Acts Of Authority Acts Of Resistance

Author : Nandi Bhatia
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472024629

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Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance by Nandi Bhatia Pdf

Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonial and postcolonial structures, as it sought to undo various schemes of political and cultural power through its engagement with subjects derived from mythology, history, and available colonial models such as Shakespeare. Bhatia's attention to local histories within a postcolonial framework places performance in a global and transcultural context. Drawing connections between art and politics, between performance and everyday experience, Bhatia shows how performance often intervened in political debates and even changed the course of politics. One of the first Western studies of Indian theater to link the aesthetics and the politics of that theater, Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance combines in-depth archival research with close readings of dramatic texts performed at critical moments in history. Each chapter amplifies its themes against the backdrop of specific social conditions as it examines particular dramatic productions, from The Indigo Mirror to adaptations of Shakespeare plays by Indian theater companies, illustrating the role of theater in bringing nationalist, anticolonial, and gendered struggles into the public sphere. Nandi Bhatia is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Author : Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789351509752

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Performing Shakespeare in India by Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf Pdf

· This collection is unusual in that the essays are not written from a single perspective and instead cover aspects as diverse as socio-political issues, translation, performance, language and identity, literary analysis. · The style of all the essays is jargon-free and accessible to the lay reader. · Given the fact that the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death comes up in 2016, this collection would be in the nature of both a retrospective appraisal as well as an anticipatory homage. · Its approaches are multi-disciplinary - from socio-historical analysis, to political commentary, translation studies, literary criticism and performance studies. · It will interest researchers interested in translation studies and performance studies, and literary critics.

Author : Kirk Plangger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319241487

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Thriving in a New World Economy by Kirk Plangger Pdf

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2012 World Marketing Congress and Cultural Perspectives in Marketing held in Atlanta, Georgia with the theme Thriving in a New World Economy. The focus of the conference and the enclosed papers is on global marketing thought, issues and practices. This volume presents papers on various topics including marketing management, marketing strategy, and consumer behavior. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.​

Author : Seth M. Limmer,Jonah Dov Pesner
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881233193

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Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority by Seth M. Limmer,Jonah Dov Pesner Pdf

This foundational new book reminds us of our ancient obligation to bring justice to the world. The essays in this collection explore the spiritual underpinnings of our Jewish commitment to justice, using Jewish text and tradition, as well as contemporary sources and models. Among the topics covered are women's health, LGBTQ rights, healthcare, racial justice, speaking truth to power, and community organizing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924018401863

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The American Decisions, Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317059714

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Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace by Ana Cristina Mendes Pdf

Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie himself has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper, and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes situates his work in terms of the contemporary production, circulation, and consumption of postcolonial texts within the workings of the cultural industries. Mendes pays particular attention to Rushdie as a public performer across various creative platforms, not only as a novelist and short story writer, but also as a public intellectual, reviewer, and film critic. Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author becomes personally and professionally enmeshed in the dealings of the cultural industries is of particular relevance at a time when the market is strictly regulated by a few multinational corporations. She contends that marginality should not be construed exclusively as a basis for understanding Rushdie’s work, since a critical grounding in marginality will predictably involve a reproduction of the traditional postcolonial binaries of oppressor/oppressed and colonizer/colonized that the writer subverts. Rather, she seeks to expand existing interpretations of Rushdie’s work, itineraries, and frameworks in order to take into account the actual conditions of postcolonial cultural production and circulation within a marketplace that is global in both orientation and effects.

Author : Kate Zhou
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412815208

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China's Long March to Freedom by Kate Zhou Pdf

China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Th eir success has been phenomenal, despite the fact that China continues to be governed by a single party. Clear distinctions between the people and the government are emerging, underlining the fact that true liberalization cannot be imposed from above. Although a large percentage of the Chinese people have been part of China's long march to freedom, farmers, entrepreneurs, migrants, Chinese gays, sex pleasure seekers, and black-marketers played a particularly important role in the beginning. Lawyers, scholars, journalists, and rights activists have jumped in more recently to ensure that liberalization continues. Social dissatisfaction with the government is now published in the media, addressed in public forums, and deliberated in courtrooms. Intellectuals devoted to improvement in human rights and continued liberalization are part of the process. This grassroots social revolution has also resulted from the explosion of information available to ordinary people (especially via the Internet) and far-reaching international influences. All have fundamentally altered key elements of the moral and material content of China's party-state regime and society at large. Th is social revolution is moving China towards a more liberal society despite its government. Th e Chinese government reacts, rather than leads, in this transformative process. Th is book is a landmark--a decade in the making.

Author : Drew J. Strait
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978700734

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Hidden Criticism of the Angry Tyrant in Early Judaism and the Acts of the Apostles by Drew J. Strait Pdf

Hidden Criticism of the Angry Tyrant in Early Judaism and the Acts of the Apostles adds to the current literature of imperial-critical New Testament readings with an examination of Luke’s hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and in Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17. Focusing on discursive resistance in the Hellenistic world, Drew J. Strait examines the relationship between hidden criticism and persuasion and between subordinates and the powerful, and he explores the challenge to the dissident voice to communicate criticism while under surveillance. Strait argues that Luke confronts the idolatrous power and iconic spectacle of gods and kings with the Gospel of the Lord of all—a worldview that is incompatible with the religions of Rome, including emperor worship.

Author : Susanne Ekman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137272881

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Authority and Autonomy by Susanne Ekman Pdf

Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Group identity in literature
ISBN : 9780192869067

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Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays by Diana Dimitrova Pdf

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.

Author : Steve Crawshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civil disobedience
ISBN : OCLC:1151391795

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Small Acts of Resistance by Steve Crawshaw Pdf

Author : Michael P. Hanagan,Leslie Page Moch,Wayne Ph Te Brake
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816631093

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Challenging Authority by Michael P. Hanagan,Leslie Page Moch,Wayne Ph Te Brake Pdf

As long as there have been formal governments, there has been political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects involving claims and counterclaims, compliance or resistance, cooperation, resignation, condescension, and resentment. Where political studies tend to focus on either those who rule or those who are ruled, the essays in this volume call our attention to the interaction between these forces at the very heart of contentious politics. Written by prominent scholars of political and social history, these essays introduce us to a variety of political actors: peasants and workers, tax resisters and religious visionaries, bandits and revolutionaries. From Brazil to Beijing, from the late Middle Ages to the present, all were or are challenging authority. The authors take a distinctly historical approach to their subject, writing both of specific circumstances and of larger processes. While tracing their origins to the social history and structural sociology approaches of the sixties and seventies, the contributors have also profited from subsequent critiques of these approaches. Taken together, their essays demonstrate that the relationship between mobilization for collective action and identity formation is a perennial problem for protest groups -- a problem that the historical study of contentious politics, with its focus on political interaction, can do much to explain.

Author : Asif Mohiuddin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031448256

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Navigating Religious Authority in Muslim Societies by Asif Mohiuddin Pdf

Globalisation stands as an indispensable lens through which to analyse current cultural, political, and social transformations. This prevailing paradigm, acknowledged by its advocates and critics, profoundly shapes our environment. Within this global landscape, Islam's position is noteworthy—often perceived as rejecting globalisation and its secular underpinnings. This book offers a perspective of the global resurgence of religion in general and the revival of Islam in particular as crucial features of globalisation. Furthermore, the book deeply explores how Islamist groups strategically challenge religious authority, utilising social media and the internet to reshape their spheres of influence. By exploring these dynamics, the book aims to provide comprehensive insights into the interplay between Islamist strategies, digital platforms, and religious institutions within our interconnected world.

Author : Roderick Moreland Kramer,Margaret A. Neale
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761908617

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Power and Influence in Organizations by Roderick Moreland Kramer,Margaret A. Neale Pdf

This volume is a readily accessible compilation of current, original scholarly research in the area of power and influence in organizations. It offers a rich exploration of emerging trends and new perspectives.

Author : Devi Akella,Niveen L. Eid
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031413780

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Justifying Entrepreneurship by Devi Akella,Niveen L. Eid Pdf

This book on entrepreneurship, compiles a series of evidence-based episodes from the lives of the marginalized and the minority-oriented entrepreneurs to comprehend whether entrepreneurship is truly a socio-economic emancipatory strategy. Varying experiences of entrepreneurs, from different geographical territories, origins and gender are examined under a critical lens to deconstruct its emancipatory potential and appreciate its power in generating human freedom, equal opportunities, and in uplifting the oppressed and suppressed classes globally. In specific the book explores entrepreneurs located in two geographically diverse regions across the world. The social entrepreneurs in the contested region of Palestine and the black and ethnic entrepreneurial group based in Georgia, United States. The book is a planned and purposeful compilation of raw [i.e., in terms of emotions and feelings], untold stories of entrepreneurs who have embraced entrepreneurship to eradicate their harsh realities and subsequently emancipate themselves. The book integrates a critical perspective, encompassing a variety of theoretical frameworks such as critical race theory, critical theory, critical realism and different power modalities and philosophies to investigate the emancipatory potential of entrepreneurship and justify it as a socio-economic emancipatory strategy. This book ventures into the murky and dark waters of entrepreneurship by exploring this concept within the black and immigrant communities, as a collective social entrepreneurship reform movement, female entrepreneurship, informal entrepreneurship operating under occupation, to provide detailed insights on bricolage and other complexed economic issues.