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