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The Blackridge House - A Memoir (Paperback): Julia Martin The Blackridge House - A Memoir (Paperback)
Julia Martin 1
R315 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A quest is never what you expect it to be.

Elizabeth Madeline Martin spends her days in a retirement home in Cape Town, watching the pigeons and squirrels on the branch of a tree outside her window. Bedridden, her memory fading, she can recall her early childhood spent in a small wood-and-iron house in Blackridge on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. Though she remembers the place in detail – dogs, a mango tree, a stream – she has no idea of where exactly it is. ‘My memory is full of blotches,’ she tells her daughter Julia, ‘like ink left about and knocked over.’

Julia resolves to find the Blackridge house: with her mother lonely and confused, would this, perhaps, bring some measure of closure? A journey begins that traverses family history, forgotten documents, old photographs, and the maps that stake out a country’s troubled past – maps whose boundaries nature remains determined to resist. Kind strangers, willing to assist in the search, lead to unexpected discoveries of ancestors and wars and lullabies. Folded into this quest are the tender conversations between a daughter and a mother who does not have long to live.

Taken as one, The Blackridge House is a meditation on belonging, of the stories we tell of home and family, of the precarious footprint of life.

Urban Secularism - Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe (Paperback): Julia Martinez-Arino Urban Secularism - Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe (Paperback)
Julia Martinez-Arino
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe, Julia Martinez-Arino brings the reader closer to the entrails of laicite. She provides detailed accounts of the ways religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material, the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static conceptions of laicite and the nation. Illustrating how urban, national and international contexts interact with one another, the book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the multilevel governance of religious diversity.

Urban Religious Events - Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces (Hardcover): Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt,... Urban Religious Events - Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces (Hardcover)
Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt, Julia Martinez-Ariño
R2,631 R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Save R1,680 (64%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities. This book argues that religious events – including rituals, processions, and festivals – are not only choreographies of sacred traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay claims to cultural supremacy or heritage. Through exploring the affective disruptions and political controversies caused by religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of ritual. This book is a significant contribution to understanding emerging patterns in contemporary religion and also for theories related to heritagization, eventization, and urbanization.

Syntax of the River - The Pattern Which Connects (Paperback): Barry Lopez, Julia Martin Syntax of the River - The Pattern Which Connects (Paperback)
Barry Lopez, Julia Martin
R511 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R65 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Barry Lopez had no illusions about the seriousness of our global crisis, yet he also felt a deep conviction about the power of hope and the sources of renewal in the living world. Syntax of the River is an extended conversation spanning three days between Lopez and Julia Martin in which he explores what this juxtaposition means for him as a writer. On the first day Lopez reflects on years watching the McKenzie River near his home in Oregon. He describes the quality of attention he learned from intimacy with the place itself: a very fine distinction between silence and stillness, the rich complexities of the present moment, and the syntax of interrelationships between living things. The second day is concerned with craft: the work of making sentences and books. Lopez shares his practical strategies for writing and revising a manuscript and goes on to speak about vulnerability. He says he often experienced a deep sense of doubt about his capacity to achieve whatever he was trying to do in a particular project. Over time, though, this characteristic experience of not-knowing became a kind of fuel for his work, and even a weapon at times. On the final day, Lopez ponders the idea of writing as a praxis, a way of life, even a prayer for the earth, while concurrently being terrified by the portents of its destruction. Here, the experience of being an attentive participant emerges as his core teaching. Over the decades he developed a practice of attention that was endlessly curious and enthralled by the living world, what he calls its pattern or syntax. Despite acclaim as a celebrated writer, throughout his career Lopez humbly tasked himself with making a combination of wonder and horror work together to effectively communicate a life journey of contemplation, exploration, and discovery.

Interreligious Encounters in Europe - Sites, Materialities and Practices (Hardcover): Jan Winkler, Laura Haddad, Giulia... Interreligious Encounters in Europe - Sites, Materialities and Practices (Hardcover)
Jan Winkler, Laura Haddad, Giulia Mezzetti, Julia Martinez-Arino
R3,867 Discovery Miles 38 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines interfaith dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practiced. Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion, diversity and belonging. By focusing on the spatialities, materialities and practices of interfaith dialogues and encounters, the volume sheds light on the heterogeneous domains where the visibility and inclusion of religious and cultural differences are currently negotiated and contested. The chapters draw on social science perspectives and include a range of empirical case studies from a variety of European settings. The contributions a) shed light on the subjectivities, relations and modes of behaviour produced, negotiated and contested in and through locally embedded interfaith encounters and dialogue-oriented practices, b) observe the power dynamics that shape those practices and encounters and c) discuss their implications for the place(s) of religion in the public sphere. Overall the book contributes to a better understanding of how cultural, religious and political identities are reconfigured across Europe.

Urban Secularism - Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe (Hardcover): Julia Martinez-Arino Urban Secularism - Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe (Hardcover)
Julia Martinez-Arino
R4,383 Discovery Miles 43 830 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe, Julia Martinez-Arino brings the reader closer to the entrails of laicite. She provides detailed accounts of the ways religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material, the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static conceptions of laicite and the nation. Illustrating how urban, national and international contexts interact with one another, the book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the multilevel governance of religious diversity.

Water Ecosystem Services - A Global Perspective (Hardcover): Julia Martin-Ortega, Robert C. Ferrier, Iain J. Gordon, Shahbaz... Water Ecosystem Services - A Global Perspective (Hardcover)
Julia Martin-Ortega, Robert C. Ferrier, Iain J. Gordon, Shahbaz Khan
R3,302 Discovery Miles 33 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security in the developing world, by integrating scientific knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international law. Empirical assessments at the national, catchment and regional levels are used to critically appraise this systemic approach, and the merits and potential limitations are presented. The practicalities of this approach with regard to water resources management, nature conservation, and sustainable business practices are discussed, and the role of society in underpinning the concept of ecosystem services is explored. Presenting new insights and perspectives on how to shape future strategies, this contributory volume is a valuable reference for researchers, academics, students and policy makers, in environmental studies, hydrology, water resource management, ecology, environmental law, policy and economics, and conservation biology.

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover): Julia Martinez-Arino Governing Religious Diversity in Cities - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)
Julia Martinez-Arino
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of empirical examples in Europe and Canada. Religious diversity is increasingly present and visible in cities across the world. Drawing on a wide selection of cases in Europe and Canada, this volume examines how this diversity is governed. While focusing on the urban dimension of governance, the chapters do not examine cities in isolation but take into account the interconnections between urban contexts and other scales, both within and beyond the borders of the nation-state. The contributors discuss a variety of empirical examples, ranging from the controversies around the celebration of the International Yoga Day in Vancouver, the mosque not built in Munich, and the governance of Islam in cities in France, Germany, Italy, Quebec and Spain. Adopting a critical perspective, they shed light on the factors shaping different governance patterns, and on their implications for various religious groups. Ultimately, this book shows that governing religious diversity is not a matter of black and white. Contributing to a growing field of academic research that focuses on the governance of religion in urban contexts, and providing lines for future research, Governing Religious Diversity in Cities will be of great interest to scholars in the sociology of religion, religious studies and urban studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Religion, State & Society.

Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (Hardcover): Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel,... Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (Hardcover)
Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel, Victoria Haskins
R4,242 Discovery Miles 42 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region.

Nobody Home - Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places (Paperback): Gary Snyder, Julia Martin Nobody Home - Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places (Paperback)
Gary Snyder, Julia Martin
R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in their personal lives--and these changing conditions provide the back story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a generous distinguished writer, and becomes a long-distance friendship and an exploration of spiritual practice.
At the project's heart is Snyder's understanding of Buddhism. Again and again, the conversations return to an explication of the teachings. Snyder's characteristic approach is to articulate a direct experience of Buddhist practice rather than any kind of abstract philosophy. In the version he describes here, this practice finds expression not primarily as an Asian import or a monastic ideal, but in the specificities of a householder's life as lived creatively in a particular location at a particular moment in history. This means that whatever "topic" a dialogue explores, there is a sense that all of it is about practice--the spiritual-social practice of a contemporary poet.

Water Ecosystem Services - A Global Perspective (Paperback): Julia Martin-Ortega, Robert C. Ferrier, Iain J. Gordon, Shahbaz... Water Ecosystem Services - A Global Perspective (Paperback)
Julia Martin-Ortega, Robert C. Ferrier, Iain J. Gordon, Shahbaz Khan
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security in the developing world, by integrating scientific knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international law. Empirical assessments at the national, catchment and regional levels are used to critically appraise this systemic approach, and the merits and potential limitations are presented. The practicalities of this approach with regard to water resources management, nature conservation, and sustainable business practices are discussed, and the role of society in underpinning the concept of ecosystem services is explored. Presenting new insights and perspectives on how to shape future strategies, this contributory volume is a valuable reference for researchers, academics, students and policy makers, in environmental studies, hydrology, water resource management, ecology, environmental law, policy and economics, and conservation biology.

A Series Of Accidents (Paperback): Julia Martin A Series Of Accidents (Paperback)
Julia Martin; T. Thornley
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Urban Religious Events - Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces (Paperback): Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt,... Urban Religious Events - Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces (Paperback)
Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt, Julia Martinez-Arino
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities. This book argues that religious events - including rituals, processions, and festivals - are not only choreographies of sacred traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay claims to cultural supremacy or heritage. Through exploring the affective disruptions and political controversies caused by religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of ritual. This book is a significant contribution to understanding emerging patterns in contemporary religion and also for theories related to heritagization, eventization, and urbanization.

The Home Baker's Bread Machine Cookbook - 101 Classic, No-Fuss Recipes for Your Oster, Zojirushi, Sunbeam, Cuisinart,... The Home Baker's Bread Machine Cookbook - 101 Classic, No-Fuss Recipes for Your Oster, Zojirushi, Sunbeam, Cuisinart, Secura, KBS & All Bread Makers (Paperback)
Julia Martins
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (Paperback): Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel,... Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (Paperback)
Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel, Victoria Haskins
R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble' jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore, Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina, the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home, considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels, and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour history and the Asia Pacific region.

Michael's Magic Bed (Paperback): James Robert Daniels Jr Michael's Magic Bed (Paperback)
James Robert Daniels Jr; Edited by Julia Martin; James Robert Daniels Jr
R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trade and Economic Growth - Growth and Welfare Effects of Trade and Comparative Advantage (Paperback): Julia Martins Trade and Economic Growth - Growth and Welfare Effects of Trade and Comparative Advantage (Paperback)
Julia Martins
R1,299 Discovery Miles 12 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: 1,0, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Institut fur Aussenwirtschaft und Entwicklung), language: English, comment: Mit LaTex erstelltes PDF., abstract: The following paper relates two of the most important economic phenomena, namely economic growth and international trade. Before analysing the relationship between two economic phenomena in detail, an overview of some of the most prominent empirical empirical studies concerning the relationship between openness to international trade and economic growth in general is provided. As most of them seem to have reached the conclusion that trade influences growth in a positive way, the question for the reasons of this presumably positive relationship arises. Factors which cause or influence economic growth in general as well as various channels through which trade might have an influence on growth are presented in the third and forth section. The importance of various sources of economic and the Solow-Model and the AK-Model are introduced in order to distinguish between long-run and short-run effects of capital accumulation, learning by doing and R&D on economic growth. The remaining analysis concentrates on one channel in particular, namely on how trade determines a country's import and export structure. The importance of the range of products a country produces is enormous and affects economic growth and welfare. The fifth section introduces the static Ricardian model of comparative advantage in order to show how productivity levels dictate the patterns of trade and determine which products a country produces depending on static productivity levels at the time a country opens up to trade. Since productivity levels do, however, not remain constant but are influenced by learning by doing and specialisation, dynamic effects of specialisation on comparative advantage should not be neglected. For this pur

Decimo (Spanish, Paperback): Angelino Carracedo Frutos, Julia Martin Carracedo, Lobouro Boro Decimo (Spanish, Paperback)
Angelino Carracedo Frutos, Julia Martin Carracedo, Lobouro Boro
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gestrandet im Paradies (German, Paperback): Julia Martin Gestrandet im Paradies (German, Paperback)
Julia Martin
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Quien Malas Ma as Ha Tarde   Nunca Las Perder , Comedia; (Spanish, Paperback): Guille N. De 1569-1631 Castro Quien Malas Ma as Ha Tarde Nunca Las Perder , Comedia; (Spanish, Paperback)
Guille N. De 1569-1631 Castro; Julia Martinez Eduardo
R410 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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