Author : Joanne Barkan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275925970
Visions of Emancipation
Joanne Barkan
Visions Of Emancipation
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Prophetic Times
Maurizio Viroli
Author : Maurizio Viroli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009233187
Prophetic Times by Maurizio Viroli Pdf
Throughout history, prophetic voices have bolstered the struggle for social and political emancipation. Such voices have given meaning to suffering, spoken with pathos and anger to touch passions, and set into motion the moral imagination guiding efforts toward redemption. This book provides the visions of social emancipation we need.
Visions of Glory
Kathleen Diffley,Benjamin Fagan
Author : Kathleen Diffley,Benjamin Fagan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820355948
Visions of Glory by Kathleen Diffley,Benjamin Fagan Pdf
Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and a cutout of a child’s hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front. The essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of this pivotal period. The collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and readers discerned from the same set of circumstances. In so doing, this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of the Civil War, but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of overlapping concerns. A number of essays focus in particular on African American engagements with visual culture. The collection also emphasizes the role that women played in making, disseminating, or interpreting wartime images. While every essay explores the relationship between image and word, several contributions focus on the ways in which Civil War images complicate an understanding of canonical writers such as Emerson, Melville, and Whitman.
Claims to Memory
Catherine A. Reinhardt
Author : Catherine A. Reinhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450795
Claims to Memory by Catherine A. Reinhardt Pdf
By comparing a diversity of documents including letters by slaves, free people of colour and planters, as well as literary works, royal decrees and court cases, Catherine Reinhardt untangles the complex forces of the slave regime that shaped the collective memory of slaves and free coloureds.
Emancipation(s)
Ernesto Laclau
Author : Ernesto Laclau
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789602715
Emancipation(s) by Ernesto Laclau Pdf
In Emancipation(s), Ernesto Laclau addresses a central question: how have the changes of the last decade, together with the transformation in contemporary thought, altered the classical notion of "emancipation" as formulated since the Enlightenment? Our visions of the future and our expectations of emancipation, have been deeply affected by the changes of recent history: the end of the Cold War, the explosion of new ethnic and national identities, the social fragmentation under late capitalism, and the collapse of universal certainties in philosophy and social and historical thought. Laclau here begins to explore precisely how our visions of emancipation have been recast under these new conditions. Laclau examines the internal contradictions of the notion of "emancipation" as it emerged from the mainstream of modernity, as well as the relation between universalism and particularism which is inherent in it. He explores the making of political identities and the status of central notions in political theory such as "representation" and "power," focusing particularly on the work of Derrida and Rorty. Emancipation(s) is a significant contribution to the reshaping of radical political thought.
Cairo's Ultras
Ronnie Close
Author : Ronnie Close
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617979583
Cairo's Ultras by Ronnie Close Pdf
A fascinating account of football culture in Egypt through its ultras groups The history of Cairo’s football fans is one of the most poignant narratives of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and the Ultras White Knights fans, belonging to the two main teams, Al-Ahly F.C. and Zamalek F.C respectively, became embroiled in the street protests that brought down the Mubarak regime. In the violent turmoil since, the Ultras have been locked in a bitter conflict with the Egyptian security state. Tracing these social movements to explore their role in the uprising and the political dimension of soccer in Egypt, Ronnie Close provides a vivid, intimate sense of the Ultras’ unique subculture. Cairo’s Ultras: Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture explores how football communities offer ways of belonging and instill meaning in everyday life. Close asks us to rethink the labels ‘fans’ or ‘hooligans’ and what such terms might really mean. He argues that the role of the body is essential to understanding the cultural practices of the Cairo Ultras, and that the physicality of the stadium rituals and acerbic chants were key expressions that resonated with many Egyptians. Along the way, the book skewers media clichés and retraces revolutionary politics and social networks to consider the capacity of sport to emancipate through performances on the football terraces.
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination
Amanda Brickell Bellows
Author : Amanda Brickell Bellows
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469655550
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination by Amanda Brickell Bellows Pdf
The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens. During the second half of the long nineteenth century, Americans and Russians responded to these societal transformations through a fascinating array of new cultural productions. Analyzing portrayals of African Americans and Russian serfs in oil paintings, advertisements, fiction, poetry, and ephemera housed in American and Russian archives, Amanda Brickell Bellows argues that these widely circulated depictions shaped collective memory of slavery and serfdom, affected the development of national consciousness, and influenced public opinion as peasants and freedpeople strove to exercise their newfound rights. While acknowledging the core differences between chattel slavery and serfdom, as well as the distinctions between each nation's post-emancipation era, Bellows highlights striking similarities between representations of slaves and serfs that were produced by elites in both nations as they sought to uphold a patriarchal vision of society. Russian peasants and African American freedpeople countered simplistic, paternalistic, and racist depictions by producing dignified self-representations of their traditions, communities, and accomplishments. This book provides an important reconsideration of post-emancipation assimilation, race, class, and political power.
Security, the Environment and Emancipation
Matt McDonald
Author : Matt McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136645952
Security, the Environment and Emancipation by Matt McDonald Pdf
This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a concerted attempt in IR to argue that environmental change constituted a threat to security. This book argues that such a notion is problematic as it suggests that a universal definition of security is possible, which prevents a recognition of security as a site of contestation, in which a range of actors articulate alternative visions of who or what is in need of being secured. If security is understood and approached in traditional terms - as the territorial preservation of the nation-state from external threat - then it is indeed difficult to see how environmental issues would benefit from being placed on states’ security agenda. If, however, security is defined in terms of the emancipation of the most vulnerable individuals from contingent structural oppressions, then drawing a relationship between environmental change and security may be beneficial for redressing those environmental issues and prioritising the needs of those most at risk from the manifestations of global environmental change. This book takes the limitations of contemporary approaches to the relationship between the environment and security as its starting point, and seeks to do two things. First, it aims to illustrate the ways in which arguments over approaches to environmental issues can be viewed as contestation over the meaning of 'security‘ in particular political contexts. Central here is the composition and assumptions of the dominant security discourse to emerge regarding those issues: a framework of meaning for the most important forms of action on behalf of a particular group, defining the terms for meaningful contestation and negotiation about security itself within that group. As such, the book attempts to illustrate the dynamics of competition over the meaning of security with reference to environmental issues, particularly focusing on instances of political change in the dominant security discourse through which that issue is approached. In the process the author points to the central role of these dominant security discourses in underpinning the most practically significant actions regarding environmental issues such as deforestation and global climate change. The book employs methodological tools that enable a focus on how particular frameworks of meaning are constituted and become dominant; how they provide a lens through which various issues are approached; and how discourses most consistent with redressing environmental change and the suffering of the most vulnerable might come to provide the framework through which security is viewed in particular contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, geography, sociology, IR and Political Science in general.
Women Who Fly
Serinity Young
Author : Serinity Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190659707
Women Who Fly by Serinity Young Pdf
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
Emancipation After Hegel
Todd McGowan
Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231549929
Emancipation After Hegel by Todd McGowan Pdf
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges? In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel’s project, Emancipation After Hegel presents a radical Hegel who speaks to a world overwhelmed by right-wing populism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and economic inequalities. McGowan argues that the revolutionary core of Hegel’s thought is contradiction. He reveals that contradiction is inexorable and that we must attempt to sustain it rather than overcoming it or dismissing it as a logical failure. McGowan contends that Hegel’s notion of contradiction, when applied to contemporary problems, challenges any assertion of unitary identity as every identity is in tension with itself and dependent on others. An accessible and compelling reinterpretation of an often-misunderstood thinker, this book shows us a way forward to a new politics of emancipation as we reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of contradiction and find solidarity in not belonging.
Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Stephen Eric Bronner
Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231126090
Reclaiming the Enlightenment by Stephen Eric Bronner Pdf
In 1947 Horkheimer and Adorno connected the Enlightenment with totalitarianism. Since when the Left has drifted into the language and imagery of the European Counter-Enlightenment, the movement against 1776 and 1789. Bronner sets out to reclaim the heritage of progressive politics.
Rethinking Education and Emancipation
Nataša Lacković
Author : Nataša Lacković
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031470448
Rethinking Education and Emancipation by Nataša Lacković Pdf
Edward Said
Adel Iskandar,Adel Iskander,Hakem Rustom
Author : Adel Iskandar,Adel Iskander,Hakem Rustom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520245464
Edward Said by Adel Iskandar,Adel Iskander,Hakem Rustom Pdf
This indispensable volume, a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. The book brings together contributions from 31 luminaries to engage Said's provocative ideas.
Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman
Yulia Gradskova
Author : Yulia Gradskova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319991993
Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman by Yulia Gradskova Pdf
This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films and mass publications in order to explore how the “emancipation” and “culturalization” of women of “culturally backward nations” was practiced and presented for the mass Soviet audience. Whilst the special focus of the book lies in the region between the Volga and the Urals (and Muslim women of the Central Eurasia), the Soviet emancipation practices are presented in the broader context of gendered politics of modernization in the beginning of the 20th century. The analysis of the Soviet documents of the 1920s-1930s not only subverts the Soviet story on “generous help” with emancipation of natsionalka through uncovering its imperial/colonial aspects, but also makes an important contribution to the studies of imperial domination and colonial politics. This book is addressed to all interested in Russian and Eurasian studies and in decolonial approach to gender history.
Raising Freedom's Child
Mary Niall Mitchell
Author : Mary Niall Mitchell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814796337
Raising Freedom's Child by Mary Niall Mitchell Pdf
This work examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. The author analyzes multiple views of the African American child to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition.
