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Free Download Alberto Godioli, "Modernism Beyond the Human: Transnational Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 9004549676 | 2023 | 318 pages | PDF | 33 MB

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Free Download Huw D. Jones, "Transnational European Cinema: Representation, Audiences, Identity "
English | ISBN: 3031445945 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
This book explores how audiences in contemporary Europe engage with films from other European countries. It draws on admissions data, surveys, and focus group discussions from across the continent to explain why viewers are attracted to particular European films, nationalities, and genres, including action-adventures, family films, animations, biopics, period dramas, thrillers, comedies, contemporary drama, and romance. It also examines how these films are financed, produced, and distributed, how they represent Europe and other Europeans, and how they affect audiences. Case-studies range from mainstream movies like Skyfall, Taken, Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia, and Sammy’s Adventures: A Turtle’s Tale to more middlebrow and arthouse titles, such as The Lives of Others, Volver, Coco Before Chanel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Free Download Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms By Inderpal Grewal
2005 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0822335328 | PDF | 2 MB
In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of "America" functions as a nationalist discourse beyond the boundaries of the United States by disseminating an ideal of democratic citizenship through consumer practices. She develops her argument by focusing on South Asians in India and the United States.Grewal combines a postcolonial perspective with social and cultural theory to argue that contemporary notions of gender, race, class, and nationality are linked to earlier histories of colonization. Through an analysis of Mattel’s sales of Barbie dolls in India, she discusses the consumption of American products by middle-class Indian women newly empowered with financial means created by India’s market liberalization. Considering the fate of asylum-seekers, Grewal looks at how a global feminism in which female refugees are figured as human rights victims emerged from a distinctly Western perspective. She reveals in the work of three novelists who emigrated from India to the United States-Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Amitav Ghosh-a concept of Americanness linked to cosmopolitanism. In Transnational America Grewal makes a powerful, nuanced case that the United States must be understood-and studied-as a dynamic entity produced and transformed both within and far beyond its territorial boundaries.

Free Download Transnational Memories and Post-Dicatorship Cinema: Brazil, Chile and Argentina by Tatiana Signorelli Heise
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 223 Pages | ISBN : 3031470680 | 3 MB

Free Download African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
by Rose A. Sackeyfio
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1793642435 | 147 Pages | True PDF | 5.62 MB

Free Download Rose A. Sackeyfio, "African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 1793642435 | 2021 | 146 pages | EPUB | 330 KB
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, and political transformation. African Women Writing Diaspora illustrates that for African women, life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey across new landscapes of identity beyond Africa’s borders as a unifying theme. The fictional works analyzed represent the leading women writers who dominate the African literary canon, and the contributors explore diverse themes of immigrant life, racialized identities, and otherness within transnational spaces of the west.

Free Download Nina Lykke, "Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms "
English | ISBN: 1032457996 | 2023 | 348 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1056 KB + 8 MB
This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research.

Free Download Nina Lykke, "Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms "
English | ISBN: 1032457996 | 2023 | 348 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1056 KB + 8 MB
This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research.

Free Download Academic Freedom and the Transnational Production of Knowledge
English | 2024 | ISBN: 110849028X | 213 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Public debates on academic freedom have become increasingly contentious, and understandings of what it is and its purposes are contested within the academy, policymakers and the general public. Drawing on rich empirical interview data, this book critically examines the understudied relationship between academic freedom and its role in knowledge production across four country contexts – Lebanon, the UAE, the UK and the US – through the lived experiences of academics conducting ‘controversial’ research. It provides an empirically-informed transnational theory of academic freedom, contesting the predominantly national constructions of academic freedom and knowledge production and the methodological nationalism of the field. It is essential reading for academics and students of the sociology of education, as well as anyone interested in this topic of global public concern. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Free Download Sara Docan-Morgan, "In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family"
English | ISBN: 1439922837 | 2024 | 321 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
"Do you know your real parents?" is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Denmark, as well as her own experiences as an adoptee, Docan-Morgan illuminates the complexities of communication surrounding reunion.