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Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages
from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the
most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection
of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders.
The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of
the body at the threshold between subjective identities and
intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and
ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective,
social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race,
human/animal/nature/technology divisions). The book is divided in
three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their
possible debordering. The first section offers insights into
bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the
development of the concept of the "border" in ancient China. The
second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual
ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in
different cultural and social spheres - from Buddhist nationalism
in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its
implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal
border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that
relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial
hospitableness.
Adolescence is recognised as a turbulent period of human development. Along with the physical changes of puberty, adolescents undergo significant transformations in the way they think, act, feel and perceive the world. The disruption that is manifest in their behaviour is upsetting and often incomprehensible to the adults surrounding them. In The Adolescent Psyche Richard Frankel shows how this unique stage of human development expresses through its traumas and fantasies the adolescent's urge towards self-realization. The impact of contemporary culture on the lives of young people has resulted in an increasing number of adolescents being referred for psychotherapy and psychiatric treatment. Successful outcomes are often difficult to achieve in clinical work with clients of this age-group. The advice and guidelines which Frankel provides will be welcomed by psychotherapists, parents, educators and anyone working with adolescents.
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A contribution to the growing cannon of literature on the Occupy
Movement, this collection of essays engages Jungian, archetypal,
and depth psychological ways of understanding how Occupy is living
in the collective imagination, or, how psyche is occupying
collectives through the movement. The tension between the 99% and
the 1% is amplified by some authors through images of the Villain
and the Hero, Positive/Negative Father Complex, the body-head
split, and notions of ensouled action versus degrees of
soulessness. Other authors indwell the between spaces with
storytelling, embodied imagining into the fractured skull of Scott
Olsen, and questions of how to situate movement and its edges.
Working alchemical stones of hope, this book is a dynamic
conversation into the unconscious complexes of Occupy that
remembers to cast a critical eye on the potential failings of its
own epistemological structures.
Using the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two
experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental
refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between
citizen and migrant in an era of "Juan Crow," which systematically
creates a perpetual undercaste. Winner, National Association for
Ethnic Studies (NAES) Outstanding Book Award, 2017 As increasing
global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a
rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local
communities are responding by building walls-literal and
metaphorical-between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall:
Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to
construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S.
wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as investigating the
walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question
the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation, Up
Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between
borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning
alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by
walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and
colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors, the
book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the
wall-Nogales, Arizona vs. Nogales, Sonora; Tijuana/San Diego; and
the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of
Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the
aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land, a history that is
relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights
issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of
national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment
of Mexicans since 1848, the authors delve into the broad
repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of
excluding others through walled structures along with the
withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the
lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to
the United States, this transdisciplinary text, drawing on
philosophy, psychology, and political theory, opens up multiple
insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more
justice and more compassion.
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