Reimagining Research For Reclaiming The Academy In Iraq Identities And Participation In Post Conflict Enquiry

Author : Heather Brunskell-Evans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460918972
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Research for Reclaiming the Academy in Iraq: Identities and Participation in Post-Conflict Enquiry written by Heather Brunskell-Evans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is without doubt one of the most important publications that I have read for a very long time. These stories by Iraqi scholars raise many important insights, issues and questions. Their accounts provide some chilling insights into the terrible forms of oppression and discrimination that are part of the barriers to the realisation of an inclusive and creative development. It is extremely difficult to appreciate the pain and suffering that has been an integral part of their lives. Their accounts are readable and refreshingly honest. I do believe that there is a moral responsibility for all members of departments in universities to read and discuss this book as a matter of urgency. This needs to be done in terms of what we can learn about Iraq and in turn, to critically examine our own current conditions, relations, policies and practices, so that we can also struggle for a more inclusive system of educational provision and practice in higher education.

Author : Stephanie Bengtsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135135843X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Conflict, and Globalisation written by Stephanie Bengtsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, Globalisation, Societies and Education published a special issue on globalisation, education, and violent conflict, in tribute to Jackie Kirk, a passionate researcher, educator, and advocate, who was killed while working with the International Rescue Committee in Afghanistan. This book is an opportunity to capture the promising new developments that have occurred within the maturing sub-field of education and conflict in the intervening years. It explores two critical dimensions of education amid conflict and in post-conflict settings: the increasingly protracted, non-linear and disjointed nature of conflict and the complex interplay between global and local forces in conflict-affected contexts. Taken as a whole, this book represents a ‘narrative of becoming’ of the maturing sub-field of education and conflict. It traces and intertwines local and global histories of education amidst conflict, and puts them into conversation with the present. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317124995
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment written by David Kreps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible. With discussions of Latin American revolutionary politics, indigenous knowledges, technologies of government and the teaching of paediatrics in post-invasion Iraq, complexity theory, medical anthropology and biomedicine, and the role of Islam in the transition to modern society in the Arab world, this interdisciplinary volume presents the latest theoretical research on different facets of these two thinkers’ work, as well as analyses of the specific linkages that exist between them in concrete settings. A rigorous, comparative exploration of the work of two towering figures of the twenty-first century, Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory, political sociology, communication and media studies, and contemporary philosophy.

Author : Colin Cameron
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446296911
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability Studies written by Colin Cameron and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people′s movement to tackle the essential topics relevant to this area of study. From the outset disability is discussed from a social model perspective, demonstrating how future practice and discourse could break down barriers and lead to more equal relationships for disabled people in everyday life. An interdisciplinary and broad-ranging text, the book includes 50 chapters on topics relevant across health and social care. Reflective questions and suggestions for further reading throughout will help readers gain a critical appreciation of the subject and expand their knowledge. This will be valuable reading for students and professionals across disability studies, health, nursing, social work, social care, social policy and sociology.

Author : Jennifer Laurence
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087907028
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Child's Head written by Jennifer Laurence and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Child’s Head traces the emergence of biomedical diagnoses of behavior disorders in children. It provides a new critical counterpoint to the kind of ‘myth-or-reality’ debate on childhood disorders. Social policy debates about ADHD for example, inasmuch as they are conducted around essentialist dichotomies of ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’, lead into a philosophical cul-de-sac.

Author : Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087908555
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unimaginable Bodies written by Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unimaginable Bodies radically resituates academic discussions of intellectual disability. Through building relationships between philosophy, cultural studies and communities of integrated dance theatre practice, Anna Hickey-Moody argues that dance theatre devised with and performed by young people with and without intellectual disability, can reframe the ways in which bodies with intellectual disability are known. This proposition is considered in terms of classic philosophical ideas of how we think the mind and body, as Hickey-Moody argues that dance theatre performed by young people with and without intellectual disability creates a context in which the intellectually disabled body is understood in terms other than those that pre-suppose a Cartesian mind-body dualism. Taking up the writings of Spinoza and Deleuze and Guattari, Hickey-Moody critiques aspects of medical discourses of intellectual disability, arguing that Cartesian methods for thinking about the body are recreated within these discourses. Further, she shows that Cartesian ways of conceiving corporeality can be traced through select studies of the social construction of intellectual disability. The argument for theorising corporeality and embodied knowledge that Hickey-Moody constructs is a philosophical interpretation of the processes of knowledge production and subjectification that occur in integrated dance theatre. Knowledge produced within integrated dance theatre is translated into thought in order to explore the affective nature of performance texts. This book is essential reading for those interested in theories of embodiment, disability studies and dance. Cover Image: Ziggy Kuster, Gigibori: Invaders of the soul, Photography David Wilson ã Restless Dance Company

Author : David E. Johnson
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833084194
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 2008 Battle of Sadr City written by David E. Johnson and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, U.S. and Iraqi forces defeated an uprising in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad with ~2.4 million residents. Coalition forces’ success in this battle helped consolidate the Government of Iraq’s authority, contributing significantly to the attainment of contemporary U.S. operational objectives in Iraq. U.S. forces’ conduct of the battle illustrates a new paradigm for urban combat and indicates capabilities the Army will need in the future.

Author : Nicole Wegner
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745342863
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Solutions for Ending War written by Nicole Wegner and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will war ever end? Women across the world are proving that they can oppose patriarchal capitalist violence

Author : Richa Nagar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096754
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muddying the Waters written by Richa Nagar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship. Experiences that range from the streets of Dar es Salaaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of co-authorship, translation and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders, Nagar links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that brings these into intimate dialogue. Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged research and writer working to become "radically vulnerable," and on the ways a focus on such radical vulnerability could allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders.

Author : Nik Hynek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136661018
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statebuilding in Afghanistan written by Nik Hynek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF’s contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical, historical, and military factors that are related to it. It argues that a general underlying factor is that although the stated goals of the Afghanistan mission may be similarly formulated across the ISAF coalition, that are a great number of differences in the nature of coalition members’ political calculations, and share of the burden, and that this induces a dynamic of alliance politics that state actors attempt to either mitigate, navigate, or exploit - depending on their interests and views. The book asks why there are differences in countries’ share of the burden; how they manifest in different approaches; and how the actual performance of different members of the coalition ought to be assessed. It argues that understanding this offers clues as to what does not work in current state-building efforts, beyond individual countries’ experiences and the more general critique of statebuilding philosophy and practice. This book answers key questions through a series of case studies which together form a comparative study of national contributions to the multilateral mission in Afghanistan. In so doing, it provides a uniquely sensitive analysis that can help explain coalition contributions from various countries. It will be of great interest to students of Afghanistan, Asian politics, peacebuilding, statebuilding, war and conflict studies, IR and Security Studies generally.