Inscribed Power

Author : Ryan D. Giles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442664371

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Inscribed Power by Ryan D. Giles Pdf

In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection between amulets and literary texts offers fresh and original interpretations of well-known texts such as the Poema de mío Cid, the Libro de Alexandre, the Libro de buen amor, Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, and the Buscón. Inscribed Power is a fascinating work that highlights specific amuletic texts that were used to heal, protect, or otherwise provide a blessing or curse to discover how their powers could influence fictional lives at different moments in the development of Spanish literature.

Author : Bruno David,Meredith Wilson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824824725

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Inscribed Landscapes by Bruno David,Meredith Wilson Pdf

Annotation. Inscribed Landscapes explores the role of inscription in the social construction of place, power, and identity. Bringing together twenty-one scholars across a range of fields-primarily archaeology, anthropology, and geography-it examines how social codes and hegemonic practices have resulted in the production of particular senses of place, exploring the physical and metaphysical marking of place as a means of accessing social history.

Author : Edward Dingle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600044781

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The balance of physics, the square of the circle, and the earth's true solar and lunar distances, discovered and demonstrated by Edward Dingle Pdf

Author : Fabio Sforzi,Ash Amin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351759809

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The Institutions of Local Development by Fabio Sforzi,Ash Amin Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Development is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, driven by the expansion of one or more sectors and their influence on the others. It is the outcome of local interdependencies among firms, households and institutions which give rise to specific territorial patterns of local systems. Policies of development cannot therefore restrict themselves to undifferentiated intervention from the centre to the periphery, but must be able to stimulate and sustain endogenous bottom-up growth by means of specific programmes. Thus, individuals and organizations, public or private interact, take decisions and devise strategies in a context that is simultaneously co-operative and competitive. The first in a series, this volume brings together a team of leading international social scientists from the IGU study group on local development. Illustrated by a wide range of global case studies, it analyses what knowledge is required for industrial production and how best to organize this knowledge, embedded as it is in physical, human and social capital. It focuses on the formation of social capital and the various forms into which this may evolve, in particular, the sets of institutions which regulate relationships within and among firms.

Author : Alfred Pain,John Laskey Woolcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433008328936

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The Queensland Statutes by Alfred Pain,John Laskey Woolcock Pdf

Author : Lisa Peck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351130493

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Act as a Feminist by Lisa Peck Pdf

Act as a Feminist maps a female genealogy of UK actor training practices from 1970 to 2020 as an alternative to traditional male lineages. It re-orientates thinking about acting through its intersections with feminisms and positions it as a critical pedagogy, fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. The book draws attention to the pioneering contributions women have made to actor training, highlights the importance of recognising the political potential of acting, and problematises the inequities for a female majority inspired to work in an industry where they remain a minority. Part One opens up the epistemic scope, shaping a methodology to evaluate the critical potential of pedagogic practice. It argues that feminist approaches offer an alternative affirmative position for training, a via positiva and a way to re-make mimesis. In Part Two, the methodology is applied to the work of UK women practitioners through analysis of the pedagogic exchange in training grounds. Each chapter focuses on how the broad curriculum of acting intersects with gender as technique to produce a hidden curriculum, with case studies on Jane Boston and Nadine George (voice), Niamh Dowling and Vanessa Ewan (movement), Alison Hodge and Kristine Landon-Smith (acting), and Katie Mitchell and Emma Rice (directing). The book concludes with a feminist manifesto for change in acting. Written for students, actors, directors, teachers of acting, voice, and movement, and anyone with an interest in feminisms and critical pedagogies, Act as a Feminist offers new ways of thinking and approaches to practice.

Author : Honi Fern Haber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134713936

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Beyond Postmodern Politics by Honi Fern Haber Pdf

In this book, Honi Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics. While continuing to work towards the voicing of the "other," she argues that we must go beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a viable political theory. Postmodernism's political agenda allows the marginalized other to have a voice and to constitute a politics of difference based upon heterogeneity. But Haber argues that postmodern politics denies us the possibility of selves and community--essential elements to any viable political theory.

Author : Stephen B. Neufeld
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826358066

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The Blood Contingent by Stephen B. Neufeld Pdf

This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impose scientific hygiene and patriotic zeal, and to build an army to rival that of the European powers. The barracks community enacted these objectives in times of war or peace, but never perfectly, and never as expected. The fault lines within the process of creating the ideal army echoed the challenges of constructing an ideal society. This insightful history of life, love, and war in turn-of-the-century Mexico sheds useful light on the troubled state of the Mexican military more than a century later.

Author : Rob Stones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349247370

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Sociological Reasoning by Rob Stones Pdf

While sociological modernists were outrageously presumptious in their claims for sociological knowledge, postmodernists have gone to another extreme in claiming that it has no more truth status than fiction. Critical of both positions, Sociological Reasoning develops an original typology of approaches to social scientific theory and research which is distinguished by its openness and reflexive awareness of rhetorical and methodological aspects of knowledge claims. Laced with graphic illustrative examples, this is a strikingly well-written text that will appeal to students at undergraduate level and beyond.

Author : Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433082489505

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Handbook of Universal Literature, from the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta Pdf

Author : Frederick Laker
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800731653

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Rethinking Internal Displacement by Frederick Laker Pdf

Internal displacement has become one of the most pressing geo-political concerns of the twenty-first century. There are currently over 45 million internally displaced people worldwide due to conflict, state collapse and natural disaster in such high profile cases as Syria, Yemen and Iraq. To tackle such vast human suffering, in the last twenty years a global United Nations regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established order of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

Author : Moyo, Sam,Tsikata, Dzodzi
Publisher : CODESRIA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782869786363

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Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa by Moyo, Sam,Tsikata, Dzodzi Pdf

The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land tenure interests of women, pastoralists, youth and indigenous people. Several of these longstanding and emerging issues in land tenure include the role of the state in land tenure reforms; urban land questions, the nature of land struggles and improvements; and, the impact of land tenure developments on particular social groups and countries. An overarching concern is the extent to which land rights are being commodified, through the conversion of land held under customary tenure systems into marketised systems. The consequences of this include growing land concentration, land tenure insecurities, diminishing access to land by various sections of society, including the poor, women and less dominant ethno-religious groups. This volume brings together different studies on Africa's land questions exploring emerging land issues on the continent in terms of the wider questions of development, citizenship, and democratisation. The chapters discuss the land question through a variety of themes. Some focus on the agrarian aspects of the land questions, while others elucidate the urban dimensions of the land question.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Spiramus Press Ltd
Page : 2212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781907444654

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Charity Law Handbook by Anonim Pdf

This is an indispensable collection of statutory and non-statutory materials relating to charity law in England and Wales. Revised to coincide with the implementation of the Charities Act 2011 – a major consolidation of the charity law - the Handbook is an essential reference source for charity lawyers, in-house lawyers, academics, charities and voluntary organisations and their trustees. Available as three paperback volumes, CD-ROM or both (the mixed media option). Statutes range from the Preamble to Charitable Uses Act 1601 to the Finance Act 2011. It also includes relevant provisions covering data protection, company law, gambling and lotteries, minimum wages, freedom of information, discrimination, tax and VAT, along with a wide range of statutory instruments and the latest SORP. New legislation since the second edition includes: Income Tax Act 2007 Corporation Tax Act 2009 Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 Academies Act 2010 Bribery Act 2010 Corporation Tax Act 2010 Equality Act 2010 Charities Act 2011 Finance Act 2011 This edition is also available on CD-ROM, making more than 2000 pages of legislation and guidance portable and easy to search.

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015384410

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Journal by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf

Author : Gary Watt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199664801

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Todd & Watt's Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts by Gary Watt Pdf

This revised and updated text contains a range of relevant, interesting case law, statutory material, academic extracts and official proposals for law reform. A companion web site featuring web links and case updates ensures students have access to the latest materials.