Tag: Belonging

Free Download Zeina Sleiman-Long, "Sanctuary Regions and the Struggle for Belonging: Undocumented Immigrants in the United States"
English | 2020 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 3030448878, 3030448843 | PDF | 1,5 mb
This book argues that local governments and institutions across the state of California that offer various forms of sanctuaries to undocumented immigrants create "sanctuary regions." These regions are safe zones for undocumented immigrants and facilitate their ability to make claims for human rights. The book also argues that these regions create an important form of resistance to federal state authority in terms of immigration and the management of borders – something that is typically attributed to state power in the study of International Relations (IR). This book includes overviews of how undocumented immigrants make claims for human rights as well as the ways in which sanctuary regions facilitate "acts of citizenship" and resist anti-immigrant policies.

Free Download Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
by john a. powell and Stephen Menendian
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1503638847 | 444 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Free Download john a. powell, "Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World"
English | ISBN: 1503638847 | 2024 | 448 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging

Free Download A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB72LDMV | 2024 | 7 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Lauren Markham
Narrator: Gilli Messer

Free Download Abigail Gardner, "Listening, Belonging, and Memory"
English | ISBN: 1501376802 | 2023 | 190 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from digital storytelling, listening projects, and critical media analysis to highlight connections between listening and power. It centers on voices, stories, and silence, how they interweave, and are activated, maneuvered, reconfigured, and denied. It focuses on the small, microengagements that crouch within the superstructures of violent border control and the censorious policing of sonic citizenry, identifying cracks in the reshuffling of histories and hierarchies that connected listening affords.

Free Download Rahul Gairola, "Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783489723, 1783489731 | PDF | pages: 273 | 1.9 mb
Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It critically engages with Foucault’s notions of "biopolitics" and "governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class, and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity studies, and Queer studies.

Free Download Rene Provost, "Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging: Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel to Canada "
English | ISBN: 0199383006 | 2014 | 340 pages | PDF | 22 MB
For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition. More recently however, religion has re-emerged as one of the central challenges facing Western liberal societies’ conception of multiculturalism. Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging explores the complex relationship between religion and multiculturalism and the role of the state and law in the creation of boundaries.

Free Download Andre Goodrich, "Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
English | ISBN: 0739188585 | 2015 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1002 KB

Free Download The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging by Charles Vogl, Tom Dheere, Berrett-Koehler ✅Publishers
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01JDZ9XXC | Format: MP3 / 3 hours and 50 minutes | 105 Mb
This book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a community, to strengthen the community they already have, or who may not think of themselves as community leaders but who are envisioning a group they hope to create. These communities can be formal, with official memberships and administrations, or informal, tied by shared values and commitments. Some people think communities happen by accident, or have to emerge organically, but Charles Vogl emphasizes that there are solid, time-honored principles for consciously building them.
Drawing on 3,000 years of tradition, Vogl lays out seven enduring principles that every community of every kind must master to be effective and supportive. He describes each principle’s purpose and provides extensive hands-on tools for implementing them. He also helps leaders ensure that their communities remain healthy and life-affirming and not degenerate into rigid cults.

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Free Download Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities (Stanford d.school Library) by Susie Wise, Stanford d.school, Wise Susie
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09HN3VC32 | Format: MP3 / 3 hours and 23 minutes + PDF | 96 Mb
A practical, illustrated guide to using the tools of design to create feelings of inclusion, collaboration, and respect in groups of any type or size – a classroom, a work team, an international organization – from Stanford University’s d.school.
"This is a beautiful book. Wise has applied the gift and imagination and lenses of the d.school to one of our most precious questions: how to create belonging." (Priya Parker, author of the Art of Gathering and host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart)
Belonging brings out the best in everyone. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, community organizer, or leader of any sort, your group is unlikely to thrive if the individuals don’t feel welcomed, included, and valued for who they are.