whereness

(ˈwɛənəs)

the state of having a place; position

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Under these circumstances, we must give back to the contemporary man the dimension of relationing, of a face-to-face whereness with the other.

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Clearly the geographical 'whereness' of the initiative increased expectations for its success.

The global as a field: children's rights advocacy as a transnational practice

The South Island]." More interesting (given the tendency of New Zealanders to jibe about Australians), "Of the northerners who had not gone south, 58 percent had visited Australia, as had half the South Islanders who had not visited the North Island." (4) Hence, if the Suffi poet who wrote "Your real country is where you're heading, Not where you are" (5) is correct, then the "whereness" of New Zealand seems to be in transit.

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Physical things or places have ubiety, that is, "whereness." As a consequence of this characteristic, managing the congestion of physical resources sometimes resorts to approaches in which the resource use can be shared, with spatial or temporal segregation managing the signal congestion.

Mezey, Paradoxes', supra note 105, at 2009-12 (tracing the history of the legal concept of cultural property).) Rituals that are linked to specific sacred sites probably should also be thought of as another separate category of cultural property, because of their ubiety (whereness) through their association with place-specific sites.

Local public goods have whereness, that is, ubiety, because it is territorial jurisdictions that provide local public goods.

The cultural property claim within the same-sex marriage controversy

By coining the term "whereness," the author is able to provide the fundamentals for a new and comprehensive discipline that can be used to develop innovations in radio positioning, mapping and "geo-tagging." This book offers plenty of new ideas for engineers in the field of mobile communications.

Ubiquitous positioning

I have found it helpful to conceptualize this 'whereness' (following May's notion that asking a client where they are is more revealing than asking them how they are) in terms of 'research trajectory', by which I mean the angle at which the researcher enters into an explorative process.

Living me: some reflections on the experience of being diagnosed with a chronic 'psycho-somatic' illness