We are currently living through the greatest age of mass displacement in the world's history. According to the United Nations Population Division, at present there are almost two hundred million people--equivalent to the population of... more
We are currently living through the greatest age of mass displacement in the world's history. According to the United Nations Population Division, at present there are almost two hundred million people--equivalent to the population of Brazil, the world's fifth largest nation-living outside the countries in which they were born (Munck 1229). In addition to this exponential increase in scale, international population movements are also increasing in diversity, with new patterns such as temporary, circular migrations challenging established notions of place and identity (Rouse). Cultural representations of migration are, unsurprisingly given these statistics, at the center of many contemporary social and political debates. For prominent postcolonial writers such as Homi Bhabha, Salman Rushdie, and Pico Iyer, migrants are the celebrated symbols of globalization's fluid, mongrelized social forms. According to these writers, immigration promises to "transform the nation&#...
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The advent of electronic and digital communication as an integral part of academic discourse has profoundly changed the ways in which universities and their faculties pursue teaching and scholarship. Such changes are manifest in the... more
The advent of electronic and digital communication as an integral part of academic discourse has profoundly changed the ways in which universities and their faculties pursue teaching and scholarship. Such changes are manifest in the methods by which information is obtained and disseminated, the means of storing and retrieving such information, and of course the ways in which professors teach and students learn. While basic principles of academic freedom transcend even the most fundamental changes in media, recent developments require a re-examination of the application and implications of such principles in a radically new environment. One overriding principle should shape any such review: Academic freedom, free inquiry, and freedom of expression within the academic community may be limited to no greater extent in electronic format than they are in print, save for the most unusual situation where the very nature of the medium itself might warrant unusual restrictions—and even then o...
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... 2 This ideology, which we argue is a compensatory response to the decline of US ... entails a decentered world without insides and outsides, centers and peripheries, seem particularly myopic. ... field was leveled (a phenomenon proved... more
... 2 This ideology, which we argue is a compensatory response to the decline of US ... entails a decentered world without insides and outsides, centers and peripheries, seem particularly myopic. ... field was leveled (a phenomenon proved to an extent by US deindustrialization and the ...
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" In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides:... more
" In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial historical, social, political and cultural events Discussion of Britain’s imperial status in the century and the diversification of the nation through Black and Asian British Literature Readers are also provided with a comprehensive timeline, a glossary of terms, further reading and explanatory text boxes featuring further information on key figures and events. "
... racial purity (ius sanguinis).3* However, this reading of Britain's post-colonial racial politics ... the interlocking cultural, political, and economic processes at play across contemporary geographic spaces ...... more
... racial purity (ius sanguinis).3* However, this reading of Britain's post-colonial racial politics ... the interlocking cultural, political, and economic processes at play across contemporary geographic spaces ... significant resistance to the presence of colo-nial and postcolonial subjects in ...
New York has always had its share of pest problems, but in spring 2005 a new species of vermin began setting up camp in front of some of the city's most august institutions. Like something from a nuclear-age horror movie, these... more
New York has always had its share of pest problems, but in spring 2005 a new species of vermin began setting up camp in front of some of the city's most august institutions. Like something from a nuclear-age horror movie, these grubby rodents were alarmingly large, often towering ...
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After being eclipsed for years by binary black-white definitions of racial difference, Asians have become an increasingly visible and self-assertive part of Britain's vibrant cultural scene over the past decade. From television... more
After being eclipsed for years by binary black-white definitions of racial difference, Asians have become an increasingly visible and self-assertive part of Britain's vibrant cultural scene over the past decade. From television comedy to movies like East is East, cultural production ...
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" Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing... more
" Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape as they are buffeted by countervailing forces of corporate globalization and participatory politics. Using interesting case studies, the book explores these 3 main themes: the meaning of radical democracy in light of recent developments in democratic theory new spatial arrangements or scales of democracy – from local to global, from streets protests to the development of transnational networks the character and role of states in the development of new forms of democracy The book asks and answers: are participatory models of democracy viable alternatives in their own right or are they best understood as supplemental to traditional representative democracy? What are the conditions that give rise to the development of such models and are they equally effective at every scale; i.e., do they only realize their radical potential in particular, local places? A useful text in a broad range of advanced undergraduate courses including social movements, political sociology or geography, political philosophy. "
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... Cargo Culture: Literature in an Age of Mass Displacement. Ashley Dawson. ... Like Ghosh in Shadow Lines and Caryl Phillips in A Distant Shore, as well as film directors such as Stephen Frears in Dirty Pretty Things and Michael... more
... Cargo Culture: Literature in an Age of Mass Displacement. Ashley Dawson. ... Like Ghosh in Shadow Lines and Caryl Phillips in A Distant Shore, as well as film directors such as Stephen Frears in Dirty Pretty Things and Michael Winterbottom in In This World, Abani strives to depict ...
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... 'BOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK' 167 Page 8. culture in Bally Sagoo's work, I turn now to an exploration of Cornershop's Brimful of Asha and the social milieu that promotes cosmopolitan attitudes among young... more
... 'BOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK' 167 Page 8. culture in Bally Sagoo's work, I turn now to an exploration of Cornershop's Brimful of Asha and the social milieu that promotes cosmopolitan attitudes among young South Asians in Britain. Consuming India ...
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City air makes you free. This medieval German maxim referring to the city as a haven from the harsh laws of feudal vassalage might serve as an ironic epigraph for Patrick Chamoiseau's novel Texaco. Near the beginning of... more
City air makes you free. This medieval German maxim referring to the city as a haven from the harsh laws of feudal vassalage might serve as an ironic epigraph for Patrick Chamoiseau's novel Texaco. Near the beginning of Chamoiseau's third novel, his narrator, the so-called Word ...
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New York has always had its share of pest problems, but in spring 2005 a new species of vermin began setting up camp in front of some of the city's most august institutions. Like something from a nuclear-age horror movie, these... more
New York has always had its share of pest problems, but in spring 2005 a new species of vermin began setting up camp in front of some of the city's most august institutions. Like something from a nuclear-age horror movie, these grubby rodents were alarmingly large, often towering ...
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... The state's rigid quotas for research assessment mean that most British academics spend their time ... agreements on academics that are almost as rigid as the corporate restrictions, faculty voices ... labor have emerged that... more
... The state's rigid quotas for research assessment mean that most British academics spend their time ... agreements on academics that are almost as rigid as the corporate restrictions, faculty voices ... labor have emerged that are corrosive to any notion of job security or peer loyalty. ...
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A group of insurgents screeches out of a dusty alleyway in an old pickup truck on a typical sweltering day in Iraq and begins lobbing mortars toward one of Baghdad's primary power stations. Coalition forces are quickly deployed... more
A group of insurgents screeches out of a dusty alleyway in an old pickup truck on a typical sweltering day in Iraq and begins lobbing mortars toward one of Baghdad's primary power stations. Coalition forces are quickly deployed to quell the attack, but in the firefight that ensues, a number of ...
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After being eclipsed for years by binary black-white definitions of racial difference, Asians have become an increasingly visible and self-assertive part of Britain's vibrant cultural scene over the past decade. From television... more
After being eclipsed for years by binary black-white definitions of racial difference, Asians have become an increasingly visible and self-assertive part of Britain's vibrant cultural scene over the past decade. From television comedy to movies like East is East, cultural production ...
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... a long prehistory. As a form that is grounded in the vernacular aesthetics of the Caribbean diaspora, the Notting Hill Carnival has offered a complex politics of identity and spatiality since its inception. The Notting Hill Carnival ...
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Alternative Modernities The Short Century provides an index of the extent to which explicit colonial dis-course concerning Africa in the art world has been challenged over the last decade. The tremendous creative energies unleashed during... more
Alternative Modernities The Short Century provides an index of the extent to which explicit colonial dis-course concerning Africa in the art world has been challenged over the last decade. The tremendous creative energies unleashed during the course of Africa's struggle against ...
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... In addition, copies of Bulldog , the Young National Front paper published during this period, demonstrate that punk and New Wave gigs were seen by the neo ... You grow up with it: the golliwogs in the jam, The Black and White Minstrel... more
... In addition, copies of Bulldog , the Young National Front paper published during this period, demonstrate that punk and New Wave gigs were seen by the neo ... You grow up with it: the golliwogs in the jam, The Black and White Minstrel Show on TV and CSE History at school. ...
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... This disjunction in Eva's subjectivity, this sense of herself as a stranger or an impostor, exists in tandem with alienation from others ... Ania Loomba, 'Sexuality and Racial Difference', in Anthony Gerard... more
... This disjunction in Eva's subjectivity, this sense of herself as a stranger or an impostor, exists in tandem with alienation from others ... Ania Loomba, 'Sexuality and Racial Difference', in Anthony Gerard Barthelemy, ed., Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Othello, New York: GK Hall ...
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... 568680 Ashley Dawson ... On a Friday evening in late August 1958, a Swedish woman named Majbritt Morrison fell into an argument with her Jamaican husband Raymond as they left theLatimer Road underground station in... more
... 568680 Ashley Dawson ... On a Friday evening in late August 1958, a Swedish woman named Majbritt Morrison fell into an argument with her Jamaican husband Raymond as they left theLatimer Road underground station in London's Notting Hill neighborhood (Pilkington 113). ...
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Postcolonial scholars have been slow to address issues relating to urban space and society. This essay argues for new forms of critical engagement with questions of urbanism and citizenship on a global scale. Postcolonial narratives of... more
Postcolonial scholars have been slow to address issues relating to urban space and society. This essay argues for new forms of critical engagement with questions of urbanism and citizenship on a global scale. Postcolonial narratives of urbanization, I argue, represent important ...
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... Back to Volume One Contents Academic Freedom and the Digital Revolution By Ashley Dawson In spring 2009, the University of Michigan Press sent out a letter by e-mail to its authors ... This Page 3. Academic Freedom and the Digital... more
... Back to Volume One Contents Academic Freedom and the Digital Revolution By Ashley Dawson In spring 2009, the University of Michigan Press sent out a letter by e-mail to its authors ... This Page 3. Academic Freedom and the Digital Revolution Ashley Dawson 3 ...