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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies
These are the stories you haven't heard on the news. These are the
people you will never forget. In the midst of never-ending debates,
protests, riots, suicide bombings, and broken peace initiatives,
one man came to make a difference. Previously known for his
determination to deliver Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, Brother
Andrew has spent the last thirty years on a very different quest.
Traveling to Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel, Brother
Andrew has sought out church leaders and urged them not to flee the
violence but to stay and strengthen their congregations to become a
force for change. His mission: to bring hope to the believers
caught in the crossfire of the most volatile region on earth. "This
is a book that invites applause and criticism. It will edify and
offend, fostering healthy and much-needed discussion and debate in
the Western Church."-Randy Alcorn, author, Safely Home "This man's
courage is not just a case of bravado on steroids."-Charisma
magazine Brother Andrew began taking Bibles to Christians behind
closed borders in 1955. That work has since developed into Open
Doors International. He is the author and coauthor of numerous
books, including God's Smuggler and The Narrow Road. Al Janssen has
cowritten or authored more than twenty-five books. He is chairman
of the board for Open Doors (USA) and is director of communications
for Open Doors International.
Histoire des deux Indes, was arguably the first major example of a
world history, exploring the ramifications of European colonialism
from a global perspective. Frequently reprinted and translated into
many languages, its readers included statesmen, historians,
philosophers and writers throughout Europe and North America.
Underpinning the encyclopedic scope of the work was an extensive
transnational network of correspondents and informants assiduously
cultivated by Raynal to obtain the latest expert knowledge. How
these networks shaped Raynal's writing and what they reveal about
eighteenth-century intellectual sociability, trade and global
interaction is the driving theme of this current volume. From
text-based analyses of the anthropology that structures Raynal's
history of human society to articles that examine new archival
material relating to his use of written and oral sources,
contributors to this book explore among other topics: how the
Histoire created a forum for intellectual interaction and
collaboration; how Raynal created and manipulated his own image as
a friend to humanity as a promotional strategy; Raynal's
intellectual debts to contemporary economic theorists; the
transnational associations of booksellers involved in marketing the
Histoire; the Histoire's reception across Europe and North America
and its long-lasting influence on colonial historiography and
political debate well into the nineteenth century.
Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and
space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility.
The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of
academic perspectives - including the realms of history,
architecture, law and literary and cultural studies - in order to
probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space. The
contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like
ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of
more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states.
Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack,
Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin,
Helmut Puff, Katrin Roeder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wachter,
Robert Wirth.
Volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the
broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in
volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two "isms" of
radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere
irreconcilable conceptual tools with which to categorize or
structure knowledge. The volume demonstrates that these concepts
are intertwined, have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived
and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence,
the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The twenty-two essays in
the volume show what happens when one juxtaposes the two concepts
and when different peoples' lived experiences of politics, pop
culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism,
migration, identities, and knowledge, etc. across the length and
breadth of Africa are brought to bear on our understandings of
these two particularisms. Contributors are: Adesoji Oni, Admire M.
Nyamwanza, Akin Tella, Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle, Bamidele
Omotunde Alabi, Charles Nkem Okolie, Craig Calhoun, Diana Ekor
Ofana, Edwin Etieyibo, Folusho Ayodeji, Gabriel Akinbode, Godwin
Oboh, Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Julius Niringiyimana, Lucky Uchenna
Ogbonnaya, Maxwell Mudhara, Muchaparara Musemwa, Nathan Osareme
Odiase, Obvious Katsaura, Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere, Olaniran Olakunle
Lateef, Omolara V. Akinyemi, Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya,
Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule, Rutanga Murindwa, Sandra Bhatasara,
Takesure Taringana, Tunde A. Abioro, Victor Clement Nweke, William
Muhumuza, and Zainab M. Olaitan.
Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian
expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and
slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin
American republics. Its point of departure is the question of
empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary
Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught
up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion,
colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. The book's chapters
explore what it's like to be Black today in the so-called racial
democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical
science in the objectification and nullification of Black female
personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the
deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely
illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba;
aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as
evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized
culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the
experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants
into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
as the discursive template was created around their social roles as
enslaved or formerly enslaved people. Trajectories of Empire's
contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual
culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural
studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this
book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in
Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial
Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.
Public Private Partnership for WTO Dispute Settlement is an
interdisciplinary work examining the growing interaction between
business entities and public officials. Crucially, it identifies
how this relationship can enable developing countries to
effectively utilize the provisions of the World Trade Organization
Dispute Settlement Understanding (WTO DSU). Building on more than
five years of empirical investigation, Amrita Bahri reflects on the
dispute settlement partnership experiences of the top DSU users
from the developed and developing world. This enables her to
evaluate a diverse range of dispute settlement partnership
strategies, which have allowed the governments involved to harness
resources and expertise from the private sector. With practical
suggestions on dispute settlement capacity building, this book
provides a roadmap to policymakers, industry representatives and
legal professionals on how to effectively engage with business
entities for the resolution of international trade conflicts. It
also provides a template for teaching and research activities to
scholars focusing on international trade law, development studies
and international dispute settlement.
This unique and insightful book provides a comprehensive
examination of contemporary cultural policy and its discourses,
influences, and consequences. It examines the factors that have led
to a narrowing of cultural policy and suggests new ways of thinking
about cultural policy beyond economics by reconnecting it with the
practices of work, value, and the social. With a particular focus
on Australia and the UK, and with reference to transnational bodies
including UNESCO, this book identifies and examines influential
national and international factors that have shaped cultural
policy, including its implementation of an economic agenda. Deborah
Stevenson retraces the foundations of contemporary cultural policy,
with chapters exploring the hierarchies of legitimacy that form the
basis of value and excellence, the increased hegemony of the
economy within the art world complex, and the notions of class and
gender as two key factors of social inequality that shape access to
the arts. Analysing cultural value, work, and the social as
important points of tension and potential disruption within
contemporary cultural policy, this book will be essential reading
for students and scholars of arts and cultural management, cultural
policy studies, cultural sociology, economics, and leisure and
urban studies. It will also be of interest to students, scholars,
and practitioners across the humanities and the social sciences.
By examining the evolution of industrial relations institutions in
the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, South Africa and
Turkey, the authors in this book assess the contribution of these
institutions to inclusive development. Industrial Relations in
Emerging Economies uses real world examples to assess the relevance
of the conceptual frameworks used to examine employment relations.
The chapters focus on the evolution of industrial relations
institutions and the role these have played in periods of economic
and political transition. They demonstrate that rather than acting
as a constraint on development, trade unions can contribute to
stability, security and equity. However, the contribution of
industrial relations institutions to inclusive development is at
best a contested pathway. At worst it is viewed as increasingly
irrelevant to the vast numbers of workers in the informal economy.
The authors reveal a continuing demand for independent collective
interest representation in labour relations, whether in the
informal economy or in rapidly industrialising districts. This book
will prove an interesting and stimulating read for students,
academics and researchers in the fields of human resources,
industrial relations, sociology and labour economics, in addition
to trade union researchers and policy-makers. Contributors include:
J. Berg, A. Celik, S. Hayter, C.-H. Lee, N. Pons-Vignon, U. Rani,
E. Schneider, R. Sen
This book analyses how closer regional connectivity and economic
integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both
regions. With a focus on the role played by infrastructure and
public policies in facilitating this process, it provides a
detailed and up-to-date discussion of issues, innovations, and
progress. Country studies of national connectivity issues and
policies cover Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and
Thailand, examining major developments in trade and investment,
economic cooperation, the role of economic corridors, and regional
cooperation initiatives.Thematic chapters explore investment in
land and sea transport infrastructure, trade facilitation,
infrastructure investment financing, supporting national and
regional policies, and model-based estimates of the benefits of
integration. They also identify significant opportunities for
strengthening these integration efforts as a result of the recent
opening up of Myanmar in political, economic, and financial terms.
For the first time for these regions, the book employs a
state-of-the-art computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
incorporating heterogeneous firms to estimate the advantages of
integration. Providing perspective on the latest thinking on
integration policy, Connecting Asia is an essential resource for
academics, policymakers, and business people alike. Contributors:
A. Bayley, T. Chalermpalanupap, K. Cheewatrakoolpong, S.
Chirathivat, M.I. Chowdhury, M.I. Corpuz, P. De, H. Florento, J.-F.
Gautrin, F. Hutchinson, B. Karmacharya, R. Mishra, K.G. Moazzem,
P.J. Morgan, N. Perera, M.G. Plummer, M. Rahman, P.B. Rana, S. Ray,
F. Sehrin, T.M.M. Than, M. Thuzar, D. Weerakoon, D. Wignall, M.
Wignall, G. Wignaraja, F. Zhai
The present book examines the cultural diversities of the Northeast
region in India. The chapters cover various aspects of cultural
forms and practices of the communities. It serves as a bridge
between vanishing cultural forms and their commodification, on the
one hand, and their cultural ritual origins, evolution and
significance in identity formation, on the other. The book analyses
the continuity of cultural forms, their plural embodied
representations associated with people's belief systems and their
reinventions under globalisation. Further, the book underlines
historical forces such as colonialism and religious conversion that
transformed socio-cultural practices. Yet some of the pre-colonial,
ritual-performative traditions hold on. Theoretically rich in
analysis, this book presents a balanced view of the region's
historical, ethnic-folk and socio-cultural aspects. The book is
invaluable to students and researchers in cultural studies,
anthropology, folklore, history and literature. It is also helpful
for those critical readers engaged in research and interested in
Northeast cultural forms and practices.
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