Tag: Identities

Free Download Lucy Bolton, "Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew"
English | ISBN: 1474447589 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Contemporary Screen Ethics focuses on the intertwining of the ethical with the socio-political, considering such topics as: care, decolonial feminism, ecology, histories of political violence, intersectionality, neoliberalism, race, and sexual and gendered violence. The collection advocates looking anew at the global complexity and diversity of such ethical issues across various screen media: from Netflix movies to VR, from Chinese romcoms to Brazilian pornochanchadas, from documentaries to drone warfare, from Jordan Peele movies to Google Earth. The analysis exposes the ethical tension between the inclusions and exclusions of global structural inequality (the identities of the haves, the absences of the have nots), alongside the need to understand our collective belonging to the planet demanded by the climate crisis. Informing the analysis, established thinkers like Deleuze, Irigaray, Jameson and Rancière are joined by an array of different voices – Ferreira da Silva, Gill, Lugones, Milroy, Muñoz, Sheshadri-Crooks, Vergès – to unlock contemporary screen ethics.

Free Download Edward E. Curtis IV, "Across the Worlds of Islam: Muslim Identities, Beliefs, and Practices from Asia to America"
English | ISBN: 0231210647 | 2023 | 328 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Muslim people are found all over the world. Most live outside the Middle East, from Asia to the Americas. The vast majority of contemporary Muslims are not fluent in Arabic, and speakers of languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Turkish have made essential contributions to Islamic history and culture. However, typical courses on Islam tend to downplay areas beyond the Middle East, focusing on Arabic texts and elite theological and doctrinal arguments.

Free Download Narangoa Li, "Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895-1945"
English | 2003 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0700714820, 0415515297 | PDF | 4,3 mb
Between 1895 and 1945, Japan was heavily engaged in other parts of Asia, first in neighbouring Korea and northeast Asia, later in southern China and Southeast Asia. During this period Japanese ideas on the nature of national identities in Asia changed dramatically. At first Japan discounted the significance of nationalism, but in time Japanese authorities came to see Asian nationalisms as potential allies, especially if they could be shaped to follow Japanese patterns. At the same time, the ways in which other Asians thought of Japan also changed. Initially many Asians saw Japan as a useful but distant model, but with the rise of Japanese political power, this distant admiration turned into both cooperation and resistance. This volume includes chapters on India, Tibet, Siberia, Mongolia, Korea, Manchukuo, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Free Download Hui Foong Foong, "Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia"
English | 2012 | pages: 410 | ISBN: 9814379921 | PDF | 8,5 mb
This volume seeks to introduce and deepen the understanding of Islam and its role in politics as encountered in different national and transnational contexts in Southeast Asia, eschewing the neo-orientalist approach that has informed public discourse in recent years. In Encountering Islam, the book lingers beyond the summary moment and reflects on the multiple impressions, suppressions and repressions, whether coherent or incoherent, associated with Islam as a socio-political force in public life. To this end, it is not adequate simply to represent the divergent identities associated with Islam in Southeast Asia, whether embedded in state-endorsed orthodoxy or Islamic movements that contest such orthodoxy. It is also important to examine religious minorities in political contexts where Islam is dominant and Muslim communities in national contexts where they are minorities. By situating these religious identities within their larger socio-political contexts, this volume seeks to provide a more holistic understanding of what is encountered as Islam in Southeast Asia.

Free Download Yannis Stouraitis, "War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages: East, West, and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1641893621 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the

Free Download Mark Blasius, "Sexual Identities, Queer Politics"
English | ISBN: 0691058660 | 2001 | 368 pages | PDF | 27 MB
In this collection, political and public policy analysts explore the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered-what has come to be known as "lgbt" or "queer" politics. Compared to the humanities and to other social sciences, political science has been slow to address this phenomenon. Issues ranging from housing to adoption to laws on sodomy, however, have increasingly raised important political questions about the rights and status of sexual minorities, particularly within liberal democracies such as the United States, and also on an international level. This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of the study of lgbt politics in political science across the discipline’s main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights lgbt movements in several regions around the world. Focusing on the politics of sexuality with regard to the politics of knowledge, the book presents a discussion of power that will interest all political scientists and others concerned with minority rights and gender as well as with transformation in the relations between public and private.

Free Download Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1541789016 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2.87 Mb
An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashian.

Free Download Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ4Q1624 | 2023 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Tara Isabella Burton
Narrator: Patricia Santomasso
An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashian. In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally reproduced, we’re all hungry to carve out our own unique personalities, our own bespoke personae, to stand out and be seen. As the forces of social media and capitalism collide, and individualism becomes more important than ever across a wide array of industries, "branding ourselves" or actively defining our selves for others has become the norm. Yet, this phenomenon is not new. In Self-Made, Tara Isabella Burton shows us how we arrived at this moment of fervent personal-branding.

Free Download Zoya Hasan, "Forging Identities: Gender, Communities, And The State In India"
English | 2019 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 0367009382 | PDF | 25,6 mb
This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how th

Free Download Nico Wouters, "Nations, Identities and the First World War: Shifting Loyalties to the Fatherland"
English | ISBN: 1350036439 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by different social, ethnic, political and religious groups during the conflict and its aftermath. The book combines chapters on broad topics like propaganda state formation, town and nation, and minorities at war, with more specific case studies in order to deepen our understanding of how processes of national identification supported the cultures of total war in Europe. This transnational volume also reveals and develops a range of insightful connections between the themes it covers, as well as between different groups within Europe and different countries and regions, including Western and Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and colonial territories. It is a vital study for all students and scholars of the First World War.