Beyond Emasculation. Pleasure and Power in the Making of hijra in Bangladesh, New ed, Hardback - ***

This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bang...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multig...

Publisher: Palgrave USAAuthor(s): Jonathan DollimoreIllustration(s): notes, bibliography, indexesNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2003Dimensio...

Does living in a globally networked society mean that we are moving toward a single, homogenous world culture? Or, are we headed for clashes betwee...

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This book integrates the three fields critical theory, digital art making, and pedagogy, drawing from scholarship and practices of new media, socia...

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spi...

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey's rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came t...

This Element argues that community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multicu...

Reducere. As you step into business, if you assume you must cover up or restrain your most deeply held beliefs - your Soul level - you are cutting off your g...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

Beyond the Veil is the second volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction th...

This book explores how phenomenology - the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience - can provide new insights into acting and t...

Based on in-depth fieldwork, this critical analysis of the realities of security on a local level within 'fragile states' provides a bottom-up pers...

This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-makingof the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive role of crisis-riddenglobal...

Publisher: Paul H. Crompton LtdAuthor(s): P.D. OuspenskyNumber of pages: 399Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 34Cover type: HardbackRed...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Frances Hodgson BurnettNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 192 x 140 x 27Cover type: Pa...

Interdisciplinary collection exploring cities and urban spaces in the context of technological and digital innovation. An approachable discussion o...

Sebastian Felten examines regional and global circuits of monetary exchange in early modern Europe by analysing everyday practices in the Dutch Rep...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Ed SmithNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Publisher: Auris ReferencePublication date: 2016Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefa...

Reducere. This well-researched work is built around the first diary written by Pvt. William J. McLean, 34th New York Infantry, beginning with his enlistment....

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Anne MooreNumber of pages: 332Collection: Studies in Biblical LiteraturePublication date: 2009Dimens...

Despite substantial spending on education and support for reform, the quality of education in many, if not most, Arab countries remains low. Which ...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

A generation ago, they wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s and facing the imminent triumph of the Right under Margare...

This is a new, revised edition of the universally acclaimed and best-selling account of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement - the most radi...

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army...

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Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this ...

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition mig...

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarka...

Reducere. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Philip H. (Michigan State University, USA) HowardIllustration(s): 8 bw illusNumber of page...

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...