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Book The Liberation of Allyson Brown

Download or read book The Liberation of Allyson Brown written by Helen Godfrey Pyke and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Specters of Liberation

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  • Author : Martin Beck Matuštík
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780791436912
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Specters of Liberation written by Martin Beck Matuštík and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocates a new existential and political coalition among critical and postmodern social theorists and among critical gender, race, and class theorists, in dissent from the New World Order, to raise specters of liberation and empower radical democratic change.

Book Adventist Review

Download or read book Adventist Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writings for a Liberation Psychology

Download or read book Writings for a Liberation Psychology written by Ignacio Martín-Baró and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual. This collection of his writings, the first in English translation, clarifies Martín-Baró’s importance in Latin American psychology and reveals a major force in the field of social theory. Gathering essays from an array of professional journals, this volume introduces readers to the questions and concerns that shaped Martín-Baró’s thinking over several decades: the psychological dimensions of political repression, the impact of violence and trauma on child development and mental health, the use of psychology for political ends, religion as a tool of ideology, and defining the “real” and the “normal” under conditions of state-sponsored violence and oppression, among others. Though grounded in the harsh realities of civil conflict in Central America, these essays have broad relevance in a world where political and social turmoil determines the conditions of daily life for so many. In them we encounter Martín-Baró’s humane, impassioned voice, reaffirming the essential connections among mental health, human rights, and the struggle against injustice. His analysis of contemporary social problems, and of the failure of the social sciences to address those problems, permits us to understand not only the substance of his contribution to social thought but also his lifelong commitment to the campesinos of El Salvador.

Book Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market

Download or read book Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market written by Gunvor Jónsson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malian market at the railway terminus in Dakar was bulldozed in 2009 and, following privatisation of the railway, passenger services in Senegal soon ceased altogether. The consequences were felt especially by women traders who had travelled the line since its inauguration, making the terminus in Dakar the centre of a thriving network of traders and migrants. To examine the fates of those whose livelihoods were destroyed or disrupted, Gunvor Jónsson spent a year with the women evicted from the terminus. Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market explores what happens at ‘the end’ of urban displacement, when it is all over, so to speak – when the dust has settled and people find themselves scattered in sometimes unfamiliar surroundings, trying to pick up the pieces and create something meaningful. This book argues that rupture and ensuing displacement do not produce a clean slate where identities, networks and histories must be produced from scratch. Traders and their markets do not simply vanish into thin air when they are evicted. The book examines not only what is lost but what emerges when a dense node, such as the terminus, is dissolved and fragmented. The ethnography of the traders reveals that the aftermath of eviction in cities may lead to diasporic forms of consciousness and identity formations. Displacement, whether on a local or global scale, demands difficult adjustments and people’s capacities to adapt to new circumstances and environments vary. This book uncovers some of these different capacities and variations in traders’ reactions to displacement. Praise for Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market 'Jónsson's book is a masterful study of the aftermath of displacement in a major African city. Through deep ethnographic engagement, the book shows how displacement is about more than leaving a place; it is also about how people rebuild livelihoods, and how the space left behind continues to haunt their imagination of a meaningful life.' Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, UCL 'This book is an inspiring tribute to the Malian women traders of Senegal. ‘Emptied out’ from their old market stalls by a vainglorious development scheme, they bravely regrouped to recover their livelihoods and protect their families. Gunvor Jónsson challenges the idea that displacement only involves refugees. Instead, she creatively marries studies of migration and urbanization, providing fresh insights to both fields.' Robin Cohen, University of Oxford

Book Voluntary Detours

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  • Author : Lianne McTavish
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2021-10-15
  • ISBN : 0228009960
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Voluntary Detours written by Lianne McTavish and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a “voluntary detour” encapsulates the way visitors travel along backroads to find small-town and rural museums, as well as the agreement to turn away from standard museum scripts when they arrive. Addressing themes of place, land, colonization, rurality, heritage, childhood, and play, McTavish reveals the museum visitor as multifaceted, with locals and tourists often interpreting museums very differently. Case studies include the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial Museum, Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, and the Museum of Fear and Wonder. A key chapter analyzing sites devoted to resource extraction explores how these places promote settler colonial understandings of land use. By contrast, Indigenous museums and cultural centres defy colonial messages in displays that adapt and refuse conventional museum formats. Honouring local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge, Voluntary Detours enriches critical accounts of the past, present, and future of museums.

Book The Liberation of Alice Love

Download or read book The Liberation of Alice Love written by Abby McDonald and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delicious in so many ways, you'll find this one hard to put down." -Laura Dave, Author of The Divorce Party and London is the Best City in America Alice Love keeps her life (and job, and family) running in perfect order, so when her bank card is declined, she thinks it's just a mistake. Sadly, someone has emptied her bank account, spending her savings on glamorous trips, sexy lingerie, and a to-die-for wardrobe-and leaving Alice with lots of debt. As a dashing fraud investigator helps her unravel the intriguing paper trail, Alice discovers that the thief is closer to home than she ever imagined. What's more, it seems like her alter ego's reckless, extravagant lifestyle is the one Alice should have been leading all along. As the little white lies begin to stack up, how far will Alice go to find the truth? And whose life, exactly, is she fighting for? "refreshing, fun, and sexy...a perfect beach read." -Closer

Book Walk Together Children

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  • Author : Dwight N. Hopkins
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 1606089870
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book Walk Together Children written by Dwight N. Hopkins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies, Church, and Theological Education draws on the long religious, cultural, and singing history of blacks in the U.S.A. Through the slavery and emancipation days until now, black song has both nurtured and enhanced African American life as a collective whole. Communality has always included a variety of existential experiences. What has kept this enduring people in a corporate process is their walking together through good times and bad, relying on what W. E. B. DuBois called their "dogged strength" to keep "from being torn asunder." Somehow and someway they intuited from historical memory or received from transcendental revelation that keeping on long enough on the road would yield ultimate fruit for the journey.

Book 1998 Writer s Market

Download or read book 1998 Writer s Market written by Kirsten C. Holm and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current edition of the annual writer's resource which lists 4,200 places to sell articles, books, short stories, novels, plays, scripts and greeting cards. Includes information on royalties, submission guidelines, manuscript formats, contact information, and tips from successful authors and editors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Exodus and Liberation

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  • Author : John Coffey
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-18
  • ISBN : 0199334242
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Exodus and Liberation written by John Coffey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Exodus and Liberation argues that the Exodus story carried one of the big ideas in Anglophone political culture - the idea of deliverance. In the sixteenth century, Calvinist rebels and reformers identified with Old Testament Israel as they sought liberation from "popish bondage." The Puritan Revolution of 1640-60 was depicted as England's Exodus, provoking a fierce contest for control of the biblical story. In the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution, Protestants turned the Exodus narrative and deliverance language against "political slavery." Revolutionary rhetoric exposed the contradiction between libertarian ideology and black chattel slavery. Abolitionists forged a theology of liberation, articulated in resonant biblical mottoes: "Let my People Go!", "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land," "Break every Yoke", "Release the Oppressed." African Americans cast themselves as the Children of Israel, forging a distinct identity and throwing into question the scriptural construction of the United States. Black migrations to the North were imagined as journeys to the Promised Land, and black Exodus politics climaxed in the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. Among American statesmen, foreign policy rhetoric continued to yoke Providence to Liberation. By the twenty-first century, both George W. Bush and Barack Obama laid claim to the Exodus story. Using sermons, speeches, pamphlets, song, verse, and iconography, Exodus and Liberation documents the extraordinary reach of these biblical traditions, demonstrating how the political reading of scriptural texts powerfully informed Protestant debates over slavery and liberty.

Book Why Can t I Do School

Download or read book Why Can t I Do School written by Helen Godfrey Pyke and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Brown

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  • Author : Alison Morretta
  • Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2018-07-15
  • ISBN : 1502635208
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book John Brown written by Alison Morretta and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To some, John Brown was a hero and a martyr to the abolitionist cause. To others, he was a treasonous murderer operating outside the law. Unlike most mainstream abolitionists, Brown believed that slavery would never end without the use of violence, and he was more than willing to take up arms against anyone who stood in his way. His ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, which resulted in his execution, was merely the final chapter in his history of using violent means to fight slavery. The question of whether violence is ever acceptable as a form of protest is one that Brown's contemporaries asked themselves and one we are still asking today. Through this book, students can contemplate that same question as they examine the facts of John Brown's life, the historical context in which he lived, and the legacy he left behind.

Book Western Fundamentalism

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  • Author : Gordon Menzies
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-30
  • ISBN : 9780648728504
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Western Fundamentalism written by Gordon Menzies and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Dr Gordon Menzies invites us to examine the freedoms we seek through democracy, market economics and sex. These freedoms are so fundamental to our thinking that we don't even question them, yet they determine much of how we see the world and shape it. Are you prepared to challenge your fundamentals? 'When I came to live in Australia from Bangladesh, I expected to find a society with diverse viewpoints. Instead I found a highly religious society where the religion was secular.' Australian PhD student.

Book Bluegrass Breakdown

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  • Author : Robert Cantwell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780252071171
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Bluegrass Breakdown written by Robert Cantwell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluegrass music is an original characterization, simply called a 'representation, ' of traditional Appalachian music in its social form.

Book An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies

Download or read book An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies written by Will Stockton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language. Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopianism, economics and neoliberalism, and AIDS activism and disability. Each chapter expounds upon foundational works in queer theory by scholars including Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lee Edelman. Each chapter also offers readings of primary texts –ranging from the highly canonical, like John Milton’s Paradise Lost, to more contemporary works of popular fiction, like Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot. Along the way, An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly demonstrates how queer reading methods work alongside other methods like feminism, historicism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. By modelling queer readings, this book invites literature students to develop queer readings of their own. It also suggests that reading queerly is not simply a matter of reading work written by queer people. Queer reading attunes us to the queerness of even the most straightforward text.

Book The End    Prophetic Insights into the Last Days

Download or read book The End Prophetic Insights into the Last Days written by Alison Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing insight into end-times prophecy. Dr Brown writes from a messianic perspective revealing how the Feasts and current world events tie in with Biblical and even Islamic prophecies. A must read for all those interested in what is about to happen in these last days.

Book Novel and Short Story Writer s Market 1999

Download or read book Novel and Short Story Writer s Market 1999 written by Barbara Kuroff and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction writers rely on this resource to find the right publishers for their work. Extensive market listings provide accurate, up-to-date information on commercial and literary publishers, magazines and more.'