Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies.
Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup.
Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy.
Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal aspects of their experiences.
If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live.
From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionalsDevelopmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines.
Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.
Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity.
Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces.
Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements.
This book investigates the racism experienced by Black teacher trainee Post-graduate students whilst on teaching placements in South London primary schools.
Letha Dawson Scanzoni changed the landscape of American evangelicalism through her groundbreaking work on the gospel-based intersection of gender and LGBTQ justice.
In Witnessing Whiteness, Kristopher Norris explores the challenges that lie at the intersection of race, church, and politics in America and argues for a new ethics of responsibility to confront white supremacy.
This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies.
Since the 1970s, a "e;Polynesian Pipeline"e; has brought football players from American Samoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels.
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death.
Winner of the 2024 Academics Stand Against Poverty Book of the Year Anthology AwardThe problem of poverty is global in scope and has devastating consequences for many essential aspects of life: health, education, political participation, autonomy, and psychological well-being.
In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement.
There is an unconscious racism at work in Canada—an ignorance of Aboriginal peoples and culture that breeds indifference to, and ambivalence about, Aboriginal poverty and ill health.
This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.
This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaiis pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme.
An exploration of how policies protecting indigenous people''s rights were entwined with reforming them as governable subjects, including through punishment under the law.
A comprehensive look at the entirety of Native American history, focusing particularly on native peoples within the geographic boundaries of the United States.
For anyone studying childhood or families, a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, social policy and social theory is vital to understanding their impacts upon families' everyday lives.
In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle-black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party.
Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of the Scotto press, one of the foremost dynastic music publishers of the Renaissance.
Hace poco, apenas el sábado 9 de septiembre de 2006, el editorial del periódico de mayor circulación en Colombia, El tiempo anunció la visita de mamos de la sierra nevada de santa marta al Banco interamericano de desarrollo , Según el diario los indígenas Buscaban restablecer el equilibrio ecológico de la sierra, en su calidad de representantes de una cultura " que desde hace siglos convive armónicamente con la naturaleza"En opinión del editorialista, no había mejor testimonio de esta verdad que ciudad perdida, ese extraordinario poblado prehispánico del que aún aprendían "lecciones de ecología los estudiosos" la noticia aparecio unas semanas antes de una columna del mismo periódico en la que se sugería que el ministro del medio ambiente debía ser nativo porque los indígenas habían demostrado " a lo largo de miles de años que saben convivircon la naturaleza" y que ellos mejor que nadie conocían dónde se debían construir carreteras y represas( el tiempo 18 de marzo de 2007).
Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors.
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm.
