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Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema - Labyrinthian Men (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema - Labyrinthian Men (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Gyoergy Kalmar
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The films explored offer a unique perspective encompassing two entirely different worlds: state socialism and neoliberal capitalism. The films suggest that Eastern Europe is somehow different than its western counterpart and that its subjects are marked by what they went through before and after 1989. These films are all remembering, interpreting, picturing, marketing and trying to come to terms with this difference-with the memory and effects of state-socialism. In looking closely at the films' male figures, one may not only get a glimpse of the dramatic changes Eastern European societies went through after the fall of communism but also see the brave new world of global neoliberal capitalism through the eyes of the Eastern European newcomers.

Security Threats and Public Perception - Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Security Threats and Public Perception - Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Elizaveta Gaufman
R4,131 Discovery Miles 41 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Countless attempts at analyzing Russia's actions focus on Putin to understand Russia's military imbroglio in Ukraine, hostility towards America, and disdain of 'Gayropa'. This book invites its readers to look beyond the man and delve into the online lives of millions of Russians. It asks not the question of what the threats are to Russia's security, but what they are perceived to be by digital Russia. The author examines how enemy images are manufactured, threats magnified, stereotypes revived, memories implanted and fears harnessed. It looks at the legacy of the Soviet Union in shaping discussions ranging from the Ukraine crisis to the Pussy Riots trial, and explores the complex inter-relation between enemy images at the governmental level and their articulation by the general public. By drawing on the fields of international relations, memory studies, visual studies, and big data, this book addresses the question of why securitization succeeds - and why it fails. "Security theory meets the visual turn and goes to Russia, where old tsarist and Soviet tropes are flooding the internet in support of Putin's neo-tsarism. A magical mystery tour that comes recommended. Iver B. Neumann, author of "Russia and the Idea of Europe" "The novelty of her approach is in going beyond the traditional top down perspective and capturing the receptivity and contribution of various social groups to securitized discourses." Andrei P.Tsygankov, author of "Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity". "When do scary proclamations of security threats attract an audience? When does securitization work? 'Security Threats and Public Perception' combines in-depth analysis of the Ukraine Crisis in the Russian digital media with discourse theory to make an innovative argument about how and when people believe that they are insecure. A must read!" Laura Sjoberg, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida, USA

Ethnographic Plague - Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... Ethnographic Plague - Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Christos Lynteris
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.

The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Zsofia... The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Zsofia Lorand
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women's emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?

The Ladies of Dunster Castle - Grand Dames, Wicked Wives and Other Tales of a Historic Castle's Women (Paperback): Jim Lee The Ladies of Dunster Castle - Grand Dames, Wicked Wives and Other Tales of a Historic Castle's Women (Paperback)
Jim Lee
R392 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With a documented history stretching back a thousand years, Dunster Castle in Somerset is one of Britain's oldest and most intriguing great buildings, its turrets evoking centuries of warfare, dark deeds, bloodshed and treachery. What makes it particularly unusual is the prominent role women have played in its fortunes, from the indomitable Joan de Mohun in the 14th century, who promised as much land to the villagers as she could walk around barefoot in a day, to Lady Jane Luttrell, who saw off a Royalist attack during the English Civil War by personally commanding the cannons. Jim Lee worked for many years at the castle and knows more about it than just about anyone. Here he presents an entertaining history of the roles, from the heroic to the self-indulgent, its women have played over the centuries.

Eminent Charlotteans - Twelve Historical Profiles from North Carolina's Queen City (Paperback): Scott Syfert Eminent Charlotteans - Twelve Historical Profiles from North Carolina's Queen City (Paperback)
Scott Syfert
R964 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R255 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eminent Charlotteans tells the story of twelve individuals who developed and contributed to the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, from its earliest Colonial period, through the present day.

The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia, 1863-1880 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Andrew A.... The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia, 1863-1880 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Andrew A. Gentes
R2,382 Discovery Miles 23 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. The imperial Russian government fell back upon using exile to punish the insurrectionists and to cleanse Russia's Western Provinces of ethnic Poles. It convoyed some 20,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of Poland and the Western Provinces across the Urals to locations as far away as Iakutsk, and assigned them to penal labor or forced settlement. Yet the government's lack of infrastructure and planning doomed this operation from the start, and the exiles found ways to resist their subjugation. Based upon archival documents from Siberia and the former Western Provinces, this book offers an unparalleled exploration of the mass deportation. Combining social history with an analysis of statecraft, it is a unique contribution to scholarship on the history of Poland and the Russian Empire.

International Communism and the Cult of the Individual - Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin (Paperback, 1st... International Communism and the Cult of the Individual - Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Kevin Morgan
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. When Stalin died in 1953, the communists of all countries united in mourning the figure that was the incarnation of their cause. Though its international character was one of the distinguishing features of the communist cult of personality, this is the first extended study to approach the phenomenon over the longer period of its development in a truly transnational and comparative perspective. Crucially it is concerned with the internationalisation of the Soviet cults of Lenin and Stalin. But it also ranges across different periods and national cases to consider a wider cast of bureaucrats, tribunes, heroes and martyrs who symbolised both resistance to oppression and the tyranny of the party-state. Through studying the disparate ways in which the cults were manifested, Kevin Morgan not only takes in many of the leading personalities of the communist movement, but also some of the cultural luminaries like Picasso and Barbusse who sought to represent them. The cult of the individual was one of the most fascinating, troubling and revealing features of Stalinist communism, and as reconstructed here it offers new insight into one of the defining political movements of the twentieth century.

Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Christopher B. Balme,... Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Christopher B. Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Dull
R3,226 Discovery Miles 32 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, but also Polish folk-dancing, documentary theatre and opera production. The contributions demonstrate that there was much more at stake and a much larger investment of ideological and economic capital than a simple dichotomy between East versus West or socialism versus capitalism might suggest. Culture, and theatrical culture in particular with its high degree of representational power, was recognized as an important medium in the ideological struggles that characterize this epoch. Most importantly, the volume explores how theatre can be reconceptualized in terms of transnational or even global processes which, it will be argued, were an integral part of Cold War rivalries.

The Russian Reading Revolution - Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): S. Lovell The Russian Reading Revolution - Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
S. Lovell
R4,344 Discovery Miles 43 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of all Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the "Russian reading myth" took hold in the 1920s and 1930s, how it was supported by a monopolistic and homogenizing system of book production and distribution, and how it was challenged in the post-Stalin era: first, by the latent expansion and differentiation of the reading public, and then, more dramatically, by the economic and cultural changes of the 1990s.

East German Intellectuals and the Unification of Germany - An Ethnographic View (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... East German Intellectuals and the Unification of Germany - An Ethnographic View (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Dan Bednarz
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East Germany reacted to the demise of their nation, their "dream" of a socialist world, and unification with capitalist West Germany. Part I covers unification, 1990-91; Part II presents a quarter century later follow-up with one-fourth of those interviewed in 1990-91; and Part III examines the case from three social science perspectives.

Scarlet and Black, Volume Two - Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945 (Paperback): Kendra Boyd, Marisa J. Fuentes,... Scarlet and Black, Volume Two - Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945 (Paperback)
Kendra Boyd, Marisa J. Fuentes, Deborah Gray White; Contributions by Beatrice J Adams, Shauni Armstead, …
R765 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R50 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ice Ghosts - The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback): Paul Watson Ice Ghosts - The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
Paul Watson
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice-with the tale of the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered and the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of civilization, and the decades of searching that exposed rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones-until a combination of Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.

The Prairie Populist - George Hara Williams and the Untold Story of the CCF (Paperback): John F Conway The Prairie Populist - George Hara Williams and the Untold Story of the CCF (Paperback)
John F Conway
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

George Hara Williams was the most successful of the early leaders of the CCF in Saskatchewan. But his role in the party was undermined by Tommy Douglas and M. J. Coldwell, and now he is almost forgotten. The populist who mobilized farmers of the province to support a socialist platform, he was one of five MLAs elected in the 1934 election, becoming Leader of the Opposition. He firmly supported socialists participating in the struggle against fascism, including military action, a position not held by everyone in the party. While Williams was serving overseas, a campaign to replace him as leader, led by Coldwell and Douglas, was successful. The full story of Williams' role in building the CCF and bringing it to the threshold of power, and the party machinations leading to his defeat as leader, has until now, been never fully documented.

The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914 - Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities (Paperback, Softcover... The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914 - Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Dalia Leinarte
R3,099 Discovery Miles 30 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This case study reveals how under often restrictive laws and policies - serfdom up to 1861, and the pervasive role of the Church, in addition to deep-rooted customary practices - women and men manage to normalize their family life. The volume is based on a wide range of archival sources and uncovers familial behaviour both from an individual and community perspectives.

The PKK-Kurdistan Workers' Party's Regional Politics - During and After the Cold War (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... The PKK-Kurdistan Workers' Party's Regional Politics - During and After the Cold War (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Ali Balci
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements' imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement as a pure resistant, this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach, unveiling the two faces of the PKK's representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds, and its exclusionary function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects/institutions.

Transforming Sudan - Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (Hardcover): Alden Young Transforming Sudan - Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (Hardcover)
Alden Young
R2,814 Discovery Miles 28 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the nature of inequality in Africa was dramatically altered. In this book, Alden Young traces the emergence of economic developmentalism as the ideology of the Sudanese state in the decolonization era. Young demonstrates how the state was transformed, as a result of the international circulation of tools of economic management and the practice of economic diplomacy, from the management of a collection of distinct populations, to the management of a national economy based on individual equality. By studying the hope and eventual disillusionment this ideology gave to late colonial officials and then Sudanese politicians and policymakers, Young demonstrates its rise, and also its shortfalls as a political project in Sudan, particularly its inability to deal with questions of regional and racial equity, not only showing how it fostered state formation, but also civil war.

Neslishah - The Last Ottoman Princess (Paperback): Murat Bardakci Neslishah - The Last Ottoman Princess (Paperback)
Murat Bardakci; Translated by Meyzi Baran
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdulmecid; in 1924 Abdulmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, was sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart.

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens - Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms (Paperback): Seth Stern Speaking Yiddish to Chickens - Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms (Paperback)
Seth Stern
R821 R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Save R51 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education - Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign (Paperback): Wanda Little... The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education - Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign (Paperback)
Wanda Little Fenimore
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated segregation in public schools with a third lawsuit in 1950, which was eventually decided in Brown v. Board of Education. Amidst the Black parents' resistance, Elizabeth Avery Waring, a twice-divorced northern socialite, and her third husband, federal judge J. Waties Waring, launched a rhetorical campaign condemning white supremacy and segregation. In a series of speeches, the Warings exposed the incongruity between American democratic ideals and the reality for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. They urged audiences to pressure elected representatives to force southern states to end legal segregation. Wanda Little Fenimore employs innovative research methods to recover the Warings' speeches that said the unsayable about white supremacy. When the couple poked at the contradiction between segregation and "all men are created equal," white supremacists pushed back. As a result, the couple received both damning and congratulatory letters that reveal the terms upon which segregation was defended and the reasons those who opposed white supremacy remained silent. Using rich archival materials, Fenimore crafts an engaging narrative that illustrates the rhetorical context from which Brown v. Board of Education arose and dispels the notion that the decision was inevitable. The first full-length account of the Warings' rhetoric, this multilayered story of social progress traces the symbolic battle that provided a locus for change in the landmark Supreme Court decision.

The Last Noble Gendarme - How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution... The Last Noble Gendarme - How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
Vladimir G Marinich
R765 R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Save R64 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Early Modern Wales c.1536-c.1689 - Ambiguous Nationhood (Paperback): Lloyd Bowen Early Modern Wales c.1536-c.1689 - Ambiguous Nationhood (Paperback)
Lloyd Bowen
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation. The book assimilates new scholarship and deploys a wealth of original archival research to present a fresh picture of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It adopts novel perspectives on concepts of Welsh identity and allegiance to examine epochal events, such as the union of England and Wales under Henry VIII; the Reformation and the Break with Rome; and the British Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution. It argues that Welsh experiences during this period can best be captured through widespread attachments to a shared history and language, and to ideas of Britishness and monarchy. The volume looks beyond high politics to examine the rich tapestry of early modern Welsh life, considering concepts of gender and women's experiences; the role of language and cultural change; and expressions of Welsh identity beyond the principality's borders.

Writing Postcommunism - Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): D Williams Writing Postcommunism - Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
D Williams
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009): L. Trigos The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
L. Trigos
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day.

The Moral Economy Reconsidered - Russia's Search For Agrarian Capitalism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): S. Wegren The Moral Economy Reconsidered - Russia's Search For Agrarian Capitalism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
S. Wegren
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a case study, it examines the how the rural population responded to reform policies during the transition away from communism. Wegren draws upon extensive field work, survey data, interviews, and wide-ranging Russian language source material to investigate adaptive behaviours by different groups of the rural population. The differentiated and nuanced analysis sheds considerable light on debates over whether actors are motivated mainly by rational or moral considerations.

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