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Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and
Activisms examines the processes by which activist successes are
limited, outlines a theoretical framing of the liminal and temporal
limits to social justice efforts as "contained empowerment." With a
focused lens on the third wave and contemporary forms of feminism,
the author investigates feminist activity from the early 1990s
through responses and reactions to the overturning of Roe v. Wade
in 2022, and contrasts these efforts with anti-feminist, white
supremacist, and other structural normalizing efforts designed to
limit and repress women's, gendered, and reproductive rights. This
book includes analyses of celebrity activism, girl power,
transnational feminist NGOs, digital feminisms, and the feminist
mimicry applied by practitioners of neo-liberal and anti-feminism.
Victoria A. Newsome concludes that the contained nature of feminist
empowerment illustrates how activists must engage directly with
intersectional challenges and address the multiplicities of
structural oppressions in order to breach containment.
Black Male Violence in Perspective: Towards Afrocentric
Intervention represents a synthesis of lived experience,
authoritative research, and Afro-centric perspective on one of the
most controversial topics of our day. It examines violence by and
among Black men, as it is inextricably tied to its context; the
history of violence in America including colonialism, expansionism,
and concepts of manifest destiny. Acknowledging important concepts
like Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" and Joy DeGruy-Leary's
"Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome," and chronicling the devastating
and injurious effects of racism, the text moves in a clinical
direction. It identifies and addresses the resulting dangerous
triad of frustration, anger, and depression and how they come
together clinically to impact young Black men resulting in violent
outcomes. It explores the psychology underlying violent behavior,
delving into the socioeconomic realities that are very much a part
of the landscape of violence in America. Tony Jackson utilizes
cases from his career as a therapist as well as examples from
actual life experience to illustrate challenging concepts. More
importantly, Black Male Violence in Perspective proposes a theory
of intervention and treatment with a discussion on quantitative and
qualitative research methods.
The concept of 'radicalization' is now used to account for all
forms of violent and non-violent political Islam. Used widely
within the security services and picked up by academia, the term
was initially coined by the General Intelligence and Security
Service of the Netherlands (AIVD) after the 9/11 and Pentagon
attacks, an origin that is rarely recognised. This book comprises
contributions from leading scholars in the field of critical
security studies to trace the introduction, adoption and
dissemination of 'radicalization' as a concept. It is the first
book to offer a critical analysis and history of the term as an
'empty signifier', that is, a word that might not necessarily refer
to something existing in the real world. The diverse contributions
consider how the term has circulated since its emergence in the
Netherlands and Belgium, its appearance in academia, its existence
among the people categorized as 'radicals' and its impact on
relationships of trust between public officials and their clients.
Building on the traditions of critical security studies and
critical studies on terrorism, the book reaffirms the importance of
a reflective approach to counter-radicalization discourse and
policies. It will be essential reading for scholars of security
studies, political anthropology, the study of Islam in the west and
European studies.
A classic of Brazilian literary criticism and historiography,
Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization explores the unique
character of Brazil from its colonial beginnings to its emergence
as a modern nation. This translation presents the thought of
Alfredo Bosi, one of contemporary Brazil's leading intellectuals,
to an English-speaking audience. Portugal extracted wealth from its
Brazilian colony. Slaves--first indigenous peoples, later
Africans--mined its ore and cut its sugarcane. From the customs of
the colonists and the aspirations of the enslaved rose Brazil. Bosi
scrutinizes signal points in the creation of Brazilian culture--the
plays and poetry, the sermons of missionaries and Jesuit priests,
the Indian novels of Jose de Alencar and the Voices of Africa of
poet Castro Alves. His portrait of the country's response to the
pressures of colonial conformity offers a groundbreaking appraisal
of Brazilian culture as it emerged from the tensions between
imposed colonial control and the African and Amerindian
cults--including the Catholic-influenced ones--that resisted it.
This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and
how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation.
Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco
studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address
historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices,
leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the
creation and diversification of Indigenous churches. Instead of
focusing on the study of missionary ideologies and praxis, the book
explores Indigenous peoples' interpretations of Christianity and
the institutional arrangements they make to create, expand, or
dismantle their churches. In doing so, the volume offers a South
American contribution to the theoretical project of the
anthropology of Christianity, especially as it relates to the issue
of denominationalism and inter-denominational relations.
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