The Island As Site Of Resistance

Author : Martha Smith-Norris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824847623

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Domination and Resistance by Martha Smith-Norris Pdf

Domination and Resistance illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For decision makers in Washington, the Marshall Islands represented a strategic prize seized from Japan near the end of World War II. In the postwar period, under the auspices of a United Nations Trusteeship Agreement, the United States reinforced its control of the Marshall Islands and kept the Soviet Union and other Cold War rivals out of this Pacific region. The United States also used the opportunity to test a vast array of powerful nuclear bombs and missiles in the Marshalls, even as it conducted research on the effects of human exposure to radioactive fallout. Although these military tests and human experiments reinforced the US strategy of deterrence, they also led to the displacement of several atoll communities, serious health implications for the Marshallese, and widespread ecological degradation. Confronted with these troubling conditions, the Marshall Islanders utilized a variety of political and legal tactics—petitions, lawsuits, demonstrations, and negotiations—to draw American and global attention to their plight. In response to these indigenous acts of resistance, the United States strengthened its strategic interests in the Marshalls but made some concessions to the islanders. Under the Compact of Free Association (COFA) and related agreements, the Americans tightened control over the Kwajalein Missile Range while granting the Marshallese greater political autonomy, additional financial assistance, and a mechanism to settle nuclear claims. Martha Smith-Norris argues that despite COFA's implementation in 1986 and Washington's pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region in the post–Cold War era, the United States has yet to provide adequate compensation to the Republic of the Marshall Islands for the extensive health and environmental damages caused by the US testing programs.

Author : Harriet Deacon
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0864862997

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The Island by Harriet Deacon Pdf

Robben Island is a low-lying outcrop of rock and sand guarding the entrance to South Africa's Table Bay. Although it is just a few kilometres long and a barely swimmable distance from Cape Town, it may well be the most significant historical site in South Africa today.

Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474245678

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Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands by Gilly Carr Pdf

Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments of the islands as a legitimate course of action during the occupation is something that still continues today. Drawing on 100 compensation testimonies written in the 1960s and newly discovered archival material, Gilly Carr sheds light on the experiences of British civilians from the Channel Islands in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. She analyses the Foreign Office's treatment of claims from Islanders and explores why the islands' local governments declined to help former political prisoners fight for compensation. Finally, the book asks why 'perceived sensitivities' have stood in the way of honouring former political prisoners and resistance memory over the last 70 years in the Channel Islands. The testimonies explored within this volume help to place the Channel Islands back within European discourse on the Holocaust and the Second World War; as such, it will be of great importance to scholars interested in Nazi occupation, persecution and post-war memory both in Britain and Europe more widely.

Author : rosalind hampton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9781487524869

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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University by rosalind hampton Pdf

A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.

Author : Andrea Langlois,Ron Sakolsky,Marian van der Zon
Publisher : New Star Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554200504

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Islands of Resistance by Andrea Langlois,Ron Sakolsky,Marian van der Zon Pdf

Since radio's invention, some Canadians have been concerned about the increasingly commercialized and centralized nature of medium. Sometimes working alone, more often in teams, and always illegally, these activists represent islands of resistance within the ocean of homogenous frequencies, pirating radio signals for personal, political and artistic expression. In the first book published on the subject, Islands of Resistance gives you a view from the crowsnest of the phenomenon of pirate radio in Canada. Here is a collection of seventeen activist manifestos, artistic treatises of intent, historical essays on the development of radio and its regulatory bodies, sociological examination of pirate radio's application in new social movements, and personal anecdotes from behind the eyepatch. Just as the new media ostensibly renders the old obsolete, Islands of Resistance unveils the existence of a thriving clandestine counterculture. An invaluable addition to an unscrutinized subject in Canadian media studies, Islands of Resistance appeals to the anarchist, anti–authoritarian impulses in all of us. Visit the Islands of Resistance website for more about the book and to hear audio clips of pirate radio.

Author : Fran Lisa Buntman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521007828

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Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid by Fran Lisa Buntman Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Colored people (South Africa)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111535113

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Kronos by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000626001

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Mosquito Gene Drives and the Malaria Eradication Agenda by Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú Pdf

Malaria is one of most serious infectious diseases today and has afflicted humankind for thousands of years. A significant number of people still die from this mosquito-borne disease, despite the use of various malaria prevention and control methods over hundreds of years and more than a century of coordinated global control efforts using modern tools, together with research into and development of new strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and disease treatment. Genetic approaches that focus on the vector mosquitoes to prevent malaria parasite transmission have been considered for many decades. Genetic control strategies received a significant boost with the successful development of gene drive systems, genetic methods for rapidly spreading beneficial genes and phenotypes through mosquito populations. This book reviews some concepts of gene drive systems and describes pioneering applications to control mosquito populations and prevent parasite transmission.

Author : Isaac Ishaaya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642595493

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Biochemical Sites of Insecticide Action and Resistance by Isaac Ishaaya Pdf

In recent years many of the conventional methods of insect control by broad spectrum synthetic chemicals have come under scrutiny because of their unde sirable effects on human health and the environment. In addition, some classes of pesticide chemistry, which generated resistance problems and severely affected the environment, are no longer used. It is against this background that the authors of this book present up-to-date findings-relating to biochemical sites that can serve as targets for developing insecticides with selective prop erties, and as the basis for the elucidation of resistance mechanisms and countermeasures. The book consists of eight chapters relating to biochemical targets for insec ticide action and seven chapters relating to biochemical modes of resistance and countermeasures. The authors of the chapters are world leaders in pesti cide chemistry, biochemical modes of action and mechanisms of resistance. Biochemical sites such as chitin formation, juvenile hormone and ecdysone receptors, acetylcholine and GABA receptors, ion channels, and neuropeptides are potential targets for insecticide action. The progress made in recent years in molecular biology (presented in depth in this volume) has led to the iden tification of genes that confer mechanisms of resistance, such as increased detoxification, decreased penetration and insensitive target sites. A combina tion of factors can lead to potentiation of the resistance level. Classifications of these mechanisms are termed gene amplification, changes in structural genes, and modification of gene expression.

Author : Dorothy Freda Lane
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037408005

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The Island as Site of Resistance by Dorothy Freda Lane Pdf

The island is a prominent figure of enclosure in literature, often related to issues of power and control, and therefore to colonialism. After exploring several postcolonial readings of Shakespeare's The Tempest, this study examines the challenge to imperialist island discourse in such New Zealand and Caribbean texts as Katherine Mansfield's stories and Derek Walcott's Pantomime. It also makes a considerable contribution to the field of postcolonial studies by suggesting shared strategies of resistance in distinct geographical and cultural contexts.

Author : Dorothy Freda Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : OCLC:988704510

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"This Island in His Pocket" by Dorothy Freda Lane Pdf

Author : Peter Louis Bonfitto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781440865855

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World Architecture and Society [2 volumes] by Peter Louis Bonfitto Pdf

This two-volume encyclopedia covers buildings and sites of global significance from prehistoric times to the present day, providing students with an essential understanding of architectural development and its impact on human societies. This two-volume encyclopedia provides an in-depth look at buildings and sites of global significance throughout history. The volumes are separated into four regional sections: 1) the Americas, 2) Europe, 3) Africa and the Middle East, and 4) Asia and the Pacific. Four regional essays investigate the broader stylistic and historical contexts that describe the development of architecture through time and across the globe. Entries explore the unique importance of buildings and sites, including the megalithic wonder of Stonehenge and the imposing complex of Angkor Wat. Entries on Spanish colonial missions in the Americas and the medieval Islamic universities of the Sahara connect to broader building traditions. Other entries highlight remarkable stories of architectural achievement and memory, like those of Tuskegee University, a site hand-built by former slaves, or the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which was built at the site of the atomic detonation. Each entry focuses on the architectural but includes strong consideration of the social impact, importance, and significance each structure has had in the past and in the present.

Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816648638

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Empire Islands by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Pdf

Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.

Author : Douglas L. Mayers,Jack D. Sobel,Marc Ouellette,Keith S. Kaye,Dror Marchaim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319467184

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Antimicrobial Drug Resistance by Douglas L. Mayers,Jack D. Sobel,Marc Ouellette,Keith S. Kaye,Dror Marchaim Pdf

The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This newly revised compendium reviews the most current research and development on drug resistance while still providing the information in the accessible format of the first edition. The first volume, Antimicrobial Drug Resistance: Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, is dedicated to the biological basis of drug resistance and effective avenues for drug development. With the emergence of more drug-resistant organisms, the approach to dealing with the drug resistance problem must include the research of different aspects of the mechanisms of bacterial resistance and the dissemination of resistance genes as well as research utilizing new genomic information. These approaches will permit the design of novel strategies to develop new antibiotics and preserve the effectiveness of those currently available. The second volume, Antimicrobial Drug Resistance: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, is devoted to the clinical aspects of drug resistance. Although there is evidence that restricted use of a specific antibiotic can be followed by a decrease in drug resistance to that agent, drug resistance control is not easily achieved. Thus, the infectious diseases physician requires input from the clinical microbiologist, antimicrobial stewardship personnel, and infection control specialist to make informed choices for the effective management of various strains of drug-resistant pathogens in individual patients. This 2-volume set is an important reference for students in microbiology, infectious diseases physicians, medical students, basic scientists, drug development researchers, microbiologists, epidemiologists, and public health practitioners.

Author : Michelle Kelly,Claire Westall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000215939

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Prison Writing and the Literary World by Michelle Kelly,Claire Westall Pdf

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representation and formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literature, textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links between prison and the literary world.