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This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay neighborhoods. Social and cultural shifts within gay neighborhoods are used as a framework for understanding the decades-long struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and equality. Resulting from gentrification, weakening social stigma, and enhanced rights for LGBTQ+ people, gay neighborhoods have recently become “less gay,” following a 50-year period of resilience. Meanwhile, other neighborhoods are becoming “more gay,” due to changing preferences of LGBTQ+ individuals and a propensity for LGBTQ+ families to form community in areas away from established gayborhoods. The current ‘plateau’ in the evolution of gay neighborhoods is characterized by generational differences—between Baby Boom pioneers and Millennials who favour broad inclusivity—signaling various possible trajectories for the future ‘afterlife’ of these important LGBTQ+ urban spaces. The complicating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provides a point of comparison for lessons learned from gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ community that bravely endured the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines—including sociology, social work, anthropology, gender and sexuality, LGTBQ+ and queer studies, as well as urban geography, architecture, and city planning—and to policymakers and advocates concerned with LGBTQ+ rights and social justice.

Regional & area planning --- Gender studies, gender groups --- Agricultural economics --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning --- Gender and Sexuality --- Urban Economics --- Geography --- Gender Studies --- Regional and Spatial Economics --- LGBTQ --- Neighbourhood Planning --- Urban Change --- Generational Change --- Urban Planning --- Gentrification --- Open Access

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This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. With attention to both biological family relations as well as in-law and step-relations, it provides an overview of existing studies centred on intergenerational relations – particularly grandparenting – that incorporate social science and evolutionary family theories. This evolutionary social science approach to intergenerational family relations goes well beyond the traditional nature versus nurture distinction. As such, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines with interests in relations of kinship, the lifecourse and the sociology of the family.

Intergenerational relations. --- Families. --- Conflict of generations. --- Gap, Generation --- Generation gap --- Generational conflict --- Intergenerational conflict --- Generations --- Intergenerational relations --- Social conflict --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Family Relations

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Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe – ›spice‹ – is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually turns into a superhuman being. However, the novel is also rich of orientalist semiotics and relates to a sign system existent when Herbert wrote his book. Frank Jacob discusses these semiotics in detail and shows how much of »Lawrence of Arabia« is present in the story’s plot.

Semiotics. --- Orientalism. --- East and West --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Herbert, Frank. --- Lawrence of Arabia; Frank Herbert; Paul of Arrakis; Paul Atreides; colonialism; Dune; human collectivism; human-animal relations; T.E. Lawrence; political elitism; semiotics; science fiction; Denis Villeneuve; cross-generational audience; ecology; desert planet; religion; orientalism

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This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their construction is interdependent, the authors have each chosen a specific perspective on and framework for generations. Several studies take an interest in how and by whom generations are constructed, and how generational identity has been perceived and reshaped over time. Others use generation as a concept or an analytical tool with which to investigate different social processes, or as a community of experience and carrier of memory. The volume suggests novel and diverse approaches to the definition of generation and the formation of generational consciousness, as well as to generational theory.

Intergenerational relations --- Generations --- Estonia --- Social conditions --- Age groups --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Ėstonskai︠a︡ SSR --- Ėstonskai︠a︡ S.S.R. --- Estonskaya Sovetskaya Sot︠s︡ialisticheskaya Respublika --- Ėstonskai︠a︡ Sovetskaia Sot︠s︡ialisticheskaia Respublika --- Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic --- Estonskaya SSR --- Estonskaya S.S.R. --- Estonian SSR --- Estonian S.S.R. --- Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistik Vabariik --- ENSV --- E.N.S.V. --- Eesti --- Ėstonii︠a︡ --- Eesti Vabariik --- Esthonia --- Estland --- Eesti NSV --- Republic of Estonia --- Ehstland --- Esthland --- R.P.S.S. Estonia --- RPSS Estonia --- Estonija --- Ostland --- Ėstli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) --- Viro --- Эстония --- transition --- values --- memory --- generations --- generational identity --- generational patterns --- cohorts --- intergenerational relations --- Estonian language --- Estonians --- Soviet Union

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This book focuses on the contemporary challenges faced by rural areas across the globe. These include common efforts to address food production and security; engaging with climate change and the fundamental transformations in everyday practices that this requires; the exodus of young people from rural areas; an ageing farming population; and the growth of rural poverty. The common goal throughout is one of exploring ways in which environmental, economic and social goals need to be addressed in a cohesive way while being cognizant of the diversity of people, environments, economies and traditions that exist across rural space.

family farm --- ageing farmers --- retirement --- succession --- emotions --- decision making --- belonging --- respect --- rural sustainability --- Northern Ireland --- multi-scale scenarios --- participatory scenario planning --- social-ecological system --- poverty alleviation --- land use change --- nature’s contributions to people --- Mozambique --- organics --- viability farm collaboration --- rural exodus --- rural livelihood --- rural migration --- rural youth --- generational renewal --- sustainability --- education --- Hungary --- access to land --- farming traditions --- older farmers --- wellbeing --- identity --- social gerontology --- age-friendly environments --- innovation --- rural development --- quality of life --- migration balance --- Eastern Moravia --- cross-border projects --- smallholder farmer --- input sourcing --- Tanzania --- poverty reduction --- grounded theory --- rural agriculture --- Special Areas of Conservation --- designation --- results-based payments --- farmer participation --- n/a --- nature's contributions to people