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Book Researching the Military

Download or read book Researching the Military written by Helena Carreiras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching the Military focuses on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world. It explores the historical, social, institutional and personal factors that frame research and scrutinize the way knowledge in this area impacts society and policy. More than merely analyzing research experiences (yet necessarily including them), it is also about the experiences of researchers, their position with regard to the object of their studies, the institutional context where they work and the way their research impacts the academic and policy-making fields in the respective countries. The common theme to the various chapters is reflexivity, a conscious effort at addressing the conditions of research and the position of the researcher and the research participants in that interface. By collecting diverse experiences of researchers from across the world, this volume aims to enhance reflexivity in the field of military studies and to encourage the exchange of knowledge between the academic field and the military arena. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, research methods, sociology, social anthropology and security studies, in general.

Book The Global South Atlantic

Download or read book The Global South Atlantic written by Kerry Bystrom and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a site that captures the attention it deserves. The Global South Atlantic traces literary exchanges and interlaced networks of communication and investment—financial, political, socio-cultural, libidinal—across and around the southern ocean. Bringing together scholars working in a range of languages, from Spanish to Arabic, the book shows the range of ways people, governments, political movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, goods, and markets cross the South Atlantic, or sometimes fail to cross. As a region made up of multiple intersecting regions, and as a vision made up of complementary and competing visions, the South Atlantic can only be understood comparatively. Exploring the Atlantic as an effect of structures of power and knowledge that issue from the Global South as much as from Europe and North America, The Global South Atlantic helps to rebalance global literary studies by making visible a multi-textured South Atlantic system that is neither singular nor stable.

Book Argentine cinema

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniela Ingruber
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 3643504152
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Argentine cinema written by Daniela Ingruber and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nature of Data

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  • Author : Jenny Goldstein
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2022-10
  • ISBN : 1496217152
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book The Nature of Data written by Jenny Goldstein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By synthesizing scholarly work at the intersection of political ecology, digital geography, and science and technology studies, The Nature of Data analyzes how new digital technologies affect environments and their control.

Book Phenomenal Justice

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  • Author : Eva van Roekel
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-17
  • ISBN : 1978800266
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Phenomenal Justice written by Eva van Roekel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the victims and perpetrators of the Argentinian dictatorship experience transitional justice on their own terms? Grounded in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion, Phenomenal Justice establishes a new theoretical basis that is faithful to the uncertainties of justice and truth in the aftermath of human rights violations.

Book The Falklands Malvinas War in the South Atlantic

Download or read book The Falklands Malvinas War in the South Atlantic written by Érico Esteves Duarte and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Falklands War from an Argentinian perspective, taking into consideration three aspects. First, it introduces classified documents after the end of the thirty-year ban. Second, it highlights various conceptual, institutional, and doctrinal reforms in the Argentinian and other South American armed forces as a result of lessons learned from the Malvinas War. Third, it reflects on the war's long-term implications on Argentina’s foreign policy and society. The book offers the first comprehensive, multi-level analysis, and Argentinian scholarship on the conflict. It is based on original primary data, mainly official documentation and interviews with military officers and combatants.

Book Re Figuring Hayden White

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Ankersmit
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-24
  • ISBN : 0804776253
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Re Figuring Hayden White written by Frank Ankersmit and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays address the key concepts of White's intellectual career, including tropes, narrative, figuralism, and the historical sublime while exploring the place of White's work in the philosophy of history, postmodernism, and ethics. They also discuss his role as historian and teacher and apply his ideas to specific historical events.

Book War Veterans and the World after 1945

Download or read book War Veterans and the World after 1945 written by Ángel Alcalde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This edited volume gathers contributions which show the veterans’ involvement in all the major historical processes shaping the world after World War II. Cold War politics, racial conflict, decolonization, state-building, and the reshaping of war memory were phenomena in which former soldiers and ex-combatants were directly involved. By examining how different veterans’ groups, movements and organizations challenged or sustained the Cold War, strived to prevent or to foster decolonization, and transcended or supported official memories of war, the volume characterizes veterans as largely independent and autonomous actors which interacted with societies and states in the making of our times. Spanning historical cases from the United States to Hong-Kong, from Europe to Southern Africa, from Algeria to Iran, the volume situates veterans within the turbulent international context since World War II.

Book A Companion to Latin American Anthropology

Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Anthropology written by Deborah Poole and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research Draws on original ethnographic and archival research Highlights national and regional debates Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America

Book Okaeri

    Book Details:
  • Author : Varios autores
  • Publisher : Taketombo Books
  • Release : 2014-03-12
  • ISBN : 849404835X
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Okaeri written by Varios autores and published by Taketombo Books. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Por qué dejamos nuestro país de origen? ¿Cuándo decidimos que queremos formar parte de manera definitiva de una cultura que nos acogió, en un principio, solo por un tiempo? Esta antología de relatos se complementa con la obra Tadaima y ofrece al lector las reflexiones de autores que han pasado parte de su vida, o que siguen viviendo, en una situación transcultural.

Book Southern Screens  Cinema  Culture and the Global South

Download or read book Southern Screens Cinema Culture and the Global South written by Antonio Traverso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Screens: Cinema, culture and the global South adopts a transversal south-south approach to the study of screen culture across national and cultural territories. It examines the conditions by which screen culture participates in the generation, sharing, and circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the global South. The contributors, all of them residents of the world’s southernmost nations, examine new and traditional media that manifests an affinity with southern cultural imaginaries and territories identifiable through the sociological category of "Global South." Some of their chapters engage in analysis linked to specific national contexts, others follow comparative approaches to screen culture across national, regional, and socio-historical borders. Sketching a new tapestry of references to other areas of southern social science and cultural theory, Southern Screens traces a critical genealogy that here finds a productive place within an emerging, comparative discussion of the screen cultures of the Global South. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Book Otra cara de Am  rica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony L. Geist
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9788477866930
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Otra cara de Am rica written by Anthony L. Geist and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following their consciences in defiance of their government, some 2,800 young Americans between 1936 and 1938 joined the cause of Spanish democracy under the banner of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Passing the Torch is an outspoken tribute to the heroism of the American volunteers of the 1930s and to their tradition of hope and resistance, which continues to inspire social activists to this day. A photoessay that captures the spirit of radicalism embodied in the brigadistas, this richly illustrated volume portrays Central American solidarity work in the 1980s, massive protests against the Gulf War in 1991, and the World Trade Organization "Battle in Seattle" in December 1999. It also profiles seven Seattle-area veterans, representative of the 120 surviving members of the Lincoln Brigade, and documents the dedication ceremony of the first public monument to the Brigade in the United States. All text is presented in Spanish and English.

Book Ibero americana

Download or read book Ibero americana written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research news and principal acquisitions of documentation on Latin America in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Book Falklands Malvinas 1982

    Book Details:
  • Author : María Inés Tato
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-03-07
  • ISBN : 1000841162
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Falklands Malvinas 1982 written by María Inés Tato and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Falkland/Malvinas War by integrating the military history of the conflict into the diplomatic, political, social and cultural aspects of the war. Including a substantial body of advocacy, chronicle, narrative and analysis, the volume draws upon an extensive range of published sources, in English and Spanish, primary sources from both sides and unpublished testimonies. The book, written by Argentine and Australian historians and scholars, discuss themes such as the background to the war, the offensive campaign for the islands and the English and Argentine experiences and memories of the war from the perspective of the islanders. Being part of the Wars and Battles of the World series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of military history, British history, Latin American history, defence and strategic studies, geopolitics and modern history.

Book Yo quiero partir

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  • Author : Daniel Moritz
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2014-07-30
  • ISBN : 1291967931
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Yo quiero partir written by Daniel Moritz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro relata una historia. Soy el autor, gracias a él tiene este hombre, soy siempre un hombre, tan gracioso al medio de los malos. Me designan de la mano para decir es un vagabundo. Un día serio, otro reidor donde mi vida juega siempre de allí alternante la tragedia de la existencia y una comedia de la felicidad. Estoy sin miedo y sin pecado Ver a caballero sin un céntimo en bolsillo, pero que tiene siempre un corazón de oro. Ahora el mar es nuestro domicilio somos libres como diablillos extravagantes que prefieren En el peor de los casos el mejor.

Book Iberoamericana

Download or read book Iberoamericana written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Projects

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Diego Vigil
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2009-03-06
  • ISBN : 0292795092
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Projects written by James Diego Vigil and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 — ALLA Prize for Best Book on Latina/o Anthropology The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. The main objective of his research was to discover what factors make some families more vulnerable to gang membership, and why gang resistance was evidenced in similarly situated non-gang-involved families. Providing rich, in-depth interviews and observations, Vigil examines the wide variations in income and social capital that exist among the ostensibly poor, mostly Mexican American residents. Vigil documents how families connect and interact with social agencies in greater East Los Angeles to help chart the routines and rhythms of the lives of public housing residents. He presents family life histories to augment and provide texture to the quantitative information. By studying life in Pico Gardens, Vigil feels we can better understand how human agency interacts with structural factors to produce the reality that families living in all public housing developments must contend with daily.