Narratives From The Margins

Author : Sanjukta Das Gupta,Raj Sekhar Basu
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607108

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Narratives from the Margins by Sanjukta Das Gupta,Raj Sekhar Basu Pdf

Adivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations with definitions and notions of identity, while important in themselves, tend to shift attention away from the inner lives of these communities. This book deals with different aspects of the histories of adivasi communities -- from Rajasthan in the west to Bengal and Orissa in the east. The essays in this book discuss a range of issues affecting the socio-economic and cultural life of adivasis and explore the long term continuities and discontinuities between different political regimes. They also reflect some of the new concerns that have come up relating to methodology and sources, historiography and colonial concerns, the impact of missionaries, gender issues, the agrarian situation, famines and migration. Some of the issues addressed in this volume are the genesis and development of 'tribal' studies in India during the colonial period; the peasantization of adivasi groups and their assimilation within the Hindu caste fold as reflected in Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas; the work of the Protestant missions among the Santals of Chotanagpur; the social and ritual relations between the Bhils and the Rajput ruling dynasties of Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan; the aspect of agrarian change among the Hos of Singhbhum; the factors behind the migration from Chotanagpur, its nature and organization and its impact upon the adivasi village community; the question of women's agency in colonial Chotanagpur; and an exploration of land rights, witchcraft, employment patterns and how women challenged patriarchy in their everyday lives; and the impact of globalisation and liberalization upon adivasis in contemporary India. The book will be of use to students and scholars of history, anthropology and sociology and also to policy-planners.

Author : Bridget Conley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030134952

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Memory from the Margins by Bridget Conley Pdf

This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa—the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067495520X

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Women on the Margins by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.

Author : Jenny Jones,Marie Porter,Lisa Raith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443879163

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Mothers at the Margins by Jenny Jones,Marie Porter,Lisa Raith Pdf

In the last two decades, maternal scholarship has grown exponentially. Despite this, however, there are still numerous areas which remain under-researched, one of which is the experiences of marginalised mothers. Far from being a sentimental, feel-good account of mothering, this collection speaks with the voices of mothers through the application of a matricentric lens. In particular, it speaks with the voices of those mothers who feel alienated or stigmatised; mothers who have been rendered ...

Author : Nagihan Haliloğlu
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200660

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Narrating from the Margins by Nagihan Haliloğlu Pdf

Preliminary Material -- The Concern for Self-Possession -- Self-Narration: Conditions, Representations, and Consequences -- The Female Self in Rhys and the Category of the Amateur -- Positioning Rhys's Heroines within Colonial Relations -- Narrative Responses to 'Exile From the English Family': The Zombie and the Mad Witch -- White Female Colonial Self-Articulation: Narrative of Displacement in Voyage in the Dark -- Colonial Creatures: The Community of Life-Stories in Good Morning, Midnight -- Quartet: The Making of the Amateur and Third-Person Self-Narration -- Intersubjectivity and Self-Arrangements in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie -- Membership in the Holy English Family and Mad-Witch Narration in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Conclusion: Self-Narratives for the Chorus Girl and the Horrid Colonial -- Works Cited -- Index.

Author : Cornelio R. Bascara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015061001080

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Stories from the Margins by Cornelio R. Bascara Pdf

Author : Sanjukta Das Gupta,Raj Sekhar Basu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Adivasis
ISBN : 935290527X

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Narratives from the Margins by Sanjukta Das Gupta,Raj Sekhar Basu Pdf

Author : Alison L. Bain
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442614697

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Creative Margins by Alison L. Bain Pdf

Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outside Toronto, and Surrey and North Vancouver outside Vancouver. The book investigates whether the creative process unfolds differently for suburban and urban cultural workers, as well as how this process is affected by the presence or absence of cultural infrastructure and planning initiatives.

Author : RJ Andrews
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781119483908

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Info We Trust by RJ Andrews Pdf

How do we create new ways of looking at the world? Join award-winning data storyteller RJ Andrews as he pushes beyond the usual how-to, and takes you on an adventure into the rich art of informing. Creating Info We Trust is a craft that puts the world into forms that are strong and true. It begins with maps, diagrams, and charts — but must push further than dry defaults to be truly effective. How do we attract attention? How can we offer audiences valuable experiences worth their time? How can we help people access complexity? Dark and mysterious, but full of potential, data is the raw material from which new understanding can emerge. Become a hero of the information age as you learn how to dip into the chaos of data and emerge with new understanding that can entertain, improve, and inspire. Whether you call the craft data storytelling, data visualization, data journalism, dashboard design, or infographic creation — what matters is that you are courageously confronting the chaos of it all in order to improve how people see the world. Info We Trust is written for everyone who straddles the domains of data and people: data visualization professionals, analysts, and all who are enthusiastic for seeing the world in new ways. This book draws from the entirety of human experience, quantitative and poetic. It teaches advanced techniques, such as visual metaphor and data transformations, in order to create more human presentations of data. It also shows how we can learn from print advertising, engineering, museum curation, and mythology archetypes. This human-centered approach works with machines to design information for people. Advance your understanding beyond by learning from a broad tradition of putting things “in formation” to create new and wonderful ways of opening our eyes to the world. Info We Trust takes a thoroughly original point of attack on the art of informing. It builds on decades of best practices and adds the creative enthusiasm of a world-class data storyteller. Info We Trust is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of original compositions designed to illuminate the craft, delight the reader, and inspire a generation of data storytellers.

Author : Sean Michael Morris,Lucy Rai,Karen Littleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578868830

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Voices of Practice by Sean Michael Morris,Lucy Rai,Karen Littleton Pdf

Not everyone has had a straight and narrow path into academia. Many higher education teachers, in fact, were professionals before they became part of the university or college where they work; and many keep one foot in both worlds even while they teach. Especially in programs designed to support students in a field of practice (education, nursing, and others), teachers find that being an academic or a scholar is supplementary to being a professional. And yet the demands of scholarship remain a component of their academic work-research, publishing, and the rest.Inspired by scholarly narratives like those from Ruth Behar, bell hooks, Jonathan Kozol, and others, Voices of Practice inspects, interrupts, questions, and reconstructs what it means to be a scholar, using deeply personal reflections, poignant vignettes, and carefully examined timelines of intellectual and professional development. This volume features educators who may not at first call themselves "academics" and who have focused their careers on the practice rather than the publishing of scholarship.

Author : Daniela K Rosner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262542685

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Critical Fabulations by Daniela K Rosner Pdf

A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself. In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered "design" to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation--how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork.

Author : Janelle Rodriques
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429998652

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Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature by Janelle Rodriques Pdf

This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often manifests in the casting of spells, the administration of baths and potions of various oils, herbs, roots and powders, and sometimes spirit possession, for the purposes of protection, revenge, health and well-being. In most Caribbean territories, the practice – and practices that may resemble it – remains illegal. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature analyses fiction that employs Obeah as a marker of the Black ‘folk’ aesthetics that are now constitutive of West Indian literary and cultural production, either in resistance to colonial ideology or in service of the same. These texts foreground Obeah as a social and cultural logic both integral to and troublesome within the creation of such a thing as ‘West Indian’ literature and culture, at once a product of and a foil to Caribbean plantation societies. This book explores the presentation of Obeah as an ‘unruly’ narrative subject, one that not only subverts but signifies a lasting ‘Afro-folk’ sensibility within colonial and ‘postcolonial’ writing of the West Indies. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies, and African and Caribbean religious studies; it will also contribute to dialogues of spirituality in the wider Black Atlantic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087904623

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Voices From the Margins by Anonim Pdf

This collection of studies by an international group of researchers provides a place for migrant, refugee and indigenous children to talk about their school experiences. Refugee children from the Sudan, Afghanistan and Somalia, indigenous children from Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam, migrant children in Canada, Iceland and Hong Kong, urban and rural children from Zanzibar all speak out through drawings, small group and individual discussion.

Author : Max Pinckers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 908246554X

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Margins of Excess by Max Pinckers Pdf

In ?Margins of Excess? the notion of how personal imagination conflicts with generally accepted beliefs is expressed through the narratives of six individuals. Every one of them momentarily received nationwide attention in the US press because of their attempts to realize a dream or passion, but were presented as frauds or deceivers by the mass media?s apparent incapacity to deal with idiosyncratic versions of reality.0The current era of ?post-truth?, in which truths, half-truths, lies, fiction or entertainment are easily interchanged, has produced a culture of ?hyper-individual truths?, demanding a new approach to identify the underlying narratives that structure our perception of reality in a world where there is no longer a generally accepted frame of realism. 0Embedding the stories of the six main protagonists into a clustering tale of cloned military dogs, religious apparitions, suspect vehicles, fake terrorist plots, accidental bombings and fictional presidents, this book follows an associative logic akin to the indiscriminate way a paranoid mind connects unrelated events, or the hysteria of the 24-second news cycle.

Author : Javier Auyero,Philippe I. Bourgois,Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190221447

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Violence at the Urban Margins by Javier Auyero,Philippe I. Bourgois,Nancy Scheper-Hughes Pdf

The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety.