Imagining Insiders

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847141986
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Insiders written by Mineke Schipper and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed, with examples from various disciplines. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780304704736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Insiders written by Mineke Schipper and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders," "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed, with examples from various disciplines. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

Author : Tijan
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 125021078X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insiders written by Tijan and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Insiders is the first in a brand new, page-turning romance trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Tijan! Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen—a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she’s idolized all her life. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. He’s an associate of her father’s, and he gives Bailey two choices—go with him and meet her father or survive on her own because those kidnappers are going to try again. It’s a no-brainer. After this, three things become clear for Bailey: 1. She’s living at her father’s sprawling estate, complete with bodyguards and the best security that money can buy. 2. She’s no longer an only child. She has three siblings and has no idea what to do with them and vice versa. 3. She is being guarded by Kash himself. Personally guarded. And there is a lot of guarding going on there and some of it is going to drive her crazy. A complete outsider in a world of wealth and decadence, Bailey has to find her way within a family that has more secrets than she could have imagined. One of these secrets could be deadly...

Author : Elizabeth Kier
Publisher : Princeton Studies in Internati
ISBN 13 : 9780691653921
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining War written by Elizabeth Kier and published by Princeton Studies in Internati. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational theory, she demonstrates that military organizations differ in their worldview and the proper conduct of their mission. It is this organizational culture that shapes how the military responds to constraints, such as terms of conscription set by civilian policymakers. In richly detailed case studies, Kier examines doctrinal developments in France and Great Britain during the interwar period. She tests her cultural argument against the two most powerful alternative explanations and illustrates that neither the functional needs of military organizations nor the structural demands of the international system can explain doctrinal choice. She also reveals as a myth the argument that the lessons of World War I explain the defensive doctrines in World War II. Imagining War addresses two important debates. It tackles a central debate in security studies: the origins of military doctrine. And by showing the power of a cultural approach, it offers an alternative to the prevailing rationalist explanations of international politics. Originally published in 1999. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Beverly McMillan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416938591
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oceans written by Beverly McMillan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the world's oceans.

Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271070617
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Kibbutz written by Ranen Omer-Sherman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz “insiders” (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and “outsiders.” For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once—the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists’ imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself.

Author : Ari Joskowicz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691244030
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain of Ash written by Ari Joskowicz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicians, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma went largely ignored. Rain of Ash is the untold story of how Roma turned to Jewish institutions, funding sources, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition and compensation for their wartime suffering. Ari Joskowicz vividly describes the experiences of Hitler’s forgotten victims and charts the evolving postwar relationship between Roma and Jews over the course of nearly a century. During the Nazi era, Jews and Roma shared little in common besides their simultaneous persecution. Yet the decades of entwined struggles for recognition have deepened Romani-Jewish relations, which now center not only on commemorations of past genocides but also on contemporary debates about antiracism and Zionism. Unforgettably moving and sweeping in scope, Rain of Ash is a revelatory account of the unequal yet necessary entanglement of Jewish and Romani quests for historical justice and self-representation that challenges us to radically rethink the way we remember the Holocaust.

Author : Gloria Shur Bilchik
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642379549
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Election Insiders written by Gloria Shur Bilchik and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Election Insiders is an entertaining journey into the inner workings of voting, focusing on the people behind the scenes—the mapmakers, poll workers, warehouse crew, signature sleuths and others who do this democracy-defining work. In a lively, reader-friendly narrative, election workers at all levels share the ups, downs and unexpected challenges that make election day tick. Some of their stories are alarming, others are amusing, and many are reassuring. Bilchik’s thorough reporting encompasses more than a year of in-depth interviews and off-the-cuff conversations, examination of public documents, attendance at board meetings and equipment demonstrations, hands-on training, and live election day observations. The result is a one-of-a-kind glimpse into a backstage world that we voters usually don't see, but one that we all depend on to keep elections fair and secure.

Author : Robert Sugden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198825145
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Community of Advantage written by Robert Sugden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normative analysis in economics usually aims at satisfying individuals' preferences, valuing economic freedom and viewing markets favourably. Behavioural research, however, shows that individuals' preferences are often unstable. Robert Sugden proposes a reformulation of normative economics compatible with psychology of choice.

Author : Shankman
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9332506248
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic and Other Higher Narratives: Essays in Intercultural Studies written by Shankman and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic and Other Higher Narratives: Essays in Intercultural Studies is dedicated to the memory of Earl Miner, the distinguished comparitist and scholar of intercultural comparative literature. Beginning with a discussion on theoretical foundations of narratives, it moves on to the nature of narrative in relation to higher narratives. It attempts to define a form of narrative that is distinguished by elevation, dignity, and engaging in a cross-cultural phenomena. It is useful for students of international studies and world literature.