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Sites of Contestation

Author : Julia Rensing
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3906927326
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Sites of Contestation written by Julia Rensing and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production.

Archives and Special Collections As Sites of Contestation

Author : Mary Kandiuk
Publisher : Library Juice Press
ISBN 13 : 9781634000628
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Archives and Special Collections As Sites of Contestation written by Mary Kandiuk and published by Library Juice Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays interrogates library practices relating to archives and special collections.

Performing Black Masculinity

Author : Bryant Keith Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759109292
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Performing Black Masculinity written by Bryant Keith Alexander and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents linked essays on the African American male experience.

The Englishized Subject

Author : Kwok-kan Tam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811325200
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Englishized Subject written by Kwok-kan Tam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers’/people’s subjectivity. Taking a cultural-literary approach to the study of Englishized subjectivity, the book offers a unique study of hybridized literary/language forms by relating them to bilingual thinking and bicultural sensibility. Poets, novelists and playwrights have different strategies to cope with new images and new forms of expression that can capture their sense of hybridized identity, and as a result, hybridity becomes creativity.

Contested Sites

Author : Paul A. Pickering
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351948970
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Contested Sites written by Paul A. Pickering and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols in public discourse, political monuments have received little attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender and power relations that determine what is remembered (or forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the relations that went into the making of public memory in modern Britain and its radical tradition.

A Contested Sight/site

Author : Kanchanakesi Channa Prajapati Warnapala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book A Contested Sight/site written by Kanchanakesi Channa Prajapati Warnapala and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road

Author : Susan L. Roberson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136888659
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road written by Susan L. Roberson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movement figured in autobiography, spiritual, and political narratives, and domestic novels by women as they constructed their own politics of mobility. These narratives by such women as Margaret Fuller, Susan Warner, and Harriet Beecher Stowe destabilize the male-dominated stories of American travel and nation-building as women claimed the public road as a domain in which they belonged, bringing with them their own ideas about mobility, self, and nation. The many women’s stories of mobility also destabilize a singular view of women’s history and broaden our outlook on geographic movement and its repercussions for other movements. Looking at texts not usually labeled travel writing, like the domestic novel, brings to light social relations enacted on the road and the relation between story, location, and mobility.

Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities

Author : Jayati Bhattacharya
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783084472
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities written by Jayati Bhattacharya and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.

Globalization

Author : Nicholas Sun-keung Pang
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629962685
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Globalization written by Nicholas Sun-keung Pang and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a group of international authors, this book attempts to examine the effects of globalization on educational policies and practices under the following themes: (1) the roles of educational research in the era of globalization and how comparative education can contribute to such investigation; (2) the relationships between the development of higher education and globalization in different countries; and (3) the impacts of globalization on school education and how schools can respond to the challenges ahead.

In Plain Sight

Author : Gaby Zipfel
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9385932926
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book In Plain Sight written by Gaby Zipfel and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid 1970s, at the peak of the women’s movement, feminist activism and research opened the door to questions that are still pressing today. While sexual violence has gained public awareness and become a subject in academic debate, efforts to understand and strategies to prevent this form of violence remain inadequate. Who are the perpetrators? How is sexual violence tied to other forms of violence? What are the consequences for individual victims and societies? Compiled by the International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’ (SVAC), this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding wartime sexual violence. Its enquiry employs four key relationships: War/Power, Violence/Sexuality, Gender/Engendering and Visibility/Invisibility. Through these, the authors identify gaps in existing knowledge to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the field. This volume is the result of long-standing cooperation. The International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’ (SVAC) is a network of interdisciplinary scholars and NGO experts founded in October 2010. Sociologists, philosophers, historians, literary and legal scholars as well as NGO professionals from Europe, the US, Asia and Africa bring together empirical and theoretical studies focusing on sexual violence in different theatres of armed conflict. The group compares source material and promotes the systematic development of research questions and methods.

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials

Author : Juilee Decker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000895947
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials written by Juilee Decker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the ways in which the past — which is given agency through monuments and memorials — intrudes into daily life, this volume offers perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war, power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works, and their visible representations of entitlement, possession, control, and authority, can offer the opportunity to pose and answer questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying cultural heritage, history, art history, and public history. It will be particularly useful to those with an interest in public monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory studies; and nationalism, race, and ethnic studies.

Governing the Sacred

Author : Yuval Jobani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190932384
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Governing the Sacred written by Yuval Jobani and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many others. They are often the source intractable long-standing conflicts and extreme violence. These difficulties are exemplified by the five sites profiled in Governing the Sacred Devils Tower National Monument (Wyoming, US), Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi (Uttar-Pradesh, India), the Western Wall (Jerusalem), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), and the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif (Jerusalem). Telling the fascinating stories of these high-profile contested sites, the authors develop and critically explore five different models of governing such sites: "non-interference," "separation and division," "preference," "status-quo," and "closure." Each model relies on different sets of considerations; central among them are trade-offs between religious liberty and social order. This novel typology aims to assist democratic governments in their attempt to secure public order and mutual toleration among opposed groups in contested sacred sites.

EDRA40

Author : Environmental Design Research Association. Conference
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0939922355
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book EDRA40 written by Environmental Design Research Association. Conference and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Enacting European Citizenship

Author : Engin F. Isin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033969
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Enacting European Citizenship written by Engin F. Isin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing character of European citizenship, focusing on 'acts' of citizenship.

Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes

Author : Charanpal Singh Bal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137548592
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes written by Charanpal Singh Bal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes the importance of production politics, or struggles in the workplace between workers and their employers, for understanding migrant labour regimes in Asia and the Gulf. Drawing from a study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore, as well as on comparative material in the region, Bal shows that migrant labour politics are significantly influenced by the specific form of production politics as well as their variable outcomes. In contrast to contentious politics approaches, this book sheds light on the extent to which migrant labour regimes can be contested by workers and civil society groups and explains the recent rise in migrant labour unrest in the region.

Women of the Wall

Author : Yuval Jobani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190689978
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Wall written by Yuval Jobani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled the scroll into the plaza, Sasha became the first woman to read from the Torah at the site. For more than twenty five years, the Women of the Wall have been waging a campaign to gain the Israeli government's permission to pray at the Western Wall. Despite widespread media coverage, this is the first comprehensive study of their struggle. Yuval Jobani and Nahshon Perez offer an in-depth analysis of the Women of the Wall's attempts to modify Jewish-orthodox mainstream religious practice from within and invest it with a new, egalitarian content. They present a comprehensive survey of the numerous legal rulings about the case and consider the broader political and social significance of the Women of the Wall's activism. In this way, Jobani and Perez are able to address broader issues of religion-state relations: How should governments manage religious plurality within their borders? How should governments respond to the requests of minorities that conflict with ostensibly mainstream interpretations of a given tradition? How should governments manage disputed sacred sites and spaces located in the public sphere? Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites offers a critical new look at theories of religion-state relations and a fresh examination of religious conflicts over sacred sites and public spaces.

The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives

Author : Rosie Harman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350159042
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives written by Rosie Harman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of Xenophon's historical narratives, the Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia. These texts depict conflicts between Greek states, conflicts between Greeks and non-Greeks, and relations between the elite individual and society. In all three texts, politically significant moments are imagined in visual terms. We witness spectacles of Spartan military victory, vistas of Asian landscape or displays of Persian imperial pomp, and historical protagonists are presented as spectators viewing and responding to events. Through this visual form of narration, the reader is encouraged imaginatively to place themselves in the position of the historical protagonists. In viewing events from different perspectives, and therefore occupying multiple, often conflicting political positions, the reader not only experiences the problems faced by historical actors, but becomes engaged in the political conflicts acted out in the narratives. The reader is prompted to take pleasure in the sight of Panhellenic achievement, but also to witness the divisions and conflicts between Greeks on class and ethnic lines. Similarly the reader is invited to identify with spectacular Greek and non-Greek figures of power as emblems of Greek imperial potential, but also to see through the eyes of those communities subjugated at their hands. The depiction of spectacles and spectators draws the reader into an active participation in the ideological contradictions of their time, in a period when Panhellenic aspiration co-existed with hegemonic competition between Greek states, and when Greeks could be both beneficiaries and victims of imperialism.