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Eclipsed tells the poignant and sometimes humourous story of the
penitent women consigned to Magdalene laundries in the 1960's and
one nun's attempts to ease their plight.
Were the occupations of 2010-11 - from Spain to Tahrir Square to
Occupy Wall Street - a success or failure? Are they the model for
urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings
and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and
resistance. It proposes a critical urban theory of politics and
citizenship that is grounded in the city as it is inhabited. For
those who are marginalized, the city is a double-edged sword of
oppression and emancipation. This book argues for an intersectional
approach that actively dismantles hierarchies and embraces a wider
range of acts of resistance and creative transformation, one in
which we recognize these acts of citizenship as a form of
constitutionalism. Wood reframes the theorization of protest and of
the city, 'post-political' literature and the history of protest,
and Marxist and anarchist ideas about the time and space of
politics. Through this, she adopts a unique approach to provide new
theoretical insights and challenges to post-political thinking.
This book will be valuable reading for those interested in
political, urban and social geography, in addition to political
economy and progressive politics in the urban context.
Were the occupations of 2010-11 - from Spain to Tahrir Square to
Occupy Wall Street - a success or failure? Are they the model for
urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings
and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and
resistance. It proposes a critical urban theory of politics and
citizenship that is grounded in the city as it is inhabited. For
those who are marginalized, the city is a double-edged sword of
oppression and emancipation. This book argues for an intersectional
approach that actively dismantles hierarchies and embraces a wider
range of acts of resistance and creative transformation, one in
which we recognize these acts of citizenship as a form of
constitutionalism. Wood reframes the theorization of protest and of
the city, 'post-political' literature and the history of protest,
and Marxist and anarchist ideas about the time and space of
politics. Through this, she adopts a unique approach to provide new
theoretical insights and challenges to post-political thinking.
This book will be valuable reading for those interested in
political, urban and social geography, in addition to political
economy and progressive politics in the urban context.
The so-called land question dominates political discourse in
British Columbia. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach
– investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land – to reframe
the issue as a history of Crown attempts to solidify claims to
Indigenous territory. From the historical-geographic processes
through which the BC polity became entrenched in its present
territory to key events of the twenty-first century, the authors
highlight the unstable ideological foundation of land and title
arrangements. In the process, they demonstrate that only by
understanding diverse interpretations of sovereignty, governance,
territory, and property can we move toward meaningful
reconciliation.
Memoir of Patricia Burke Brogan, the woman who first broke the
story of the plight of the Magdalen women incarcerated in Magdalen
laundries. A poetic account of her life experiences, from growing
up in country villages, to boarding school, teacher training
college, entering the novitiate, marriage, and her artistic life as
a poet, playwright and visual artist.
Follow-up to the acclaimed play, Eclipsed where Sr Luke, a former
superior of Killmacha Magdalen Laundry, returns to her convent
where she challenges and entertains with the wit and emotional
power of her stories.
New and selected poetry from the author of the acclaimed Eclipsed
containing poetry with a deeply spiritual and political focus. They
combine the earthiness of the pagan and the religious roots of the
Christian.
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