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Public (in)security: cartography of Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This study discusses the association between surveillance devices and public security production devices, producing (in)security as a result of multiple elements that are connected in socio-technical networks. It analyzes, therefore, some correlations between surveillance devices, practices and current concepts of public security related to crime control and prevention of violence. The high investments of public security agencies in ...
Alternatives to Cartography KU Leuven
In the 1980s generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this line of theorizing, which goes by the name of cartography, is that sentence structure can be represented as a template of linearly ordered positions, each with their own syntactic and ...
Migration Trail: Exploring the Interplay Between Data visualisation, Cartography and Fiction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This chapter focuses on the interplay between data visualisation, fiction and cartography in the context of migration. It revolves around a case study of Migration Trail, a website that attempts to provide an original portrayal of human mobility. First, it explores recent literature on each of the three elements interacting on the site. This is followed by an in-depth investigation of their interplay in the overall experience. The study employs ...
A critical cartography of domestic violence policies in Mozambique Ghent University
Background Domestic violence (DV) affects millions of people worldwide, especially women impacting their health status and livelihoods. To prevent DV and to improve the quality of victims' lives, Mozambican governmental and non-governmental entities are making efforts to develop adequate policies and legislation and to improve the accessibility of services for victims of DV. However, a critical review of whether or not current policies and ...
Refining the cartography of Chinese modal verbs Ghent University
Recent research developments in modern cartography in Europe Ghent University
Pleonastic tet in West Flemish and the cartography of subject positions Ghent University
The empirical focus of the chapter is pleonastic tet in the Lapscheure dialect. At first sight, tet looks like a third person neuter pronoun which functions as a pronominal doubling element in the subject doubling pattern. The chapter first recapitulates the arguments against treating tet as a subject doubler (Haegeman 1986, 1992, Haegeman and vandeVelde 2006). Distributionally, tet is shown to differ from strong/doubling subject pronouns, from ...