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A heartwarming rhyming picture book about a little dragon who
wishes he was special like his friends … but soon discovers that
he’s special in his own way. Donny is desperate to learn how to
breathe fire, but he just doesn’t have the spark! While his
friends are shooting flames everywhere, Donny can only breathe
water. He wishes he was special like them, until the day he
encounters a problem that only he can help with … > A moving,
gently funny story about ‘specialness’ and celebrating our
strengths, even if they’re wetter than we’d like them to be!
This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars
with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical
study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It combines work
by geographers on 'mainstream' penal establishments where people
are incarcerated by the prevailing legal system, with geographers'
recent work on migrant detention centres, where irregular migrants
and 'refused' asylum seekers are detained, ostensibly pending
decisions on admittance or repatriation. Working in these contexts,
the book's contributors investigate the geographical location and
spatialities of institutions, the nature of spaces of incarceration
and detention and experiences inside them, governmentality and
prisoner agency, cultural geographies of penal spaces, and mobility
in the carceral context. In dialogue with emergent and topical
agendas in geography around mobility, space and agency, and in
relation to international policy challenges such as the
(dis)functionality of imprisonment and the search for alternatives
to detention, this book presents a timely addition to emergent
interdisciplinary scholarship that will prompt dialogue among those
working in geography, criminology and prison sociology.
Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human
displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways
in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities
and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very
little work, however, has addressed the fertile middle ground
between mobilities and forced migration. This book sets out the
ways in which theories of mobilities can enrich forced migration
studies as well as some of the insights into mobilities that forced
migration research offers. The book covers the challenges faced by
both forced migrants and receiving authorities. It applies these
challenges to regions such as the Middle East, South Asia and East
Africa. In particular, the chapter on Iraq to Jordan foced
migration tests the sincerity of the concept of Pan-Arabism; the
chapters on Bangladesh and Ethiopia deal with the more historically
familiar variables of warfare and famine as drivers of forced
migration. This book will be of value to practitioners in the area
of human rights and to scholars of racial and ethnic politics,
human geography and globalization. This book was published as a
special issue of Mobilities.
This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars
with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical
study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It combines work
by geographers on 'mainstream' penal establishments where people
are incarcerated by the prevailing legal system, with geographers'
recent work on migrant detention centres, where irregular migrants
and 'refused' asylum seekers are detained, ostensibly pending
decisions on admittance or repatriation. Working in these contexts,
the book's contributors investigate the geographical location and
spatialities of institutions, the nature of spaces of incarceration
and detention and experiences inside them, governmentality and
prisoner agency, cultural geographies of penal spaces, and mobility
in the carceral context. In dialogue with emergent and topical
agendas in geography around mobility, space and agency, and in
relation to international policy challenges such as the
(dis)functionality of imprisonment and the search for alternatives
to detention, this book presents a timely addition to emergent
interdisciplinary scholarship that will prompt dialogue among those
working in geography, criminology and prison sociology.
This book gives a proof of Cherlin's conjecture for finite binary
primitive permutation groups. Motivated by the part of model theory
concerned with Lachlan's theory of finite homogeneous relational
structures, this conjecture proposes a classification of those
finite primitive permutation groups that have relational complexity
equal to 2. The first part gives a full introduction to Cherlin's
conjecture, including all the key ideas that have been used in the
literature to prove some of its special cases. The second part
completes the proof by dealing with primitive permutation groups
that are almost simple with socle a group of Lie type. A great deal
of material concerning properties of primitive permutation groups
and almost simple groups is included, and new ideas are introduced.
Addressing a hot topic which cuts across the disciplines of group
theory, model theory and logic, this book will be of interest to a
wide range of readers. It will be particularly useful for graduate
students and researchers who need to work with simple groups of Lie
type.
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries,
Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings
together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic
processes by which asylum claims are decided. The book includes a
legal overview of European asylum determination procedures,
followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by
which they communicate, and the ways in which they make life and
death decisions on a daily basis. It offers a contextually rich
account that moves beyond doctrinal law to uncover the gaps and
variances between formal policy and legislation, and law as
actually practiced. The contributors employ a variety of
disciplinary perspectives - sociological, anthropological,
geographical and linguistic - but are united in their use of an
ethnographic methodological approach. Through this lens, the book
captures the confusion, improvisation, inconsistency, complexity
and emotional turmoil inherent to the process of claiming asylum in
Europe.
"You might at least say thank you, Jenny. I've been out digging a
hole for your boyfriend all night. Not to mention severing his
legs. Have you ever severed a leg? It's not as easy as it looks.
Not with a blunt spade." Jane is a housewife. James sells guns.
They live in one of the larger cities in Our Country and are both
terrified of ethnic youths who might well be wearing hoods and
carrying knives,or something. All is well in the Jones household,
until their sexually frustrated eighteen-year-old daughter Jenny
brings home her new boyfriend, Kwesi Abalo... A visceral, smart,
brutally hilarious play about prejudice, arms dealing, and what it
means to be English. Nominated for four Off West End Awards Best
Director - Kate Wasserberg Best Female performance - Louise Collins
Most Promising Playwright - Nick Gill Best New Play
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