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Author: Allyson Eamer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-05-06
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1848881177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorder Terrains examines 21st century diasporas through the lenses of identity negotiation, religious faith, language, media and representations in fiction.
Author: Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1350050121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness' – and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange. This volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the product of Orientalist stereotypes – even when dealing with women who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are described and decried by their opponents.
Author: Fred Dervin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1317811976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies of identity and interculturality. The volume particularly focuses on critical reflexivity in every stage of research, including reflections on theoretical concepts (such as ‘identity’ and ‘interculturality’) and their relationship with methodology and analytical practice, reflections on researcher identity and subjectivity, reflections on local and global contexts of research, and reflections on language choice and linguacultural aspects of data generation, analysis and communication.
Author: Andreas Schmoller
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 3643910231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle Eastern Christians have a long tradition of interacting with Europe. As other minorities they have also "emerged" through relations of European powers with the region. The historical circulation of people and ideas is also relevant for identities of Middle Eastern Christians who have settled in Europe in the past decades. This volume, stemming from an interdisciplinary workshop in Salzburg 2016, brings together both perspectives of entanglement.
Author: Angie Heo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0520970128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world.
Author: Elazar Barkan
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804729062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the ways that people create and represent a home away from home. The authors emphasize politics of identity that have characterized the postcolonial and post-World War II eras, and examine the ways in which different communities have
Author: Courtney Mann
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence Herzog
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138950542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we move deeper into the 21st century, globalisation continues to transform the spaces around international borders, and the social processes, cultural practices, economies, and political dynamics within and between these spaces. Drawing from examples on the US-Mexico border (with comparisons to Europe), this book examines how border regions have become important places in their own right, areas where people live, work, create art; where companies invest, crimes occur, and security is a concern. They are spaces that need to be better understood and managed, especially given the cross-national and global forces acting upon them. This book was published as a special issue of Global Society.
Author: Maria Photiou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1350203076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art. The volume brings together essays which explore the conditions of global migration as a process that is always both about departures and homecomings, indeed, home-makings, through which the construction of migratory narratives are made possible. Although centrally concerned with how recent and contemporary works of art can materialize the migratory experience of movement and (re)settlement, the contributions to this book also explore how curating and exhibition practices, at both local and global levels, can extend and challenge conventional narratives of art, borders and belonging. A growing number of artists migrate; some for better job opportunities and for the experience of different cultures, others not by choice but as a consequence of forced displacement caused economic or environmental collapse, or by political, religious or military destabilization. In recent years, the theme of migration has emerged as a dominant subject in art and curatorial practices. Art, Borders and Belonging thus seeks to explore how the migratory experience is generated and displayed through the lens of contemporary art. In considering the extent to which the visual arts are intertwined with real life events, this text acts as a vehicle of knowledge transfer of cultural perspectives and enhances the importance of understanding artistic interventions in relation to home, migration and belonging.
Author: Mabel Moraña
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1000361446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the large-scale migration of people across borders, which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years. In this book, internationally recognized scholars and activists from a variety of fields analyze key issues related to diasporic movements, displacements, exiles, "illegal" migrants, border crossings, deportations, maritime ventures, and the militarization of borders from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Ambitious in scope, with cases stretching from the Mediterranean to Australia, the US/Mexico border, Venezuela, and deterritorialized sectors in Colombia and Central America, the various contributions are unified around the notion of freedom of movement, and the recognition of the need to think differently about ideas of citizenship and sovereignty around the world. Liquid Borders will be of interest to policy makers, and to researchers across the humanities, sociology, area studies, politics, international relations, geography, and of course migration and border studies.
