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This is an original perspective on the experience of refugees and
relief workers. The period of the 'long' Second World War
(1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60
million people either fled or were forced from their homes. This
book considers the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in
1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in
1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the
forces of Hitler's Third Reich. Throughout this period state and
voluntary organisations were created to take care of the homeless
and the displaced. National organisations dominated until the end
of the war; afterwards, international organisations - the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International
Refugee Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an
international problem. Using case studies of displaced people and
of relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at
the centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making
the work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second
World War.
This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys
and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and
other 'points east' in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear,
simple style, it provides detailed analysis of the motivations and
the experiences of hundreds of thousands of hippies who travelled
eastwards. The book is structured around four key debates: were the
travellers simply motivated by a search for drugs? Did they
encounter love or sexual freedom on the road? Were they basically
just tourists? Did they resemble pilgrims? It also considers how
the travellers have been represented in films, novels and
autobiographical accounts, and will appeal to those interested in
the Trail or the 1960s counterculture, as well as students taking
courses relating to the 1960s. -- .
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments
about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also
discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers.
France has become the setting for one of the most important
conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a
rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil
servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other
hand, France is also the home for Europe's largest Muslim minority,
variously estimated at numbering between four and six million
people. This means that in terms of simple numbers, France can be
counted as the world's fifteenth Islamic power. Previous conflicts
with religion have left a deep impression on French political
culture: from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century conflicts
between Catholics and Protestants played to the formation of the
collaborationist Vichy government in 1940. In recent decades,
Muslims have been stigmatized as an irreconcilable minority unable
to adapt to the secular culture of the majority of French citizens.
This work draws out the political implications of the current
conflict. It is based on events and publications produced in a
single five year period, beginning with the shock of the 2002
Presidential elections, in which Le Pen was the second most
successful candidate, ranging through the legislation of March 2004
which banned the Islamic headscarf from French state schools, and
which sparked off a series of bad-tempered exchanges between left
and right-wing French nationalists, anti-racism campaigners,
secularists, anti-clericals and a variety of Muslim authors.
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The Displaced
Sharif Gemie
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R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by
mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either
fled or were forced from their homes. This book considers the
Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French
civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the
millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's
Third Reich. Throughout this period state and voluntary
organisations were created to take care of the homeless and the
displaced. National organisations dominated until the end of the
war; afterwards, international organisations - the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International Refugee
Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an
international problem.Using case studies of displaced people and of
relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at the
centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making the
work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second World
War.>
Brittany presents a paradox: the region was incorporated into
France in 1532, and has never known a substantial nationalist
movement. Yet, in recent years, signs of a sense of separation from
France are growing clearer. This paradox raises some fundamental
questions about the processes of nation formation. This work
provides an introduction to identity politics in Brittany,
analysing its special status within France: the region forms at
once a western border and a potential rival centre to Paris. These
themes are explored through a discussion of representations of
Brittany: in published forms, such as in literature, in political
debates, but also in popular forms such as through religious
pardons, through republican festivals and through popular protest.
Women's Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works
concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women - from
pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in
the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were
usually playful and humorous, to the present day and such works as
Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Betty Mahmoody's Not
Without My Daughter, which present a radically different view of
Muslim Societies marked by fear, hostility and even disgust. The
author, Sharif Gemie, also considers a new range of female Muslim
writers whose works suggest a variety of other perspectives that
speak of difficult journeys, the problems of integration, identity
crises and the changing nature of Muslim cultures; in the process,
this volume examines varied journeys across cultural, political and
religious borders, discussing the problems faced by female
travellers, the problems of trans-cultural romances and the
difficulties of constructing dialogue between enemy camps.
A brief analysis of September 11, and its origins, from the editors
of 'Anarchist Studies' and the 'Research On Anarchism' website. The
Earthquake examines the evidence, the causes and the consequences,
while The State Within The State considers the attitude of the
contemporary state towards terrorism. The first part of this book
also looks at the media, American opinion, Islamic fundamentalism
and the new American agenda. The second part of this book, The Land
Of The Future, is a detailed essay on the recent history and
current situation in Afghanistan, and argues for another way of
understanding this country and its people - not 'the passive
recipients of tyranny', but rather those who 'have tried to create
new freedoms.'
For decades, France has been considered one of the world's first
and most fully formed nation-states--providing a global model of
state-centered modernity. Events in recent years, however, such as
the long-term presence of France's North African population, the
growth of Islam as France's second-largest religion, the
development of anti-centrist regional movements, and growing
debates about French sexual and social identities have endowed the
theme of borders with a special resonance in French studies. This
exciting interdisciplinary collection presents a series of
perspectives on French border identities in the context of
globalization, locating "border" situations in a variety of
contexts--geographical, social, cultural, and sexual--that
challenge preconceptions about the centrality of the nation-state
as the foundation of contemporary French identity.
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