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Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty
continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically
and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism
expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental
destruction - are thus treated 'parochially' and ineffectually. Not
designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic
institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not
simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to
be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the
local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs
to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.
Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth's
human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where
governance is understood performatively as the continuous
establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy
that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out
of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of
indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management
strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and
inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues
for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically
that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of
decolonisation. A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of
analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in
the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental
humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of
relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will
also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas,
including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design,
bicultural resource management, and the constitution of
post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.
Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of
colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography.
Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker,
UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied
and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public
space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of
contemporary migration in an entirely new light. Migrant
space-time, Carter argues, is not linear, but turbulent, vortical
and opportunistic. Before-and-after narratives fail to capture the
work of self-becoming and serve merely to perpetuate colonialist
fantasies. The 'mirror state' relationship between England and
Australia, its structurally symmetrical histories of land theft and
internal colonisation, repress the appearance of new subjects and
subject relations. Reflecting on collaborations with Aboriginal
artists, Carter argues for a new definition of the stranger-host
relationship predicated on recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty.
Carter calls the creative practice that breaks the cycle of
repeated invasion 'dirty art'. Translations is a passionately
eloquent argument for reframing borders as crossing-places: framing
less murderous exchange rates, symbolic literacy, creative courage
and, above all, the emergence of a resilient migrant poetics will
be essential. -- .
Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies,
Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the
experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective
philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history,
creative practice, and sound studies, recounting this narrative
through a series of themes (rattles, echoes, recordings, etc.).
Carter offers a unique perspective on migratory poetics, bringing
together his own compositions and life's works while using his
personal narrative to frame larger theoretical questions about
sound and migration.
History, Art politics, African, African American, Performance
Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty
continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically
and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism
expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental
destruction - are thus treated 'parochially' and ineffectually. Not
designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic
institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not
simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to
be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the
local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs
to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.
Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth's
human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where
governance is understood performatively as the continuous
establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy
that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out
of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of
indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management
strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and
inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues
for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically
that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of
decolonisation. A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of
analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in
the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental
humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of
relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will
also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas,
including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design,
bicultural resource management, and the constitution of
post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.
Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with
Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective
on Nixon as California’s native son, the only U.S. president born
and raised in California. In addition, Nixon was also a son,
brother, friend, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather. By
shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon’s deep,
defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common
conceptions of the thirty-seventh president of the United States.
More biographies have been written on Nixon than any other U.S.
politician. Yet the territory traversed by Carter is unexplored,
revealing for the first time the people, places, and experiences
that shaped Richard Nixon and the qualities that garnered him
respect from those who knew him well. Born in Yorba Linda and
raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life,
excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high
school. At Whittier College he graduated at the top of his class
and was voted Best Man on Campus. During his career at Whittier’s
oldest law firm, he was respected professionally and became a chief
trial attorney. As a military man in the South Pacific during World
War II, he was admired by his fellow servicemen. Returning to his
Quaker roots after the war, he was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives, the Senate, and the vice presidency, all within
six short years. After losing to John Kennedy in the 1960
presidential campaign, Nixon returned to Southern California to
practice law. After losing his gubernatorial race he reinvented
himself: he moved to New York and was elected president of the
United States in 1968. He returned to Southern California after
Watergate and his resignation to heal before once again taking a
place on the world stage. Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son
is the story of Nixon’s Southern California journey from his
birth in Yorba Linda to his final resting place just a few yards
from the home in which he was born. Â
A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading
to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a
contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far)
to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He has been
shot at, hijacked and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in
Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the
jungles of Asia; lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a
mouse in a fight to the death, and been served cocktails by an
orangutan on an ocean freighter. And that's just his day job.
Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote
regions, not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet,
Paul has worked, got into trouble, and been given serious talkings
to, in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo
and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatra, Vietnam and Thailand, and as
flat-out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of
the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not
to meet.
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Parrot (Paperback)
Paul Carter
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Discovery Miles 3 590
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One of the more nonconformist figures in the animal kingdom, the
parrot is linked to humans by its ability to speak--a trait many
have found unsettling, though this discomfort is offset by its
gorgeous plumage, which makes it one of the most popular members of
the avian family. Unlike previous studies that have treated parrots
as simply a curious oddity, Paul Carter offers here in "Parrot" a
thoughtful yet spirited consideration of the natural and cultural
history of parrots, discussing parrot portraiture, the role and
significance of parrots' mimicry in human culture, and parrot
conservation, as well the parrot's role in literature, folklore and
mythology, film, and television worldwide.
"Parrot" takes three different approaches to the squawker: the
first section, "Parrotics," examines the historical, cultural, and
scientific classification of parrots; "Parroternalia," the second
part, looks at the association of parrots with the different
languages, ages, tastes, and dreams of society; and, finally,
"Parrotology" investigates what the mimicry of parrots reveals
about our own systems of communication. Humorously written and
wide-ranging in scope, this volume takes readers beyond pirates and
"Polly wants a cracker" to a new kind of animal history, one
conscious of the critical and ironic mirror parrots hold up to
human society.
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A Real Good Woman (Paperback)
Carolyn Blakeslee; Photographs by Paul Carter III; Illustrated by Monique Grimme
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Discovery Miles 4 470
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Oi, mate, is that monstrosity diesel? From the author of the
bestsellers Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a
Piano Player in a Whorehouse and This Is Not a Drill, this is the
eagerly awaited next installment of Paul Carter's rollicking life.
Take one mad adventurer and a motorbike that runs on bio fuel
(cooking oil i.e. chip fat to you and me) and send them with one
filmmaker on a road trip around Australia just to see what happens.
What you get is a story full of outback characters, implausible
(but true) situations, unlikely events and unfortunate breakdowns,
all at a break neck pace. Never one to sit still for long, this is
what Paul Carter did next. Whether you've been shocked, delighted,
entertained, horrified - or all of the above - by Paul's stories
whether from oil rigs or the road one thing is for sure, they are
always high octane adventures.
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