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This cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary
geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers
to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making
assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critically interrogate
concepts of resistance and illustrate the political potential of
re-thinking them. Engaging with anarchist, feminist and
postcolonial scholarship, this book traces existing debates on
resistance in geography and suggests how they can be productively
reanimated. Contributors explore multiple and everyday spaces,
subjects, and temporalities of resistance, reconsidering the study
of resistance in light of recent ontological developments,
including in non-representational theory, the non-human,
post-politics and more-than-human geographies. Using detailed case
studies, the book examines what critical geographies of resistance
might look like in practice, providing insight on how geography can
respond to and engage with the contemporary world. This book will
be a fascinating read for scholars and students of human, social
and cultural geography, geopolitics, sociology, and those studying
resistance across the social sciences. It will also be of interest
to activists looking to formulate alternative resistant claims and
practices.
The rascals from the world s friendliest family circus are back
in the second installment of this smafunderful * fully illustrated
series.Everyone knows Sir Sidney s Circus is the best in the world.
But who s the "star" of the show? "The Circus Times "is having a
contest to find out. Just thinking about it gives Sir Sidney a
worrywart, and it s quickly clear why. Soon after he goes off to
rest, the performers start thinking too much about winning the
trophy and not enough about putting on a good show.Meanwhile, it
looks as if ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles might need
some help managing the crew, so Bert and Gert, the sly
brother-and-sister mice who travel with the show, set out to write
a book to teach him how it s done.Does Bert and Gert s plan work?
And who" is" the star of the circus? All will be revealed in "The
Greatest Star on Earth."*Kirkus Reviews"
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The economic crisis in Argentina in 2001-2002 that spilled over
into Uruguay causing fiscal and political problems is the starting
point for my research on space and theater, and it demonstrates why
we must look at the River Plate in both global and local ways.
Connections among monetary policies, industries, and legal, social,
and political movements mean that national spaces like Uruguay's
are fraught with tensions that come from both within and outside of
borders. Recent economic crises like the one that is occurring in
Greece, further demonstrate how nation states and trade blocks must
constantly negotiate power as they toggle between national and
international pressures. Nation states are being prompted to
reconceive perspectives on governance that fall away from the
parameters of Westphalian autonomy and reconcile their views with
trends that instead require thinking about power as a network with
shifting centers. The introduction launches the study by addressing
these political and economic trends, the spatial turn in theater
and performance studies, the rise of multiculturalism, and also
examines the Uruguayan historical context of the post-dictatorship
and impunity laws that pit national sovereignty against
international human rights laws. These crises are enacted on the
Uruguayan stage and contextualized through networks and spatial
topographies, intertextualties on the page, explorations of history
and memory, and ultimately notions of identity in four areas: the
postdramatic and economic realm (chapter one: Peveroni), cultural
geography and pyschogeography (chapter two: Morena), midrash and
questions of human rights and growing fascist trends (chapter
three: Sanguinetti), and finally in mapmaking on the stage through
mise-en-perf/performise and "wayfinding" through sites of contested
power (chapter four: Calderon). The concluding chapter (Blanco)
looks at the reinterpretation of Greek tragedy as a commentary on
the messy process of democratization. Here, access to the polis and
power are problematized through the lens of international sex
trafficking and gendered roles that exclude portions of the
populace from participation in the process of self-governance.
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