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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies
Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the
contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal
justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New
Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders
and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in
which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and
sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and
status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and
the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space
where men and women narrated their own story and at times
challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases,
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with
and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which
individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and
themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the
Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the
complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the
courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was
performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent
practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial
law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and
local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the
Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial
administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards
criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging
from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with
cases of sexual assault.
The so-called ?'spatial turn?' in the social sciences has led to an
increased interest in what can be called the spatialities of power,
or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is
related to where it takes place. This unique and intriguing
Handbook argues that the spatiality of power is never singular and
easily modeled according to straightforward theoretical
bullet-points, but instead is best approached as plural,
contextually emergent and relational. The Handbook on the
Geographies of Power consists of a series of cutting edge chapters
written by a diverse range of leading geographers working both
within and beyond political geography. It is organized thematically
into the main areas in which contemporary work on the geographies
of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy,
and war. The Handbook maintains a careful connection between theory
and empirics, making it a valuable read for students, researchers
and scholars in the fields of political and human geography. It
will also appeal to social scientists more generally who are
interested in contemporary conceptions of power. Contributors
include: J. Agnew, J. Allen, I. Ashutosh, J. Barkan, N. Bauch, L.
Bhungalia, G. Boyce, B. Braun, M. Brown, P. Carmody, N. Clark, M.
Coleman, A. Dixon, V. Gidwani, N. Gordon, M. Hird, P. Hubbard, J.
Hyndman, J. Loyd, A. Moore, L. Muscara, N. Perugini, C. Rasmussen,
P. Steinberg, K. Strauss, S. Wakefield, K. Yusoff
Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.
Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents.
From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. Some of their legacies continue today, some are justly forgotten, and some have changed as America has changed. Whether famous, infamous, or obscure, all the presidents shaped our nation in unexpected ways.
The authors' extensive research has uncovered never before seen historical facts based on private correspondence and newly discovered documentation, such as George Washington's troubled relationship with his mother.
In Confronting the Presidents, O’Reilly and Dugard present 45 wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements―or lack thereof. Who best served America, and who undermined the founding ideals? Who were the first ladies, and what were their surprising roles in making history? Which presidents were the best, which the worst, and which didn’t have much impact? How do decisions made in one era, under the pressure of particular circumstances, still resonate today? And what do presidents like to eat, drink, and do when they aren’t working―or even sometimes when they are?
These and many more questions are answered in each fascinating chapter of Confronting the Presidents. Written with O’Reilly and Dugard’s signature style, authority, and eye for telling detail, Confronting the Presidents will delight all readers of history, politics, and current affairs, especially during the 2024 election season.
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y.
Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream
conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of
violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a
cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered
violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book,
Francoise Verges denounces the carceral turn in the fight against
sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the
sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying
causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the
crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the
exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons - these all put
masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit
of the times, Francoise Verges refuses the punitive obsession of
the State in favour of restorative justice.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for
Australian History. Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and
Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music
history. In this open access book, Amanda Harris presents accounts
of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public
stages. Harris also historicizes the practices of non-Indigenous
art music composers evoking Aboriginal music in their works,
placing this in the context of emerging cultural institutions and
policy frameworks. Centralizing auditory worlds and audio-visual
evidence, Harris shows the direct relationship between the limits
on Aboriginal people's mobility and non-Indigenous representations
of Aboriginal culture. This book seeks to listen to Aboriginal
accounts of disruption and continuation of Aboriginal cultural
practices and features contributions from Aboriginal scholars
Shannon Foster, Tiriki Onus and Nardi Simpson as personal
interpretations of their family and community histories.
Contextualizing recent music and dance practices in broader
histories of policy, settler colonial structures, and
postcolonizing efforts, the book offers a new lens on the
development of Australian musical cultures. The ebook editions of
this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian
Research Council.
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically
as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered
these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and
plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such
as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required
an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters
and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians
and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. ""The
White Pacific"" ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to
reconstruct the history of ""blackbirding"" (slave trading) in the
region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them
ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in
Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree
labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white
supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White
Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and
putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully
suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific.
Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji,
Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, ""The White Pacific""
uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and
intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging
intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.
How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the
privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant
and teacher for over twenty-five years. Yoga has saved her life and
seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a
discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its
radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness
industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but
also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour,
working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered
its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has
helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the
modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate
critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and
inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By
turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates
where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the
practice from its own success.
Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British
Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5,
MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick'
universities and the Medical Research Council? This book reveals
that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a
philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence,
education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his
time-the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks
ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to
Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in
1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal government, unjustly
vilified as a German sympathiser. John Campbell charts these ups
and downs, reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through
previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his
enormous relevance in our search for just societies today. Amidst
political and national instability, it is time to reinstate Haldane
as Britain's outstanding example of true statesmanship. A Sunday
Times Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year, 2020. A
Telegraph Best Book of the Year, 2020.
As negentienjarige ryloper in Spanje beland Frank Westerman
toevallig in die dorpie Banyoles, waar ’n opgestopte
“Kalahari-Boesman”, slegs bekend as El Negro, uitgestal word. Sy
indrukke bly hom by – en wanneer hy dekades later weer van El Negro
lees, die keer in ’n Franse koerant, is dit die begin van ’n
ondersoeksreis wat belangrike vrae oor rasopvattings en die
Westerse beskawing na vore bring. Wie was hierdie naamlose man? Wat
se sy opgestopte “museumteenwoordigheid” oor Europese denke oor
slawerny, rassisme en kolonialisme – en bied hy slegs ’n spieel op
’n vergange tyd, of ook op die hede?
An important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal
thinkers, Hearts and Minds is part memoir, part political history
and part history of ideas. In it, former Cabinet minister Oliver
Letwin explains how the central ideas and policies of the modern
Conservative party came into being, how they have played out over
the period from Mrs Thatcher to Mrs May, and what needs to happen
next in order to make the country a better place to live. Far from
being a sugar-coated version of events, Letwin tells a story that
he hopes will persuade readers that politicians are capable of
recognising their mistakes and learning from them - and will show
that social and economic liberalism, if correctly conceived, are
capable of addressing the issues that confront us today. The book
also describes Letwin's own journey from a remarkable childhood
with American academic parents, via Margaret Thatcher's policy
unit, into the very centre of first the Conservative-Liberal
Democrat coalition, and then the Cameron government, where, as
Minister for Government Policy and then Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, every piece of government policy crossed his desk. It
includes Letwin's personal reflections on two devastating electoral
events: the EU referendum and the general election of June 2017.
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