Cyprus And Its Places Of Desire

Author : Lisa Dikomitis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857721235

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Cyprus and its Places of Desire by Lisa Dikomitis Pdf

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of the Greek Cypriot community in the south, and that of the Turkish communities in the north, Lisa Dikomitis provides a moving and detailed qualitative ethnography of the refugee experience in Cyprus. In her groundbreaking study, made possible by the opening of the north/south border during fieldwork, Dikomitis demonstrates how both ethnic groups are linked by their histories of displacement to a single 'place of desire', a small mountainous village located in the north of the island. By identifying the specific social and cultural meanings that the notions of home, identity, justice and suffering have come to have for both populations, Cyprus and its Places of Desire will appeal to scholars and students of Cypriot, Turkish and Greek history as well as those with an interest in the fields of anthropology, sociology and identity.

Author : S. Spyrou,M. Christou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137326317

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Children and Borders by S. Spyrou,M. Christou Pdf

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders.

Author : Matthew C. Benwell,Peter Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134801664

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Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics by Matthew C. Benwell,Peter Hopkins Pdf

Young people, and in particular children, have typically been marginalised in geopolitical research, positioned as too young to understand or relate to the adult-dominated world of international relations. Integrating current debates in critical geopolitics and political geography with research in children’s geographies, childhood studies and youth research, this book sets out an agenda for the field of children’s and young people’s critical geopolitics. It considers diverse practices such as play, activism, media consumption and diplomacy to show how children’s and young people’s lives relate to wider regional and global geopolitical processes. Engaging with contemporary concepts in human geography including ludic geopolitics, affect, emotional geographies, intergenerationality, creative diplomacy, popular geopolitics and citizenship, the authors draw on geopolitical research with children and young people from Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. The chapters highlight the ways in which young people can be enrolled, ignored, dismissed, empowered and represented by the state for geopolitical ends. Notwithstanding this state power, the research presented also shows how young people have agency and make decisions about their lives which are influenced by wider geopolitical processes. The focus on the lives of children and young people problematises and extends what it is we think of when considering ’the geopolitical’ which enriches as well as advances critical geopolitical enquiry and deserves to be taken seriously by political geographies more broadly.

Author : Thorsten Kruse,Hubert Faustmann,Sabine Rogge
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9783830992653

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When the Cemetery Becomes Political by Thorsten Kruse,Hubert Faustmann,Sabine Rogge Pdf

The title of this book ‘When the Cemetery Becomes Political’ implies the question: How can the cemetery – a place for the dead – become a space that develops a political dynamic? Scholars from different countries explored such dynamics further in three conferences – one held in Münster/Germany (2017) and the other two in Nicosia/Cyprus (2018/2019). Ten of the papers presented at these conferences are compiled in this volume. They investigate how religious heritage is dealt with in multi-ethnic/religious countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and Lebanon; one of the papers focuses on the fate of Thessaloniki’s huge Jewish cemetery destructed during the German occupation of Greece in World War II. Further questions addressed in this book are: Why does one group destroy or desecrate the cemeteries and places of worship of the other group(s) during interreligious or interethnic conflicts? What are the reasons behind such extreme actions, and what is the purpose of such acts of destruction? The book gives insights into the complex and complicated interaction between religion and politics – and thus contributes to the discussion of a hot topic of our times. This book contains papers by Elie Al Hindy, Dima de Clerck, Lisa Dikomitis with Vassos Argyrou, Ziad Fahed, Thorsten Kruse, Leon Saltiel, Petros Savvides, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert with Alexandra Bounia, Theodosios Tsivolas and Željana Tunić.

Author : Rebecca Cassidy,Andrea Pisac,Claire Loussouarn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134445929

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Qualitative Research in Gambling by Rebecca Cassidy,Andrea Pisac,Claire Loussouarn Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of ‘problem gambling’ in order to follow those changes across territorial, political, technical, regulatory and conceptual boundaries. The book draws on cutting-edge qualitative work in disciplines including geography, organisational studies, sociology, East Asian studies and anthropology to explore the production and consumption of risk, risky places, risk technologies, the gambling industry and connections between gambling and other kinds of speculation such as financial derivatives. In doing so it addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary social science, including: the challenges of studying deterritorialised social phenomena; globalising technologies and local markets; regulation as it operates across local, regional and international scales; and the rise of games, virtual worlds and social media.

Author : Naomi Stead,Janina Gosseye,Deborah van der Plaat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616898908

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Speaking of Buildings by Naomi Stead,Janina Gosseye,Deborah van der Plaat Pdf

By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. Speaking of Buildings offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people.

Author : Ricardo Campos,Yiannis Zaimakis,Andrea Pavoni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789209426

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Political Graffiti in Critical Times by Ricardo Campos,Yiannis Zaimakis,Andrea Pavoni Pdf

Whether aesthetically or politically inspired, graffiti is among the oldest forms of expression in human history, one that becomes especially significant during periods of social and political upheaval. With a particular focus on the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus, the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, and opposition to Donald Trump in the American capital, it reveals the diverse ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

Author : Margot Tudor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009264969

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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats by Margot Tudor Pdf

This history of colonial legacies in UN peacekeeping operations from 1945–1971 reveals how United Nations peacekeeping staff reconfigured the functions of global governance and sites of diplomatic power in the post-war world. Despite peacekeeping operations being criticised for their colonial underpinnings, our understanding of the ways in which colonial actors and ideas influenced peacekeeping practices on the ground has been limited and imprecise. In this multi-archival history, Margot Tudor investigates the UN's formative armed missions and uncovers the officials that orchestrated a reinvention of colonial-era hierarchies for Global South populations on the front lines of post-colonial statehood. She demonstrates how these officials exploited their field-based access to perpetuate racial prejudices, plot political interference, and foster protracted inter-communal divisions in post-colonial conflict contexts. Bringing together histories of humanitarianism, decolonisation, and the Cold War, Blue Helmet Bureaucrats sheds new light on the mechanisms through which sovereignty was negotiated and re-negotiated after 1945.

Author : Liliana Gómez,Walter Van Herck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441183941

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The Sacred in the City by Liliana Gómez,Walter Van Herck Pdf

This book reflects the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, with religion and the human search for meaning in life. As the process of urbanization of society is accelerating thus giving an increasing importance to cities and the 'metropolis', it is relevant to investigate the social or cultural cohesion that these urban agglomerations manifest. Religion is keenly observed as witnessing a growth, crucially impacting cultural and political dynamics, as well as determining the emergence of new sacred symbols and their inscription in urban spaces worldwide. The sacred has become an important category of a new interpretation of social and cultural transformation processes. From a unique broader perspective, the volume focuses on the relationship between the city and the sacred. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, combining the expertise of philosophers, historians, architects, social geographers, sociologists and anthropologists, it draws a nuanced picture of the different layers of religion, of the sacred and its diverse forms within the city, with examples from Europe, South America and the Caribbean, and Africa.

Author : Olga Maya Demetriou
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438471198

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Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject by Olga Maya Demetriou Pdf

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus Being a “refugee” is not simply a matter of law, determination procedures, or the act of flight. It is an ontological condition, structured by the politics of law, affect, and territory. Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject explores the variable facets of refugeehood, their interconnections, and their intended and unintended consequences. Grounded on more than a decade of research on the island of Cyprus, Olga Maya Demetriou considers how different groups of “refugees” coexist and how this coexistence invites reinterpretations of the law and its politics. The long-standing political conflict in Cyprus produced not only the paradigmatic, formally recognized “refugee” but also other groups of displaced persons not so categorized. By examining the people and circumstances, Demetriou reveals the tensions and contestations within the international refugee regimes and argues that any reinterpretation that accounts for these tensions also needs to recognize that these “minor” losses are not incidental to refugeehood but an intrinsic part of the wider issues. Olga Maya Demetriou is Associate Professor in Post Conflict Reconstruction and State-Building, at the Durham Global Security Institute, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. She is the author of Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey.

Author : Vangelis Calotychos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429721335

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Cyprus And Its People by Vangelis Calotychos Pdf

This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the role of international politics particularly the involvement of Greece and Turkey and examine the changing relationship between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1955. The book challenges prevailing assumptions about political and cultural identity in Cyprus and theorizes on the prospects for mobilizing more multi-dimensional and workable formations of community on Cyprus. The result is a tightly conceived volume, divided into sections of national identity, political possibilities, the location of culture, and social and psychological perspectives.

Author : Stavros Panteli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011362525

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A New History of Cyprus by Stavros Panteli Pdf

Author : Rebecca Bryant,Yiannis Papadakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857722560

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Cyprus and the Politics of Memory by Rebecca Bryant,Yiannis Papadakis Pdf

The island of Cyprus has been bitterly divided for more than four decades. One of the most divisive elements of the Cyprus conflict is the writing of its history, a history called on by both communities to justify and explain their own notions of justice. While for Greek Cypriots the history of Cyprus begins with ancient Greece, for the Turkish Cypriot community the history of the island begins with the Ottoman conquest of 1571. The singular narratives both sides often employ to tell the story of the island are, as this volume argues, a means of continuing the battle which has torn the island apart, and an obstacle to resolution. Cyprus and the Politics of Memory re-orientates history-writing on Cyprus from a tool of division to a form of dialogue, and explores a way forward for the future of conflict resolution in the region.

Author : Tasoulla Hadjiyanni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313010811

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The Making of a Refugee by Tasoulla Hadjiyanni Pdf

Through an examination of interviews provided by 100 children of refugees in Cyprus, born after their family's displacement, Hadjiyanni illustrates the formation of a refugee consciousness, an identity adopted by many children who never experienced the actual displacement of their family. Focusing on the process by which a child born into a refugee family develops a refugee identity, the book identifies nine dimensions that inform this consciousness. Establishing the family as the primary transmitter of the refugee identity and the child as its constructor, the author points to the power of homeplace in forming and supporting such an identity. The book challenges the notion that refugee consciousness is a separate identity and a crisis by reinterpreting it as a resistance to adversity. Shedding new light on what it means to be a refugee, this work is a welcome addition to the field. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning of the term refugee, and how it has been adopted by the children of some refugees in Cyprus, the author moves to an examination of the meaning of past and present to the formation of a refugee consciousness. She then looks to the causes of such identity formation, focusing on the transference of identity from parent to child, and the effects of past loss on children who have not actually experienced displacement. Housing issues are also examined as a contributing factor, as refugee housing is typically distinct, and constrained, compared to housing for native citizens of a community. The author concludes her work with a discussion of the implications of the Cyprus example for both the future and for general refugee studies.

Author : Marina Christofides
Publisher : The island everyone wanted
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 996394261X

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The Island Everyone Wanted by Marina Christofides Pdf