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“andreas karatsolis”

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  • Translating Cultures in the Arab World

    New Histories and Geographies

    Edited by Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Charles Forsdick, Andreas Karatsolis ...
    Translating Cultures in the Arab World: New Histories and Geographies significantly expands translation studies by unearthing overlooked discussions and reconceptualizing the history and movements of translation. It moves beyond a Western-centric and Anglonormative research perspective by beginning with the Middle East and the Arabic language, critically engaging with scholarship from the Arab ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic

    by Said FAIQ ...

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  • Raciolinguistics

    How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

    Edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, Arnetha F. Ball ...
    Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Sites of Exposure

    Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience

    by John Russon ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    An exploration into the broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives.In Sites of Exposure, John Russon grapples with how personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death combine with broader issues such as political oppression, economic exploitation, and the destruction of the natural environment to ... Read more

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  • Arabic in the City

    Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

    Edited by Catherine Miller, Enam Al-Wer, Dominique Caubet, Janet C.E. Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series
    Filling a gap in the literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection is the first examination of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and language change in fifteen major Arab cities.The Arab world presents very different types and degrees of urbanization, from well established old capital-cities such as Cairo to new emerging capital-cities such as Amman or ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah ... Read more

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  • The Arabic Freud

    Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

    by Omnia El Shakry ...
    The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought.In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi— al-la-shu'ur—as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams had ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politeness/Impoliteness Divide

    English-Based Theories and Speech Acts Practice in Moroccan Arabic

    by Saida Anssari-Naim ...
    Series Book 12 - English In The World Series
    This book aims to explore the contribution that Moroccan Arabic and the cultural code associated with this language makes to the theoretical discourse on politeness. It focuses on the way in which significant speech acts such as expressing gratitude, invitations and compliments are managed. The specific treatment of these speech acts shows a particular viewpoint on how human beings are involved in ... Read more

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  • Critical Ancient World Studies

    The Case for Forgetting Classics

    Edited by Mathura Umachandran, Marchella Ward ...
    This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West.CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches ... Read more

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  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    by Charis Boutieri ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture

    Edited by Sue-Ann Harding, Ovidi Carbonell Cortés ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture collects into a single volume thirty-two state-of-the-art chapters written by international specialists, overviewing the ways in which translation studies has both informed, and been informed by, interdisciplinary approaches to culture. The book's five sections provide a wealth of resources, covering both core issues and topics in the first part. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD