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Scriptural Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Scriptural Politics

The Bible and Koran as political models in the Arab world and Africa. This work offers a comparison of Islamic and Christian radicalism in the 1990s.

Creolizing Marcuse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Creolizing Marcuse

Creolizing Marcuse bridges the gap between traditional interpretations of Herbert Marcuse and Caribbean/Africana theory. It challenges the rigid boundaries often found in Marcusean scholarship, especially those shaped by ideas of purity and scarcity, both historically and in current debates. Rather than simplifying Marcuse’s theory, this book embraces its complexity to offer new insights into contemporary discussions on freedom, reciprocity, liberation, oppression, repression, and object relations theory. Creolizing Marcuse moves beyond producing static theoretical frameworks, instead urging decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, and queer scholars to actively incorporate Marcuse’s ideas into evolving, practical approaches to difference and social justice. The book calls for theorists, activists, and scholar-activists alike to engage in ongoing, dynamic practices that resist standing still. Contributors: Jake Bartholomew, Jina Fast, Stefan Gandler, Craig Leonard, Nicole K. Mayberry, Ricardo J. Millhouse, Yiamar Rivera-Matos, Sid Simpson, Dave Suell, Margath Walker, and Stacey-Ann Wilson.

Climate Change and Human Mobility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Climate Change and Human Mobility

This book examines general questions and particular cases of climate-change related mobility, and explores their implications for the social sciences.

Reimagining Climate Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Reimagining Climate Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a global challenge. Despite its laudatory intent, the response industry, or ‘Climate Inc.’, is failing. Reimagining Climate Change questions established categories, routines, and practices that presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change and offers alternative routes forward. It does so by unleashing the political imagination. The chapters grasp the larger arc of collective experience, interpret its meaning for ...

This Land Is Not For Sale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

This Land Is Not For Sale

Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.

Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Ibss: Anthropology: 1998
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 520

Ibss: Anthropology: 1998

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

The Contested Crown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Contested Crown

  • Categories: Art

"This book explores the travels and travails of a fabulous headdress reputed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This feather crown was brought to Europe by Hernando Cortez following the conquest of Mexico. Not long after it arrived in Europe, it was placed in the "cabinet of curiosities" at Ambras Castle, the Austrian residence of the author's ancestors. From there the headdress was removed to Vienna's Weltmuseum in the early nineteenth century, where it has been on view ever since. "El Penacho," as the headdress is called, is considered a national treasure by both Austria and Mexico. The crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles. Th...

African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-10-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities faced by the population that is most vulnerable to the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS: African women.

Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times?

Over the last 10 years, political science has produced a vast amount of research on the impact of climate change and related existential disasters on existing political institutions. Hundreds of articles and books have been written on the environmental state, the green state, environmental governance, sustainable institutions and so on. However, no research in this field can prosper without a strong input from other disciplinary areas, particularly the natural sciences. Climate change is a complex and challenging set of interlinked events, phenomena and resulting problems and so it defies the usual disciplinary boundaries. The only way to progress and tackle these is by harnessing the entire apparatus of human knowledge and going beyond the frontiers of what we already know, while envisioning new scenarios and institutional forms.