On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights
Author: Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference
Publisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780953824861
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Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-state
Author: Aviva Chomsky
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780822322184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean that illustrates the importance of workers' actions in shaping national history.
Leadership From the Margins
Author: Serena Cosgrove
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010-07-23
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0813550408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen have experienced decades of economic and political repression across Latin America, where many nations are built upon patriarchal systems of power. However, a recent confluence of political, economic, and historical factors has allowed for the emergence of civil society organizations (CSOs) that afford women a voice throughout the region. Leadership from the Margins describes and analyzes the unique leadership styles and challenges facing the women leaders of CSOs in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Based on ethnographic research, Serena Cosgrove's analysis offers a nuanced account of the distinct struggles facing women, and how differences of class, political ideology, and ethnicity have informed their outlook and organizing strategies. Using a gendered lens, she reveals the power and potential of women's leadership to impact the direction of local, regional, and global development agendas.
Marx at the Margins
Author: Kevin B. Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 022634570X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Through highly informed readings of work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond. For this expanded edition, Anderson has written a new preface that discusses the additional 1879–82 notebook material, as well as the influence of the Russian-American philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya on his thinking.
Italy's Margins
Author: David Forgacs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-27
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1107052173
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From the Margins
Author: Brian Keith Axel
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002-06-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780822328889
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Margins and Mainstreams
Author: Gary Y. Okihiro
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0295805366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture. While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social history, Okihiro argues that the core values and ideals of the nation emanate today not from the so-called mainstream but from the margins, from among Asian and African Americans, Latinos and American Indians, women, and the gay and lesbian community. Those groups in their struggles for equality, have helped to preserve and advance the founders’ ideals and have made America a more democratic place for all.
Privacy at the Margins
Author: Scott Skinner-Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-11-05
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1316856704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLimited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins, Scott Skinner-Thompson highlights why privacy is of acute importance for marginalized groups. He explains how privacy can serve as a form of expressive resistance to government and corporate surveillance regimes - furthering equality goals - and demonstrates why efforts undertaken by vulnerable groups (queer folks, women, and racial and religious minorities) to protect their privacy should be entitled to constitutional protection under the First Amendment and related equality provisions. By examining the ways even limited privacy can enrich and enhance our lives at the margins in material ways, this work shows how privacy can be transformed from a liberal affectation to a legal tool of liberation from oppression.
State Crime on the Margins of Empire
Author: Kristian Lasset
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2014-08-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745335032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industries. It follows a single, brutal campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Papua New Guinea, who struggled against a decision to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives. Drawing on internal records and interviews with senior officials, Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist growth mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power, large-scale mining, and clan-based, rural society, prompted an ostensibly 'responsible' corporate citizen, and liberal state actors, to organise a counterinsurgency campaign punctuated with gross human rights abuses. State Crime on the Margins of Empire represents a unique intervention rooted in a classical Marxist tradition that challenges positivist streams of criminological scholarship, in order to illuminate with greater detail the historical forces faced by communities in the global south caught in the increasingly violent dynamics of the extractive industries.
The Nation and Its Margins
Author: Vinita Chandra
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-12
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781527540187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume questions the idea that the nation-state is the only available form of community, and challenges its hegemonic control over forms of socio-cultural belonging. The contributions here explore cross-cultural and transnational encounters which highlight narratives that escape the neat boundaries constructed by nationalities. They complicate our understanding of peoples and groups and the varying spaces they inhabit by allowing narratives that have been made invisible, due to hegemonic national control, to emerge. This volume throws light on moments of cultural encounters in the Global South, specifically South Asia, South-east Asia, West Asia, and Latin America, exploring what happens when diverse communities come together to challenge the notion that claiming national identity is the only acceptable mode of being, belonging, and existing in the world. In doing so, the book reveals other radically innovative forms of attaining cohesion and identity.
