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  • Love and Violence in Sierra Leone

    Mediating Intimacy after Conflict

    by Luisa T. Schneider ...
    Series series The International African Library
    In the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state, and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. In this ethnography, Luisa T. Schneider explores the intricate semantic, empirical and socio-legal dynamics of love and violence in post-conflict Sierra Leone, challenging the oversimplification of ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Met by the Love of Liberty

    History and Identity in Americo-Liberian Memory

    by Jo M. Sullivan, Ruth Vida Amwe, William E. Allen, Marie Stango, Eric Burin, Luisa Schneider, John Victor Singler ...
    Initially founded as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822 and declared an independent republic in 1847, the Republic of Liberia has challenged scholars across disciplines for almost as long as it has existed. Despite its territory being the home of Indigenous peoples for centuries, Liberia was imagined as a plan to relocate people of color primarily from the United States to West ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

  • Agency Beyond Confinement

    Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World

    Edited by Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, Paola Rebughini ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. agency, reform vs. resistance, care vs. control.Across prisons, homes, gardens, seas, and cities, this volume explores how material, affective, and institutional confinement is shaped and reshaped ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Global Phenomenon, Local Praxis

    Edited by Fida Sanjakdar, Michael W. Apple ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Presenting cutting-edge research from around the world, this book demonstrates how critical pedagogy is shaped by social-political contexts and ideological constructions of knowledge and power.The edited collection brings together a global author team using critical pedagogy to synthesise political and theoretical ambitions with the complex realities of classroom practice. The book addresses two ... Read more

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  • Trans Femme Futures

    Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds

    by Nat Raha, Mijke van der Drift ...
    ‘A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times’—Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox‘Astute and hopeful ... Offering up an abolitionist “transfeminist love-politics” as a practical antidote to the suffocating neoliberal world order, the book is a breath of fresh air’—H.L.T. Quan, author of Become Ungovernable‘What we ... Read more

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  • Introduction To Childhood Studies

    by Naomi Holford, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    This book brings together key themes in Childhood Studies to provide an accessible yet scholarly introduction for students and practitioners. ... Read more

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  • Revisualising Intersectionality

    by Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is ... Read more

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  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

    by Karen Wells ...
    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Truth About Denial

    Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. People believe what they want to believe. It is a striking-yet all too familiar-fact about human beings that our belief-forming processes can be so distorted by fears, ... Read more

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  • Design in Crisis

    New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices

    Edited by Tony Fry, Adam Nocek ...
    This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies.The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed ... Read more

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  • Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies

    Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

    by Ousmane Bakary Bâ, Thomas Boudreau, Jason J. Campbell, Paul Cormier, Nathan C. Funk, Johan Galtung, Nancy Hansen, Sherrill Hayes, Myrtle Hill, Peter Karari, Neil H. Katz, Peter Kellett, Alka Kumar, Brenda LeFrançois, Andrea Levy, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Amos Nadan, Robin Neustaeter, Frederic Pearson, Jean Poitras, Jodi Dueck-Read, Brian Rice, Anna Snyder, Arnaud Stimec, Chuck Thiessen, Hamdesa Tuso, Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, Christina J. Woolner ...
    Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to ... Read more

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  • Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

    A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere

    Edited by Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary ... Read more

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