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This chapter examines the writings of the renowned late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî, the first known traveller from his country to leave an account of European quarantine as experienced during his two diplomatic missions in Spain's Ceuta (1779) and Malta's Valletta (1782). It shows that quarantine, on the one hand, acted as a marker of otherness by which Ibn Othman was identified as a Muslim, though this was not a uniform process, owing to the fact that significant differences existed in the degree of alterity experienced in Spain and Malta, and indeed other parts of the Mediterranean. The subjective opinion on quarantine, on the other hand, was also one of the means through which Ibn Uthmân situated himself within Makhzen (Moroccan government) elites at a time when a division between those who declared themselves in favour of European-style modernisation and those who advocated a rejection of European novelties was already visible.

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De auteur van dit werk neemt je mee op een trip langs vijf smart-city-bestemmingen in Europa die hem tijdens verschillende bezoeken de afgelopen jaren sterk geboeid hebben. Hij toont hoe de steden het elk op hun manier hebben aangepakt, omdat deze plaatsen ook jou en jouw stad kunnen inspireren en veranderen. Geen van deze steden is de ultieme, of meest complete slimme stad. De ultieme slimme stad bestaat waarschijnlijk niet, maar de voorbeelden in dit boekje hebben wel allemaal een erg interessante invalshoek. Dit boekje wil een bron van ideeën zijn, maar het heeft ook de ambitie om je écht tot reizen aan te zetten. Smart-city-toerisme is booming business. Steeds meer beleidsmensen, bedrijfsleiders, creatievelingen en onderzoekers gaan op studietrip naar de toonaangevende smart cities. Een smart city moet je nu eenmaal zien om te weten of het werkt. Maar ook niet-specialisten kunnen hier wat aan hebben. Mensen reizen niet meer enkel naar New York of Amsterdam om er een lijstje bezienswaardigheden af te werken. Ze willen een stad ervaren die duurzaam, menselijk, sociaal, dynamisch, avontuurlijk en verbluffend is: allemaal eigenschappen van een geslaagde smart city. Misschien willen ze zich ook laven aan het gevoel dat zo?n slimme stad ook hun leven kan veranderen. Het doet hen dromen over wat de toekomst van hun eigen stad zou kunnen zijn.Bron: http://www.politeia.be/nl-be/book/5-x-smart-cities-een-reisgids-naar-de-slimme-stad-vub/15862.htm

Toerisme ; steden. --- Travel writing --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Steden --- Stadssamenleving --- Innovatie --- Duurzaamheid --- Kopenhagen --- Londen --- Rotterdam --- Barcelona --- Messina --- Stad

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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I, 'Departures', addresses key theoretical issues, topics, and themes. Part II, 'Performances', examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III, 'Peripheries' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.

Travelers' writing --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Travel writing --- Travel in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Travelers' writings --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History.

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When scholars of cultural studies consider representations of the land by British writers, the Romantic poets continue to dominate the enquiry, as though the period right before the intensification of the Industrial Revolution offers readers one last glimpse of untarnished nature. Denys Van Renen instead examines the British authors writing in the decades following the Restoration of Charles II, writers whose literary works re-animate and re-embody the land as a site of dynamic interactions, and, through this, reveal how various cultural systems and ecologies shape notions of self and national identity.Van Renen presents a rich and varied cultural history of ecological exchange-a history that begins in the 1660s, with Milton and Marvell's rejection of established Renaissance constructs, and ends with Defoe's Farther Adventures, in which the noise of the persistent howls of animals pierces human representational systems, arguing that British literature from 1665-1726 represents a cognitive symbiosis between human and non-human.As humans attempt to reduce the adverse effect of the Anthropocene, the author ultimately proposes that the aesthetics of British writers from the Restoration and early eighteenth century might be mobilized in order to rebind humans to their environs.

English literature --- Ecology in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1500-1700 --- British literature --- women's studies --- environmental studies --- travel writing

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The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.

Travelers' writings, English --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- English prose literature --- British --- Women authors, English --- Voyages and travels --- Travel writing --- Literary form --- History --- Travel. --- Travel --- Authorship --- Journeys --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips --- Geography --- Adventure and adventurers --- Travelers --- English women authors