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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling
demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the
climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist
perspective to expose and address these structural political,
social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced,
multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking
about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and
feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is
bound up with the non-human, natural world. With contributions from
leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this
book considers how equality is conceptualised experienced and used
in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice.
Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal
frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice.
Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an
ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including
developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to
reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all. This
ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across
many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public
international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its
discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth case
studies and assessments of women's mobilization strategies will
also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in
international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists.
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a
historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and
depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for
understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.
Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droysen's theoretical project as an
attempt to redefine the function of historiography within the
context of a rising criticism of exemplar theories of history, and
focuses on Droysen's claim that the goal underlying historical
writing and reading should be the development of the subjective
capacity to think historically. In addition, Assis examines the
connections and disconnections between Droysen's theory of
historical thinking, his practice of historical thought, and his
political activism. Ultimately, Assis not only shows how Droysen
helped reinvent the relationship between historical knowledge and
human agency, but also traces some of the contradictions and
limitations inherent to that project.
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a
historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and
depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for
understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.
Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droysen's theoretical project as an
attempt to redefine the function of historiography within the
context of a rising criticism of exemplar theories of history, and
focuses on Droysen's claim that the goal underlying historical
writing and reading should be the development of the subjective
capacity to think historically. In addition, Assis examines the
connections and disconnections between Droysen's theory of
historical thinking, his practice of historical thought, and his
political activism. Ultimately, Assis not only shows how Droysen
helped reinvent the relationship between historical knowledge and
human agency, but also traces some of the contradictions and
limitations inherent to that project.
Gujarat is the nursery for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India;
the very first Asian EPZ was housed in Gujarat in 1965. This study
examines the contribution of Gujarat SEZs in socioeconomic
development with specific research questions: (1) Are SEZs in
Gujarat effective on the development front in the context of social
and economic aspects? (2) What is the impact assessment of Gujarat
SEZs by reckoning metrics based on direct economic impact,
indirect/wider economic impact and social impact? (3) How can
vacant land in SEZ be optimally utilized in Gujarat to fulfill the
SEZ objectives? In the first of the three phases a model (research
concept) was constructed from the literature to explore and
validate the variables within the SEZs' influence on the social and
economic development. The second part is a combination of single
cross-sectional descriptive research design and empirical research
with the use of quantitative techniques such as questionnaires and
interviews with various stakeholders. This part was concerned with
the establishment and testing of the hypothesis. Through a
multilayer perceptron neuron network built with use of various
statistical tools and techniques, the factors for socioeconomic
development were ranked to get the final model with predictor
importance. In the third part the important parameters were
validated and a cross-comparison case study was done to obtain a
confirmation of the findings. The extremely important factors are
increase in exports, indirect jobs, logistics and minimum wages.
The final model with predictor importance with target of SEZ impact
on socioeconomic development features economic factors, social
factors, indirect economic and other local factors in descending
order of importance. Some optimal uses of vacant land as derived
from the research findings include conversion of sector specific
SEZs to multiproduct SEZs with a few service sector units in the
mix and broad banding of SEZs.
Machado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story
writers who ever lived. What seem at first to be stately social
satires reveal unanticipated depths through hints of darkness and
winking surrealism. This new selection of his finest work,
translated by the prize-winning Daniel Hahn, showcases the many
facets of his mercurial genius. A brilliant scientist opens the
first asylum in his home town, only to start finding signs of
insanity all around him. A young lieutenant basks in praise of his
new position, but in solitude feels his identity fray into nothing.
The reading of a much-loved, respected elder statesman's journals
reveals hidden thoughts of merciless cruelty.
This book examines contending visions on nomadism in modern
Palestine, with a special focus on the British Mandate period.
Extending from the late Ottoman period to the founding of the State
of Israel, it highlights both ruptures and continuities with the
Ottoman past and the Israeli present, to prove that nomadism was
not invented by the British or the Zionists, but is the shared
legacy of Ottoman, British, Zionist, Palestinian, and most
recently, Israeli attitudes to the Bedouin of Palestine. Drawing on
primary sources in Arabic and Hebrew, the book shows how native
conceptions of nomadism have been reconstructed by colonial and
national elites into new legal taxonomies rooted in modern European
theories and praxis. By undertaking a comparative approach, it
maintains that the introduction of these taxonomies transformed not
only native Palestinian perceptions of nomadism, but perceptions
that characterized early Zionist literature. The book breaks away
from the Arab/Jewish duality by offering a comparative and
relational study of the main forces operating under the Mandate:
British colonialism, Labor Zionism, and Arab nationalism. Special
attention is paid to the British side, which covers the first three
chapters. Each chapter represents a formative stage of British
colonial enterprise in Palestine, extending from the late Ottoman
down to the postwar and the Mandate periods. A major theme is the
nexus of race and ethnography reshaping British perceptions of the
Bedouin of Palestine before and during the early phases of the
Mandate, and the ways these perceptions guided the administrative
division of the country along newly demarcated racial boundaries.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines new findings in
the fields of history, ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, and
environmental studies, this book contributes to understandings of
the Israel/ Palestine conflict, and current trends of displacement
in the Middle East.
This book represents a primer on artistic research, presenting
diverse perspectives, strategies, methodologies, and concrete
examples of research projects situated at the crossroads of art and
academia. Exposing international work of significant research
projects from Europe, Asia, Australia, South- and North America, it
provides a multidisciplinary overview on different discourses and
practices, exploring cutting-edge questions coming from the
burgeoning field of artistic research. The first part includes
chapters on artistic research and diverse artistic fields,
addressing a common thread of questions and problematics. The
second part provides insights into six internationally relevant
artistic research projects. The comprehensive editors' introduction
offers a much-needed and extensive overview practice-based artistic
research in general. Ideal for graduate students across Philosophy,
Cultural Studies, Art, Music, Performance Studies and more, The
book is enhanced by a range of multimedia components (images,
videos, sounds).
A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable
masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas
Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but
also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also translated as Epitaph of
a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable
aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the
worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and
half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained
philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave.
Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of its time, the novel
has been compared to works by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov,
Borges and Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers
around the world.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Canada has become a leader among the modern nations of the world.
It has emerged as a modern industrial nation, and as a key player
in the resource, commodities, and financial institutions that make
up today's world. This third edition of the Historical Dictionary
of Canada contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
bibliography. It includes over 700 cross-referenced entries on a
wide range of topics, covering the broad sweep of Canadian history
from long before European contact until present day. Topics include
Indigenous peoples, women, religion, regions, politics,
international affairs, arts and culture, the environment, the
economy, language, and war. This is an excellent resource for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
Canada. It introduces readers to the successes and failures, the
conflicts and accommodations, the events and trends that have
shaped Canadian history.
In an effort to counter the marginalization of indirect translation
in systematic research, this book establishes innovative
theoretical and methodological grounds and mitigates terminological
instability in the field. In so doing, it unsettles the binary
paradigms still predominant in translation research, such as
original versus translation and source versus target
culture/language/text. The contributors focus on the indirect
translation of literature and cover a variety of European and Asian
cultures and languages, such as Assamese, Bengali, Catalan,
Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya,
Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil and Urdu. This book will be of
interest to all researchers studying intercultural relations, the
probabilistic genealogies of texts, the circulation of texts and
ideas among dominant and dominated cultures and groups, and the
implications of English as a main pivot language in today's world.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Translation Studies.
"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in
August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of
the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of
the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental
novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive
work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to
the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this
coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin
Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his
flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic,
amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Bras Cubas describes
his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his
bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over
nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist
fiction, Bras Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in
the Time of Cholera.
Arendt understands morality not in terms of maxims or moral
principles, neither in their abstract nor in their relativistic
acceptation. There is an original question raised by Arendt that
has not been taken seriously enough. This question has powerful
moral implications, for it directs us to choose our «company among
men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the
past. This book is concerned with an ethics based on the visibility
of our words and deeds, in which, apart our intentions, appearance
is ethically relevant. In the ethics of personal responsibility
stands a fundamental dimension of choice able to bridge the self
and the world, consciousness and experience. This ethics takes into
account three levels of responsibility: responsibility towards
ourselves, or how we make our presence in the world; responsibility
to judge; and responsibility to the world through the consistency
of our actions.
One of the key issues that faces Cuban policymakers today, and will
continue to face them, is what steps to take in order to ensure the
future of the sugar industry. In 2002, nearly one-half of the
country's cultivated land was occupied by the 156 fully functional
sugar mills, more than a dozen plants and refineries, and the
complex transportation infrastructure brought about by the
commerce. The loss of preferential markets for Cuban sugar that
arose from the demise of the international socialist community
constitutes a crisis that the Cuban government has only begun to
address, with a radical restructuring plan that would foresee the
reduction of sugar land and the elimination of about 100,000 jobs,
for increased economic emphasis on tourism. The radical premise of
this volume is that there is a future in the twenty-first century
for a reinvented Cuban sugar agroindustry, responsive to market
signals, organized around smaller and more agile production units,
producing raw sugar as well as high value-added outputs, and using
some of the facilities to produce ethanol and generate electricity.
The editors have asked over a dozen recognized world experts on
Cuban agroindustry to analyze specific topics and make
recommendations that would not only reinvent an industry for
effective transition to a free-market environment but that has the
potential to reinvigorate the Cuban economy, providing employment
opportunities and generating wealth for generations of Cubans to
come.
One of the key issues that faces Cuban policymakers today, and will
continue to face them, is what steps to take in order to ensure the
future of the sugar industry. In 2002, nearly one-half of the
country's cultivated land was occupied by the 156 fully functional
sugar mills, more than a dozen plants and refineries, and the
complex transportation infrastructure brought about by the
commerce. The loss of preferential markets for Cuban sugar that
arose from the demise of the international socialist community
constitutes a crisis that the Cuban government has only begun to
address, with a radical restructuring plan that would foresee the
reduction of sugar land and the elimination of about 100,000 jobs,
for increased economic emphasis on tourism. The radical premise of
this volume is that there is a future in the twenty-first century
for a reinvented Cuban sugar agroindustry, responsive to market
signals, organized around smaller and more agile production units,
producing raw sugar as well as high value-added outputs, and using
some of the facilities to produce ethanol and generate electricity.
The editors have asked over a dozen recognized world experts on
Cuban agroindustry to analyze specific topics and make
recommendations that would not only reinvent an industry for
effective transition to a free-market environment but that has the
potential to reinvigorate the Cuban economy, providing employment
opportunities and generating wealth for generations of Cubans to
come.
Thomas Paine's 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract
showing how the critical thinking skills of evaluation and
reasoning can, and must, be applied to contentious issues. Divided
into two parts, Rights of Man is, first, a response to Edmund
Burke's arguments against the French Revolution, put forward in his
Reflections on the Revolution in France - also available in the
Macat Library - and, second, an argument for how to run a fair and
just society. The first part is a sustained performance in
evaluation: Paine takes Burke's arguments, and systematically
exposes the ways in which Burke's reasons against revolution are
inadequate compared to the necessity of having a just society run
according to a universal notion of people's rights as individuals.
The second part turns to an examination of different political
systems, setting out a powerfully-structured argument for universal
rights, a clear constitution enshrined in law, and a universal
right to vote. Though Paine is in many ways a stronger rhetorician
than he is a clear thinker, his reasons for preferring democracy to
hereditary forms of government are compelling, coherent and clear.
Rights of Man is a masterclass in how to use good reasoning to
present a persuasive argument.
'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and
is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now
writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy
nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have given Cubas
the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has
certainly not dampened his sense of humour. Epitaph of a Small
Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.
Zombies, monsters, and dragons stalk this book's pages. Cries of
despair echo through them. Prisons and dungeons lie in wait. Is
this a nightmare? Is it an apocalypse? Well, yes-because it's the
day before our narrator's first day of school, and all entreaties
to his mother are falling on deaf ears. Why should he go to school
when he already knows two letters, "N" and "O," and he knows they
spell NO!, which is exactly the word this occasion demands? Why
aren't these magic letters working anymore? Lexile Level 490;
F&P Level L
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