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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ulrike bialas”
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  • Forever 17

    Coming of Age in the German Asylum System

    by Ulrike Bialas ...
    Series series Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
    An exploration of how age affects the experience and life prospects of asylum-seekers in Germany.Heartbreaking images of children in distress have propelled some of the most urgent calls for action on immigration crises, and that compassion often affects how state asylum policies are structured. In Germany, for example, the immigration system is engineered to protect minors, which leads to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Childhood and Governance

    by Nadine Benedix, Ulrike Bialas, Joanne Faulkner, Stefanie Fishel, Jonathan Josefsson, Zsuzsa Millei, Archana Rath, Lindsay Robinson, Karen Smith, Zain Swaleh, Jana Tabak, Jan Varpanen ...
    This edited volume offers in-depth analyses of childhood as a social technology of governance. Contributions explore the ways in which dominant ideas about childhood bear on governance in a range of specific contexts, spanning the personal, the local and the global.Each chapter reveals important insights into how ‘imagined childhood’ functions as an ubiquitous and powerful social technology of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Limits of Whiteness

    Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

    by Neda Maghbouleh ...
    When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Building Free Life

    Dialogues with Öcalan

    Edited by International Initiative International Initiative ...
    Series series Kairos
    From Socrates to Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned philosophers have marked the history of thought and changed how we view power and politics. From his solitary jail cell, Abdullah Öcalan has penned daringly innovative works that give profuse evidence of his position as one of the most significant thinkers of our day. His prison writings have mobilized tens of thousands of people and inspired a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

    Edited by Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and ... Read more

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  • 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

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afghanistan Remembers

    Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices

    by Parin Dossa ...
    Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Land of Strangers

    by Ash Amin ...
    The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    by Kevin Dwyer, David McMurray, Katherine E. Hoffman, Paul A. Silverstein, Emilio Spadola, Jamila Bargach, Charlotte van den Hout, Karen Rignall, Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Revolutionary Road to Me

    Identity Politics and the Western Left

    by Chetan Bhatt ...
    How can the left be credible when it can’t decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is the answer, why are so many Western left organizations being damaged by it?As the culture wars rage, this compelling book examines why much of the Western political left has foundered because of identity politics. Identity issues ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Turkey's Kurds

    A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan

    by Ali Kemal Özcan ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety of issues are addressed including:* the views ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

    Edited by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary case studies and conceptual issues. From a transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective, this book ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD