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  • Refugee Lives in the Archives

    A Pacific Imaginary

    by Professor Gillian Whitlock ...
    Series series New Directions in Life Narrative
    This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5. These artefacts introduce the distinctive and creative forms of resistance produced by asylum seekers in the remote Pacific camps on Nauru and Manus Island, and they expose their experiential histories of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Life Writing in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Jessica White, Gillian Whitlock ...
    Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography studies in the Anthropocene. This era is characterised by the geoengineering impact of humans, which is shaping the planet’s biophysical systems through the combustion of fossil fuels, production of carbon, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott

    by Belinda Wheeler, Natalie Quinlivan, Nathanael Pree, Per Henningsgaard, Roger Osborne, Rosalie Thackrah, Sandra Thompson, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Arindam Das, Brenda Machosky0, Christine Choo1, Gillian Whitlock2, Jeanine Leane3, Lisa Slater4, Lydia Saleh Rofail5 ...
    Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Trauma Texts

    Edited by Gillian Whitlock, Kate Douglas ...
    Series series Life Writing
    These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this ‘age of trauma’, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: partition narratives in India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Social Work of Narrative

    Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

    by Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin0, Nicholas Jose1, Asha Varadharajan2, Gillian Whitlock3, Russell West-Pavlov4, Ned Curthoys5, Golnar Nabizadeh6, Helen Gilbert7, Ethan Blue8, Jane Lydon9, Sukhmani Khorana0, Michael R. Griffiths1 ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in World Literature
    This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Life-Writing

    Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

    by Bart Moore-Gilbert ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production.Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Anthropological Practice

    Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

    by Judith Okely ...
    Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

    Violence and Violation

    Edited by Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • International Politics and Film

    Space, Vision, Power

    by Sean Carter, Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes—borders, the state of exception, homeland and distant others—the territorial and imaginative dimensions of international affairs in particular are highlighted. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD