Tag: Freedom

Free Download Lynne M. Baab, "Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0830832580, 0739451367 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 1.2 mb
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Free Download Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, Lgbtq Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism "
English | ISBN: 0814349986 | 2022 | 197 pages | EPUB | 347 KB
With engaged scholarship and an exciting contribution to the field of Israel/Palestine studies, queer scholar-activist Corinne Blackmer stages a pointed critique of scholars whose anti-Israel bias pervades their activism as well as their academic work. Blackmer demonstrates how the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to delegitimize and isolate Israel has become a central part of social justice advocacy on campus, particularly within gender and sexuality studies programs. The chapters focus on the intellectual work of Sarah Schulman, Jasbir Puar, Angela Davis, Dean Spade, and Judith Butler, demonstrating how they misapply critical theory in their discussions of the State of Israel. Blackmer shows how these LGBTQ intellectuals mobilize queer theory and intersectionality to support the BDS movement at the expense of academic freedom and open discourse.

Free Download Politics of Religious Freedom By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, Peter G. Danchin
2015 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 022624847X | PDF | 2 MB
In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response, and what forms of politics are enabled in the process? The fruits of the three-year Politics of Religious Freedom research project, the contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption-ubiquitous in policy circles-that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Taking a global perspective, the more than two dozen contributors delineate the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and social and political contexts. Together, the contributions make clear that the reasons for persecution are more varied and complex than is widely acknowledged, and that the indiscriminate promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities cited as falling short.

Free Download Open Government and Freedom of Information: Policy and Practice in Asia and the Middle East
by Habib Zafarullah and Noore Alam Siddiquee
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031358627 | 415 Pages | True PDF | 8.9 MB

Free Download David Shippy, "Money Matters for Financial Freedom: The Fast Path to Abundance in Life and Business"
English | ISBN: 1642790893 | 2019 | 212 pages | EPUB | 1496 KB
Money Matters for Financial Freedom provides a roadmap for achieving financial freedom in less than five years!

Free Download Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova, "Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism: The Past as Future"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415483514, 0415508819 | PDF | pages: 173 | 1.4 mb
This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political scientists, sociologists, cultural analysts, media studies researchers and media practitioners. The book is one of the first attempts to bridge the gaps between political and cultural studies approaches, between textual analysis and audience research, as well as between practitioner-led and scholarly approaches to the post-Soviet media The cumulative impact of the essays contained in this section is to reinforce the intuition which inspired it: that the post-Soviet media remain a highly heterogeneous, complex and dynamic field for investigation. With contributions from scholars and journalists across Europe (including the former Soviet Union), the collection addresses such issues as censorship and elections, the legacy of the Soviet past, terrorism and the media, the post-Soviet business press, advertising and nation building, official press discourse and entrepreneurship, and global formats on Russian television.

Free Download Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind by Simon McCarthy-Jones
English | January 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0861544579 | 416 pages | PDF | 3.55 Mb
We face radical new threats to our freedom of thought – here’s how to retain control

Free Download David Detmer, "Freedom As a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre"
English | 1988 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 0812690834, 0812690826 | PDF | 51,2 mb
This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory will establish its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and win many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.

Free Download Kyung Moon Hwang, "Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films "
English | ISBN: 3031272676 | 2023 | 274 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu ("Korean Wave") period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have reflected, shaped, and extended the thriving public discourse over national history. In these works, the balance between fate and freedom―the negotiation between societal constraints and individual will, as well as cyclical and linear history―functions as a central theme, subtext, or Description device for illuminating a rich variety of historical events, figures, and issues. In sum, these highly accomplished films set in Korea’s past address universal concerns about the relationship between structure and agency, whether in collective identity or in individual lives. Written in an engaging and accessible style by an established historian, Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films

Free Download John S. Saul, "A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation"
English | 2014 | pages: 209 | ISBN: 0745334806, 0745334792 | PDF | 4,8 mb
Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S Saul reexamines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.