Search Results - "The Dispossessed"

Accumulating insecurity violence and dispossession in the making of everyday life /

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Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession / by Mucher, Christen

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Migrants and City-Making : Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration / by Simsek-Caglar, Ayse, Schiller, Nina Glick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : multiscalar city-making and emplacement: processes, concepts, and methods -- Introducing three cities : similarities despite difference -- Welcoming narratives : small migrant businesses within multiscalar restructuring -- They are us : urban sociabilities within multiscalar power -- Social citizenship of the dispossessed : embracing global Christianity -- "Searching its future in its past" : the multiscalar emplacement of returnees -- Conclusion : time, space, and agency.…”
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The queen and I a story of dispossessions and reconnections in Hawai'i / by Iaukea, Sydney L. (Sydney Lehua), 1969-

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Accumulating capital today : contemporary strategies of profit and dispossessive policies /

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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

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Critical theory and science fiction by Freedman, Carl Howard

Subjects: “…Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Dispossessed.…”
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Creating Africas : struggles over nature, conservation and land / by Nustad, Knut G, 1968-

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Human rights and the Third World : issues and discourses /

Table of Contents: “…Dias -- Development and environmental issues vis-�a-vis current perspectives of human rights / Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay and Sayan Bhattacharya -- Human rights and corruption : the case of political corruption and opposition to human rights in Indonesia / Agus Wahyudi -- Human rights and indigenous self-government : the Taiwanese experience / Scott Simon and Awi Mona (Chih-Wei Tsai) -- Colonial continuities, neoliberal-hegemony and adivasi (original dweller) space : human rights as paradox and equivocation in contexts of dispossession in India / Dip Kapoor -- Hindutva politics : impact on human rights / Ram Puniyani -- Human rights violations in India : exploring the societal roots of marginality / Debi Chatterjee -- Media, cultural rights and the Third World / Pranta Pratik Patnaik -- The fault lines in Soviet-style accommodation of minority rights in Ethiopia / Semahagn Gashu -- Human rights and the Third World other / Subrata Sankar Bagchi -- Culture and issues of rights to the eyes of the Indians with "other" self-identities of sexuality and gender / Arnab Das and Pawan Dhall -- Roots and shoots of female feticide in pockets of India : lending voice to the voiceless / Tushar Kanti Saha -- The rights of people living with disability in the Third World context : the Zimbabwean pentecostal concept of "curses and blessings" in the light of disability / Francis Machingura -- The Indian disability rights paradigm : the reality versus rhetoric / Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh -- "People's health in people's hand" : story of a voluntary organization in rural West Bengal / Satyabrata Chakrborty -- Human rights and information society : problematizing India / Dipankar Sinha -- Biotechnology and human rights / Subhasis Mukhopadhyay.…”
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Adivasi Rights and Exclusion in India /

Table of Contents: “…--Chapter 8 -- --Understanding Adivasi Dispossession from their Land and Resources in terms of Investment-Induced Displacement -- --Felix Padel --…”
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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City /

Table of Contents: “…Housing Rights and Liberal Property Regimes in Santiago, Chile --Edward Murphy--19.Neighbourhood Grassroots Organizations and Rights to the City in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil --Maria Gabriela Hita and John Gledhill--20.Marxist Urbanism Meets the Spector of Communism: Anthropological Engagements with Master-Planned Projects and Mass Dispossession in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam --Erik Harms --…”
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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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Palestinian village histories geographies of the displaced / by Davis, Rochelle

Table of Contents: “…Geographies of dispossession -- Village books : local histories, national struggles -- Village history and village values -- Writing a history, defining a past -- The authority of memory -- Mapping the past : the village landscape -- Identities and history -- Conclusion : connecting geographies of dispossession.…”
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Social stratification and mobility in central Veracruz by Nutini, Hugo G.

Table of Contents: “…A combined structural and expressive approach to the study of social stratification -- Córdoba and its environs -- The superordinate sector -- The middle strata -- The dispossessed.…”
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The anxieties of mobility migration and tourism in the Indonesian borderlands / by Lindquist, Johan A.

Table of Contents: “…Borderland formations -- The diluted enclave -- The economy of the night -- Fantasy island -- Revolving doors of dispossession -- Between stress beach and fantasy island.…”
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Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements / by Singh, Julietta, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reading against mastery -- Decolonizing mastery -- The language of mastery -- Posthumanitarian fictions -- Humanimal dispossessions -- Cultivating discomfort -- Coda: surviving mastery.…”
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Bodies sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend / by Bennett, Gillian

Table of Contents: “…Animals inside : bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians -- Poison and honey -- Aids aggressors : mirrors, caskets, and needles -- Killing the prodigal son -- Dispossessed : the body snatchers -- Blood and babies.…”
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Why I can't read Wallace Stegner and other essays a tribal voice / by Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Thoughts on the art of reviewing books -- pt. 2. Dispossession -- pt. 3. Who will tell the stories? -- pt. 4. …”
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Indigenous peoples' land rights under international law from victims to actors / by Gilbert, Jérémie

Table of Contents: “…Indigenous peoples as victims : theories of dispossession -- pt. 2. Indigenous peoples as subjects : theories of protection and reparation -- pt. 3. …”
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