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  • Enacting Citizenship

    Kurdish Women's Resilience, Activism and Creativity

    by Wendelmoet Hamelink, Joanna Bocheńska, Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Karol Kaczorowski, Hayal Hanoğlu, Marcin Skupiński, Azad Hajiagha, Hüseyin Rodi Keskin, Nerina Weiss, Besime Şen ...
    This open access book presents new, empirically-based ethnographic and sociological studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship across different social, cultural, and political fields. Organized into five sections, the book explores the ecological and cultural aspects of citizenship and activism; the interplay between activism and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Mass Violence

    Edited by Nerina Weiss, Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Linda Green ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Interrogating the complexities of mass violence in contemporary society, this handbook reconceptualizes the accumulation, intensity, and temporality of mass violence – rather than depending on numbers alone – to develop a critique of mass violence adequate for our times.The Routledge International Handbook of Mass Violence critically engages with classic political, sociological, psychological, and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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  • Violence Expressed

    An Anthropological Approach

    Edited by Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Nerina Weiss ...
    Violence Expressed explores the diverse expressions and manifestations through which the meaning of violent experiences and events is (re)produced. As language alone does not always suffice for the description of violence, this book focuses not only on the verbal and discursive expressions of violence, but also on the performative acts, material culture and the spaces that constitute these ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World

    Edited by Nerina Weiss, Erella Grassiani, Linda Green ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research
    This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories. Increasingly novice and seasoned ethnographers alike, whether by choice or chance, are working in situations where multidimensional forms of violence, conflict and war are facets of everyday life. The volume engages with the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • If Truth Be Told

    The Politics of Public Ethnography

    Edited by Didier Fassin ...
    What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the challenges, difficulties, and stakes of having ethnographic research encounter various publics, ranging ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation

    Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches

    Edited by Bruno Charbonneau, Genevieve Parent ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
    This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation. The prospects for social and political reconciliation are undermined when a ‘top-down’ approach is ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Kurdish Women's Movement

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Dilar Dirik ...
    'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha WaliaThe Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and women's liberation. But while striking images ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Experiment

    Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    **One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer“[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum**“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey

    From Protest to Resistance

    by Cengiz Gunes ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
    This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s. By raising issues and questions relating to Kurdish political identity and highlighting the ideological specificity, diversity and the transformation of Kurdish nationalism, it develops a new empirical dimension to the study of the Kurds in Turkey.Cengiz Gunes ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life

    by John R. Baldwin, Robin R. Means Coleman, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer, Alberto González ...
    Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action.Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts for beginning students with a focus on practical application and social actionDefines “communication” broadly ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    by Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these 'danger zones' - in Europe or the US ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD