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Playing Music, Performing Resistance
Could it be that playing marimba music is an act of resistance? Could it be a peace practice? Are musicians from the South Colombian Pacific coast region performing peace by playing their vernacular music? This book is concerned with these questions, as well as with the reflections about the concept of peace that they trigger. Through ethnographical research, the book examines peace as an active practice of self-assertion exercised in the daily life of the musicians from a traditionally alienated region in Colombia. (Series: Masters of Peace - Vol. 5)
Borderland Battles
This book argues that borderlands intensify security threats at the conflict-crime nexus. It demonstrates the multiple insecurities that arise from complex interactions among rebels, criminals, and other violent non-state groups. Challenging urban biases and state-centric views, it draws on unprecedented multi-year fieldwork in the war-torn marginalized Colombian-Ecuadorian and Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands.
The Global Practice of Forensic Science
The Global Practice of Forensic Science presents histories, issues, patterns, and diversity in the applications of international forensic science. Written by 64 experienced and internationally recognized forensic scientists, the volume documents the practice of forensic science in 28 countries from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. Each country’s chapter explores factors of political history, academic linkages, the influence of individual cases, facility development, types of cases examined, integration within forensic science, recruitment, training, funding, certification, accreditation, quality control, technology, disaster preparedness, legal issues, research and future directions. Aimed at all scholars interested in international forensic science, the volume provides detail on the diverse fields within forensic science and their applications around the world.
Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice
This book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions. Bringing together young scholars from Latin America, Africa and Asia, the book challenges dominant assumptions on sexuality in development discourse, policy and practice and proposes alternative approaches. Reflecting on both the ‘global north’ and the ‘global south’, this book investigates key social justice issues, from teenage pregnancy, child marriage discourses, sexual empowerment, to sexual diversity, female imprisonment and sexuality, militarism and sexuality, anti-trafficking policies and processes of racialization and othering in the context of migration. Overall, the book challenges binary constructs and argues for an intersectional perspective on gender and sexual diversity as a problem of structural inequality that interacts with other systems of inequality, based on race, age, class and geopolitics. This book will be of interest to social scientists and activists, as well as development scholars and practitioners engaging with questions of gender, sexuality and social justice.
Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015
The Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015 examines international debates on including peace and security in the post-2015 development framework.
Keine Zukunft
Christian Melker, wegen Sparmaßnahmen arbeitslos, heuert bei der Kanzlei Held als Auftragskiller an. Einige Zeit verläuft alles reibungslos. Er lernt die faszinierende, aber obdachlose Svetlana Marakov aus Russland kennen und verliebt sich in sie. Als sie herausfindet, dass er nicht als Ermittler, sondern als Auftragskiller arbeitet, trennt sie sich von ihm. Christian verliert Svetlana aus den Augen. Für ihn bricht eine Welt zusammen und landet deshalb in der Psychiatrie. Weder seine Kollegen, noch seine Auftraggeber Daniela Schäfer und Harald Held wissen von seiner Einlieferung. Christian übernimmt weitere Aufträge für die Kanzlei, denn er hat nur ein Ziel vor Augen: Geld zu sparen und ab nach Kolumbien. Für immer und ewig. Eine spannende Reise beginnt und für Christian stellt sich nur eine Frage: Wird er sein Ziel erreichen oder muss er zurück nach Deutschland?
41-Love
A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don't want to At forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. She’d quit smoking, gotten healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. She’d had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died. Her parents started to get sick right around the time she realized she was never going to be a mother herself. For the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight had become nearly impossible. She was supposed to grow up, but she didn’t know how. So instead she decided to regress, to go back to the thing she’d loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned: tennis. Thomas knows she’s not the only person to have wondered whether throwing enough money and time and passion at something can make your dream come true. 41–Love is heartbreaking but frequently funny as Thomas finds she’ll do anything to win—almost anything.
