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Trauma, Flight and Migration - Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Hardcover): Vivienne Elton, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gertraud... Trauma, Flight and Migration - Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Hardcover)
Vivienne Elton, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp, Vivian Pender
R3,998 Discovery Miles 39 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together leading international psychoanalysts to discuss what psychoanalysis can offer to people who have experienced trauma, flight, and migration. The four parts of the book cover several elements of this work, including psychoanalytic projects beyond the couch, and collaboration with the UN. Each chapter presents an example of the applications of psychoanalysis with a specific group or in a particular context, from working with refugees in China to understanding the experiences of women who have witnessed political violence in Peru. Psychoanalytic work with Trauma, Flight and Migration provides a compelling exploration of the international contributions made by psychoanalysis. This innovative book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists looking to learn more about working with people who have experienced the impact of traumatic movement or migration.

Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora - Histories of Childhood, Forced Migration, and Belonging... Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora - Histories of Childhood, Forced Migration, and Belonging (Hardcover)
Anh Nguyen Austen
R4,139 Discovery Miles 41 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora. As war and displacement compounds the need for creating communities and histories for cultural continuity, this book is a history about childhood and migration for the Vietnamese diaspora of refugees, adoptees, and second generation in Australia and their connectedness to a global and digital diaspora. Using Facebook as a digital archive for historical research, Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora presents new methods for the study of what Nguyen Austen proposes as a new area of digital diaspora studies for interdisciplinary research about real and digital life in the humanities and social sciences. As a contemporary digital diaspora study of Vietnamese forced child migrants from 1975 to the present, this book contains a mixed-methods historical analysis of the impact of war and displacement on memories of childhood. This book presents an innovative history of the national, transnational, digital, and contemporaneous lives of Vietnamese child migrants, which will make a significant contribution to the discourse on transnational childhood, migration, and belonging for refugees and migrants in the twenty-first century.

Critical Resource Theory - A Conceptual Lens for Identifying, Diagnosing, and Addressing Inequities in School Funding... Critical Resource Theory - A Conceptual Lens for Identifying, Diagnosing, and Addressing Inequities in School Funding (Hardcover)
Leslie S Kaplan, William A Owings
R4,137 Discovery Miles 41 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* The only book that offers a new, easily understandable conceptual framework with which to identify, assess, and help remedy inequities in public funding. * Addresses both the inequities in public school funding and the wider societal and cultural issues that make it "normal" to underfund high-poverty schools and to expect low-income children and children of color to perform poorly in school. * Introduces a new theory with practical application and is grounded in contemporary research. * Explores how school district leaders, building principals, and policy makers can conduct meaningful "equity audits" in their schools and districts to determine equitable resource allocations.

Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization - Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective... Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization - Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective (Hardcover)
Jesus F. Chairez-Garza, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Malini Ranganathan, Pavithra Vasudevan
R4,140 Discovery Miles 41 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the same time, the chapters look transnationally, examining how regional forms of difference marked by caste and tribe, for instance, have long articulated with historical forms of global racial capitalism. Ultimately, this book attends to the narratives and experiences of those living at the margins, who strategically deploy racial and antiracist concepts to build international solidarity movements beyond the narrow confines of the Indian nation-state. In so doing, it hopes to derive insights on the necessity of transnational translations, even as it directs renewed attention to the specificity of regional hierarchies that shape everyday life and death in India. This book is a significant new contribution to addressing fundamental questions of caste, race, and religious politics in India and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Geography, History and Anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

A Nimble Arc - James Van Der Zee and Photography (Paperback): Emilie Boone A Nimble Arc - James Van Der Zee and Photography (Paperback)
Emilie Boone
R754 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R128 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America - Modernization, Revolution and Social Justice (Paperback): Helena Alviar... Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America - Modernization, Revolution and Social Justice (Paperback)
Helena Alviar Garcia
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence. The opposing concepts of modernization theory and Dependency Theory can be seen to be playing out within the field of legal transformation, as some legal analysts define law as a closed, formal, rational system, and others see law as inseparable from economic, social and political change. Legal experiments have followed these trends, in some cases using legal instruments to guarantee classical, civil and political rights, and in others demanding radical transformation of existing legal structures. This book traces these debates across the key topics of: economic development and foreign investment; property; resource and power distribution in terms of gender and social policy. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book adds complexity and color to our understanding of these themes in Latin America. This insightful exploration of comparative law within Latin America provides the tools needed to understand legal transformation in the region, and as such will be of interest to researchers within law, political sociology, development and Latin American studies.

Sri Lanka's Remittance Economy - A Multiscalar Analysis of Migration-Underdevelopment (Paperback): Matt Withers Sri Lanka's Remittance Economy - A Multiscalar Analysis of Migration-Underdevelopment (Paperback)
Matt Withers
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Employing a multiscalar approach to migration outcomes, spanning individual households, local communities, the macroeconomy and global patterns of capital accumulation, this book demonstrates how cumulatively causal processes at structural, institutional and agency levels have forged a precariously remittance-dependent economy in Sri Lanka. This book combines historical-structural analysis with qualitative research to contend that remittance inflows have reinforced patterns of uneven development in Sri Lanka. At the heart of this argument is a bold critique of remittance capital that inverts the migration-development nexus which has come to dominate international policymaking, with implications for Sri Lanka and other 'remittance economies' throughout the Global South. The author contends that temporary labour migration from Sri Lanka is a process of 'migration-underdevelopment', in which remittance inflows - ubiquitously considered a key source of capital for developing economies - are reinforcing of uneven development at multiple scales and produce unsustainable development outcomes. Offering a uniquely systematic critique of remittances as a source of developmental capital for countries of origin, such as Sri Lanka, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of development studies, migration studies and Asian studies.

Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening - Becoming an Unaccompanied Child (Paperback): Marcus Herz, Philip Lalander Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening - Becoming an Unaccompanied Child (Paperback)
Marcus Herz, Philip Lalander
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind. The book contains stories of powerlessness and frustration from being held under suspicion, from meeting authorities and abstract people of power from "the system," or from constantly being categorized in a static category of "the unaccompanied child." It contains stories of human meetings characterized by thoughtfulness, reciprocity and listening. This book also explores the experiences of meeting social workers as a young migrant in Sweden. The narratives depict how social workers can often reproduce powerlessness and frustration among the young people, but also how there are those social workers who provide something else through the act of listening. By extension, this is a book about society, about how important it can be to reframe people and to listen to their stories, needs and wills. Demonstrating the importance of listening to the stories of young refuges, this title will appeal to students, researchers, community workers and social workers interested in migration, race and ethnicity, youth studies, social work, sociology, anthropology, pedagogy and health.

The Transnational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in the US - Education and Identity in Globalized Contexts (Paperback):... The Transnational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in the US - Education and Identity in Globalized Contexts (Paperback)
Xiangyan Liu
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Detailing ethnographic research conducted in U.S. public high schools, this text considers how Chinese immigrant youth's educational positionality and identity are shaped by diasporic and transnational migrant experiences. The Transnational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in the US presents a critical examination of themes relevant to Chinese immigrant education such as academic achievement, English language proficiency, and cultural and social capital. The intersection between diaspora and education is explored to highlight the existence of multi-layered youth identities, which exist beyond and between national boundaries, and which embody the concept of global citizenship. Building on this realization, chapters consider how institutional structures might be better designed to meet the needs of students who arrive in host countries due to larger global forces. This text will primarily be of interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars with an interest in multicultural education and the sociology of education. Those interested in the Asian diaspora, race and ethics, and educational research methods more broadly will also benefit from this volume.

White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking (Hardcover): Kamala Kempadoo, Elena Shih White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking (Hardcover)
Kamala Kempadoo, Elena Shih
R4,134 Discovery Miles 41 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail. A number of recent arguments have suggested that race and racism are not only visible, but vital, to the success of contemporary anti- trafficking discourses and movements. The contributors offer recent scholarship grounded in critical anti- racist perspectives that reveal the historical and contemporary racial working of anti- trafficking discourses and practices globally-and how these intersect with gender, citizenship, sexuality, caste and class formations, and the global political economy.

The First Reconstruction - Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover): Van Gosse The First Reconstruction - Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
Van Gosse
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential electoral black politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War--as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in U.S. electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of never-before-told stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland and New Bedford to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.

Unconventional Combat - Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement (Paperback): Michael A. Messner Unconventional Combat - Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement (Paperback)
Michael A. Messner
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans. In Unconventional Combat, Michael A. Messner traces this transformation through the life-history interviews of six veterans of color to show how their experiences of sexual and gender harassment, sexual assault, racist and homophobic abuse during their military service has shaped their political views and action. Drawing upon participant observation with the Veterans For Peace and About Face organizations and interviews with older male veterans as his backdrop, Messner shows how veterans' military experiences form their collective "situated knowledge" of intersecting oppressions. This knowledge, Messner argues, further shapes their intersectional praxis, which promises to transform the veterans' peace movement and potentially link their anti-militarist work with other movement groups working for change. As intersectionality has increasingly become central to the conversation on social movements, Unconventional Combat is not only a story about the US veterans' peace movement, but it also offers broad relevance to the larger world of social justice activism.

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas (Paperback): Olaf Kaltmeier, Anne Tittor, Daniel... The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas (Paperback)
Olaf Kaltmeier, Anne Tittor, Daniel Hawkins, Eleonora Rohland
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics. The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies.

Gustavo Esteva - A Critique of Development and other essays (Hardcover): Gustavo Esteva Gustavo Esteva - A Critique of Development and other essays (Hardcover)
Gustavo Esteva; Translated by Kathryn Dix
R4,752 Discovery Miles 47 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In his reflections on decolonization and post-development, Gustavo Esteva forged a unique synthesis of critical theory and political economy. This book presents more than half a century of "reflection in action" in the form of essays, books, and interventions in national and international forums and newspaper articles-most published here for the very first time. It showcases Esteva's evolving thought on economic theory, social change, revolutionary subjectivity, transition, development, the challenges of a new era and personal and communal autonomy, all associated with the challenges and advances in the construction of a new society. Through this translation, Esteva's writings engage with many of the important cultural and political debates of the present day and retain their power both to provoke and move the reader. Readers will see a thinker at work, formulating local, grassroots alternatives as they are emerging in Mexico and Latin America, with a keen sensibility to what happens in other regions of the world. Gustavo Esteva: A Critique of Development and Other Essays offers a lucid insight into the climatic and sociopolitical collapses we face and will be of interest to students and scholars of critical theory, post-colonial and de-colonial studies, and post-development studies.

Connecting Worlds and People - Early modern diasporas (Paperback): Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht Connecting Worlds and People - Early modern diasporas (Paperback)
Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent decades historians have emphasized just how dynamic and varied early modern Europe was. Previously held notions of monolithic and static societies have now been replaced with a model in which new ideas, different cultures and communities jostle for attention and influence. Building upon the concept of interaction, the essays in this volume develop and explore the idea with specific reference to the ways in which diasporas could act as translocal societies, connecting worlds and peoples that may not otherwise have been linked. The volume looks at the ways in which diasporas or diasporic groups, such as the Herrnhuters, the Huguenots, the Quakers, Jews, the Mennonites, the Moriscos and others, could function as intermediaries to connect otherwise separated communities and societies. All contributors analyse the respective groups' internal and external networks, social relations and the settings of social interactions, looking at the entangled networks of diaspora communities and their effects upon the societies and regions they linked through those networks. The collection takes a fresh look at early modern diasporas, combining religious, cultural, social and economic history to better understand how early modern communication patterns and markets evolved, how consumption patterns changed and what this meant for social, economic and cultural change, how this impacted on what we understand as early developments towards globalization, and how early developments towards globalization, in turn, were constitutive of these.

Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity - Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management (Hardcover):... Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity - Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management (Hardcover)
Jessie K Finch
R4,138 Discovery Miles 41 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges. How do individuals negotiate situations in which their work-role identity is put in competition with their other social identities such as race/ethnicity, citizenship/generational status, and gender? By developing a new and integrative conceptualization of competing identity management, this book highlights the connection between micro level identities and macro level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, readers gain insight into the identity management strategies used by both Latino/a and non-Latino/a legal professionals of various citizenship/generational statuses and genders as they explain their participation in a program that represents many of the systemic inequalities that exist in the current U.S. criminal justice and immigration regimes. The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social psychology, critical criminology, racial/ethnic studies, and migration studies. Additionally, with clear descriptions of terminology and theories referenced, students can learn not only about Operation Streamline as a specific criminal immigration proceeding that exemplifies structural inequalities but also about how those inequalities are reproduced-often reluctantly-by the legal professionals involved.

Origins of the Civil Rights Movements (Paperback, 1st Free Press pbk. ed): Aldon D. Morris Origins of the Civil Rights Movements (Paperback, 1st Free Press pbk. ed)
Aldon D. Morris
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A blending of scholarly research and interviews with many of the figures who launched the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s records the events of the movement's tumultuous first decade.

Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism (Paperback): Bandana Purkayastha, Ajaya Sahoo Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism (Paperback)
Bandana Purkayastha, Ajaya Sahoo
R1,421 Discovery Miles 14 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected. The concept of crossing borders emerges as an important theme, along with the interweaving of life in geographic and web spaces. The authors draw from a variety of archives and intellectual perspectives in order to map the narratives of Indian transnationalism and analyse the interplay of culture and structures within transnational contexts. The topics covered range from the history of transnational networks, activism, identity, gender, politics, labour, policy, performance, literature and more. This collection presents a wide array of issues and debates which will reinvigorate discussions about Indian transnationalism. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and students interested in studying South Asia in general and the Indian diaspora in particular.

Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music (Paperback): Ray Hitchins Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music (Paperback)
Ray Hitchins
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms (Hardcover):... The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms (Hardcover)
Guillermina de Ferrari, Mariano Siskind
R6,582 Discovery Miles 65 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right - Walter J. Bossy and the Origins of the 'Third Force', 1930s-1970s... Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right - Walter J. Bossy and the Origins of the 'Third Force', 1930s-1970s (Hardcover)
Barbara Molas
R4,138 Discovery Miles 41 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right examines a neglected aspect of the history of 20th century Canadian multiculturalism and the far right to illuminate the ideological foundations of the concept of 'third force'. Focusing on the particular thought of ultra-conservative Ukrainian Canadian Walter J. Bossy during his time in Montreal (1931-1970s), this book demonstrates that the idea that Canada was composed of three equally important groups emerged from a context defined by reactionary ideas on ethnic diversity and integration. Two broad questions shape this research: first, what the meaning originally attached to the idea of a 'third force' was, and what the intentions behind the conceptualization of a trichotomic Canada were; and second, whether Bossy's understanding of the 'third force' precedes, or is related in any way to, postwar debates on liberal multiculturalism at the core of which was the existence of a 'third force'. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of multiculturalism, radical-right ideology and the far right, and Canadian history and politics.

Latin American Politics and Development (Hardcover, 10th edition): Harvey F Kline, Christine J. Wade Latin American Politics and Development (Hardcover, 10th edition)
Harvey F Kline, Christine J. Wade
R4,792 Discovery Miles 47 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A leading text for more than 40 Years, Latin American Politics and Development has helped instructors and students stay abreast of current affairs in Latin America since 1979. Chapters written by leading authorities on each country in Latin America, something unique in the field and praised by reviewers. In addition to coverage of Middle, Central, and South America, includes coverage of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti in the Caribbean. Contextual Background: Chapters 1-7, written by the two editors, provide an essential foundation for understanding the context of Latin American politics and patterns of historical development. No obvious or overbearing political bias, which is unusual in texts on Latin American politics. The wide selection of countries included in Parts 2 and 3 allows students to explore more countries than typically covered. Writing throughout the book to be approachable and perfectly appropriate for an undergraduate audience. It is not laden with jargon, and concepts are explained well.

Under Representation - The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (Paperback): David Lloyd Under Representation - The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (Paperback)
David Lloyd
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 In Stock

Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the absence of sustained thought about race in postcolonial studies, as well as the lack of sustained attention to aesthetics in critical race theory. Late Enlightenment discourse on aesthetic experience proposes a decisive account of the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood. The aesthetic forges a powerful "racial regime of representation" whose genealogy runs from enlightenment thinkers like Kant and Schiller to late modernist critics like Adorno and Benjamin. For aesthetic philosophy, representation is not just about depiction of diverse humans or inclusion in political or cultural institutions. It is an activity that undergirds the various spheres of human practice and theory, from the most fundamental acts of perception and reflection to the relation of the subject to the political, the economic, and the social. Representation regulates the distribution of racial identifications along a developmental trajectory: The racialized remain "under representation," on the threshold of humanity and not yet capable of freedom and civility as aesthetic thought defines those attributes. To ignore the aesthetic is thus to overlook its continuing force in the formation of the racial and political structures down to the present. Across five chapters, Under Representation investigates the aesthetic foundations of modern political subjectivity; race and the sublime; the logic of assimilation and the stereotype; the subaltern critique of representation; and the place of magic and the primitive in modernist concepts of art, aura and representation. Both a genealogy and an account of our present, Under Representation ultimately helps show how a political reading of aesthetics can help us build a racial politics adequate for the problems we face today, one that stakes claims more radical than multicultural demands for representation.

Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge - Building a Community Archive (Paperback): Robert Irwin Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge - Building a Community Archive (Paperback)
Robert Irwin
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world's largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, the project's coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project's innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration. In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacles overcome. As Irwin writes, "The greatest source of expertise on the human consequences of contemporary migration control are the migrants who have experienced them," and their voices in this searing collection jump off the page and into our hearts and minds.

The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren - Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America (Paperback): Maria... The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren - Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America (Paperback)
Maria Alicia Rueda
R1,249 Discovery Miles 12 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in securing independent education for Chile's working classes in the early 20th century. Through close analysis of the textual archives and press writings, The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren offers comprehensive insight into Recabarren's belief in education as essential to the empowerment, emancipation, and political independence of the working class, and emphasises the importance he placed on the education of workers through experiential learning in their organizations and press. By situating his work amongst broader political and educational movements occurring in Latin America in an era of imperialism, the text also demonstrates the progressive nature of Recabarren's work and maps the development of his philosophy amid Socialist, Marxist, and Communist movements. Making an important contribution to our understanding of the aims and value of adult education in light of neoliberalism today, this text will be of interest to scholars, researchers, activists, and post-graduate students with an interest in education, social movements, and Latin America. The text also addresses key issues raised in studies of Recabarren and the history of education in Chile.

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