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  • Popobawa

    Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings

    by Katrina Daly Thompson ...
    "Bravely takes on . . . not the legendary shapeshifting creature spoken about sporadically on the Swahili coast of Tanzania, but rather popobawa discourse." — The Journal of Modern African StudiesSince the 1960s, people on the islands off the coast of Tanzania have talked about being attacked by a mysterious creature called Popobawa, a shapeshifter often described as having an enormous penis. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disabled and Neurodiverse Staff

    Toward Inclusion in the Library and Information Science Workforce

    Edited by Keren Dali, Kim M. Thompson ...
    Series series Association for Library and Information Science Education
    Explore a multi-dimensional and nuanced view of disability and neurodiversity in the Library and Information Science workforce from those directly impacted in the field.Despite significant progress in improving the inclusion of disabled and neurodiverse patrons in libraries and information organizations of all types, much more work is needed to change the situation in the Library & Information ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Inglorious Pedagogy

    Difficult, Unpopular, and Uncommon Topics in Library and Information Science Education

    Edited by Keren Dali, Kim M. Thompson ...
    Series series Association for Library and Information Science Education
    Collecting essays from LIS educators around the world, this volume delves into difficult, unpopular, and uncommonly discussed topics, providing a better understanding of the potentially transformative nature and wasted opportunities of graduate LIS education and higher education in general.Though topics and issues in library and information science education pedagogy are commonly discussed in ... Read more

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  • Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts

    Language, Power, Identity

    by Katrina Daly Thompson ...
    "A nuanced and convincing approach to evaluating the role of media in shaping African identities." —James Burns, Clemson UniversityThis timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. Exploring questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina Daly ... Read more

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  • Muslims on the Margins

    Creating Queer Religious Community in North America

    by Katrina Daly Thompson ...
    Series series North American Religions
    Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communitiesThe turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpretations and practices transformed the public’s perception of who could follow the teachings of Islam. Muslims on the Margins tells the story of their even more radical descendants: nonconformists who have reinterpreted their religion and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean

    Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast

    by Susan F. Hirsch ...
    Series series Indian Ocean Studies Series
    Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned what it means to be a “good Muslim.” Much recent scholarship on Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of this topic within studies of Indian Ocean, African, and other Muslim communities, little of the existing scholarship has addressed such ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    by M. Aziza Pappano ...
    Muslim Mothering is an interdisciplinary volume, concentrating on the experiences of Muslim mothers, largely in the contemporary period. The volume is notable for the global range of its contributors and topics, indicative of the number of Muslim majority national contexts and large and diverse Muslim diaspora of today's world. While motherhood is highly valued in the sacred texts of Islam, the ... Read more

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  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

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  • The Media World of ISIS

    Edited by Michael Krona, Rosemary Pennington ...
    This anthology explores how ISIS used media and propaganda, shedding light on the characteristics, mission, and tactics of its messaging.From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

    by Claudia Derichs ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation asks what norms and principles lead to the creation of knowledge about cross-border ... Read more

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  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Themes in Global Social Change
    Explores the role of women’s status, bodies, and sexuality in global conflicts.Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In Of Virgins and ... Read more

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  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    by Julian C. H. Lee ...
    Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual ... Read more

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