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Narrating Contested Lives

Author : Katja Kurz
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 : 9783825363499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Contested Lives written by Katja Kurz and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the nascent field of interdisciplinary human rights studies, this volume explores activist autobiographies as collaborative projects within the context of human rights campaigns. It sheds light upon the intricate relationship between the aesthetics of generic framing and the ethics of discursive representation for stakeholder mobilization. Special attention is given to the geopolitical nexus that affects the collaboration between activists, co-authors, and corporate sponsors. 'Narrating Contested Lives' analyzes U.S.-based campaigns on women's, children's, and minority rights led by Waris Dirie, Fadumo Korn, Ishmael Beah, Emmanuel Jal, Somaly Mam, and Halima Bashir. Situated within the realm of Transnational American Studies, this study uncovers the geographical, linguistic, and ideological border crossings that these campaigns and their reception are embedded in.

Human Rights and Narrated Lives

Author : K. Schaffer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403973660
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Narrated Lives written by K. Schaffer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. These two contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights, literature and international politics, are commonly understood to operate on separate planes. This study however, examines the ways these intersecting realms unfold and are enfolded in one another in ways both productive of and problematic for the achievement of social justice. Human Rights and Narrated Lives explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received, and circulated in the field of human rights. It asks how personal narratives emerge in local settings; how international rights discourse enables and constrains individual and collective subjectivities in narration; how personal narratives circulate and take on new meanings in new contexts; and how and under what conditions they feed into, affect, and are affected by the reorganizations of politics in the post cold war, postcolonial, globalizing human rights contexts. To explore these intersections, the authors attend the production, circulation, reception, and affective currents of stories in action across local, national, transnational, and global arenas. They do so by looking at five case studies: in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation processes in South Africa; the National Inquiry into the Forced Removal of Indigenous Children from their Families in Australia; activism on behalf of former 'comfort women' from South/East Asia; U.S. prison activism; and democratic reforms in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China.

Contested Public Spheres

Author : Anna Spiegel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3531923714
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Contested Public Spheres written by Anna Spiegel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists 1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists: Experiencing and doing globalisation Going through the broad spectrum of globalisation research and literature, one might be astonished at how much it assumes the force of global change, and how little of this literature demonstrates this force in an empirically grounded way. This study, being based on six months of empirical research in Malaysia in 2004, sets out to counter this lack of thick description of globalisation processes. It takes up the challenge of researching the “global everyday” (Appadurai 2000, 18) of civil society actors in Malaysia and focuses on how social activists belonging to different branches of the women’s movement selectively app- priate, transform and even create global meanings and materialise them in local practices. The methodological endeavour of combining globalisation research and ethnography has been taken up by a diversity of authors. Burawoy and his research team have developed a complex methodological framework by focusing on the experiential dimensions of globalisation. They want to produce a “grounded globalisation” or “perspectives on globalisations from below” (Burawoy 2000b, 338, 341). This perspective is very fruitful, as the notion of experiencing globalisation as “forces, connections, and imaginations” (Burawoy et al. eds. 2000) relocates the global in the local and ties both together in mutual constitution.

Contested Lives

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520217357
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Contested Lives written by Faye D. Ginsburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time

Author : David Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time written by David Masson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time

Author : David Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by : David Masson

Download or read book The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time written by David Masson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of John Milton. Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time

Author : David Masson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385371821
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of John Milton. Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by : David Masson

Download or read book The Life of John Milton. Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time written by David Masson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649; Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time

Author : David Masson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387053827
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649; Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by : David Masson

Download or read book The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649; Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time written by David Masson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Narrating the Mesh

Author : Marco Caracciolo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813945844
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Narrating the Mesh written by Marco Caracciolo and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hierarchical model of human societies’ relations with the natural world is at the root of today’s climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton’s concept of the "mesh" as a metaphor for the human-nonhuman relationship in the face of climate change, Marco Caracciolo investigates how narratives in genres such as the novel and the short story employ formal devices to effectively channel the entanglement of human communities and nonhuman phenomena. How can narrative undermine linearity in order to reject notions of unlimited technological progress and economic growth? What does it mean to say that nonhuman materials and processes—from contaminated landscapes to natural evolution—can become characters in stories? And, conversely, how can narrative trace the rising awareness of climate change in the thick of human characters’ mental activities? These are some of the questions Narrating the Mesh addresses by engaging with contemporary works by Ted Chiang, Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Powers, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson, and many others. Entering interdisciplinary debates on narrative and the Anthropocene, this book explores how stories can bridge the gap between scientific models of the climate and the human-scale world of everyday experience, powerfully illustrating the complexity of the ecological crisis at multiple levels.

Narrating the City

Author : Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782387765
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Narrating the City written by Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul

Author : Asli Niyazioglu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317148126
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul written by Asli Niyazioglu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book demonstrates that dreams provided biographers not only with a means to form learned communities in a politically fragile landscape but also with a medium to debate the correct career paths and social networks in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Istanbul. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices of remembrance in Habsburg Spain, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ming China. Recent studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there is now a strong interest in comparative approaches to examining cultural life. This first English-language monograph on Ottoman dreamscapes addresses this interest and introduces a world where dreams changed lives, the dead appeared in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.

Postcolonial Life Narratives

Author : Gillian Whitlock
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
ISBN 13 : 0199560625
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Life Narratives written by Gillian Whitlock and published by Oxford Studies in Postcolonial. This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Life Narrative draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Palestine, North America, and India, this study follows texts on the move through adaptation, appropriation, and remediation. For postcolonial subjects life narrative offers extraordinary opportunities to present accounts of social injustice and oppression, of violence and social suffering. Testimonial narrative can reach across cultures to produce intimate attachments between those who testify and those who bear witness to legacies of apartheid, slavery, rape warfare, genocide, and dispossession. Thresholds of testimony are subject to change and for some, for example refugees and asylum seekers, opportunities to engage a witnessing public and inspire campaigns for social justice on their behalf are curtailed--these are the 'ends of testimony'. The production, circulation, and reception of testimonial life narrative connects directly to the most fundamental questions of who counts as human, what rights follow from this, and what makes for grievable life. Postcolonial life narrative is a dynamic field of literature and criticism, and this book presents a series of proximate readings that outline its distinctive imaginative geographies.

Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels

Author : Şemsettin Tabur
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527516946
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels written by Şemsettin Tabur and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the ways in which Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, and Carolyn See’s There Will Never Be Another You engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk. Building on a range of theoretical approaches to the production of space, this study argues for the significance of literature as a cartographic practice charting the intricacies of the socio-spatiality of human life. Through rigorous readings, this book examines each novel as a critical map that both represents and explores contested spaces and alternative spatial negotiations. These spatially oriented literary analyses contribute to recent conceptualizations of space as socially and relationally produced, open, dynamic, and contested, and enrich the existing scholarship on the novels discussed here.

Narrating Trauma

Author : Ronald Eyerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317255682
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Trauma written by Ronald Eyerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups often escape being categorised as perpetrators? These are just some of the important questions answered in this collection. Some of the cases analysed include Mao's China, the Holocaust, the Katyn Massacre and the Kosovo trauma. Expanding the pioneering cultural approach to trauma, this book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of sociology.

Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints

Author : Joanna Davidson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884885
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints written by Joanna Davidson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grapples with the potentials and limitations of illness narratives as diverse cultural perceptions probe into those stories from literary, textual, empirical, ethnographic, historical, and personal bases.

Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Author : Adriana Méndez Rodenas
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611485088
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America written by Adriana Méndez Rodenas and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political anarchy following the break from Spain and the rise of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806–82), Maria Graham (1785–1842), Flora Tristan (1803–44), Fredrika Bremer (1801–65), and Adela Breton (1849–1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America. Organized by themes rather than by individual authors, this book examines European women’s travels as a spectrum of narrative discourses, ranging from natural history, history, and ethnography. Women’s social condition becomes a focal point of their travels. By combining diverse genres and perspectives, women’s travel writing ushers a new vision of post-independence societies. The trope of pilgrimage conditions the female travel experience, which suggests both the meta-end of the journey as well as the broader cultural frame shaping their individual itineraries.

Author and Narrator

Author : Dorothee Birke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110384000
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Author and Narrator written by Dorothee Birke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinction between author and narrator is one of the cornerstones of narrative theory. In the past two decades, however, scope, implications and consequences of this distinction have become the subjects of debate. This volume offers contributions to these debates from different vantage points: literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, and media studies. It thus manifests the status of narrative theory as a transdisciplinary project.