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Narrating Contested Lives
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Author : Katja Kurz
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2015
Narrating Contested Lives written by Katja Kurz and has been published by Universitatsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Children's rights categories.
Within the nascent field of interdisciplinary human rights studies, this volume explores activist autobiographies as collaborative projects within the context of human rights campaigns. It sheds light upon the intricate relationship between the aesthetics of generic framing and the ethics of discursive representation for stakeholder mobilization. Special attention is given to the geopolitical nexus that affects the collaboration between activists, co-authors, and corporate sponsors. 'Narrating Contested Lives' analyzes U.S.-based campaigns on women's, children's, and minority rights led by Waris Dirie, Fadumo Korn, Ishmael Beah, Emmanuel Jal, Somaly Mam, and Halima Bashir. Situated within the realm of Transnational American Studies, this study uncovers the geographical, linguistic, and ideological border crossings that these campaigns and their reception are embedded in.
Human Rights And Narrated Lives
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Author : K. Schaffer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-08-20
Human Rights And Narrated Lives written by K. Schaffer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-20 with Social Science categories.
Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. These two contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights, literature and international politics, are commonly understood to operate on separate planes. This study however, examines the ways these intersecting realms unfold and are enfolded in one another in ways both productive of and problematic for the achievement of social justice. Human Rights and Narrated Lives explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received, and circulated in the field of human rights. It asks how personal narratives emerge in local settings; how international rights discourse enables and constrains individual and collective subjectivities in narration; how personal narratives circulate and take on new meanings in new contexts; and how and under what conditions they feed into, affect, and are affected by the reorganizations of politics in the post cold war, postcolonial, globalizing human rights contexts. To explore these intersections, the authors attend the production, circulation, reception, and affective currents of stories in action across local, national, transnational, and global arenas. They do so by looking at five case studies: in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation processes in South Africa; the National Inquiry into the Forced Removal of Indigenous Children from their Families in Australia; activism on behalf of former 'comfort women' from South/East Asia; U.S. prison activism; and democratic reforms in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China.
Contested Public Spheres
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Author : Anna Spiegel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-06-07
Contested Public Spheres written by Anna Spiegel and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-07 with Social Science categories.
1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists 1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists: Experiencing and doing globalisation Going through the broad spectrum of globalisation research and literature, one might be astonished at how much it assumes the force of global change, and how little of this literature demonstrates this force in an empirically grounded way. This study, being based on six months of empirical research in Malaysia in 2004, sets out to counter this lack of thick description of globalisation processes. It takes up the challenge of researching the “global everyday” (Appadurai 2000, 18) of civil society actors in Malaysia and focuses on how social activists belonging to different branches of the women’s movement selectively app- priate, transform and even create global meanings and materialise them in local practices. The methodological endeavour of combining globalisation research and ethnography has been taken up by a diversity of authors. Burawoy and his research team have developed a complex methodological framework by focusing on the experiential dimensions of globalisation. They want to produce a “grounded globalisation” or “perspectives on globalisations from below” (Burawoy 2000b, 338, 341). This perspective is very fruitful, as the notion of experiencing globalisation as “forces, connections, and imaginations” (Burawoy et al. eds. 2000) relocates the global in the local and ties both together in mutual constitution.
Contested Lives
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Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-09
Contested Lives written by Faye D. Ginsburg 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 1998-09 with Political Science categories.
Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.
The Life Of John Milton Narrated In Connexion With The Political Ecclesiastical And Literary History Of His Time
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Author : David Masson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Life Of John Milton Narrated In Connexion With The Political Ecclesiastical And Literary History Of His Time written by David Masson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with categories.
Contested Communities
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Contested Communities written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contested Communities explores the concept of community in postcolonial and diaspora contexts from an interdisciplinary (linguistics, literature, cultural studies) perspective.
The Life Of John Milton Narrated In Connection With The Political Ecclesiastical And Literary History Of His Time
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Author : David Masson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Life Of John Milton Narrated In Connection With The Political Ecclesiastical And Literary History Of His Time written by David Masson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.
The Life Of John Milton Volume 3 1643 1649 Narrated In Connexion With The Political Ecclesiastical And Literary History Of His Time
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Author : David Masson
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-16
The Life Of John Milton Volume 3 1643 1649 Narrated In Connexion With The Political Ecclesiastical And Literary History Of His Time written by David Masson and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-16 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
J M Coetzee S Politics Of Life And Late Modernism In The Contemporary Novel
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Author : Marc Farrant
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-05
J M Coetzee S Politics Of Life And Late Modernism In The Contemporary Novel written by Marc Farrant and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with categories.
Surveying the full breadth of J. M. Coetzee's career as both academic and novelist, this book argues for the necessity of rethinking his profound indebtedness to literary modernism in terms of a politics of life. Isolating a particular strain of late modernism, epitomised by Kafka and Beckett, Farrant claims that Coetzee's writings consistently demonstrate an agonistic engagement with the concept of life that involves an entanglement of politics and ethics, which supersedes the singular theoretical frameworks often applied to Coetzee, such as postcolonialism, posthumanism and animal studies. Running throughout his engagement with questions of modernity and colonialism, storytelling and life writing, human and non-human life, religion and post-Enlightenment subjectivity, Coetzee's politics of life yield a new literary cosmopolitanism for the twenty-first century; a powerful commentary on our interrelatedness that emphasises finitude and contingency as fundamental to the way we live together.
Narrating The Mesh
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Author : Marco Caracciolo
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2021-02-26
Narrating The Mesh written by Marco Caracciolo and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
A hierarchical model of human societies’ relations with the natural world is at the root of today’s climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton’s concept of the "mesh" as a metaphor for the human-nonhuman relationship in the face of climate change, Marco Caracciolo investigates how narratives in genres such as the novel and the short story employ formal devices to effectively channel the entanglement of human communities and nonhuman phenomena. How can narrative undermine linearity in order to reject notions of unlimited technological progress and economic growth? What does it mean to say that nonhuman materials and processes—from contaminated landscapes to natural evolution—can become characters in stories? And, conversely, how can narrative trace the rising awareness of climate change in the thick of human characters’ mental activities? These are some of the questions Narrating the Mesh addresses by engaging with contemporary works by Ted Chiang, Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Powers, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson, and many others. Entering interdisciplinary debates on narrative and the Anthropocene, this book explores how stories can bridge the gap between scientific models of the climate and the human-scale world of everyday experience, powerfully illustrating the complexity of the ecological crisis at multiple levels.