Bücher von Ger Duijzings

In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people's movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former 'socialist' modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.

The night has always and almost universally represented a special ¿out of the ordinary¿ temporal zone with its own meanings, possibilities, and dangers. It is only since the modern era that the night has become increasingly ¿normalised¿. Although 24/7 industrial production is often seen as a consequence of capitalist expansion, other political and economic regimes adopted the ¿night shift¿, normalising it as part of an alternative modernity.

This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective 'experiential learning' strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination.