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Ethan and Joel Coen's The Big Lebowski was released in 1998 to
general bafflement. A decade on, it had become a cult classic and
remains so over 20 years later, inspiring a thriving circuit of
'Lebowski Fests' during which costumed devotees gather at bowling
alleys and guzzle White Russians. Beyond its superabundance of
deliciously quotable lines, how has the movie inspired such
remarkable affection? And why does its critical stock continue to
rise? The film's unlikely anchor is Jeff Bridges' career-best
performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a fully-baked 1960s radical turned
Venice Beach drop-out known to his friends as 'the Dude'. Mistaken
for an identically-named grandee whose young trophy wife is in
trouble, the Dude finds himself embroiled in an impossibly
convoluted kidnap plot involving pornographers, nihilists and
threats to his 'johnson'. Worst of all, it conflicts with his
bowling commitments. In part an irreverent pastiche of Raymond
Chandler's The Big Sleep (as filmed by Howard Hawks), The Big
Lebowski is also a jukebox of film history, littered with playful
references to everything from Hitchcock and Altman to Busby
Berkeley. This riot of addled quotations reflects the film's Los
Angeles setting, a discombobulated world inhabited by flakes,
phonies and poseurs with put-on identities. Like many Coen films,
the movie plays havoc with the conventions of the crime genre and
the absurdities of classical American 'heroism'. But it's also that
rare thing: a comedy that gets richer, funnier and more affecting
with each viewing. Beneath its breakneck pacing and foul-mouthed
ribaldry, the Dude's story offers disarmingly humane lessons in the
value of simple things: friendship, laughter and bowling. In their
foreword to this new edition, the authors reflect on Lebowski's
cult status and its contemporary resonances as a film about gentle
non-conformity and friendship in an increasingly polarized world.
The new edition also includes an interview with the Coens,
revealing the origins of the name 'Jeffrey Lebowski'.
This book employs the concept of human security to show what the
term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan. It engages
with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making
contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for
understanding and redressing conflict. The book argues that this
concept allows the possibility of articulating the substantive
experiences of violence and marginalisation experienced by people
in local settings as well as their own struggles towards a secure
and happy life. In this regard, it goes a long way to making sense
of the complex dynamics of conflict which have confounded Western
policy-makers in their ongoing state-building mission in
Afghanistan. However, despite this inherent potential, the idea of
human security still needs refinement. Crucially, it has benefitted
from critical feminist and critical social theories which provide
the conceptual and methodological depth necessary to apprehend what
a progressive ethical program of security looks like and how it can
be furthered. Using this framework, the work provides a critical
reconstruction of the effect of the US-led Western Intervention on
women's experiences of (in)security in the three provincial
contexts of Nangarhar, Bamiyan and Kabul. This reconstruction is
drawn from a wealth of historical and contemporary sociological
research alongside original fieldwork undertaken in Delhi, India,
during 2011 with women and men from the country's different
communities. This book will be of much interest to students of
human security, state-building, gender politics, war and conflict
studies and IR in general.
This book employs the concept of human security to show what the
term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan. It engages
with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making
contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for
understanding and redressing conflict. The book argues that this
concept allows the possibility of articulating the substantive
experiences of violence and marginalisation experienced by people
in local settings as well as their own struggles towards a secure
and happy life. In this regard, it goes a long way to making sense
of the complex dynamics of conflict which have confounded Western
policy-makers in their ongoing state-building mission in
Afghanistan. However, despite this inherent potential, the idea of
human security still needs refinement. Crucially, it has benefitted
from critical feminist and critical social theories which provide
the conceptual and methodological depth necessary to apprehend what
a progressive ethical program of security looks like and how it can
be furthered. Using this framework, the work provides a critical
reconstruction of the effect of the US-led Western Intervention on
women's experiences of (in)security in the three provincial
contexts of Nangarhar, Bamiyan and Kabul. This reconstruction is
drawn from a wealth of historical and contemporary sociological
research alongside original fieldwork undertaken in Delhi, India,
during 2011 with women and men from the country's different
communities. This book will be of much interest to students of
human security, state-building, gender politics, war and conflict
studies and IR in general.
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W Ben (Walter Ben) 1888-1970 Hunt, Edwin Cornelius 1892- Joint Au Hunt
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Sixty Alphabets (Paperback)
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