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Men in Black 2 (DVD)
Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub, …
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Sequel to the successful sci-fi-cop, comedy-drama. Some four years
after the Men in Black averted a major intergalactic disaster, K
(Tommy Lee Jones) has returned to a civilian life, working as a
postman and quite unaware of his former heroics alongside Agent J
(Will Smith). But when J uncovers a secret alien plot organised by
the seemingly seductive Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle) he has to call
on K again. Unfortunately K has no memory of his former role as
'Saver-of-the-World', but somewhere in his head is the expertise
that can save the Earth, if only J can get him onside in time.
What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What
has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork
and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited
anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these
questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition
might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.
Both editors also bring their own perspective: while Jackson has
drawn on phenomenology, deploying the concepts of
intersubjectivity, lifeworld, experience, existential mobility, and
event, Piette has drawn on Heidegger's Dasein-analysis, and
developed a phenomenographical method for the observation and
description of human beings in their singularity and ever-changing
situations.
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Moonwalk (Paperback)
Michael Jackson
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The only book Michael Jackson ever wrote about his life It
chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days
with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. Giving
unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life, it details his
songwriting process for hits like Beat It, Rock With You, Billie
Jean, and We Are the World; describes how he developed his
signature dance style, including the Moon Walk; and opens the door
to his very private personal relationships with his family,
including sister Janet, and stars like Diana Ross, Berry Gordy,
Marlon Brando, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, and Brooke Shields. At
the time of its original publication in 1988, MOONWALK broke the
fiercely guarded barrier of silence that surrounded Michael
Jackson. Candidly and courageously, Jackson talks openly about his
wholly exceptional career and the crushing isolation of his fame,
as well as the unfair rumours that have surrounded it. MOONWALK is
illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and
Michael's personal photographic archives, as well as a drawing done
by Michael exclusively for the book. It reveals and celebrates, as
no other book can, the life of this exceptional and beloved
musician.
Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods,
Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11,
episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the
marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new
technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of
language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and
the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work,
Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a
philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of
social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise
events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite
possibilities of the situations in which human beings find
themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable
forms of social life.
Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people
that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called "dark times."
Jackson's response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how
much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we
habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible.
Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno,
Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly
influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the
middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and
redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary
conversation of humankind.
'An important and contentious book... It could stimulate a cult!' - Anthony Cohen, Principal of Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part Two, Volume 59, the latest
release in the Advances in Ecological Research series, is the
second part of a thematic on ecological biomonitoring. It includes
specific chapters that cover aquatic volatile metabolomics using
trace gases to examine ecological processes, next generation
approaches to rapid monitoring Bio-aerosol and the link between
human health and environmental microbiology, NGB in Canadian
wetlands, CELLDEX/global monitoring of functional responses,
Citizen Science and Biomonitoring, and more.
What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What
has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork
and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited
anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these
questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition
might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.
Both editors also bring their own perspective: while Jackson has
drawn on phenomenology, deploying the concepts of
intersubjectivity, lifeworld, experience, existential mobility, and
event, Piette has drawn on Heidegger's Dasein-analysis, and
developed a phenomenographical method for the observation and
description of human beings in their singularity and ever-changing
situations.
In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on
philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the
meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as
significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.
Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political
virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of
love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and
personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah
Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the
oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He
offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends,
lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates
particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of
anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the
egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other,
the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors.
Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay
of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and
the critical importance of choice in forming friendship-what it
means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even
in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory,
ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective
affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and
offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a
measure of our own self-worth.
This specially formulated collection features 3 reviews of current
topics and key research in sweetpotato. The first chapter examines
the origin and dispersal of sweetpotato, considers in vitro
germplasm storage in sweetpotato genebanks, and looks at the
importance of managing sweetpotato crop wild relatives (CWR). The
chapter also considers the specific issues associated with
sweetpotato germplasm, as well as the application of
next-generation sequencing to sweetpotato and its CWR. The second
chapter reviews the development and application of genetic
transformation and trait improvement to sweetpotato, including the
development of sweetpotato plants which are resistant to disease
and abiotic stress, and sweetpotatoes with improved starch quality
and higher anthocyanin content. The final chapter examines the
nutritional contribution made by OFSP (orange-fleshed sweetpotato)
in poor rural communities in Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina
Faso; sustainable breeding and seed systems; and effective
commercialisation and marketing to benefit the communities
concerned. This chapter includes detailed case studies from Ghana
and Malawi.
In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on
philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the
meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as
significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.
Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political
virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of
love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and
personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah
Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the
oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He
offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends,
lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates
particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of
anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the
egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other,
the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors.
Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay
of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and
the critical importance of choice in forming friendship-what it
means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even
in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory,
ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective
affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and
offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a
measure of our own self-worth.
."what is truly worthwhile in this loose grouping of essays is the
ethnographic examples. Powerfully presented, beautifully written
(the final three pages of the book offer poignantly evocative
description of ethnography as a way of living) and loaded with
telling detail." . Arthur Kleinman in the JRAI Inspired by
existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson
explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes
from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization
of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies,
mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the
sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of
human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates
that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual
being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and
coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a
dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the
situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities
they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life. Michael
Jackson is a graduate of the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand
and Cambridge (UK), and has, for many years, carried out
ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia.
The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the
prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing and At Home in the World, he
has also published five books of poetry and two novels. Michael
Jackson has taught in his native New Zealand, Australia, the United
States, and Denmark, where he is presently Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
An integral part of Canada's political culture, the constitutional
monarchy has evolved over the 150 years since Confederation to
become a uniquely Canadian institution. Canada inherited the
constitutional monarchy from Britain even before Confederation in
1867. In the 150 years since then, the Crown has shaped, and been
shaped by, Canada's achievement of independence, its robust
federalism, the unique identity of Quebec, and its relationship
with Indigenous peoples. What has this "Canadian Crown" contributed
to the Canada of the twenty-first century? How is this historic yet
resilient institution perceived today? The essays in this book
respond to these questions from a variety of perspectives,
encompassing the arts, the role of the vice-regal representatives,
the Indigenous peoples, and the contemporary position of the
monarch. In discussing whether there is a distinctly Canadian
monarchy, the authors look beyond Canada's borders, too, and
explore how Canada's development has influenced other Commonwealth
realms.
Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical care—can I change, and
how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Â
Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people
that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called "dark times."
Jackson's response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how
much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we
habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible.
Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno,
Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly
influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the
middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and
redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary
conversation of humankind.
A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to
implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United
States has an inequality problem, the social science community has
failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead
adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an
ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental,
narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach
assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It
is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In
Manifesto for a Dream, Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never
make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically.
It is the structure of social institutions that generates and
maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that
structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific
case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from
other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been
unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite
unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an
emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the
radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured
for all.
A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to
implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United
States has an inequality problem, the social science community has
failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead
adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an
ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental,
narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach
assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It
is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In
Manifesto for a Dream, Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never
make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically.
It is the structure of social institutions that generates and
maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that
structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific
case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from
other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been
unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite
unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an
emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the
radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured
for all.
In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in
educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores
and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce
inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in
performance. But is this presumption correct?
"Determined to Succeed?" is the first book to offer a comprehensive
cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice
in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines
in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing
more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of
educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent
inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to
differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups,
and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the
choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus
predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and
parental education.
In The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes
ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational
trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork,
Jackson recounts the 150-year history of a Sierra Leone family
through its periods of prosperity and powerlessness, war and peace,
jihad and migration. Jackson also offers a fictionalized narrative
loosely based on his family history and fieldwork in northeastern
Australia that traces how the trauma of wartime in one generation
can reverberate into the next. In both stories Jackson reflects on
different modes of being-in-time, demonstrating how genealogical
time flows in stops and starts—linear at times, discontinuous at
others—as current generations reckon with their relationships to
their ancestors. Genealogy, Jackson demonstrates, becomes a
powerful model for understanding our experience of
being-in-the-world, as nobody can escape kinship and the pull of
the past. Unconventional and evocative, The Genealogical
Imagination offers a nuanced account of how lives are lived, while
it pushes the bounds of the forms that scholarship can take.
In The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes
ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational
trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork,
Jackson recounts the 150-year history of a Sierra Leone family
through its periods of prosperity and powerlessness, war and peace,
jihad and migration. Jackson also offers a fictionalized narrative
loosely based on his family history and fieldwork in northeastern
Australia that traces how the trauma of wartime in one generation
can reverberate into the next. In both stories Jackson reflects on
different modes of being-in-time, demonstrating how genealogical
time flows in stops and starts—linear at times, discontinuous at
others—as current generations reckon with their relationships to
their ancestors. Genealogy, Jackson demonstrates, becomes a
powerful model for understanding our experience of
being-in-the-world, as nobody can escape kinship and the pull of
the past. Unconventional and evocative, The Genealogical
Imagination offers a nuanced account of how lives are lived, while
it pushes the bounds of the forms that scholarship can take.
Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical care—can I change, and
how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Â
Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich
conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal
experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives
are mutually constituted. In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on
years of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa to highlight the
dynamic quality of human relationships and reinvigorate the study
of kinship and ritual. How, he asks, do we manage the perpetual
process of accommodation between social norms and personal
emotions, impulses, and desires? How are these two dimensions of
lived reality joined, and how are the dual imperatives of
individual expression and collective viability managed? Drawing on
the pragmatist tradition, psychology, and phenomenology, Jackson
offers an unforgettable, beautifully written account of how we
make, unmake, and remake, our lifeworlds.
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