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Pacific Futures - Past and Present (Hardcover): Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, Barbara Brookes Pacific Futures - Past and Present (Hardcover)
Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, Barbara Brookes; Contributions by Tony Ballantyne, Chris Ballard, …
R2,514 Discovery Miles 25 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this "sea of islands"? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past. Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network, destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders-from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small business owners-making these histories of the future visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in the Pacific--and how the region is acted on by outside forces--and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the "slow violence" of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the region. Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field, the region, and beyond.

Material Encounters: Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard Material Encounters
Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard
R3,968 Discovery Miles 39 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This topical and conceptually innovative book proposes new perspectives on the theme of materiality which, since the 1980s, has animated work across and within disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The particular focus of the chapters in this volume are the materiality of knowledge produced through embodied encounters between people, places, and things in the Pacific Islands, New Guinea, Australia, and Myanmar. The authors consider how materiality mediates the ways in which knowledge is generated or acquired in encounters and becomes expressed through things and material forms of inscription – charts and maps; journals, letters, and reports; drawings; objects; human remains; legends, cartouches, captions, labels, marginalia, and notes; and published works of all kinds. The essays further address processes whereby materialized knowledge is archived, conserved, distributed, restricted, or dispersed – through serendipity, excess, loss, silence, absence, and suppression. This book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academics in History, Anthropology and Oceania Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

Steel to Stone - A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover): Jeffrey Clark Steel to Stone - A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Clark; Edited by Chris Ballard, Michael Nihill
R7,490 R6,382 Discovery Miles 63 820 Save R1,108 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. Colonized and colonizers alike are the focus of an analysis that draws upon theories of culture, temporality, discursive representation, and anthropology in the postcolonial era.

The Art of a Beautiful Game - The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA (Paperback): Chris Ballard The Art of a Beautiful Game - The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA (Paperback)
Chris Ballard
R382 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R41 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Chris Ballard sits down with the NBA's most passionate, cerebral players to discover their tricks of the trade and to learn what drives them. He reveals the roots of Kobe Bryant's limitless competitiveness; shadows LeBron James to figure out how he deploys his prodigious talent; and challenges Steve Kerr to a three-point shootout to analyze the mind-set of a pure shooter. Ballard tracks down renowned dunkers to explore the slam's impact on today's game, follows Shane Battier during his extensive pregame preparations, gets pointers from a free-throw shooting guru who once hit 2,750 in a row, and attends an elite NBA training camp to experience the pain that turns a prospect into a pro. Packed with fascinating characters and startling anecdotes, and grounded in the superb writing and the reportage that is the hallmark of Sports Illustrated, The Art of a Beautiful Game is an often witty, always insightful look at the men like Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, and Dirk Nowitzki who devote themselves to this elegant and complicated sport. It's an inside read on the game that will surprise even diehard fans.

Foreign Bodies - Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940 (Paperback): Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard Foreign Bodies - Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940 (Paperback)
Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Un Pajaro Llamado Berto - La Sabia Sage Hace Una Version Actualizada De El Patito Feo (Spanish, Paperback): Kristen Joy Sage Un Pajaro Llamado Berto - La Sabia Sage Hace Una Version Actualizada De El Patito Feo (Spanish, Paperback)
Kristen Joy Sage; Illustrated by Angelica Araceli Lopez Bustos, Chris Ballard Frank
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hoops Nation - A Guide to America's Best Pickup Basketball (Paperback): Chris Ballard Hoops Nation - A Guide to America's Best Pickup Basketball (Paperback)
Chris Ballard; Introduction by Clark Kellogg; Foreword by Chuck Wielgus, Alexander Wolff
R565 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R85 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Looking for a game? Here's your guided tour of the country's best pickup basketball courts, from the blacktops of Brooklyn to the asphalt of Anchorage to the gyms of Jackson, Mississippi. It's all inside: where the pros play, the most scenic runs in the land, and a ranking of the top five courts. Chris Ballard and three other former college players piled into a used Chevy van and traveled thirty-one thousand miles in seven months, playing at over a thousand courts in 166 cities in forty-eight states. This is the story of their roundball road trip and a guide to the places, people, and communities they encountered. More than a travel guide, "Hoops Nation" is "a celebration of the game of basketball as it is played in America." It includes guides to streetball fashion, the lingo of the courts, the etiquette of the pickup world, the tricks of old-guy basketball, and tips for the dunking impaired. Also included are profiles of playground legends and dispatches from the legions of basketball lifers who populate the country's courts. This book can tell you where they're running today, all over America. Who's got next?

One Shot at Forever - A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (Paperback): Chris Ballard One Shot at Forever - A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (Paperback)
Chris Ballard
R544 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R62 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

""One Shot at Forever" is powerful, inspirational. . . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart."
--Jeff Pearlman, "New York Time"s bestselling author of "Boys Will Be Boys" and "The Bad Guys Won"
In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There the Ironmen would play against a Chicago powerhouse in a dramatic game that would change their lives forever.
In this gripping, cinematic narrative, Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet: a hippie, dreamer, and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966, bringing progressive ideas to a town stuck in the Eisenhower era. Beloved by students but not administration, Sweet reluctantly took over the ragtag team, intent on teaching the boys as much about life as baseball. Together they embarked on an improbable postseason run that buoyed a small town in desperate need of something to celebrate.
Engaging and poignant, "One Shot at Forever" is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that among a coach, a team, and a town.
"Macon's run at the title reminds us why sports matter and why sportswriting has such great power to inspire. . . . It's] one hell of a good story, and Ballard has written one hell of a good book." --Jonathan Eig, "Chicago Tribune"

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