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A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio. While
other anthologies of plays by writers of African descent have been
published, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers (1st edition
1993; new revised edition 2005) was the first drama anthology to
represent women alone. Comedy, poetry, history and magic combined
with themes of a social and spiritual nature are the themes and
styles evident in Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers, a
seminal collection of plays for stage, radio and television by
Rukhsana Ahmad, Maya Chowdhry, Trish Cooke, Winsome Pinnock, Meera
Syal and Zindika. Edited and introduced by Kadija George, Six Plays
by Black and Asian Women Writers includes: Essays on theatre and
writing workshop; The Importance of Oral Tradition to Black Theatre
by Valerie Small; A survey, A Recent Look at Black Women
Playwrights by Deirdre Osborne. This anthology's key
characteristics are effortless depictions of characters devoid of
stereotypical images and typecast roles and the playwrights'
approach to unconventional issues. Six Plays by Black and Asian
Women Writers represents just some of the writers who have achieved
national recognition with work produced on stage, television and
radio by some of the most distinguished actors, directors and
producers of African and Asian descent that the arts field in
Britain has seen. The anthology heralds the significance that young
women of African and Asian descent now have more role models to
look towards, reinforced by actors and writers-in-residence going
into educational institutions and more diverse organisations and
situations, from the BBC-supported writer-in-residence projects,
with the likes of performer/artists Rommi Smith and Erika Tan, to
performance poet/multi-media artist Dorothea Smartt as the Brixton
Market Poet-in-Residence. Since the first publication of Six Plays
by Black and Asian Women Writers: Meera Syal has become an
international name, with novel, TV and stage credits including the
popular musical, Bombay Dreams, debuting in the West End; After
receiving a writer-in-residence fellowship at Cambridge University,
Winsome Pinnock has gone on to produce further plays staged at
much-respected fringe theatres such as the Tricycle Theatre; Maya
Chowdhry continues to be experimental with her work in multimedia
formats, has co-edited a book with Nina Rapi, Acts of Passion:
Sexuality, Gender and Performance and is currently working on a
coedited anthology of women's writing in the north of England,
'Bitch Lit'; Zindika has written for dance theatre, for Adzido, and
co-edited a book, When Will I See You Again with Natalie Smith;
Rukshana Ahmad has published a novel, The Hope Chest, and received
a Royal Literary Fellowship; Trish Cooke has a successful career
writing books for children. Yet moving from the margins and into
the mainstream continues to happen too slowly. More than ten years
since the first publication of this anthology, the fight and
funding for a 'Black'-owned and -managed theatre in Britain is
still being argued for, and unfortunately, has barely moved.
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Maya Chowdhry; Series edited by Kadija Sesay
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"Chowdhry and Nair, along with the authors of this volume, make a
timely, vital, and deeply necessary intervention in international
relations - one that informs theoretically, enriches our knowledge
of the world through its narratives, and forces us to confront the
differentiated wholeness of our humanity. Readers will want to
emulate the skills and sensibilities they offer.." Naeem
Inayatullah, Ithaca College This work uses postcolonial theory to
examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for
the structuring or world politics. It addresses further themes
central to postcolonial theory, such as the impact of
representation on power relations, the relationship between global
capital and power and the space for resistance and agency in the
context of global power asymmetries.
The authors of this book advance the Appreciative Sharing of
Knowledge (ASK), a unique approach by which organizations create a
culture that facilitates the sharing of information. Using social
constructionist approaches, historical data, and case studies, the
authors demonstrate that appreciation - or affirmation - is the key
ingredient for people to trust each other and overcome their
inhibitions and concerns about sharing what they know. The
hyper-competitive culture of many organizations has created a
knowledge-hoarding climate that many firms struggle to change. The
ASK process can reinvent, in a sustainable manner, how we think
about organizing knowledge. By linking practices, artifacts,
technologies and managerial skills, the ASK model offers a
management framework for a wide range of enterprises. One of the
basic tenets put forth is that if knowledge is shared
appreciatively, managing knowledge will no longer be an issue. The
authors expand on the concept of appreciation and illustrate how
systems can be created to institutionalize knowledge sharing. In
addition, they give examples of organizations that have planted the
seeds for the exchange to happen. Academics and practitioners in
the fields of knowledge management and organizational behavior and
development will find this innovative study of great value. The
findings will also be of great practical use for managers and
executives in a variety of firms.
This book examines the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain
during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s.. It shows how the empire
cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so,
and the manner in which such constructions were received by the
colonized people.. Unique approach to the subject cinema and Empire
from the perspective of the colonised rather than the coloniser..
Vast amount of original research conducted in India contributing to
a fresh perspective.. Multifocal attitude which stretches through
media and cultural studies, gender, film, imperial history,
nationalism and postcolonialism. -- .
India has been the focus of international attention in the past
few years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the
burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and
significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told:
India is shining, the elephant is rising, and the 21st century will
be Indian. What unites these powerful re-imaginings of the Indian
nation is the notion of change and its many ramifications. Election
campaigns, media commentators, scholars, activists and drawing room
debates all cut their teeth around this complex notion. Who is it
that benefits from this change? Do such re-imaginings of nationhood
really reflect the complex social reality of large parts of the
Indian population?
The book starts with the premise that it is within the mass
media where we can best understand how this change is imagined.
From a kaleidoscope of perspectives the book interrogates this
articulation and the myriad forms it takes ? across India's
newsrooms, television sets, cinema halls, mobile phones and
computer screens.
Contents: 1. Geeta Chowdhry and Sheila Nair Introduction: Power in a Postcolonial World: Race, Gender and Class in International Relations 2. Siba N. Grovogui Postcolonial Criticism: International Reality and Modes of Inquiry 3. Randolph B. Persaud Situating Race in International Relations: the Dialectics of Civilizational Security in American Immigration 4. J. Marshall Beier Beyond Hegemonic State(ment)s of Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Non-State Possibilities in International Relations 5. L. H. M. Ling Cultural Chauvinism and the Liberal International Order: 'West versus Rest' in Asia's Financial Crises 6. Anna M. Agathangelou 'Sexing' Globalization in International Relations: Migrant Sex and Domestic Workers in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey 7. Sankaran Krishna In One Inning: National Identity in Postcolonial Times 8. Shampa Biswas The New Cold War: Secularism, Orientalism, and Postcoloniality 9. Dibyesh Anand A Story to be Told: IR, Postcolonialism, and the Discourse of Tibetan (Trans)national Identity 10. Geeta Chowdhry Postcolonial Interrogations of Child Labor: Human Rights, Carpet Trade, and Rugmark in India 11. Sheila Nair Human Rights and Postcoloniality: Representing Burma
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work,
Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the
experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners
and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and
gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and
performance texts from theater directors, performers, theorists,
playwrights, and performance writers against social and cultural
constructs and performance theories to produce a diverse and
challenging portrait of lesbian live performance art. The book's
penetrating scope covers drag queens, lesbian vampires,
representations of lesbian sex, solo artists, the art of
collaboration, lesbian aesthetics, and lesbian playwrights writing
straight and illustrates why live performance is one of the most
dynamic forums in which women can create, control, and produce
their work without artistic constraint.Acts of Passion explodes
binary definitions of gender and sexuality by destabilizing
familiar notions of the 'real'and creating new production values
and aesthetics in the process. The relationships between experience
and expression, sexuality and cultural placing, context and
artistic control, representation and self-representation become
clearer as the book discusses: the manner in which women are
represented as absent in the signifying system of patriarchal
society how questions of purity, 'authenticity,'and self-definition
complicate the field of representation the power of lesbian dance
performance to make the lesbian body culturally visible several
'new wave'performers--creating work, getting seen, showing flesh,
doing politics, and making money the projections, preconceptions,
expectations, and general baggage attached to the performing
lesbian body what the term 'lesbian playwright'means within
contemporary culture 'It's Queer Up North'--a British National Arts
Organization the arguments for and against mainstreaming lesbian
performanceAnyone interested in theater and performance, cultural
studies, gender issues, and the politics of 'positive
representation'--whether playwright, performer, director, writer,
academic, student, or theatre goer--will find Acts of Passion a
powerful step in wrenching the power of representation away from
the dominant culture. Defiant, saucy, sexy, and smart, the
contributors appropriate their own spaces, identities, crafts, and
languages, both within this book and without.
India has been the focus of international attention in the past few
years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the
burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and
significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told:
India is shining, the elephant is rising, and the 21st century will
be Indian. What unites these powerful re-imaginings of the Indian
nation is the notion of change and its many ramifications. Election
campaigns, media commentators, scholars, activists and drawing room
debates all cut their teeth around this complex notion. Who is it
that benefits from this change? Do such re-imaginings of nationhood
really reflect the complex social reality of large parts of the
Indian population? The book starts with the premise that it is
within the mass media where we can best understand how this change
is imagined. From a kaleidoscope of perspectives the book
interrogates this articulation and the myriad forms it takes -
across India's newsrooms, television sets, cinema halls, mobile
phones and computer screens.
This book has a two-fold mission: to explain and facilitate digital
transition in business organizations using information and
communications technology and to address the associated growing
threat of cyber crime and the challenge of creating and maintaining
effective cyber protection. The book begins with a section on
Digital Business Transformation, which includes chapters on tools
for integrated marketing communications, human resource workplace
digitalization, the integration of the Internet of Things in the
workplace, Big Data, and more. The technologies discussed aim to
help businesses and entrepreneurs transform themselves to align
with today's modern digital climate. The Evolution of Business in
the Cyber Age: Digital Transformation, Threats, and Security
provides a wealth of information for those involved in the
development and management of conducting business online as well as
for those responsible for cyber protection and security. Faculty
and students, researchers, and industry professionals will find
much of value in this volume.
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work,
Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the
experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners
and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and
gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and
performance texts from theater directors, performers, theorists,
playwrights, and performance writers against social and cultural
constructs and performance theories to produce a diverse and
challenging portrait of lesbian live performance art. The book's
penetrating scope covers drag queens, lesbian vampires,
representations of lesbian sex, solo artists, the art of
collaboration, lesbian aesthetics, and lesbian playwrights writing
straight and illustrates why live performance is one of the most
dynamic forums in which women can create, control, and produce
their work without artistic constraint.Acts of Passion explodes
binary definitions of gender and sexuality by destabilizing
familiar notions of the 'real'and creating new production values
and aesthetics in the process. The relationships between experience
and expression, sexuality and cultural placing, context and
artistic control, representation and self-representation become
clearer as the book discusses: the manner in which women are
represented as absent in the signifying system of patriarchal
society how questions of purity, 'authenticity,'and self-definition
complicate the field of representation the power of lesbian dance
performance to make the lesbian body culturally visible several
'new wave'performers--creating work, getting seen, showing flesh,
doing politics, and making money the projections, preconceptions,
expectations, and general baggage attached to the performing
lesbian body what the term 'lesbian playwright'means within
contemporary culture 'It's Queer Up North'--a British National Arts
Organization the arguments for and against mainstreaming lesbian
performanceAnyone interested in theater and performance, cultural
studies, gender issues, and the politics of 'positive
representation'--whether playwright, performer, director, writer,
academic, student, or theatre goer--will find Acts of Passion a
powerful step in wrenching the power of representation away from
the dominant culture. Defiant, saucy, sexy, and smart, the
contributors appropriate their own spaces, identities, crafts, and
languages, both within this book and without.
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Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development - Third International Multi-topic Conference, IMTIC 2013, Jamshoro, Pakistan, December 18--20, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Faisal Karim Shaikh, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Sherali Zeadally, Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain, Aftab Ahmed Memon, …
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the
Third International Multi-topic Conference on Communications,
Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development,
IMTIC 2013, held in Jamshoro, Pakistan, in December 2013. The 27
revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 140 submissions. The topics presented had a
reasonable balance between theory and practice in multi-disciplined
topics including wireless sensor networks, cloud computing,
wireless communication, antenna design, signal processing, software
engineering, image processing, bioinformatics and telemedicine,
neural networks, automation and control, and green renewable
energy.
The field of electronics has seen an unparalleled growth in the
last 60 years, from the invention of the transistor to the making
of the processor. In this ever evolving field, the modern day
student has been observed to jump to complex circuit designing
without having a firm understanding of the internal circuit
elements and the tools that are used to analyze them. This book is
an attempt to redress these shortcomings by providing an apt and
concise description of basic electronic components and apparatus
and how to work with them practically. Theoretical description is
followed by specifying the practical considerations so as to cement
the student?s understanding of the component/apparatus. This
edition contains a more detailed component description with focus
on real life usability. We have included many pictures showing the
different shapes and forms of each component that are available. A
set of questions has been included after each practical so as to
challenge the students understanding of the component discussed.
Tasks have been changed so they relate more to everyday situations
and build up student intuition. A section on working with
components has been included which introduces the student to basic
circuit elements that can be made using various components.
Discussion is also done on noting and analyzing various
phenomenon?s that occur during circuit operation such as phase
difference etc. The Practical Book on Electronic Workshop imparts
technical knowledge on following five main topics: Laboratory
Apparatus: Passive Electronic Components: Active Electronic
Components: Circuit Assembly: Circuit Simulation: It is envisaged
that before students use any of the lab equipment for conducting
any practical work, they must become familiar with their use and
functions. Similar is the case with the passive and active
electronic components. The students mostly perform their practical
work in the senior semester over specialized trainers, and never
get acquainted with practicality of the circuit components. Hence
they face severe problems while working over their own projects.
Similarly, knowing how to build circuits is as important as knowing
how to design circuits and how to use the components. Therefore,
techniques of Circuit Assembling are also covered in this Practical
Book. : Though this book adopts practical approach, it first gives
a thorough and sound theoretical background of each and every
apparatus and component covered in the book, and then it reinforces
the theoretical concepts by discussing their practical
considerations. We feel that this Practical Book on Electronic
Workshop is first of its kind, and will find usefulness for the
students of all engineering disciplines in general, and Electrical,
Electronics, Telecommunication in particular. : We believe that
this Practical Book will be valuable and insightful in getting
basic knowledge and skills of Exciting and Important field of
Electronics.
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Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries - First International Conference, WSN4DC 2013, Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 24-26, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Faisal Karim Shaikh, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Habib M. Ammari, Muhammad Aslam Uqaili, Assadullah Shah
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First
International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing
Countries, WSN4DC 2013, held in Jamshoro, Pakistan, in April 2013.
The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on WSN applications/services for developing countries;
mobile WSN; underwater WSN; VANETS; body area networks; energy
harvesting in WSN; WSN and cloud integration; WSN and IoT; QoS and
Qot; WSN MAC, network and transport protocols; cross layer
approaches; security aspects in WSN; WSN applications in smart grid
and energy management; WSN in structural health monitoring.
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Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies - Second International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2012, Jamshoro, Pakistan, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings (Paperback, 2012)
Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain, Muhammad Aslam Uqaili
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Multi-topic Conference, IMTIC 2012, held in Jamshoro,
Pakistan, in March 2012. The 51 revised full papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from 205 submissions. The papers
address topics from information communication technologies.
Developing countries are persistently looking for efficient and
cost-effective methods for transforming their communities into
smart cities. Unfortunately, energy crises have increased in these
regions due to a lack of awareness and proper utilization of
technological methods. These communities must explore and implement
innovative solutions in order to enhance citizen enrollment,
quality of government, and city intelligence. IoT Architectures,
Models, and Platforms for Smart City Applications provides emerging
research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of
transforming cities into intelligent systems using IoT-based design
models and sustainable development projects. This publication looks
at how cities can be built as smart cities within limited resources
and existing advanced technologies. Featuring coverage on a broad
range of topics such as cloud computing, human machine interface,
and ad hoc networks, this book is ideally designed for urban
planners, engineers, IT specialists, computer engineering students,
research scientists, academicians, technology developers,
policymakers, researchers, and designers seeking current research
on smart applications within urban development.
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Wireless Networks Information Processing and Systems - First International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2008 Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 11-12, 2008 Revised Papers (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain, Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Quintin Gee
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The international multi-topic conference IMTIC 2008 was held in
Pakistan during April 11-12, 2008. It was a joint venture between
Mehran University, Jamshoro, Sindh and Aalborg University, Esbjerg,
Denmark. Apart from the two-day main event, two workshops were also
held: the Workshop on Creating Social Semantic Web 2.0 Information
Spaces and the Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks. Two hundred
participants registered for the main conference from 24 countries
and 43 papers were presented; the two workshops had overwhelming
support and over 400 delegates registered. IMTIC 2008 served as a
platform for international scientists and the engineering community
in general, and in particular for local scientists and the
engineering c- munity to share and cooperate in various fields of
interest. The topics presented had a reasonable balance between
theory and practice in multidisciplinary topics. The c- ference
also had excellent topics covered by the keynote speeches keeping
in view the local requirements, which served as a stimulus for
students as well as experienced participants. The Program Committee
and various other committees were experts in their areas and each
paper went through a double-blind peer review process. The c-
ference received 135 submissions of which only 46 papers were
selected for presen- tion: an acceptance rate of 34%.
"A superb book on the treatment of race, gender, and punishment."-
Susan L. Miller, professor of sociology and criminal justice,
University of Delaware "This volume stands as first-rate evidence
that the sociological imagination is alive and well. The
contributors move the discussion of race, gender, and social
control beyond the statistical morass with their
historically-situated analyses that simultaneously demonstrate the
diversity of socially constructed categories."-Claire M. Renzetti,
University of Dayton The disproportionate representation of black
Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented.
Far less well-documented are the entrenched systems and beliefs
that shape punishment and other official forms of social control
today. In this book, Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin bring together
twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only
the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and
cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the
current situation. Contributors point to four major factors that
have impacted public sentiment and criminal justice policy:
colonialism, slavery, immigration, and globalization. In doing so
they reveal how practices of punishment not only need particular
ideas about race to exist, but they also legitimate them. The
essays unearth troubling evidence that testifies to the nation's
brutally racist past, and to white Americans' continued fear of and
suspicion about racial and ethnic minorities. The legacy of slavery
on punishment is considered, but also subjects that have received
far less attention such as how colonizers' notions of cultural
superiority shaped penal practices, the criminalization of
reproductive rights, the link between citizenship and punishment,
and the global export of crime control strategies. Mary Bosworth is
University Lecturer in criminology and fellow of St. Cross College
at the University of Oxford. Jeanne Flavin is an associate
professor in the sociology and anthropology department at Fordham
University.
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