Tag: Uneven

Free Download Lucio De Capitani, "Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing "
English | ISBN: 3031387031 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.

Free Download Michael Löwy, "The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent Revolution"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1608460681, 0805271058 | PDF | pages: 172 | 5.9 mb
Löwy’s book is the first attempt to analyze, in a systematic way, how the theories of uneven and combined development, and of the permanent revolution &mdash inseparably linked &mdash emerged in the writings of thinkers such as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Such radical reflections permit us to understand modern economic development across continents as a process of ferocious change, in which "advanced" and "backward" elements fuse, come into tension, and collide &mdash and how the resulting ruptures make it possible for the oppressed and exploited to change the world.

Free Download Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez, "Uneven Landscapes of Violence Geographies of Law and Accumulation in Mexico "
English | ISBN: 9004435484 | 2020 | 196 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Uneven Landscapes of Violence, Muñoz Martínez argues that the nexus of criminality, illegality and violence are an integral and defining features of neo-liberal state formation in Mexico after 2000.

Free Download Ronald Eller, "Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945"
English | 2013 | pages: 390 | ISBN: 0813142466 | EPUB | 3,2 mb
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the place and sought to "uplift" the mountain people through education and industrialization.