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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.
Offer an accessible and engaging approach to studying the history
of the Caribbean with full-colour, clear designs, shorter chapters,
focus questions, in-text facts, key-terms and associated
definitions to help students engage with content. - Consolidate
learning with a free CD-Rom in every book containing extra
activities. - Cover themes in depth from earliest peoples in the
Caribbean to just after the end of enslavement with Caribbean
History: Foundations Book 1. - Ensure full coverage of themes from
the late 19th century to 1985 with Caribbean History: Foundations
Book 2. - Encourage understanding of how what is happening now
links to historical studies with "Since 1985" updates in Book 2.
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis
as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the
disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating
frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the
history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its
virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation
with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so
fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by
code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.
‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMES In
this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through
generations of one family living on the beautiful island of
Barbados. In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes
through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of
Barbados. There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of
his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his
reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place
in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with
various parts of a complex identity. Each longs to escape their
circumstances but find themselves trapped by a history found only
in whispers and half-remembered fragments. And with every passing
decade, another generation must contend with the same question: how
can the things we don’t know define our futures? Spanning fifty
years, The Island of Forgetting is a powerful saga of family and
hope that marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary
fiction. THE TIMES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
Every corporate or special event requires a governing entity to
provide proper handling for any kind of situation. A proper
understanding of various laws and legislation may not only help
with identifying possible challenges, but it may also assist in
mitigating situations when they do occur. Legal, Safety, and
Environmental Challenges for Event Management: Emerging Research
and Opportunities is an essential reference source that provides an
in-depth understanding of various dimensions of events management
practice, legal issues, and risk management, which can include
environmental legislation and impacts, health and safety
frameworks, consumer laws, licensing, contracts, and legal
technologies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as
crowd management, workplace hazards, and emergency preparedness,
this book is ideally designed for event planners, event
organizers/coordinators, security staff, managers, marketers,
researchers, academicians, students, and industry professionals
seeking current research on events, tourism, hospitality, and
leisure management.
This book examines how Western photographic practice has been used
as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and
demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist
ideologies that have tainted photography since its inception in
1839. Decolonising the Camera trains Mark Sealy's sharp critical
eye on the racial politics at work within photography, in the
context of heated discussions around race and representation, the
legacies of colonialism, and the importance of decolonising the
university. Sealy analyses a series of images within and against
the violent political reality of Western imperialism, and aims to
extract new meanings and develop new ways of seeing that bring the
Other into focus. The book demonstrates that if we do not recognise
the historical and political conjunctures of racial politics at
work within photography, and their effects on those that have been
culturally erased, made invisible or less than human by such
images, then we remain hemmed within established orthodoxies of
colonial thought concerning the racialised body, the subaltern and
the politics of human recognition. With detailed analyses of
photographs - included in an insert - by Alice Seeley Harris, Joy
Gregory, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and others, and spanning more than 100
years of photographic history, Decolonising the Camera contains
vital visual and written material for readers interested in
photography, race, human rights and the effects of colonial
violence.
This book argues that multiculturalism remains a relevant and vital
framework through which to understand and construct inclusive forms
of citizenship. Responding to contemporary ethnic and religious
diversity in European states and the position of religious
minorities, debates in multiculturalism have revitalized discussion
of the public role of religion, yet multiculturalism has been
increasingly challenged in both political as well as academic
circles. With a focus on Britain and through a study of the
narratives of British converts to Islam, this book engages in
debates centered around multiculturalism, particularly on the
issues of identity, recognition, and difference. Yet, it also
identifies and interrogates multiculturalism's shortcomings in
relation to specifically religious identities and belonging. In a
unique and innovative analysis, this book combines a discussion of
multiculturalism in Britain with insights from political theology.
It juxtaposes multiculturalism's concepts of ethno-religious
identity and recognition with the notions of religiosity and
hospitality to offer a new perspective on religious identity and
the implications of this for thinking with and about
multiculturalism and multicultural social and political relations.
As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from
African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black
artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United
States, South America, as well as throughout the African continent,
this volume provides a timely exploration of Black identity on both
sides of the Atlantic. As Teju Cole describes in his preface, "Too
often in the larger culture, we see images of Black people in
attitudes of despair, pain, or brutal isolation. As We Rise gently
refuses that. It is not that people are always in an attitude of
celebration-no, that would be a reverse but corresponding
falsehood-but rather that they are present as human beings,
credible, fully engaged in their world." Drawn from Dr. Kenneth
Montague's Wedge Collection in Toronto-a Black-owned collection
dedicated to artists of African descent-As We Rise looks at the
multifaceted ideas of Black life through the lenses of community,
identity, and power. Artists such as Stan Douglas, LaToya Ruby
Frazier, Barkley L. Hendricks, Texas Isaiah, Liz Johnson Artur,
Seydou Keita, Deana Lawson, Jamel Shabazz, and Carrie Mae Weems,
touch on themes of agency, beauty, joy, belonging, subjectivity,
and self-representation. Writings by Isolde Brielmaier,
Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Mark Sealy, Teka Selman, and Deborah
Willis among others provide insight and commentary on this
monumental collection.
This book presents comparative analyses of different modes of the
governance of religious diversity and state-religion connections
and relations in twenty-three countries in five world regions:
Western Europe, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, Central and
Eastern Europe, the MENA region, and South and Southeast Asia.
Debates and controversies around the governance of religious
diversity have become important features of the social and
political landscape in different regions and countries across the
world. The historical influences and legacies, and the contemporary
circumstances provoking these debates vary between contexts, and
there have been a range of state and scholarly responses to how,
and why, particular understandings and arrangements of
state-religion relations should be preferred over others. The
analyses of country cases and regions presented in this volume are
based on extensive reviews of secondary literature, of legal and
policy landscapes, and in some cases on interviews. This book will
be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced
students interested in in the sociology of religion, religious
studies, politics and migration studies. The contributions in this
volume arise out of the Horizon2020 funded GREASE project. It was
originally published as a special issue of Religion, State and
Society.
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Rock Against Racism (Hardcover)
Syd Shelton; Preface by Carol Tulloch; Introduction by Mark Sealy; Afterword by Red Saunders; Contributions by Paul Gilroy, …
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R1,133
Discovery Miles 11 330
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An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked
the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of
photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British
Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976-1981. For Shelton, this
work was a socialist act, what he calls a "graphic argument," on
behalf of marginalized lives. His practice of photographic activism
began in 1973 when he was driven to document the socio cultural and
political dynamics expressed on the streets of Sydney by urban
Australian Aboriginal communities, the working class, and the
architectural landscapes of these groups. Shelton's first solo show
in 1975, "Working Class Heroes" at the Sydney Film-makers
Cooperative, established his distinct activist eye. Shelton joined
RAR in early 1977 on his return to England from Australia. He did
so because he found his birthplace a more racist country than it
had been when he left. This was marked by the increased political
presence of the National Front, notably its gain of some 119,000
votes in the Greater London Council Elections of May 1977. Shelton,
like millions of others, feared for the future of multi-cultural
Britain. His contribution to RAR was to be on the London committee,
to create graphic material with other RAR members such as the RAR
publication "Temporary Hoarding," posters' badges and his
photography-RAR did not have an official photographer. Shelton's
instinctive need to document RAR-its events, contributors, and
supporters-has resulted in the largest collection of images on the
movement. Alongside his documentation of RAR, Shelton took
photographs of what he calls "the contextual images," the lives and
landscapes that were defined by others as "different," and that
often fueled racist acts of violence by simply being. What is
presented here are Shelton's authoritative visual statements as
participant-photographer on the social tempo in Britain at this
time and the activist potency of RAR. As collective activism, RAR's
success was dependent on individual contributions to fuel the
movement's activities across the country. This unique national, and
eventually international, charge incorporated the visual dynamic of
how Black and white RAR contributors and participants styled their
bodies as another antagonistic tool against racism. These were acts
of style activism-the making of an activist identity through the
considered composition of clothes, accessories, hairstyles, makeup,
and body language. Shelton's images prompt us to remember that the
individuals at RAR carnivals, gigs, and demonstrations were the
event-they were RAR. There are many versions of what RAR was and
its legacy. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism provides an
auto/biographical telling of that historical moment. It reflects on
how Shelton's work as a photographer contributed towards social
change at a critical moment of political and racial tension in
Britain.
To enter the sports, events, and hospitality industry, it is
necessary to develop and hone certain skills to ensure
competitiveness. These skills must be studied further to educate
those interested in pursuing a career in these fields on what it
takes to begin this long process and enhance their employability.
Employability and Skills Development in the Sports, Events, and
Hospitality Industry provides insight into current professionals
working in the sports, events, tourism, and hospitality industry
and considers the skills and qualifications necessary to work
within or enter the industries. Covering key topics such as hard
skills, volunteerism, virtual events, and educational institutions,
this reference work is ideal for event managers, coaches, property
owners, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, researchers,
academicians, scholars, educators, and students.
"An inspiring makeshift ingenuity....These mirror images with their
uncanny resemblances traverse space and time, spotlighting the
black lives that have been silenced by the canon of western art,
while also inviting us to interrogate the present." -Times (UK)
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Brathwaite has
thoughtfully researched and reimagined more than one hundred
artworks featuring portraits of Black sitters-all posted to social
media with the caption "Rediscovering #blackportraiture through
#gettymuseumchallenge." Rediscovering Black Portraiture collects
more than fifty of Brathwaite's most intriguing re-creations.
Introduced by Brathwaite and framed by contributions from experts
in art history and visual culture, this fascinating book offers a
nuanced look at the complexities and challenges of building
identity within the African diaspora and how such forces have
informed Black portraits over time. Artworks featured include The
Adoration of the Magi by Georges Trubert, Portrait of an Unknown
Man by Jan Mostaert, Rice n Peas by Sonia Boyce, and many more.
This volume also invites readers behind the scenes, offering a
glimpse of the elegant artifice of Brathwaite's props, setup, and
process. An urgent and compelling exploration of embodiment,
representation, and agency, Rediscovering Black Portraiture serves
to remind us that Black subjects have been portrayed in art for
nearly a millennium and that their stories demand to be told.
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Passion (Paperback)
June Jordan; Introduction by Nicole Sealy
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R415
R344
Discovery Miles 3 440
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The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and
decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century.
While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject
of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in
the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century.
Together, its eleven unique and original chapters chart - for the
first time - the global reach of iron's architectural reception,
from the first debates on how iron could be incorporated into
architecture's traditional aesthetics to the modernist cleaving of
its structural and ornamental roles. The book is divided into three
sections. Formations considers the rising tension between the
desire to translate traditional architectural motifs into iron and
the nascent feeling that iron buildings were themselves creating an
entirely new field of aesthetic expression. Exchanges charts the
commercial and cultural interactions that took place between
British iron foundries and clients in far-flung locations such as
Argentina, Jamaica, Nigeria and Australia. Expressing colonial
control as well as local agency, iron buildings struck a balance
between pre-fabricated functionalism and a desire to convey beauty,
value and often exoticism through ornament. Transformations looks
at the place of the aesthetics of iron architecture in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period in which iron
ornament sought to harmonize wide social ambitions while offering
the tantalizing possibility that iron architecture as a whole could
transform the fundamental meanings of ornament. Taken together,
these chapters call for a re-evaluation of modernism's supposedly
rationalist interest in nineteenth-century iron structures, one
that has potentially radical implications for the recent ornamental
turn in contemporary architecture.
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