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Uneasy Encounters

Author : Iris Borowy
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631578032
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Uneasy Encounters written by Iris Borowy and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early twentieth century China went through a tumultuous period, marked by the end of an ancient monarchy, political instability and profound cultural upheaval. The medical discourse both reflected and contributed to these transformations. Western medicine arrived in China as part of missionary, foreign imperialist and internal modernization efforts. In various ways it interacted with Chinese practices and belief systems. The contributions in this volume explore important episodes of this multi-faceted process, describing key institutions, personalities and their respective motives and interests. Collectively, the chapters reveal a complex web of interlocking dimensions, which evade simple categorizations of Western or Chinese, exploitive or supportive, traditional or modern.

Uneasy Encounters

Author : Magdaléna Rychetská
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811918902
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Uneasy Encounters written by Magdaléna Rychetská and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers. The book explores the political and social cooperation and negotiations of two particular Christian groups in their respective and distinct settings: the open sector of the Catholic Church in the communist People’s Republic on mainland China from 1945 to the present day, and the Presbyterian church of Taiwan in the Republic of China in Taiwan during the period of martial law from 1949 to 1987. Rather than simply confirm the ‘domination-resistance’ model of church–state relations, the book focuses on the various approaches adopted by religious groups during the process of negotiation. In an authoritative Chinese environment, religious specialists face two related pressures: the demands of their authoritarian rulers and social pressure requiring them to assimilate to the local culture. The book uses two case studies to support a wider theory of economic approach to religion.

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

Author : John Langan
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809572494
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters written by John Langan and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.

Uneasy Military Encounters

Author : Ruth Streicher
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501751352
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Uneasy Military Encounters written by Ruth Streicher and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority. Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized, religious, and gendered other of the Thai, which contributes to producing Thailand as an imperial formation: a state formation based on essentialized difference between the Thai and their others. Through a genealogical approach, Uneasy Military Encounters addresses broad conceptual questions of imperial politics in a non-Western context: How can we understand imperial policing in a country that was never colonized? How is "Islam" constructed in a state that is officially secular and promotes Buddhist tolerance? What are the (historical) dynamics of imperial patriarchy in a context internationally known for its gender pluralism? The resulting ethnography excavates the imperial politics of concrete encounters between the military and the southern population in the ongoing conflict in southern Thailand.

The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian

Author : Clifford Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666730785
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian written by Clifford Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do White people bear moral responsibility for racial disparities? Are White Christians under a spiritual mandate to make racial equity a priority? Clifford Williams taught philosophy at Christian colleges for many years, including a course on race. He has journeyed alongside students as they gained insights about racism. In this book, he draws from deeply personal stories as he shows the need for White Christians to recognize the impact of racism and to cultivate key character traits which enable them to pursue racial equity. In succinct and thoughtful prose, interwoven with first-person accounts of racialized experiences by people of color, Williams describes the importance of the Golden Rule, the power and effects of racial socialization, and the harm racism does to those who harbor it. He asks the haunting question, “Why do White people react so strongly to Black power?” He explains why widespread church integration in the United States may never exist. He unpacks the concept of White identity and links police brutality to faulty moral perception. This book gently explains what White Christians need to do to make racial equity a priority.

All Those Strangers

Author : Douglas Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199384150
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book All Those Strangers written by Douglas Field and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in the life of a man who described himself as "all those strangers called Jimmy Baldwin" and who declared that "all theories are suspect." Viewing Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach, All Those Strangers examines how his fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. Showing how external forces molded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development, Douglas Field breaks through the established critical difficulties caused by Baldwin's geographical, ideological, and artistic multiplicity by analyzing his life and work against the radically transformative politics of his time. The book explores under-researched areas in Baldwin's life and work, including his relationship to the Left, his FBI files, and the significance of Africa in his writing, while also contributing to wider discussions about postwar US culture. Field deftly navigates key twentieth-century themes-the Cold War, African American literary history, conflicts between spirituality and organized religion, and transnationalism-to bring a number of isolated subjects into dialogue with each other. By exploring the paradoxes in Baldwin's development as a writer, rather than trying to fix his life and work into a single framework, All Those Strangers contradicts the accepted critical paradigm that Baldwin's life and work are too ambiguous to make sense of. By studying him as an individual and an artist in flux, Field reveals the manifold ways in which Baldwin's work develops and coheres.

Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

Author : Michaela Schrage-Früh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000588300
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture written by Michaela Schrage-Früh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men’s embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers such as Seán Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O’Brien, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural expression.

Ethnographic Plague

Author : Christos Lynteris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137596856
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographic Plague written by Christos Lynteris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.

Port Mungo

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400075483
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Mungo written by Patrick McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a seedy river town on the Gulf of Honduras, Jack Rathbone believed he had found a place that would give him and his lover, the accomplished artist Vera Savage, the solitude they would need to create a body of work that would shake the art world to its core. But in a place where time lies thicker than the mangrove swamps that surround it, Jack and Vera discover an emotional frontier more fearsome, untamed, and dangerous than any wilderness.Told through the voice of Jack’s adoring sister, Gin, Port Mungo is the riveting story of this ill-fated couple, one that begins as a bohemian flight-of-fancy before unraveling into a dark, debauched and sinister tale. With Port Mungo, the incomparable Patrick McGrath, author of the acclaimed novels Spider and Asylum, delivers a spellbinding narrative to explore the obsessive pursuit of art and love.

Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education

Author : Mike Seal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350116556
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education written by Mike Seal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many accounts of critical pedagogy, particularly accounts of trying to enact it within higher education (HE), express a deep cynicism about whether it is possible to counter the ever creeping hegemony of neo-liberalism, neo- conservatism and new managerialism within Universities. Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education acknowledges some of these criticisms, but attempts to rescue critical pedagogy, locating some of its associated pessimism as misreading of Freire and offering hopeful avenues for new theory and practice. These misreadings are also located in the present, in the assumption that unless change comes within the lifetime of the project, it has somehow failed. Instead, this book argues that a positive utopianism is possible. Present actions need to be celebrated, and cultivated as symbols of hope, possibility and generativity for the future - which the concept of hope implies. The contributors make the case for celebrating the pedagogies of HE that operate in liminal spaces – situated in the spaces between the present and the future (between the world as it is and the world as it could be) and also in the cracks that are beginning to show in the dominant discourses.

Uneasy Translations

Author : Rita Kothari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9389165628
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Uneasy Translations written by Rita Kothari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian Literature interweaves the personal journey of an academic into reflections around self, language and translation with an eye on the intangibly available category of experience. It dwells on quieter modes of being political, of making knowledge democratic and of seeing gendered language in the everyday. In an unusual combination of real-life incidents and textual examples, it provides a palimpsest of what it is to be in a classroom; in the domestic sphere, straddling the 'manyness' of language and, of course, in a constant mode of translation that remains incomplete and unconcluded. Through both a poignant voice and rigorous questions, Kothari asks what it is to live and teach in India as a woman, a multilingual researcher and as both a subject and a rebel of the discipline of English. She draws from multiple bhasha texts with an uncompromising eye on their autonomy and intellectual tradition. The essays range from questions of knowledge, affect, caste, shame and humiliation to other cultural memories. Translation avoids the arrogance of the original; it has the freedom to say it and not be held accountable, which can make it both risky and exciting. More importantly, it also speaks after (anuvaad) rather than only for or instead, and this ethic informs the way Kothari writes this book, breaking new ground with gentle provocations.

The Encyclopedia of pure materia medica v. 6, 1877

Author : Timothy Field Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of pure materia medica v. 6, 1877 written by Timothy Field Allen and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Author : Timothy Field Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica written by Timothy Field Allen and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor

Author : James D. Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198658
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor written by James D. Schmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States.

Communicating Across Cultures at Work

Author : Maureen Guirdham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137526378
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Communicating Across Cultures at Work written by Maureen Guirdham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice for developing skilled work communication in an intercultural world. Using many illustrations and international examples, the book analyses culture, cultural diversity and cultural similarities and differences in how we interact at work and in the psychological factors that influence our communication. It shows how to overcome impediments to intercultural communication and interact effectively with different others, whether face-to-face or by email, chat, text, phone or video. It describes cultural differences in negotiating, cooperation, coordination, knowledge sharing, working in groups and leadership, and demonstrates how to perform these activities skilfully in an intercultural setting. This textbook is the ideal companion for students taking undergraduate modules in cross-cultural management or managing diversity on international business or business administration degrees, in addition to MBA courses and specialist postgraduate modules on international and comparative management. New to this Edition: - New and improved pedagogical features, including end of Part exercises, activities and role plays - Topic-by-topic coverage of computer-mediated communication, explaining how it is affected by culture and in turn affects intercultural communication - Discussion of new developments in the field such as the increasing emphasis on language and discourses - Focus on new types of research such as country-by-country studies and reports of realities on the ground

Chocolate House Treason

Author : David Fairer
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838591044
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Chocolate House Treason written by David Fairer and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covent Garden, January 1708. Widow Trotter has big plans for her recently-inherited coffee house, not suspecting that within days her little kingdom will be caught up in a national drama involving scandal, conspiracy and murder... Queen Anne’s new “Great Britain” is in crisis. The Queen is mired in a sexual scandal, spies are everywhere, and political disputes are bringing violence and division. The treasonous satirist “Bufo” is public enemy number one and the Ministry is determined to silence him. Drawn into a web of intrigue that reaches from the brothels of Drury Lane to the Court of St James’s, Mary Trotter and her young friends Tom and Will race against time to unravel the political plots, solve two murders, and prevent another.

Jerusalem {Resiliating Jerusalem} and Athens

Author : Hullin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491745673
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem {Resiliating Jerusalem} and Athens written by Hullin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Studies Athens. BUT BE CAREFUL THAT I DONT SOMEHOW DECEIVE YOU UNINTENTIONALLY (!!! ???) BY PROFFERRING AN ILLEGITIMATE ACCOUNTING OF THE CHILD/TOKOU. [Republic 507a] ************************************************************************************* Jerusalem. A Note from the Tanna Kamma: The laws regarding the release from vows hover in the air (having no Scriptural support). The laws of Shabbat; of the Festival Offerings; and acts of trespass; are like mountains suspended by a hair; for there are but scant Scriptural foundation for them but there are numerous halakhot for them. Civil cases; Temple services; the regulations concerning purity and contamination; and the forbidden sexual relations; all of these have true and firm Scriptural support. AND IT IS THESE {the ones with true and firm Scriptural support) WHICH ARE THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE TORAH [The last Paragraph of Chapter One of the Hagigah Mishna; found at 10a-i of the Art Scroll rendition (with some modifications). The passage is orchestrated by the Tanna Kamma.]