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The idea is simple, vain, exciting. Tap the app, upload a picture,
find your #deadringer - and if you like, set up a meeting in real
life. When Ella and Jem connect, the resemblance is uncanny, but
their lives are polar opposites. One is stuck in a rut in her
Northern hometown, while the other, an aspiring actor living in a
multimillion-pound mansion, is a Chelsea socialite who knows she's
skating on thin ice. Other than their looks, their only similarity
is the desire to escape. Is it possible to hide in your double's
skin? And at what cost? All too believable, twisty, compelling and
fast - Dead Ringer will leave you reeling.
This book adopts an intermedial, translational, and transnational
approach to the study of the Western genre in European Francophone
comics and their English and Spanish translations, offering an
innovative form of analysis with potential applications in future
research on the translation of comics. Martinez takes the
application of Bourdieu’s work on the sociology of culture to
translation studies to explore the role of diverse social agents in
shaping the products, processes, and reception of translations of
Western comics. The book focuses on Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean
Giraud’s iconic Blueberry Western comic book series as a lens
through which to examine agency and sociocultural norms that
influence translations and the degrees to which cartoonists,
editors, translators, and censors frame the genre on a global
scale. The volume both extends the borders of translation studies
research beyond interlingual translation and showcases the study of
comics and graphic narratives as an area of inquiry in its own
right within the field. This book will be of interest to scholars
in translation studies, comics studies, visual culture, and
cultural studies.
This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power
and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day.
It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional
patron-client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The
monograph highlights the persistence of debt-bondage, and
illustrates how electoral politics provides assertive landlord
politicians with opportunities to further consolidate their power
and wealth at the expense of subordinate classes. It also
critically examines the relationship between local forms of Islam
and landed power. The volume will be of interest to scholars and
researchers on Pakistan and South Asian politics, sociology and
social anthropology, Islam, as also economics, development studies,
and security studies.
Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist
culture in academia. What impact do these expectations have on
disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent colleagues? This
important and eye-opening collection explores ableism in academia
from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional
experiences and scholarship. Through the theoretical lenses of
autobiography, autoethnography, embodiment, body work and emotional
labour, contributors from the UK, Canada and the US present
insightful, critical, analytical and rigorous explorations of being
'othered' in academia. Deeply embedded in personal experiences,
this perceptive book provides examples for universities to develop
inclusive practices, accessible working and learning conditions and
a less ableist environment.
This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power
and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day.
It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional
patron-client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The
monograph highlights the persistence of debt-bondage, and
illustrates how electoral politics provides assertive landlord
politicians with opportunities to further consolidate their power
and wealth at the expense of subordinate classes. It also
critically examines the relationship between local forms of Islam
and landed power. The volume will be of interest to scholars and
researchers on Pakistan and South Asian politics, sociology and
social anthropology, Islam, as also economics, development studies,
and security studies.
"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian
mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for
inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante
justice-inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the
diffuse spheres of crime, business, and politics operating within a
shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the
mafia, or "Mafia Raj." Through intimate stories of the lives of
powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,
this book illustrates their personal struggles for sovereignty as
they climb the ladder of success. Ethnographically tracing the
particularities of the South Asian case, the authors theorize what
they call "the art of bossing," providing nuanced ideas about
crime, corruption, and the lure of the strongman across the world.
"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian
mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for
inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante
justice-inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the
diffuse spheres of crime, business, and politics operating within a
shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the
mafia, or "Mafia Raj." Through intimate stories of the lives of
powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,
this book illustrates their personal struggles for sovereignty as
they climb the ladder of success. Ethnographically tracing the
particularities of the South Asian case, the authors theorize what
they call "the art of bossing," providing nuanced ideas about
crime, corruption, and the lure of the strongman across the world.
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