerging Questions – Design, Perceptions and Inequities
Jordi Honey-Rosés et al., Cities & Health 5, sup1, (2021): S263-S279. 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…
The Concept of Place and Sense of Place in Architectural Studies
Najafi, Mina, and Mustafa Kamal Bin Mohd Shariff. International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 5, no. 8 (2011): 1054-1060. This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of the seminal…
The Real Tragedy of Beth March
Machado, Carmen Maria. The Paris Review, August 29, 2019. 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…
Practicing the Arts of Peace
Crowley, John. Conjunctions no. 46 (2006): 213-230. 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…
Surfing the Other: Ideology on the Beach
Rutsky, R. L. Film Quarterly 52, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 12-23. 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…