In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labor ideology in American culture. Phan argues that in the age of Emancipation the...
En los años sesenta y setenta en Colombia una generación de jóvenes expresó en las universidades ideales y sueños de revolución. Si bien la memoria social de esta época aún está por investigarse y escribirse, este libro es un primer esfuerzo académico por recopilar y analizar testimonios de estudiantes, docentes y personas que participaron o fueron testigos de las movilizaciones universitarias estudiantiles de aquellos años. Hoy estas expresiones juveniles con sus improntas de rebeldía,...
Short-listed for the 2005 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Declan O'Malley came to the coast of British Columbia because it was as far away from Ireland as he could possibly go. Haunted by memories of his family's death at the hands of the Black and Tans, Declan is unable to escape his grief. He immerses himself in a new life, seeking to produce a more perfect translation of Homer's Odyssey while at the same time becoming closer to the family on whose property he is living. But...
Few people have read as widely in the field of Canadiana as has John Robert Colombo. The curiosity of this Toronto writer, editor, and anthologist knows few if any bounds when it comes to the lore, literature, history, culture, and character of Canada. He has an inquiring mind and he seems able to find national and even international twists to subjects of interest or importance. Fascinating Canada , his latest book, is the product of over half a century of research, reading, writing, and...
The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the logic of ‘other and rule’ thoroughly permeates the social and the political; our contemporary condition is increasingly premised on endless subtle hierarchical distinctions, which determine whole populations’ attitudes, feelings and actions. Hark and Villa make a compelling case for the detoxification of public and political discourse, in favor of an...
A radical re-framing of conservative takes to «political correctness.»It grapples with the thorny PC question from a progressive perspective, side-stepping traps inherent in fighting on the enemy's terrain. Relies on interviews with an international range of activists and thinkers including Silvia Federici, Gustavo Esteva, Kelsey Cham Corbett, Leanne Simpson, and Glen Coulthard. Full interview with Federici included as appendix. Foreword by award-winning poet Hari Alluri.
Este análisis recoge veinte textos breves que el autor ha escrito durante los primeros dos meses (marzo-abril y mayo del 2020) que han transcurrido desde que estalló la tremenda crisis de salud pública, así como en el campo económico y social por el doble fenómeno de la estrepitosa caída de los precios internacionales del petróleo y la expansión de la pandemia del coronavirus en Colombia. Son textos escritos, pues, al calor de la llegada de las noticias, y cuando la profundidad de la crisis está...
This invaluable book brings together a much needed analysis of the challenges and benefits of providing social work services in Ghanaian boarding schools. It examines contemporary issues affecting children and young people in boarding schools and outlines principles and strategies for addressing these issues in a holistic manner. The book concludes with suggestions about how boarding school leaders, policy makers and educationalists might develop child protection processes in schools or...
Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors, but still not broad enough to prevent the literary community from challenging and subverting many of the social norms the state was most determined to defend. This study is the...
A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective power, a moral argument for its cultivation, and a discussion of dilemmas that movements must navigate in order to succeed.