Discrepant Dislocations
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Discrepant Dislocations
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Author : Mary E. John
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Discrepant Dislocations written by Mary E. John and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Social Science categories.
Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories explores the evolving intersections of feminist theory with postcolonial histories, offering a critical examination of the challenges that shape feminist thought across different geopolitical contexts. The book spans a range of intellectual and political landscapes, particularly focusing on the tensions between feminist scholarship in the United States and India. Drawing from the insights of third-world intellectuals who have engaged with Western theories like poststructuralism, it interrogates the complexities of the postcolonial as both a term and a concept. Rather than resolving its varied meanings, the book engages with the tensions and discrepancies inherent in these theories, particularly how they manifest within the power dynamics between the West and the postcolony. By focusing on the experiences of Western domination, the author highlights how these intellectual and political forces continue to shape feminist thought globally, even as feminist agendas seek to challenge these very systems of power. The essays within this collection examine a wide array of issues, from the position of third-world feminists in the West to the challenges of translating feminist theory into diverse cultural contexts. The study critically engages with the rise of feminist theory in the U.S., particularly in the eighties and nineties, and its connection to race, class, and gender debates. These discussions are framed within a historical and genealogical perspective, showing how these terms have been shaped and constrained by Western academic practices. Transitioning from the U.S. to India, the book also explores the national location of feminist movements, examining how postindependence Indian feminism navigates the complexities of global and local power relations. Ultimately, the book calls for a more self-reflexive and international feminist theory that acknowledges the unequal power dynamics between nations and fosters a more accountable and nuanced global feminist discourse. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Cosmopolitan Theology
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Author : Namsoon Kang
language : en
Publisher: Chalice Press
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Cosmopolitan Theology written by Namsoon Kang and has been published by Chalice Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Religion categories.
In Cosmopolitan Theology, author Namsoon Kang proposes a theology that embraces and at the same time moves beyond collective identity position and group-based allegiances. It crosses borders of gender, race, nationality, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and ability. Kang offers a vision of a global community of radical inclusion, solidarity, and deep compassion and justice for others. Blending theology with philosophy, she crosses borders of academism and activism, and the discursive borders of modernism, postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism. Cosmopolitan Theology sheds a new light both in academia and the community of Christian believers by providing a public relevance of Jesus' teaching of neighbor-love, hospitality, and solidarity in our world today.
Visible Histories Disappearing Women
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Author : Mahua Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-25
Visible Histories Disappearing Women written by Mahua Sarkar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-25 with History categories.
Argues that the discursive erasure of Muslim women within colonial and Hindu nationalist discourse underpinned the construction of other identity categories in late colonial Bengal and remains linked to violence against Indian Muslim women today.
Leisure Tourism Geographies
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Author : David Crouch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Leisure Tourism Geographies written by David Crouch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Science categories.
Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: *Disneyland, Paris *tourism in sacred landscapes *leisure practices in cyberspace *leisure and yachting *use of recreational/holiday cottages *National Parks, local parks and gardens Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.
Un Common Cultures
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Author : Kamala Visweswaran
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-19
Un Common Cultures written by Kamala Visweswaran and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-19 with Social Science categories.
In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces a view of “uncommon cultures” defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an analysis of how racism works to form the idea of “uncommon cultures” and a reaffirmation of the possibilities of “common cultures,” those that enact new forms of solidarity in seeking common cause. Such “cultures in common” or “cultures of the common” also produce new intellectual formations that demand different analytic frames for understanding their emergence. By tracking the emergence and circulation of the culture concept in American anthropology and Indian and French sociology, Visweswaran offers an alternative to strictly disciplinary histories. She uses critical race theory to locate the intersection between ethnic/diaspora studies and area studies as a generative site for addressing the formation of culturalist discourses. In so doing, she interprets the work of social scientists and intellectuals such as Elsie Clews Parsons, Alice Fletcher, Franz Boas, Louis Dumont, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar.
Global Knowledge Production In The Social Sciences
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Author : Wiebke Keim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Global Knowledge Production In The Social Sciences written by Wiebke Keim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Political Science categories.
An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research. Thematically arranged and both international and interdisciplinary in scope, this volume reflects the different theoretical and thematic backgrounds of the contributing authors, who enter into dialogue and debate with one another in the development of a more inclusive, more representative and more theoretically relevant stage for the social sciences. A rigorous critique of the contemporary state of the social sciences as well as an attempt to find another way of doing transnational sociology, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social theory with interests in the production of social scientific knowledge, postcolonialism and transnationalism in research.
Alien Constructions
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Author : Patricia Melzer
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Alien Constructions written by Patricia Melzer and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
“An incisive critical work” that looks at Octavia Butler’s writing, the movies of the Matrix and Alien series—and more—through a feminist lens (Femspec). Feminist thinkers and writers are increasingly recognizing science fiction’s potential to shatter patriarchal and heterosexual norms, while the creators of science fiction are bringing new depth and complexity to the genre by engaging with feminist thewories and politics. This book maps the intersection of feminism and science fiction through close readings of science fiction literature by Octavia E. Butler, Richard Calder, and Melissa Scott and the movies The Matrix and the Alien series. Patricia Melzer analyzes how these authors and films represent debates and concepts in three areas of feminist thought: identity and difference, feminist critiques of science and technology, and the relationship among gender identity, body, and desire, including the new gender politics of queer desires, transgender, and intersexed bodies and identities. She demonstrates that key political elements shape these debates, including global capitalism and exploitative class relations within a growing international system; the impact of computer, industrial, and medical technologies on women’s lives and reproductive rights; and posthuman embodiment as expressed through biotechnologies, the body/machine interface, and the commodification of desire. Melzer’s investigation makes it clear that feminist writings and readings of science fiction are part of a feminist critique of existing power relations—and that the alien constructions (cyborgs, clones, androids, aliens, and hybrids) that populate postmodern science fiction are as potentially empowering as they are threatening.
Movement Or Market
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Author : Millie Thayer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-10-16
Movement Or Market written by Millie Thayer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-16 with Social Science categories.
This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women’s organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. This book takes what some have called "global civil society" as its object, moving beyond both dire predictions and euphoric celebrations to understand how transnational political relationships are constructed and sustained across social and geographical divides. It also provides a compelling case study for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in globalization, gender studies, and social movements.
New Feminisms In South Asian Social Media Film And Literature
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Author : Sonora Jha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-18
New Feminisms In South Asian Social Media Film And Literature written by Sonora Jha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with Social Science categories.
This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly complicated discourses across narrative forms – hashtag activism on Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on queer rights, state censorship of "India’s Daughter", and feminist film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Annual Review Of Comparative And International Education 2020
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Author : Alexander W. Wiseman
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-02
Annual Review Of Comparative And International Education 2020 written by Alexander W. Wiseman and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-02 with Education categories.
The Annual Review of Comparative and International Education covers significant developments in the field of comparative and international education. This 2020 edition begins with a collection of discussion essays about comparative education trends and directions written by both professional and scholarly leaders.