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At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international
rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and
sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human rights law.
This complicates the conventional analysis of relationships between
local actors, global norms, and cosmopolitanism. The contributions
in this open access collection examine the "lived realities of
human rights" and critically engage with debates on gender,
sexuality, localism and cosmopolitanism, weaving insights from
multiple disciplines into a broader call for interdisciplinary
scholarship informed by practice. Overall, the contributors argue
that the power of human rights depends on their ability to be
continuously broadened and re-imagined in locales around the world.
It is only on this basis that human rights can remain relevant and
be effectively used to push local, national and international
institutions to put in place structural reforms that advance equity
and pluralism in these perilous times. The eBook editions of this
book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially
constructed 'war on terror' and 'war on trafficking' are linked
through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote
an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data and stories, From
Trafficking to Terror presents the need to challenge the
trafficking and terror paradigm, and rethink approaches to the
large scale challenges these discourses have created. This book is
ideal for courses on gender, labor, migration, human rights and
globalization.
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Hyphen (Paperback)
Pardis Mahdavi
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R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to
hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the
imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen has
persisted, bringing and bridging new words and concepts. Hyphen
follows the story of the hyphen from antiquity-"Hyphen" is derived
from an ancient Greek word meaning "to tie together" -to the
present, but also uncovers the politics of the hyphen and the role
it plays in creating identities. The journey of this humble piece
of connective punctuation reveals the quiet power of an
orthographic concept to speak to the travails of hyphenated
individuals all over the world. Hyphen is ultimately a compelling
story about the powerful ways that language and identity
intertwine. Mahdavi-herself a hyphenated Iranian-American-weaves in
her own experiences struggling to find a sense of self amidst
feelings of betwixt and between. Through stories of the author and
three other individuals, Hyphen collectively considers how to
navigate, articulate, and empower new identities. Object Lessons is
published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially
constructed 'war on terror' and 'war on trafficking' are linked
through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote
an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data and stories, From
Trafficking to Terror presents the need to challenge the
trafficking and terror paradigm, and rethink approaches to the
large scale challenges these discourses have created. This book is
ideal for courses on gender, labor, migration, human rights and
globalization.
There is perhaps no place in the world today where the stakes of
partying and having sex are higher than in present-day Iran.
Drinking and dancing can lead to arrest by the morality police and
a punishment of up to 70 lashes. Consequences for sex outside of
marriage can be even more severe--up to 84 lashes, or even public
execution.
But even under the threat of such harsh punishment, a sexual
revolution is taking place. Iranian youth continually risk personal
safety to meet friends, date, and, ultimately, to have sex. In the
absence of any option for overt political dissent, young people
have become part of a self-proclaimed revolution in which they are
using their bodies to make social and political statements. Sex has
become both a source of freedom and an act of political rebellion.
With unprecedented access inside turn-of-the century Iran, Pardis
Mahdavi offers a firsthand look at the daily lives of Iranian
youth. They are given a voice as she tells the stories of their
intertwined quests for sexual freedom, political reform, and a
better future - but not a future without risk. The sexual
revolution is also leading to increased levels of abortion,
HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and ongoing emotional
troubles and mental illnesses, with worrying implications for
Iranian youth and Iranian society at large.
"Passionate Uprisings" is a fascinating, ground-breaking, and
personal look into a society that is poorly understood--if it is
understood at all--by the majority of Westerners today. Mahdavi's
narrative provides not only an invaluable insight into the real
lives of much of Iran's population, but shows how sexual politics
and the youth culture could evendestabilize the current regime and
change the course of Iranian politics.
The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes
human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely
acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the
laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase
the challenges faced by migrants and their kin. In some cases, the
laws themselves lead to illegality or statelessness, particularly
for migrant mothers and their children. Crossing the Gulf tells the
stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the
interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and
state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and
immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love
they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally
moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and
constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their
loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies
that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness,
deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid.
The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes
human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely
acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the
laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase
the challenges faced by migrants and their kin. In some cases, the
laws themselves lead to illegality or statelessness, particularly
for migrant mothers and their children. Crossing the Gulf tells the
stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the
interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and
state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and
immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love
they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally
moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and
constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their
loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies
that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness,
deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid.
There is perhaps no place in the world today where the stakes of
partying and having sex are higher than in present-day Iran.
Drinking and dancing can lead to arrest by the morality police and
a punishment of up to 70 lashes. Consequences for sex outside of
marriage can be even more severe--up to 84 lashes, or even public
execution.
But even under the threat of such harsh punishment, a sexual
revolution is taking place. Iranian youth continually risk personal
safety to meet friends, date, and, ultimately, to have sex. In the
absence of any option for overt political dissent, young people
have become part of a self-proclaimed revolution in which they are
using their bodies to make social and political statements. Sex has
become both a source of freedom and an act of political rebellion.
With unprecedented access inside turn-of-the century Iran, Pardis
Mahdavi offers a firsthand look at the daily lives of Iranian
youth. They are given a voice as she tells the stories of their
intertwined quests for sexual freedom, political reform, and a
better future - but not a future without risk. The sexual
revolution is also leading to increased levels of abortion,
HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and ongoing emotional
troubles and mental illnesses, with worrying implications for
Iranian youth and Iranian society at large.
"Passionate Uprisings" is a fascinating, ground-breaking, and
personal look into a society that is poorly understood--if it is
understood at all--by the majority of Westerners today. Mahdavi's
narrative provides not only an invaluable insight into the real
lives of much of Iran's population, but shows how sexual politics
and the youth culture could even destabilize the current regime and
change the course of Iranian politics.
The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media
tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented,
dark-skinned captors--but the reality is a far cry from this
stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a
hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more
complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with
migrants. Not all migrant workers are trapped, tricked, and abused.
Like anyone else, they make choices to better their lives, though
the risk of ending up in bad situations is high.
Legislators hoping to combat human trafficking focus heavily on
women and sex work, but there is real potential for abuse of both
male and female migrants in a variety of areas of
employment--whether on the street, in a field, at a restaurant, or
at someone's house. "Gridlock" explores how migrants' actual
experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions--and
global moral panic--about human trafficking.
Mahdavi powerfully contrasts migrants' own stories with interviews
with U.S. policy makers, revealing the gaping disconnect between
policies on human trafficking and the realities of forced labor and
migration in the Persian Gulf. To work toward solving this global
problem, we need to be honest about what trafficking is--and is
not--and to finally get past the stereotypes about trafficked
persons so we can really understand the challenges migrant workers
are living through every day.
The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings
together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience,
think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the
journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are
physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, this
edited volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard
labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It
shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it
concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their
work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to
make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective
papers in The Asian Migrant's Body argue that the body itself is a
primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and
experience their migration trajectories.
Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia
encounter both the restrictions and opportunities presented by
state actors and policies, some that leave deep marks on migrants'
own life trajectories and others that produce fragmentary, uneven
traces. With a focus on those who migrate to perform intimate
labor—domestic, care, and sex work—or whose own intimate and
familial lives are redefined through migration, marriage, and
sometimes parenthood, this volume argues that such encounters
transform both migrants and the states between which they move.
Written by an international group of anthropologists, sociologists,
and geographers, these essays offer richly detailed and insightful
accounts of the intimate consequences of migration and the
transformative effects of migrant-state encounters across Asia.
Addressing a range of topics from the fate of children born to
unmarried migrant mothers to the everyday negotiations of
cross-border couples and migrant domestic workers, the contributors
situate themselves at various points along the extensive migration
routes that extend from northeast Asia all the way to the Gulf
region. The authors draw on ethnographic research and policy
analysis to illustrate the texture of migrants' interactions with
state actors and forces. From a range of perspectives, they explore
what these encounters teach us about migrant agency and the
workings of state power in a region now rife with diverse forms of
cross-border mobility. Contributors: Heng Leng Chee, Nicole
Constable, Sara L. Friedman, Hsiao-Chuan Hsia, Mark Johnson, Hyun
Mee Kim, Pardis Mahdavi, Filippo Osella, Nobue Suzuki, Christoph
Wilcke, Brenda S. A. Yeoh.
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