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Gender and Genocide in Cambodia Surviving Khmer Rouge

Gender and Genocide in Cambodia Surviving Khmer Rouge

This book explores the multiplicity of women’s experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge. The dominant discourses of genocide often speak from a patriarchal and national perspective rendering women speechless and yet in this volume the female survivors of the Cambodian genocide testify not only to the specific atrocities committed during the war but also to the pre-war conditions that laid the groundwork for a gender-specific victimization of women and its continuation post-war. With the help of testimonies from Khmer women who joined the Khmer Rouge women who experienced sexual violence during the Khmer Rouge era women who fled the country and the Cham women who faced expulsion from home this book explores the diversity of women’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge. Survivors’ accounts show that a Khmer woman’s experience with the Khmer Rouge was considerably different from the experience of not only a Khmer man but also a woman from a religious or ethnic minority group or a woman who chose to join the Khmer Rouge. These differences are conveniently ignored in nationalist discourses in Cambodia and by western scholars of history and gender-based violence and they are given even less consideration in discourses about women survivors in diaspora. Instead of forcing generalization and universalization of gendered crimes of war Gender and Genocide in Cambodia employs feminist curiosity and closely examines women’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge from multiple vantage points. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in gender and cultural studies political history and modern history. | Gender and Genocide in Cambodia Surviving Khmer Rouge

GBP 130.00
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Stories of Resilience in Childhood Narratives of Maya Angelou Maxine Hong Kingston Richard Rodriguez John Edgar Wideman and Tobias Wolff

Stories of Resilience in Childhood Narratives of Maya Angelou Maxine Hong Kingston Richard Rodriguez John Edgar Wideman and Tobias Wolff

What helps a child overcome extraordinary obstacles? Why do some children surmount many difficulties and go on to live fulfilling lives while other children who face similar difficulties end up living desperate sad lives? What helps children beat the odds? What builds resilience in children? These are critically important questions yet for too long social scientists doctors psychologists and teachers have studied children who failed and tried to figure out what caused the failure. Only relatively recently have they begun to focus on what creates success. Originally published in 1997 this book is an effort to understand better what contributes to a child’s success and resilience. The source of information will be autobiographies of childhoods – autobiographical stories written by adults remembering their difficult childhoods. This is not a research study or case study rather it is an attempt to read and listen to five stories about resilient children and see what they can tell us about supporting children and building resilience. | Stories of Resilience in Childhood Narratives of Maya Angelou Maxine Hong Kingston Richard Rodriguez John Edgar Wideman and Tobias Wolff

GBP 29.99
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Rural Development In Taiwan And Mainland China

Rural Development In Taiwan And Mainland China

This book reports the proceedings of the symposium Chinese Rural Development: Strategies and Experience organized by the China Com-mittee of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and held in Baton Rouge Louisiana on July 30 1989. The editors would like to thank members of the committee listed below for their time and efforts in planning organizing and hosting the symposium. | Rural Development In Taiwan And Mainland China

GBP 130.00
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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

GBP 39.99
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A History of Cambodia

A History of Cambodia

In this clear and concise volume author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an ''original contribution superior to any other existing work'' this acclaimed text has now been completely revised and updated to include material examining the early history of Cambodia whose famous Angkorean ruins now attract more than one million tourists each year the death of Pol Pot and the revolution and final collapse of the Khmer Rouge. The fourth edition reflects recent research by major scholars as well as Chandler's long immersion in the subject and contains an entirely new section on the challenges facing Cambodia today including an analysis of the current state of politics and sociology and the increasing pressures of globalization. This comprehensive overview of Cambodia will illuminate for undergraduate students as well as general readers the history and contemporary politics of a country long misunderstood. | A History of Cambodia

GBP 175.00
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Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

For the greater part of the twentieth century Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched and included such international stars as Clara Butt Fritz Kreisler Pablo Casals Sergei Rachmaninov Andr Segovia Kathleen Ferrier Myra Hess Jacqueline du Pr Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy to name but a handful. From 1906 the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths the agency was run by the latter's wife Emmie who dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street' became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century but despite its loss to the profession the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion many of whose principal operators began | Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

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The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991 narrates the military and strategic history of the Cambodian Civil War especially the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) from when it deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 until the political settlement in 1991. The PRK survived in the face of a fierce insurgency due to three factors: an appealing and reasonably well-implemented political program extensive political indoctrination and the use of a hybrid army. In this hybrid organization the PRK relied on both its professional conventional army and the militia-like territorial army. This latter type was lightly equipped and most soldiers were not professional. Yet the militia made up for these weaknesses with its intimate knowledge of the local terrain and its political affinity with the local people. These two advantages are keys to victory in the context of counterinsurgency warfare. The narrative and critical analysis is driven by extensive interviews and primary source archives that have never been accessed before by any scholar including interviews with former veterans (battalion commanders brigade commanders division commanders commanders of provincial military commands commanders of military regions and deputy chiefs of staff) articles in the People’s Army from 1979 to 1991 battlefield footage battlefield video reports newsreel propaganda video and official publications of the Cambodian Institute of Military History.

GBP 51.99
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