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  • Remaking Islam in African Portugal

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    Series series Framing the Global
    A portrait of Muslim migrants adapting to a new world and a new understanding of their own religious and cultural identity in a European city.When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context ... Leer más

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  • Reciprocity Rules

    Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters

    Reciprocity Rules explores the rich and complicated relationships that develop between anthropologists and research participants over time. Focusing on compensation and the creation of friendship and “family” relationships, contributors discuss what, when, and how researchers and the people with whom they work give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Through reflexivity and narrative, the ... Leer más

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  • How Muslims Shaped the Americas

    de Omar Mouallem ...
    ***Winner of the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction**Selected as a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star*An insightful and perspective-shifting new book, from a celebrated journalist, about reclaiming identity and revealing the surprising history of the Muslim diaspora in the west—from the establishment of Canada’s first mosque through to the long-lasting ... Leer más

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  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Leer más

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  • God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

    A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion"s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite ... Leer más

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  • Border Walls

    Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel

    de Reece Jones ...
    *** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting ***Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone ... Leer más

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  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Hate Spin

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    Series series Information Policy
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  • A World of Babies

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  • The Case for Sanctions Against Israel

    In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing blockade of Gaza and the expansion of illegal settlements. Nonetheless, the campaign for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) continues to grow in strength within Israel and Palestine, as well as in ... Leer más

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  • Jihad in Trinidad and Tobago, July 27, 1990

    On July 27, 1990 a miltant Islamic organization launched an attempted coup d' etat premised upon a hostage situation to remove a democratically elected government from power in Trinidad and Tobago West Indies. This work focuses on the central issue of a Muslim minority in the West and its varied attempts to interact with a non-Muslim society on a daily basis.The work would present the ravages of ... Leer más

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