Fighting Scholars

Author : Raúl Sánchez García,Dale C. Spencer
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781783083466

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Fighting Scholars by Raúl Sánchez García,Dale C. Spencer Pdf

‘Fighting Scholars’ offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book’s main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of ‘habitus’ is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. The book’s most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Body and Soul’: the construction of a ‘carnal sociology’ that constitutes an exploration of the social world ‘from’ the body.

Author : Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228005148

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Fighting for a Hand to Hold by Samir Shaheen-Hussain Pdf

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804190114

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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

Author : Haim Gordon
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015041074462

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Fighting Evil by Haim Gordon Pdf

This book argues that Greene's writings have much to teach us about fighting evil here and now, and about endeavoring to live a worthy life. Greene related stories of evil persons who destroyed the freedom of others and of a few simple people who fought them. Through these stories he showed us three basic truths: first, evil exists; second, it is possible to fight it; and third, one may attain wisdom and sometimes a very limited glory by undertaking such a struggle.

Author : Isaac Grant Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063241355

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The American Reports by Isaac Grant Thompson Pdf

Author : Missouri. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112102779099

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Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri by Missouri. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Missouri. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078453743

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri by Missouri. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Herbert Wrigley Wilson,Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : SRLF:E0000006379

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The Great War by Herbert Wrigley Wilson,Sir John Alexander Hammerton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062866707

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The American Law Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:319510027893047

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University of Pennsylvania Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433066342175

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The Illustrated naval and military magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Elmer Ford
Publisher : Clinton, Press of W. J. Coulter, Courant office
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Clinton (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019805522

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History of the Origin of the Town of Clinton, Massachusetts, 1653-1865 by Andrew Elmer Ford Pdf

Author : Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde,Wei Ming Dariotis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781978806368

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Fight the Tower by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde,Wei Ming Dariotis Pdf

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324725

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Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books by Anonim Pdf

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on interdisciplinary research on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.

Author : Rashi Rohatgi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443866170

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Fighting Cane and Canon by Rashi Rohatgi Pdf

Fighting Cane and Canon: Abhimanyu Unnuth and the Case of World Literature in Mauritius joins the growing field of modern Indian Ocean studies. The book interrogates the development and persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius with a focus on the early poetry of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His second work, The Teeth of the Cactus, brings together questions about the value of history, of relationships forged by labour, and of spirituality in a trenchant examination of a postcolonial people choosing to pursue prosperity in an age of globalization. It captures a distinct point of view – Unnuth’s connection to the Hindi language is an unusual reaction to the creolization of the island – but also a common experience: both of Indian immigrants and of the reevaluation of their experience by Mauritians reaching adulthood, as Unnuth did, with the Independence of the Mauritian nation in 1968. The book argues that for literary scholars, reading Abhimanyu Unnuth’s poetry raises important questions about the methodological assumptions made when approaching so-called marginal postcolonial works – assumptions about translation, language, and canonicity – through the emerging methodologies of World Literature.