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A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and
geography. Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action-to expand
imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully
through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous
and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies.
The original essays in this collection center three themes to
unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site
where differences generate both productive and immobilizing
frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political
struggle, and the embodied work of building the future. Drawing on
diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites,
contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class
often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing
it. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make
claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these
politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The book
also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews
with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives
speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic
spaces. Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist
geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the
production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge
production, and gender's constitutive role in shaping social life.
Brings political geography to life--explores key concepts, critical
debates, and contemporary research in the field. Political
geography is the study of how power struggles both shape and are
shaped by the places in which they occur--the spatial nature of
political power. Political Geography: A Critical Introduction helps
students understand how power is related to space, place, and
territory, illustrating how everyday life and the world of global
conflict and nation-states are inextricably intertwined. This
timely, engaging textbook weaves critical, postcolonial, and
feminist narratives throughout its exploration of key concepts in
the discipline. Accessible to students new to the field, this text
offers critical approaches to political geography--including
questions of gender, sexuality, race, and difference--and explains
central political concepts such as citizenship, security, and
territory in a geographic context. Case studies incorporate
methodologies that illustrate how political geographers perform
research, enabling students to develop a well-rounded critical
approach rather than merely focusing on results. Chapters cover
topics including the role of nationalism in shaping allegiances,
the spatial aspects of social movements and urban politics, the
relationship between international relations and security, the
effects of non-human actors in politics, and more. Global in scope,
this book: Highlights a diverse range of globally-oriented issues,
such as global inequality, that demonstrate the need for critical
political geography Demonstrates how critiques of political
geography intersect with decolonial, feminist, and queer movements
Covers the Eurocentric origins of many of the discipline's key
concepts Integrates advances in political geography theory and
firsthand accounts of innovative research from rising scholars in
the field Explores both intimate stories from everyday life and
abstract concepts central to contemporary political geography
Political Geography: A Critical Introduction is an ideal resource
for students in political and feminist geography, as well as
graduate students and researchers seeking an overview of the
discipline.
Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean
streets of the Dark City, this volume explores the genre from a new
angle, focusing on non-urban settings. Through detailed readings of
over 100 films set in suburbs, small towns, on the road, in the
desert, borderlands and the vast, empty West, the author
investigates the alienation expressed by film noir, pinpointing its
motivation in the conflict between desires for escape, autonomy and
freedom--and fears of loneliness, exile and dissolution. Through
such films as Out of the Past, They Live by Night and Touch of
Evil, this survey examines how film noir reflected radical changes
in the physical and social landscapes of postwar America, defining
the genre's contribution to the eternal debate between the values
of individualism and community.
Intimate Geopolitics begins with a love story set in the Himalayan
region of Ladakh, in India's Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is
also a story about territory, and the ways that love, marriage, and
young people are caught up in contemporary global processes. In
Ladakh, children grow up to adopt a religious identity in part to
be counted in the census, and to vote in elections. Religion,
population, and voting blocs are implicitly tied to territorial
sovereignty and marriage across religious boundaries becomes a
geopolitical problem in an area that seeks to define insiders and
outsiders in relation to borders and national identity. This book
populates territory, a conventionally abstract rendering of space,
with the stories of those who live through territorial struggle at
marriage and birth ceremonies, in the kitchen and in the bazaar, in
heartbreak and in joy. Intimate Geopolitics argues for the
incorporation of the role of time - temporality - into our
understanding of territory.
Intimate Geopolitics begins with a love story set in the Himalayan
region of Ladakh, in India's Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is
also a story about territory, and the ways that love, marriage, and
young people are caught up in contemporary global processes. In
Ladakh, children grow up to adopt a religious identity in part to
be counted in the census, and to vote in elections. Religion,
population, and voting blocs are implicitly tied to territorial
sovereignty and marriage across religious boundaries becomes a
geopolitical problem in an area that seeks to define insiders and
outsiders in relation to borders and national identity. This book
populates territory, a conventionally abstract rendering of space,
with the stories of those who live through territorial struggle at
marriage and birth ceremonies, in the kitchen and in the bazaar, in
heartbreak and in joy. Intimate Geopolitics argues for the
incorporation of the role of time - temporality - into our
understanding of territory.
A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and
geography. Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action-to expand
imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully
through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous
and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies.
The original essays in this collection center three themes to
unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site
where differences generate both productive and immobilizing
frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political
struggle, and the embodied work of building the future. Drawing on
diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites,
contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class
often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing
it. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make
claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these
politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The book
also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews
with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives
speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic
spaces. Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist
geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the
production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge
production, and gender's constitutive role in shaping social life.
Buster Keaton is remembered today as one of the most innovative and
hilarious comedians of the silent movie era, considered now to be
the equal to Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. Starting his career
as a child in vaudeville with his parents in a violent, knockabout
comedy act known as The Three Keatons, Buster - so called because
he could take a fall without getting hurt - was a seasoned stage
professional by the time of his film debut with Roscoe "Fatty"
Arbuckle in 1917 at only 21 years old. Keaton's soaring success in
motion pictures lasted 15 years until a devastating crash brought
on by personal troubles, alcoholism and the advent of sound
pictures. By 1932, Buster had become nearly unemployable. The true
story of how he bounced back to become an icon in film history is
the beautifully written and thoroughly researched tale lovingly
crafted in Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by film analyst
and writer, Imogen Sara Smith.
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