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Archives And Special Collections As Sites Of Contestation
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Author : Mary Kandiuk
language : en
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Archives And Special Collections As Sites Of Contestation written by Mary Kandiuk and has been published by Library Juice Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with categories.
This collection of essays interrogates library practices relating to archives and special collections.
Sites Of Contestation
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Author : Julia Rensing
language : en
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Sites Of Contestation written by Julia Rensing and has been published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Social Science categories.
This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production.
Sights Of Contestation
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Author : Kwok-kan Tam
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2002
Sights Of Contestation written by Kwok-kan Tam and has been published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
The fourteen essays presented in this volume examine the diverse ways in which cultural products are shaped and re-shaped in public spaces in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and some other countries in the Pacific in their continuing encounters with the forces of localism and globalism. Various theories of globalisation have been proposed since the 1970s to predict the trend of development toward homogenisation and explain the tensions hitherto created. However diverse the theories may be, there is one fact that assumes the form of a challenge. As the world has become seemingly less and less divergent in its "shrinkage," the traditional categories of cultural division and opposition, such as the East versus the West, may no longer be adequate in analysing the world we live in today. Paradoxically enough, this very shrinkage and restructuring of the world has the effect of focusing more sharply on questions of localism, identity and cultural roots. This is, in fact, a moment in history when the local and the global are co-implicated in complex and unanticipated ways. How do cultural workers, who are primarily writers, intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers and educators, in Asia and the Pacific respond to this challenging phenomenon? How do they conceptualise it? What are the prospects and problems they foresee with regard to their own societies and cultures? These are questions of utmost significance as one seeks to come to terms with East Asia and the emerging Pacific as a space of contestation and resistance in the global/local process of cultural production. The fourteen essays collected in this book certainly represent the views of some of the prominent scholars in the region.
Indian And Chinese Immigrant Communities
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Author : Jayati Bhattacharya
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
Indian And Chinese Immigrant Communities written by Jayati Bhattacharya and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Social Science categories.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.
Globalization
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Author : Nicholas Sun-keung Pang
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 2006
Globalization written by Nicholas Sun-keung Pang and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Education categories.
Bringing together a group of international authors, this book attempts to examine the effects of globalization on educational policies and practices under the following themes: (1) the roles of educational research in the era of globalization and how comparative education can contribute to such investigation; (2) the relationships between the development of higher education and globalization in different countries; and (3) the impacts of globalization on school education and how schools can respond to the challenges ahead.
Antebellum American Women Writers And The Road
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Author : Susan L. Roberson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011
Antebellum American Women Writers And The Road written by Susan L. Roberson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
A study of American womenâe(tm)s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movement figured in autobiography, spiritual, and political narratives, and domestic novels by women as they constructed their own politics of mobility. These narratives by such women as Margaret Fuller, Susan Warner, and Harriet Beecher Stowe destabilize the male-dominated stories of American travel and nation-building as women claimed the public road as a domain in which they belonged, bringing with them their own ideas about mobility, self, and nation. The many womenâe(tm)s stories of mobility also destabilize a singular view of womenâe(tm)s history and broaden our outlook on geographic movement and its repercussions for other movements. Looking at texts not usually labeled travel writing, like the domestic novel, brings to light social relations enacted on the road and the relation between story, location, and mobility.
Contestation And Constitution Of Norms In Global International Relations
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Author : Antje Wiener
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-23
Contestation And Constitution Of Norms In Global International Relations written by Antje Wiener and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Law categories.
Examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms at the intersection between international relations and international law.
International Organizations Under Pressure
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Author : Klaus Dingwerth
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-21
International Organizations Under Pressure written by Klaus Dingwerth and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Political Science categories.
International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized. In this book, we examine how the norms and values that underpin the evaluations of international organizations have changed over the past 50 years. Looking at five organizations in depth, we observe two major trends. Taken together, both trends make the legitimation of international organizations more challenging today. First, people-based legitimacy standards are on the rise: international organizations are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only what they do for their member states, but also for the people living in these states. Second, procedural legitimacy standards gain ground: international organizations are increasingly evaluated not only based on what they accomplish, but also based on how they arrive at decisions, manage themselves, or coordinate with other organizations in the field. In sum, the study thus documents how the list of expectations international organizations need to fulfil to count as 'legitimate' has expanded over time. The sources of this expansion are manifold. Among others, they include the politicization of expanded international authority and the rise of non-state actors as new audiences from which international organizations seek legitimacy.
Borders Sociocultural Encounters And Contestations
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Author : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-19
Borders Sociocultural Encounters And Contestations written by Christopher Changwe Nshimbi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-19 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. Situated within debates on borders, borderlands, sub- and regional integration, this volume examines local, grassroots and non-state actors and their cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations. Particular attention is also paid on the role they play in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and its integration project in its multiplicity. The interdisciplinary chapters address the diverse human activities relating to cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations that are manifested through multiform and -scalar interactions between or among grassroots actors, involving engagements between grassroots actors and the state or its agencies, and/or to the broader arrangements that bear consequences of the first two upon regional integration. By bringing these different, at times contrasting, forms of interaction under a holistic analysis, this volume devises novel ways to understand the persistence and role of borders and their relation to new transnational and transcultural integrative phenomena at various levels, extending from the (nation-)state and the political to the cultural and social at the everyday level of border practices. Scholars and students of African studies, geography, economics, politics, sociology and border studies will find this book useful.
The Ethnography Of Tourism
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Author : Naomi M. Leite
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-10-11
The Ethnography Of Tourism written by Naomi M. Leite and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-11 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection examines the emergence, development, and future of tourism ethnography, emphasizing the interpretive-humanistic approach honed by anthropologist Edward Bruner. Original chapters by thirteen leading anthropologists critically engage theories and concepts including authenticity, the touristic borderzone, and contested sites.