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Geographies of the Heart
A settlement worker recalls being a child soldier in Sudan; a woman from Trinidad applies to over a hundred jobs; and a teacher from Afghanistan grapples with what it means to be a migrant in a colonized land. In Geographies of the Heart, eighteen newcomers to Canada tell their own stories, in their own voices. These accounts push back against misconceptions about immigration and immigrants by revealing that the paths into Canada are as diverse as the people who journeyed them. Canada itself plays a pivotal role in the collection, both as saviour and oppressor. The nation is a haven and place of opportunity, but it is also not entirely benevolent and welcoming. As increasing migration is met with growing xenophobia, the stories in Geographies of the Heart are reminders of our shared humanity. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to Archway Community Services.
Our Lives
A series of stories that provide a picture of struggle and strength in many different societies. What makes history live? Stories about individuals who take us to places we have not been. Learning about the lives of girls and women over a lengthy period of time will stimulate discussion about those lives as well as their counterparts today. Each life lived has a story we can learn from. In Our Lives: Girls and Womens Stories Across Two Millennia, editor John Connolly offers ten short fiction stories penned by young writers that provide pictures of the struggle and strength of girls and women in many different societies. These stories may take us to unfamiliar places, as the girls and womens ...
Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change
This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social change that are currently taking place across the globe. While the relentless push of neoliberalism has struck at the heart of adult education provision in many countries, including that provided by universities, institutions of further education, international development agencies, NGOs, vocational training centres and the local government sector, what can adult educators learn and what is being learnt when we turn to sites of community activism as a mechanism for broader social change? Drawing on empirical research, as well as stories and blogs about...
The Berry Pickers
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years "A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitt...
Os Apanhadores de Bagas
Estreia extraordinária de uma nova voz na ficção, Os Apanhadores de Bagas é um romance mordaz sobre a busca pela verdade, a sombra do trauma e a persistência do amor. Julho de 1962. Uma família mi'kmaw da Nova Escócia chega ao Maine para apanhar mirtilos durante o verão. Semanas mais tarde, Ruthie, de 4 anos, filha mais nova da família, desaparece. É vista pela última vez na companhia do irmão, Joe, de 6 anos, sentada na sua pedra favorita no limiar do campo de mirtilos. Joe nunca será capaz de ultrapassar o desaparecimento da irmã. Norma, filha única de uma família abastada, cresce no Maine. O seu pai é uma figura fria e distante; a mãe, exasperantemente superprotetora. No...
L'estate dei mirtilli
Luglio 1962. Una famiglia di nativi americani, appartenente all’etnia Mi’kmaq, arriva nel Maine dalla Nuova Scozia per raccogliere i mirtilli. Qualche settimana dopo, la figlia più piccola, Ruthie, di quattro anni, scompare. L’ultimo a vederla, seduta ai bordi del campo, è il fratellino Joe, appena più grande di lei. A nulla servono le ricerche dei famigliari per tutta l’estate e le estati a venire. Nonostante il tentativo di superare il lutto, gli anni condannano la famiglia a una catena di tragedie: la morte di un altro figlio, Charlie, che decreta la fine delle «estati dei mirtilli», e la lunga latitanza di Joe. Nella stessa regione, una ragazza di nome Norma è tormentata da...
La soeur disparue
Été 1962. Une famille mi’kmaq de la Nouvelle-Écosse arrive dans le Maine pour la cueillette des baies. Quelques semaines plus tard, Ruthie, la benjamine de la famille, âgée de quatre ans, disparaît mystérieusement. Son frère aîné, Joe, est la dernière personne à l’avoir vue. La perte de sa sœur, dont il se sent responsable, va complètement bouleverser sa vie. Premier roman d’Amanda Peters, La sœur disparue est une histoire passionnante sur la puissance de la vérité, la force de l’amour et leur pouvoir de dissiper l’ombre des traumatismes. Traduit de l’anglais par Felicia Mihali
Drinking, Fasting, and Tattoos: Syrian Women’s Lived Islam
Drinking, Fasting, and Tattoos reveals the problematics of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies via Lived Religion (LR) by using qualitative and collaborative methodologies. It offers LR as a potential recovery for the tensions across different disciplines of gender and women’s studies, theology, migration studies, and religious studies. It also problematizes major assumptions about Islam that have led to the current scholarship, such as churchification of Islam in Europe. It breaks a tripled silence around women, refugees, and unaffiliated Muslims. It draws attention to permeable boundaries between academic disciplines, secular and religious, researcher and researched divides while challenging current paradigms in academia, particularly the ones that still validate Euro-American frameworks. More specifically, Syrian women refugees whose representations can be expanded to Muslim women migrants in the Global North, present firsthand accounts regarding their faith-based practices and interpretations of Islam. The accounts reveal empowerment, resilience, and post-traumatic growth, and thus agency in unlikely places.
Geographies of the Heart
A settlement worker recalls being a child soldier in Sudan; a woman from Trinidad applies to over a hundred jobs; and a teacher from Afghanistan grapples with what it means to be a migrant in a colonized land. In Geographies of the Heart, eighteen newcomers to Canada tell their own stories, in their own voices. These accounts push back against misconceptions about immigration and immigrants by revealing that the paths into Canada are as diverse as the people who journeyed them. Canada itself plays a pivotal role in the collection, both as saviour and oppressor. The nation is a haven and place of opportunity, but it is also not entirely benevolent and welcoming. As increasing migration is met with growing xenophobia, the stories in Geographies of the Heart are reminders of our shared humanity.
Beeren pflücken
»Ein atemberaubendes Debüt über Liebe, Ethnie, Brutalität und den Balsam der Vergebung.«People Juli 1962. Eine Mi'kmaq-Familie aus Nova Scotia kommt in Maine an, um den Sommer über Blaubeeren zu pflücken. Einige Wochen später ist die vierjährige Ruthie verschwunden. Sie wird zuletzt von ihrem sechsjährigen Bruder Joe gesehen, als sie auf ihrem Lieblingsstein am Rande eines Beerenfeldes sitzt. Ihr Verschwinden wirft Rätsel auf, die Joe und seine Familie verfolgen und fast fünfzig Jahre lang ungelöst bleiben. In Maine wächst ein Mädchen namens Norma als Einzelkind in einer wohlhabenden Familie auf. Ihr Vater ist emotional distanziert, ihre Mutter erdrückend überfürsorglich. Norma wird oft von wiederkehrenden Träumen geplagt. Mit zunehmendem Alter ahnt sie, dass ihre Eltern ihr etwas verheimlichen. Da sie nicht bereit ist, von ihrem Gefühl abzulassen, wird sie Jahrzehnte damit verbringen, dieses Geheimnis zu lüften. Der nationale Bestseller mit einer herzzerreißenden Geschichte zweier Familien – eine voller Liebe, Trauma & Verlust, die andere voller Geheimnisse und Unbekanntem!
