Living on the Periphery
Author: Toshihiro Nobuta
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevision of author's doctoral thesis, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2002.
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Life on the Periphery
Author: Jon Cunningham
Publisher:
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781532311383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving the urban periphery
Author: Paula Meth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1526171201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how these are lived. This co-authored monograph draws on findings from an extensive comparative study on Ethiopia and South Africa, in conversation with a related study on Ghana. It examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the experiences of living in these changing contexts, alongside the logics driving their transformation. Through its conceptualisation and application of five ‘logics of periphery’, it offers unique, contextually-informed insights into the generic processes shaping urban peripheries, and the variable ways in which these are playing out in contemporary Africa for those living the peripheries.
Fresh Voices from the Periphery
Author: Susan M. Papp
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1039148352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFresh Voices from the Periphery is evidence that history matters — not only the study of the past — but also by shedding light on how events of the past have impacted lives in the present. You are holding in your hands a collection of thought-provoking essays written by young people whose families have lived as minorities in various countries in east-central Europe for four generations. They became minorities not because their families migrated to different parts of Europe, but because the borders were changed overnight by the Treaty of Trianon after the end of the First World War. Much has been written about the outcomes of Trianon, but this book is very different. These essays are the result of a competition for students and young professionals who live in minority status in four different countries surrounding Hungary: Transylvania in Romania, Slovakia, Transcarpathia in Ukraine, and Vojvodina in Serbia. The writings of several Canadian students on this topic are included as well. Voices from the Periphery examines how the current generation of young people perceive the impact of the treaty that has had such a long-term effect on their lives. Their essays not only examine the painful legacy of the past, but also recommend pathways to a more positive future. Their voices must be heard.
From the Periphery
Author: Pia Justesen
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781641601580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Periphery consists of nearly forty first-person narratives from activists and everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. Their stories are raw and painful but also surprisingly funny and deeply moving--describing anger, independence, bigotry, solidarity, and love, in the family, at school, and in the workplace. Inspired by the oral historians Studs Terkel and Svetlana Alexievich, From the Periphery will become a classic oral history collection that increases the understanding of the lived experiences of people with disabilities, their responses to oppression, and the strategies they use to fight for empowerment.
Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do
Author: Melinda Blau
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-07-26
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0393338452
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The Power of the Periphery
Author: Peder Anker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1108477569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how Norway has positioned itself as an alternative, environmentally-sound nation in a world filled with tension and instability.
Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
Author: Sylvia Sellers-García
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2013-12-11
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0804788820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of the empire in Spain. The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at document storage and how archives played an essential part in the flow of paper.
The Work of Living
Author: Maximillian Alvarez
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2022-08-23
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781682193235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs COVID-19 swept across the globe with merciless force, it was working people who kept the world from falling apart. Deemed "essential" by a system that has shown just how much it needs our labor but has no concern for our lives, workers sacrificed--and many were sacrificed--to keep us fed, to keep our shelves stocked, to keep our hospitals and transit running, to care for our loved ones, and so much more. But when we look back at this particular moment, when we try to write these days into history for ourselves and for future generations, whose voices will go on the record? Whose stories will be remembered? In late 2020 and early 2021, at what was then the height of the pandemic, Maximillian Alvarez conducted a series of intimate interviews with workers of all stripes, from all around the US--from Kyle, a sheet metal worker in Kentucky; to Mx. Pucks, a burlesque performer and producer in Seattle; to Nick, a gravedigger in New Jersey. As he does in his widely celebrated podcast, Working People, Alvarez spoke with them about their lives, their work, and their experiences living through a year when the world itself seemed to break apart. Those conversations, documented in these pages, are at times meandering, sometimes funny or philosophical, occasionally punctured by pain so deep that it hurts to read them. Filled with stories of struggle and strength, fear and loss, love and rage, The Work of Living is a deeply human history of one of the defining events of the 21st century told by the people who lived it.
Slavery on the Periphery
Author: Kristen Epps
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0820350508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line.
