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Land Conflicts Across Frontiers
Land Conflicts Across Frontiers compares Myanmar’s journey with North East India on the critical and contested issue of land. It examines concerns related to land in pre-colonial and colonial history, causes and consequences of land conflicts today, the socioeconomic dynamics attached to land, along with attempted community-based institutional interventions and rural activism. As Myanmar takes its steps towards a democratic future, it becomes critical for the country to be aware of North East India’s experiences, as they could provide valuable lessons of what to ‘implement’ and what to ‘avoid’. Loss of common property resources, non-recognition of customary rights, ambiguous land laws and inadequate attention to people’s grievances have led to a rural landscape which has witnessed livelihood vulnerability, displacement and conflict. The book not only tries to capture cross-border experiences in order to have a better understanding of land alienation, agrarian discontent and peripheral marginalization but also notes recent trends in rural spaces and suggests policy measures.
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detective's approach to investigating the truth with a criminal's alternative value system, Soderbergh's films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.
Cupcakes, Pies, & Hometown Guys
Annie Graceland: Cheesehead. Unwed. Hi-LAR-ious baker who speaks to 'The Dead!' __ "…blithe and funny contemporary cozy mystery..." Publishers Weekly "One part Ghost Whisperer, two parts Stephanie Plum…" Dakota Cassidy - USA Today Bestselling author. LOL, feel-good ANNIE GRACELAND mysteries can be read as STAND ALONES. __ My mom signs me up to be a judge at Wisconsin's Inaugural Hometown Guy Contest. I picture traveling home for the 4th of July weekend for some fun in the sun. I didn't picture some idiot murdering Frank Plank, our local ‘Hometown Guy’ as well as the boy I used to babysit. Didn’t plan on being up to my twitchy eyeballs investigating pageant suspects. Didn’t realiz...
Unjust by Design
Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch “judicial” tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicial decisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals and businesses. This book demonstrates that, except perhaps in Quebec, the administrative justice system is a justice system in name only. Failing to conform to rule-of-law principles or constitutional norms, its tribunals are neither independent nor impartial and are only providentially competent. Unjust by Design describes a justice system in transcendent need of major restructuring and provides a blueprint for change.
Cupcakes, Paws, & Bad Santa Claus
Annie Graceland: Cheesehead. Unwed. Hi-LAR-ious baker who talks to 'The Dead!' “So much fun! …Ghost Whisperer with Stephanie Plum’s crazy world!” Wendy Luvs2Read LOL, feel-good ANNIE GRACELAND mysteries can be read as STAND ALONES. __ It’s the Christmas Holiday season but I’m not feeling all that ‘Fa-la-la.’. My BFF drags me to the mall for some cheer but getting hit on by tipsy Bad Santa doesn’t put me in a better mood. I volunteer to cater desserts for Sweet Paws Animal Charity event but I wasn't planning on dressing up as Mrs. Claus. I also wasn't planning on some idiot murdering Bad Santa. Now his tipsy ghost follows me everywhere. But because every holiday story deserv...
Every Day Is Game Day!
"Tim has written a wake-up call for people who are waiting for life to happen. Anyone who strives to be the person God intended them to be will find inspiration and practical advice in this book."--Patrick Lencioni, author of "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team." (Practical Life)
Conflict in Caledonia
On 28 February 2006, the Six Nations of the Grand River blocked workers from entering a half-built housing development in southern Ontario. They renamed the land Kanonhstaton, “the protected place.” The protest drew national and international attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights and sparked a series of ongoing events known as the “Caledonia Crisis.” Laura DeVries’ powerful account of the dispute links the actions of police, governmental officials, and locals to entrenched non-Aboriginal discourses about law, landscape, and identity. It encourages non-Aboriginal Canadians to reconsider their assumptions – to view “facts” such as the rule of law as culturally specific notions that prevent truly equitable dialogue. DeVries not only reveals the conflicting visions of justice held by various parties to the dispute, she also seeks out possible solutions in alternative conceptualizations of sovereignty over land and law embedded in the Constitution.
Sensitive Negotiations
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims. In Sensitive Negotiations, Nikki Hessell uses examples from North America, Africa, and the Pacific to show how these Indigenous figures quoted lines from famous poets like Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans to build sympathy and community with their audience. Hessell makes new connections by setting aside European-derived genre barriers to bring literary studies to bear on the study of diplomacy and scholarship from diplomatic history and Indigenous studies to bear on literary criticism. By connecting British Romantic poetry with Indigenous diplomatic texts, artefacts, and rituals, Hessell reimagines poetry as diplomatic and diplomacy as poetic.
Criminalization, Representation, Regulation
What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged. It explores the dynamic interplay between practices of representation, processes of criminalization, and the ways that these circulate to both reflect and constitute crime and "justice."
