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Voices from Gender Studies
The book is aimed at providing an assertion of Gender Studies as a vital community in our time, united in a commitment to inquiry. It brings forward an interdisciplinary set of early career researchers’ accounts of their motives for engaging in Gender Studies and, of the encounters with limitations as well as possibilities they experience on the paths they have chosen. Each chapter is accompanied by a brief response paper where a more senior researcher involves in conversation with respective chapter’s content and shares reflections regarding Gender Studies, its integration, and developments. The first level corresponds with the significance of research in the field and its transformative power in and, crucially, outside the academia. The second relates to the value of networking and community building for doing research. The book presents Gender Studies in a communicative, open manner that invites the reader to engage in and continue the displayed discussions. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies, sociology, queer studies, women’s studies, trans studies, anthropology, and literary studies.
Interconnecting the Violences of Men
This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delimit – understandings of violence. Bringing together cross-disciplinary, indeed transdisciplinary, perspectives, this book addresses how –what are often seen as – specific and separate violences connect closely and intricately with wider understandings of violence, how there are gendered continuities betwee...
Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms
This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations, and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research. A main focus of the volume is methodological. It asks how an engagement with transnational, intersectional and decolonial feminisms can stimula...
A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities. It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy. A resource for students and teachers, this comprehensive volume brings together established international scholars and emerging theorists, for timely and astute definitions of a moving target – posthuman humanities and feminist posthumanities.
If This Land Could Talk
Wow!Great job of bringing this man [Tom] and his times to lifeDefinitely a winner! Megan Smolenyak, chief genealogist for Ancestry.com, author of Who Do You Think You Are?, and consultant to the TV series of the same name. Millions of settlers flocked westward for homesteads, taking advantage of the free land opened to settlement by the expanding railroads. Few remained there, but author Judy Cooks family never lost faith in the land. Cooks Dakota roots inspire this compelling story of her grandparents homesteading experiences in North Dakota. If This Land Could Talk provides a riveting look at three generations of life on the northern plains, where Cook spent her formative years. Her candid...
Thirsty Planet
By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective. She suggests that nature is the source of water and only by making the conservation of nature an absolute priority will we have the water we need for human use in future. It is essential , therefore, to manage water in ways that maintain the water cycle and the ecosystems that support it. This book looks at the complexity of the problem. It provides a wide array of ideas, information, case studies and ecological knowledge - often from remote corners of the developing world -- that could provide an alternative vision for water use and management at this critical time. Essential and compelling reading for students on courses related to water resource management and development; water managers and decision makers, and non-specialists with an interest in global water issues.
The Progeny of Christopher Brunk
Christopher Brunk (ca. 1730-1810) living in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1755 (and possibly before). He is next found in York County, Pennsylvania in 1762, and in Frederick (now Washington) County, Maryland in 1767. He then moved to Augusta (now Rockingham) County, Virginia in 1773, and in 1784 to Washington County, North Carolina (later Tennessee). By 1790, he was in Greenville County, South Carolina, and by 1797 in Hardin County, kentucky. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro- lina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and elsewhere.
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"Neunzehn Leben und etliche Dutzend, die dazu gehören. Aber nicht ein glückliches Leben ist dabei. Ich habe nach einem glücklichen Leben gesucht. Andere haben mitgesucht. Niemand hat eins gefunden. Ein paarmal schien es so, als hätte man einen Glücklichen erwischt. Aber das war dann nur ... ein labiles, schwankendes Glück. Das gibt es natürlich. Aber es ist kein menschliches Glück und trägt keine Frucht." Diese Überzeugung des Autors über seine Zeitgenossen in den zwanziger Jahren klingt negativ, pessimistisch, aber man möchte die kleinen Erzählungen umso mehr lesen. Diese Berichte über ganz normale Leben, vom Gutsbesitzer, über den arabischen Soldaten, die italienische Bäuerin bis zur alten Frau, faszinieren und werfen zahlreiche Fragen auf. Ein wertvolles Buch!
