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A Flower with Roots (Hardcover)
Roberta Lynn Stephens; Afterword by Komei Sasaki
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North Korea has been described as the most secretive country on
earth. Dealing with such a closed society_one that is
simultaneously seeking acceptance through nuclear relations while
defying the plea to cease development of nuclear weapons_is
difficult for governments and policy makers, but Perspectives on
Policy Toward North Korea opens discussion on the various
approaches the United States has adopted and is considering.
Providing expert views on the impasse between the U.S. and North
Korea, the volume addresses topics that include the negotiating
strategies of the Clinton and Bush administrations, the concept of
building bilateral relationships through contact of U.S. and South
Korean military officers, and the benefits of allowing China to
take the lead in conflict resolution. Employing both traditional
and unusual methods, including diplomatic, academic, and military
viewpoints, Perspectives on Policy Toward North Korea is an
essential guide to a better understanding of this complicated
dynamic and an important work for policy makers, analysts, and
anyone interested in conflict resolution and security studies.
North Korea has been described as the most secretive country on
earth. Dealing with such a closed society one that is
simultaneously seeking acceptance through nuclear relations while
defying the plea to cease development of nuclear weapons is
difficult for governments and policy makers, but Perspectives on
Policy Toward North Korea opens discussion on the various
approaches the United States has adopted and is considering.
Providing expert views on the impasse between the U.S. and North
Korea, the volume addresses topics that include the negotiating
strategies of the Clinton and Bush administrations, the concept of
building bilateral relationships through contact of U.S. and South
Korean military officers, and the benefits of allowing China to
take the lead in conflict resolution. Employing both traditional
and unusual methods, including diplomatic, academic, and military
viewpoints, Perspectives on Policy Toward North Korea is an
essential guide to a better understanding of this complicated
dynamic and an important work for policy makers, analysts, and
anyone interested in conflict resolution and security studies."
From covering the massacre of students at Tlatelolco in 1968 and
the 1985 earthquake to the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 and the
disappearance of forty-three students in 2014, Elena Poniatowska
has been one of the most important chroniclers of Mexican social,
cultural, and political life. In Stories That Make History, Lynn
Stephen examines Poniatowska's writing, activism, and political
participation, using them as a lens through which to understand
critical moments in contemporary Mexican history. In her
crónicas—narrative journalism written in a literary style
featuring firsthand testimonies—Poniatowska told the stories of
Mexico's most marginalized people. Throughout, Stephen shows how
Poniatowska helped shape Mexican politics and forge a
multigenerational political community committed to social justice.
In so doing, she presents a biographical and intellectual history
of one of Mexico's most cherished writers and a unique history of
modern Mexico.
From covering the massacre of students at Tlatelolco in 1968 and
the 1985 earthquake to the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 and the
disappearance of forty-three students in 2014, Elena Poniatowska
has been one of the most important chroniclers of Mexican social,
cultural, and political life. In Stories That Make History, Lynn
Stephen examines Poniatowska's writing, activism, and political
participation, using them as a lens through which to understand
critical moments in contemporary Mexican history. In her
cronicas-narrative journalism written in a literary style featuring
firsthand testimonies-Poniatowska told the stories of Mexico's most
marginalized people. Throughout, Stephen shows how Poniatowska
helped shape Mexican politics and forge a multigenerational
political community committed to social justice. In so doing, she
presents a biographical and intellectual history of one of Mexico's
most cherished writers and a unique history of modern Mexico.
"A gendered analysis of the National Security regimes that
dominated South and Central America in the 1970s and '80s reveals a
pattern of abuse of women that failed to register in the public
consciousness.... The evidence compiled by Stephen, a feminist
ethnographer, from archives and interviews with women in grassroots
movements in El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile reveals the
breakdown of the patriarchal bargain: men in power withdrew
protection from women, and women rebelled against the male
domination that crippled them and left them unfit to lead their own
lives." -- Choice "This book promises to make a significant
contribution to the literature on women and social movements in
Latin America. The fact that it draws upon collaborative
relationships with the women written about is a further strength,
making it of interest to activists and academics alike.... It would
make an excellent teaching text, and it would also be of interest
to general readers." -- Florence E. Babb, author of Between Field
and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a
commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a
challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist
that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control
cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land,
and medical care.
This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of
women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and
Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and
perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while
she explains the structuralconditions and ideological discourses
that set the context within which women act and interpret their
experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists,
detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a
theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist
anthropology and methods.
A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with
the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
(APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations,
APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months.
It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision
for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television
stations appropriated by APPO, shared at public demonstrations,
debated in homes and in the streets, and disseminated around the
world via the Internet.
The movement was met with violent repression. Participants were
imprisoned, tortured, and even killed. Lynn Stephen emphasizes the
crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural
history, community and indigenous radio, and women's articulation
of their rights to speak and be heard. She also explores
transborder support for APPO, particularly among Oaxacan immigrants
in Los Angeles. The book is supplemented by a website featuring
video testimonials, pictures, documents, and a timeline of key
events.
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A Flower with Roots (Paperback)
Roberta Lynn Stephens; Afterword by Komei Sasaki
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R749
R624
Discovery Miles 6 240
Save R125 (17%)
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This book covers the new operating system Windows 8 which is
considerably different to previous versions of Windows. Windows 8
is primarily for touch screen devices, i.e. smart phones, tablets
and touch screen computers. However this book covers Windows 8 on a
desktop computer or laptop. It is written in an easy to understand
manner in plain English cutting out all the computer jargon which
seems to confuse so many people. The opening chapters will cover
the basics of your computer i.e. your computer, monitor, keyboard
and mouse and these chapters are for those of you who are
completely new to computers. The following chapters cover
Broadband, the importance of Anti-Virus Software, Getting Started
with Windows 8, Using the Internet, Email, Adding Contacts and
backing up your work. There is also a chapter covering files and
folders. Although this book is aimed at beginners, it will also
assist those who are computer literate but who are new to Windows
8.
Anton Chekhov's play of love, frustration, and imploding lives in
Czarist Russia.
THIS 108 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Dramatic
Works of Leo Tolstoy, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 1417923202."
Reap the benefits of controlling your carbohydrates and following a
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healthy dietary changes, this book provides a way to help you with
those important lifestyle choices.
I watched as her chest moved up and down with the respirator. It
was breathing for her, and I wondered how long after the machine
stopped would her chest cease to move. Debbie was only thirty-three
years old, and it seemed impossible that this was happening. Kathie
had her head on her mother's chest when she stopped breathing and
the monitor went flat. She screamed, "Mommy, Mommy, please don't
leave me " In that instant, the monitor started up again, as if
Debbie had turned at hearing her daughter's cry and was coming
back. For two weeks after her death, I had experienced such an
abundance of God's Grace, it allowed me to minister to others.
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her
classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of
gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She
provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and
merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlan del Valle,
Oaxaca, have changed in response to the international demand for
Oaxacan textiles. Based on Stephen's research in Teotitlan during
the mid-1980s, in 1990, and between 2001 and 2004, this volume
provides a unique view of a Zapotec community balancing a rapidly
advancing future in export production with an entrenched past
anchored in indigenous culture.
Stephen presents new information about the weaving cooperatives
women have formed over the last two decades in an attempt to gain
political and cultural rights within their community and standing
as independent artisans within the global market. She also
addresses the place of Zapotec weaving within Mexican folk art and
the significance of increased migration out of Teotitlan. The women
weavers and merchants collaborated with Stephen on the research for
this book, and their perspectives are key to her analysis of how
gender relations have changed within rituals, weaving production
and marketing, local politics, and family life. Drawing on the
experiences of women in Teotitlan, Stephen considers the prospects
for the political, economic, and cultural participation of other
indigenous women in Mexico under the policies of economic
neoliberalism which have prevailed since the 1990s.
Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts
of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of
Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the
foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in
Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the
story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an
Anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian
communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist
scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with
the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United
States. The reader will appreciate the honesty and transparency
with which Varese brings out all these experiences. This
extraordinary book combines the personal, the political, and the
transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling
journey.
A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with
the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
(APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations,
APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months.
It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision
for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television
stations appropriated by APPO, shared at public demonstrations,
debated in homes and in the streets, and disseminated around the
world via the Internet.
The movement was met with violent repression. Participants were
imprisoned, tortured, and even killed. Lynn Stephen emphasizes the
crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural
history, community and indigenous radio, and women's articulation
of their rights to speak and be heard. She also explores
transborder support for APPO, particularly among Oaxacan immigrants
in Los Angeles. The book is supplemented by a website featuring
video testimonials, pictures, documents, and a timeline of key
events.
Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans
from two towns in the state of Oaxaca-the Mixtec community of San
Agustin Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlan del
Valle-who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended
periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the
line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the
many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including
national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and
divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on
transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not
disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration has had on
local systems of government in both Mexico and the United States as
well as the abilities of states to police and affect transborder
communities.Stephen weaves the personal histories and narratives of
indigenous transborder migrants together with explorations of the
larger structures that affect their lives. Taking into account U.S.
immigration policies and the demands of both commercial agriculture
and the service sectors, she chronicles how migrants experience and
remember low-wage work in agriculture, landscaping, and childcare
and how gender relations in Oaxaca and the United States are
reconfigured by migration. She looks at the ways that racial and
ethnic hierarchies inherited from the colonial era-hierarchies that
debase Mexico's indigenous groups-are reproduced within
heterogeneous Mexican populations in the United States. Stephen
provides case studies of four grass-roots organizations in which
Mixtec migrants are involved, and she considers specific uses of
digital technology by transborder communities. Ultimately Stephen
demonstrates that transborder migrants are reshaping notions of
territory and politics by developing creative models of governance,
education, and economic development as well as ways of maintaining
their cultures and languages across geographic distances.
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