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1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “david jefferess”
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  • The Humanitarian Fable

    Saviorism, Race, and Aid

    de David Jefferess ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    The Humanitarian Fable examines how popular humanitarian communication constructs global poverty as a moral narrative that reinforces unequal power dynamics between the Global North and Global South.Taking a cultural studies approach, the book argues that humanitarian discourse places too much emphasis on the involvement of Global North initiatives, while avoiding meaningful engagement with the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Globalizing Afghanistan

    Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building

    Edición de Zubeda Jalalzai, David Jefferess ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    Globalizing Afghanistan offers a kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and representation in which it is immersed. The military and nation-building interventions initiated by the United States in reaction to the events of September 11, 2001, are the background and motivation for this collection, but they are not the immediate subject of the essays. Seeking ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Resistance

    Culture, Liberation, and Transformation

    de David Jefferess ...
    Despite being central to the project of postcolonialism, the concept of resistance has received only limited theoretical examination. Writers such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi K. Bhabha have explored instances of revolt, opposition, or subversion, but there has been insufficient critical analysis of the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to liberation or social and ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    de Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Feminism without Borders

    Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

    de Chandra Talpade Mohanty ...
    Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Home and Native Land

    Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

    Edición de May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, Sonali Thakkar ...
    Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    de Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom

    de James Tully ...
    Series Libro 94 - Ideas in Context
    These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the reader step-by-step through the principal debates in political theory and the major types of political ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Exalted Subjects

    Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

    de Sunera Thobani ...
    Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the theoretical traditions of political economy and cultural / post-colonial studies, this book examines ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Cartographies of Diaspora

    Contesting Identities

    de Avtar Brah ...
    By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of `race', gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts.The first ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Rethinking Democracy

    de Rajni Kothari ...
    Rethinking Democracy is an insightful and reflective monograph on democracy in general and Indian democracy in particular. In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core arguments he has laid down in his various writings in the past four decadesPolitics in India, State Against Democracy, Communalism in India, etc. While revisiting his writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even contests some ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • International Ethics

    A Critical Introduction

    de Richard Shapcott ...
    Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world politics and the field of international ethics today.International Ethics: A Critical Introduction provides an engaging and ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD