Tag: Identities

Free Download ChorSwang Ngin, "Identities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia "
English | ISBN: 1498574734 | 2018 | 266 pages | EPUB | 814 KB
ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum-seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate of Islam, several victims of ethnic and sexual violence from Indonesia, and the escape of men and women from China’s draconian one-child policy, among others. Joann Yeh, an immigration attorney and contributor to this work, examines asylum seeking in a Mandarin-speaking Californian community and discuss the failure of the United States’ quasi-judicial immigration system, highlighting "asylum lawfare" in courtroom dramas and arguing for an anthropological advantage in asylum preparation. This book is an essential text for policy makers, students, lawyers, activists, and those engaged with migration studies seeking a more just asylum outcome.

Free Download Julie Turley, "Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions "
English | ISBN: 1666916153 | 2023 | 152 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1149 KB + 4 MB
Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions is an exploration of women and heavy music and the ways in which women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh, musicking mothers themselves, largely employ an ethnographic lens, foregrounded in powerful one-on-one original interviews as vignettes that narrate thematic patterns. Other chapters examine motherhood identity embedded in respective published rock music memoirs, discussions of rock performance as a site of maternal bonding, and themes that arise when heavy music mothers write about motherhood. Autoethnographic portions throughout give the book an intimate and personal tone: one such chapter presents the concept of vigilante motherhood within an auto-ethnographic context. The authors reference the book’s limitations, meditating on historically marginalized moms the authors predict and hope the focus will be on for the future. Heavy Music Mothers is a robust study of women and motherhood set within a music culture historically inhospitable to both women and mothers. This book, the first scholarly study of this topic, is just the beginning.

Free Download Christiana Constantopoulou, "Crisis Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives "
English | ISBN: 9004439544 | 2020 | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A sociological research on the current narrations of the crisis reflected by media and the relation between political discourses and popular myths, consists a revealing study of the dominant social representations worldwide. The real inequalities are counterbalanced by cultural industries fairytales.

Free Download Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, "Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, C. 1550-1640 "
English | ISBN: 152614770X | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual, and political status of London’s crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Examining a range of manuscript, visual, and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London’s artisans physically shaped the built environment, and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces affected their own individual and collective identities.

Free Download Emily Dolmans, "Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England: From the Gesta Herwardi to Richard Coer de Lyon"
English | ISBN: 1843845687 | 2020 | 249 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The period after the Norman Conquest saw a dramatic reassessment of what it meant to be English, owing to both the advent of Anglo-Norman rule and increased interaction with other cultures through trade, travel, migration, and war. While cultural contact is often thought to consolidate national identity, this book proposes that these encounters prompted the formation of intercultural regional identities. Because of these different cultural influences, the meaning of English identity varied from region to region, and became rooted in the land, its history, and its stories.

Free Download Claudia Capancioni, "Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries: Genders/Genres/Genera"
English | ISBN: 3031407946 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 944 KB + 6 MB
This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and disciplinary categories. In particular, it calls into question established models of gender, notions of narrative genres and typological genera of borders in today’s literary, artistic, philosophical, and socio-political discourse. The chapters interrogate boundaries and boundary-crossing not only in terms of geographical frontiers and the physical acts of trespassing, but also as discursive constructs that police crossing subjects as

Free Download David Crider, "Performing Personality: On-Air Radio Identities in a Changing Media Landscape"
English | ISBN: 1498530850 | 2016 | 204 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book examines how radio announcers construct, prepare, and perform their on-air personalities during a time when the radio industry is fighting to stay relevant amid expanding media options. Crider conducted interviews with key on-air personnel at eleven broadcast stations in order to analyze how each individual created a narrative on-air personality, conducted conversations outside of their performance, were affected by the setting and situation, embraced the role of the listening audience, and reduced the social distance between them and listener. Crider argues that the successful deployment of on-air identity across multiple channels (in-person, online, and through social media as well as broadcast) provides assurance that a space for radio will remain despite the expanding number of media options.

Free Download Giulia Pepe, "New Migrations, New Multilingual Practices, New Identities: The Case of Post-2008 Italian Migrants in London"
English | ISBN: 3031096479 | 2022 | 231 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants’ trajectories and their relation with their homeland’s migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies.

Free Download Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, "Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, C. 1550-1640 "
English | ISBN: 152614770X | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual, and political status of London’s crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Examining a range of manuscript, visual, and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London’s artisans physically shaped the built environment, and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces affected their own individual and collective identities.

Free Download Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, Martin Power, "Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities"
English | 2012 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 184150596X, 1841504173 | PDF | 10,5 mb
An influential star of British pop for more than three decades, Morrissey is known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Among critics and his many fans,he has long beenseen asan anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke devotion, argument, and spirited debate.