Nomadic Identities
Author: May Joseph
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781452903705
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Nomadic Identities
Author: May Joseph
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780816626373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a modern world of vast migrations and relocations, the rights--and rites--of citizenship are increasingly perplexing, and ever more important. Kung Fu cinema, soul music, plays, and speeches are some of the media May Joseph considers as expressive negotiations for legal and cultural citizenship.
Mobility and Displacement
Author: Orhon Myadar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1000190617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores and contests both outsiders’ projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads. It speaks to the experiences of many societies and cultures that are routinely treated as exotic, romantic, primitive or otherwise different and Other in Euro-American imaginaries, and how these imaginaries are also internally produced by those societies themselves. The assumption that Mongolia is a nomadic nation is largely predicated upon Mongolia’s environmental and climatic conditions, which are understood to make Mongolia suitable for little else than pastoral nomadism. But to the contrary, the majority of Mongolians have been settled in and around cities and small population centers. Even Mongolians who are herders have long been unable to move freely in a smooth space, as dictated by the needs of their herds, and as they would as free-roaming "nomads." Instead, they have been subjected to various constraints across time that have significantly limited their movement. The book weaves threads from disparate branches of Mongolian studies to expose various visible and invisible constraints on population mobility in Mongolia from the Qing period to the post-socialist era. With its in-depth analysis of the complexities of the relationship between land rights, mobility, displacement, and the state, the book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of cultural geography, political geography, heritage and culture studies, as well as Eurasian and Inner-Asian Studies. Winner of the Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award (AAG, 2022)
Understanding the Complexities of Nomadic Identities
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Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781785603211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting the Nomadic Experience in Contemporary Francophone Literature
Author: Katharine N. Harrington
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0739175718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Author Katharine N. Harrington examines contemporary writers from the French-speaking world who can be classified as literary "nomads." The concept of nomadism, based on the experience of traditionally mobile peoples lacking any fixed home, reflects a postmodern way of thinking that encourages individuals to reconsider rigid definitions of borders, classifications, and identities. Nomadic identities reflect shifting landscapes that defy taking on fully the limits of any one fixed national or cultural identity. In conceiving of identities beyond the boundaries of national or cultural origin, this book opens up the space for nomadic subjects whose identity is based just as much on their geographical displacement and deterritorialization as on a relationship to any one fixed place, community, or culture. This study explores the experience of an existence between borders and its translation into writing that. While nomadism is frequently associated with post-colonial authors, this study considers an eclectic group of contemporary Francophone writers who are not easily defined by the boundaries of one nation, one culture, or one language. Each of the four writers, J.M.G. LeCl zio, Nancy Huston, Nina Bouraoui, and R gine Robin maintains a connection to France, but it is one that is complicated by life experiences, backgrounds, and choices that inevitably expand their identities beyond the Hexagon. Harrington examines how these authors' life experiences are reflected in their writing and how they may inform us on the state of our increasingly global world where borders and identities are blurred.
The Nomadic Subject
Author: Jean Ryan Hakizimana
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-10-02
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1443814806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is an exploration of the image that is the Traveller/Gypsy, the nomad, the migrant and the outsider/“Other” within the frames of articulation that are the present-day flows of cultural diaspora and mass globalisation. Mass-media dissemination and the combination of a range of complex social and cultural forces and movements have all served to rupture and blurr the borders of the post-Enlightenment, modern nation-state. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of postcolonial diasporas such as Travellers, Roma and other “traditionally” nomadic groups, groups whose migrations have served to accelerate the reconfiguring of (hitherto) dominant cultural narratives. This book explores the manner whereby the migrant experience as relating to Ireland and as relating to Irish Travellers and Roma has been analysed and represented. While the essays in this volume have a particular focus on the experiences of Irish migrants and the people sometimes referred to as the “old Irish” or the “new Irish”, they also have a strong resonance with other recent explorations of the hybrid and diverse discourses that are the narratives of many Western countries today.
Nomadic Theory
Author: Rosi Braidotti
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0231525427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has, over the past decade, crept into continental philosophy, queer theory, and feminist, postcolonial, techno-science, media, and race studies, as well as into architecture, history, and anthropology. This collection provides a core introduction to Braidotti's nomadic theory and its innovative formulations, which playfully engage with Deleuze, Foucault, Irigaray, and a host of political and cultural issues. Arranged thematically, essays begin with such concepts as sexual difference and embodied subjectivity and follow with explorations in technoscience, feminism, postsecular citizenship, and the politics of affirmation. Braidotti develops a distinctly positive critical theory that rejuvenates the experience of political scholarship. Inspired yet not confined by Deleuzian vitalism, with its commitment to the ontology of flows, networks, and dynamic transformations, she emphasizes affects, imagination, and creativity and the politics of radical immanence. Incorporating ideas from Nietzsche and Spinoza as well, Braidotti establishes a critical-theoretical framework equal parts critique and creation. Ever mindful of the perils of defining difference in terms of denigration and the related tendency to subordinate sexualized, racialized, and naturalized others, she explores the eco-philosophical implications of nomadic theory, feminism, and the irreducibility of sexual difference and sexuality. Her dialogue with technoscience is crucial to nomadic theory, which deterritorializes the established understanding of what counts as human, along with our relationship to animals, the environment, and changing notions of materialism. Keeping her distance from the near-obsessive focus on vulnerability, trauma, and melancholia in contemporary political thought, Braidotti promotes a politics of affirmation that has the potential to become its own generative life force.
Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens
Author: Ute Pietruschka
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783895006579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish description: This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center "Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic and settled forms of life in the civilizations of the Old World", based at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig. The colloquium "Symbolic Representations of Nomadic Identities" examined to what extent the representation of nomadic life from the "external" perspective of settled communities and the nomadic "internal" perspective has taken a symbolic form. The colloquium "Camel, Horse and Reindeer - Herd Animals and the Mobility of Nomads" engaged with the topic of nomad herd animals, which symbolically represent nomadic life and are also an essential element of the reality of nomadic life. German description: Der vorliegende Band vereint Beitrage zweier Kolloquien des Sonderforschungsbereichs 586 "Differenz und Integration. Wechselwirkungen zwischen nomadischen und sesshaften Lebensformen in Zivilisationen der Alten Welt" der Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg und der Universitat Leipzig. Das Kolloquium "Symbolic Representations of Nomadic Identities" untersuchte, inwiefern die Reprasentation nomadischen Lebens in der sesshaften "Aussensicht" wie auch der nomadischen "Innensicht" symbolisch gepragt sein kann. Das Kolloquium "Kamel, Pferd und Rentier - Herdentiere und die Mobilitat der Nomaden" beschaftigte sich mit den nomadischen Herdentieren, die nomadisches Leben symbolisch reprasentieren und zugleich essentieller Bestandteil nomadischer Lebenswirklichkeit sind.
Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights
Author: Jérémie Gilbert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1136020160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly, nomadic peoples are facing pressure from the predominant sedentary world over mobility, land rights, water resources, access to natural resources, and migration routes. Adding to these traditional problems, rapid growth in the extractive industry and the need for the exploitation of the natural resources are putting new strains on nomadic lifestyles. This book provides an innovative rights-based approach to the issue of nomadism looking at issues including discrimination, persecution, freedom of movement, land rights, cultural and political rights, and effective management of natural resources. Jeremie Gilbert analyses the extent to which human rights law is able to provide protection for nomadic peoples to perpetuate their own way of life and culture. The book questions whether the current human rights regime is able to protect nomadic peoples, and highlights the lacuna that currently exists in international human rights law in relation to nomadic peoples. It goes on to propose avenues for the development of specific rights for nomadic peoples, offering a new reading on freedom of movement, land rights and development in the context of nomadism.
Threads of Identity
Author: Judy Frater
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy with reference to Gujarat State, India.
