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Reimagining Tibet

Reimagining Tibet
Koushik Goswami, "Reimagining Tibet"
English | ISBN: 103213268X | 2022 | 228 pages | PDF | 27 MB
This book examines how territorial, civilisational and cultural location determines one's gaze and attitude while representing a contested space like Tibet. It analyses representations of Tibet in three novels: James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933), Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) and Kaushik Barua's Windhorse (2013). It shows how these novels project different types of gaze ― insider, outsider and insider-outsider ― and explores them within the context of some contemporary Tibetan activist writers. The book also looks at Tibetan exilic writings and virtual activities of the Tibetan activists whose programmes and rhetoric counter the age-old image of the Tibetans as passive and non-violent people. It shows how activists utilise social networking as an effective platform to counter imperialist occupation of Tibet by China. It includes interviews of eight Anglophone Tibetan writers - Tenzin Tsundue, Thubten Samphel, Tsering Namgyal Khortsa, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Jamyang Norbu, Tenzin Dickie, Bhuchung D. Sonam, and an Indian writer who has written on Tibet, Kaushik Barua.

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Reimagining Political Ecology

Reimagining Political Ecology
Aletta Biersack, James B. Greenberg, "Reimagining Political Ecology"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0822336723 | PDF | pages: 441 | 4.5 mb
Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice theory, and cultural studies. As these essays illustrate, contemporary political ecology moves beyond binary thinking, focusing instead on the interchanges between nature and culture, the symbolic and the material, and the local and the global.

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Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East Getting the Message Across

Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East Getting the Message Across
Kyle H. Keimer, "Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East: Getting the Message Across"
English | ISBN: 0367594633 | 2020 | 252 pages | EPUB | 924 KB
It is the quintessential nature of humans to communicate with each other. Good communications, bad communications, miscommunications, or no communications at all have driven everything from world events to the most mundane of interactions. At the broadest level, communication entails many registers and modes: verbal, iconographic, symbolic, oral, written, and performed. Relationships and identities - real and fictive - arise from communication, but how and why were they effected and how should they be understood? The chapters in this volume address some of the registers and modes of communication in the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are imperial and court communications between rulers and ruled, communications intended for a given community, and those between families and individuals. Topics cover a broad chronological period (3rd millennium BC to 1st millennium AD), and geographic range (Egypt to Israel and Mesopotamia) encapsulating the extraordinarily diverse plurality of human experience. This volume is deliberately interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and its broad scope provides wide insights and a holistic understanding of communication applicable today. It is intended for both the scholar and readers with interests in ancient Near Eastern history and Biblical studies, communications (especially communications theory), and sociolinguistics.

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Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine,1945-1948

Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine,1945-1948
Daphna Sharfman, "Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik: The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine,1945-1948"
English | ISBN: 1138280070 | 2019 | 236 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty.

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Refugees in the Age of Total War

Refugees in the Age of Total War
Anna C. Bramwell, "Refugees in the Age of Total War "
English | ISBN: 1032078219 | 2021 | 374 pages | EPUB | 498 KB
This book, first published in 1988, charts society's responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War. At the close of the war large areas of Europe lay in ruins, and large numbers of refugees faced upheaval and famine. Political considerations influenced the decisions as to who received assistance, and refugees were forcibly repatriated or resettled - and in the analysis of these matters and more, both the refugee crises of the 1940s and their relevance today are highlighted.

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