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Emancipatory Narratives &Â Enslaved Motherhood examines
three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery:
manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes
central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil,
updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the
role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the
preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about
the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial
relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed
status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female
socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and freedom in
nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The central concern
within the book is how African and African descendant women
navigated enslaved motherhood and negotiated the divide between
enslavement and freedom for themselves and their children. The book
is, therefore, organised around the subject position of the
enslaved mother and the reproduction of her children in
enslavement, while the condition of enslaved motherhood is examined
through overlapping historical praxis evidenced in
nineteenth-century Bahia: contested freedom, racialised mothering,
and competing maternal interests - biological, ritual, surrogate.
The point at which these interests converged historically was, it
is argued, a conflict over black female reproductive rights.
Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current
bereavement care practices and key concerns of care providers.
Covering a broad spectrum of topics, interests, and perspectives
from divergent disciplines and clinical experiences, the
contributing authors explore theories and constructs that can
clarify and be useful in the provision of bereavement
services.Bereavement Care: A New Look at Hospice and Community
Based Services addresses important issues related to the delivery
of bereavement care and services. Chapters focusing on clinical
concerns examine ways to distinguish grief from depression and the
use of Jung s theory to expand an understanding of the grief
process. Others explore options for community-based group
interventions and the role of the volunteer in the provision of
hospice bereavement services. Chapters with a research focus
highlight effective assessment tools, the applicability of Bugen s
model, and the practice and problems involved in hospice
bereavement services.This rich and compassionate volume will be
helpful to mental health professionals, social workers, chaplains,
nursing personnel, and volunteers who work with or provide services
to bereaved persons and families.
How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and
the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithms In the
revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the
world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial
order, imagining a future of technological liberation and
unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a
digital economy has risen to take its place, yet many have been
left feeling marginalized and deprived of the possibility of a
better life. The Inglorious Years explores the many ways we have
been let down by the rising tide of technology, showing how our new
interconnectivity is not fulfilling its promise. In this revelatory
book, economist Daniel Cohen describes how today's postindustrial
society is transforming us all into sequences of data that can be
manipulated by algorithms from anywhere on the planet. As
yesterday's assembly line was replaced by working online, the
leftist protests of the 1960s have given way to angry protests by
the populist right. Cohen demonstrates how the digital economy
creates the same mix of promises and disappointments as the old
industrial order, and how it revives questions about society that
are as relevant to us today as they were to the ancients. Brilliant
and provocative, The Inglorious Years discusses what the new
digital society holds in store for us, and reveals how can we once
again regain control of our lives.
In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German
occupation of Western Europe had begun-but a brave few rose up in
defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in
remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant
contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called
army of shadows drew heavily on the support of London and
Washington, a fact often forgotten in postwar Europe. The
Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945 is a sweeping analytical
history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II.
Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds
new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place
in the grand scheme of Anglo-American military strategy. While
national actors played a leading role in fomenting resistance,
British and American intelligence services and propaganda as well
as financial, material, and logistical support were crucial to its
activities and growth. Wieviorka illuminates the policies of
governments in exile and resistance actors regarding cooperation
with the British and Americans, pointing to the persistence of
national self-interest and long-standing historical tensions.
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and bringing together
the political, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the conflict,
this book is the first account of the resistance on a continental
scale and from a trans-European perspective.
Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her
popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel
marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration
of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay,
Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and
countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on
desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories
close, stalwart industries shutter, and blue-collar opportunities
evaporate, MLMs are there, ready to pounce on the crumbling
American Dream. MLMs thrive in rural areas and on military bases,
targeting women with promises of being their own boss and millions
of dollars in easy income--even at the risk of their entire life
savings. But the vast majority--99.7%--of those who join an MLM
make no money or lose money, and wind up stuck with inventory they
can't sell to recoup their losses. Featuring in-depth reporting and
intimate research, Selling the Dream reveals how these
companies--often owned by political and corporate elites, such as
the Devos and the Van Andels families--have made a windfall in
profit off of the desperation of the American working class.
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In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist
attacks, fears over 'homegrown terrorism' have surfaced to a degree
not seen since September 11, 2001. A sought-after commentator in
France and a widely respected international scholar of radical
Islam, Farhad Khosrokhavar has spent years studying the path
towards radicalization, focusing particularly on the key role of
prisons - based on interviews with dozens of Islamic radicals - as
incubators of a particular brand of outrage that has yielded so
many attacks over the past decade.
In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German
occupation of Western Europe had begun-but a brave few rose up in
defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in
remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant
contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called
army of shadows drew heavily on the support of London and
Washington, a fact often forgotten in postwar Europe. The
Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945 is a sweeping analytical
history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II.
Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds
new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place
in the grand scheme of Anglo-American military strategy. While
national actors played a leading role in fomenting resistance,
British and American intelligence services and propaganda as well
as financial, material, and logistical support were crucial to its
activities and growth. Wieviorka illuminates the policies of
governments in exile and resistance actors regarding cooperation
with the British and Americans, pointing to the persistence of
national self-interest and long-standing historical tensions.
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and bringing together
the political, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the conflict,
this book is the first account of the resistance on a continental
scale and from a trans-European perspective.
Learn to interact with families in ways that promote family
functioning when a family member is dying. Family-Based Palliative
Care is an insightful book that aims to increase
professionals'understanding of the family as client. Authoritative
contributors who are experienced in working with the terminally ill
present the most current theory, practice, and research related to
family-based care of hospice patients. Each readable chapter
includes a wealth of information that can be applied to health care
settings in which holistic care is a priority. The first chapter
presents a conceptual framework for caring for families of the
terminally ill as well as clinical examples that are used to
illustrate the application of the framework in practice. Experts
describe four research studies--two qualitative studies that
examine sources of stress for caregivers and identify the resources
used by families to manage at home; a methodological study that
explores the positive and negative aspects of family caregiving;
and a case study that evaluates a hospice staff's efforts in
providing family- based care.Because little research has been done
with family caregivers of terminally ill hospice patients,
Family-Based Palliative Care will be essential reading for nurses,
social workers, hospice staff, and other professionals whose job it
is to care for the dying and their families.
Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study
approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first
assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language
developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of
the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins
with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of
representation, through autobiography, within the field of
psychological phenomena - screen memories, mourning, obsession,
hysteria, transference. Part 1 focuses on Freud's case histories
and psychoanalysis being used to make a narrative of behaviour in
language. Part two considers Freud's own Interpretation of Dreams
and its autobiographical nature. Part 3 examines intellectual
movements such as phenomenology, speed act theory and structuralism
while Parts 4 and 5 turn to Derrida's use of autobiography as
self-criticism and his debt to Freud.
Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the
entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global
inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume
engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film
form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering
the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery.
To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives
and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing
focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the
colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and
misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to
relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on
global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together
an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film
studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how
the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.
Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer
realistic Economic growth—and the hope of better things to
come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have
become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In
the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no
increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the
situation is not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire for
Growth spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global
tensions that have arisen as a result. Daniel Cohen provides a
whirlwind tour of the history of economic growth, from the early
days of civilization to modern times, underscoring what is so
unsettling today. He examines how a future less dependent on
material gain might be considered, and how, in a culture of
competition, individual desires might be better attuned to the
greater needs of society.
While assessment may feel to constituents like an activity of
accountability simply for accreditors, it is most appropriate to
approach assessment as an activity of accountability for students.
Assessment results that improve institutional effectiveness,
heighten student learning, and better align resources serve to make
institutions stronger for the benefit of their students, and those
results also serve the institution or program well during the
holistic evaluation required through accreditation." - from the
foreword by Heather Perfetti, President of the Middle States
Commission on Higher Education Colleges and universities struggle
to understand precisely what is being asked for by accreditors, and
this book answers that question by sharing examples of success
reported by schools specifically recommended by accreditors. This
compendium gathers examples of assessment practice in twenty-four
higher education institutions: twenty-three in U.S. and one in
Australia. All institutions represented in this book were suggested
by their accreditor as having an effective assessment approach in
one or more of the following assessment focused areas: assessment
in the disciplines, co-curricular, course/program/institutional
assessment, equity and inclusion, general education, online
learning, program review, scholarship of teaching and learning,
student learning, or technology. These examples recommended by
accrediting agencies makes this a unique contribution to the
assessment literature. The book is organized in four parts. Part
One is focused on student learning and assessment and includes ten
chapters. The primary focus for Part Two is student learning
assessment from a disciplinary perspective and includes four
chapters. Part Three has a faculty engagement and assessment focus,
and Part Four includes four chapters on institutional effectiveness
and assessment, with a focus on strategic planning. This book is a
publication of the Association for the Assessment of Learning in
Higher Education (AALHE), an organization of practitioners
interested in using effective assessment practice to document and
improve student learning.
While assessment may feel to constituents like an activity of
accountability simply for accreditors, it is most appropriate to
approach assessment as an activity of accountability for students.
Assessment results that improve institutional effectiveness,
heighten student learning, and better align resources serve to make
institutions stronger for the benefit of their students, and those
results also serve the institution or program well during the
holistic evaluation required through accreditation." - from the
foreword by Heather Perfetti, President of the Middle States
Commission on Higher Education Colleges and universities struggle
to understand precisely what is being asked for by accreditors, and
this book answers that question by sharing examples of success
reported by schools specifically recommended by accreditors. This
compendium gathers examples of assessment practice in twenty-four
higher education institutions: twenty-three in U.S. and one in
Australia. All institutions represented in this book were suggested
by their accreditor as having an effective assessment approach in
one or more of the following assessment focused areas: assessment
in the disciplines, co-curricular, course/program/institutional
assessment, equity and inclusion, general education, online
learning, program review, scholarship of teaching and learning,
student learning, or technology. These examples recommended by
accrediting agencies makes this a unique contribution to the
assessment literature. The book is organized in four parts. Part
One is focused on student learning and assessment and includes ten
chapters. The primary focus for Part Two is student learning
assessment from a disciplinary perspective and includes four
chapters. Part Three has a faculty engagement and assessment focus,
and Part Four includes four chapters on institutional effectiveness
and assessment, with a focus on strategic planning. This book is a
publication of the Association for the Assessment of Learning in
Higher Education (AALHE), an organization of practitioners
interested in using effective assessment practice to document and
improve student learning.
Learn to interact with families in ways that promote family
functioning when a family member is dying. Family-Based Palliative
Care is an insightful book that aims to increase
professionals'understanding of the family as client. Authoritative
contributors who are experienced in working with the terminally ill
present the most current theory, practice, and research related to
family-based care of hospice patients. Each readable chapter
includes a wealth of information that can be applied to health care
settings in which holistic care is a priority. The first chapter
presents a conceptual framework for caring for families of the
terminally ill as well as clinical examples that are used to
illustrate the application of the framework in practice. Experts
describe four research studies--two qualitative studies that
examine sources of stress for caregivers and identify the resources
used by families to manage at home; a methodological study that
explores the positive and negative aspects of family caregiving;
and a case study that evaluates a hospice staff's efforts in
providing family- based care.Because little research has been done
with family caregivers of terminally ill hospice patients,
Family-Based Palliative Care will be essential reading for nurses,
social workers, hospice staff, and other professionals whose job it
is to care for the dying and their families.
In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's
National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as
far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label.
More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to tar
these groups with the taint of Fascism, Nazism, and other
discredited ideologies. Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg's
critical look at the far right throughout Europe-from the United
Kingdom to France, Germany, Poland, Italy, and elsewhere-reveals a
prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest
and warns of the challenges these movements pose to the EU's
liberal-democratic order. The European far right represents a
confluence of many ideologies: nationalism, socialism,
anti-Semitism, authoritarianism. In the first half of the twentieth
century, the radical far right achieved its apotheosis in the
regimes of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. But these movements have
evolved significantly since 1945, as Far-Right Politics in Europe
makes clear. The 1980s marked a turning point in political
fortunes, as national-populist parties began winning seats in
European parliaments. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the
United States, a new wave has unfurled, one that is explicitly
anti-immigrant and Islamophobic in outlook. Though Europe's
far-right parties differ in important respects, they are motivated
by a common sense of mission: to save their homelands from what
they view as the corrosive effects of multiculturalism and
globalization by creating a closed-off, ethnically homogeneous
society. Members of these movements are increasingly determined to
gain power through legitimate electoral means. In democracies
across Europe, they are succeeding.
In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into
the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice
Merleau-Ponty (1908-61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the
three main phases of Merleau-Ponty's thinking and a thorough
knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces
how Merleau-Ponty's philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable
coherence that structures it from within. Alloa teases out the
continuity of a motive that traverses the entire oeuvre as a common
thread. Merleau-Ponty struggled incessantly against any kind of
ideology of transparency, whether of the world, of the self, of
knowledge, or of the self's relation to others. Already translated
into several languages, Alloa's innovative reading of this
crucially important thinker shows why the issues Merleau-Ponty
raised are, more than ever, those of our time.
Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the
entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global
inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume
engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film
form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering
the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery.
To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives
and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing
focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the
colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and
misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to
relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on
global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together
an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film
studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how
the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.
Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic
Economic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the
religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak,
with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United
States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in
purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is
not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire for Growth
spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensions
that have arisen as a result. Amid finite resources, increasing
populations, environmental degradation, and political unrest, the
quest for new social and individual goals has never been so
critical. Leading economist Daniel Cohen provides a whirlwind tour
of the history of economic growth, from the early days of
civilization to modern times, underscoring what is so unsettling
today. The new digital economy is establishing a "zero-cost"
production model, inexpensive software is taking over basic tasks,
and years of exploiting the natural world have begun to backfire
with deadly consequences. Working hard no longer guarantees social
inclusion or income. Drawing on economics, anthropology, and
psychology, and thinkers ranging from Rousseau to Keynes and
Easterlin, Cohen examines how a future less dependent on material
gain might be considered and, how, in a culture of competition,
individual desires might be better attuned to the greater needs of
society. At a time when wanting what we haven't got has become an
obsession, The Infinite Desire for Growth explores the ways we
might reinvent, for the twenty-first century, the old ideal of
social progress.
This wide-ranging work confronts the complex question of
nationalism in France in its various permutations--myths,
obsessions, possibilities, and dangers. French nationalism has
always been a double-edged sword, from its beginnings in the French
Revolution through the two Napoleonic empires, Boulangism, the
Dreyfus affair, the fascist groups of the 1930's, Marshal Petain's
National Revolution during World War II, and its latest
contemporary incarnation in Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
The author distinguishes between an "open" nationalism, based on
the revolutionary values of liberty and equality for all, and
"closed" nationalism, which is xenophobic--and, more particularly,
antisemitic. He studies not only governments and political
figures--Napoleon, Louis Napoleon, Marshal Petain, and General de
Gaulle--but also the myths associated with nationalism. These myths
are captured in newspaper articles (the charity bazaar fire of
1897), in literature (Huysmans, Celine), and in the writings of
insurgents (Edouard Drumont, Jules Guerin). The author pays
particular attention to French "national socialism," which wanted
to transcend the categories of left and right in order to unite
workers and owners under the banner of a providential leader, but
which inevitably scapegoated the Jews. In tracing the history of
closed nationalism and its need for a providential man, the author
also sheds new light on the relation between socialism and fascism
in France, most recently brought to the fore by the Mitterand
government in the 1980's.
In the process of analyzing nationalism in France, the author draws
on areas of study ranging from French anti-Americanism and Zeev
Sternhell's history of "unconscious" fascism in France to the
mythical use of Joan of Arc in the service of antisemitism.
With more than five million people in the United States living with
Alzheimer's disease and nearly ten million loved ones caring for
them, addressing the concerns of these elders and their caregivers
is a matter of increasing importance. Relying on their many years
of experience in this area, Jane Thibault and Richard Morgan offer
this book to provide a fresh, hopeful model of dealing with life
and death in the realm of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
Caregivers have two basic needs: affirmation that caregiving is not
in vain and reassurance that the lives of those for whom they care
are not being lived in vain. Care receivers need more than medical
attention; they need tender care, involvement in the community, and
a sense of connection with a loving God. When patient and caregiver
regard this shared experience as a "mutual spiritual path," each
plays a role in deepening the spiritual life of the other. No Act
of Love Is Ever Wasted is an excellent resource for individuals
caring for loved ones as well as for counselors, support group
leaders, pastors, and other professionals. In addition to offering
practical ways to help, this book serves as a reminder that every
act of love brings positive transformation to the recipient, to the
giver, and to the world.
This book examines the development of France's male and female
homosexual communities and its gay liberation movements after 1968.
The book focuses on the construction of social institutions,
treating gay activist organizations and their relation to post-1968
French feminism, gay ghettos in French cities, the gay press, the
impact of AIDS on political identity, and the renewed militancy of
the 1990s. While acknowledging the influence of America's gay
liberation movement on the French situation, the author emphasizes
the differences arising from the fact that homosexuality has not
historically been criminalized in France as it has been in the
United States.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I, "The Revolution of
Desire (1968-79)," which examines the activism of the early
post-1968 gay liberation movement, is preceded by a historical
summary that traces French cultural, political, and social
attitudes toward homosexuality. It also explores the relations
between the movements for gay and women's liberation in their
various incarnations. Part II, "The Time of Socialization
(1979-84)" describes the development of gay ghettos and the
dissemination of gay institutions (media, countercultural venues,
bars, baths, and the like). The pivotal year is 1981, which saw the
advent of Francois Mitterrand's government, with its pro-gay
policies, as well as the first tracking of AIDS in the United
States.
Part III, "End of the Carefree Life (1981-89)," deals with initial
reactions in France to the AIDS epidemic, reactions that included
the realization of its ubiquity, first with the death of Michel
Foucault in 1984, and then with the media spectacle of Rock
Hudson's death in 1985. The author describes the French
government's response to the epidemic, the role of French medical
researchers in searching for the causes of the infection, and the
development of Aides (meaning helpers), a social, medical, and
political-action group dedicated to raising public and personal
awareness of AIDS. Part IV, "The Time of Contradictions (1989-96),"
focuses on the changing social institutions of homosexuality in the
1990s: the development of ACT-UP, based on the American model, in
France; the campaign to promote safer sex; the integration of
seropositive individuals into the homosexual community; and the
acceptance of homosexuality almost as a given. The book concludes
with a thoughtful epilogue on the integration of minority
communities into French society.
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly
burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same
decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of
central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately
consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is
not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays,
Claude Levi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking,
and even revolting to outsiders but consistent with a people's
culture and context. These essays relate meat eating to
cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted
reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They
explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus
man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in
various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular
thought. Levi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex"
and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we
enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and
persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization
to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas
of morality and reason.
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