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Defiant Bodies

Author : Nikoli A. Attai
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978830378
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Defiant Bodies written by Nikoli A. Attai and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region’s engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing “on the ground” and creating transgressive communities within the region.

Defiant Bodies

Author : Nikoli Adrian Attai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978830394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Activism and Agency in India

Author : Supurna Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351972898
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Activism and Agency in India written by Supurna Banerjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence. This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on the lived experiences of the workers from the perspective of their multiple identities, the author uses the everyday as the entry point for understanding the exercise of agency, the negotiation of different spaces, gender roles and norms therein, as well as acts of protest. Agency and its relation to space are seen as continuums: from their everyday, hidden forms to the more overt and spectacular; from conformity and endurance to challenge and protest. Offering an understanding of the gendered nature of space and labour, this book examines the post-crisis period by mapping the workers’ narratives about their lived experiences and struggles in the times of economic, political and social tumult in the tea plantations of northern West Bengal. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience interested in Development Studies, Gender Studies, South Asian Studies, Social Activism and Labour Studies.

The International Politics of Fashion

Author : Andreas Behnke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317656237
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The International Politics of Fashion written by Andreas Behnke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the aesthetic turn in IR, critical and ‘postmodern’ IR has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate, and represent international politics. By contrast, the proponents of the aesthetic turn have overlooked fashion as a source of knowledge about global politics. Yet stories about the political role of fashion abound in the news media. Margaret Thatcher used dress to define her political image, and more recently the fascination with Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni and other women in similar positions, and the discussions about the appropriateness of their wardrobes, regularly makes the news. In Sudan, a female writer and activist successfully challenged the government over her right to wear trousers in public and in Europe, the debate on women’s headscarves has politicised a garment item and turned it into a symbol of fundamentalism and oppression. In response, the contributors to this book investigate the politics of fashion from a variety of perspectives, addressing theoretical as well as empirical issues, establishing the critical study of fashion and its protagonists as a central contribution to the aesthetic turn in international politics. The politics of fashion go beyond these examples of the uses and abuses of textiles and fabrics for political purposes, extending into its very ‘grammar’ and vocabulary. This book will be a unique contribution to the field and will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, critical IR theory and popular culture and world politics.

Yoga Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty.

The Red Badge of Courage. An Episode of the American Civil War. Introduction by Joseph Katz.

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Red Badge of Courage. An Episode of the American Civil War. Introduction by Joseph Katz. written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Red Badge of Courage

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Badge of Courage written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The red badge of courage and The veteran

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The red badge of courage and The veteran written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Work of Stephen Crane

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Work of Stephen Crane written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1: Red badge of courage ; The veteran.

The Red Badge of Courage

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398837040
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Red Badge of Courage written by Stephen Crane and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Badge of Courage has long been regarded a treasure in American literature. Published in 1895, the book follows young Henry Fleming as he sets out to fight with the Union Army in the Civil War. However, upon seeing the horrors of the battlefield, Fleming's initial enthusiasm and desire for glory soon turns to fear and terror. Brimming with brave action and bloody conflict, The Red Badge of Courage captures the raw emotions felt by the soldiers facing violence and death. This story is one of finding courage in the face of unspeakable horrors.

Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Author : Robert Spencer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030665569
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel written by Robert Spencer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the ‘neoliberal’ period after the 1970s as an effective ‘recolonization’ of Africa by Western states and international financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa’s continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy.

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America

Author : Elena Shtromberg
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606067915
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Encounters in Video Art in Latin America written by Elena Shtromberg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s. The emergence of video art in Latin America is marked by multiple points of development, across more than a dozen artistic centers, over a period of more than twenty-five years. When first introduced during the 1960s, video was seen as empowering: the portability of early equipment and the possibility of instant playback allowed artists to challenge and at times subvert the mainstream media. Video art in Latin America was—and still is—closely related to the desire for social change. Themes related to gender, ethnic, and racial identity as well as the consequences of social inequality and ecological disasters have been fundamental to many artists’ practices. This compendium explores the history and current state of artistic experimentation with video throughout Latin America. Departing from the relatively small body of existing scholarship in English, much of which focuses on individual countries, this volume approaches the topic thematically, positioning video artworks from different periods and regions throughout Latin America in dialogue with each other. Organized in four broad sections—Encounters, Networks and Archives, Memory and Crisis, and Indigenous Perspectives—the book’s essays and interviews encourage readers to examine the medium of video across varied chronologies and geographies.

Peter's Pedigree

Author : Dorothea Conyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Peter's Pedigree written by Dorothea Conyers and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Word for Woman Is Wilderness

Author : Abi Andrews
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 1937512800
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Word for Woman Is Wilderness written by Abi Andrews and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN EDITION "Beguiling, audacious... rises to its own challenges in engaging intellectually as well as wholeheartedly with its questions about gender, genre and the concept of wilderness. The novel displays wide reading, clever writing and amusing dialogue." —The Guardian This is a new kind of nature writing — one that crosses fiction with science writing and puts gender politics at the center of the landscape. Erin, a 19-year-old girl from middle England, is travelling to Alaska on a journey that takes her through Iceland, Greenland, and across Canada. She is making a documentary about how men are allowed to express this kind of individualism and personal freedom more than women are, based on masculinist ideas of survivalism and the shunning of society: the “Mountain Man.” She plans to culminate her journey with an experiment: living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, a la Thoreau, to explore it from a feminist perspective. The book is a fictional time capsule curated by Erin, comprising of personal narrative, fact, anecdote, images and maps, on subjects as diverse as The Golden Records, Voyager 1, the moon landings, the appropriation of Native land and culture, Rachel Carson, The Order of The Dolphin, The Doomsday Clock, Ted Kaczynski, Valentina Tereshkova, Jack London, Thoreau, Darwin, Nuclear war, The Letters of Last Resort and the pill, amongst many other topics. "Refreshingly outward-looking in a literary culture that turns ever inward to the self, although it still has profound moments of introspection. Uplifting, with a thirsty curiosity, the writing is playful and exuberant. Riffing on feminist ideas but unlimited in scope, Andrews focuses our attention on our beautiful, doomed planet, and the astonishing things we have yet to discover." —Ruth McKee, The Irish Times

Einstein Defiant

Author : Edmund Blair Bolles
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
ISBN 13 : 0309096170
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Einstein Defiant written by Edmund Blair Bolles and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 2004-05-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist." -Albert Einstein A scandal hovers over the history of 20th century physics. Albert Einstein-the century's greatest physicist-was never able to come to terms with quantum mechanics, the century's greatest theoretical achievement. For physicists who routinely use both quantum laws and Einstein's ideas, this contradiction can be almost too embarrassing to dwell on. Yet Einstein was one of the founders of quantum physics and he spent many years preaching the quantum's importance and its revolutionary nature. The Danish genius Neils Bohr was another founder of quantum physics. He had managed to solve one of the few physics problems that Einstein ever shied away from, linking quantum mathematics with a new model of the atom. This leap immediately yielded results that explained electron behavior and the periodic table of the elements. Despite their mutual appreciation of the quantum's importance, these two giants of modern physics never agreed on the fundamentals of their work. In fact, they clashed repeatedly throughout the 1920s, arguing first over Einstein's theory of "light quanta"(photons), then over Niels Bohr's short-lived theory that denied the conservation of energy at the quantum level, and climactically over the new quantum mechanics that Bohr enthusiastically embraced and Einstein stubbornly defied. This contest of visions stripped the scientific imagination naked. Einstein was a staunch realist, demanding to know the physical reasons behind physical events. At odds with this approach was Bohr's more pragmatic perspective that favored theories that worked, even if he might not have a corresponding explanation of the underlying reality. Powerful and illuminating, Einstein Defiant is the first book to capture the soul and the science that inspired this dramatic duel, revealing the personalities and the passions-and, in the end, what was at stake for the world.

Defiant Joy

Author : Stasi Eldredge
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 140020870X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Defiant Joy written by Stasi Eldredge and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all spend a lot of energy reaching for happiness, but we're never quite able to hang on to it. Real life happens, and our circumstances take us on an emotional rollercoaster. Oftentimes, the Bible's call to "be joyful always" seems out of reach--but it doesn't have to be. We are called to live. And, miraculously, to live with joy. Join bestselling author Stasi Eldredge as she shows us how to choose a joy that stands against the tides of life's real and often overwhelming pain. Defiant Joy reminds us that a joy that is defiant in the face of this broken world was meant to be ours. This joy isn't simply happiness on steroids, it's the unyielding belief that sorrow and loss do not have the final say. It's the stubborn determination to be present in whatever may come and interpret both goodness and grief by the light of heaven. Defiant Joy will give you the encouragement you need to: Finally experience daily joy Learn how to have a posture of holy defiance when circumstances threaten to weigh down your soul Find new perspectives on the painful circumstances you've faced In Defiant Joy, Stasi invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness, leading the way as we learn how to maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares to live with expectant, unwavering hope.

Tales Of The Civil War

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443437271
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Tales Of The Civil War written by Various Authors and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitting brother against brother, and friend against friend, the American Civil War eradicated a way of life and cost the nation its innocence. Experience the Civil War from the front lines and from the home front in these classics tales that include "Marse Chan" by Thomas Nelson Page, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.