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African Meditations (Paperback)
Felwine Sarr; Translated by Drew S. Burk; Foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
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R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations
on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after
years of study abroad  The call to morning prayer. A group
run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding
tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African
Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and
ruminations, musical gatherings, and the everyday sights and sounds
of life in West Africa as a young philosopher and creative writer
seeks to establish himself as a teacher upon his return to Senegal,
his homeland, after years of study abroad. A unique
contemporary portrait of an influential, multicultural thinker on a
spiritual quest across continents—reflecting on his multiple
literary influences along with French, African Francophone, and
Senegalese tribal cultural roots in a homeland with a predominantly
Muslim culture—African Meditations is a seamless blend of
autobiography, journal entries, and fiction; aphorisms and brief
narrative sketches; humor and Zen reflections. Taking us
from Saint-Louis to Dakar, Felwine Sarr encounters the rhythms of
everyday life as well as its disruptions such as teachers’
strikes and power outages while traversing a semi-surrealistic
landscape. As he reacclimates to his native country after a life in
France, we get candid glimpses, both vibrant and hopeful, sublime
and mundane, into his Zen journey to resecure a foothold in his
roots and to navigate academia, even while gleaning something of
the good life, of joy, amid the struggles of life in
Senegal.Â
Co-integration, equilibrium and equilibrium correction are key
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theory is linked to practical issues such as how to identify
equilibrium relationships, how to deal with structural breaks
associated with regime changes and what to do when variables are of
different orders of integration.
Taking the body as a locus for discussion, Rachael S. Burke and
Judith Duncan argue not only that implicit cultural practices shape
most of the interactions taking place in early childhood curricula
and pedagogy but that many of these practices often go unnoticed or
unrecognized as being pedagogy. Current scholars, inspired by
Foucault, acknowledge that the body is socially and culturally
produced and historically situated-it is simultaneously a part of
nature and society as well as a representation of the way that
nature and society can be conceived. Every natural symbol
originating from the body contains and conveys a social meaning,
and every culture selects its own meaning from the myriad of
potential body symbolisms. Bodies as Sites of Cultural Reflection
in Early Childhood Education uses empirical examples from
qualitative fieldwork conducted in New Zealand and Japan to explore
these theories and discuss the ways in which children's bodies
represent a central focus in teachers' pedagogical discussions and
create contexts for the embodiment of children's experiences in the
early years.
Taking the body as a locus for discussion, Rachael S. Burke and
Judith Duncan argue not only that implicit cultural practices shape
most of the interactions taking place in early childhood curricula
and pedagogy but that many of these practices often go unnoticed or
unrecognized as being pedagogy. Current scholars, inspired by
Foucault, acknowledge that the body is socially and culturally
produced and historically situated-it is simultaneously a part of
nature and society as well as a representation of the way that
nature and society can be conceived. Every natural symbol
originating from the body contains and conveys a social meaning,
and every culture selects its own meaning from the myriad of
potential body symbolisms. Bodies as Sites of Cultural Reflection
in Early Childhood Education uses empirical examples from
qualitative fieldwork conducted in New Zealand and Japan to explore
these theories and discuss the ways in which children's bodies
represent a central focus in teachers' pedagogical discussions and
create contexts for the embodiment of children's experiences in the
early years.
While less-known than popular destinations such as Cape Cod and the
Berkshires, the Valley region of western and central Massachusetts
is home to a wealth of natural areas, picturesque countryside,
abundant wildlife, and historic sites connected by the watersheds
of some of New England s most scenic rivers. Among the areas
featured are the Deerfield River and Mohawk Trail, the National
Wild and Scenic Westfield River, Quabbin Reservoir, southern New
England s largest conservation area, the North Quabbin Bioreserve,
and the Connecticut River, one of America s most celebrated
waterways. In addition to its diverse natural features, the region
boasts a rich human history that includes the construction of the
Hoosac Tunnel and Keystone Arches Railroad Bridges, the discovery
of dinosaur tracks in the Connecticut Valley, King Philip s War,
Shay s Rebellion, the great storms and floods of the 1930s, and the
controversial creation of Quabbin and Wachusett Reservoirs."
New England's landscape offers a remarkable array of natural
diversity in a compact geographic area. From the alpine mountains
and expansive lakes to hidden old-growth forests, gorges, and bogs,
revel in the beauty of it all through nearly 200 color photographs.
More than 100 of the region's natural areas are featured. Visit
popular destinations such as Cape Cod, Franconia Notch, Cadillac
Mountain, and Quechee Gorge, as well as less-known destinations off
of the beaten path. Discover why waterfalls are short-lived and
mobile, and how rare trees and flowers arrived in New England. Each
clearly written site description details why the area is unique,
how it was formed, and offers historical anecdotes and access
information including recommended trails and auto roads. This book
is a must-have for nature and photography enthusiasts, history
buffs, hikers, and anyone who loves the great outdoors.
From your baby's perspective, choosing the right nanny is probably
the most important decision a parent can ever make: this book is
about making the best possible choice. Coming home to an abused,
badly injured, or even deceased child is a parent's most horrific,
unimaginable scenario. And yet it happens: In 2012, two small
children died while in the care of a nanny. The Nanny Time Bomb is
the most accurate and comprehensive analysis of the current crisis
in child care, offering case studies and practical advice to help
parents make the most educated, well-informed decision when
choosing a nanny for their child. The book takes the reader through
various types of nannies-from graduates to undocumented
workers-thus allowing parents to see how the industry has evolved
far past schoolgirl babysitters. Setting itself apart, Jacalyn S.
Burke's exploration of the different types of nannies offers a new
perspective on child care not only for parents but also for those
interested in larger sociological trends. This book gives a voice
to the often-unheard grievances of nannies, showing why they may
snap; explaining how to prevent tragedies; and describing how
parenting has evolved. The author's examination of current cultural
and social trends will be useful for a wide readership beyond
parents. Contains explosive new information about the child care
industry Analyzes the roles that race, immigration, gender, class,
and culture play in child care practice Offers parents a definitive
guide to making the best child care choices Presents a realistic
picture of the child care industry today based on 10 years of
direct, on-the-job experience
Winner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in
Publication and Translation The Space Age is over? Not at all! A
new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the
Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will,
controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering.
This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of
power—geopower—that takes the entire Earth, in its social,
biological and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge,
intervention, and governmentality. In short, our rising awareness
that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us
not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the
Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial
environment thanks to the power of technology. Such is the position
we find ourselves in, when proposals for reengineering the
earth’s ecosystems and geosystems are taken as the only
politically feasible answer to ecological catastrophe. Yet far from
being merely the fruit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative
of geopower has also been activated by theorists of the
constructivist turn—ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist,
accelerationist—who have likewise called into question the great
divide between nature and culture. With the collapse of this
divide, a cyborg, hybrid, flexible nature has been built, an
impoverished nature that does not exist without being performed by
technologies that proliferate within the space of human needs and
capitalist imperatives. Underneath this performative vision resides
a hidden anaturalism denying all otherness to nature and the Earth,
no longer by externalizing it as a thing to be dominated, but by
radically internalizing it as something to be digested.
Constructivist ecology thus finds itself in no position to confront
the geoconstructivist project, with its claim that there is no
nature and its aim to replace Earth with Earth 2.0. Against both
positions, Neyrat stakes out the importance of the unconstructable
Earth. Against the fusional myth of technology over nature, but
without returning to the division between nature and culture, he
proposes an “ecology of separation†that acknowledges the wild,
subtractive capacity of nature. Against the capitalist,
technocratic delusion of earth as a constructible object, but
equally against an organicism marked by unacknowledged traces of
racism and sexism, Neyrat shows what it means to appreciate Earth
as an unsubstitutable becoming: a traject that cannot be replicated
in a laboratory. Underway for billions of years, withdrawing into
the most distant past and the most inaccessible future, Earth
escapes the hubris of all who would remake and master it. This
remarkable book, which will be of interest to those across the
humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, from theorists
to shapers of policy, recasts the earth as a singular trajectory
that invites humans to turn political ecology into a geopolitics.
Co-integration, equilibrium and equilibrium correction are key
concepts in modern applications of econometrics to real world
problems. This book provides direction and guidance to the now vast
literature facing students and graduate economists. Econometric
theory is linked to practical issues such as how to identify
equilibrium relationships, how to deal with structural breaks
associated with regime changes and what to do when variables are of
different orders of integration.
Simondon is a secret password among certain discussions within
philosophy today. As a philosopher of technology, Simondon's work
has a place at the forefront of current thinking in media,
technology, psychology, and philosophy with complex accounts of
man's relationship to technology and the realm that continues to
form itself via this tension between man and his technical
universe. In this introduction to Simondon's oeuvre, the reader has
access to the grounding of one of the most fundamental and critical
questions that has been the focus of philosophy for millennia: the
relationship between man and animal.
Winner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in
Publication and Translation The Space Age is over? Not at all! A
new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the
Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will,
controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering.
This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of
power-geopower-that takes the entire Earth, in its social,
biological and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge,
intervention, and governmentality. In short, our rising awareness
that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us
not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the
Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial
environment thanks to the power of technology. Such is the position
we find ourselves in, when proposals for reengineering the earth's
ecosystems and geosystems are taken as the only politically
feasible answer to ecological catastrophe. Yet far from being
merely the fruit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative of
geopower has also been activated by theorists of the constructivist
turn-ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist, accelerationist-who have
likewise called into question the great divide between nature and
culture. With the collapse of this divide, a cyborg, hybrid,
flexible nature has been built, an impoverished nature that does
not exist without being performed by technologies that proliferate
within the space of human needs and capitalist imperatives.
Underneath this performative vision resides a hidden anaturalism
denying all otherness to nature and the Earth, no longer by
externalizing it as a thing to be dominated, but by radically
internalizing it as something to be digested. Constructivist
ecology thus finds itself in no position to confront the
geoconstructivist project, with its claim that there is no nature
and its aim to replace Earth with Earth 2.0. Against both
positions, Neyrat stakes out the importance of the unconstructable
Earth. Against the fusional myth of technology over nature, but
without returning to the division between nature and culture, he
proposes an "ecology of separation" that acknowledges the wild,
subtractive capacity of nature. Against the capitalist,
technocratic delusion of earth as a constructible object, but
equally against an organicism marked by unacknowledged traces of
racism and sexism, Neyrat shows what it means to appreciate Earth
as an unsubstitutable becoming: a traject that cannot be replicated
in a laboratory. Underway for billions of years, withdrawing into
the most distant past and the most inaccessible future, Earth
escapes the hubris of all who would remake and master it. This
remarkable book, which will be of interest to those across the
humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, from theorists
to shapers of policy, recasts the earth as a singular trajectory
that invites humans to turn political ecology into a geopolitics.
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The Arachnean and Other Texts (Paperback)
Fernand Deligny; Translated by Drew S. Burk, Catherine Porter; Introduction by Bertrand Ogilvie
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R927
R863
Discovery Miles 8 630
Save R64 (7%)
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The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is a
collection of writings from the second half of the 1970s. In 1968
Deligny established a "network" for informally taking care of
children with autism that was more than a mere site of living: it
was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being
autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is
the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we
engage with a world that is not our own, a world turned upside down
yet truly common, where acting cohabitates with our actions and the
unknown with our forms of knowledge? Such is the mythical web of
the "Arachnean," made of lines, holes, traces, enigmas, and
questions without answers that demand to see that which cannot be
seen. Long before the digital age of social networks, meshworks,
and digital webs, Fernand Deligny speaks to us in his own
autobiographical and aphoristic manner. For Deligny, his life was
always experienced in the form of "the network as a mode of being."
A walking journey through France's vast interior becomes a
meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the
present-more than 425,000 copies sold in France After a
free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four
months, the French writer Sylvain Tesson makes a promise to
himself: if he's ever able to walk again, he will traverse the
entire country of France on foot. Part literary adventure, part
philosophical reflection on our contemporary consumer culture, On
the Wandering Paths takes us deep into the heart of what Tesson
terms France's "hyperrural" zones. Tracing the obscure paths
peasants once followed throughout the countryside, Tesson embarks
on a three-month journey of solitude and personal contemplation as
he walks along vast stretches of mountain ranges and rivers,
encountering ancient Roman stone bridges and walkways, the French
Foreign Legion, pagan prayer sites, Provencal villages, and the
majestic Mont-Saint-Michel. Connecting deeply with the places he
visits, his experiences inspire reflection on the essential need to
disengage from the digital and immerse oneself in natural beauty.
Rich with humor, historical insight, and literary power, On the
Wandering Paths is both a meditation on the act of recovery and a
potent recognition of the traces of our past in the present. Asking
us to reassess our values and our relationship to the land,
Tesson's exquisite chronicle through landscapes that continue to
resist urbanization and technology is a thoughtful-and
thought-provoking-glimpse into a poet's adventurous life. Les
Chemins de Pierre, a film based on the book starring Jean Dujardin,
is due to release in 2022.
Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via
the concept of non-photography, Francois Laruelle returns, having
further developed his notion of a non-standard aesthetics.
Published for the first time in a bilingual edition,
"Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics" expounds on Laruelle's
current explorations into a photographic thinking as an alternative
to the worn-out notions of aesthetics based on an assumed
domination of philosophy over art. He proposes a new philosophical
photo-fictional apparatus, or philo-fiction, that strives for a
discursive mimesis of the photographic apparatus and the flash of
the Real entailed in its process of image making. "A bit like if an
artisan, to use a Socratic example, instead of making a camera
based off of diagrams found in manuals, on the contrary had as his
or her project the designing of a completely new apparatus of
philo-fiction, thus capable of producing not simply photos, but
photo-fictions." One must enter into a space for seeing the
vectorial and the imaginary number. Laruelle's philo-fictions
become not art installations, but "theoretical installations"
calling for the consideration of the possibility of a non-standard
aesthetics being of an equal or superior power to art and
philosophy, an aesthetics in-the-last-instance that is itself an
inventive and creative act of the most contemporary kind.
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Afrotopia (Paperback, 1)
Felwine Sarr; Translated by Drew S. Burk, Sarah Jones-Boardman
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R746
Discovery Miles 7 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian
philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the
recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a
new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent.
Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a
vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer
stigmatized by stereotypes or encumbered by the traumas of the
past-yet unsure of the future-Africa has other options than simply
to follow paths already carved out by the global economy. Instead,
the philosopher Felwine Sarr urges the continent to set out on its
own renewal and self-discovery-an active utopia that requires a
deep historical reflection on the continent's vast mythological
universe and ancient traditions, nourishes a cultural reinvention,
and embraces green technologies for tackling climate change and
demographic challenges. Through a reflection on contemporary
African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr
elaborates Africa's unique philosophies and notions of communal
value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and
landscape-concepts such as ubuntu, the life force in Dogon culture;
the Rwandan imihigo; and the Senegalese teranga. Sarr takes the
reader on a philosophical journey that is as much inward as
outward, demanding an elevation of the collective consciousness.
Along the way, one sees the contours of an africanity, a
contemporary Africa united as a continent through the creolization
of its cultural traditions. This is Felwine Sarr's Afrotopia.
Teaching Introduction to Criminology provides instructors with the
tools and knowledge to effectively build and teach foundational
courses in criminology. Understanding that introductory criminology
courses attract a wide variety of students and also provide
fundamental knowledge for more advanced courses in the discipline,
this text provides educators with a framework by which they can
confidently teach the information that is most important and
applicable to students. Over the course of eight chapters,
educators learn tips and tricks for designing an effective course
syllabus, organizing a course schedule, and engaging students and
enhancing learning for both small and large courses. Additional
chapters offer alternative methods for delivering course content,
including guest lectures, interactive tools, and community-based
strategies. Selecting a textbook, integrating media, assessing
student learning, classroom management, and ethical issues are also
covered. The text closes with a chapter that explores teaching
introductory criminology courses in different modalities, including
in-person lectures, online classes, and flipped or hybrid classes,
and measuring teaching effectiveness through student and colleague
evaluations. Featuring practical advice and innovative teaching
approaches, Teaching Introduction to Criminology is an effective
recourse for novice and tenured educators alike.
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