Global Border Crossings

Author : Alexandra Campana
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110678632
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Waters: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age written by Alexandra Campana and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of witnessing and undertaking border crossings has become a pillar of the contemporary human condition. In order to respond to our global, multidimensional social reality, writers need to generate innovative forms of narration that expand the confines of literary tradition. This study discusses four types of border crossing (migration, intercultural dialogue, multicultural identities, military invasion) and presents literary aesthetics that unfold in Algeria, China, France, Germany, Romania, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK, and the USA. These analyses move from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the rise of the internet, and from the turn of the millennium to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Positioned in the field of comparative literature, this book draws upon an extensive background of theoretical thought (e.g. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, Dawkins, Fanon, Freud, Kristeva, Žižek) and reaches into other academic disciplines (such as religious studies). Border crossings thus serve as both theme and methodology, which not only leads to a new definition of post-modern writing, but also underlines literature's relevance in a global society driven by public discourse.

Author : Kathryn L. Norsworthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135713006
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Border Crossings written by Kathryn L. Norsworthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a group of feminist activists, psychologists, and peace workers from countries on every continent who describe how they apply global/transnational feminism in their activist peace and justice projects in the cultures and countries in which they live and work. The contributors, who are from different locations in the “global village”, reflect on their engagement in Global South/North border crossings and partnerships, taking into consideration such variables as the gender, economic/class, ethnic, racial, political and imperializing/colonizing tensions inherent in the work. Authors discuss the feminist principles that guide their work, describe a project or set of projects illustrating how they apply feminist theory and practice, and reflect on the complexitites, tensions and conundrums inherent in negotiating cross-national feminist partnerships in research, practice, and activism. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women & Therapy.

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135928983
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Crossings written by Henry A. Giroux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy. Highly relevant to the times which we currently live, Giroux reflects on the limits and possibilities of border crossings in the twenty-first century and argues that in the post-9/11 world, borders have not been collapsing but vigorously rebuilt. The author identifies the most pressing issues facing critical educators at the turn of the century and discusses topics such as the struggle over the academic canon; the role of popular culture in the curriculum; and the cultural war the New Right has waged on schools. New sections deal with militarization in public spaces, empire building, and the cultural politics of neoliberalism. Those interested in cultural studies, critical race theory, education, sociology and speech communication will find this a valuable source of information.

Author : Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803222742
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Crossings written by Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such as repatriation, cultural jurisdiction, and revitalization movements have swept across the hemisphere. Today scholars are rethinking both how and why they study culture as they gain a new appreciation for the impact they have on the people they study. Key to this reassessment of the social sciences is a rethinking of the concept of borders: not only between cultures and nations but between disciplines such as archaeology and cultural anthropology, between past and present, and between anthropologists and indigenous peoples. "Border Crossings" is a collection of fourteen essays about the evolving focus and perspective of anthropologists and the anthropology of North and South America over the past two decades. For a growing number of researchers, the realities of working in the Americas have changed the distinctions between being a "Latin," "North," or "Native" Americanist as these researchers turn their interests and expertise simultaneously homeward and out across the globe.

Author : Ali Noorani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538143518
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Ali Noorani and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance praise from public figures José Andrés, Al Franken, Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker, and Russell Moore of Christianity Today. Find the moving stories of American immigrants and their journeys in Ali Noorani’s chronicle. In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them. Ali Noorani, who has spent years building bridges between immigrants and their often conservative communities, takes readers on a journey to Honduras, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and Texas, meeting migrants and the organizations and people that help them on both sides of the border. He reports from the inside on why families make the heart-wrenching decision to leave home. Going beyond the polemical, partisan debate, Noorani offers sensitive insights and real solutions. Crossing Borders will appeal to a broad audience of concerned citizens across the political spectrum, faith communities, policymakers, and immigrants themselves.

Author : Ioana Vrabiescu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149858781X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deporting Europeans written by Ioana Vrabiescu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Deporting Europeans, Ioana Vrăbiescu examines how states within the European Union (EU) collaborate in the policing and deportation of EU citizens within EU territory. Vrăbiescu argues that the deportation of EU citizens reifies existing inequalities between central states, like France, and peripheral states, like Romania. By highlighting the massive deportation of Romanians from France, Vrăbiescu showcases these inequalities and the intricacies of EU geopolitics.

Author : Bill Stamos
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781608440603
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Crossings' written by Bill Stamos and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 17 raucous, edgy tales reflect much of the apprehension any sojourner has felt while stuck on the bridge between two cultures, countries, or transits of any kind. At machine gun point in Argentina, offending violent Islamic sensibilities, mutinying while sailing through hurricanes, touched by magic shamans on volcano tops, or surviving Turkish earthquakes, the power of place and a geography of survival permeates these vibrant coming of age tales. "When the power to proceed in both time and space is held back and controlled completely by another, .... border crossings might bring out the caged animal at any instant......" Nickolas Dimetreou stumbles, fumbles, falls face down, and soars through political, spiritual, and absurd adventures of all kinds, knocking against boundaries, trying to discover a place within his own society that better reflects a coherent position among all others. All but the first of these stories finds a different international border as a challenging backdrop. Each of the 17 narratives is a cultural exchange wrapped in an adventure story. Voyages of vulnerability, these mini traumedies are all about what imbues any transition, or border crossing, be they physical, or metaphorical. "It's a ricochet roller coaster tearalong toad's ride. Each story comes around like an orbit and brings us back home, within a crossing and transformation." -Bill Zeldis, Publisher, Santa Barbara "I got into it-Nice read. Strong voice, it moves at a good clip, has depth-it's good; really good." -Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jimmy Santiago Baca Traffic slows, you sit up attentive in your seat; red lights are blinking while serious, armed men guard a black and white stripped gate.....Border crossings can be threatening and dicey. Keep an open mind, a sense of humor, and let the dice roll..... Visit at borderxings.com.

Author : Pankaj Ghemawat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780070260443
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Global Strategy written by Pankaj Ghemawat and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emma Fick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063080370
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Crossings written by Emma Fick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway—from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow—including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that includes cultural and historical information as well as invaluable travel tips. In May 2015, on a trip through the Baltics and Scandinavia, artist and illustrator Emma Fick and her boyfriend (now husband) Helvio discovered a worn copy of the Trans-Siberian Handbook at a secondhand shop in Helsinki. Many travelers from around the globe had used the guide to journey on the longest train ride in the world. Emma and Helvio took their find as a sign to embark on their own adventure on the legendary railway that has captured the imaginations and curiosities of many travelers and explorers since its construction a century ago. A year and a half later, with Trans-Siberian Handbook in hand, they boarded the train in Beijing. Their odyssey was just beginning. Border Crossings is the chronicle of their unforgettable 26-day, 8-city journey across Asia to Moscow. Emma offers a concise history of the railway and in vivid, visual language, takes you across a vast landscape of rural villages and bustling urban centers, through open food markets brimming with delicacies and a snowy mountain wilderness dotted with clusters of gers—nomadic homes. Emma’s detailed observations and lush descriptions, accompanied by detailed colorful illustrations, bring this remarkable journey of discovery and adventure—the landscapes, food, people and cultures—to life. Experience drinking salty milk tea, eating shoe sole cake (fried cakes shaped like shoe soles piled high and topped with milk curds and hard candies), and riding camels in Mongolia. In Russia, wander through a snow-draped countryside filled with stands of birch trees, explore the wonders of freshwater Lake Baikal—the source of omul, a ubiquitous and beloved fish delicacy—go ice fishing, and take a self-guided tour of Moscow. With its hand-drawn maps, its wealth of illustrations of every aspect of the experience—from sleeping quarters on a train to the highlights of a monastery or the details of a memorable meal, Border Crossings is an invitation to experience new destinations and cultures first-hand—to travel the Trans-Siberian Railway as never before, whether you’re a nomad looking for a new vacation destination, an armchair traveler, or just culturally curious.

Author : Patsy Healey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135154686
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Patsy Healey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention processes which go on when external influences are woven together with local efforts to meet local specifics and requirements. Initiated to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the journal Planning Theory and Practice in 2009, this book reflects the themes of the journal. Taking different intellectual perspectives, this collection takes a critical look at the international diffusion of planning ideas and practices, their impacts on planning practices in different contexts, on the challenge of ‘situating’ planning practices, and on the ethical and methodological issues of international exchange in the planning field.