Performing Power in Nigeria. Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism, Hardback - ***

A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to exp...

This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society I...

This book explores the legacy of colonial heritage on Nigerian political activities and journalistic practices.Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publis...

DescriptionThroughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democra...

DescriptionAs the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent de...

It discusses a diverse range of performative strategies, moving from a consideration of recent adaptations of Greek tragedy, to performances employ...

This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under ...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdIllustration(s): mapsNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 21Cover type: HardbackEditor...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

This study provides a broad examination of historical memory of World War II. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the contributors analyze how the...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

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 ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Retief MullerNumber of pages: 232Collection: Scottish Religious CulturesPublication date: 2021Dimen...

What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between ...

Reducere. Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T. Christian Literary Award Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Chri...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Alison W. HellerNumber of pages: 220Collection: Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social ...

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights onthe interaction between ideology and the identity development of individualEng...

Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of "gastronativism, " the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a co...

Publisher: ABC-CLIOAuthor(s): John OhiorhenuanNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an ...

Dance, Diversity and Difference presents contemporary stories of dance, revealing the diverse voices of dance practitioners and demonstrating the w...

Publisher: Bullfrog BooksAuthor(s): Cari MeisterIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 24Collection: Meals Around the WorldPub...

In this work, the authors employ a series of experiments to assess the strategies used to win elections and stay in power once elected.Illustration...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 40 B/W illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 244 x 22Cover...

This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing ...

Publisher: Astra HouseAuthor(s): Farah NayeriNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Jonathan D., author of Reinventing Racism: Why 'White Fragility' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial I...

Reducere. 'Has the world gone mad?'...this is a question that we've heard time and again during the last years. Everyone is convinced that something is wrong...

Reducere. DescriptionAmidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial ident...

As we stand at the brink of a terminal decline in the world's languages, and the rise of the hegemonic 'super-tongue', this is a personal and engag...

This book challenges the conceptual and practical effectiveness of resistance to achieve social and political change, and considers an alternative ...

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of ...

Media Power, Media Politics examines the role and influence of the media in every sphere of American politics. Organized thematically, the book ana...

Publisher: Daraja PressAuthor(s): Ike OkontaNumber of pages: 82Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the ...

Argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences intern...

Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the ...