Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana's small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.
Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu highlights the significant contributions of women in the African diaspora to the Americas.
From the co-author of Let This Radicalize You, a collection of letters to inspire activists to continue the fightOrganizers are well seasoned in defeat.
This book provides a complex insight into how law, as a distinct tool and technology, conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality.
Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference is a collection of essays which brings together an all-star cast of researchers, clinicians, advocates, and activists around the world, many of whom have lived experience with disfigurement.
The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter- and intra-regional entanglements, overlaps, and differences.
Networks of Belonging examines how digitally networked communication technologies create spaces of belonging for people of refugee and migrant backgrounds in resettlement contexts, focusing on Australia.
This pioneering book presents a comprehensive overview of the role of women in Brunei's economy, society and public domain, from the historical and contemporary perspective.
Femicide - the killing of women and girls - has gained increasing prominence on global and national agendas since the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, amongst others, started to respond to femicide as an issue of global concern.
Seit Juni 2013 hat der US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Edward Snowden aufgedeckt, dass die US-Sicherheitsbehörde NSA die Gesamtbevölkerung des Globus geheim überwacht.
Achievement engenders pride, and the most significant accomplishments involving people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Events.
New York Times bestseller10 Simple Mindset Shifts to Love the Life You're Already Living· Identifies and dismantles 10 lies about the so-called good life· Make small, real-world changes that add up to a new outlook on life· Learn to live and mother in ways that work for you and your familyIn a social-media saturated world, it's all too easy to see the shiny lives of others and find your own less than lustrous.
This volume uniquely highlights women's empowerment, bringing in theoretical understandings, research studies and auto-ethnographic narratives of women belonging to different parts of the globe and paving the way towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development goal 5.
Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Helio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.
