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Contaminated land policy is a key concern of governments and policy
makers across the globe, yet discussion has traditionally focused
on the particular experience of the United States. This major new
book develops a framework for assessing laws and regulations
regarding contaminated land and polluted properties, their clean up
and reuse, and the assignment of costs and responsibilities for
reclamation.In Contaminated Land, the authors, a European and two
Americans, lay out a framework for cross- national comparisons of
policy contexts as well as ways of examining the outcomes of
different approaches to contaminated land and systematically
compare approaches to this issue in both the EU and US. The use of
this framework leads to a reassessment of specific policies, such
as the polluter pays principle, which may be more successful in the
EU than it has been in the US, and subsidiarity which, while
problematic in Europe, may hold promise in a US application.
Specific issues discussed include the nature and extent of the
contaminated land problem, legal implications, regulation in the
US, the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Liability, Compensation
and Reclamation Act, European experience and EU environmental
policy, integrated comparative analysis and some lessons for the
future. Contaminated Land offers valuable insights on policy
responses to the problem of badly polluted land from the
perspectives of planning, economics and sociology. In particular,
this volume offers frameworks for comparison of different national
settings to help determine the preferred and most promising
approaches to contaminated land in any social, economic and legal
policy context.
Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender,
disability, and sexuality together, has existed for over a decade
as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how
intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as
looking at other disciplines.
We've all had 'that' feeling: when our mood suddenly changes or we
sense an 'atmosphere' on entering a room. There is a distinct
quality that connects these experiences – it's a shift in how we
sense a person or a place, often referred to as a 'vibe'. Vibes
matter because they have the power to change the way we feel and
behave. Garret Yount PhD has been researching the science of
'energy vibes' for over 20 years. In Why Vibes Matter he explains
what can lead us to experience a 'vibe' or a shift in energy and
how to harness their power. Looking at where vibes come from and
how they affect us Garret reviews the research and explains the
science behind our reactions. Practical tools and techniques will
help you attune to your own vibes and learn how to influence them
in the wisest possible way.
Explores, from a historical comparative perspective, the
globalization of dominant myths of 'modern' family and society, and
their effects on families in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia uniquely
contributing to sociological debates about globalization.
Explores, from a historical comparative perspective, the
globalization of dominant myths of 'modern' family and society, and
their effects on families in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia uniquely
contributing to sociological debates about globalization.
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Winslow Homer - Crosscurrents (Hardcover)
Stephanie L. Herdrich, Sylvia Yount; Contributions by Daniel Immerwahr, Christopher Riopelle, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
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This timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the
Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural
conflict across his career Long celebrated as the quintessential
New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in fact brushed
a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and
frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism,
and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time,
on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to
Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. Among these, The
Gulf Stream (1899), often considered the most consequential
painting of his career, reveals Homer's lifelong fascination with
struggle and conflict. Recognizing the artist's keen ability to
distill complex issues, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents upends popular
conceptions and convincingly argues that Homer's work resonates
with the challenges of the present day. Published by The
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(April 11-July 31, 2022) National Gallery, London (September 10,
2022-January 8, 2023)
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a
Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously
written by early and later diaspora people of African descent.
Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the
Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience,
newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the
trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and
forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and
community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation
of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and
spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its
centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and
hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical
approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of
imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A
critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and
reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and
imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana
peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as
“religion” apart from its intimate connections to social
realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics,
environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To
that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic
relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the
Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors
the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative
responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists
reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the
nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of
Africa and in the African Diaspora.
Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of
religion that better attends to the inextricable links among
religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and
the contributors reckon with the colonial and racial implications
of the field's history by staging a conversation with Black,
Indigenous, and decolonial studies. In their introduction, An and
Craig point out that European-descended Christianity has
historically defined itself by its relation to the other while
paradoxically claiming to represent and speak to humanity in its
totality. The topics include secularism, the Eucharist's relation
to Blackness, and sixteenth-century Brazilian cannibalism rituals
as well as an analysis of how Mircea Eliade's conception of the
sacred underwrites settler colonial projects and imaginaries.
Throughout, the contributors also highlight the theorizing of
Afro-Caribbean thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James,
Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire whose work disrupts the normative
Western categories of religion and philosophy. Contributors. An
Yountae, Ellen Armour, J. Kameron Carter, Eleanor Craig, Amy
Hollywood, Vincent Lloyd, Filipe Maia, Mayra Rivera, Devin Singh,
Joseph R. Winters
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a
Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously
written by early and later diaspora people of African descent.
Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the
Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience,
newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the
trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and
forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and
community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation
of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and
spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its
centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and
hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical
approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of
imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A
critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and
reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and
imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana
peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as
“religion” apart from its intimate connections to social
realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics,
environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To
that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic
relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the
Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors
the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative
responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists
reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the
nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of
Africa and in the African Diaspora.
Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender,
disability and sexuality together, has existed for decades as a
theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how
intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as
looking at other disciplines.
Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of
religion that better attends to the inextricable links among
religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and
the contributors reckon with the colonial and racial implications
of the field's history by staging a conversation with Black,
Indigenous, and decolonial studies. In their introduction, An and
Craig point out that European-descended Christianity has
historically defined itself by its relation to the other while
paradoxically claiming to represent and speak to humanity in its
totality. The topics include secularism, the Eucharist's relation
to Blackness, and sixteenth-century Brazilian cannibalism rituals
as well as an analysis of how Mircea Eliade's conception of the
sacred underwrites settler colonial projects and imaginaries.
Throughout, the contributors also highlight the theorizing of
Afro-Caribbean thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James,
Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire whose work disrupts the normative
Western categories of religion and philosophy. Contributors. An
Yountae, Ellen Armour, J. Kameron Carter, Eleanor Craig, Amy
Hollywood, Vincent Lloyd, Filipe Maia, Mayra Rivera, Devin Singh,
Joseph R. Winters
"Younts has set herself apart with this exquisite story of
friendship and redemption . . . I'll be talking about this book for
years to come." -Rachel Hauck, New York Times bestselling author of
The Wedding Dress
In a time of grief and heartache, an unlikely
friendship provides strength and solace. After leaving her son's
grave behind in Montgomery, Alabama, Delilah Evans has little faith
that moving to her husband's hometown in Pennsylvania will bring a
fresh start. Enveloped by grief and doubt, the last thing Delilah
imagines is becoming friends with her reclusive Amish neighbor,
Emma Mullet-yet the secrets that keep Emma isolated from her own
community bond her to Delilah in delicate and unexpected ways.
Delilah's eldest daughter, Sparrow, bears the brunt of her mother's
pain, never allowed for a moment to forget she is responsible for
her brother's death. When tensions at home become unbearable for
her, she seeks peace at Emma's house and becomes the daughter Emma
has always wanted. Sparrow, however, is hiding secrets of her
own-secrets that could devastate them all. With the white, black,
and Amish communities of Sinking Creek at their most divided, there
seems to be little hope for reconciliation. But long-buried hurts
have their way of surfacing, and Delilah and Emma find themselves
facing their own self-deceptions. Together they must learn how to
face the future through the healing power of forgiveness. Eminently
relevant to the beauty and struggle in America today, The Solace of
Water offers a glimpse into the turbulent 1950s and reminds us that
friendship rises above religion, race, and custom-and has the power
to transform a broken heart.
The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility
harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for
addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political
trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a
constructive and coherent thematization of the somewhat obscurely
defined and underexplored mystical figure of the abyss as it occurs
in Neoplatonic mysticism, German Idealism, and Afro-Caribbean
philosophy. The central question An Yountae raises is, How do we
mediate the mystical abyss of theology/philosophy and the abyss of
socio-political trauma engulfing the colonial subject? What would
theopoetics look like in the context where poetics is the means of
resistance and survival? This book seeks to answer these questions
by examining the abyss as the dialectical process in which the
self's dispossession before the encounter with its own finitude is
followed by the rediscovery or reconstruction of the self.
More than 2 million Americans marry every year, each couple
determined to live together happily ever after. Tragically, half of
all first marriages fail, and subsequent attempts are even more
likely to end in divorce. David Yount knows that lasting wedlock
requires more than romantic love. Success depends on a couple's
commitment and compatibility of heart and mind to survive the
inevitable trials of facing life together. Drawing on decades as a
counselor and his own experience as a husband and parent, Yount
puts readers on the path to build joyful, loving, and committed
relationships. Yount offers no-nonsense advice on a wide range of
issues, including financial budgeting, maintaining health, dealing
with in-laws, parenting, sharing responsibilities, establishing
common values, and recovering from divorce. He includes questions
designed to stimulate reflection and discussion on key issues, such
as compromise, religious beliefs, equality in marriage, and
more-some surprising. Marriage is the great adventure into the
unknown. Making a Success of Marriage is a user's guide to that
adventure.
Be Strong and Courageous is the sequel to David Yount's
Book-of-the-Month bestseller Growing in Faith. The popular
syndicated columnist reassures believers and skeptics of all ages
that having faith makes sense. He shows how faith dignifies
humanity, giving fulfillment, and heals the world. As a parent
writing letters to encourage and inspire his growing daughters,
Yount shows how Christians can face life's challenges with faith,
hope, love, and confidence. Be Strong and Courageous shows how we
can pass on our rich tradition of faith in a way that is
revitalizing to inspire a new generation.
Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind,
peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually that features
original research on the history, interpretation, conservation, and
scientific examination of works of art in the Museum's collection.
Its scope encompasses the diversity of artistic practice from
antiquity to the present day. The Journal encourages contributions
offering critical and innovative approaches that will further our
understanding of works of art.
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