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Creativity from the Periphery

Author : Deepanwita Dasgupta
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298802X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Creativity from the Periphery written by Deepanwita Dasgupta and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is usually known by its most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Periphery draws our attention to unknown figures in science—those who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its practices. Researchers in early twentieth-century colonial India, for example, have made significant contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge and have provided science with new breakthroughs and novel ideas, but to little acclaim. As Deepanwita Dasgupta argues, sometimes the best ideas in science are born from difficult and resource-poor conditions. In this study, she turns our attention to these peripheral actors, shedding new light on how scientific creativity operates in lesser-known, marginalized contexts, and how the work of self-trained researchers, though largely ignored , has contributed to important conceptual shifts. Her book presents a new philosophical framework for understanding this peripheral creativity in science through the lens of trading zones—where knowledge is exchanged between two unequal communities—and explores the implications for the future diversity of transnational science.

The Peripheral

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0425276236
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Peripheral written by William Gibson and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2014.

The Cold War on the Periphery

Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231514675
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War on the Periphery written by Robert J. McMahon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the two tumultuous decades framed by Indian independence in 1947 and the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, The Cold War on the Periphery explores the evolution of American policy toward the subcontinent. McMahon analyzes the motivations behind America's pursuit of Pakistan and India as strategic Cold War prizes. He also examines the profound consequences—for U.S. regional and global foreign policy and for South Asian stability—of America's complex political, military, and economic commitments on the subcontinent. McMahon argues that the Pakistani-American alliance, consummated in 1954, was a monumental strategic blunder. Secured primarily to bolster the defense perimeter in the Middle East, the alliance increased Indo-Pakistani hostility, undermined regional stability, and led India to seek closer ties with the Soviet Union. Through his examination of the volatile region across four presidencies, McMahon reveals the American strategic vision to have been "surprinsgly ill defined, inconsistent, and even contradictory" because of its exaggerated anxiety about the Soviet threat and America's failure to incorporate the interests and concerns of developing nations into foreign policy. The Cold War on the Periphery addresses fundamental questions about the global reach of postwar American foreign policy. Why, McMahon asks, did areas possessing few of the essential prerequisites of economic-military power become objects of intense concern for the United States? How did the national security interests of the United States become so expansive that they extended far beyond the industrial core nations of Western Europe and East Asia to embrace nations on the Third World periphery? And what combination of economic, political, and ideological variables best explain the motives that led the United States to seek friends and allies in virtually every corner of the planet? McMahon's lucid analysis of Indo-Pakistani-Americna relations powerfully reveals how U.S. policy was driven, as he puts it, "by a series of amorphous—and largely illusory—military, strategic, and psychological fears" about American vulnerability that not only wasted American resources but also plunged South Asia into the vortex of the Cold War.

Protecting the Periphery

Author : Susan Baker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714645841
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Protecting the Periphery written by Susan Baker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Pathways from the Periphery

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Pathways from the Periphery written by Stephan Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Centring the Periphery

Author : Patrick L. Baker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773511347
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Centring the Periphery written by Patrick L. Baker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Baker's post-modern approach uses ideas from chaos theory and world systems theory to interpret the prehistory and history of Dominica. During its prehistory Dominica served as an occasional stepping-stone for small-scale, independent foraging and horticultural peoples migrating up the Antillean arc to the larger islands in the north. Its discovery by Europeans brought it into a social and economic constellation that was constructed and orchestrated largely from the metropolitan centre. Centring the Periphery is the unfolding story of the struggle of the Dominican people to create and order a world that is controlled from outside.

Cinema at the Periphery

Author : Dina Iordanova
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814336949
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Cinema at the Periphery written by Dina Iordanova and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin—exploring faraway places, interacting with barely known peoples, and making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions no longer function as firmly fixed grid coordinates, the hierarchical position of place as "center" is subverted, and new forms of representation become possible. In Cinema at the Periphery, editors Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal assemble criticism that explores issues of the periphery, including questions of transnationality, place, space, passage, and migration. Cinema at the Periphery examines the periphery in terms of locations, practices, methods, and themes. It includes geographic case studies of small national cinemas located at the global margins, like New Zealand and Scotland, but also of filmmaking that comes from peripheral cultures, like Palestinian "stateless" cinema, Australian Aboriginal films, and cinema from Quebec. Therefore, the volume is divided into two key areas: industries and markets on the one hand, and identities and histories on the other. Yet as a whole, the contributors illustrate that the concept of "periphery" is not fixed but is always changing according to patterns of industry, ideology, and taste. Cinema at the Periphery highlights the inextricable interrelationship that exists between production modes and circulation channels and the emerging narratives of histories and identities they enable. In the present era of globalization, this timely examination of the periphery will interest teachers and students of film and media studies.

On the Periphery of the Periphery

Author : Samuel Sweitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461414962
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book On the Periphery of the Periphery written by Samuel Sweitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines from an archaeological perspective the social and economic changes that took place in Yucatán, Mexico beginning in the 18th century, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange. Of particular interest is the formation and ultimate supremacy of the hacienda system in Yucatán and the effect that new forms of capitalist organized production had on native Maya social organization. Household archaeology and spatial analysis conducted on the grounds of the former Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi provides the data for analyzing the results of this change on the daily lives and existence of those individuals incorporated within the hacienda system. The use of archaeological excavation to place the lives of local individuals within the context of larger global processes makes this book a worthy contribution to the study of archaeology.

Voices from the Periphery

Author : Marine Carrin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000365697
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Periphery written by Marine Carrin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the perspectives of low castes, tribes, or other subalterns in a way that amplifies their ability to voice their own concerns. This volume takes a multidimensional perspective, citing political, economic and cultural factors as expressions of the autonomous assertions of these groups. Questioning the exclusive definitions of the Brahmanical, folk and tribal elements, the articles bring together the empowering possibilities enabled by three recent theoretical developments: of anthropologies questioning the fringes of mainstream society in India; critically engaged histories from below, which problematize subaltern identities; and a conceptual emphasis on everyday ethnography as an arena for negotiations and transactions which contest wider networks of power and hegemony. This book will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, politics, history, study of religions, minority studies, cultural studies and those interested in social development, and issues of marginality, tribes and subaltern identity.

Foreign Policy at the Periphery

Author : Bevan Sewell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081316849X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy at the Periphery written by Bevan Sewell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked and decolonizing states such as Vietnam, India, and Egypt assumed a central role in the ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. As the twentieth century came to an end, many of the challenges of the Cold War became even more complex as the Soviet Union collapsed and new threats arose. Featuring original essays by leading scholars, Foreign Policy at the Periphery examines relationships among new nations and the United States from the end of the Second World War through the global war on terror. Rather than reassessing familiar flashpoints of US foreign policy, the contributors explore neglected but significant developments such as the efforts of evangelical missionaries in the Congo, the 1958 stabilization agreement with Argentina, Henry Kissinger's policies toward Latin America during the 1970s, and the financing of terrorism in Libya via petrodollars. Blending new, internationalist approaches to diplomatic history with newly released archival materials, Foreign Policy at the Periphery brings together diverse strands of scholarship to address compelling issues in modern world history.

Arming the Periphery

Author : E. Chew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137006609
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Arming the Periphery written by E. Chew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).

Playing on the Periphery

Author : Tara Brabazon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113418638X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Playing on the Periphery written by Tara Brabazon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very distinctive text that will stand out from the standard, more staid works in sport studies. This is a sophisticated text that will appeal to the maturing readership in the area looking for new perspectives on sport. Tara Brabazon is very well known in Australia, both in academia and as a journalist. Other texts in this area are all edited collections.

Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action

Author : Navid Hassanpour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108165885
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action written by Navid Hassanpour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often, but when they do happen, they tend to be the least expected. Based on the paradigm of 'leading from the periphery', this groundbreaking analysis offers an explanation for such spontaneity and apparent lack of leadership in contentious collective action. Contrary to existing theories, the author argues that network effects in collective action originating from marginal leaders can benefit from a total lack of communication. Such network effects persist in isolated islands of contention instead of overarching action cascades, and are shown to escalate in globally dispersed, but locally concentrated networks of contention. This is a trait that can empower marginal leaders and set forth social dynamics distinct from those originating in the limelight. Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action provides evidence from two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioral experiments of collective risk-taking in social networks.

Politics on the Periphery

Author : George R. Lamplugh
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874132885
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Politics on the Periphery written by George R. Lamplugh and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By considering in detail ideology, sectionalism, social tensions, personalities, and land hunger as factors in Georgia politics, this study sheds new light on party formation in the early American republic. Illustrated.

Online Journalism from the Periphery

Author : Scott A. Eldridge II
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317370058
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Online Journalism from the Periphery written by Scott A. Eldridge II and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Journalism from the Periphery looks at how a range of new media actors, communicating online, have challenged us to think differently about the journalistic field. Emerging from the disruption of digital technology, these new actors have been met with resistance by an existing core of journalism, who perceive them as part of a ‘digital threat’ and dismiss their claims of journalistic belonging. As a result, cracks are appearing in the conceptual foundations of what journalism is and should be. Applying field theory as a conceptual lens, Scott Eldridge guides the reader through the intricacies of these tensions at both the core and periphery. By first unpacking definitions of journalism as a social and cultural construction, this book explores how these are dominated by narratives which have reinforced a limited set of expectations about its purpose and reach. The book goes on to examine how these narratives have been significantly undermined by the output of major new media players, including Gawker, reddit, Breitbart, and WikiLeaks. Online Journalism from the Periphery argues for a broadening of ideas around what constitutes journalism in the modern world, concluding with alternative approaches to evaluating the contributions of emerging media heavy-weights to society and to journalism.

The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery Since 1871

Author : Kevin H. O'Rourke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753640
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery Since 1871 written by Kevin H. O'Rourke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Ever since the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, industrialization has been the key to modern economic growth. The fact that modern industry originated in Britain, and spread initially to north-western Europe and North America, implied a dramatic divergence in living standards between the industrial North (or West) and a non-industrial, or even de-industrializing, South (or Rest). This nineteenth-century divergence, which had profound economic, military, and geopolitical implications, has been studied in great detail by many economists and historians. Today, this divergence between the West and the Rest is visibly unraveling, as economies in Asia, Latin America and even sub-Saharan Africa converge on the rich economies of Europe and North America. This phenomenon, which is set to define the twenty-first century, both economically and politically, has also been the subject of a considerable amount of research. Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This volume fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery. It identifies the timing of this convergence, finding that this was fastest in the interwar and post-World War II years, not the more recent miracle growth years. It also identifies which driving forces were common to all periphery countries, and which were not.

Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery

Author : Sender Dovchin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351685333
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery written by Sender Dovchin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title seeks to show how people are embedded culturally, socially and linguistically in a certain peripheral geographical location, yet are also able to roam widely in their use and takeup of a variety of linguistic and cultural resources. Drawing on data examples obtained from ethnographic fieldwork trips in Mongolia, a country located geographically, politically and economically on the Asian periphery, this book presents an example of how peripheral contexts should be seen as crucial sites for understanding the current sociolinguistics of globalization. Dovchin brings together several themes of wide contemporary interest, including sociolinguistic diversity in the context of popular culture and media in a globalized world (with a particular focus on popular music), and transnational flows of linguistic and cultural resources, to argue that the role of English and other languages in the local language practices of young musicians in Mongolia should be understood as "linguascapes." This notion of linguascapes adds new levels of analysis to common approaches to sociolinguistics of globalization, offering researchers new complex perspectives of linguistic diversity in the increasingly globalized world.