Brown Saviors And Their Others

Author : Arjun Shankar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027118
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown Saviors and Their Others written by Arjun Shankar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of “brown saviors”—globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated with who and how to help that have been passed down from the colonial period, while masking other operations of power behind the racial politics of global brownness. In India, these operations of power center largely on the transnational labor politics of caste. Ever attentive to moments of discomfort and complicity, Shankar develops a method of “nervous ethnography” to uncover the global racial hierarchies, graded caste stratifications, urban/rural distinctions, and digital panaceas that shape the politics of help in India. Through nervous critique, Shankar introduces a framework for the study of the global help economies that reckons with the ongoing legacies of racial and caste capitalism.

Author : Erol Balkan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733844
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugees on the Move written by Erol Balkan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political economy of migration / Sungur Savran -- War, migration, and class / Kemal Vural Tarlan -- Images as border : on the visual production of the "migration crisis" / Mariam Durrani and Arjun Shankar -- Why do employment and socioeconomic integration have a strained relationship? The international protection context and Syrians in Turkey / Saime Özçürümez and Deniz Yıldırım -- Welfare nationalism and rising prejudice against migrants in Central and Eastern Europe / Anıl Duman -- Vulnerable permanency in mass influx : the case of Syrians in Turkey / Ahmet İçduygu and Damla B. Aksel -- Legal topography of the 2015 European refugee "crisis" / Everita Silina -- "The preparation of living corpses" : immigration detention and the production of the non-person / David Herd -- The Germans' "refugee" : concepts and images of the "refugee" in Germany's twisted history between acceptance and denial as a country of immigration and refuge / Marion Detjen -- "Without it, you will die" : smartphones and refugees' digital self-organization / Stephan O. Görland and Sina Arnold -- Processes of wage theft : the neoliberal labor market and Syrian refugees in Turkey / Danièle Bélanger and Cenk Saraçoğlu -- The narratives of Syrian refugees on taking Turkey as a land of a long or temporary settlement / Samer Sharani -- Concluding remarks / Erol Balkan and Zümray Kutlu-Tonak.

Author : Sahana Udupa
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147981914X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Unsettling written by Sahana Udupa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality The revolutionary aspirations that fueled decolonization circulated on paper—as pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, and brochures. Now—as evidenced by movements from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter—revolutions, protests, and political dissidence are profoundly shaped by information circulating through digital networks. Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary “decolonizing” movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks—and the agendas and actions they proffer—have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways. Digital Unsettling examines events—the toppling of statues in the UK, the proliferation of #BLM activism globally, the rise of Hindu nationalists in North America, the trolling of academics, among others—and how they circulated online and across national boundaries. In doing so, Udupa and Dattatreyan demonstrate how the internet has become the key site for an invigorated anticolonial internationalism, but has simultaneously augmented conditions of racial hierarchy within nations, in the international order, and in the liminal spaces that shape human migration and the lives of those that are on the move. Digital Unsettling establishes a critical framework for placing digitalization within the longue durée of coloniality, while also revealing the complex ways in which the internet is entwined with persistent global calls for decolonization.

Author : Perry Zurn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963622
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curiosity Studies written by Perry Zurn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship. While intriguing research on curiosity has occurred in numerous disciplines for decades, no rigorously cross-disciplinary study has existed—until now. Curiosity Studies stages an interdisciplinary conversation about what curiosity is and what resources it holds for human and ecological flourishing. These engaging essays are integrated into four clusters: scientific inquiry, educational practice, social relations, and transformative power. By exploring curiosity through the practice of scientific inquiry, the contours of human learning, the stakes of social difference, and the potential of radical imagination, these clusters focus and reinvigorate the study of this universal but slippery phenomenon: the desire to know. Against the assumption that curiosity is neutral, this volume insists that curiosity has a history and a political import and requires precision to define and operationalize. As various fields deepen its analysis, a new ecosystem for knowledge production can flourish, driven by real-world problems and a commitment to solve them in collaboration. By paying particular attention to pedagogy throughout, Curiosity Studies equips us to live critically and creatively in what might be called our new Age of Curiosity. Contributors: Danielle S. Bassett, U of Pennsylvania; Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College; Susan Engel, Williams College; Ellen K. Feder, American U; Kristina T. Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Narendra Keval; Christina León, Princeton U; Tyson Lewis, U of North Texas; Amy Marvin, U of Oregon; Hilary M. Schor, U of Southern California; Seeta Sistla, Hampshire College; Heather Anne Swanson, Aarhus U.

Author : Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190054239
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Smith's Translation written by Samuel Morris Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among many remarkable claims, Mormon founder Joseph Smith reported that he had translated ancient scriptures. He dictated the Book of Mormon, an American Bible from metal plates associated with Native antiquity; directly rewrote the King James Bible; and produced a scripture, derived from Egyptian funerary papyri, which he called the Book of Abraham. Smith and his followers used the term translation to describe the genesis of these English texts, which remain canonical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most commenters see these scriptures as merely linguistic objects; the central and controversial question has been whether Smith's English texts are literal translations of extant source documents. On closer inspection, though, his translations are far more metaphysical than linguistic. These translations express a non-ordinary power of language to connect people across barriers of space and time. Within these metaphysical scriptures, Smith expounded a theology of human deification that he also termed "translation." This one word thus referred to a scripture capable of mediating between the living and the dead and to the transformation of humans into divine beings. Joseph Smith's projects of metaphysical translation place Mormonism at a productive edge of tense transitions later associated with secular modernity, a modernity challenged by the very existence of the Latter-day Saints. Smith's translations and the theology that supported them illuminate the power and vulnerability of his critique of American culture in transition as they set the stage for two more centuries of cultural change"--

Author : Deborah A. Thomas
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023716
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty Unhinged written by Deborah A. Thomas and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it reflects people’s aspirations for new futures. In a series of ethnographic case studies ranging from the Americas to the Middle East to South Asia, they examine the means of avoiding the political and historical capture that make one complicit with sovereign authority rather than creating the conditions of possibility to confront it. The contributors attend to the affective dimensions of these practices of world-building to illuminate the epistemological, ontological, and transnational entanglements that produce a sense of what is possible. They also trace how sovereignty is activated and deactivated over the course of a lifetime within the struggle of the everyday. In so doing, they outline how individuals create and enact forms of sovereignty that allow them to endure fast and slow forms of violence while embracing endless opportunities for building new worlds. Contributors. Alex Blanchette, Yarimar Bonilla, Jessica Cattelino, María Elena García, Akhil Gupta, Lochlann Jain, Purnima Mankekar, Joseph Masco, Michael Ralph, Danilyn Rutherford, Arjun Shankar, Kristen L. Simmons, Deborah A. Thomas, Leniqueca A. Welcome, Kaya Naomi Williams, Jessica Winegar

Author : Frederica Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journeys and Adventures of the Mighty Men of Old written by Frederica Beard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Bartlett
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664231004
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feasting on the Word written by David L. Bartlett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays--one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclaimation of the Word on any given occasion. The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its contents.

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307591182
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saviors and Survivors written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native” and “settler” tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency–but not to genocide, as the West has declared. Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation between Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and the Reagan administration (allied with France and Israel) that spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and called for a military invasion dressed up as “humanitarian intervention.” Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.

Author : Alex Rivera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793635056
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intersectional Other written by Alex Rivera and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Intersectional Other, Alex Rivera boldly argues for the individual and collective power of queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who have historically existed in the racial and sexual margins in America. Through interviews and insightful commentary, Rivera reimagines the margins as capable of power, transformation, and change.