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Free Download Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City "
English | ISBN: 029575186X | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force―consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants―municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city.

Free Download New Media in the Margins : Lived Realities and Experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries
by Benjamin YH Loh and James Chin
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811971404 | 200 Pages | True ePUB/pdf | 2.3 MB

Free Download Margaret L. Andersen, "Moving from the Margins: Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism "
English | ISBN: 1503637425 | 2024 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 438 KB + 2 MB
At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on people’s lives, and what we can do to address the persistent and foundational American problem of systemic racism. Knowledge about race and racism changes as social and historical conditions evolve, as different generations of scholars experience unique societal conditions, and as new voices from those who have previously been kept at the margins have challenged us to reconceive our thinking about race and ethnicity. In this collection of essays by prominent sociologists whose work has transformed the understanding of race and ethnicity, each reflects on their career and how their personal experiences have shaped their contribution to understanding racism, both in scholarly and public debate. Merging biography, memoir, and sociohistorical analysis, these essays provide vital insight into the influence of race on people’s perspectives and opportunities both inside and outside of academia, and how racial inequality is felt, experienced, and confronted.

Free Download Critical Theory from the Margins: Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism by Saladdin Ahmed
English | September 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1438494327 | True EPUB | 242 pages | 0.7 MB
Great critical theorists from Marx and Engels to Adorno and Horkheimer not only came from the margins but also stayed faithful to the plight of the marginalized.

Free Download Cinema at the margins By Dixon, Wheeler W
2013 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 0857281860 | PDF | 6 MB
Part 1. Genre — The future catches up with the past: Peter Bogdanovich’s targets — Surrealism and sudden death in the films of Lucio Fulci — Flash Gordon and the 1930s and 40s science fiction serial — Just the facts, man: the complicated genesis of television’s Dragnet — The disquieting aura of Fabián Bielinsky — Part 2. History — Fast worker: the films of Sam Newfield — The power of resistance: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne — Beyond characterization: performance in 1960s — Experimental cinema — Vanishing point: the last days of film — Part 3. Interviews — "Let the sleepers sleep and the haters hate": an interview with Dale "Rage" Resteghini — Margin call: an interview with J.C. Chandor — "All my films are personal": an interview with Pat Jackson — Working within the system: an interview with Gerry O’Hara — Andrew V. McLaglen: last of the Hollywood professionals — Pop star, director, actor: an interview with Michael Sarne.

Free Download Fabio Luis Barbosa Dos Santos, "The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital "
English | ISBN: 9004526382 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book discusses five cases of hatred politics on the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan (assumed office in 2003), Hungary under Orbán (assumed office in 2010), India under Modi (assumed office in 2014); the Philippines under Duterte (assumed office in 2016) and Brazil under Bolsonaro (assumed office in 2019). How did they come to power? What strategies of legitimation do they employ? What resistances do they face? Country case studies lay the foundation for a systematic comparison that illuminates the key dynamics of this novel political form. Analyses of their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic further shed light on their methods in a time of crisis and a chapter that considers the Trump presidency indicates how we can understand these leaderships given their pronounced counterpart in the Global North – and vice-versa. This is not a mere collection of texts commissioned from specialists, but the result of a two-year-long collective endeavor: an international taskforce to respond to a global phenomenon.

Free Download Vinita Chandra Aditi Chandra, "The Nation and its Margins"
English | ISBN: 1527540189 | 2019 | 194 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume questions the idea that the nation-state is the only available form of community, and challenges its hegemonic control over forms of socio-cultural belonging. The contributions here explore cross-cultural and transnational encounters which highlight narratives that escape the neat boundaries constructed by nationalities. They complicate our understanding of peoples and groups and the varying spaces they inhabit by allowing narratives that have been made invisible, due to hegemonic national control, to emerge. This volume throws light on moments of cultural encounters in the Global South, specifically South Asia, South-east Asia, West Asia, and Latin America, exploring what happens when diverse communities come together to challenge the notion that claiming national identity is the only acceptable mode of being, belonging, and existing in the world. In doing so, the book reveals other radically innovative forms of attaining cohesion and identity.

Free Download Saladdin Ahmed, "Critical Theory from the Margins: Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism"
English | ISBN: 1438494327 | 2023 | 242 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today’s culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Free Download Joy Owen, "Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town"
English | ISBN: 1498516270 | 2015 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1212 KB
Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town is a closely researched ethnography that focuses predominantly on the lives of three Congolese transmigrants (self-identified as such). This monograph situates them in a cosmopolitan South African space amongst dissimilar South African others, and similar national others. Unlike other contemporary international texts on transnational migrants, this book discusses entrée into the immigration country, and the diverse attempts of Congolese men to situate themselves within social networks.

Free Download Made in the Margins: Latina/o Constructions of US Religious History (New Perspectives on Latina/o Religion) by Hjamil A. Mart
English | March 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1602581991 | 200 pages | PDF | 1.26 Mb
Though the writing of US religious history has become increasingly open to new voices, Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez argues that those voices have yet to challenge effectively the dominant Eurocentric historical perspective. In this first Latina/o American religious historiography, Martínez-Vázquez critiques the traditional narrative not for what it says, but for what it does not say. Made in the Margins considers the ways in which traditional historiography has favored a specific understanding of US religious history and offers a new method of constructing Latina/o histories as "subaltern." And, in so doing, Made in the Margins ably begins the necessary conversation about truly doing history from within previously marginalized communities and disciplines.