Tag: South

Cinemas of the Global South Towards a Southern Aesthetics


Free Download Dilip M Menon, "Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 1032727470 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 63 MB
This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.

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South West Coast Path, The 1,000 Mini Adventures Along Britain’s Longest Waymarked Path


Free Download South West Coast Path, The: 1,000 Mini Adventures Along Britain’s Longest Waymarked Path by Stephen Neale
English | July 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1844866173 | 352 pages | MOBI | 175 Mb
Often featuring in lists of the world’s best walks, the South West Coast Path is 630 miles long, and passes through two World Heritage Sites. In this guide, Stephen Neale highlights 1,000 mini adventures to enjoy along its entire 630-mile route, from Minehead to Poole Harbour.

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The Greening of the South The Recovery of Land and Forest


Free Download Thomas D. Clark, "The Greening of the South: The Recovery of Land and Forest "
English | ISBN: 0813190827 | 2004 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 24 MB
In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company’s timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest that covered most of the South when Europeans first invaded it.

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Origins of Nationality in South Asia Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India


Free Download Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India By Christopher Alan Bayly; C. A. Bayly
1998 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 0195644573 | PDF | 70 MB
This book considers the ideological and institutional antecedents of mature Indian nationalism. It argues that patriotism is a useful concept with which to understand India in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It includes essays on swadeshi, Indian resistance, and "communalism."

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Informal Settlements of the Global South


Free Download Gihan Karunaratne, "Informal Settlements of the Global South "
English | ISBN: 1032043075 | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 20 MB + 42 MB
Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested ‘informal’ enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility and placemaking.

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