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Memory and Identity in Contemporary Chinese-Australian Novels
ISBN: 9781789974386 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. «This sophisticated and empathetic study explores a suite of important Australian literary works from the Chinese diaspora. Using memory studies to trace connections and contiguities, Dr Chen maps an emotionally charged literary network that is compelled by the past to confront the future. The result is a richly revealing exploration of transnational literary identity and complex forms of belonging and attachment across time and place.» (Professor Nicole Moore, UNSW Canberra) «If memory is the broken mirror of history, diasporic memories are intricate mosaics of multitudinous pasts:...
«This sophisticated and empathetic study explores a suite of important Australian literary works from the Chinese diaspora. Using memory studies to t...
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304,80 |
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The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
ISBN: 9781978834880 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of...
In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable...
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146,29 |
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The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
ISBN: 9781978834897 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of...
In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable...
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609,72 |
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The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures
ISBN: 9783030886561 / Angielski / Miękka / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literaturescelebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions...
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literaturescelebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from e...
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645,58 |
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Ethnic Beauties Coloring Book: Discover the Beauty of Ethnic Art: Color Your Way Through Our Ethnic Beauties Coloring Book
ISBN: 9788367484039 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,48 |
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Homeland or Religion? Personal Identity Building in Zangskar, Indian Himalayas
ISBN: 9789004544703 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who are you? Where do you come from? These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer. This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her. These experiences showed her that the meaning of “belonging” to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is...
Who are you? Where do you come from? These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer. This book tells th...
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383,34 |
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Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity: An Ontological Approach
ISBN: 9781666906448 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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375,59 |
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Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
ISBN: 9780520392984 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals. Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women...
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authe...
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123,23 |
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As If Already Free: Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber
ISBN: 9780745348452 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new look at a brilliant radical legacy
A new look at a brilliant radical legacy
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118,04 |
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Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Learning and Knowledge-Making in the Global South
ISBN: 9780745348926 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laboratories of Learning proves, through exploring inspiring social movements and activists around the world, that the education and knowledge making happening inside these movements is crucial for the future of social justice for all. It asks three simple but profound questions: How do movements learn and make knowledge? What kinds of knowledge do movements make? And what is its effect on individual activists, movements, and even whole societies? Written in collaboration with leading activists from different movements in Turkey, Colombia, Nepal and South Africa, each case shows that these...
Laboratories of Learning proves, through exploring inspiring social movements and activists around the world, that the education and knowledge making ...
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97,50 |
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South Asian Islam: Spectrum of Integration and Indigenization
ISBN: 9781032451701 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the historical trajectory of the spread of Islam in South Asia and how the engagements of the past have played a crucial role in the making of the present outfits of South Asian Islam.
This volume explores the historical trajectory of the spread of Islam in South Asia and how the engagements of the past have played a crucial role in ...
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707,28 |
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Frontier Peoples and the Making of the Modern Union of Myanmar
ISBN: 9781433177187 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with three major issues in the relationship between the frontier peoples and the modern Union of Myanmar: the awakening of a sense of national identity among the frontier peoples of Myanmar and their nationalist movement; main factors driving the minorities to merge with Burmans to form a federal union; and the role of the British government in this the interlinked history of Burma Proper and the ethnic minorities. Chapters 1–3 present an overall account of the historical evolution, geographical distribution and colonial experiences of the frontier peoples in...
This book is concerned with three major issues in the relationship between the frontier peoples and the modern Union of Myanmar: the awakening of a se...
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457,33 |
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The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education
ISBN: 9781439924969 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, “Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity.” The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which Farred reflects on an upbringing resisting apartheid. Although he is still inclined to struggle viscerally against apartheid, he acknowledges, “It is me.” Unsentimental about his education, Farred’s critique recognizes the impact of four exceptional teachers—all engaging pedagogical...
Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectu...
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424,37 |
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The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education
ISBN: 9781439924976 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, “Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity.” The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which Farred reflects on an upbringing resisting apartheid. Although he is still inclined to struggle viscerally against apartheid, he acknowledges, “It is me.” Unsentimental about his education, Farred’s critique recognizes the impact of four exceptional teachers—all engaging pedagogical...
Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectu...
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117,02 |
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
ISBN: 9781478020387 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement, tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border—at once a dense setting that manifests decades of architectural, planning, and design initiatives and a...
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in...
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478,02 |
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
ISBN: 9781478025245 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement, tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border—at once a dense setting that manifests decades of architectural, planning, and design initiatives and a...
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in...
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121,89 |
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Narrative Productions of Meanings: Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life
ISBN: 9781498577793 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative Productions of Meaning explores how stories, ranging from self-stories to those told by media, social activists, politicians, social policy makers, and social service providers, shape the meaning of self, others, objects, events, and experiences and how these meanings have material consequences.
Narrative Productions of Meaning explores how stories, ranging from self-stories to those told by media, social activists, politicians, social policy ...
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146,34 |
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Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization: Islam, Islamism, and Nationalism in Turkey
ISBN: 9781498579414 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the nation building process in Turkey from a socio-historical perspective. Authors compare the nation-building process in the Republic period with the pro-Islamists of the JDP period.
This book analyzes the nation building process in Turkey from a socio-historical perspective. Authors compare the nation-building process in the Repub...
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146,34 |
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The Everyday Violence of Forced Displacement: Memory, Community and Identity Politics among Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey
ISBN: 9781666902594 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1990s over a million Turkish Kurds were displaced from Southeastern Turkey. By focusing on the forced migrants' stories and on their mobilization of social capital in times of illness and conflict, Geerse shows how they tried to sustain meaningful lives in urban contexts marked by political and structural violence.
In the 1990s over a million Turkish Kurds were displaced from Southeastern Turkey. By focusing on the forced migrants' stories and on their mobilizati...
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468,27 |
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Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop: Geo-ethical and Political Implications
ISBN: 9781666909135 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop wrestles with the cultural, epistemological, ethical, and geopolitical conundrums of our contemporary world. It argues that sofia is a psychological, discursive, social, and civilizational sickle constantly sharpened to weed imperial-colonial, mental, linguistic, racist, and barbaric alienation.
Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop wrestles with the cultural, epistemological, ethical, and geopolitical conundrums of our contemporary world....
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375,59 |
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