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Inhabiting an Embattled Body

Author : Jani de Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000826260
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Inhabiting an Embattled Body written by Jani de Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka’s Eelam Wars III and IV. It is based on the life-narratives of ex-servicemen who fought on the frontlines. The volume approaches militarism as a practice of masculinity. It explores the sense of embattlement that young recruits feel, which stems from the inner war between notions of bodily deference instilled in childhood and having to conduct offensives on the battlefield. Thus though they wish to move smoothly into the assault techniques learnt in combat-training, they sometimes find their bodies are acting-out a different trajectory; engaging in acts of spectacular violence or simply running away. It traverses themes such as masculinity and Sinhala society, British martial masculinity vs the composed body in Sinhala discourse, combat-training and the battlefield. The author traces the ways in which troops tried to negotiate the thin line between valour and violence in a context in which the enemy’s suicide fighters engaged in the more extreme code of sacrificing-the-body, which derided the very manliness of soldiers who couldn’t prevail against them. She argues that the Sri Lankan experience has resonance for soldiers on battlefields everywhere, who become embattled when confronted by adversaries whose practice seems to diminish their own manliness. Rich in ethnographical narratives, this book will be interest scholars and researchers of war studies, gender studies, masculinity studies, peace and conflict studies, ethnic studies, political science, international relations, sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies, especially those concerned with Sri Lanka.

Body Landscape Journals

Author : Margaret Somerville
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875559879
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Body Landscape Journals written by Margaret Somerville and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading this book is like falling through a faultline, as we respond to poesis, both as poetry and as thought creation. Margaret Somerville attended the 1984 Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp where urban women and Aboriginal women demonstrated against military bases. As she moved through the landscape of this and other very different places, she recorded her interactions: with Aboriginal women in the desert in the mountains and at home, and with white women in the tropics and at home. It is a thoughtful challenge of all that we think. She concludes with reflections on the architecture of love.

Embattled Identities

Author : Malavika Kasturi
Publisher : New Delhi : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Embattled Identities written by Malavika Kasturi and published by New Delhi : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Investigates How Rajput Kinship Structures And Caste Identities In Ninteenth Century North India Were Reconstituted In Response To Colonial Ideologies, Political Culture And Material Realities.

Passage to Manhattan

Author : Lopamudra Basu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443815497
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Passage to Manhattan written by Lopamudra Basu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander is a unique compendium of scholarship on South Asian American writer Meena Alexander, who is recognized as one of the most influential and innovative contemporary South Asian American poets. Her poetry, memoirs, and fiction occupy a unique locus at the intersection of postcolonial and US multicultural studies. This anthology examines the importance of her contribution to both fields. It is the first sustained analysis of the entire Alexander oeuvre, employing a diverse array of critical methodologies. Drawing on feminist, Marxist, cultural studies, trauma studies, contemporary poetics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, the collection features fifteen chapters and an Afterword, by well-established scholars of postcolonial and Asian American literature like Roshni Rustomji, May Joseph, Anindyo Roy, and Amritjit Singh, as well as by emerging scholars like Ronaldo Wilson, Parvinder Mehta, and Kazim Ali. The contributors offer insights on nearly all of Alexander’s major works, and the volume achieves a balance between Alexander’s diverse genres, covering the spectrum from early works like Nampally Road to her forthcoming book The Poetics of Dislocation. The essays engage with a variety of debates in postcolonial, feminist, and US multicultural studies, as well as providing many nuanced and detailed readings of Alexander’s mutli-layered texts.

The Life & Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been East on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself

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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Amelia and Me

Author : Melinda Hildebrandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994649102
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Amelia and Me written by Melinda Hildebrandt and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of a mother facing the many ups and downs of raising her deaf and autistic daughter Amelia. Together they approach life's challenges with humor, hope, compassion and love. This is an intensely private story told with brutal honesty; it is also a must-read for anyone who has walked a similar road to theirs.

Embattled Dreamlands

Author : David Leupold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000059715
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embattled Dreamlands written by David Leupold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 annual book award of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS). “David Leupold’s exceptional book explores the complex and contested Turkish, Kurdish, and Armenian visions of homeland in the greater Van region of contemporary Turkey. Through a layered analysis of collective violence, constructed national histories, and imagined homelands, Embattled Dreamlands demonstrates how violence and population displacement in the early 1900s produced homeland imaginaries and mutually exclusive interpretations of the past. Based on five years of ethnographic and historical research, Leupold’s rich tapestry of Ottoman and Soviet history, imagined geographies, and national narratives makes unique theoretical contributions to studies of collective memory and provides an insightful and impartial assessment of sectarian and national identities. The book invites us to evaluate critically and carefully our past and its impact on our contemporary imagined worlds.” Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia or Northern Kurdistan. Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space, it sheds light on the multi-layered memory landscape of the Lake Van region in Southeastern Turkey, where collective violence stretches back from the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish conflict of today. Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts. By looking at how national discourses are constructed and asking hard questions about why nations are imagined as exclusive and hostile to others, Embattled Dreamlands provides a unique insight into the development of national identity which will provide a great resource to students and researchers in sociology and history alike.

The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester

Author : John Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discipline and the Other Body

Author : Anupama Rao
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082238793X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Discipline and the Other Body written by Anupama Rao and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control colonial subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of difference—the “civilized” ruling the “uncivilized”—but colonial violence seemed to many the antithesis of civility, threatening to undermine the very distinction that validated its use. Violation of the bodies of colonial subjects regularly generated scandals, and eventually led to humanitarian initiatives, ultimately changing conceptions of “the human” and helping to constitute modern forms of human rights discourse. Colonial violence and discipline also played a crucial role in hardening modern categories of difference—race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. The contributors, who include both historians and anthropologists, address instances of colonial violence from the early modern period to the twentieth century and from Asia to Africa to North America. They consider diverse topics, from the interactions of race, law, and violence in colonial Louisiana to British attempts to regulate sex and marriage in the Indian army in the early nineteenth century. They examine the political dilemmas raised by the extensive use of torture in colonial India and the ways that British colonizers flogged Nigerians based on beliefs that different ethnic and religious affiliations corresponded to different degrees of social evolution and levels of susceptibility to physical pain. An essay on how contemporary Sufi healers deploy bodily violence to maintain sexual and religious hierarchies in postcolonial northern Nigeria makes it clear that the state is not the only enforcer of disciplinary regimes based on ideas of difference. Contributors. Laura Bear, Yvette Christiansë, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Dorothy Ko, Isaac Land, Susan O’Brien, Douglas M. Peers, Steven Pierce, Anupama Rao, Kerry Ward

Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester

Author : Chetham Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester written by Chetham Society and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James

Author : A. Kventsel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230206379
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James written by A. Kventsel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siècle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of the novels, Kventsel defines and explores their psycho-cultural field of meaning.

Fictions of Land and Flesh

Author : Mark Rifkin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005289
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Land and Flesh written by Mark Rifkin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. Against efforts to subsume varied forms of resistance into a single framework in the name of solidarity, Rifkin argues that Black and Indigenous political struggles are oriented in distinct ways, following their own lines of development and contestation. Rifkin suggests how movement between the two can be approached as something of a speculative leap in which the terms and dynamics of one are disoriented in the encounter with the other. Futurist fiction provides a compelling site for exploring such disjunctions. Through analyses of works by Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, Nalo Hopkinson, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, and others, the book illustrates how ideas about fungibility, fugitivity, carcerality, marronage, sovereignty, placemaking, and governance shape the ways Black and Indigenous intellectuals narrate the past, present, and future. In turning to speculative fiction, Rifkin illustrates how speculation as a process provides conceptual and ethical resources for recognizing difference while engaging across it.

Critical Issues in Electronic Media

Author : Simon Penny
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415818
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in Electronic Media written by Simon Penny and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Issues in Electronic Media is an interdisciplinary sourcebook that offers new critical perspectives directly related to, or arising from, the practice of electronic media art. It sketches the changing topology of culture as it enters electronic space and specifically addresses questions of art practice in that space. Some of the contributions focus on the dynamics of specific emerging media such as interactive media, while others look at the cultural conditions formed by, and forming around, new technological complexes. Still others examine contemporary technocultural manifestations against a background of social and technological history. The contributors are professionally and geographically diverse, representing professional fields such as computer graphics, video, sound, drama, and visual arts as well as media, cultural and literary theory, and the social sciences. Together, these essays provide a rich survey of contemporary technological critique and offer a perspective on creative practice in technological media.

Greenwich Village 1963

Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313915
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Greenwich Village 1963 written by Sally Banes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does not aim to document comprehensively the extraordinarily rich activity in New York City in the early 1960's. Instead, the author focuses on one year, 1963. This was the most productive year of the period 1958-64, the transition between the Fifties and Sixties. The author also focuses on one other place---Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. For it was primarily here, in a place already historically and culturally mythologized as avant-garde terrain, that the emerging generation of vanguard artists lived, worked, socialized, and remade the history of the avant-garde. - from the Introduction.

Maria Montessori's Spontaneous Activity in Education

Author : Maria Montessori
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528798511
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Maria Montessori's Spontaneous Activity in Education written by Maria Montessori and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is Dr. Maria Montessori’s study of education, with explanations of her philosophy of teaching and experimental scientific approach. Dr. Maria Montessori’s alternative method to early-years education is based on the natural development of children and encourages hands-on learning with access to the natural world. She shares her views on children’s imagination, intelligence, and behaviour while recommending the ideal learning environment and teaching exercises for the Montessori method. The chapters featured in this volume include: - A Survey of the Child's Life - A Survey of Modern Education - My Contribution to Experimental Science - The Preparation of the Teacher - Environment - Attention - Will - Intelligence - Imagination

Notes on the Churches of Lancashire

Author : Sir Stephen Richard Glynne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Churches of Lancashire written by Sir Stephen Richard Glynne and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-ninth report of the Council of the Chetham Society, appended.