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Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka Of Hungry Ghosts and Homecomings

Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka Of Hungry Ghosts and Homecomings

This book examines the idea of violence in the context of religion and literature. It addresses the question of freedom and peace and violence with reference to the Buddhist nationalist discourse in Sri Lanka against the backdrop of Shyam Selvadurai’s novel The Hungry Ghosts. The book discusses love compassion emancipation ethics and responsibility through the concepts of identity deconstruction and decolonization to view religion as language or writing. With a blend of philosophical insights from Emmanuel Levinas Jacques Derrida Maurice Blanchot and Mahatma Gandhi on ideas of being and the other differences nonviolence and forgiveness it insists on the ethical exigency of reinventing Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Delving into some the central motifs of Selvadurai’s novel suffering desire hate and vengeance it questions popular Sinhala Buddhist readings to argue for the promise of inclusive and diverse approaches towards various groups linguistic communities women and homosexuality. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of literature and languages South Asian literature literary criticism and theory linguistics cultural studies philosophy religion Buddhist studies diaspora studies and Sri Lankan literature and sociology. | Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka Of Hungry Ghosts and Homecomings

GBP 130.00
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Ghosts of Archive Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis

Ghosts of Archive Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis

Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice. Drawing on more than 20 years of the author’s research on deconstruction and archive the book posits archive as an essential resource for social justice activism and as a source or location of soul for individuals and communities. Through explorations of what Jacques Derrida termed ‘hauntology’ Harris invites a listening to the call for justice in conceptual spaces that are non-disciplinary. He argues that archive is both constructed in relation to and beset by ghosts – ghosts of the living of the dead and of those not yet born – and that attention should be paid to them. Establishing a unique nexus between a deconstructive intersectionality and traditions of ‘memory for justice’ in struggles against oppression from South Africa and elsewhere the book makes a case for a deconstructive praxis in today’s archive. Offering new ideas about spectrality banditry and archival activism Ghosts of Archive should appeal to those working in the disciplines of archival science information studies and psychology. It should also be essential reading for those with an interest in social justice issues transitional justice history philosophy memory studies and postcolonial studies. | Ghosts of Archive Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis

GBP 38.99
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Theorising Public Pedagogy The Educative Agent in the Public Realm

Theorising Public Pedagogy The Educative Agent in the Public Realm

Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public a term at the heart of debate in the field heightened in this post-truth era by the COVID-19 pandemic the rise of fake news and the technological reconfigurations of public life. The new theorization addresses the ‘public’ ‘pedagogy’ and their confluence in ‘public pedagogy’. The book explores a deep engagement with the architecture and dynamics of pedagogy and argues for the positioning of pedagogy with the public. The authors contribute to a theorisation that re-considers the individual and their capacity for agency within the public realm. The book presents knowledge and pedagogical encounters as key elements of public pedagogy and most significantly the educative agent as a means of critically rethinking social life and learning in public spaces. Presenting an innovative theoretical approach this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of public and critical pedagogy and postgraduate students in education cultural studies and politics. | Theorising Public Pedagogy The Educative Agent in the Public Realm

GBP 130.00
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Sensing Spirits Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts

Sensing Spirits Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts

Based on ethnographic research this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting interviews with investigators as well as extensive field observations it explores their reasons for getting involved their use of different investigative methods the interpretive processes by which they individually and collectively ‘sense’ spirits the ways in which these processes are influenced by small group power dynamics and what paranormal investigation ultimately means to those who participate. While focusing on the practices by which investigators ‘sense’ spirits in small groups the author also situates paranormal investigation within a broader cultural context and attends to how investigators attempt to legitimize their practice despite being marginalized by both science and religion. A fascinating study of ghosts as an inherently social phenomenon Sensing Spirits will appeal to sociologists with interests in ethnography interactionism cultural studies and subcultures. | Sensing Spirits Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts

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The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet

The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet

Originally published in 1999. The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health the welfare of animals and the methods of farming and the quality of the environment go hand-in-hand. This theme continues along the lines that the present system is harmful to them all and to our ability to generate enough good food for the whole world. The contributors to the volume offer alternatives - for more humane and moderate methods of farming which produce enough nourishing food without damaging the environment it depends on. | The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet

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The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen much of the book is devoted to the royal institutions; the network of links woven by kinship marriage and marriage cattle the legal procedure of compromise and appeasement and various aspects of magic witchcraft and religion. Considered as a whole the culture emerges as a structure supporting and in turns supported by the Rain-Queen. | The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

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The Monster in Theatre History This Thing of Darkness

The Monster in Theatre History This Thing of Darkness

Monsters are fragmentary uncertain frightening creatures. What happens when they enter the realm of the theatre? The Monster in Theatre History explores the cultural genealogies of monsters as they appear in the recorded history of Western theatre. From the Ancient Greeks to the most cutting-edge new media Michael Chemers focuses on a series of ‘key’ monsters including Frankenstein’s creature werewolves ghosts and vampires to reconsider what monsters in performance might mean to those who witness them. This volume builds a clear methodology for engaging with theatrical monsters of all kinds providing a much-needed guidebook to this fascinating hinterland. | The Monster in Theatre History This Thing of Darkness

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Ghosts in the Machine Rethinking Learning Work and Culture in Air Traffic Control

Ghosts in the Machine Rethinking Learning Work and Culture in Air Traffic Control

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of the ways in which air traffic controllers formally and informally learn about their work and the active role that organisational cultures play in shaping interpretation and meaning. In particular it describes the significant role that organizational cultures have played in shaping what is valued by controllers about their work and its role as a filter in enabling or constraining conscious inquiry. The premise of the book is that informal learning is just as important in shaping what people know and value about their work and that this area is frequently overlooked. By using an interpretative research approach the book highlights the ways in which the social structure of work organisation culture and history interweaves with learning work to guide and shape what is regarded by controllers as important and what is not. It demonstrates how this social construction is quite different from a top-down corporate culture approach. Technological and organizational reform is leading to changes in work practice and to changes in relationships between workers within the organization. These have implications for anyone wishing to understand the dynamics of organizational life. As such this study provides insights into many of the changes that are occurring in the nature of work in many different industries. Previous research into learning in air traffic control has centred largely on cognitive individual performance performance within teams or more recently on performance at a systems level. By tracing the role of context in shaping formal and informal learning this book shows why interventions at these levels sometimes fail. | Ghosts in the Machine Rethinking Learning Work and Culture in Air Traffic Control

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Aquaculture Landscapes Fish Farms and the Public Realm

Aquaculture Landscapes Fish Farms and the Public Realm

Aquaculture Landscapes explores the landscape architecture of farms reefs parks and cities that are designed to entwine the lives of fish and humans. In the twenty-first century aquaculture’s contribution to the supply of fish for human consumption exceeds that of wild-caught fish for the first time in history. Aquaculture has emerged as the fastest growing food production sector in the world but aquaculture has agency beyond simply converting fish to food. Aquaculture Landscapes recovers aquaculture as a practice with a deep history of constructing extraordinary landscapes. These landscapes are characterized and enriched by multispecies interdependency performative ecologies collaborative practices and aesthetic experiences between humans and fish. Aquaculture Landscapes presents over thirty contemporary and historical landscapes spanning six continents with incisive diagrams and vivid photographs. Within this expansive scope is a focus on urban aquaculture projects by leading designers—including Turenscape James Corner Field Operations and SCAPE—that employ mutually beneficial strategies for fish and humans to address urban coastal resiliency wastewater management and other contemporary urban challenges. Michael Ezban delivers a compelling account of the coalitions of fish and humans that shape the form function and identity of cities and he offers a forward-thinking theorization of landscape as the preeminent medium for the design of ichthyological urbanism in the Anthropocene. With over two hundred evocative images including ninety original drawings by the author Aquaculture Landscapes is a richly illustrated portrayal of aquaculture seen through the disciplinary lens of landscape architecture. As the first book devoted to this topic Aquaculture Landscapes is an original and essential resource for landscape architects urbanists animal geographers aquaculturists and all who seek and value multispecies cohabitation of a shared public realm. Winner of the 2020 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize! | Aquaculture Landscapes Fish Farms and the Public Realm

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Parenting and Childhood Memories A Psychoanalytic Approach to Reverberating Ghosts and Magic

Parenting and Childhood Memories A Psychoanalytic Approach to Reverberating Ghosts and Magic

Parenting and Childhood Memories is a collection of stories about the ways in which parents’ childhood memories influence their current interactions with their babies and young children: the ghosts and magic of our minds. This book explores the underlying meanings of parents’ memories that emerge in their perceptions of their children and their responses to the challenges of early development and the everyday life stresses of parenting. Drawing on extensive material originating in mother-child groups and parent consultations the author demonstrates that parents’ emotional growth and ability to nurture their young children's emotional health is promoted by uncovering the links between the past and the present and unearthing the underlying meanings of seemingly inexplicable behavior. This original book grounded in long-established psychoanalytic ideas is about moments in early development and parent-child interaction that tell this story. Offering useful insights readers will be intrigued by the details of the therapeutic process described and be inspired by the outcomes. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts therapists mental health professionals and parents. | Parenting and Childhood Memories A Psychoanalytic Approach to Reverberating Ghosts and Magic

GBP 21.99
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Streets Reconsidered Inclusive Design for the Public Realm

Streets Reconsidered Inclusive Design for the Public Realm

Streets Reconsidered is a fundamental rethinking of America's streets. It explores the future of streets and what America's roadways could be if they were designed for living instead of just driving. The book includes: detailed design guidelines fully illustrated four color case studies of successful streets from around the world a new paradigm of streets designed to promote human functions turning new design ideas into a series of best practices that can be applied to any community. What would streets look like if they accommodated people of all ages and abilities promoted healthy urban living social interaction and business the movement of people and goods and regeneration of the environment? Streets Reconsidered pushes beyond the current standards focusing on the planning design and construction of streets as a method for improving our built environment for everyone. The book is organized by the functions of a street: mobility way finding commerce social gathering events and programming play and recreation urban agriculture green infrastructure and image and identity. Streets Reconsidered is the essential resource for city planners urban designers developers architects landscape architects policymakers and community members who share a passion for great urban human spaces. | Streets Reconsidered Inclusive Design for the Public Realm

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Topics in the Theory of Solid Materials

Topics in the Theory of Solid Materials

Topics in the Theory of Solid Materials provides a clear and rigorous introduction to a wide selection of topics in solid materials overlapping traditional courses in both condensed matter physics and materials science and engineering. It introduces both the continuum properties of matter traditionally the realm of materials science courses and the quantum mechanical properties that are usually more emphasized in solid state physics courses and integrates them in a manner that will be of use to students of either subject. The book spans a range of basic and more advanced topics including stress and strain wave propagation thermal properties surface waves polarons phonons point defects magnetism and charge density waves. Topics in the Theory of Solid Materials is eminently suitable for graduates and final-year undergraduates in physics materials science and engineering as well as more advanced researchers in academia and industry studying solid materials.

GBP 145.00
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The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses

The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses

The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses contributes new and original perspectives to existing discussions about the shaping of multiculturalist ideology in Latin America its interweaving with the cultural politics of neoliberalism and the relation between ethnic identification resurgence and economic globalization. Scrutinising national censuses across the continent the studies included in this volume reveal clear relationships between censuses nation-building and government projects but also strong and determinant connections between domestic and supra-national spheres. The contributors to this volume open provocative avenues of research on Latin American societies by demonstrating how in the realm of identity politics supra-national institutions and normativity socialise national census bureaus in a way that largely annuls ideological differences between regional governments. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research.

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The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives putting forward several traditions aspects and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face exploring its biological and social functions the concept of masks the impact of COVID-19 AI systems digital portraiture symbolic faces in films viral communication alien depictions personhood in video games online intimacy and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of its digital avatar spread through a myriad of new channels and transformable through filters post-productions digital cosmetics all the way to the creation of deepfakes. The digital face expresses new and largely unknown meanings which this book explores and analyzes through an interdisciplinary but systematic approach. The volume will interest researchers scholars and advanced students who are interested in digital humanities communication studies semiotics visual studies visual anthropology cultural studies and broadly speaking innovative approaches about the meaning of the face in present-day digital societies. | The Hybrid Face Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

GBP 130.00
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Doing The Needful The Dilemma Of India's Population Policy

Doing The Needful The Dilemma Of India's Population Policy

This is a study of the social and cultural roots of the persistent failure of India's attempts to intervene in the realm of population control and related issues of social welfare. The book examines both public and private programmes and policies and concludes with a discussion of prospects for future developments in the population arena and concrete policy recommendations. | Doing The Needful The Dilemma Of India's Population Policy

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The Aesthetic View of Moral Education

The Aesthetic View of Moral Education

The Aesthetic View of Moral Education is the result of in-depth interdisciplinary research in education and aesthetic studies. This book advocates the use of aesthetic ideas and methods to transform moral education activities which are often trapped in a state of forced indoctrination. This book aims to address the problems of moral education in China and share certain commonalities in the exploration of educational theory. The aesthetic view of moral education is a new and practical philosophy of education. The author's theory of moral education as the appreciation of beauty the creation of beauty and the theory of the attainment of the ultimate realm of moral education provide an in-depth analysis of the functions of aesthetic education for moral cultivation. The author also offers unique interpretations of the aesthetic transformation of the process of moral education itself and the pursuit of the realm of moral life and education. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of education and philosophy East Asian studies and readers interested in China's cultural traditions.

GBP 130.00
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The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping

The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping

This edited volume provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of UN peacekeeping and the use of force to inform a better understanding of the complex and interconnected issues at stake for the UN community. Peacekeeping is traditionally viewed as a largely passive military activity governed by the principles of impartiality consent and the minimum use of force. Today most large UN Peacekeeping Operations are only authorized to use force in defence of their mandates and to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence. Recently with the deployment of the Force Intervention Brigade in the DRC the UN has gone beyond peacekeeping and into the realm of peace-enforcement. These developments have brought to the fore questions regarding the use of force in the context of peacekeeping. The key questions addressed in this book examine not only the utility of force but also the dilemmas and constraints inherent to the purposive use of force at a strategic operational and tactical level. Should UN peacekeepers exercise military initiative?Is UN peacekeeping capable of undertaking offensive military operations?If so then under what circumstances should peacekeepers use force?How should force be wielded? And against whom? With chapters written by experts in the field this comprehensive volume will be of great use and interest to postgraduate students academics and experts in international security the UN peacekeeping and diplomacy. | The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping

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The Failures of Public Art and Participation

The Failures of Public Art and Participation

This collection of original essays takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the theme of failure through the broad spectrum of public art and social practice. The anthology brings together practicing artists curators activists art writers administrators planners and educators from around the world to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of failure in commissioning planning producing evaluating and engaging communities in the continually evolving field of art in the public realm. As such this book offers a survey of currently unexplored and interconnected thinking and provides a much-needed critical voice to the commissioning of public and participatory arts. The volume includes case studies from the UK the US China Cuba and Denmark as well as discussions of digital public art collections. The Failures of Public Art and Participation will be of interest for students and scholars of visual arts design and architecture interested in how art in the public realm fits within social and political contexts.

GBP 35.99
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Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

This book examines the political and economic dimensions of food security in Bangladesh and assesses the role of the state in meeting the challenges of food security. The key concern which is at the heart of this study is to explore how Bangladesh responds when its people go hungry. There are no detailed empirical studies that examine the Bangladesh’s role by providing an historical cum political analysis; however conventional approaches are primarily concerned with a partial diagnosis of the economic or nutritional problems of food security. The book then provides a detailed picture of the missing dimensions of state that include the strength of institutions the scope of state functions and other important attributes. In doing so it uses the concept of neo-patrimonialism to explore the political system of Bangladesh. This book explicates the various impediments to food security ranging from the process of policy formulation to their implementation mechanisms. It unpacks the structural weaknesses of the Bangladesh's institutional capacity in promoting food security and in the process argues that the root cause of food insecurity is deeply embedded in the nature of the government itself and the political institutions that link the state and society. | Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

GBP 120.00
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The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

The role of the military in a society raises a number of issues: How much separation should there be between a civil government and its army? Should the military be totally subordinate to the polity? Or should the armed forces be allowed autonomy in order to provide national security? Recently the dangers of military dictatorships-as have existed in countries like Panama Chile and Argentina-have become evident. However developing countries often lack the administrative ability and societal unity to keep the state functioning in an orderly and economically feasible manner without military intervention. Societies of course have dealt with the realities of these problems throughout their histories and the action they have taken at any particular point in time has depended on numerous factors. In the first world of democratic countries the civil-military relationship has been thoroughly integrated and indeed by most modern standards this is seen as essential. However several influential Western thinkers have developed theories arguing for the separation of the military from any political or social role. Samuel Huntington emphasized that professionalism would presuppose that the military should intervene as little as possible in the political sphere. Samuel E. Finer in contrast emphasizes that a government can be efficient enough way to keep the civil-military relationship in check ensuring that the need for intervention by the armed forces in society would be minimal. At the time of the book's original publication perhaps as a consequence of a post-World War II Cold War atmosphere this was by no means a universally accepted position. Some considered the military to be a legitimate threat to a free society. Today's post-Cold War environment is an appropriate time to reconsider Finer's classic argument. The Man on Horseback continues to be an important contribution to the study of the military's role in the realm of politics and will be of interest to students of political science government and the military. | The Man on Horseback The Role of the Military in Politics

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Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

This book recounts the life stories - stories of loss and hope of anxieties and aspirations - of generations of exiled Tibetans living in India since the late 1950s after the Chinese takeover of Tibet. Located in the realm of psycho-historical analysis this work has a dual focus in interpreting and analyzing these life stories. First a consistent effort is made to unravel the psychologically devastating consequences following refugeehood and torture. A simultaneous focus searches for symbols of human resilience - the opening up of creative possibilities and a return to renewed meanings in the lives of these exiles. Two central symbols of continuity among this community which are discussed are the Dalai Lama and the philosophy of Buddhism. This is a unique book that looks at issues of contemporary interest and relevance to the Tibetan community today providing a different view of their ‘place’ in the wider political sphere. Lives in Exile - Exploring the World of Tibetan Refugees will be of interest to scholars in the fields of psychology history and refugee studies and to the general reader. | Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

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