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Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism

While news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In particular, Pakistani women’s attachment to their environment and their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. Shazia Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the vitality of place-based identities within Pakistani culture, and thereby contributes to evolving understandings of Pakistani women—in relation to both their environment and to various discourses of nation and patriarchy. Through an astute analysis of such...

Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism

While news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In particular, Pakistani women's attachment to their environment and their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. Shazia Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the vitality of place-based identities within Pakistani culture, and thereby contributes to evolving understandings of Pakistani women--in relation to both their environment and to various discourses of nation and patriarchy. Through an astute analysis of such wo...

The Struggle for a Multilingual Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Struggle for a Multilingual Future

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education policies that were among the complex causes of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983 - 2009), the government has recently sought to promote interethnic integration through trilingual language policies in Sinhala, Tamil, and English in state schools. Integrating ethnographic and linguistic research in and around two schools during the last phase of the war, Davis's research shows how, despite the intention of the reforms, practices on the ground reinforce language-based models of ethnicity and sustain ethnic divisions and power inequalities. By engaging with the actual experiences of Tamil and Muslim youth, Davis demonstrates the difficulties of using language policy to ameliorate ethnic conflict if it does not also address how that conflict is produced and reproduced in everyday talk.

Nepantla Squared
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Nepantla Squared

2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s, one during the turn of the twentieth century and one during the turn of the twenty-first century, to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. To address the erasure of transgender mestiz@ realities from history, Linda Heidenreich employs an intersectional analysis that critiques monopoly and global capitalism. Heidenreich builds on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of nepantleras, those who could live between and embody more than one culture, to coin the term nepantla2, marking times of capitalist transition where gender was also in motion. Transgender mestiz@s, too, embodied that movement. Heidenreich insists on a careful examination of the multiple in-between spaces that construct lives between cultures and genders during in-between times of shifting empire and capital. In so doing, they offer an important discussion of race, class, nation, and citizenship centered on transgender bodies of color that challenges readers to rethink the way they understand the gendered social and economic challenges of today.

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new “cultural grammar” is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways it operates. The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment ...

Bollywood Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Bollywood Cinema

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora.

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-09-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.

Multidisciplinary Approach in Arts, Science & Commerce (Volume- 4)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 125

Multidisciplinary Approach in Arts, Science & Commerce (Volume- 4)

Multidisciplinary Approach/Research/Subject/Education is a unique part of education. By this education students learn and collect knowledge/ideas from different disciplines. The present Book volume is based on the Multidisciplinary Research and introduces on different important topics by research paper contributors like: Emotional Intelligence:- A Comparative Study Among Higher Students At Ghaziabad Region, Experimental Sperm Cryopreservation of Buenos Aires Tetra, Hemigrammus caudovittatus (Ahl, 1923) using DMSO as cryoprotectant, Industrial Robots In Automotive Industry, Green Banking: A Study On Perceptions Of Customers And Bankers, Problems And Prospects Of Women Empowerment In Rural Are...

The Camp Fire Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

The Camp Fire Girls

As the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls' education. A corollary to the Boy Scouts of America, founded just a few years earlier, the Camp Fire Girls became America's first and, for two decades, most popular girls' organization. Based on Protestant middle-class ideals--a regulatory model that reinforced hygiene, habit formation, hard work, and the idea that women related to the nation through service--the Camp Fire Girls invented new concepts of American girlhood by inviting disabled girls, Black girls, immigrants, and Native Americans to join. Though this often meant a ...

Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 11.12 International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, HAISA 2021, held virtually in July 2021. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: attitudes and perspectives; cyber security education; and people and technology.